Revisited
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Album Summary
Love's 'Revisited' came out in 1970 on Elektra Records as a lovingly assembled compilation drawing from the band's earlier recordings, giving the world another chance to sit down with some of the most soulful, psychedelic, and flat-out stunning music to ever come out of Los Angeles. Led by the mercurial genius Arthur Lee, Love had cut these tracks during the mid-to-late 1960s, and Elektra — recognizing they had something timeless on their hands — put this collection together to reintroduce the band to listeners who may have slept on them the first time around. The production on these recordings carried that raw, crackling energy of a band that was ahead of its time, blending folk, rock, psychedelia, and soul in ways nobody else was doing, and 'Revisited' gave that music a second life on wax.
Reception
- The album was received as a welcome reintroduction to Love's catalog at a time when the band had not yet received the widespread recognition their earlier work deserved.
- Critics who encountered 'Revisited' tended to respond with a kind of reverence, acknowledging that tracks like 'Alone Again Or' and 'You Set The Scene' represented some of the most sophisticated songwriting of the psychedelic era.
- The compilation helped cement Love's reputation among serious music listeners and rock critics as an underappreciated cornerstone of the late 1960s Los Angeles scene.
Significance
- 'Alone Again Or' stands as one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs to emerge from the entire psychedelic era, with its mariachi-tinged strings and aching melody representing a moment where Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean touched something genuinely eternal.
- Tracks like 'Signed D.C.' and 'My Little Red Book' capture a rawness and emotional directness that bridged the gap between garage rock urgency and the more expansive, orchestrated sounds the band would later pursue, making 'Revisited' a document of a band in magnificent creative transition.
- By gathering these recordings onto one album, 'Revisited' played a quiet but meaningful role in keeping Love's legacy alive during a period when the band was not actively recording, ensuring that Arthur Lee's visionary work continued to reach new ears across the early 1970s.
Samples
- "Alone Again Or" — sampled and interpolated by numerous artists over the decades, with The Damned's celebrated cover helping introduce it to punk and new wave audiences, and the track's chord progression and melody appearing across multiple genres as one of the most beloved touchstones of psychedelic rock
Tracklist
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A1 My Little Red Book 100
2:30
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A2 Softly To Me 152
3:10
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A3 Hey Joe 148
2:38
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A4 Signed D.C. 83
2:44
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A5 Orange Skies 111
2:49
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A6 Your Mind And We Belong Together 127
4:22
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A7 Alone Again Or 174
3:15
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B1 Andmoreagain 100
3:15
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B2 Your Friend And Mine - Neil's Song 105
3:40
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B3 Good Times 93
3:30
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B4 You Set The Scene 95
6:49
Artist Details
Love was a groundbreaking Los Angeles rock group formed in 1965, led by the visionary Arthur Lee, blending psychedelic rock, folk, blues, and baroque pop into a sound so rich and layered it made your soul stand still — their 1967 masterpiece Forever Changes is widely considered one of the greatest albums ever recorded, a swirling, orchestrated meditation on love, mortality, and the unraveling of the '60s dream. What makes Love's story all the more remarkable and heartbreaking is that despite their genius, they remained largely a cult phenomenon, never quite breaking through to the mainstream success they deserved, yet their influence quietly seeped into the DNA of rock and pop music for decades to come.
