The Doors returned to crunching, straightforward hard rock on Morrison Hotel, an album that, despite yielding no major hit singles, returned them to critical favor with hip listeners. An increasingly bluesy flavor began to color the songwriting and arrangements, especially on the party'n'booze anthem "Roadhouse Blues." Airy mysticism was still present on "Waiting for the Sun," "Queen of the Highway," and "Indian Summer"; "Ship of Fools" and "Land Ho!" struck effective balances between the hard rock arrangements and the narrative reach of the lyrics. "Peace Frog" was the most political and controversial track, documenting the domestic unrest of late-'60s America before unexpectedly segueing into the restful allad "Blue Sunday." "The Spy," by contrast, was a slow lues that pointed to the direction that would fully blossom on L.A. Woman.
Jim Morrison may have been the Number One Douchebag in Rock and Roll History, but he was a great vocalist, The Doors made some undoubtedly great songs, and at least a couple of consistently good-to-great albums. One was Morrison Hotel, where the soon-to-be-dead lead singer gets higher on the blues than he does his own dangerously pretentious self. The latest reissue is a bit of an exercise in o...
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...I'll jump the gun on my Funky Friday post by throwing this on...what can I say, Ioves that older, analog shite and I'll be the first to tell you that when I think of Funk, images of Jim Morrison don't immediately come to mind for most, but I must say that for a moment, at least on one track, the one I'm posting below, Mr. Mojo Risin and his crew got stanky widdit...I was reminded of it, for ...
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Jim Morrison was a third-rate lyricist, a second-rate singer, with a first class band.
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...I'll jump the gun on my Funky Friday post by throwing this on...what can I say, Ioves that older, analog shite and I'll be the first to tell you that when I think of Funk, images of Jim Morrison don't immediately come to mind for most, but I must say that for a moment, at least on one track, the one I'm posting below, Mr. Mojo Risin and his crew got stanky widdit...I was reminded of it, for ...
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Jim Morrison was a third-rate lyricist, a second-rate singer, with a first class band.
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Growing up in the Midwest and South Texas, The Doors were one of the bands that reflected the soundtrack that was my life. I remember skipping school and driving around while listening to Waiting for Sun cranked up in my car. I loved the way that song sounded loud as I speed down the highway trying to find the life I was dreaming about through music and song.The Doors helped me escape. That's w...
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Rhino is promoting the release of a 6 CD box-set of The Doors by streaming an hour or more of unreleased and alternate versions of songs from all the albums. While it's interesting to hear, there's a reason why these aren't the released album versions - they're not as good."Box Set Fun"But how good The Doors still sound, 40 years later. In some ways they've never gone away. Even when Punk decla...
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Jim Morrison may have been the Number One Douchebag in Rock and Roll History, but he was a great vocalist, The Doors made some undoubtedly great songs, and at least a couple of consistently good-to-great albums. One was Morrison Hotel, where the soon-to-be-dead lead singer gets higher on the blues than he does his own dangerously pretentious self. The latest reissue is a bit of an exercise in o...
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| 1 Roadhouse Blues |
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| 2 Waiting for the Sun |
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| 3 You Make Me Real |
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| 4 Peace Frog |
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| 5 Blue Sunday |
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| 6 Ship of Fools |
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| 7 Land Ho! |
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| 8 The Spy |
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| 9 Queen of the Highway |
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| 10 Indian Summer |
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| 11 Maggie M'Gill |
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