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Track Listings
| 1. August |
| 2. Your Friend And Mine - Neil's Song |
| 3. I'm With You |
| 4. Good Times |
| 5. Singing Cowboy |
| 6. Dream |
| 7. Robert Montgomery |
| 8. Nothing |
| 9. Talking In My Sleep |
| 10. Always See Your Face |
| 11. Robert Montgomery |
| 12. Talking In My Sleep |
| 13. Singing Cowboy |
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
In terms of Love's history, Four Sail is routinely criticized. It seems many Love fans either like the punky sound of the first 2 albums or the more introspective "Forever Changes". In truth, this release takes up where "Forever" left off, but there are "Changes", get it? This is much more an electric guitar album, but there's still lots of great finger picked guitar stuff like on Forever. Also, this is Arthur Lee at his happiest! Give the guy a break - his career was going pretty well at the time. Excellent, happy stuff. Killer track: "Nothing" absolutely lovely! This is the kind of music you want to play while out driving on a sunny day. Like "Out Here" there is plenty of classic stuff here! August, Neil's Song, Good Times, etc. Forget the critics. You won't be disappointed.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Despite constantly hearing that Love 'ended' with Forever Changes (their previous exquisite album), Four Sail is an undeniable affirmation of supremacy. After leaving the Forever Changes line up, Arthur Lee embarked quickly on another musical adventure with a new, and delightfully different line up.
The bitterness that might be expected after a break up only adds to the harmonious nostalgia that flows through songs such as "I'm With You", whilst Lee still presents his image as a true rock hero in songs such as "Good Times" and "Singing Cowboy" supported by bold and flamboyant accompaniment form his shatteringly masterful band.
"I'm With You" and "Always See Your Face" (used in the film High Fidelity) rival previous compositions such as "Alone Again Or" and "Andmoreagain", whilst "Robert Montgomery" and "August" have all the energy and imagination that make heartbeats quicken in earlier works such as "The Daily PLanet" and "7 and 7 is".
The bitterness that might be expected after a break up only adds to the harmonious nostalgia that flows through songs such as "I'm With You", whilst Lee still presents his image as a true rock hero in songs such as "Good Times" and "Singing Cowboy" supported by bold and flamboyant accompaniment form his shatteringly masterful band.
"I'm With You" and "Always See Your Face" (used in the film High Fidelity) rival previous compositions such as "Alone Again Or" and "Andmoreagain", whilst "Robert Montgomery" and "August" have all the energy and imagination that make heartbeats quicken in earlier works such as "The Daily PLanet" and "7 and 7 is".
For those who are terrified to stray from Forever Changes for fear of losing their special admiration of Love will find in Four Sail a charm and excitement that cannot fail to delight.
This is a true declaration of the innate genius and beautiful imagination of Arthur Lee.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
taken in the context of Arthur Lee's recording career up to this album I'm sure many people are forever bummed that Mr. Lee didn't continue in the same vein as De Capo and Forever Changes- In fact, I think that FourSail is a quite brilliant antithisis to those two albums.
The recording technique is purposefully lo-fi and muffled compare to the extravagant yet still rugged Forever Changes; listening to the bonus cut of "Talking in my Sleep" and you'll hear that his vision was to make an even more muttled attack, even thicker and distorted than the final product that the records company ended up with.
Another big change was the minamal use of hooks- certainly there are some good melodies, but the songs rely more on the energy of the performance and production value. With a new line-up on hand the music was obviously going to take a change and in the liner notes Arthur Lee alludes that his new bandmates had not entirely respected the folk-rock sound that had made up the previous two Love albums. As he put it he wanted it to be more of a band sound so he wrote the songs around what the other musicians wanted to play and less to what he wanted to say (I think by now he had a pretty jaded view of the business of making music).
There are some really solid memorable songs in here like the urgent August or spiteful Neil's Song, and as a whole the album works quite well together. It would have been interesting to hear what he would have invisioned both production-wise as well as song choices (another thing that is mentioned in the linear notes is that he intended this album to be a double album). I think that this album lines up pretty well with Love, Da Capo, and Forever Changes- it was a definitly a departure, but really it was an inside out anti version of Forever Changes and Da Capo bookends it perfectly.
The recording technique is purposefully lo-fi and muffled compare to the extravagant yet still rugged Forever Changes; listening to the bonus cut of "Talking in my Sleep" and you'll hear that his vision was to make an even more muttled attack, even thicker and distorted than the final product that the records company ended up with.
Another big change was the minamal use of hooks- certainly there are some good melodies, but the songs rely more on the energy of the performance and production value. With a new line-up on hand the music was obviously going to take a change and in the liner notes Arthur Lee alludes that his new bandmates had not entirely respected the folk-rock sound that had made up the previous two Love albums. As he put it he wanted it to be more of a band sound so he wrote the songs around what the other musicians wanted to play and less to what he wanted to say (I think by now he had a pretty jaded view of the business of making music).
There are some really solid memorable songs in here like the urgent August or spiteful Neil's Song, and as a whole the album works quite well together. It would have been interesting to hear what he would have invisioned both production-wise as well as song choices (another thing that is mentioned in the linear notes is that he intended this album to be a double album). I think that this album lines up pretty well with Love, Da Capo, and Forever Changes- it was a definitly a departure, but really it was an inside out anti version of Forever Changes and Da Capo bookends it perfectly.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
A welcome thread from the dim and distant past
An album that shimmered in my memory since not long after it came out, I have sought on many occasions to secure a copy, It is only since the arrival of the internet that I have... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Rotundifolia Ron
ARTHUR LEE - A one of a kind
Amazing record that rocks hard, is played by exceptional players & will rip out your heart.
Forever changes is worth every ounce of praise put it's way ... Read more
Forever changes is worth every ounce of praise put it's way ... Read more
Published 12 months ago by jman jr
Decline, what decline!
Several reviewers have quite rightly pointed out that critics of this album are gifted with cloth ears. Read more
Published 14 months ago by A. ADAM
Warped vinyl.....again....
This is not a review of the music but it is a critique of the product.
I've just received my second vinyl copy of this LP and, just like the first, it is warped. Read more
I've just received my second vinyl copy of this LP and, just like the first, it is warped. Read more
Published 15 months ago by David Atkinson
Quite Good...
This is certainly a decent album, but I feel that it is somewhat predictable. When I first listened to it it did not have the same instant 'wow!' factor that forever changes did. Read more
Published on 18 May 2009 by I. K. Anderson
Good, but not great
I was very pleasantly surprised when I first heard this album- I wasn't expecting much, but it has a few excellent songs, and is generally a solid follow-up to the masterpiece... Read more
Published on 14 May 2008 by Steve
Arthurs Finest
This superb album never achieved the success of its forbears notably Forever changes. But I personally feel this a much sharper tighter effort all round. Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2008 by Mr. John L. Dyble
If you do not like this album you are either deaf or stupid
what sparked me to write (or type) this was the review by Kevin Randall who is clearly a fool and i pity the fool for being a fool. Read more
Published on 20 July 2004 by Joe
Things are never quite the same 2nd time round
By 1968 Love had given us 3 albums. One promising Byrds/Who influenced debut ( Love ), another ( Da Capo ) comprising one side of pop gems and one side 17 minute turgid chugging... Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2002 by Kevin Randall
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