For throwback thursday Favourite Music albums #3 Love-#ForeverChanges A 60′s album with writing way ahead of its time, written after the #winter of #disillusionment into 1967 after the #summeroflove . #ArthurLee was clearly pissed at the world-he felt he was going to die in a #prophetic manner-which surprisingly he didn’t, knowing his state of mind- a tortured soul it takes a few listens to grab you. I got some of it at first but then I first heard this album on cassette when I was 10, but you can learn so much from this album-I play it at least once a week, and have done since the reissue on CD in 2001. You wouldn’t believe at first listen that this album is negative to the world -as the arrangements are deceptively joyous clever same effect Marvin uses on Here My Dear, listen to this album and get lost in a world of hippy optimism turning sour! Predated Kinks/Beatles interesting work and Beach Boys-Surf Up’s, no sunny harmonies-dark-LSD influences. Pink Floyd marvel’s Dark Side which is a great album but the lyrical content is poor compared to Forever changes. This album has multilayered arrangements, unusual for the time too, melodic songs, with no definite chorus-most if not all the song titles don’t appear in the songs-their statements, lyrics with double meanings. Arthur discusses leaving this world to join the spiritual #enlightenment-and is a true follower of #Gnosticism, stating a world which was crumbling in front of peoples eyes without sounding angry! To me this album influenced such a huge sound coming from the west coast-The Doors, Sly and the family Stone, The Damned, Grateful Dead and so on including Hendrix-he must have loved this album. Classic Cuts:#AloneAgainOr, #AHouseIsNotaMotel, #Andmoreagain, #DailyPlanet, #hypnotherapy, #futurevision, #pastlives, #pastliferegression