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
Thanks Earl for the Robbie link
― calstars, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link
Did Neil Diamond ever cover any Doors songs? I feel like I could listen to an album of him covering them.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
I hadn't heard of One St. Stephen, thanks. Not so into the shouty acid rock bits, but the Doors-y psych is ace. xxp
― hair-grabbing ear-grabbing fetishist squaredance caller (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
i like touch me a lot. i like the horns. and i love STRONGER THAN DIRT at the end. echo & the bunnymen were probably my fave faux-doors.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
i LOVE all era-appropriate doors covers too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOZ64aaEXlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptWWyfUOsg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
liked the Krieger interview but is it me or is his playing completely off?
― niels, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
I like variety show horns. the last gasp of the Great American Songbook on the top 40.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
this is cool faux-doors from the 60s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ungWowbiNUE
― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
"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), Monday, April 23, 2018 8:17 PM (yesterday)
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Monday, April 23, 2018 8:17 PM (yesterday)
I've had this same line of thought before, and figured I'd try doing a revised song/running order. Came up with this:
Side One:Waiting For The Sun (nobody can seem to decide if this was a 68-era outtake with a moog overdub for Morrison Hotel, or a 70-era recording, but it works too well to not use here)The Unknown SoldierLove StreetIndian Summer (the 66 version, not the Morrison version with the vocal overdub)Yes, The River KnowsSpanish Caravan
Side Two:Texas Radio And The Big Beat (the live take from 68 on Alive She Cried, with an intro from the rehearsal take of 'Celebration', the "is everybody in? The Ceremony is about to begin")Wild Child (recorded summer of 68, and it fits Waiting so much better than Soft Parade)Not To Touch The EarthThe Hill Dwellers ('Celebration' studio rehearsal take)The Names Of The Kingdom ('Celebration' studio rehearsal take, some minor editing)Five To One (the only proper closer to me, why was this halfway through Side 1???)
I played around with tracks and running orders before arriving at this and for me it works way better - no filler and a lot tighter. Would've been equal to the first two. I can put it up if anyone wants to try it.
― whitehallunity, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
that looks super cool
― calstars, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
xp I would like to hear the alternate 'WFTS' album.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
Guy’s like 75, what do you expect?
feel like the process of aging doesn't enter into the internet crit mindset these days. it's like "oh this guy is boring now" because they just suck, not because they are now decades older and grandparents.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link