Post by mortsahlfan on May 8, 2021 17:51:20 GMT -5
Usually, I don't care or even know lyrics - I'm listening to the music of the vocal, but Jim Morrison is one who I pay attention to.. My favorite is Roger Waters and John Lennon, and I guess Jim would be my #3 by default. Unique. Great vocals and I'll add his timing, which was impeccable. He could rap with the best of them, know when to pause. I think he came up with great phrases, or thinks that would flow so well. Sometimes its the hisses he makes, screams, little things that accentuate and make the song better, more palatable, more alive. "Alive, she cried"
The first song I heard was "Break On Through", which for me in middle-school was important to hear. You can interpret it in a million ways, but I think its safe to say the song has non-conformity on its mind.. "You know the day destroys the night, night divides the day" - pretty cool after I thought about it. I know the story behind the edit, but I love the "She get.... She get"..... "Found an island in your arms, a country in your eyes, arms that chained us, eyes that lied" - again, I love it.
The title "Soul Kitchen" is another cool one. "Warm my mind near your gentle stove"
"Twentieth Century Fox" is another great double-meaning title. Very clever.
"The End" is one of my favorite songs period. It's all interesting. I really love the plea, "Of everything that stands.... THE END.... No safety or surprise... THE END.... I'll never look into your eyes (lovely pause)... again. I really feel it every time I hear it, and I've been a die-hard Doors fan for about the length of Jim's entire life!
"Strange days have found us. Strange days have tracked us down" - can't explain why I love it. Maybe because its not conventional, as opposed to 'Some lady have found us".
"People are stranger, when you're a stranger" - so true!
Whatever he says in "Roadhouse Blues" is cool as hell. I'm going to listen to it now, lol.
"The Changeling" is another cool title, and just a cool story.
"Cars Hiss By My Windows" and "L'America" are unique titles. "Hello, I love you"
"Cops in cars, the topless bars, never saw a woman....... so alone"... "Motel money murder madness", nice alliteration, "let's change the mood from glad to sadness".. That entire song is a beautiful metaphor for Los Angeles, as if it were a woman. "Lucky little lady" (more alliteration).
"Cancel my subscription to the resurrection, send my credentials to the house of detention" - I loved it before I ever thought of the meanings.
"Waiting for you to....... end my song"
"All our lives we sweat and save, building for a shallow grave" (another great title "The Soft Parade")
"Breakfast where the news is read.. Television, children fed. Unborn living, living dead.. Bullet strikes the helmet's head"
"Five to One" - I think its all great.
I love "Peace Frog".. Cool title, and I love the story behind it from the poem "Abortion Stories" and how it related with his life (Patricia Kennealy). I love how on one vocal track, he sings, "She came" at the beginning of every line. Repeating "Blood in the streets ________" mentioning Chicago (shortly after the convention), or a self-reference to New Haven where he was arrested on stage (for having the guts to stand up to those who wronged him).
"The WASP (Texas Radio & The Big Beat) - interesting how the evolution of this song came to be. Again, great rhythm, great song, fascinating imagery.
I think its cool how he starts, "Wild Child" with a salutary "Hi!".. and even the ending line "Remember when we were in Africa" is memorable and has something to do with the song, even if Robby thought it was the dumbest thing he ever heard, and said so in the studio which you can witness on video.
Never liked "Horse Latitudes", but hey, he wrote it in school.
The first song I heard was "Break On Through", which for me in middle-school was important to hear. You can interpret it in a million ways, but I think its safe to say the song has non-conformity on its mind.. "You know the day destroys the night, night divides the day" - pretty cool after I thought about it. I know the story behind the edit, but I love the "She get.... She get"..... "Found an island in your arms, a country in your eyes, arms that chained us, eyes that lied" - again, I love it.
The title "Soul Kitchen" is another cool one. "Warm my mind near your gentle stove"
"Twentieth Century Fox" is another great double-meaning title. Very clever.
"The End" is one of my favorite songs period. It's all interesting. I really love the plea, "Of everything that stands.... THE END.... No safety or surprise... THE END.... I'll never look into your eyes (lovely pause)... again. I really feel it every time I hear it, and I've been a die-hard Doors fan for about the length of Jim's entire life!
"Strange days have found us. Strange days have tracked us down" - can't explain why I love it. Maybe because its not conventional, as opposed to 'Some lady have found us".
"People are stranger, when you're a stranger" - so true!
Whatever he says in "Roadhouse Blues" is cool as hell. I'm going to listen to it now, lol.
"The Changeling" is another cool title, and just a cool story.
"Cars Hiss By My Windows" and "L'America" are unique titles. "Hello, I love you"
"Cops in cars, the topless bars, never saw a woman....... so alone"... "Motel money murder madness", nice alliteration, "let's change the mood from glad to sadness".. That entire song is a beautiful metaphor for Los Angeles, as if it were a woman. "Lucky little lady" (more alliteration).
"Cancel my subscription to the resurrection, send my credentials to the house of detention" - I loved it before I ever thought of the meanings.
"Waiting for you to....... end my song"
"All our lives we sweat and save, building for a shallow grave" (another great title "The Soft Parade")
"Breakfast where the news is read.. Television, children fed. Unborn living, living dead.. Bullet strikes the helmet's head"
"Five to One" - I think its all great.
I love "Peace Frog".. Cool title, and I love the story behind it from the poem "Abortion Stories" and how it related with his life (Patricia Kennealy). I love how on one vocal track, he sings, "She came" at the beginning of every line. Repeating "Blood in the streets ________" mentioning Chicago (shortly after the convention), or a self-reference to New Haven where he was arrested on stage (for having the guts to stand up to those who wronged him).
"The WASP (Texas Radio & The Big Beat) - interesting how the evolution of this song came to be. Again, great rhythm, great song, fascinating imagery.
I think its cool how he starts, "Wild Child" with a salutary "Hi!".. and even the ending line "Remember when we were in Africa" is memorable and has something to do with the song, even if Robby thought it was the dumbest thing he ever heard, and said so in the studio which you can witness on video.
Never liked "Horse Latitudes", but hey, he wrote it in school.