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LA Weekly: The Doors? Black Flag? The Chili Peppers? Nope, LA’s Best Band Was Love

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Goals for the remainder of the year: Stop writing articles for the LA Weekly involving the phrase, [Random Band] is the Best [Insert Hyperbolic Superlative Here]. That said, I get hopelessly stannish when talk turns to Arthur Lee and Love, in particular their masterpiece, Forever Changes, which was just re-issued by Rhino last month complete with a new alternate mix and a few obsessives-only outtakes.

The article makes the case for Love as Los Angeles’ greatest band based on how perfectly they capture the way the city feels (no, not over-tanned and bloated with excess, that would be Ratt). If you haven’t heard Forever Changes, I can’t recommend anything more, save for possibly yoga on weed. So the morale of the story is probably to listen to Forever Changes while smoking a blunt and stretching. I think that last sentence indicates that I may need to move. Soon.

LA Weekly: The Doors? Black Flag? The Chili Peppers? Nope, LA’s Best Band Was Love

Buy Love-Forever Changes (Collector’s Edition)

Download:
MP3: Love-”Maybe the People Would Be the Times Or Between Clark and Hilldale”
MP3: Love-”Alone Again Or”

Bonus Track:
MP3: Love-”Your Mind And We Belong Together”

11 Responses to “LA Weekly: The Doors? Black Flag? The Chili Peppers? Nope, LA’s Best Band Was Love”

  1. most times, we agree to disagree [well, that’s what OMG TOTALLY ONLINE BFF’S do, right?], but this time, you’re OTM, jeff weiss.

    GREAT piece.

  2. I’d take the Minutemen myself even if they are from San Pedro (which I guess is more like Long Beach which still counts as LA right?) but you can’t go wrong with Love.

  3. enjoyed this one (obviously).

  4. Can I claim San Pedro if I’m a resident of Long Beach? What would Mike Watt think about this?

  5. Passion of the Weiss Says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    Not sure about that one, but you can claim LBC, which is more meaningful I think.

    Also, I’ve been trying to subscribe to the Pressed For Sound RSS feed but it won’t let me. What gives sir?

  6. goal: stop fucking writing

  7. Passion of the Weiss Says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    Goal: If you’re going to insult me on my own blog come up with a better name than Dog Hole.

  8. “yoga on weed”

    I’d have to let the “greatest LA” band question marinate for a while, but this is definitely the most LA statement I’ve read in a good minute.

    Still loving the blog holmes, just used it to catch up on what I’ve missed in the past few months.

  9. Better than The Byrds, The Doors, Frank Zappa, Crosby Stills and Nash and Young, The Eagles, X??

  10. It should work, lots of crappy bugs were finally fixed last Friday. If it doesn’t work again then I’ll get someone on it.

  11. Great album, but I can’t help but prefer “7 And 7 Is” to all the rest of Love’s discography, taken en toto. That song is punk as fuck.

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