A tremendous debut album, and indeed one of the best first-time outings in ock history, introducing the band's fusion of ock, lues, classical, jazz, and poetry with a knockout punch. The lean, spidery guitar and organ riffs interweave with a hypnotic menace, providing a seductive backdrop for Jim Morrison's captivating vocals and probing prose. "Light My Fire" was the cut that topped the charts and established the group as stars, but most of the rest of the album is just as impressive, including some of their best songs: the propulsive "Break On Through" (their first single), the beguiling Oriental mystery of "The Crystal Ship," the mysterious "End of the Night," "Take It as It Comes" (one of several tunes besides "Light My Fire" that also had hit potential), and the stomping ock of "Soul Kitchen" and "Twentieth Century Fox." The 11-minute Oedipal drama "The End" was the group at its most daring and, some would contend, overambitious. It was nonetheless a haunting cap to an album whose nonstop melodicism and dynamic tension would never be equaled by the group again, let alone bettered.
Why is it everytime i go to check the news they always have horrible stuff happening like 5 Bombers killed 4 children. Child Rapist on the loose and shit like that honestly it must scare people to turn on the TV and see what sick and twisted this world really is. I know this is a random post but this has to be addressed.
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So today I'm watching the Simpsons, in particular, the old episode where Homer bowls a perfect game and becomes a celebrity, I'm sitting there just watching the episode with no particular thought in mind, and suddenly I hear The Doors' song "The End", I wouldn't have known the name of the song except for the fact that I have my caption turned on on my TV, the episode ends and I hurry immediatel...
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...from the "get-here-and-we'll-do-the-rest" Dept: what can I say? some days I post more than others and on this particular day I'm feelin' that "whole album vibe right about now...so, per usual, I'm lookin' back and I'm checkin' a classic which is the Doors' self-titled debut LP...sure it has those super-hits like "Break On Through", "The Crystal Ship" and "The End" but there are a couple of...
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By DOUGLAS MARTINMadeleine L’Engle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation, died Thursday in Connecticut. She was 88.Her death, of natural causes, was announced today by her publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Remainder of text deleted due to copyright)www.katrinaa.
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http://www.thedoors.com/Every Beatle had a copy of the first DOORS when it was released, it was said SGT. Pepper took you on a trip. The DOORS was the next level, one of my fave books is "No One Gets Out Of Here Alive," and like many I have read it over many times and Oliver's Movie has some of the best theatrical concert footage...
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So today I'm watching the Simpsons, in particular, the old episode where Homer bowls a perfect game and becomes a celebrity, I'm sitting there just watching the episode with no particular thought in mind, and suddenly I hear The Doors' song "The End", I wouldn't have known the name of the song except for the fact that I have my caption turned on on my TV, the episode ends and I hurry immediatel...
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I saw The Doors twice live.They just never sounded as good live as they did in the studio.But Jim was the whole show when they were on stage.Part Shaman and part Clown.His Father was an Admiral in the navy, and by a cosmic coincidence he was the Captain of the ship I served on before he made Admiral.I have a picture a friend took of Jim Morrison at age 15 sitting on the bridge of the ship next ...
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Recently just picked up this album. What a great album, solid all the way through. "Crystal Ship" "Light My Fire" "Break on Through" are my fav tracks. Its amazing how they never had a bassist, just the organ as the bass line. Jim Morrison simply amazing. Whose with me?
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Why is it everytime i go to check the news they always have horrible stuff happening like 5 Bombers killed 4 children. Child Rapist on the loose and shit like that honestly it must scare people to turn on the TV and see what sick and twisted this world really is. I know this is a random post but this has to be addressed.
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Break on Through (To the Other Side) |
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| 2 Soul Kitchen |
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| 3 The Crystal Ship |
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| 4 Twentieth Century Fox |
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| 5 Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) |
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| 6 Light My Fire |
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| 7 Back Door Man |
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| 8 I Looked at You |
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| 9 End of the Night |
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| 10 Take It as It Comes |
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| 11 The End |
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