Forever Changes

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 12/11/03, p.108

Ranked #40 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Love were Lee's vehicle for a pioneering folk-rock - paranoid, punky, like the Byrds morphing into the Doors..."

Q - 8/99

Included in Q Magazine's "Best Psychedelic Albums of All Time" issue.

Q - 8/99, p.138

"...whenever lists are compiled for greatest album of all time, FOREVER CHANGES has its advocates....exquisite tunes...a rather elaborate Summer of Love chamber piece..."

Uncut - p.99

5 stars out of 5 -- "A suite of songs as seductive as honey-traps, with such powerful psychological associations of sunshine that they almost warm the skin on your arms..."

Q (Magazine) - p.157

4 stars out of 5 -- "No self-respecting record collector should be without a copy..."

Mojo (Publisher) - 1/02, p.69

Included in Mojo's "Best Reissues of 2001".

Mojo (Publisher) - 3/01, p.89

"...'The' key '60s album....Totally suffused in acid: being full of bizarre juxtapositions, perceptual tricks, multiple viewpoint lyrics, lightning fast, almost schizoid changes of mood and topic, the personal fusing with the universal..."

NME (Magazine) - 10/2/93, p.29

Ranked #18 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'

NME (Magazine) - 2/17/01, p.45

10 out of 10 - "...An album of awesome intensity and tenderness....baroque and beautiful folk-rock the like of which had never been heard before - nore been bettered since..."

Blender (Magazine) - p.81

4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] font for artists from beck to Thom Yorke, lovers of knotty pop, and doubters of pop-culture euphoria."
Paste (magazine) (p.79) - "FOREVER CHANGES is a haunted record, from its fragile vocals to the deathly premonitions that loomed over frontman Arthur Lee throughout its recording process....The original album itself is incredible."