MOFI Forever Changes SACD
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MOFI Forever Changes SACD
Anyone picked this up? The reviews on the Hoffman forum seem positive about the sound quality.
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Re: MOFI Forever Changes SACD
I'll ask around...Ed?hardrockcafe wrote:Anyone picked this up? The reviews on the Hoffman forum seem positive about the sound quality.
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Anyone have this? reviews? I thought the master tapes were missing....
http://www.musicdirect.com/p-123188-lov ... -sacd.aspx
Love - Forever Changes
Numbered Limited Edition SACD from Mobile Fidelity
Ranked #40 on Rolling Stone's List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity's Hybrid SACD Opens Up Scale of Lush Orchestral Architecture and Elegant Baroque Textures
Love Anticipates Late 1960s Turbulence Via Prophetic Songs and Dark Themes
Love's Da Capo Also Available on Hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity
Any discussion about the finest psychedelic rock record ever recorded is incomplete if it doesn't grant consideration to Love's Forever Changes. Ranked by Rolling Stone as the 40th greatest album ever made, and named by Mojo the second-greatest psychedelic set in history, the effort is an internationally recognized seminal work of art. Transcending language and convention, its magnitude and magnificence need to be heard again and again. For here is an effort whose mind-boggling acoustic complexities and kaleidoscopic nuances are tailored for high-fidelity playback.
Mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity's numbered limited-edition hybrid SACD affords the masterpiece the white-gloves treatment and golden-hued sonics it has always deserved. Nearly unlimited headroom, vast instrumental separation, transparent clarity, artifact-free atmospherics, and faithful balances appear out of jet-black backgrounds. The music appears to float on clouds, with the woody tones emanated by cavities of the acoustic guitars and brassy signatures of horns emerging with lifelike detail. Turn it up as loud as you want; the sole limitation will be your system's potential.
Commercially ignored upon release in November 1967, Forever Changes confronts the alienation, paranoia, violence, and strife that would soon plague the countercultural movement and send the Summer of Love into a tailspin. Apart from its lyrical themes and prescient malaise, the record's enduring nature equally owes to intertwined arrangements sewn together with Latin guitar-picked lines, finessed folk harmonies, mariachi-inspired horn charts, and subdued strings.
The seemingly opposing combination – ominous, dark reflections situated amidst lush, light melodic beds – affords Forever Changes a distinguished tension of claustrophobia and openness, dourness and ecstasy, ugliness and elegance enjoyed by no other record in the rock canon. Much of the contrast owes to leader Arthur Lee's mental state and pertinent observations. Lee, whose suppressed romanticism often surfaces even amidst the blackest shadows and most cynical moments, believed he would soon die, and hence channeled everything from lasting hopes to acid-addled decay to the chilling testimony of a Vietnam veteran in his narratives.
Alternatively sad and beautiful, the album-opening and flamenco-inspired "Alone Again Or" establishes the mood for what follows. Vocals overlap and soar; tempos rise and fall; surrealism trades places with reality. Forever Changes thrives both because of and in spite of a surfeit of labyrinthine chords and difficult notes that never repeat. Its ambitious construction almost forced the already fractured band to cede responsibilities to session musicians, which appear on two tracks. The quintet's resolve to not only complete the album, but to do so with such poignancy and curiosity, further enhances Forever Changes' standing.
No wonder that, in the twilight of his troubled career, Lee performed the record in its entirely during concerts met with overwhelming critical acclaim. It was, and will always be, a personal manifesto of timeless relevance and appeal.
Secure your lowest-numbered edition of this watershed disc by ordering from Music Direct today!
Love Forever Changes Track Listing:
Alone Again Or
A House Is Not a Motel
Andmoreagain
The Daily Planet
Old Man
The Red Telephone
Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
Live and Let Live
The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
Bummer in the Summer
You Set the Scene
http://www.musicdirect.com/p-123188-lov ... -sacd.aspx
Love - Forever Changes
Numbered Limited Edition SACD from Mobile Fidelity
Ranked #40 on Rolling Stone's List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity's Hybrid SACD Opens Up Scale of Lush Orchestral Architecture and Elegant Baroque Textures
Love Anticipates Late 1960s Turbulence Via Prophetic Songs and Dark Themes
Love's Da Capo Also Available on Hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity
Any discussion about the finest psychedelic rock record ever recorded is incomplete if it doesn't grant consideration to Love's Forever Changes. Ranked by Rolling Stone as the 40th greatest album ever made, and named by Mojo the second-greatest psychedelic set in history, the effort is an internationally recognized seminal work of art. Transcending language and convention, its magnitude and magnificence need to be heard again and again. For here is an effort whose mind-boggling acoustic complexities and kaleidoscopic nuances are tailored for high-fidelity playback.
Mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity's numbered limited-edition hybrid SACD affords the masterpiece the white-gloves treatment and golden-hued sonics it has always deserved. Nearly unlimited headroom, vast instrumental separation, transparent clarity, artifact-free atmospherics, and faithful balances appear out of jet-black backgrounds. The music appears to float on clouds, with the woody tones emanated by cavities of the acoustic guitars and brassy signatures of horns emerging with lifelike detail. Turn it up as loud as you want; the sole limitation will be your system's potential.
Commercially ignored upon release in November 1967, Forever Changes confronts the alienation, paranoia, violence, and strife that would soon plague the countercultural movement and send the Summer of Love into a tailspin. Apart from its lyrical themes and prescient malaise, the record's enduring nature equally owes to intertwined arrangements sewn together with Latin guitar-picked lines, finessed folk harmonies, mariachi-inspired horn charts, and subdued strings.
The seemingly opposing combination – ominous, dark reflections situated amidst lush, light melodic beds – affords Forever Changes a distinguished tension of claustrophobia and openness, dourness and ecstasy, ugliness and elegance enjoyed by no other record in the rock canon. Much of the contrast owes to leader Arthur Lee's mental state and pertinent observations. Lee, whose suppressed romanticism often surfaces even amidst the blackest shadows and most cynical moments, believed he would soon die, and hence channeled everything from lasting hopes to acid-addled decay to the chilling testimony of a Vietnam veteran in his narratives.
Alternatively sad and beautiful, the album-opening and flamenco-inspired "Alone Again Or" establishes the mood for what follows. Vocals overlap and soar; tempos rise and fall; surrealism trades places with reality. Forever Changes thrives both because of and in spite of a surfeit of labyrinthine chords and difficult notes that never repeat. Its ambitious construction almost forced the already fractured band to cede responsibilities to session musicians, which appear on two tracks. The quintet's resolve to not only complete the album, but to do so with such poignancy and curiosity, further enhances Forever Changes' standing.
No wonder that, in the twilight of his troubled career, Lee performed the record in its entirely during concerts met with overwhelming critical acclaim. It was, and will always be, a personal manifesto of timeless relevance and appeal.
Secure your lowest-numbered edition of this watershed disc by ordering from Music Direct today!
Love Forever Changes Track Listing:
Alone Again Or
A House Is Not a Motel
Andmoreagain
The Daily Planet
Old Man
The Red Telephone
Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
Live and Let Live
The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
Bummer in the Summer
You Set the Scene
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I don't have the CD.Although Forever Changes is my fav LP.The other week I bought the vinyl 45th Anniversary album after reading reviews at Steve's forum.h
I have a Japanese Forever Changes CD though which sounds very good also.
But I stopped buying cd's two years ago, I only listen to Vinyl these days.I don't even listen my cd's that I don't have on vinyl.
I do have an original 1967 cassette tape of Forever Changes.Oh well, maybe I should get me the SACD...
I have a Japanese Forever Changes CD though which sounds very good also.
But I stopped buying cd's two years ago, I only listen to Vinyl these days.I don't even listen my cd's that I don't have on vinyl.
I do have an original 1967 cassette tape of Forever Changes.Oh well, maybe I should get me the SACD...
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