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Love's 'Forever Changes' Super Deluxe Box Due This Spring


Multi-disc set features unreleased tracks, marks album's 50th anniversary

Rolling Stone
By Kory Grow

A new, 50th anniversary box-set edition of Love's landmark Forever Changes album will feature unreleased tracks, alternate mixes and a hardcover book. The set, due April 6th, will create a comprehensive portrait of the album through four CDs, a DVD and an LP, paired with liner notes by music historian Ted Olsen that break down each track on the album.

Love's 'Forever Changes' Super Deluxe Box Due This Spring

Forever Changes Box Set Track List
Disc One: Original Album
1. "Alone Again Or"
2. "A House Is Not a Motel"
3. "Andmoreagain"
4. "The Daily Planet"
5. "Old Man"
6. "The Red Telephone"
7. "Maybe t People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale"
8. "Live and Let Live"
9. "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This"
10. "Bummer in the Summer"
11. "You Set the Scene"

Disc Two: Mono Mix

Disc Three: Alternate Mix
1. "Alone Again Or"
2. "A House Is Not a Motel"
3. "Andmoreagain"
4. "The Daily Planet"
5. "Old Man"
6. "The Red Telephone"
7. "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale"
8. "Live And Let Live"
9. "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This"
10. "Bummer in the Summer"
11. "You Set the Scene"
12. "Wonder People (I Do Wonder)" (Outtake, Alternate Mix)

Disc Four: Singles and Outtakes
1. "Wonder People (I Do Wonder)"
2. "Alone Again Or" (Single Version)
3. "A House Is Not a Motel" (Single Version)
4. "Hummingbirds" (Demo)
5. "A House Is Not a Motel" (Backing Track)
6. "Andmoreagain" (Alternate Electric Backing Track)
7. "The Red Telephone" (Tracking Sessions Highlights)
8. "Wooly Bully" (Outtake)
9. "Live and Let Live" (Backing Track) *
10. "Wonder People (I Do Wonder)" (Outtake, Backing Track) *
11. "Your Mind and We Belong Together" (Tracking Sessions Highlights)
12. "Your Mind and We Belong Together"
13. "Laughing Stock"
14. "Alone Again Or" (Mono Single Remix)

DVD: 24/96 Stereo Mix
1. "Alone Again Or"
2. "A House Is Not a Motel"
3. "Andmoreagain"
4. "The Daily Planet"
5. "Old Man"
6. "The Red Telephone"
7. "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale"
8. "Live and Let Live"
9. "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This"
10. "Bummer in the Summer"
11. "You Set the Scene"
12. "Your Mind and We Belong Together" (Video)

LP: Original Album
Side One
1. "Alone Again Or"
2. "A House Is Not a Motel"
3. "Andmoreagain"
4. "The Daily Planet"
5. "Old Man"
6. "The Red Telephone"

Side Two
1. "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale"
2. "Live And Let Live"
3. "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This"
4. "Bummer in the Summer"
5. "You Set the Scene"

* Previously Unreleased

From what I've read, the MONO mix is a dedicated mix, not a fold down. Any word, Ed?

Mine is on pre-order here:

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A great local Maine CD/DVD?/Vinyl/Rock books etc. store, btw. And the local Maine guys who run the store were the co-founders of the
world famous Record Store Day.
Great prices for online orders too!

I have no idea, Scott. I only have the mono Forever Changes on cd that you send me years ago.
I’m not familiar with the term “fold down”. I read about it but I still don’t know what it means exactly.

I think I will buy it when it’s in the store, just because it belongs in my collection.I know soundwise it doesn’t get any better than my mofi lp plus there’s nothing new on it.I wish they’d release a mono fc on vinyl since
I don’t have that one just to complete my
Forever Changes collection.

The Freedom Man wrote:I have no idea, Scott. I only have the mono Forever Changes on cd that you send me years ago.
I’m not familiar with the term “fold down”. I read about it but I still don’t know what it means exactly.

I think I will buy it when it’s in the store, just because it belongs in my collection.I know soundwise it doesn’t get any better than my mofi lp plus there’s nothing new on it.I wish they’d release a mono fc on vinyl since
I don’t have that one just to complete my
Forever Changes collection.

Yeah. It belongs!

A dedicated MONO mix would be like the first two Doors albums. Just as Sgt Pepper's mono is a dedicated mix. One where there is a totally independent mixing session for a MONO album. Then there is an later stereo mixing session that often sounds totally different than the MONO mix.

After late 1967, "fold down" MONO LPs were mixed using the stereo mix, by just folding-down all the 4 or 8 tracks into one MONO track. Usually quite flat and boring, without the excitement and brilliance of a true MONO mix: like the Doors MONO first LP; often a second thought and not as important to the labels sales, as most kids owned MONO record players -- then stereo took over in late 1967.

Conversely, Re-channeled stereo (pre-1967 Beatles & Beach Boys "Electronically Re-channeled Stereo" Capitol LPs are notoriously bad) -- fake stereo was electronically separated into channels using dedicated MONO mix. Often to horrific results.

Came across this - photoshopped but pretty cool to imagine in LA somewhere!



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