There's a song I remember from an old psych comp called "The Black Door" by the Loose Enz that's a really obvious Doors knockoff, but I don't know. Mostly, the Doors strike me as being pretty singular.
― timellison, Saturday, 21 April 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
Alice Cooper, "Blue Turk"
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 April 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
xp re: Mazzy, 'Ghost Highway' feel like a Doors homage to me.
― campreverb, Saturday, 21 April 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
Stranglers, "Walk On By", duh.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 April 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
that mazzy star song sounds more like "idiot joy showland" than the doors!
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 April 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
I can't stand these fuckers.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 April 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
That’s like the one Doors song I like!
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 23 April 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
Doors ruleRide the snakeThe West is the best
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 April 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
i like the Doors generally but I dont like Touch Me it feels too slobbery
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 April 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link
Father“Yes son?”I’ve left you two comp tickets at the Whisky, tell the door guy you’re on “Jim’s list”; feel free to bring mom
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 23 April 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
"Touch Me" is awesome, great vocal, Alfred is full of it.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Monday, 23 April 2018 08:36 (six years ago) link
I first heard this song when a girl put it on a mixtape for me in high school. I eventually got the message she was sending, but the young ilxor in me couldn't get over how contemptibly cheesy it was. What was this Butt Bacharach shit?
― how's life, Monday, 23 April 2018 10:25 (six years ago) link
Now, as a mature ILXor, you accept cheese.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Monday, 23 April 2018 10:31 (six years ago) link
ricotta, Stilton, sure
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 April 2018 10:32 (six years ago) link
Morrison, Krieger...
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Monday, 23 April 2018 10:35 (six years ago) link
oh ffs, "butt Bacharach" was autocorrect.
― how's life, Monday, 23 April 2018 11:04 (six years ago) link
Beyond the great vocal, “Touch Me” has a genuinely groovy instrumental breakdown...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 23 April 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
Peace Frog grooves
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 23 April 2018 12:50 (six years ago) link
This is funny and accurate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBRYsAfchkY
― dinnerboat, Monday, 23 April 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
^^^ I hadn't seen that before! Spot on, even looks like Manzarek back there.
i was talking to a friend the other day about how i like doors knockoffs better than i like the doors themselves. your faves?― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Saturday, April 21, 2018 1:34 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Saturday, April 21, 2018 1:34 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Do you know Phantom's Divine Comedy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0wijDxY3rk
― hair-grabbing ear-grabbing fetishist squaredance caller (Dan Peterson), Monday, 23 April 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
touch me feels like jim projecting into the future envisioning vegas elvis
so yeah pretty awesome
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 April 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
Every time this thread gets bumped I fear that Jim has died
― calstars, Monday, 23 April 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
Jim cannot die, in the moments prior to the death of "body", more aptly described as his terrestrial flesh vehicle, his soul BREAKS ON THROUGH to his next host shell.
Best Band Ever.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 23 April 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
"Touch Me" is great. So sleazy.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 23 April 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Touch Me is a little like one of those corny Strokes songs (in a good way).
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 23 April 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
― calstars, Monday, April 23, 2018 10:37 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://meetsobsession.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Do-you-believe-in-the-end-mash-up.jpg
We found a finally spot to kick itWhere we can drink liquor and no one bickers over trick shitA spot where we can smoke in peace, and even though we G'sWe still visualize places that we can roll in peaceAnd in my mind's eye, I see this place the players go and pass itI got a spot for us all, so we can ball, at thug's mansion
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 April 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
#westside#outlawz
The Doors have a surprisingly large amount of Vegas/crooner songs. Touch Me is probably the most famous. On some others, notably Wishful Sinful on The Soft Parade, you can hear the disgust in his voice.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 23 April 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
haha alfred i loved your piece
― marcos, Monday, 23 April 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
i love the doors but i hate "touch me"
but then i just read ums post about foreshadowing elvis in vegas <3
― marcos, Monday, 23 April 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
now im not sure
Xp lol
― calstars, Monday, 23 April 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
man late period doors live albums are INSANE
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, January 23, 2012 12:13 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes!
― marcos, Monday, 23 April 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
"Yes the River Knows" always felt pretty Vegas crooner-y.
"Touch Me" is pretty rad. "i'm gonna love you til the heavens stop the rain" is such a sweet middle 8. and that live video, where Jim's hair is the prettiest in the world. dude could have gone on to be in soap operas.
i have lot of love for the "Soft Parade" album as a whole. i prefer the psychedelic vegas lounge to the more straight faced blues cocktail lounge of the last records.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 23 April 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
"Soft Parade" is a crazy record, I generally love it even though I wouldn't begrudge anyone who hates it. "Runnin' Blue" would be my favorite Doors song if it didn't have the embarrassing faux-hillbilly Robbie break downs. "Tell All the People" is great, the title track is insane.
Also funny to think immediately after SP they were considered basically washed up, they'd been a band for barely 4 yrs, it was only 2 yrs since the debut. The cliched "return to their roots" comeback record is out less than 8 months later.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 23 April 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
I like the Doors. I accept them as schlockmeisters, pseudo-Latinized, pseudo-blues, just like Don Van Vliet or Dr. John. But pop in a way neither of those artists could exactly muster. I dig their minimalist style and I get off on the thinness of their sound. "Riders on the Storm" is really the one I relate to the most. They were better when they laid back. Alfred Soto did a takedown of "Touch Me" that makes interesting points about how "Touch Me" and the ricky-ticky schlock-blues-pop of the Kinks' Something Else and the Stones' Between the Buttons, how "Touch Me" (I think) is a more Vegas-ized version of that. Not sure I totally get his point, but it's worth considering...
― eddhurt, Monday, 23 April 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
"Tell All the People" is great
yes! and very cultish too. "Come on, take me by the hand, gonna bury all our troubles in the sand"
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 23 April 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
funny to think immediately after SP they were considered basically washed up
By how many, I wonder. Certainly, some critics, but...Every album they made went top ten and "Touch Me" was one of their three top ten singles.
― timellison, Monday, 23 April 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
"not to touch the earth" is still ahead of its time. nothing left to do but run run run. let's run
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 23 April 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
haha, I was just about to post my love for 'not to touch the earth'.love 'waiting for the sun'
― campreverb, Monday, 23 April 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
waiting for the sun is def the most underrated album
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 April 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
"hello, i love you" is an all-time first jam
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 23 April 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Very little Doors music strikes me as "psuedo-Latinized" or "psuedo-blues."
― timellison, Monday, 23 April 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
Came across this recent video a few weeks ago with Robbie Kreiger which gets into the origins of some of the tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p24lgQv1r8w
"They were better when they laid back."
'The Crystal Ship' is my favorite Doors song. I need to try and put together a chill out Doors CDR. That section of 'Cars Hiss by my Window' and are a couple of deep tracks that fit that feel too. Love how 'Cars Hiss by my Window' segues into 'LA Woman'.
― earlnash, Monday, 23 April 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link
I mean, why not judge them as a rock band? A genre in which they were quite advanced.
― timellison, Monday, 23 April 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
"one to five" sounds like ACTUAL BLOOD is being shed
― brimstead, Monday, 23 April 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
― marcos, Monday, April 23, 2018
thanks!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 April 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
A lot of it was down to Miami... during the fallout of which it was widely believed that they'd never tour, appear on TV, or get radio airplay again. This is slightly borne out by the other three (!) singles from TSP flopping.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 April 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
i know phantom's divine comedy but that's so on the nose i'm not that into it! nah i'm more into one st. stephen and shit.
"waiting for the sun" is one of those "what if" things. on the one hand the "big epic" was becoming a formula for them, but on the other hand they didn't really offer any viable alternatives. i don't know why they couldn't nail "celebration of the lizard" in the studio, or why they couldn't finish "waiting for the sun". it's a short record but also a really padded one, but there's some A material there. instead they kind of fell apart.
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link