Love that harpsichord! 🎹🎹

 DaMoGan wrote:


Too funny!!  Same here!!

 DaMoGan wrote:

'Tis the trouble with this bloody station...not great for my productivity. LLRP!

 DaMoGan wrote:

Pot ain't the only thing that promotes couchlock... 

 Hannio wrote:
 

The majority of The Doors' singles do not resonate with me.

This song, however, for me KICKS ASS!   

Damnit, I have things to do, so I wait just until "this song is done,"  and then another sublime song comes up and I say, damnit, I have things to do...

 Steely_D wrote: 
Jeez... don't have a Black Cow, man.

 ScottishWillie wrote: 
Absolutely, although insulting me isn't really the same as defending the Doors.

 ubuntourist wrote: 
Holy xxCOWxx, I can't believe I was coming to the comments to make a Dead Milkmen joke, and the first post I see has beaten me to it!

And then there's 

...
My favorite cover band, Crystal Ship
Wow
Yeah, they do a Doors show, you'd be really impressed, in fact, it goes a little like this

Love me two times, baby
Love me twice today
Love me two times, girl
'Cause I got AIDS
Love me two times, baby
Once for tomorrow
Once cause I got AIDS

Read more: Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro Lyrics | MetroLyrics

 Hannio wrote: 

The Illustrated Man?

 2Hawks wrote: 
the keys are always annoying

Never liked the Doors way back when, and still don't. Maybe it's the minor cords, maybe it's the style.

 Steely_D wrote: 
 h8rhater wrote:  
Very clever comeback
 

I like the mustash and the snow leopard skirt on the strong man.

 PoetryAssassins wrote: 
I like this tune but with the exception of a meter and a few rhymes here and there, the "poetry" in these lyrics is pretty juvenile.

 Zapmedia wrote: 
You do know about the PSD button, right?
I don't like the Doors either and the PSD button took me to my happy place. 

If you don't understand the poetry of Jim Morrison and the times from which the Doors sprouted, just shut up.

 Steely_D wrote: 
Any Major Dude Will Tell You... that Only a Fool Would Say That.

Turning of RP because of this.

No talent, overplayed, no need to litter the beautiful audio landscape with this McDonalds bag of dreck. 

 kingart wrote: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days#Artwork

"Unlike all of the band's other studio albums made with Jim Morrison, the album cover of Strange Days does not feature a group shot of the band, due to Morrison's refusal to appear on the cover. Instead, Joel Brodsky decided to photograph a group of street performers in New York. The location of the photograph is at Sniffen Court, a residential alley off of East 36th Street between Lexington and Third Avenue in Manhattan. The availability of such performers pictured was low, so Brodsky's assistant stood in as a juggler while a random cab driver was paid $5 to pose playing the trumpet. Twin dwarfs were hired, with one appearing on the front cover and one appearing on the back cover, which is the other half of the same photo on the front cover. However, a group shot of the band does appear on a poster in the background of both covers, bearing captions of the band and album name. (The same photograph previously appeared on the back cover of the band's debut album.) Because of the subtlety of the artist and album title, most record stores put stickers across the cover to help customers identify it more clearly."

This link leads to an article with a lot more detail and funny bits about trying to get that shot. Apparently the acrobats were awful and the juggler couldn't keep two balls in the air for very long. Brodsky probably needed a few drinks at the end of that day. The link is included in the Wikipedia article. 

Misterfixit wrote:  
OK: you cannot leave us hanging with that line. 

Tolerable. Morrison's bully/frat approach is somewhat offset by Manzerak. 
But in general, these guys were usually mediocre, and this is yet another example. 

I will always associate this album and album cover with Ray Bradbury, whom I discovered about the same time I bought this album in 1967.  Bradbury's short stories about the somewhat sinister and mysterious aspects of traveling circuses in Midwestern small town settings dovetailed perfectly with the mood created by this album.

The greatness of the Doors becomes more apparent every passing day.

Oh yea!   and it must be a 10    

 ladybinnath wrote: 
You mean that ancient toy instrument, used widely during the 18th century, the Harpsichord?

gently crossing.. to arctic.. 

I keep trying to PSD - I can't stand Jim Morrison or that tinkly toy piano that this band uses - but this song refuses to die.  Are you guys trying to torture me?

So I'm probably a freak or something but I hate The Doors. I'm gonna PSD, you all have a good time. I'll be back when it is over.

 kingart wrote: 
It's a little alley called Sniffen Court, in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan.  I worked near there years ago.  I believe it's private these days.

Looks like it was shot in the last episode of "The Prisoner". I'm only half joking.


 kingart wrote: 

Yes, well you certainly have 'gone away', Jim. Hope it was worth it all.

Learn that bass run and the world is your oyster.

Go with your 16-year old Italian Wife to a Doors Concert in Europe and watch her dance .... with someone else.

Does anyone have any trivia facts about where the cover photo was shot?

Fondest of memories. I was 15 when I started to listen to the Doors in 1966.  I would go over to my friend's house and we would lay on the two beds in his room and listen to his older brother's Dooors albums over and over.  He is still my best friend even though we only cross paths sporadically and at improbable times.  Live hundreds of miles apart.  He went to Washington and Lee in VA, became a born again Christian, still is, and I'm a fallen catholic anarchist-agnostic, but we can still talk spirituality.  Rememberances of the Doors often come up.

I miss Jim Morrison.

 andionita wrote:
Ha! 'Mope Rock'. A perfect description, thanks for that.

I love RP until he starts playing this and Simon and Garfunkel or the Beach Boys.  Stop it already!! This doesn't work here!

This is pretty much to my likings!

Lovely, Lovely and LOVELY !!  

yes, yes ,yes !
 

 Dotman wrote: 
Put down the pipe son, don't you think you've had enough?

w00h0000!!

 Dotman wrote: 

WTF??

ARROW '07 Riders on the Storm by ~Merdahn
Cynthia Veekens   ©2007-2010 ~Merdahn

Non other than Robby Krieger (THE DOORS), guitarist of Riders on the Storm... A 'tribute'band to one of worlds greatest musicians/ poets (in my opinion) Jim Morrison and his band 'The Doors'

Robert Alan "Robby" Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American rockguitarist and songwriter. He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Times," "Touch Me," and "Love Her Madly."

He is listed as number 91 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

Mot wrote: I guess some people are just that type of character. You can't simply dismiss them by having this sort of melancholic, dreamy style. I appreciate Jim for being authentic oh, so authentic. Most of his songs can't be toped in the Mope Rock genre. And Love Me Two Times is for sure included.

Jim Morrison was way too tortured a soul. For whatever reason, his music conjures up Apocalypse Now visions for me. Too dark. Too twisted. A person insanely over drugged and without regard for normal socialization. God rest your soul Jim, and time for us to move past this in the mortal world.

this sounds so much \"better\" when it follows X \"Burning House of Love\". Nice going, Bill.

stick-up-your-a$$ white boy blues. No wonder real deal is crying. dot

:D :D :D When the doors of perception are cleansed, then we will see reality as it truly is: bright and colorful, with tracers, Jim?