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SONGS THAT SAVED MY LIFE # 15: WE'RE ALL NORMAL WHEN WE WANT OUR FREEDOM

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Despite my wide ranging tastes in music - and my deep love for it - i barely own any studio albums that date before the 1970s. I'm not really a fan of The Beatles or The Rolling Stones and whilst i love The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Who, The Small Faces, plus vast swathes of soul, Motown, Mod-related music and so on i've yet to buy anything beyond compilations of that music. I put this down to the sheer amount of new and old music i have gotten into, plus limits on time and money. The free covermount cds' you get with music magazines have opened my ears to a lot of older music, but aside from various artists compilations, greatest hits and best of's i've yet to delve deeper into a lot of it. There are currently only two albums i own that come from the 1960's: Pink Floyd's The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, and the album i'm going to write about today - the dark folk-rock masterpiece that is Forever Changes, by the Los Angeles band Love. Love were form