SonicMonks

1. Alone Again Or
2. A House Is Not a Motel
3. Andmoreagain
4. The Daily Planet
5. Old Man
6. The Red Telephone
7. Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
8. Live and Let Live
9. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like
10. Bummer in the Summer
11. You Set the Scene

"Ideaalmaailmad"("Ideal Worlds") is Klassikaraadio's weekly program dedicated to more or less peculiar recordings of progressive rock. I don't listen to it regularly, although I try to, but fortunately I happened to turn on the radio on the 11th of March 9 PM. That night, Tõnis Kahu talked about Love's most remarkable album called "Forever Changes". The band and the record were both completely unknown to me and when I first heard "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale" I thought it was something contemporary. So you may imagine my surprise, when I found out that this song is almost forty years old. Anyway, that song echoed in my head almost uninterruptedly for a couple of weeks and made me smile every time it came to my mind. Other remarkable songs for me are "Alone Again Or", "A House Is Not a Motel" and "The Red Telephone". Just a few examples of their lyrics: "Sitting on a hillside/Watching all the people die/I'll feel much better on the other side", "I feel real phony when my name is Phil", "You are just a thought that someone/Somewhere somehow feels you should be here", "The news today will be the movies for tomorrow", "We're all normal and we want our freedom". But I'm far from saying that I'm indifferent to the rest of the album. In my opinion it's quite strange that Love is so unknown to general public, because it is thought to be one of the greatest psychedelic albums of all times by critics. I guess it has a lot do with the fact that this album was the culmination of their creation and all later works have been a lot worse. Besides, the band has been quite labile - the front man Arthur Lee has been in jail for six years, others had serious drug addiction problems etc. By the way, Love was an American band (again, a surprise for me, because psychedelic rock is mostly associated with the UK for me), and a first racially diverse one. Anyway, enough about writing, it's high time you got yourself this album!

An in-depth Love site by Torben Skott