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