Posted on 07/03/2021 1:19:49 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Band: The Doors Album: The Very Best of The Doors Release date: 2001
The dj on the local station, put up 3 songs to be as a "tribute". The songs were "Soul Kitchen", "Light my Fire", and "The Alabama song".
I like the Doors a lot. Lots of great songs that my kids could listen to. Lots that I had to fast forward through as well!
You guys may not know, but the little girls understand.
Morrison didn’t like “Light My Fire”. The Alabama Song is a cover (lots of Doors songs were).
Out of the three, I’d vote for “Soul Kitchen” which Morrison wrote the lyrics for.
No! I can’t be that old!!?!
Creepy Brecht-Weill tune, sung by Lotte Lenya circa 1930.
They also wrote Mack the Knife.
Spanish Caravan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zrwCjjUqs0
Roadhouse Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV9DJwJKWMw
I really like the album “An American Prayer”. It uses Morrison’s spoken word poems from tape with the Doors adding music to it.
I wonder how Morrison would have liked it? Could be viewed as the Doors trying to make one last dollar, or a great tribute to Morrison and his poetry.
I’ve read where Morrison considered himself a poet first, and could frankly have done without the music - but it was the only way for folks to listen to his poetry.
If you can find them, grab his books of poetry.
I even got that Jim Morrison “scrapbook” thing they put out years ago.
All kinds of cool “handwritten” poems and the like.
An American Prayer is sublime.
/he’s not dead
;)
*and I think he would have loved it.
“the Doors trying to make one last dollar”
That would be the horrifying Ian Astbury infested “Doors of the 21st Century” thing.
Ugh.
IMO, the ONLY person on earth who *might* have been able to pull off continuing without Jim, was Billy Idol, who was actually slated to play Jim in the movie, but was badly injured in a motorcycle crash.
Some bands can go on after their “front” is gone but it’s rare.
There is no Stone Temple Pilots without Scott Weiland and no Alice In Chains without Layne Staley.
Queen fiddled around with the weird choice of Paul Rodgers and then the fruity Adam Lambert.
Some other bands know when to just stop, like Type O Negative.
When Pete died, TON was done and they wisely let it go.
/didn’t like “Van Hagar”, either
:D
Jim was a trip! I think some don’t like The Doors only because of his hippy dippy druggie persona - not because they don’t like the music.
I was just reading up on the “back door man” thing.
In the modern era I thought it meant one thing. But, the original lyrics were by a black blues guy from the south in the early 60’s. A “back door man” was an adulterer, having to enter and leave by the back door to avoid the husband!
“The men don’t know....”
He was incredibly well read and drew upon sources such as Huxley and Blake for his lyrics.
If you’re not someone who has a working knowledge of his mythological sources, most of it makes no sense and it all may sound “hippy dippy druggie” when in reality, he’s just on a different plane of reference.
IMO, it’s often so obscure and cerebral that people don’t “get it”.
I think he was a man out of time and saw himself as that killer on the road.
Riders On The Storm had to be the inspiration for the terrifyingly excellent Rutger Hauer movie “The Hitcher”.
He was, is and always will be, iconic.
/all the children are insane, waiting for the summer rain...
Yup.
And when The Knack put our their album “But The Little Girls Understand” I chuckled.
As if My Sharona [always get it up for the touch of the younger kind] was not bizarre enough, being written for his eventual 17 year old girlfriend, Sharona Alperin.
Every song on the first album is great.
The Doors were not a hippy band.
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