The Official The Doors/Jim Morrison Thread

Son of JayJamJah · 07-17-2008, 08:03 AM

Also dead at 27

Robert Johnson
Ron Mckernan (Grateful Dead)
&
Peter de Freitas (Echo and the Bunnymen)

Whole bunch more too. Here's a list that includes explanations of the unfortunate circumstances.

GIGWISE, Dead At 27: Rock'N'Roll Music's Infamous Death Club

WaspStar · 07-17-2008, 08:36 AM

Once upon a time I loved the Doors...I listened to The Soft Parade (the song, not the whole damn album) at least once a day...then I heard the Sex Pistols. To this day I haven't been able to voluntarily sit through Light My Fire.

boo boo · 07-17-2008, 05:25 PM

So you saw the light... By discovering The Sex Pistols?

Man, I used to like really sh*tty music like The Doors, but then I saw the light and discovered REAL talented bands like The Sex Pistols.

That's a good laugh.

The Doors s/t, Strange Days and LA Woman are great albums, I don't care what anyone says.

Mangus65 · 08-17-2008, 08:09 PM

I always thought The Doors were cool. More so when I was younger but that organ music grew old on me.

Morrison was a nut if he would have had a better band behind him who knows what he would have done. Probably still die though.

joyboyo53 · 08-17-2008, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by loose_lips_sink_ships

Jim Morrison died at age 27...same as Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Brian Jones. Which I find is a pretty strange coincidence.

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison died all at 27 within 1 year of eachother.

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Originally Posted by Mangus65

Morrison was a nut if he would have had a better band behind him who knows what he would have done. Probably still die though.

Ray Manzarek is a bad ass! If he would have had another band they would have bailed on him after day #1, the Lizard King was a drunken bastard (albeit incredibly awesome).

boo boo · 07-06-2010, 01:36 AM

I think if possible the mods should add a poll for favorite Doors album to this thread.

I think it would be great if that became mandatory for every official artist/band thread.

Grace_Under_Pressure · 07-08-2010, 01:38 AM

Blender Mags hates Jim Morrisons Lyrics...

The 40 Worst Lyricists In Rock — #10 to #2
Posted Tuesday 10/09/2007 1:00 AM in Guide by Jon Dolan, Josh Eells, Tim Grierson, Andrew Harrison, Ben Mitchell, Tony Power and Mark Yarm
Filed Under:
10 • Jim Morrison
Why would a guy who looked this good shirtless want to be smart, anyway?

As a teenager, Morrison was alleged to have read a hundred books a week. Before his 1971 death in a Paris bathtub the Lizard King made pretentious-rocker history fusing French symbolism, Blake-ian romanticism and Beat shamanism into dreamlike evocations of L.A. excess. The result: poetry a drug-mad hippie would come up with if he’d never read a single book.
Worst lyric: “Breakfast where the news is read/Television children fed/Unborn living, living, dead/Bullet strikes the helmet’s head” (“The Unknown Soldier”)

-Blender Magazine

Unknown Soldier · 07-08-2010, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Grace_Under_Pressure

Worst lyric: “Breakfast where the news is read/Television children fed/Unborn living, living, dead/Bullet strikes the helmet’s head” (“The Unknown Soldier”)

-Blender Magazine

I actually love these lyrcis

Grace_Under_Pressure · 07-08-2010, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I actually love these lyrcis

Me too!!

boo boo · 07-09-2010, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Grace_Under_Pressure

Blender Mags hates Jim Morrisons Lyrics

They also hate progressive rock and most things that have to do with musical decency.

Does this look like a music publication you should take seriously?

07-17-2008, 08:36 AM	#132 (permalink)
WaspStar Back to mono Join Date: May 2008 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 509	Once upon a time I loved the Doors...I listened to The Soft Parade (the song, not the whole damn album) at least once a day...then I heard the Sex Pistols. To this day I haven't been able to voluntarily sit through Light My Fire. __________________ "This sure doesn't look like 'Crazy Ernie's Amazing Emporium of Total Bargain Madness!'"

08-17-2008, 08:09 PM	#134 (permalink)
Mangus65 Groupie Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 28	I always thought The Doors were cool. More so when I was younger but that organ music grew old on me. Morrison was a nut if he would have had a better band behind him who knows what he would have done. Probably still die though. __________________ ACDC Concert Dates ACDC World Tour 2008 -2009 Information

07-08-2010, 01:38 AM	#137 (permalink)
Grace_Under_Pressure Groupie Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Memphis, Tn Posts: 30	Blender Mags hates Jim Morrisons Lyrics... The 40 Worst Lyricists In Rock — #10 to #2 Posted Tuesday 10/09/2007 1:00 AM in Guide by Jon Dolan, Josh Eells, Tim Grierson, Andrew Harrison, Ben Mitchell, Tony Power and Mark Yarm Filed Under: 10 • Jim Morrison Why would a guy who looked this good shirtless want to be smart, anyway? As a teenager, Morrison was alleged to have read a hundred books a week. Before his 1971 death in a Paris bathtub the Lizard King made pretentious-rocker history fusing French symbolism, Blake-ian romanticism and Beat shamanism into dreamlike evocations of L.A. excess. The result: poetry a drug-mad hippie would come up with if he’d never read a single book. Worst lyric: “Breakfast where the news is read/Television children fed/Unborn living, living, dead/Bullet strikes the helmet’s head” (“The Unknown Soldier”) -Blender Magazine __________________ "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"

07-17-2008, 08:03 AM	#131 (permalink)
Son of JayJamJah Occams Razor Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: End of the Earth Posts: 2,472	Also dead at 27 Robert Johnson Ron Mckernan (Grateful Dead) & Peter de Freitas (Echo and the Bunnymen) Whole bunch more too. Here's a list that includes explanations of the unfortunate circumstances. GIGWISE, Dead At 27: Rock'N'Roll Music's Infamous Death Club