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! Read ^ Forever Changes (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Andrew Hultkrans ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Forever Changes (Thirty Three and a Third series) Summers of love, prophets of apocalypse Kirk Curnutt I've been having a great time reading the books in Continuum's 33-1/3 series. They're intelligent but not pompous, easily digested in a single sitting given their 100-page length. Of those I've looked at, I have to say this one on Love's Forever Changes is my favorite. Part of it is the exotic choice of subject---the original album remains a cult "nugget" of 60s rock, even after its 2002 reissue and Arthur Lee's recent tours. But Andrew Hultkr
| Title | : | Forever Changes (Thirty Three and a Third series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.75 (608 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826414931 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 127 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
Summers of love, prophets of apocalypse Kirk Curnutt I've been having a great time reading the books in Continuum's 33-1/3 series. They're intelligent but not pompous, easily digested in a single sitting given their 100-page length. Of those I've looked at, I have to say this one on Love's Forever Changes is my favorite. Part of it is the exotic choice of subject---the original album remains a cult "nugget" of 60s rock, even after its 2002 reissue and Arthur Lee's recent tours. But Andrew Hultkrans' thesis that Lee is a "crank prophet" whose 67 opus was an apocalyptic portent of what would come two years later with the Manson murders, Altamont, and the overall collapse of the 60s. A Thinking Man's Guide Forever Changes is one of my all-time favorite albums and is one of the few I listened to as a youth that I never tire of hearing. So naturally I am as interested in reading about the enigmatic Arthur Lee and his band as I am in listening to them.I just recently got around to reading this book having had no idea what to expect of the author. At first, I was annoyed by his hard left political rants but then as I read on, I became engrossed by his obviously educated take on the album and its meaning. Make no mistake, if you are expecting airy gossip, then pass this book by. Hultkrans' Forever Changes is a thinking man's guide to . A Customer said Interesting, but"zeitgeisticide"?. This was a thoughtful and deeply personal book. Often elqouent and profound (I guess). Personally, I found all the literary and cultural allusions annoying -- like the author was just trying to impress upon us how intellectual and deep he was. I mean, he goes on and on about "prophecy" and America and even spins into Gnosticism. Please. Save it for the Amherst coffee house. The "Iceman" is Death? OK, if you say so Mr. Marat/Sade-Virginia Woolf-SDS-Nathaniel West- Sartre-Nauseau-Pynchon--Didion--Zeitgeisticide intellectual poet depressive New York man. Sorry if that was harsh. I really did like reading it, especially the first c
A-" —Austin American-Statesman, 10/17/04 . He's sharp on the lyrics (maybe too sharp, given Lee's confused state) and slightly less so on the music, but he's killer on context: the album's fear, its overwhelming strangeness, its death-drive in a culture that only Lee knew was suffused with it. "I love a critic who doesn't profess to be infallible, so Andrew Hultkrans immediately won me over by admitting he was previously "absolutely, laughably wrong" about Forever Changes…Hultkrans takes the record very, very seriously; accordingly, his book is a reverential, fastidious tome." — Seattle Weekly"This former Bookforum editor openly identifies with this most apocalyptic of 60s El Lay albums, but he keeps his head in the game, fearlessly splashing around in lead Love-r Arthur Lee's disturbed psyche
For unlike most rock musicians of his time, Arthur Lee was one member of the '60s counterculture who didn't buy flower-power wholesale, who intuitively understood that letting the sunshine in wouldn't instantly vaporize the world's (or his own) dark stuff. Here, Andrew Hultkrans explores the myriad depths of this bizarre and brilliant record. It speaks to the present in ways that, say, a Jefferson Airplane record never could, whatever the parallels between the late '60s and our contemporary morass. Charting bohemian Los Angeles' descent into chaos at the end of the ‘60s, he teases out the literary and mystical influences behind Arthur Lee's lyrics, and argues that Lee was both inspired and burdened by a powerful prophetic urge.EXCERPT'Forever Changes' may be thirty-six years old at the time of this writing, but its hermetic fusion of the personal and the political feels more relevant than ever. For him, the glittering surface of the Age of Aquarius obscured an undertow of impending doom.. Conceived as the last testament of a charismatic recluse who believed he was about to die, 'Forever Changes' is one of the defining albums of an era
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