― Keiko, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim DiGravina, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'll go for "Moonlight Drive" now as well. For now.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Michael Dieter, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J Blount, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Saccharine Trust's version of 'Peace Frog' is v. good, tho'.
― Andrew L, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― francesco, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jordan, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Oliver Stone film is a joke, Danny Sugarman should have never written the book and Morrison's poetry isn't very good, that being said, I can still never understand why some will praise some complete minor 60s psych rock and then turn around and say The Doors were a horrible group. To each their own.
― earlnash, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― maryann, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
'peace frog'.
― piscesboy, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I like The Doors.
― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
thats where i'm at! autosalvage are so better than the Doors ! & i've never even heard them!
― , Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Joe, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Christine "Green Leafy" Indigo, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cecilia, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have NEVER remotely understood why anyone likes the Doors, and the fact that writers as talented as Meltzer and Tosches have failed to convince me (I think Bangs comes closest to my own view of them; see his article in that big Rolling Stone book from the late seventies) of their genius indicates that I'm probably never going to figure it out.
...but "The End" is still pretty good. Sigh.
― Justyn Dillingham, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Todd Brandenburg, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― grimble, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J Blount, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I would agree with this, except that I find Morrison at his best to be a very charismatic vocalist and though he was responsible for lots of overblown lyrical conceits and probably the worst excesses of the band, he also provided an imagery and sensibility which was central to the band's overall effect.
― Jeff W, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (i forgot my blog password), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
That said, "LA Woman" makes my top ten list of great driving songs- and when the tune follows the Mojo jam by kicking right back into the initial melody, it is an exhilarating moment.
― Ryan, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
the doors became good when they stopped all the musical shaman-psychedelica horseshit and morphed into doing greasy bar-blooz.
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 June 2003 07:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Tijn, Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link
for covers, X, "Soul Kitchen"
― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:47 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:36 (twenty years ago) link
― person#0 (person#0), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
i mean, i hear the "here comes the sun" sample no problem, but that's the beatles, obviously. and the "fellas what fells what get ready i'm ready i think i'm gonna" is from "mama said knock you out" by ll cool j, and the "OVERDOSE" bit is from "once you understand" by think, but i don't hear no doors.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt (hyloolnuspstt), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― deekew (deekew), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
roffle
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link
How did I never answer this thread? Huh. Well, "Moonlight Drive" it is, with "L.A. Woman" a close second.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
(Answer to trivia question above: xgau.)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joek Poster (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 October 2006 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Incidentally, for real Rockist evangelism, please see the ongoing Marquee Moon thread. Now, there's a Great Rock Classic in the worst way.
― Soukesian (Soukesian), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Radio Free Albemuth (DocMartensBoots), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Diddumsismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Can we do a POX of Doors 'blues' songs? I know all the hits (and a few non-hits) but gravitate toward the 'greasy bar blues' Tad refers to upthread, like "Roadhouse Blues." What are the 'sleepers' of this ilk and on which album(s) do they appear?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 27 March 2009 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link
..they sound like a drawn-out, dull Question Mark and the Mysterians with a second-rate Vegas lounge singer droning idiotic gibberish that only the most severely stoned of the pretentious, goth literature-reading teenage crowd would think was anything resembling 'poetry.'
this is sooo otm. and sooo the reason why The Doors are better than the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, & Floyd combined.
― I am Robertson Speedo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 March 2009 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/perplexed_gorilla_small.jpg
― knive k (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 March 2009 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
zing.gif
― I am Robertson Speedo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 March 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
can't say that i love them more than the beatles, stones, zep & pink floyd combined, but i will say the doors are massively underrated by dudes on the internet
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Friday, 27 March 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
into your blue, blue, blues
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 March 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Every post on here needs to be changed to "Crystal Ship"
― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll second that...
― the soft boy of karate (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 March 2009 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd like to have another kiss.
― james k polk, Friday, 27 March 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
(though I'm sad to see Peace Frog go)
― the soft boy of karate (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
not played a doors record for years, but crystal ship is the one
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 28 March 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah Crystal Ship is fantastic, great melody, sounds like no one else. I actually like a bunch of their songs, still can't stand Light My Fire though. Most of their albums are patchy aside from maybe Morrison Hotel.
POX:Crystal ShipYou're Lost Little GirlPeace FrogIndian SummerStrange DaysSoft ParadeRoadhouse BluesLA WomanWaiting for the SunBlue Sunday
― ColinO, Saturday, 28 March 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
There is a new oldies station in Atlanta that plays "Touch Me" more than any other Doors song, and I always kind of liked it partly in an ironic way partly not. The more they play it the more I like it though. The "I'm gonna love ya" part is too beautiful.
Jim could have been a rad twisted Las Vegas crooner in the 70s if he hadn't offed himself....
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 29 March 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I kind of like "Unkown Soldier." It's got the Byrdsy thing going on. POO Doors of all time has gotta be "Break on Through," though.
― Trip Maker, Sunday, 29 March 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
riders on the stormmost mature sounding doors. best balance of instruments and voice. doesn't sound like they're all competing with each other.
― charlie h, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 08:05 (thirteen years ago) link
and to think 'you're lost little girl' was my vote 4 years ago. much has changed since then.
― charlie h, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 08:08 (thirteen years ago) link
LA Woman or Break On Through
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 11:34 (thirteen years ago) link
the Crystal Ship love earlier in the thread is well-deserved. One of the song where they manage to sound enchanting and mysterious in the way that I think they thought they were all along.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"Strange Days"
this song is incredible. it sounds like it could be a Cure b-side. only downside is the drumming deficiency becomes a bit obvious as it builds and builds.
i just listened to the album for the first time since discovering The Damned and a lot of other stuff. it really seems obvious the Doors were massively influential on 80s pop in particular. Morrison's mopey/ironic/gothic baritone is so ahead of its time. this band can be playing chintzy Hammond organ demo music and he elevates it to Dark Bubblegum. the cool goth lyrics certainly help ("Don't miss your chance/to swim in mystery/you are dying in a prison/of your own device.").
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 2 December 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link
"Riders on the storm" is my jam
― a but (brimstead), Friday, 2 December 2016 02:30 (seven years ago) link
Doors are so great
― a but (brimstead), Friday, 2 December 2016 02:32 (seven years ago) link
My favorite Doors song is their cover of "Who Do You Love" on that live album.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 2 December 2016 02:41 (seven years ago) link
Peace Frog
― Moka, Friday, 2 December 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
I also think they're a painfully overrated band by rockists and I'm of the opinion that Morrison (and the rest of the band too) didn't take themselves seriously and the whole poet thing was trolling on their part.
― Moka, Friday, 2 December 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
Rockists? They exist, do they?
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
it really seems obvious the Doors were massively influential on 80s pop in particular.
No Doors, no Echo & the Bunnymen for sure. Among many others!
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Friday, 2 December 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
I love the Doors and don't care who knows it! My pick is the performance of Roadhouse Blues from An American Prayer, one of the great performances by any band anytime anywhere.
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 2 December 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
i love the doors too.
LA Woman for me
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Friday, 2 December 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
it is like an immediate mood lifter for me
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Friday, 2 December 2016 16:03 (seven years ago) link
i was a huge doors fan as a teenager and eventually felt embarrassed by them but now i've come back around and i think they are a wonderful and fun band
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Friday, 2 December 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
^^ my experience exactly
― sleeve, Friday, 2 December 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
David Crosby sneered on twitter the other day that Jim was a "poser"...said the scion of the Van Rennselaers, one of the oldest and fanciest of New York's Dutch-era families [eye roll]
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 2 December 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
lol yeah Crosby's one to talk
many many others! imo "Don't You Forget About Me" also trafficking in the same territory as many "Strange Days" tracks.
Morrison not taking himself seriously but also ironically taking himself seriously feels very postmodern and is one of the elements that surprises me every time i come back to the band.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 2 December 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
I hear Jim's phrasing in a lot of Ian Curtis lines
Feel like goth in general has roots in the Doors creepy haunted house organ vibez
Iggy Pop and Johnny Ramone (who in one of his last interviews said the Doors were the only good American band of the 60s) were both huge fans, and probably the 2 men most responsible for punk
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 December 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, December 2, 2016 12:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Morrison could rock a terrible lyric with the best of them but I think when people talk bout him being humorless or pompous or whatever I believe they are mistakenly critiquing Val Kilmer's performance in the "True Detective" prequel "The Doors"
Jim's in on the joke a lot more than people give him credit for
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 2 December 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
Always thought Ian Curtis was doing Iggy doing Jimbo.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
though my tolerance for the doors themselves is about as low as ever, i do find myself with increasing appreciation for bands that are obviously trying to sound like the doors. i like one st. stephen, for instance. and children of the mushroom - their archival rehearsal tape release is particularly on a heavy doors trip, and it sounds good.
but jim's poetry is just so profoundly awful. i can't imagine anybody writing poetry that bad and _not_ being serious about it. i mean obviously he wasn't serious about _everything_, nobody is, but the poetry? pretty sure he was serious about that.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
structurally they are the most post-punk of all the name brand 60s bands....the chording and melodies are much more carried by the keyboards and bass and the guitar tends towards more textural or ornamental, clean tone single note picked lines
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
Also, echoing what several have said here is the correct Doors fandom trajectory
13-14 "OMG GOD THIS IS AMAZING"15-16 "Fuck man the Doors really get me"17-35 "This is so awful, this music is so corny! The lyrics is so dumb! No bass player? LAME"36-37 "Eh this isn't so bad, the first record is pretty good"38 and beyond "OMG GOD THIS IS AMAZING"
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 2 December 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
if you don't consider the music machine "name brand", i guess. manzarek's playing gets a little too proggy to really fit in with post-punk imo
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
― chr1sb3singer
and this is why logan's run had it right
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
Also Jim poetry outside of the band is an entirely different kettle of fish and "An American Prayer" is this close to being the worst record made by anyone ever.
Ride the snake tho
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, December 2, 2016 1:57 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i dunno, what about the damned or magazine? and i'm not talking about playing styles i said "structurally"....you've got a case of doorsphobia man, you need to break on thru and accept how awesome they are
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
look i love "tequila" as much as anybody else but changing the lyrics to a superficial gloss on huxley does not improve the song.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
Disagree
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
That's just like...your own mind man...you gotta...man...c'mon....hey be cool man.
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, December 2, 2016 2:08 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
see what you just described actually sounds like the best possible approach to rock music a.k.a. the doors
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
Wait if they have no bass player then is that line in peacefrog guitar? Synth?
― Moka, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
If getting loaded on whiskey and loudly pontificating on topics you are at best only dimly familiar with isn't rock'n'roll then I've got some serious explaining to do to myself circa age 20 until right now
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
Very like the Seeds in fact. (I love both bands btw)
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
xxp there's bass on a lot of the doors' studio recordings. think it was one of the LA wrecking crew dudes?
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
They had bass players in the studio.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Scheff
― Devastatin' Dan the Suggest Ban Man (Dan Peterson), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
... and Lonnie Mack sometimes!
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Hey man bass is all like...in your mind man...think about it...you think bass is just like...a sound man? C'mon
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
me, i think the best art comes from those who share their personal experience with the world. and i can't possibly think of a better example of that than the lyrics to the champs' "tequila".
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
Also w/r/t bass
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cnz_c31WAAQDLEK.jpg
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
it's like he knew man
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
i want to start a morrison quotes thread, there are really good ones that are paired w/ photos like that
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
lol
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/da/89/7c/da897c13fc2e316de22509c354b7174a.jpg
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
http://inktank.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Jim-Morrison-quotes1.jpg
right on, jim
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, December 2, 2016 2:19 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bass is a concept not an instrument - jim morrison, the white bob marley
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
RIP https://img0.etsystatic.com/056/0/10451479/il_fullxfull.702847286_oss8.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
that bar has a lot of differnt types of beer glasses and mugs
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
winehouse is a waitress in rock n roll heaven
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
and zappa is just a picture on the wall
kurdt and lennon really getting put in the background for a couple of a-listers :/
or is the artist implying they are still misanthropes and wouldn't agree to pose w/everyone else?
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
also i'm dumb but why is gabriel byrne on the right?
oh lol it's supposed to be a last supper kinda thing
you can find in my painting Meir Ariel, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin , Bob Marley, Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison, Kurt cobain, Elvis Presly (on the I phone), Frank Zappa, John Lee Hooker (at the door), John Lennon, Bob Dylan (on the pin button), led zepplin symbols and more.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/216238475/the-last-supper-or-the-first-one-in
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
Meir Ariel, israeli songwriter, is the guy on the right, apparently
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, December 2, 2016 3:44 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea i also dont know who that is supposed to be
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
lol xp
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
Who's Meir Ariel? I thought that was Frankie Valli.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
damn the King has to be on the iPhone! harsh toke...
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
frankie valli is still alive!
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
I know, that was the flaw in my thinking.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
I also wondered why Dave Stewart of the Eurhythmics was lurking by the pool table.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Then I realized that was silly and it was obviously Roy Harper.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
In heaven there will be appropriate glassware for various styles of beer - thank God!
― Devastatin' Dan the Suggest Ban Man (Dan Peterson), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
this is kinda cool, like the israeli serge gainsbourg or something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orGAJiCzXTY
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/45/7c/33/457c33ccf9c72ebf86fc7386448fd085.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
wino's calf muscle is off the chain
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
for realkind of like the uncertain look jim and lou (?) are giving each other herehttp://s6.favim.com/orig/150908/amy-winehouse-bob-marley-cielo-freddie-mercury-Favim.com-3258186.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
anyway, i could do this all day haha. back to the DOORS. the only band.
Also, weird that these paintings are all of dead people include Jim cuz he isn't dead.
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 2 December 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
http://www.feelnumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/jims_grave_2000.jpghttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/RrrML9LKH8A/hqdefault.jpghttp://www.theparanormalguide.com/uploads/1/7/3/8/17382059/6730738.jpg
#believe
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
no doubt about it, that's Marley's Ghost
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
"Touch Me" over "Running Blue," "Peace Frog," and "Hyacinth House."
― timellison, Saturday, 3 December 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
i agree that james dean and marilyn are cool enough to be considered honorary rock stars
― a but (brimstead), Saturday, 3 December 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
vocals on "hyacinth house" sound like somebody doing a parody of jim morrison as an old man bitching across the table to his wife/bridge partner
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Saturday, 3 December 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
so apocalyptic. so psychedelic and dark. almost has a Pornography-era Cure vibe to it. and Morrison's anguished "yeah!" sounds pretty cool.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
"not to touch the earth"
genuine dread as the ray's keybs and robby's guitar speed up and snake around each other
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
^^ yeah I gotta go with that one, just barely beating out "Hello, I Love You"
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
still "the crystal ship".
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
I have liked them a lot during my teenage years but nowadays the only track I enjoy from them is "LA woman". and it's great !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 09:22 (six years ago) link
I could prob do a PO5 for these guys, but if there's one I couldn't live without it's "Peace Frog," inexplicable Bridge included
― Many men scream death (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link
The Crystal Ship
― calstars, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN6Ri5aw504
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 12:31 (six years ago) link
la woman
― marcos, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
then prob five to one
man i love the doors
"Touch Me"
― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
what I like about "LA woman" is its motoric influence + it's pure fun, no psychedelia/poetic bullshit.actually, on the same album, the other track I still like is "riders on the storm".
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
Riders, always and forever
honorable mentions today: strange days, five to one
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
^^^^
'Not To Touch The Earth'
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
can categorically say I do not actually love the Doors but I can vibe out to Riders on the Storm and LA Woman
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
and Five to One. And Peace Frog.
So many greats but I'm with stirmonster
― wtev, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
Or even 'The Celebration of the Lizard' (live, not studio)
(xxxpost)
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
La woman a close second
― wtev, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
pretty random: decided to watch road house AGAIN and of course roadhouse blues is in there, played by jeff healey and his roadhouse band, so after the movie was over i put on the first doors album (that originally belonged to my mom, and which i “borrowed” years ago), then realised i wanted to hear l.a. woman, so i fired up spotify and there’s this thing, released todayhttps://open.spotify.com/album/16MdQbBQqegRmEkwshz2Ev?si=IET3bQ-jRy6tilem92Cznw-a “remaster” of changeling (which i can’t really tell the difference on)- a demo version of riders on the storm which isn’t as good because it lacks a lot of the drawn out electric piano riffing and a lot of the atmospherics, but which DOES include that absolutely tremendous bassline, even higher in the mix. does it remind anybody else of “billie jean”?- an alternate take of l.a. woman which i think i might even prefer? it’s tighter, closer, jim’s lower in the mix
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 October 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
I can hear Billie Jean yeah and it’s a tremendous genius simple line that outlines the minor root and major IV really sneakily
― calstars, Friday, 29 October 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
I tried going further with the Doors, and not a single one of their albums held up from start-to-finish. I only kept this reference comp I made from audiophile reissues - few tracks are faultless, but I still enjoy listening to the whole thing quite a bit:
1 Break On Through (To The Other Side) 02:292 The Crystal Ship 02:353 Twentieth Century Fox 02:344 Light My Fire 07:085 Back Door Man 03:346 The End 11:427 Love Me Two Times 03:188 Moonlight Drive 03:019 People Are Strange 02:1210 Hello, I Love You 02:1511 Touch Me 03:1812 Roadhouse Blues 04:0213 Peace Frog 02:5414 Land Ho! 04:0815 Love Her Madly 03:2216 L.A. Woman 07:5217 The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) 04:1618 Riders On The Storm 07:14
Most of it's already on the U.S. (i.e. single-CD) version of the 2001 compilation The Very Best of the Doors which Christgau graded as an A, the only Doors release to get that from him.
― birdistheword, Friday, 29 October 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
Actually maybe there's only one single-CD version? Hard to say, there's way too many Doors compilations (which makes burning my own kind of funny, but I wanted audiophile sources for mine).
― birdistheword, Friday, 29 October 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
anybody remember what that video was that stirmonster posted upthread?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
nope. it might have been some version of "the crystal ship".
― stirmonster, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link
Growing your own comp might well be the best way to go---but then again, I did like several of their albums pretty much all the way through: the debut (personal revelation: "Alabama Song [Whiskey Bar], or vice versa, though I had heard tell of Brecht-Weill and Threepenny Opera, this led me to that and a lot more by those guys, sep and together---also, that marxophone, yow), Waiting For The Sun(Thee Eclectic Album which every aspiring and many a status-maintaining band had to make about then, and I played the HELL out of it man), also most of Morrison Hotel and LA Woman, which xgau did give an Aminus, o thank you Lord, and Absolutely Live, the only live Doors album I've heard, which is sensitive and caveman in just the right places.
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
And OK, sometimes sensitive caveman at the same time, long before early Vedder etc.
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:52 (two years ago) link
And a few years before most of us heard Kristofferson.
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:54 (two years ago) link
Of course he's more of a singer than either, but can come across as an asshole, unlike them)
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:57 (two years ago) link
xgau on Morrison Hotel...Morrison's gliding vocal presence--arty and self-absorbed though it may be--provides focus. He's not the genius he makes himself out to be, so maybe his genius is that he doesn't let his pretensions cancel out his talent. But will he blow it on this verse, or the next? Keeps me on my toes, not too laidback.
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
"Sensitive Cavemen Take The Blue Bus Into The Goldmine..."
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 October 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
"Chowin' Down..." sorry I just watched original Night of the Living Dead on TCM. He'd like to be visionary caveman, but that's more John Garner, singer-drummer ov Sir Lord Baltimore, even before (waaay before) they returned w xtian lyrics.
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 04:20 (two years ago) link