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| From | "*Bill Holmes*" <bholmes_fm@msn.com> |
| Subject | Re: Drunk poetry |
| Date | Tue, 2 Nov 2004 07:15:54 -0500 |
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> I can't stand the f**king Doors. They make me cringe. Sure ain't power
pop.
Wow...since we're weighing in with such brilliantly thoughtful criticism,
I'll take the counter-point chair. I LIKE the Doors, and although I won't
run to pull out a record as often as I will a Stones or Kinks track, they
were a great band in the time that they roamed the Earth. MORRISON HOTEL
still rocks, and I remember LA WOMAN being a great tape to have in the car
when driving on the highway late at night. Whomever wrote the above, I hope
your last two sentences aren't inseparable. Your loss if so.
> You'll get no argument from me re the Doors being classic rock's most
> overexposed band,
While I think "classic rock's most overexposed" is a redundant statement,
thanks mostly to the extremely limited bandwidth that is classic rock radio,
I will agree that naming the Doors in the same breath as the Beatles,
Stones, Kinks is not right. But don't blame the band because "Light My Fire"
continues to get played eight billion times a week (like "Stairway To
Heaven" and "Free Bird" and "Hotel California" and....). I liked ALL of
those songs at one point and never want to hear them again thanks to
oversaturation. Face it, the Doors were huge in their time and that's why
they are in that kind of rotation.
>or much of Morrison's verbiage being overwrought and pretentious.
Y'know, sometimes the lyrics speak volumes to me (Kinks) and sometimes they
don't matter much at all because they are obtuse (Yes), sophomoric (oh hell,
many of the Auditeers legends) or artistically pretentious (here's where the
Doors fit in). As odd a track as it is, and it does fit in APOCALYPSE NOW
well, one stoned listen to "The End" was enough for me for a lifetime. But
"Break On Through", Love Her Madly", "Roadhouse Blues", "Touch Me" and
others were great singles. Hell, I can still sing along loudly to "I've Seen
All Good People" or "Roundabout" and I still have no idea what crawled out
of Jon Anderson's head for either...like the Doors tracks, the music is good
enough to cover. Maybe it was the era and my age during it, but that's the
way it is and was.
b, who knows he's not the only listmember who sang along with the chorus of
"Roadhouse Blues" at the top of his lungs with a beer in one hand and a doob
in the other (Bruce?)
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