Every Time I Look Up I'm Down or White Dog (I Don't Know What That Mean
Everybody's Gotta Live
You Want Change for Your Re-Run
He Knows a Lot of Good Women (Or Scotty's Song)
Hamburger Breath Stinkfinger
Ol' Morgue Mouth
Busted Feet - Arthur Lee, Karp, Charles
Everybody's Gotta Life [Previously Unreleased Version][#][*]
He Knows a Lot of Good Women [Previously Unreleased Version][#][*]
Pencil in Hand [Early Version][*]
E-Z Rider [#][*]
Looking Glass Looking at Me [Early Version][*]
2007 digitally remastered edition of the 1972 solo album debut by the late founder of the group Love. It was originally issued on the A&M label and includes five bonus tracks of previously unreleased material: "Pencil... more » In Hand" (an early version of "He Said, She Said"), "E-Z Rider" (a Jimi Hendrix song) and "Looking Glass Looking At Me" (an early version of "You Want Change For Your Re-Run") and "Everybody's Gotta Live" and "He Knows A Lot Of Good Women". The disc comes packaged in a slipcase with updated liner notes by David Wells. BGO.« less
2007 digitally remastered edition of the 1972 solo album debut by the late founder of the group Love. It was originally issued on the A&M label and includes five bonus tracks of previously unreleased material: "Pencil In Hand" (an early version of "He Said, She Said"), "E-Z Rider" (a Jimi Hendrix song) and "Looking Glass Looking At Me" (an early version of "You Want Change For Your Re-Run") and "Everybody's Gotta Live" and "He Knows A Lot Of Good Women". The disc comes packaged in a slipcase with updated liner notes by David Wells. BGO.
CD Reviews
Arthur Lee's Hard Rocking Solo Bow
Erich A. Scholz III | Dallas, TX | 06/25/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Rock criticism has generally been unkind to Arthur Lee's post-Forever Changes career trajectory. Convention wisdom held that he had lost his way in a drug-fueled haze, his last few albums brushed off as the by-products of a 60s-era burnout.
How wrong this simple analysis is. 1969's Four Sail, the follow up to Forever Changes, is a great album, IMHO, full of the full-tilt melodicism and soulfulness that graced the earlier albums. 1972's Vindicator -- Lee's first solo album -- is an extension of the same. Like some bastard child of Hendrix and Big Star, Vindicator possesses a sonically superior sound circa '72 (why do all those great '72-'74 albums sound so good?) that really brings out the most in the gritty, dueling electric guitars. Lee's voice cracks and pops the mic more than once but everything seems right so it's no big deal. The song titles appear morbid ("Ol' Morgue Mouth," "Hamburger Breath Stinkfinger") but actually reveal the odd sense of humor of a talented man with something to say.
Not every track is a winner, but Vindicator is worth a listen, especially for casual fans who think Arthur Lee's Love story began and ended with Changes."
Logical Next Step from Love's False Start
Bill | New Jersey, USA | 12/17/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This expands on the Jimi Hendrix connections/influences established on Love's False Start album. The liner notes are excellent and quite detailed (e.g., they explain Lee's concept for the album cover art). The best track is "Love Jumped through My Window," which is interesting because it sounds very much like the raunchier, hard rocking side of Big Star. Among the others, "Busted Feet," stands out as having some "interesting" dirty vocals. The whole thing is well played and well recorded. Should've been called a Love album."
Arthur Lee Shines With The First Band-Aid
Selling 4 Kids | USA | 06/03/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This CD was Arthur's tribute to his friend Jimi Hendrix. It rocks. Arthur's version of Ezy Rider is a bonus not found on the LP. Busted Feet contains that Machine Gun Hendrix riff that only Arthur and Hendrix could master. Love Jumped Through My Window contains Arthur's wailing only matched with the screaming guitar. You can find roots music in Everybody's Gotta Live and He Knows A Lot Of Good Women. It ranks with the best of the Beatles and his one time band mate Hendrix. Watch your speakers with this one."
Vindicated!
Gordon H. Clark | Keene NH | 10/15/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I love this album! Well I love every other thing that Arthurly and LOVE did too. I've dug them since 1966, and they don't get old. I'm surprised though that I didn't get this album until last year. I can't account for that!
No matter what people say, no matter how crazy the lyrics are or Arthur was, every tune is a work of art on every album. You always can read critics who try to rate and compare the albums and tunes, but really they are all very different. This one is too!
Funny, I wonder if the producers of the Cialis commercial credited the opening of Pencil In Hand in one of their TV ads...anybody notice?
These tunes are heavy duty and funny too. Like the one about his date last night (Hamburger Breath Stinkfinger). I'd get fish slapped if I quoted it here.
Arthur always sang with incredible passion and emotion, and with a beautiful voice too. Lyrics didn't need to make "sense", you know what he was singing about.
Miss you Arthurly. One of a kind. Beautiful. One of the all-time-greats.
"
Love all over the place
Paul B. Dyer | La Crosse, Wisconsin | 02/15/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"LOVE is my all-time favorite rock group, both the original group and its later incarnations. So when I tell you that this solo product of Arthur Lee's is, I think, outstanding, please keep that in mind. It is a much harder rocking set of songs and it is not the same old thing, so to speak. There are some truly fine songs--"Love jumped through my window"--for example, and some silly stuff--"the woman who smelled like a fish"but, over all, any person who loves LOVE needs to have this in their collection. It is not unseemly to suggest that since Arthur Lee is LOVE you want to follow his music because variety is the spice of life and of LOVE."
Track Listings (16) - Disc #1