A Son of the Rock

Love produced some eclectic music in the middle of the 1960s. A lot of their songs had strange titles: Alone Again Or, Andmoreagain, 7 and 7 Is, and the really bizarre Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale. I didn’t actually buy any of their albums until relatively recently when they were reissued as CDs. The cover of their album Forever Changes is cleverly done with the faces of what I presume are the members of the band filled in with psychedelic colours and arranged to look like a map of Africa. (I see from the video still below I needn’t have bothered with the link here.)

Not a hit as such, I remember Alone Again Or from the time of its first release as not troubling the charts very much if at all. While Love also recorded Hey Joe, perhaps more familiar from Jimi Hendrix’s version, Alone Again Or is probably their best known song.

I really like the way it suddenly transforms in the middle with the Spanish sounding trumpet passage.

Love: Alone Again Or