Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra 1963-1973 { Various Artists }

Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra 1963-1973 { Various Artists }

Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra 1963-1973 { Various Artists }
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Performer: Judy Collins
Performer: Phil Ochs
Performer: Fred Neil
Performer: Paul Butterfield
Performer: Tim Buckley
Performer: The Doors
Performer: Nico
Performer: The Stooges
Performer: Carly Simon
Performer: Mickey Newbury
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2007-01-23
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Turn! Turn! Turn! / To Everything There Is A Session - Judy Collins
  2. He Was A Friend - Dian & The Greenbriar Boys
  3. High Flying Bird - Judy Henske
  4. Dink's Song (Fare Thee Well) - Bob Gibson
  5. Casey - Dick Rosmini
  6. Shady Grove - Dick Rosmini
  7. Little Brown Dog - Dick Rosmini
  8. Linin' Track - Koerner, Ray & Glover
  9. Wild Child In A World Of Trouble - Vince Martin & Fred Neil
  10. Wild Child In A World Of Trouble - Vince Martin & Fred Neil
  11. Good Luck Child - 'Spider' John Koerner
  12. Downtown Blues - Geoff Muldaur
  13. I Ain't Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs
  14. The Last Thing On My Mind - Tom Paxton
  15. Pride Of Man - Hamilton Camp
  16. Tommorrow Is A Long Time - Judy Collins
  17. Black Mountain Rag - The Dillards
  18. Green Rocky Road - Kathy & Carol
  19. Cocaine - Phil Boroff
  20. House Un-American Blues Activity Dream - Richard Farina
  21. West Egg Rag - Dave Ray
  22. Two Trains Running - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis
  23. Breeze - Oliver Smith
  24. Joshua Gone Barbados - Tom Rush
  25. Other Side To This Life - Fred Neil
  26. Birdses - Dino Valente
  27. Blues With A Feeling - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
  28. Moonlight Drive - The Doors
Music CD 2
  1. My Little Red Book - Love
  2. Wings - Tim Buckley
  3. So Easy She Goes By - David Blue
  4. I Got A Mind To Give Up Living - The Butterfield Blues Band
  5. The Magic Carpet - Pat Kilroy
  6. First Girl I Loved - The Incredible String Band
  7. The Invisible Backwards-Facing Grocer Who Rose To Fame - Alasdair Clayre
  8. One Time And One Time Only (Electric Version) - Tom Paxton
  9. Changes - Phil Ochs
  10. Hard Lovin' Loser - Judy Collins
  11. Shes Comes In Colors - Love
  12. Light My Fire - The Doors
  13. Black Roses - Clear Light
  14. Once I Was - Tim Buckley
  15. Virgo - The Zodiac
  16. Buy For Me The Rain - Steve Noonan
  17. Nevertheless - Eclection
  18. Fields Of People - Ars Nova
  19. Dame Fortune - The Oly Modal Rounders
  20. Girl Of The Seasons - Bamboo
  21. Magazine Lady - 'Spider' John Koerner
  22. The Red Sox Are Winning - Earth Opera
  23. I Want You - The Waphphle
Music CD 3
  1. Alone Again Or - Love
  2. Both Sides Now - Judy Collins
  3. No Regrets - Tom Rush
  4. Jennifer's Rabbit - Tom Paxton
  5. Swift As The Wind - The Incredible String Band
  6. Frozen Warnings - Nico
  7. Down River - David Ackles
  8. Mad Lydia's Waltz - Earth Opera
  9. Sing A Song For You - Tim Buckley
  10. The Sun Comes Up Each Day - David Stoughton
  11. Early Morning Blues & Greens - Diane Hildebrand
  12. She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune - The Dillards
  13. Arthur Comics - Stalk-Forrest Group
  14. Five To One - The Doors
  15. Apricot Brandy - Rhinoceros
  16. When The Battle Is Over - Delaney & Bonnie And Friends
  17. Mt. Healty Blues - Lonnie Mack
  18. Kick Out The Jams - MC5
  19. I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
  20. Go Back - Crabby Appleton
  21. Dismal Day - Bread
  22. August - Love
Music CD 4
  1. Down On The Street (Single Version) - The Stooges
  2. Louise - Paul Siebel
  3. Amazing Grace - Judy Collins
  4. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon
  5. Riders On The Storm - The Doors
  6. The Future's Not What It Used To Be - Mickey Newbury
  7. Start Living - Farquahr
  8. Taxi - Harry Chapin
  9. True Story Of Amelia Earhart - Plainsong
  10. I Hardly Know Her Name - The Wackers
  11. Ballad Of The Ship Of State - David Ackles
  12. The Guitar Man - Bread
  13. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
  14. You Don't Grow Old - Courtland Pickett
  15. Dolphins - Cyrus Faryar
  16. Shadows On The Wall - Hamid Hamilton Camp
  17. Burning Love - Dennis Linde
  18. Keep Yourself Alive - Queen
Music CD 5
  1. Wind Chimes - WIND CHIMES
  2. Don't Be Long - The Beefeaters
  3. I'll Be Back - Joshua Rifkin
  4. Baldheaded End Of The Broom - Don't Be Long
  5. We Shall Be Happy - Joseph Spence
  6. Good Time Music - The Lovin' Spoonful
  7. Good Time Music - The Lovin' Spoonful
  8. Crossroads - Eric Clapton & The Powerhouse
  9. I'll Keep It With Mine - Judy Collins
  10. She A Woman - The Charles River Valley Boys
  11. Sunshine Sunshine - Tom Rush
  12. Bird Song - The Holy Modal Rounders
  13. She's Ready To Be Free - Clear Light
  14. Wayfaring Stranger - Tim Buckley
  15. Laissez-Faire - David Ackles
  16. Alphabet Song - David Peel & The Lower East Side
  17. Voodoo Woman - Simon Stokes & The Nighthawks
  18. Please (Mark II) - Eclection
  19. Flames (Single Version) - Leviathon
  20. No Words Between Us - Show Of Hands
  21. Listening To Music - Jack S. Margolis
  22. Lotus - The Rainbow Band
  23. The Persecution & Restoration Of Dean Moriarty (On The Road) - Aztec Two-Step
  24. P.O.W. - Goodthunder
  25. All Around My Grandmother's Floor - Andy Roberts
  26. World Without End - Jobriath

Music reviews of Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra 1963-1973 { Various Artists }

Music Review: Essential listening for music geeks!
Rating: 5 Stars

Forever Changing might be the single best various-artists label-related box set I've yet purchased (and I have several, all of them good). From the opening track (Judy Collins' recording of "Turn! Turn! Turn!" from her 1963 album, #3 [produced, incidentally, by Roger McGuinn]) to Jobriath's funky "World Without End," which closes the 5th disc and ultimately the whole set, there's really not a bum track on here.

Judy, of course, is the best-represented artist, featuring on every disc; you also have her version of Dylan's "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" on the first disc, her rocking "Hard Lovin' Loser" on the second disc, her incandescent cover of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" on disc #3, her recording of the gospel standard "Amazing Grace" on disc #4, and her non-LP single recording of Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine" on disc #5 (her least favourite recording, according to the notes, but you can see where Fairport Convention got their version of the song). Also well-represented are The Doors (an early version of "Moonlight Drive," "Light My Fire," "Five to One" and "Riders on the Storm"), Love ("My Little Red Book," "She Comes in Colours," "Alone Again Or" and "August"), Tim Buckley and Tom Paxton (including Paxton's best-known and best-loved song "The Last Thing on My Mind"). Along the way, you get a raft of indispensable classics from Judy Henske ("High Flyin' Bird"); Koerner, Ray & Glover ("Linin' Track"); Phil Ochs (the rousing "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" and the achingly beautiful "Changes"); Tom Rush ("Joshua Gone Barbados" and the break-up song "No Regrets"); the MC5 ("Kick Out the Jams"); Carly Simon ("That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" and, of course, "You're So Vain"); Harry Chapin ("Taxi"); and Bread ("Dismal Day" and "The Guitar Man"). You get deep folk tracks from Dian & The Greenbriar Boys, Bob Gibson, Fred Neil (the classic "Other Side to This Life"), the late Richard Farina (gone but not forgotten, like many other artists in this box set), Steve Noonan, David Ackles; psychedelic relics from Pat Kilroy, the Incredible String Band, Clear Light, Earth Opera (the prescient "The Red Sox Are Winning"--about 40 years too soon!--and the unsettling "Mad Lydia's Waltz"), Nico; heavy music from Stalk-Forrest Group (later to become Blue Oyster Cult), The Stooges, Goodthunder, and Queen (their storming first single "Keep Yourself Alive"); and all sorts of forgotten one-shots, many worth hearing (Dino Valente's sole Elektra single "Birdses," Oliver Smith, The Waphphle [whom not even Jac Holzman remembers], Crabby Appleton, Eric Clapton & The Powerhouse [one lone single recorded between his leaving the Bluesbreakers and forming Cream]) and some perhaps not (David Peel & The Lower East Side's rather embarrassing paean to dope, "Alphabet Song").

All in all, it's the tale of a great label's classic years, before Jac Holzman left and David Geffen took over, bringing Asylum Records with him and (unintentionally?) sidelining the main label for many years. For all the hits and misses, this set is absolutely worth having.

Description of Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra 1963-1973 { Various Artists }

A Spectacular Anthology of the Best from the Elektra Records Label as it Evolved from Folk to Folk-rock Music and Eventually Embracing Electric Rock Based Artists at the Core of It's Roster. "Forever Changing" was Meticulously Assembled and Great Care Given to It's Contents. Opening with Pivotal Early Folk Artists Like Judy Collins, Fred Neil and Phil Ochs, in the Wake of Dylan's Appearance at Newport in 1965, the Label Became the Home of Electric Music with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Then Key Signings with Love, the Doors and the Extraordinarily Unique Tim Buckley. Elektra Never Lost Its Folk Roots and as the Decades Changed, the Label Embraced Singer/Songwriters Like Carly Simon, Harry Chapin and the Sweet Sounds of Bread. Yet in 1969, Elektra Released Debut Albums by the Stooges, Mc5 and Queen, Groups that have Significantly Impacted Young Musicians to this Day. The Label Had Evolved with the Times, Showcasing Only the Best and the Brightest in Modern Musicians.
Founded in 1950, Jac Holzman's Elektra label grew from its folk roots, embracing the burgeoning blues and rock scenes of the '60s and eventually becoming a major force in the pop music marketplace of the '70s. This five-disc set not only celebrates its years of ascendancy and experimentation, but also explores beyond the familiar into some very obscure but still potent recordings. The first four discs proceed in relative chronological order (the fifth is devoted to rarities and assorted efforts from the fringes). Introduced by the better-known songs and acts, the discs open with Judy Collins, Love (twice!), and the Stooges. Each disc is also its own little journey that reminds us of how rich Elektra's catalog is--the Incredible String Band, Fred Neil, Nico, and many more found their way into record collections of the era and continue to resonate. However, it's the more forgotten acts that make this box so exciting, as the Wackers, David Ackles, Plainsong, Paul Siebel, and many others burst forth from the speakers. Even among the well-known there are some nice surprises, such as an early version of the Doors' "Moonlight Drive" (sounding more like one of the label's folk-blues performers) and the harder-edged punch of Judy Collins's "Hard Lovin' Loser." --David Greenberger

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