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Earendil ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 17 2008 Location: Indiana, USA Status: Offline Points: 1584 |
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I just watched When You're Strange, a documentary about them. It's excellent but depressing as hell. It shows The Doors, especially Morrison, as vulnerable and "caught between heaven and hell" (William Blake reference), not just as the arena rock stars most people remember them as.
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The Quiet One ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: January 16 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 15745 |
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That's called reality, dude. ![]() I'll go for When the Music's Over, those keys... damn. However, all of these tunes are incredible in their own different ways. |
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Svetonio ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213 |
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The End, of course.
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digdug ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4707 |
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very tough choice
so many great songs here went with Light My Fire
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Prog On!
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The Dark Elf ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13097 |
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When the Music's Over. All of them are great though.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
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Earendil ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 17 2008 Location: Indiana, USA Status: Offline Points: 1584 |
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Totally man. It's so real.
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The T ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 16 2006 Location: FL, USA Status: Offline Points: 17493 |
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When the music's over.
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Horizons ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 20 2011 Location: Somewhere Else Status: Offline Points: 16952 |
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I wouldn't called The Doors "arena rock stars".
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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The Quiet One ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: January 16 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 15745 |
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It's funny that if you translate arena from spanish to english, literally it would mean: Sand, rock, stars. Hm, no, it's not funny.
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Intruder ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: May 13 2005 Status: Offline Points: 2206 |
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Love the electric piano and jazzy drumming on "Riders"....was never a big Doors fan but that break and restart slays me.
On a related note, how about Sweet Smoke incorporating "Soft Parade" on their first album....great stuff.
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Fox On The Rocks ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 10 2011 Location: Toronto, Canada Status: Offline Points: 5012 |
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I'm surprised there's so little love for The Soft Parade. It's probably the most experimental track The Doors ever recorded - easy vote there. Jimbo's lyrics on that one are amazing.
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Tuzvihar ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 18 2005 Location: C. Schinesghe Status: Offline Points: 13536 |
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Amen to that! ![]() And maybe you could visit my thread on it... |
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Charles Bukowski |
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prog4evr ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 22 2005 Location: Wuhan, China Status: Offline Points: 1455 |
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Had to go with "Light My Fire." Love that Vox Jaguar organ solo in the middle...
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iluvmarillion ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 09 2010 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 3247 |
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I don't find Soft Parade that experimental but rather under developed. I think the band self destructed around the time they made Waiting For The Sun. They wrote good songs after Strange Days but their subsequent albums never reached the same heights as their first two albums.
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Melomaniac ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4088 |
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Toughie, hesitated between The End, When the Music's over and Riders on the storm, and ended up voting Riders, simply because it's more structured and better produced than the 2 others...
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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Tom Ozric ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15926 |
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I love all of these tracks, but, don't get angry folks - 'Ships w/Sails' gets my vote - I simply love 'Other Voices' - pity there was no 'epic' on 'Waiting For The Sun' (my fave Doors album).
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memowakeman ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 19 2005 Location: Mexico City Status: Offline Points: 13032 |
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My favorite of theirs is When the Music's Over :)
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The.Crimson.King ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 29 2013 Location: WA Status: Offline Points: 4596 |
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Really tough choice between "The End" & "When the Music's Over"...
Went with "When the Music's Over"...
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Tom Ozric ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15926 |
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Was there ever a studio version of 'Celebration of the Lizard' ?? Always loved that suite on 'Absolutely Live'. There was plenty of room on the very short 'Waiting For The Sun' album at the time........??
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Bosh66 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 23 2009 Location: Bolton, Lancs Status: Offline Points: 528 |
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I seem to be (currently) in the majority here for a change - When's The Music Over for me.
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