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| 1. The Everlasting First |
| 2. Flying |
| 3. Gimi a Little Break |
| 4. Stand Out |
| 5. Keep On Shining |
| 6. Anytime |
| 7. Slick Dick |
| 8. Love is Coming |
| 9. Feel Daddy Feel Good |
| 10. Ride That Vibration |
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It needs to be stressed at the outset that this album is NOT in any way a sequel To 'Forever Changes'. With its minimalist titles and lyrics, it is the very antithesis of the much loved existential masterpiece. And yet 'False Start' does have a charm of its own. The Jimi Hendrix contribution to the opening track ('The Everlasting First') is well known and leaves the listener gasping for breath. But Hendrix was not the only lead guitarist on the record. In 1972 Jay Donnellan (Love's brilliant guitarist on 'Four Sail' and 'Out Here') was interviewed about his own dismissal from the band. He told how he had turned up as usual at the studio one day only to receive the following greeting from Arthur Lee: "Hullo - another cat's playing your licks today." The "cat" in question was Gary Rowles- whose pyrotechnical guitar work helps to give such a gloriously raw and ragged feel to this album. Add to this Arthur's fine 'Seven and Seven Is' style vocals and the soulful harmonies from half member Noony Ricket and you have a piece of work that is unique in the Love canon. When I first bought this album in 1971, I was appalled. Now I wouldn't be without it - not least because it serves as a document of Love's historic 1970 visit to the UK - their first outside the States. The BGO CD issue is fine - but the harder to find MCA version is more faithful to the colouring of the original Blue Thumb and EMI Harvest releases.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album was a follow-up to Out Here and was recorded mostly in Hollywood in 1970, though a couple of tracks, including one fantastic work-out with Jimi Hendrix, The Everlasting First, were recorded in London.
The songs are simplistic when compared to the majesty of Forever Changes, but then what isn't? I suspect Arthur Lee was undergoing something of a writer's block while simultaneously exploring more closely the black music of the day, and the album as a whole is short and somewhat patchy by his standards.
More funky than melodic, but still eminently worthwhile
The songs are simplistic when compared to the majesty of Forever Changes, but then what isn't? I suspect Arthur Lee was undergoing something of a writer's block while simultaneously exploring more closely the black music of the day, and the album as a whole is short and somewhat patchy by his standards.
More funky than melodic, but still eminently worthwhile
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Love's most underrated (and 2nd best) album
1 April 2002
Format:Audio CD
This album is criminally misunderstood. It is the Anti-Forever Changes. Short songs, tight musicianship, the most controlled screaming in all of rock 'n roll, meaningful/meaningless lyrics, nasty attitude (when not buoyantly hopeful), & Love's best guitarist ever! Takes everything slick & punks it up, and then vice versa. It's brilliant and, 30 some years out, still way ahead of the curve. Defiantly alternative - refuses every mold,label, & classification. Lighten up & enjoy!
p.s. "Stand Out" would be equally at home in a youth mass or a mosh pit.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
More funky than melodic
18 Nov 2004
Format:Audio CD
This album was a follow-up to Out Here and was recorded mostly in Hollywood in 1970, though a couple of tracks, including one fantastic work-out with Jimi Hendrix, The Everlasting First, were recorded in London.
The songs are simplistic when compared to the majesty of Forever Changes, but then what isn't? I suspect Arthur Lee was undergoing something of a writer's block while simultaneously exploring more closely the black music of the day, and the album as a whole is short and somewhat patchy by his standards.
More funky than melodic, but still eminently worthwhile
The songs are simplistic when compared to the majesty of Forever Changes, but then what isn't? I suspect Arthur Lee was undergoing something of a writer's block while simultaneously exploring more closely the black music of the day, and the album as a whole is short and somewhat patchy by his standards.
More funky than melodic, but still eminently worthwhile
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
worst of their records -but has a few gems
26 Sep 2000
Format:Audio CD
this is easily the worst of the 6 albums love released from 1966 to this one in late 1970. there are a few gems- the everlasting first in particular.this brief (29 minutes) album isn't anywhere as good as four sail ( probably their most underrated album in my opinion) and out here, never mind the 3 classics they put out earlier.its very disjointed and lacks the first rate songwriting that arthur lee was so capable of in earlier works. this is not a bad album: just bad by love's standards.
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