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forgot how good Morrison Hotel is

firky said:
I used to like the Doors when I was a kid then I realised they were shit but still have a little affection for them, well Jim at least.
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i am only asking for a civilised debate here, but its this comment that sounds stupid to me firks, thats why i couldnt let you away with it. To like something as a kid,and then completely change your view when you are older.....i dont get it, makes you sound flakey and a fashion follower to me

and especially on a band like the doors. I mean, do you really listen to something like roadhouse blues and think 'thats shit' have a think!

you need your head examined!
 
Cheesypoof said:
i'm listening to it now, and its a fucking blinding album. stick it on if you have forgotten urbans...

always loved these dark lyrics and the way jim croons it with the choppy percussoin, fucking aweome

Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of venice
Blood in my love in the ter-rible summer
Bloody red sun of phantastic l.a!!!
Blood streams her brain as they chop off her fingers
Blood will be born in the birth of a nation
Blood is the rose of mysterious union
Theres blood in the streets, its up to my ankles!!!
Blood in the streets, its up to my knee
Blood in the streets in the town of chicago
Blood on the rise, its following me!!!
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I never realized this song was called peace frog.
 
good god. of course you can say that a song is no-longer any good and not have your tastes dictated by some need to pull your best mate's girlfriend. or whatever is unacceptable today.

cheesypoof has been rather vile to me, and i worry that she pms shit about, inconsequential, me.

i do agree that the doors are alright. there's stuff to like in them. overblown without being stadium rock. is that not a good thing? plenty of stuff i look back and cringe that i liked. mostly 'cos of how much of a cunt i was when i listened to it. the doors don't fall into that category for me, and i couldn't really care if it reminds firky or whoever of whiteying for his first time/getting embaressing erections, whatever :D
 
This is a weird old thread :confused:

Anyway - loved the Doors as a teenager, but after being exposed to loads of other music i must say I don't listen to them anymore. S'alright when Jim's not being up his own arse, which he was a lot of the time it appears.

All sounds a tad pretentious to my aged ears now.
 
Cheesypoof said:
WE are NOT jumping on any bandwagons excuse me! and fuck your long words and psychobabble psychology there (which doesnt make any sense either)

you have been exposed as a fashion victim and cant hack it is all!

you made a sweeping statement about the doors and cant wriggle your way out of it because you know that you dont like revisiting your youth, and you want to be popular and the popularly held view, is that liking the doors these days is what kids do.

firks youve been framed and you dont fool me.
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No. He just doesn't like the Doors anymore.


I was a big fan of the Doors when I was younger, but when I played them recently it just didn't do anything for me. Peace Frog is still a great tune though.
 
I like the Doors, but don't really listen to em any more.

I don't understand the hatred of em. What's it all about?
 
Cheesypoof said:
i am only asking for a civilised debate here, but its this comment that sounds stupid to me firks, thats why i couldnt let you away with it. To like something as a kid,and then completely change your view when you are older.....i dont get it, makes you sound flakey and a fashion follower to me

you need your head examined!
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There's nothing flakey at all about changing your mind. What happens when a band evolves and changes it's sound?
Do you insist on still liking them even though they have changed the music they are writing?

Perhaps bands should stop following fashion. Maybe even just release 1 album and play the same tracks ad infinitum so that their sound doesn't change.

and you think we're flakey. :D
 
I always used to sing the intro to LA woman as 'I jiggled into town about an hour ago' which seemed slightly uncool, but hell, if Jim's jiggling then so am I. Great album.
 
WouldBe said:
There's nothing flakey at all about changing your mind. What happens when a band evolves and changes it's sound?
Do you insist on still liking them even though they have changed the music they are writing?
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But the album stands still and i dont see how you could fall in love with Morrison Hotel at 14, then suddenly 'think its shit' at 26...

sounds flakey and fashiony, as in listening to what people tell you at 14, 26 or whatever. Tastes in film, books but particularly music didnt change much for me from about 13, so maybe i had good taste as a kid, or maybe i havent grown up...:cool:
 
'LA Woman's my favourite album of theirs - the pretension's turned down a bit and they just get on with playing some fucking good bluesy rock 'n' roll. Which is what The Doors were always about, for me.

I know some get into old Jimbo pretending to be a lizard/ an Indian/ a knob (delete as applicable) but when they shook all that off and just played some decent rock 'n' roll, they were fantastic.

'Roadhouse Blues', 'Been Down So Long', 'LA Woman'- they still sound ace.
 
LA woman is the only doors album i can listen to without cringing, although there are a couple of tracks on strange days.

this whole thing about not being allowed to ahve your tastes change is fucking bullshit, idiotic argument. tastes change all the time and to suggest that changes in taste are dictate by some notion of cool is fucking moronic.
 
Of corse tastes in music change - like your taste in food changes. I hated green veggies as a kids - couldn't abide their bitter taste. Now i love 'em.

Same with music innit.
 
goldenecitrone said:
I always used to sing the intro to LA woman as 'I jiggled into town about an hour ago' which seemed slightly uncool, but hell, if Jim's jiggling then so am I. Great album.
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Summer (well, nice weather) seems to be a Doorsy time of the year. I've just come in from the corner shop and heard LA Woman blasting out of someone's car going up our street...and got in and Rocketman's playing An American Prayer* :eek: I'm not sure about the latter, but the former was good to hear :D

*It'll be off soon though, the darts is on the telly in about 10 mins. I'm not having that Jim Morrison's whinging about bleeding Indians ruining my peaceful enjoyment of the darts :D
 
I love American Prayer. Perhaps the poetry etc, is not up to some people's standards. But the mood and the music/words balance is great and I've liked it for too many years to stop now.
 
Lisarocket said:
*It'll be off soon though, the darts is on the telly in about 10 mins. I'm not having that Jim Morrison's whinging about bleeding Indians ruining my peaceful enjoyment of the darts :D
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LOL :D
 
bluestreak said:
LA woman is the only doors album i can listen to without cringing, although there are a couple of tracks on strange days.

this whole thing about not being allowed to ahve your tastes change is fucking bullshit, idiotic argument. tastes change all the time and to suggest that changes in taste are dictate by some notion of cool is fucking moronic.
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of course tastes change, but i dont get the adult 'rejection' of tastes you had as a kid, once you grow older.

I dont get how you can go from loving an album when you are 14 to 'thinking its shit' around 15 years later - particularly in the case of a classic blues album like this - sounds like 'fashion victim' to me, which i am sure it is.

Maybe some people reckon you cant have good taste as a kid, because you are a kid. I always had good taste and still love Bjork, Pearl jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, The Smiths, The Cure, the Doors, Beck, The Beatles, Portishead, The prodigy, james Brown, Prince, Beck and all of this stuff which I listened to from the age of 12.

I mightnt listen to it as much anymore, and I like loads of new artists now but I am loyal to my youth ones, because it shaped me as a person and conjure up very happy memories.
 
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