Digital Roundup: 9/28/2015

New this week in the Rhino Room at iTunes:

Love, Forever Changes (2015 Remastered Version): Your personal mileage may vary on which album by the band Love is the best of the bunch, but many an aficionado of their catalog would happily declare that it doesn’t get any better than Forever Changes. It wasn’t their most commercially successful effort (that honor goes to their self-titled debut) and it didn’t provide them with much in the way of hit singles (even though its opening track, “Alone Again Or,” is arguably the band’s best known song), but it’s on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, it’s in the Grammy Hall of Fame, and in 2012 it was added to the National Recording Registry. Oh, and did we mention that a newly remastered version is now available for your digital purchasing pleasure? Hand to heart, we’re listening to it even as we type this sentence, and it sounds fantastic.

Joe Walsh, There Goes the Neighborhood: Despite the fact that “A Life of Illusion” topped Billboard’s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, Joe Walsh’s solo career has been so defined by his singles rather than his albums over the years that a surprising number of people have never actually heard There Goes the Neighborhood. That’s a shame, because this 1981 album – Walsh’s first album in the wake of the Eagles’ original dissolution – is right up there with But Seriously, Folks… as one of the best full-length efforts in his back catalog, with musical contributions from fellow former Eagles Don Felder and Timothy B. Schmit.