Love

The other weekend I found two Love albums in a Lomita thrift store: Forever Changes (70s edition, butterfly label) and Reel to Real. The latter has a cover of such sublime ugliness it tips over into coolness. $6 for both. The asian lady behind the counter asked me if they sounded like the Beatles. I said maybe a little, but with more mariachi horns.

So here's three songs about Love, or alluding to Love, or seemingly unrelated to Love beyond the title.

The Anyways were from Oxford. They're The Relationships now. Their song title seems rather prescient, although I think they're singing about his wilderness years.

The Strands were Shack, pretty much, and Shack were Arthur Lee's pick up band in the UK. The castle reference makes me think this is about Arthur. He's sporting a kung fu look in the picture above, or maybe concealing premature baldness.

Hopkirk and Lee were...well, who knows.

The Anyways - The Ghost of Arthur Lee
Michael Head and the Strands - And Luna
Hopkirk and Lee - Free Arthur Lee!