Love

This double-CD box contains most of Love's classic first three albums (including the entirety of Forever Changes), all three non-LP tracks from their 1966-1968 prime, and highlights of the post-Bryan MacLean albums from the late '60s and early '70s. There's a great booklet of liner notes and photos, but considering that all of those first three albums remain easy to find, and that the post-Forever Changes material is much inferior to the early recordings, it's not quite an essential purchase, although it might make a nicely packaged supplement. The absence of "Revelation" from Da Capo is no big deal, but a few tracks from the debut are missing, including one of the better ones, "Mushroom Clouds." [A companion DVD was issued in 2008.] ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide