Forever Changes was Love’s third studio album and released in November 1967. Fronted by Arthur Lee, the LA based band’s album has been continuously hailed by music critics. The record was not a commercial success yet its mesmerizing blend of folk-rock and psychedelia has held up over the years. Songs like “Alone Again,” “The Red Telephone,” and the album’s masterpiece “You Set The Scene,” have had a long-lasting influence over the years on many bands.

Rolling Stone chose it as one of the greatest albums of all time and writes: “When I did that album,” singer Arthur Lee said, “I thought I was going to die at that particular time, so those were my last words.” Lee is still alive — and currently playing this entire record live, with strings and horns. It’s about time: Love’s third record is his crowning achievement. A biracial cult band from L.A. that rarely gigged out of town in its 1960s heyday, Love were Lee’s vehicle for a pioneering folk-rock — paranoid, punky, like the Byrds morphing into the Doors — turned into elegant armageddon with the symphonic sweep and mariachi-brass drama of “Alone Again Or,” “Andmoreagain” and “You Set the Scene.” And Lee — recently released from prison — now brings extra pathos to “The Red Telephone” onstage when he sings “Served my time, served it well.”

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Music critic Jim Derogatis on Forever Changes
Village Voice article about Forever Changes