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How do you feel about Jim Morrison's song writting skills? I talked to a old friend last weekend. We both grew up together thinking the Doors were awesome, and Jim Morrison wrote poetry that was just amazing.
We hung out this past weekend. This topic came up, and I told him my latest opinion on Jim Morrison's lyrics. I was amazed that he agreed.
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How do you feel about Jim Morrison's song writting skills? I talked to a old friend last weekend. We both grew up together thinking the Doors were awesome, and Jim Morrison wrote poetry that was just amazing.
He was a great lyricist. What most of it meant, I haven't a clue. But it sure sounded good and that's what sells.
Some of it feels overwrought, but I have to admit, I always liked Horse Latitudes.
Soul Kitchen, When the Music's Over, People are Strange, Light My Fire (but was that Robbie Krieger?) there was some pretty good stuff there.
They definitely had their own flavor....and Morrison only made it to 26 or so. We all go through our pretentious periods. Wish he'd lived, I wonder what he would have done with himself and how he would have liked...disco, for instance.
They definitely had their own flavor....and Morrison only made it to 26 or so. We all go through our pretentious periods. Wish he'd lived, I wonder what he would have done with himself and how he would have liked...disco, for instance.
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They definitely had their own flavor....and Morrison only made it to 26 or so. We all go through our pretentious periods. Wish he'd lived, I wonder what he would have done with himself and how he would have liked...disco, for instance.
Good Lawd, he's been gone been nearly 40 years!
Like Janis and Jimi, 27. I didn't find his writings pretentious so much as I did cynical, bizarre, multi-dimensional, and a bit autobiographical--in a cryptic sort of way. He had an IQ of 147, btw.
He woudn't have done disco; he hated the strings on "Soft Parade" so much he disappeared into the desert for three months. "Road House Blues" is a good indication of the direction he was heading musically. A good ole' beer bellied whiskey rock and roller blues man.
'Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain...(and all their children are insane..)'
He was a true poet, and being interred at Pere Lachaisse with Lizt and Balzac is a fitting gesture.
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That would have been great.
