When they're ajar.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

OK: Very high on my personal list of 'won't go there' bands come The Doors. This is due <b>entirely</b> to over-exposure to their work at school. Blasting Riders on the Storm through study-hall windows into the courtyard was a ritual cliche; along with further indicators of being a total tool: wearing a tie round your waist instead of a belt; wearing football socks (ideally in house colours) with long trousers; paisley waistcoats; joss-sticks;  drinking tea out of jam jars or similar. Half Stalky & Co, half sixties throwback, these tossers put me off the counterculture for life. Other offputting memories = my mum's defence of the Doors ('but they had good lyrics!'); Will Young's version of Come On Baby Light My Fire; lingering association with Vietnam films (c.f. The White Stripes who I associate with the war on Iraq, although I know this is a bit unfair).

Anyway, given Tom's attempt to bring the rock on poptimists today, are there any redeeming features in the work of the lizard-king and his devilish cohorts? Is this another prejudice I need to overcome, or should I retire in satisfaction that I have ALWAYS BEEN RIGHT?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

horse latitudes!

[dansette.livejournal.com]

Well I'm told that "the Doors" film is hilariously bad but I haven't seen it so am with you on the Doors hate!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

DRINKING TEA OUT OF JAM JARS.

Erm yeah "don't go there" would be my advice I think but I haven't 'been there' for a long time now. I downloaded "Peace Frog" last year, its apocalypse kitsch left me feeling a bit grubby.

We will not see their like again. Unless we buy the Kasabian album.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry if this induced any traumatic flashbacks, esp. when you're feeling a bit ropey anyway...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A mix of larffter and horror - actually it cheered me up no end.

The 'open windows so the world can hear my impeccable classic rock tastes' move - very common.

LISTEN TO YR MUM!!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

Time to live
Time to lie
Time to laugh
Time to die

Takes it easy, baby
Take it as it comes
Don't move too fast
And you want your love to last
Oh, you've been movin' much too fast

Time to walk
Time to run
Time to aim your arrows
At the sun

Takes it easy, baby
Take it as it comes
Don't move too fast
And you want your love to last
Oh, you've been movin' much too fast

Go real slow
You like it more and more
Take it as it comes
Specialize in havin' fun

Takes it easy, baby
Take it as it comes
Don't move too fast
And you want your love to last
Oh, you've been movin' much too fast
Movin' much too fast
Movin' much too fast

:(

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"specialise in having fun" >:0

i like all of the doors except morrison

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

there ws 1xDoors ilm thread where this "ppl who liked them were idiots" came up. i suppose its reasonable, not sure for how long you can keep from revisiting just bcz of that kind of assoaciation (er its just school), but a reason to listen to them is, as a band - on that 1st alb that i listen to - they simply weren't very rock.

will young version is actually pretty good. i didn't like it at first, but the song's inner strength shows, will y has a good voice, besides there isn't any organ imrpov - surely a good thing if you don't have a taste for this ;-)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

You have always been right.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hehe, i thought this was going to be another a-DOOR-no post when i saw the title...

...only good thing about the doors: singing "FAT DEAD HIPPY IN A BATH" to "break on through to the other side" it scans and everything ;)

[koganbot]

I recommend the following experiment: spend the summer of 1975 in Chicago sharing an apartment that has no record player or cassette player but does have a reel-to-reel tape player and three albums on tape: Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Who's Tommy, and the first Doors album. You may have to modify this experiment, in case spending summer of 1975 in Chicago is unmanageable in your present circumstances. In any event, the results I obtained were: Bridge 1 play, Tommy 2 plays, Doors 10 plays. Also would sometimes listen to radio in hopes of hearing Grand Funk's "Locomotion."

First Doors album seems plenty rock to me; at least, it actually rocks, which is why I kept playing it. Think of Morrison as a less-talented Orson Welles. Pretentious but effective.

How does one dislike the Doors but manage to tolerate Joy Division? How does one like Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out" but dislike the Doors' "Light My Fire" and "Break On Through," both of which have better rhythm than the Alice Coopers? (This question is only directed to people who tolerate Joy Division and like "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out.")

Also recommended: Jay-Z's "Takeover."

The Coop At His Finest

[koganbot]

Somewhat off-topic, but you will enjoy this classic Alice Cooper performance.

[koganbot]

I once opined that Orson Welles was the Doors of classic cinema. You can take this any way you want.