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Forever Changes, released in November 1967, is a suite of songs using acoustic guitars, strings and horns that was recorded while the band was falling apart as the result of various abuses and a failed power play by Bryan MacLean, trying to get more of his songs on the album.

The band recorded the album in only 64 hours.

Writer Richard Meltzer, in his The Aesthetics of Rock, commented on Love's " orchestral moves ", " post-doper word contraction cuteness " and Lee's vocal style that serves as a " reaffirmation of Johnny Mathis ".

Forever Changes included one hit single, the MacLean-written " Alone Again Or ", while " You Set the Scene " received airplay from some progressive rock radio stations.

By this stage, Love were far more popular in the UK, where the album reached No. 24, than in their home country, where it could only reach No. 154.

More recently the album has received a number of very distinguished awards.