Editing Forever Changes

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{{Infobox album
| name         = Forever Changes
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Love (band)|Love]]
| cover        = Love - forever changes.jpg
| alt          = Colorful human faces merged into one head, has text, all on a white background
| released     = {{Start date|1967|11|1}}<ref name="AllMusic"/>
| recorded     = June 9{{snd}}September 25, 1967
| studio       = [[Sunset Sound Recorders|Sunset Sound]], Hollywood
| genre        = 
*[[Folk rock]]<ref>The following sources describe the album as folk-rock:
*{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Richie|author-link=Richie Unterberger|title=Great Moments in Folk Rock: Lists of Author Favorites|website=Richieunterberger.com|url=http://www.richieunterberger.com/turnlists.html|access-date=September 22, 2013}}
*{{cite web |last1=Cromelin |first1=Richard |title=Love's 'Forever Changes' Still Sounds Invigorating |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-09-ca-35270-story.html |website=The Los Angeles Times |date=March 9, 2001 |access-date=5 September 2022}}
*{{cite web |last1=Morrison |first1=Craig |title=Love - American rock group |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Love-band |website=Britannica |access-date=6 September 2022}}</ref>
*[[orchestral pop]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kot |first1=Greg |title=Arthur Lee, Love masterpiece takes on new life in live setting |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-06-05-0306050264-story.html |website=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=June 5, 2003 |access-date=November 10, 2020}}</ref>
*[[psychedelic pop]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last= Howe|first= Sean|date= May 2008|title= Reissues|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=kic4tNzhZF8C&pg=PA96|magazine= [[Spin (magazine)|SPIN]]|location= New York City|access-date= February 23, 2017|page= 96}}</ref>
*[[baroque pop]]<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r900684|tab=review |label="Trilogy: Love/Da Capo/Forever Changes > Review" |first=James |last=Christopher Monger |access-date=September 22, 2013}}</ref>
| length       = 42:05<ref name="AllMusic"/>
| label        = [[Elektra Records|Elektra]]
| producer     = *[[Arthur Lee (musician)|Arthur Lee]]
*[[Bruce Botnick]]
| prev_title   = [[Da Capo (Love album)|Da Capo]]
| prev_year    = 1966
| next_title   = [[Four Sail]]
| next_year    = 1969
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Forever Changes
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Alone Again Or]]" / "[[A House Is Not a Motel]]
 | single1date = January 1968
 | single2     = The Daily Planet" / "[[Andmoreagain]]
 | single2date = March 1968
 | single3     = Your Mind and We Belong Together" / "Laughing Stock
 | single3date = September 1968
}}
}}

'''''Forever Changes''''' is the third studio album by the American [[rock music|rock]] band [[Love (band)|Love]], released on November 1, 1967, by [[Elektra Records]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/foreverchanges00hult|title=Forever Changes|first=Andrew|last=Hultkrans|date=April 25, 2019|location=New York |publisher=Continuum|access-date=April 25, 2019|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> The album saw the group embrace a subtler [[folk music|folk]]-influenced sound based around [[acoustic guitar]]s and [[orchestral music|orchestral arrangements]], while primary songwriter [[Arthur Lee (musician)|Arthur Lee]] explored darker themes alluding to mortality and his growing disillusionment with the [[Counterculture of the 1960s|era's counterculture]]. It was the final album recorded by the original band lineup; after its completion, guitarist [[Bryan MacLean]] left the group acrimoniously, and Lee subsequently dismissed the other members.

''Forever Changes'' had only moderate success on the album charts upon release, peaking at No. 154 in the US<ref name="Joel Whitburn 1985">{{cite book |first=Joel |last=Whitburn |author-link=Joel Whitburn |title=Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955–1985 |publisher=Record Research Inc |year=1985 |isbn=0-89820-054-7 |page=219}}</ref> and No. 24 in the UK.<ref>{{cite book |last=Martin |first=Roach |title=The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums |publisher=Virgin Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7535-1700-0 |page=168}}</ref> In subsequent years, it has become recognized as an influential document of 1960s [[psychedelic music|psychedelia]] and named among the greatest albums of all time by a variety of publications.

==Background==
[[File:Love (1966).png|thumb|Love in 1966; one year before the beginning of the album's recording.]]
In 1966, Love released their first two albums in relatively rapid succession; the second, ''[[Da Capo (Love album)|Da Capo]]'', spawned their only Top 40 hit, "[[7 and 7 Is]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/love-mn0000314600|title=Love – Biography|website=[[AllMusic]]|last=Unterberger |first=Richie|access-date=May 31, 2016}}</ref> However, the group's opportunity for major national success dwindled as a consequence of frontman [[Arthur Lee (musician)|Arthur Lee]]'s unwillingness to tour, his deteriorating relationship with Love's other songwriter [[Bryan MacLean]], and the overshadowing presence of label-mates [[the Doors]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/halfway-between-watts-and-charles-manson-local-idol-arthur-lee/|title=Halfway Between Watts and Charles Manson: Local idol Arthur Lee|website=Lamag.com|last=Duersten |first=Matthew|date=May 22, 2014 |access-date=May 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/arthur-lee-1945-2006-20060804|title=Arthur Lee (1945–2006)|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|last=Sullivan|first=James|access-date=May 31, 2016}}</ref> In a 1992 interview, MacLean spoke of him and Lee "competing a bit like [[Lennon–McCartney|Lennon and McCartney]] to see who would come up with the better song. It was part of our charm. Everybody had different behaviour patterns. Eventually, the others couldn't cut it".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-bryan-maclean-1044305.html|title=Orbituary: Bryan MacLean|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|access-date=May 31, 2016}}</ref> Throughout this period, the band – reduced to a quintet with the departures of Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer and Tjay Cantrelli – were known to retreat to a dilapidated mansion in Hollywood, nicknamed "The Castle", to use heroin, causing further stagnation.<ref name=mojo>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVQbF9lTBwgC&q=arthur+lee+love+da+capo&pg=PA114|title=The Mojo Collection|author=Various writers|edition=4th|page=114|year=2007|publisher=Canongate Books|isbn=978-1841959733}}</ref> The band was allowed to live in this mansion as long as they maintained it and paid property taxes. According to author John Einerson, the rumor of it being formerly lived in by [[Bela Lugosi]] is a myth.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}

===Inspiration===
Rather than base his writings on Los Angeles's burgeoning [[hippie]] scene, Lee's material for ''Forever Changes'' was drawn from his lifestyle and environment.<ref name=mojo/> The songs reflected upon grim but blissful themes and Lee's skepticism of the [[flower power]] movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/253799-love-forever-changes/|title=Love: ''Forever Changes'' – Studio 360|website=Wnyc.org|access-date=April 25, 2019}}</ref> Writer Andrew Hultkrans explained Lee's frame of mind at the time: "Arthur Lee was one member of the [[Counterculture of the 1960s|'60s counterculture]] who didn't buy flower-power wholesale, who intuitively understood that letting the sunshine in wouldn't instantly vaporize the world's (or his own) dark stuff".<ref name=Hultkrans>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o17m4K0_csMC&q=love+forever+changes|title=''Love's Forever Changes''|pages=3–4|publisher=Bloomsbury|last=Hultkrans|first=Andrew|year=2003|isbn=9781441128706}}</ref> With the band in disarray, and increasingly concerned over his own mortality, Lee envisioned ''Forever Changes'' as a lament to his memory.<ref name=Hultkrans/>

Having already produced the group's first two albums, [[Bruce Botnick]] was enlisted to oversee the production of the third album along with Lee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.richieunterberger.com/botnick.html|title=Bruce Botnick interview|website=Richieunterberger.com|last=Unterberger |first=Richie|access-date=June 1, 2016}}</ref> Botnick, who had just finished working on [[Buffalo Springfield]]'s ''[[Buffalo Springfield Again]]'', invited [[Neil Young]] to co-produce the album, but Young, after initially agreeing, excused himself from the project.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aw6kSkR3eXgC&q=forever+changes+neil+young&pg=PA52|title=''Eight Miles High: Folk-rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock''|last=Unterberger |first=Richie|page=52|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|year=2003|isbn=0879307439}}</ref> As Botnick recalled "Neil really had the burning desire to go solo and realize his dream without being involved in another band".<ref name=congress/> According to the liner notes of the compilation album ''Love Story'', Young was involved in ''Forever Changes'' long enough to arrange the track "The Daily Planet"; Young, however, has denied such involvement.<ref>{{cite book|title= Shakey: Neil Young's biography|last= McDonough|first= Jimmy|year= 2002|publisher= [[Random House]]|location= New York City|isbn= 978-0-679-42772-8|oclc= 47844513|url= https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780679427728 |page=160}}</ref>

The title of the album came from a story that Lee had heard about a friend-of-a-friend who had broken up with his girlfriend. She exclaimed, "You said you would love me forever!" and he replied, "Well, forever changes." Lee also noted that, since the name of the band was Love, the full title was actually ''Love Forever Changes''.<ref name="Einarson, John 2010">{{cite book |last=Einarson |first=John |title=Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love |publisher=A Genuine Jawbone Book |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-906002-31-2}}</ref>

==Recording==
According to [[AllMusic]], the band embraced "a more gentle, contemplative, and organic sound on ''Forever Changes''," with much of the album "built around interwoven acoustic guitar textures and subtle [[orchestration]]s, with [[string section|strings]] and [[Brass section|horns]] both reinforcing and punctuating the melodies."<ref name="AllMusic"/> [[Elektra Records]] founder [[Jac Holzman]] had suggested that Love "advance backwards" by embracing the more subtle approach of [[folk music]], and Lee, while typically independent in his musical directions, accepted the suggestion.<ref name=congress>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/Love-Forever-Changes.pdf|title="Forever Changes" – 1967|website=Loc.gov|pages=1–2|last=Olsen |first=Ted|access-date=June 1, 2016}}</ref> Stephen M. Deusner of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' stated that Lee paired his "dark, discomfiting lyrics" with music that draws from [[rock music|rock]], [[psychedelia]], folk, [[pop music|pop]], [[classical music|classical]], and [[mariachi]] influences.<ref name="pitchfork.com">{{cite web |last1=Deusner |first1=Stephen M. |title=Love: Forever Changes [Collector's Edition] Album Review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11429-forever-changes-collectors-edition/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=18 February 2021}}</ref>
[[File:Forever Changes - Billboard ad 1968.png|thumb|''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' advertisement, January 27, 1968]] 
Love started recording ''Forever Changes'' in June 1967 at [[Sunset Sound Recorders]]. However, beginning with the early recording sessions, the band, except Lee, was plagued by internal conflicts and lack of preparation for Lee's intricate arrangements.  Through Holzman's perspective, Botnick was an "album savior", guiding and motivating Lee's bandmates out of their trying period.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/Love-Forever-Changes.pdf|title="Forever Changes" – 1967|website=Loc.gov|pages=2–3|author=Olsen, Ted|access-date=June 11, 2016}}</ref> To compel the band to participate, Botnick enlisted [[The Wrecking Crew (music)|Wrecking Crew]] [[Session musician|session musicians]] [[Billy Strange]] (guitar), [[Don Randi]] (piano), [[Hal Blaine]] (drums), and [[Carol Kaye]] (bass guitar) to work with Lee, completing the sessions for "Andmoreagain" and "The Daily Planet" in one day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/hj8c/|title=BBC – Music – Review of Love – Forever Changes|first=Chris|last=Jones|website=Bbc.co.uk|access-date=April 25, 2019}}</ref> Shocked by the notion of losing their roles, Botnick's plan succeeded in motivating the other Love members to participate in recording the remaining material.<ref name=congress/>

Lee spent three weeks with arranger [[David Angel (musician)|David Angel]], playing and singing the orchestral parts to him. Lee envisioned the horns and strings as part of the material from the beginning.<ref name="Einarson, John 2010"/> String and horn overdubs on September 18, followed by two more stereo mixing sessions, completed the sessions.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Olson |first=Ted |date=2011 |title="Forever Changes"—Love (1967) |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/Love-Forever-Changes.pdf |access-date=January 11, 2025 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>

== Style ==
According to the staff of ''[[BrooklynVegan]]'', the tensions between Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean "made for a unique energy" present on the album, said to be "[running] electric." The site described the album's production as "sweeping [and] [[Baroque music|baroque]]."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=BrooklynVegan |title=The 50 best psychedelic rock albums of the Summer of Love |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/best-psychedelic-rock-albums-summer-of-love-1967/ |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=BrooklynVegan |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[NME]]'' wrote that the album is "joyous, uplifting and [[Sweetness|sweet]] in parts, while at the same time menacing, [[Extraversion and introversion|introverted]] and [[Paranoia|paranoid]]."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blog |first=N. M. E. |date=2012-04-03 |title=10 best psychedelic albums of all time |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/listomania-top-10-psychedelic-albums-768703 |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=NME |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Release and reception ==

===Initial release===
Upon its release in late 1967, ''Forever Changes'' was only moderately successful commercially. It peaked at No.&nbsp;154 in 1968, which was the lowest showing of Love's first three albums.<ref name="Joel Whitburn 1985"/> ''Forever Changes'' had a much stronger showing in Great Britain, where it reached No.&nbsp;24 on the UK album chart in 1968.<ref>{{cite book |first=Martin |last=Roach |title=The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums |publisher=Virgin Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7535-1700-0 |page=168}}</ref>

Initial reviews were positive. Writing for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' in 1968, Jim Bickhart regarded ''Forever Changes'' as Love's "most sophisticated album yet", applauding the orchestral arrangements and recording quality.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/forever-changes-19680210 |title=Love: Forever Changes |first=Jim |last=Bickhart |date=February 10, 1968 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |issn=0035-791X |access-date=September 26, 2011}}</ref> In ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', [[Robert Christgau]] called it an elaboration on Love's original musical style and "a vast improvement" over their previous recordings, because "Lee has stopped trying to imitate [[Mick Jagger]] with his soft voice, and the lyrics, while still obscure, now have an interesting surface as well."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Christgau|first=Robert|date=June 1968|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/column4.php|title=Columns|magazine=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|access-date=December 3, 2018}}</ref> [[Pete Johnson (rock critic)|Pete Johnson]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' believed the album could "survive endless listening with no diminishing either of power or of freshness", adding that "parts of the album are beautiful; others are disturbingly ugly, reflections of the pop movement towards realism". Gene Youngblood of ''LA Free Express'' also praised the album, calling it "melancholy iconoclasm and tasteful romanticism."<ref name="Einarson, John 2010"/>

===Retrospective acclaim===
{{Music ratings
| subtitle = Retrospective reviews
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{AllMusic |class= album|id= forever-changes-mw0000193671|label= ''Forever Changes''|last= Deming|first= Mark|access-date= March 2, 2017}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|edition=5th|isbn=978-0857125958|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Great Rock Discography]]''
| rev3Score = 10/10<ref>{{cite book|last=Strong|first=Martin C.|author-link=Martin C. Strong|year=2004|chapter=Love|title=The Great Rock Discography|publisher=Canongate U.S.|isbn=1841956155|edition=7th}}</ref>
| rev4 = [[NME]]
| rev4Score = 10/10<ref name="NME">{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/reviews-nme-4063 |title=Love: Forever Changes |work=[[NME]] |date=September 12, 2005 |access-date=September 12, 2005 |last=Kessler |first=Ted}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev5Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|author=Evans, Paul|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-link=Christian Hoard |chapter=Love |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/496/mode/2up |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Slant Magazine]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/love-forever-changes/ |title=Love: ''Forever Changes'' <nowiki>| Album Review</nowiki> |last=Cinquemani |first=Sal |date=April 13, 2008 |magazine=[[Slant Magazine]] |access-date=September 9, 2022}}</ref>
| rev7 = Sputnikmusic
| rev7score = 5/5<ref>{{cite web |date=January 14, 2005 |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/788/Love-Forever-Changes/ |title=Review: Love – ''Forever Changes'' |publisher=Sputnikmusic |access-date=September 9, 2022}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev8Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cavanagh |first=David |date=June 2008 |title=Love: Forever Changes |magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |page=99}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev9Score = A−<ref name="Christgau">{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=December 20, 1976|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6N9LAAAAIBAJ&pg=6134,4535773|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide to 1967|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|page=69|location=New York City|access-date=June 22, 2013}}</ref>
| rev10= ''[[The Rolling Stone Record Guide]] (1st ed, 1979)''
|rev10Score = {{rating|5|5}}
| rev11= ''[[The New Rolling Stone Record Guide]] (2nd ed, 1983)''
|rev11Score = {{rating|5|5}}
| rev12= ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]] (3rd ed, 1992)''
|rev12Score = {{rating|4|5}}
}}
In a retrospective review, [[AllMusic]] stated that despite the album's initial muted reception, "years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the [[Summer of Love]]," calling it "an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969."<ref name="AllMusic"/> The 1979 edition of ''The Rolling Stone Record Guide'' gave the album a rating of five stars (out of five). It also received five stars in the 1983 edition of the guide and in the 1992 guide four.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wMEQAQAAMAAJ&q=forever+changes|title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews: Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist|first1=Anthony|last1=DeCurtis|first2=James|last2=Henke|first3=Holly|last3=George-Warren|date=April 25, 1992|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0679737292|access-date=April 25, 2019|via=Google Books}}</ref> In a special issue of ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' magazine, ''Forever Changes'' was ranked the second greatest [[Psychedelic music|psychedelic]] album of all time. In the January 1996 issue, ''Mojo'' readers selected ''Forever Changes'' as number 11 on the "100 Greatest Albums Ever Made".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojo.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051207104904/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojo.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=December 7, 2005 |title=The 100 Greatest Albums Ever Made |date=August 1995 |magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |location=London |publisher=Bauer Media Group |issn=1351-0193 |access-date=September 26, 2011}}</ref> ''Forever Changes'' was praised by a group of members of the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]] in 2002 as being one of the greatest albums of all time.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/music/2052074.stm |title=Freed 1960s star meets MPs |date=June 18, 2002 |newspaper=[[BBC News]] |access-date=September 26, 2011}}</ref>

===Reissues===
''Forever Changes'' was included in its entirety on the 2-CD retrospective Love compilation ''Love Story 1966–1972'', released by [[Rhino Records]] in 1995. The album was re-released in an expanded single-CD version by Rhino in 2001, featuring alternate mixes, outtakes and the group's 1968 single, "Your Mind and We Belong Together"/"Laughing Stock", the final tracks ever to feature the ''Forever Changes'' line-up of Arthur Lee, Johnny Echols, Ken Forssi, Michael Stuart-Ware and Bryan MacLean (Forssi and MacLean both died in 1998).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Burnsed |first1=Cathy |title=Tallahassee Democrat obituary index – August 3, 1997 – January 28, 1998 |url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/leon/vitals/deaths/1997td.txt |website=Files.usgwarchives.net |access-date=January 24, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Bryan MacLean: Obituary |newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=January 1, 1999 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-bryan-maclean-1044305.html |access-date=January 24, 2019}}</ref>

''The Forever Changes Concert'' was released on DVD in 2003 and marked the first time many of the songs had been performed live. The set features the entire album performed in its original running order, recorded in early 2003 during Lee's tour of England, in which he was backed by the band Baby Lemonade and members of the Stockholm Strings 'n' Horns ensemble. The DVD features the album concert, five bonus performances, documentary footage and an interview with Lee.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Deming |first1=Mark |title=The Forever Changes Live Concert |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-forever-changes-concert-mw0000740254 |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=January 24, 2019}}</ref>

A double-CD "Collector's Edition" of the album was issued by Rhino Records on April 22, 2008. The first disc consists of a remastered version of the original 1967 album. The second disc contains a previously unissued alternate stereo mix of the album, plus ten bonus tracks.<ref>{{cite book|title=Forever Changes|date=April 25, 2019|isbn=9781788400800|oclc = 228442121|last1=Dimery|first1=Robert|publisher=Cassell Illustrated }}</ref>

A Super High Material CD (SHM-CD) version of ''Forever Changes'' was released by Warner Music Japan in 2009, and a 24 bit 192&nbsp;kHz High Resolution version of the album was released by HDTracks in 2014, and in the same year a hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) version of the album was released by [[Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab]].

A 50th anniversary deluxe edition box set was released by Rhino on April 6, 2018, featuring four CDs, a DVD and an LP. It contains remastered versions of the stereo, mono and alternate stereo mixes of the album, a disc of demos, outtakes, alternate mixes and non-album tracks, a DVD containing a 24/96 stereo mix of the album and a bonus music video, and a new LP remaster of the album, remastered by Bruce Botnick and cut from high resolution audio by [[Bernie Grundman]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rhino.com/article/in-stores-tomorrow-love-forever-changes-50th-anniversary-edition|title=In Stores Tomorrow: Love, FOREVER CHANGES: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION – Rhino|website=Rhino.com|access-date=April 25, 2019}}</ref>

==Legacy==
In 2008, the album was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame Award|Grammy Hall of Fame]] and in 2011, the album was added to the [[National Recording Registry]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://psychedelicsight.com/recording-registry/ |title=Love, Dead in National Recording Registry |website=Psychedelicsight.com |access-date=May 23, 2012}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' ranked it number 180 on its 2020 list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/love-forever-changes-3-1063053/| date=September 22, 2020| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time| magazine= [[Rolling Stone]]| access-date=September 29, 2020}}.</ref> The album was also included in [[Robert Christgau]]'s "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981).<ref>{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=0899190251|chapter=A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/basics.php|access-date=March 16, 2019}}</ref> It was voted number 12 in [[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]'s [[All Time Top 1000 Albums]] 3rd Edition (2000).<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=All Time Top 1000 Albums|title-link=All Time Top 1000 Albums|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|year=2000|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=39}}</ref> In 2013, ''[[NME]]'' ranked the album number 37 on their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Publishers such as [[AllMusic]]<ref>{{cite web |author1=Mark Deming |title=Love - Forever Changes |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/forever-changes-mw0000193671 |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=May 2, 2021}}</ref> and ''[[Slant Magazine]]''<ref>{{cite magazine |author1=Sal Cinquemani |title=Review: Love, Forever Changes |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/love-forever-changes/ |magazine=[[Slant Magazine]] |date=April 13, 2008}}</ref> have praised the album as well. In a 2005 survey held by British television's [[Channel 4]], the album was ranked 83rd in the 100 greatest albums of all time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/albums/results.html |title=The 100 Greatest Albums |publisher=[[Channel 4]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050419014122/http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/albums/results.html |archive-date=April 19, 2005}}</ref> The album was included in the 2005 book ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''.<ref name= "Dimery 2009">{{cite book |last=Dimery |first=Robert |title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die |publisher=Octopus Publishing Group, London |year=2009 |pages=42–43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIyEkArSW0EC |isbn=9781844036240 |access-date= May 18, 2013}}</ref>

According to the ''[[New Musical Express]]'', [[the Stone Roses]]' relationship with their future producer [[John Leckie]] was settled when they all agreed that ''Forever Changes'' was the "best record ever".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nme.com/gallery/25_things_you_didn%27t_know_about_the_stone_roses/124337/22/1 |title=The Stone Roses – resurrected? |date=July 9, 2009 |quote=Reni said, 'What's your favourite record ever?' I came out with Love's 'Forever Changes' and they all fell about and said, 'That's our favourite record as well!' |website=Nme.com |access-date=September 26, 2011}}</ref> [[Robert Plant]] is an admirer of the album.<ref>{{cite news
|first=Jeff |last=Weiss |url=https://www.laweekly.com/loves-forever-changes-may-be-the-greatest-album-ever-made-in-l-a/ |title=Love's ''Forever Changes'' May Be the Greatest Album Ever Made in L.A. |newspaper=[[LA Weekly]] |accessdate=March 18, 2021}}</ref>

The staff of ''[[BrooklynVegan]]'' named the album as the best psychedelic rock album of the [[Summer of Love]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=BrooklynVegan |title=The 50 best psychedelic rock albums of the Summer of Love |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/best-psychedelic-rock-albums-summer-of-love-1967/ |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=BrooklynVegan |language=en-US}}</ref> and ''[[NME]]'' named the album as the greatest psychedelic rock album of all time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blog |first=N. M. E. |date=2012-04-03 |title=10 best psychedelic albums of all time |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/listomania-top-10-psychedelic-albums-768703 |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=NME |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Track listing==
All songs written by [[Arthur Lee (musician)|Arthur Lee]], except "[[Alone Again Or]]" and "Old Man" by [[Bryan MacLean]]. Details are taken from the 50th Anniversary Edition.<ref>[https://theseconddisc.com/2018/05/17/review-love-forever-changes-50th-anniversary-edition/ Review: Love, "''Forever Changes'': 50th Anniversary Edition" - The Second Disc]</ref>
{{Track listing
| headline     = Side one
| extra_column = Recorded
| title1       = [[Alone Again Or]]
| length1      = 3:15
| extra1       = September 10, 1967
| title2       = [[A House Is Not a Motel]]
| length2      = 3:25
| extra2       = August 11 & September 10, 1967
| title3       = [[Andmoreagain]]
| length3      = 3:15
| extra3       = June 9, 12 & August 11, 1967
| title4       = The Daily Planet
| length4      = 3:25
| extra4       = June 9–10 & September 25, 1967
| title5       = Old Man
| length5      = 2:57
| extra5       = August 12 & September 25, 1967
| title6       = [[The Red Telephone (song)|The Red Telephone]]
| length6      = 4:45
| extra6       = August 12 & September 21, 25, 1967
}}
{{Track listing
| headline     = Side two
| extra_column = Recorded
| title7       = Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
| length7      = 3:30
| extra7       = September 10, 1967
| title8       = Live and Let Live
| length8      = 5:24
| extra8       = August 11, 1967
| title9       = The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
| length9      = 3:00
| extra9       = August 11, 1967
| title10      = Bummer in the Summer
| length10     = 2:20
| extra10      = August 12, 1967
| title11      = You Set the Scene
| length11     = 6:49
| extra11      = August 12, 1967
| total_length = 42:05
}}
'''2001 Rhino bonus tracks'''

A single disc collection, presenting the original stereo album, remastered, plus the following bonus tracks:
{{Track listing
| headline     = 
| title12      = Hummingbirds
| length12     = 2:43
| note12       = Demo
| title13      = Wonder People (I Do Wonder)
| length13     = 3:28
| note13       = Outtake
| title14      = Alone Again Or
| length14     = 2:55
| note14       = Alternate Mix
| title15      = You Set the Scene
| length15     = 7:01
| note15       = Alternate Mix
| title16      = Your Mind and We Belong Together
| length16     = 8:16
| note16       = Tracking Sessions Highlights
| title17      = Your Mind and We Belong Together
| length17     = 4:27
| note17       = Single A-side
| title18      = Laughing Stock
| length18     = 2:31
| note18       = B-side of "Your Mind and We Belong Together"
}}

'''2008 Rhino "Collector's Edition" bonus tracks'''

A two-disc collection. Disc 1 presents the original stereo album, remastered, while disc 2 is a previously unreleased alternate stereo mix of the album, featuring the following bonus tracks:
{{Track listing
| headline     = 
| title12      = Wonder People (I Do Wonder)
| length12     = 3:21
| note12       = Outtake, Original Mix
| title13      = Hummingbirds
| length13     = 2:41
| note13       = Demo
| title14      = A House Is Not a Motel
| length14     = 3:11
| note14       = Backing Track
| title15      = Andmoreagain
| length15     = 3:08
| note15       = Alternate Electric Backing Track 
| title16      = The Red Telephone
| length16     = 2:07
| note16       = Tracking Sessions Highlights
| title17      = Wooly Bully
| length17     = 1:27
| note17       = Outtake
| title18      = Alone Again Or
| length18     = 2:54
| note18       = Mono Single Remix
| title19      = Your Mind and We Belong Together
| length19     = 8:16
| note19       = Tracking Sessions Highlights
| title20      = Your Mind and We Belong Together
| length20     = 4:27
| note20       = Single A-side
| title21      = Laughing Stock
| length21     = 2:31
| note21       = B-side of "Your Mind and We Belong Together"
}}

'''2018 "50th Anniversary Edition" bonus discs'''

A box set comprising four CDs, one LP and one DVD: disc 2 presents the original mono album, remastered; disc 3 is the alternate stereo mix; disc 4 is outtakes, single versions, demos, session highlights and non album tracks from the era; disc 5 is the original stereo album on vinyl, remastered and cut from high resolution audio; and disc 6 is a 24/96 stereo mix on DVD, featuring a bonus music video.
{{Track listing
| headline     = Disc 3
| title12      = Wonder People (I Do Wonder)
| length12     = 3:23
| note12       = Outtake; Alternate Mix
}}

{{Track listing
| headline     = Disc 4
| title1       = Wonder People (I Do Wonder)
| length1      = 3:20
| note1        = Outtake; Original Mix
| title2       = Alone Again Or
| length2      = 2:48
| note2        = Single Version
| title3       = A House Is Not a Motel
| length3      = 3:22
| note3        = Single Version
| title4       = Hummingbirds
| length4      = 2:41
| note4        = demo of "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This"
| title5       = A House Is Not a Motel
| length5      = 3:06
| note5        = Backing Track
| title6       = Andmoreagain
| length6      = 3:06
| note6        = Alternate Electric Backing Track
| title7       = The Red Telephone
| length7      = 2:07
| note7        = Tracking Sessions Highlights
| title8       = Wooly Bully
| length8      = 1:25
| note8        = [[Domingo Samudio]]; Outtake
| title9       = Live and Let Live
| length9      = 5:37
| note9        = Backing Track
| title10      = Wonder People (I Do Wonder)
| length10     = 3:30
| note10       = Outtake; Backing Track
| title11      = Your Mind and We Belong Together
| length11     = 8:16
| note11       = Tracking Sessions Highlights
| title12      = Your Mind and We Belong Together
| length12     = 4:27
| note12       = Single A-side
| title13      = Laughing Stock
| length13     = 2:34
| note13       = B-side of "Your Mind and We Belong Together"
| title14      = Alone Again Or
| length14     = 2:51
| note14       = Mono Single Remix
}}

{{Track listing
| headline     = Disc 6
| title12      = Your Mind and We Belong Together
| length12     = 4:27
| note12       = Video
}}

==Personnel==
According to the 2001 reissue CD booklet.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Forever Changes|type=CD booklet|id=R2 73537-2 |year=2001}}</ref>

'''Love'''
* [[Arthur Lee (musician)|Arthur Lee]] – guitar, vocals
* [[Bryan MacLean]] – guitar, vocals
* [[Johnny Echols]] – guitar
* [[Ken Forssi]] – bass guitar
* Michael Stuart-Ware – drums, percussion

'''Additional musicians'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/music/album-reviews-love-forever-changes-50th-anniversary-edition-and-more-new-music/|title=Album Reviews: Love – Forever Changes (50th Anniversary Edition) and More New Music|first=Jeff|last=Burger|date=May 8, 2018|website=The Morton Report|access-date=April 25, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Carol Kaye]] – bass guitar on "Andmoreagain" and "The Daily Planet"
* [[Don Randi]] – keyboards on "Andmoreagain" and "The Daily Planet"; piano on "Old Man" and "Bummer in the Summer"; harpsichord on "The Red Telephone"
* [[Billy Strange]] – electric guitar on "Andmoreagain" and "The Daily Planet"
* [[Hal Blaine]] – drums on "Andmoreagain" and "The Daily Planet"
* [[Neil Young]] – arranger on "The Daily Planet"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/music/loves-forever-changes-at-50-arthur-lees-masterpiece-still-transcends-its-era-8829608|title=Love's Forever Changes May Be the Greatest Album Ever Made in L.A.|first=Jeff|last=Weiss|date=November 8, 2017|website=L.A. Weekly|access-date=April 25, 2019}}</ref>
* [[David Angel (musician)|David Angel]] – arranger
* Robert Barene, Arnold Belnick, James Getzoff, Marshall Sosson, Darrel Terwilliger – violin
* Norman Botnick – viola
* Jesse Ehrlich – cello
* [[Chuck Berghofer]] – double bass
* [[Bud Brisbois]], [[Roy Caton]], [[Ollie Mitchell]] – trumpet
* Richard Leith – trombone

'''Production and design'''
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
* Bruce Botnick and Arthur Lee – Producers
* Bruce Botnick – Engineer
* [[Jac Holzman]] – Production Supervisor<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/forever-changes-mw0000193671/credits|title=Forever Changes – Love – Credits|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=April 25, 2019}}</ref>
* Zal Schreiber – Mastering
* [[William S. Harvey]] – Cover Design
* [[Bob Pepper (illustrator)|Bob Pepper]] – Cover Art<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/music/sound-and-vision-love-s-forever-changes-with-cover-illustration-by-bob-pepper/|title=Juxtapoz Magazine – Sound and Vision: Love's "Forever Changes" With Cover Illustration by Bob Pepper|website=Juxtapoz.com|access-date=April 25, 2019}}</ref>
* Ronnie Haran – Back Cover Photo
* Andrew Sandoval – Project Producer
* Andrew Sandoval, Dan Hersch, Bill Inglot – Remastering, Disc 1
* Steve Hoffman – Remastering, Disc 2, tracks 1–11
* Dan Hersch and Andrew Sandoval – Remastering, Disc 2, tracks 12–21
* Michael Kachko – Product Manager
* Andrew Sandoval – Liner Notes
* Amanda Smith – Art Supervision
* Vanessa Atkins and Cory Frye – Editorial Supervision
}}

==See also==
*[[Timeline of 1960s counterculture]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://beta.prx.org/stories/106426 Inside the National Recording Registry segment]

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