Saturday, November 14, 2015

Songs about People # 140 Arthur Lee


Yesterday I found myself entranced while at work by the recorded work of the very American group Make Up. Particular their 1999 album Save Yourself which sounded to me on first take like one of the best records I'd ever heard. I'll be looking to get myself a vinyl copy. But also by this, which came out a few years early. For the leader of Love, who at this point was in prison on one of the notorious Californian three strikes and your out legal charges. A statement. Make Up sound like nothing quite so much as a rebirth of one of those eerie, weird but fascinating early seventies American political underground sects. The spirit of the MC5, most obviously of all, reborn and revivified.



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