Originally posted by frenchpiece:
Love and The Zombies are the two biggest bandwagonned classic rock acts among musical faux-intellectuals....nothing against any of them. I would be honored to be included in your rarified circle. That being said, I haven't had a chance to get to their stuff, mostly because I don't want to gamble on a compilation.
I'm always amazed when people compare their influence as being remotely comparable to that of the Beatles, Stones, or Velvet Underground. It just makes no sense to me.
Well they you might as well dismiss the influence The Hollies, The Kinks, Raspberries, T. Rex,etc also had.
The primary reason Love's legacy isn't bigger is because they rarely played outside of California, thus resulting a lower profile at the time. The Doors lifted much of thier sound from Love. The Rolling Stone where fans of the band at the time.
Echo and Bunnymen and numerous other postpunk British bands were influenced by Love. The influence carried forward to bands like Belle & Sebstaine.
"Forever Changes" is one of the most stunning albums ever released. While some of Love's later stuff on the retrospective is dodgy, you'll get to hear the band start as a great garage rock band and develope into the outfit that released "Forever Changes", which is included in it entirely in that collection.
