M- 1969 Arthur Lee LOVE Four Sail Hard Psych Changes

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M- VINYL ~ ORIGINAL1969 FIRST PRESSING ~ HARD PSYCH GEM!                                                     

        arthur lee's

                 LOVE

              FOUR SAIL

                             USA - Big E red Elektra - EKS 74049

Original 1969 first pressing of underrrated Arthur Lee's LOVE gem ...A nice CLEAN M- vinyl original that should be in all worthy collections ...Contains elements of "Forever Changes" all over the place...

There are many words one could use to describe Arthur Lee’s new LOVE essembled in 1969. There isn’t a bad song here, in fact the albums swings from start to end. Kicking off the proceedings with sledgehammer ferocity is lead-off track “August,” which in a way is a kitchen-sink template for everything this Love group had to offer. A mysterious Spanish-style guitar intro leads in to a bombastic power-trio assault; delicate, folk-style verses; and a crazy jam-out middle section that features drumming so busily fill-intensive that Neil Pert himself would beg for it to be taken down a notch. “August” is one of Love’s best songs, and proof positive that they hadn’t said it all with “Forever Changes.” If anything, they now had an entirely new vocabulary in which to articulate their life and times and overdriven Marshall stacks were certainly more era-appropriate by this point than the lush arrangements of Next up is “Your Friend And Mine – Neil’s Song,” a jaunty, groovin'-like ditty about Love roadie Neil Rappaport, who, as legend had it, sold a bunch of the band’s equipment for drugs, on which he then overdosed. Lee gets in a sly nose-thumbing at him here, revealing both compassion and an “I told you so” schoolyard cruelty. The brilliant disparity between the song’s whistle-worthy melodic sprightliness and dark subject matter is a perfect example of Lee’s inimitability.

Elsewhere, we’re still on solid turf -- “I’m With You” and “Nothing” are gorgeous quasi-throwbacks to earlier Love, melodically wistful and with a more folk-rock lean than the other songs on the record. “Singing Cowboy,” is one of the best tracks on the album, ultra catchy memorable melody with its passionate drum-fills and finger-picked intro, thrusts you headlong into Lee’s vision of himself as an old-time gunslinger. “Good Times” is just that, another Lee classic. “Robert Montgomery” is a terrific infectious hard-rock re-imagining of “Elenor Rigby.” And “Dream” is an awesome bit of Arthurly free-association, replete with the classic lyric, “I just stepped in from New York at 10 a.m. / International Airport / and now I’m here with all my friends again / Wonder if there’s a God?”

And then along comes “Always See Your Face,” a “Forever Changes”-style throwback with French horn backing. In its own inscrutable way, it serves as a fitting elegy for Lee’s ride into the sunset. Over a lazily urgent, galloping rhythm, Lee waxes eloquent about obsession, depression, and the necessity of unmasking oneself. It’s a little-known masterpiece in Lee’s canon, one that says goodbye to the old Love in its own understated way, without the lyrical grandiosity of “You Set The Scene”’s “get it all in before the fade” approach. It’s a mysterious fare-thee-well with a question mark hanging over it, simultaneously managing to be quite moving and a truly tough nut to crack. Great album, not always appreciated...

"August" – 5:00
"Your Friend and Mine - Neil's Song" – 3:40
"I'm With You" – 2:45
"Good Times" – 3:30
"Singing Cowboy" (Lee, Jay Donnellan) - 4:30
"Dream" – 2:49
"Robert Montgomery" – 3:34
"Nothing" – 4:44
"Talking in My Sleep" – 2:50
"Always See Your Face" – 3:30

CONDITION: The cover is stiff and solid , tiny hard to see drill delete at top left, bottom right corner bump, othewise all very nice, clean "EX" (excellent) collectible...

The vinyl is all clean M- smooth and plays delightful

         A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record