Da Capo
by Love

bleck. bland. preferred the 2nd side

From mdbaxter 11/22/2019 20:47 | #245086

The first side of this album is amazing. Every song is great. It sounds beautiful and the songwriting is fantastic. Arthur Lee is one of the best musicians of the 60s. The backside is alright. It's just blues jamming but there's too much of it that I don't enjoy (like the orgasming or the harmonicas). It's disjointed and a little uncompelling but it's not awful. The record would've been very short without it so it's hard to say that it should've been left off. It's a complete departure from the first half that seems like it's just there to take up space. I've heard they didn't get the sound that they wanted for it and they were trying to replicate their live performances. I really like every song but my favorite is "Que Vida". I love the lyrics and the main riff that sounds like "Eight Days a Week" with a couple extra notes added. If the backside were a little better, this could be considered among the best albums ever but when almost half the album is just ok it's hard to make the case.

From Boltzmann 09/03/2018 19:51 | #220523

“Seven and Seven Is” is probably the first example of garage rock transforming into proto-punk. The rest are great examples of early psychedelic rock. Don’t really get how people seem to think that Forever Changes can compete with this.

A great EP! I could do without that crappy bonus track 'Revelation' though...

Not as brilliant as, Forever changes, the songs just aren't quite as good. But it's a really interesting album, although for me, it's a stepping stone on their way to making their true masterpiece. It's almost impossible to listen to this album without thinking about what comes next. Still a good album though.

To me this is Love's masterpiece.

From Mother Nature's Son 01/19/2016 21:01 | #157020

If this album appears on a year chart for 1967 (and for every other year but 1966) it does not count. Consider this: If the entry did count, would it then be fair to list a 2015 album as a 1950 album? Especially since 1950 have much fewer (and much less popular) albums than 2015, I would consider it manipulating with the rank score system. Also, an isolated 1967 chart tells nothing about how good an album is compared to the same user's 1966 albums, so there's no way really to give a valid score.

I have a question - the charts, who ranked the album as part of 1967, are they counting? If not it will be infair for "Da Capo".
Anyway suprisingly good album. You can see the transition from garage rock from the first album to phychedelic/baroque folk, which will culminate in "Forever changes". Songs like "She comes in colours" or "Orange skies" are good examples. Nevertheless "7 and 7 is" remains garage rock standart.

From Mother Nature's Son 05/24/2015 14:58 | #142334

Anybody knows why this site miscorrectly cited the album's year as 1967 until just recently? Other sources that shared the same wrong 'fact'? (assuming the year is now correct)

Anyway, "Orange Skies" is as beautiful as anything off "Forever Changes"!

From sszwalbenest 01/07/2014 02:17 | #100052

I am amazed that Forever Changes, while still a better album, is so high rated while Da Capo is not in the top 1000. Orange Skies, Seven & Seven Is, and Revelation were the three standouts of the album.