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The Doors : a lifetime of listening to five mean years
The Doors: a lasting voice, or psychedelic trash? To Greil Marcus they can be both-- in the same song. More Doors songs can be heard on the radio today, forty years after Jim Morrison's death, than those of almost any group of their era. Sparked by that fact, and with the deep focus of a critic engaged with his subject, Marcus both revisits a parade of great performances and explores why and how the Doors have endured with their spirit and menace intact. --From publisher description.
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Flashbacks. Episode 19
The Doors formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California and were active until 1972. They were a popular and influential American hard rock band. The hits included \"Light my fire\" and the \"Riders on the storm,\" \"The End,\" \"Morrison hotel\" and \"Ghost song.\"
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Love becomes a funeral pyre : a biography of The Doors
Spanning the entire history of the Doors, this book will long remain the definitive biography of a band that forever changed popular music. But it's not the story you think you know,\"--Amazon.com.
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Escuchando a The Doors
Durante toda su vida, Greil Marcus, uno de los mejores pensadores vivos de la cultura popular, ha escuchado a The Doors, la banda liderada por el carismático y oscuro Jim Morrison, que, en tan solo cinco años (1967-1971), grabó algunas de las mejores canciones de la historia del rock. Con su estilo radical e inconfundible, Marcus trasciende la atenta escucha de las canciones de la banda —no solo las versiones de sus temas más conocidos, sino también las que interpretaron en directo, donde la banda solía reinventar su propio repertorio— y proyecta una de las miradas más inteligentes y brillantes sobre el legado cultural de la década de los 60. Además de los momentos decisivos de la historia de la banda, Greil Marcus convoca algunas manifestaciones artísticas clave y personalidades del imaginario colectivo norteamericano en un relato torrencial que, ante todo, rehúye el tópico de los 60 como la década de la paz, el amor fraternal y la liberación, detectando sus agujeros negros e instantes decisivos que la música de The Doors reveló mejor que nadie. ESCUCHANDO A THE DOORS es también una lección magistral de crítica de cultura popular y de cómo la literatura y el pensamiento pueden abordar la divulgación musical. Para ello, Marcus da rienda suelta a una prosa exuberante cuya finalidad no es reverenciar una música del pasado como objeto congelado en su tiempo, sino todo lo contrario: mostrar cómo algunas canciones y las ideas que estas vehiculan siguen vigentes y que, por ello, es preciso que las sigamos reivindicando y escuchando.
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Planting Seeds
Cave's music has been known as accompaniment to scenes of self-destruction in films such as Richard Lowenstein's Dogs in Space, end-of-the-century desolation and decadence, as in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, or just plain depression, as in Shrek2 directed by Andrew Adamson, Conrad Vernon and Kelly Asbury. This chapter demonstrates Cave's spectacularly unlikely' words and rhymes become an incisive language of laughter' when put back in the Australian postcolonial context. In arguing that Cave was a chthonic' songwriter, Forster brought Cave to the attention of a wider Australian public, a public not necessarily looking for a serious artist in the guise of a rock and roll star. The seriousness of English poetry and its claims for attention in a culture of death' are humorously critiqued on Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus. Nick Cave also transforms this tradition by taking some of the persistent earnestness and elitism out of it: giving it hilarity and levity as well as dignity and gravitas.
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THE SoCAL SONGBOOK; `L.A. Woman'; The Doors | 1971
\"No, he made up most of the words to 'L.A. Woman' on the fly right there in the studio,\" says Robby Krieger, the guitarist of the Doors. \"That whole song was different than most of our music because usually [Jim Morrison] or I would come into the studio with the whole idea of a song ready to go. But by the sessions for the whole 'L.A. Woman' album, we had our own studio, so we weren't paying by the hour and we just jammed. The song came together. That was very different for us and very cool.\" There's a section that slows to a stagger and Morrison moans \"Mr. Mojo Risin' \" (yes, it's an anagram for \"Jim Morrison\") and, according to the Doors mythos, the singer belted out his lines in the studio's bathroom for acoustic effect.
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