Love – Forever Changes

I picked up an original pressing for $8 today at a local shop and at first was disappointed at the surface noise considering it didn’t look bad visually, but now understand that’s pretty common.

In all honesty while I’m glad to have the original pressing in my collection, I’ll spin the reissue just because it sounds so much better.

I've been listening to this album for twenty some years and continue to unearth new layers of meaning and pleasure with each listen. An absolute treasure. My original Allentown pressing is clean as a whistle, no marks and full gloss. Has a minor dish warp but plays quite well, with some surface noise a bit more noticeable on side two. "You Set the Scene" sounds slightly compressed, but overall very dynamic pressing.

On a 1967 pressing, mono VS stereo? And what specific pressing sounds the best?
I find this album sounds like psychedelic Simon and Garfunkel without two people harmonising. Very good album.

If you dont have this in your record collection you need to have a word with yourself.

Easily one of the top best written records off all time. The inclusion of the background orchestra, the hispanic influence, the addition of surf rock and the lyrics of the famous Arthur Lee; make this album spectacular. The album is a work of art through and through, and is a must have for any serious psych record collector. The feelings each song gives you create such and intense imagery within yourself and your surroundings. Arthur Lee's voice echoes in my mind even after his untimely death in 2006.

The Allentown pressing plays with little crackling here and there. Depends on the quality of the pressing. Bought a sealed copy and many years after I bought a NM copy and both plays with light crackling sound. Still worth picking up the original Allentown pressing of this masterpiece IMO!

This Mono release has some revelations in sound on it. Horn sections and vocals stand out as more "up front". For $20? I like it. Quiet pressing too.

I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that Forever Changes is probably the greatest albums ever produced. Like many other people I do feel the album keeps getting better and better after every listen. I'm 55, and first fell in love with the album when I was 22. I've
directly realised just how dark the album really is. Take the first track, a beautiful positive and happy tune. Yet the lyrics are extremely dark, bleak and depressing. The genius of this album comes from the juxtapose between the positivity of the tune and the resigned bleakness of the lyrics. Someone told me that people are the greatest fun. I love everyone, and have so much love to give. Yet tonight I will be alone.The beauty, darkness, and transcendent nature of the album makes sense when you know that Arthur Lee really believed he was dying as he wrote the album. Forever Changes is his epitaph. In Arthur's own words ""When I did that album I thought I was going to die at that particular time, so those were my last words."

Well, this is my TOP 1 album for the desert island...

The best album ever made, no questions , no answers, the best music has to offer is in this album, orchestral indie rock. has its own genre

I can't find the exact release date for this album anywhere. All i can find is that it was released in november 1967. Help! I want to know!