Love: The Best Of Love : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Some of the best-known bands in Los Angeles in the Sixties became brand names for a particular style of rock: jangling folk rock for the Byrds, portentous doom rock for the Doors. Love not only bridged the gap between those two groups, they also tried to summon up every color of psychedelia. The range of their sound meant that they never really progressed past cult-band status, but Love were a cult worth joining and still sound fresh and inventive today. Lead singer Arthur Lee, a black man from Memphis, led this interracial band into uncharted waters, singing about orange skies and snot caked on his pants. This generous twenty-two-track compilation ranges from hard-rock freakouts ("Seven and Seven Is") to wistful pop ("She Comes in Colors") to trippy mariachi ("Maybe the People Would Be the Times, or Between Clark and Hilldale"). It also includes the grooviest up-tempo version of "Hey Joe" you'll ever hear.

GAVIN EDWARDS

(Posted: Mar 25, 2003)

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My Little Red Book (track not available in Rhapsody)
Can't Explain (track not available in Rhapsody)
Softly To Me (track not available in Rhapsody)
No Matter What You Do (track not available in Rhapsody)
Hey Joe (track not available in Rhapsody)
Signed D.C. (track not available in Rhapsody)
Seven & Seven Is (track not available in Rhapsody)
Stephanie Knows Who (track not available in Rhapsody)
Orange Skies (track not available in Rhapsody)
Que Vida! (track not available in Rhapsody)
She Comes In Colors
Alone Again Or (track not available in Rhapsody)
Andmoreagain (track not available in Rhapsody)
Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale (track not available in Rhapsody)
Live And Let Live (track not available in Rhapsody)
You Set The Scene (track not available in Rhapsody)
Your Mind And We Belong Together (track not available in Rhapsody)
Laughing Stock (track not available in Rhapsody)
Singing Cowboy (track not available in Rhapsody)
Your Friend And Mine - Neil's Song (track not available in Rhapsody)
Robert Montgomery (track not available in Rhapsody)
Always See Your Face (track not available in Rhapsody)