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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Favoriting July 16, 2020: Testify! - Opening the Doors, with their own sounds a selection of covers.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Jose Feliciano  Light My Fire   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1968  45  0:01:10 (Pop-up)
Jackie Wilson  Light My Fire   Favoriting Do Your Thing  Brunswick  1968  LP  0:04:43 (Pop-up)
Rhetta Hughes  Light My Fire   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Tetragrammaton  1968  45  0:07:33 (Pop-up)
Shirley Bassey  Light My Fire   Favoriting Something  United Artists  1970  LP  0:10:24 (Pop-up)
 
The Doors  Soul Kitchen   Favoriting The Doors  Elektra  1967  LP  0:20:45 (Pop-up)
The Doors  20th Century Fox   Favoriting The Doors  Elektra  1967  LP  0:24:07 (Pop-up)
The Doors  I Looked At You   Favoriting The Doors  Elektra  1967  LP  0:26:36 (Pop-up)
The Doors  Love Me Two Time   Favoriting Strange Days  Elektra  1967  LP  0:28:52 (Pop-up)
The Doors  Moonlight Drive   Favoriting Strange Days  Elektra  1967  LP  0:32:05 (Pop-up)
The Doors  When the Music's Over   Favoriting Strange Days  Elektra  1967  LP  0:35:03 (Pop-up)
            0:44:19 (Pop-up)
The Doors  Love Street   Favoriting Waiting For the Sun  Elektra  1968  LP  0:51:16 (Pop-up)
The Doors  Wintertime Love   Favoriting Waiting For the Sun  Elektra  1968  LP  0:53:59 (Pop-up)
The Doors  We Could Be So Good Together   Favoriting Waiting For The Sun  Elektra  1968  LP  0:55:48 (Pop-up)
The Doors  Tell All the People   Favoriting The Soft Parade  Elektra  1969  LP  0:58:08 (Pop-up)
The Doors  Wishful Sinful   Favoriting The Soft Parade  Elektra  1969  LP  1:01:24 (Pop-up)
The Doors  The Soft Parade   Favoriting The Soft Parade  Elektra  1969  LP  1:04:19 (Pop-up)
The Doors  Waiting For the Sun   Favoriting Morrison Hotel  Elektra  1970  LP  1:12:56 (Pop-up)
The Doors  Blue Sunday   Favoriting Morrison Hotel  Elektra  1970  LP  1:16:46 (Pop-up)
The Doors  The Spy   Favoriting Morrison Hotel  Elektra  1970  LP  1:18:55 (Pop-up)
The Doors  The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)   Favoriting LA Woman  Elektra  1971  LP  1:23:03 (Pop-up)
The Doors  LA Woman   Favoriting LA Woman  Elektra  1971  LP  1:27:16 (Pop-up)
 
Freddy Cannon  20th Century Fox   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Warner Brothers  1967  45  1:40:08 (Pop-up)
The Lime  Soul Kitchen   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Westwood  1967  45  1:42:25 (Pop-up)
Mike Curb and the Waterfall  Break On Through   Favoriting The Doors Songbook  Forward  1969  LP  1:46:16 (Pop-up)
Julie Budd  People Are Strange   Favoriting Child of Plenty  MGM  1968  LP  1:48:19 (Pop-up)
Merry Clayton  Tell All the People   Favoriting Gimme Shelter  Ode  1970  LP  1:50:25 (Pop-up)
The Lettermen  Hello I Love You   Favoriting Put Your Head On My Shoulder  Capitol  1968  LP  1:53:16 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:59:22 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Doug Schulkind:

Bestify!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Doug!
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Julie:

Hey guys!
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still b/p:

I do like this. I do.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Julie!
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Funky16Corners:

SBP!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

doors on FMU is always particularly delicious - gotta hang see where this goes.
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doctorjazz:

Hi all!
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Funky16Corners:

Rev! Doc!
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Julie:

there is no denying the doors influence on goth
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Funky16Corners:

This is true.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Written by Robbie not Jim funnily enuff.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Yvang:

Two of a kind!
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Funky16Corners:

Robbie wrote a bunch of their best songs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Yvang!
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Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Wisconsin!
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WR:

Lunch break, dipping into the stream. Hi all.
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Yvang:

Hi Funky16th of July!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey WR!
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Funky16Corners:

Jeff!
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Candy-O'67:

Hey, Funky! Tuning in while working today! :)
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dutchtheo:

Hello Larry and all, let's see how much doors i can handle.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...on Iggy, Alice, Bowie - I'd venture Ozzy! Though I've never heard it...in case they mattered to anyone...
Love, Bunnymen, Cope, Mazzy on & on...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Theo! Candy-O!
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Erica:

I'm tuning in.
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Erica:

I had to take care of some things before chatting.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Erica!
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Erica:

The Doors in my opinion were more dark psychedelic rock than jazz or pop.
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coelacanth∅:

hey Larry and all
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Erica:

Not counting their later stuff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:21pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey C!
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Little Danny:

Hey Larry 'n' all
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Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I don't count ANY of that later, Morrison-less stuff
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

& who influenced them? Jazz, Zombies, Stones, Them...
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Danny!
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Funky16Corners:

Zombies, Coltrane, Stones, Brecht-Weill, Sinatra and on and on
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Nice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
Funky16Corners:

Robbie Krieger was an acoustic guitarist until shortly before the band came together
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
CHUCK ROAST:

Saw them in "67 at a dance. Annapolis national guard armory.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
Little Danny:

I'm one of the few music people I know who doesn't have a strong opinion on the Doors. I like them, and I like some of their songs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Chuck! Really?! What was it like?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Jim opened Crooning to my mind - & as a gittardiddler who doesn't use a pick Kreiger is a brother...
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Yvang:

Their first LP sounds so good!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
Funky16Corners:

@Danny - I had a regular listener e-mail me this morning saying that were going to have to recuse themselves fro this episode because of their feelings about the band. I knew that was going to happen
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Funky16Corners:

@Yvang - That first LP is still as exciting as hell. Just brilliantly written, performed. produced all the way around.
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coelacanth∅:

i have strong opinions about the doors but i don't love or hate the band in general.
i really love a lot of it and pretty much hate some of it.
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Little Danny:

Haha, I believe it, Larry. They're very divisive, it seems.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I also ended up in SoCal for a while - so there's that...
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CHUCK ROAST:

Dress code. Girls in skirts or dresses, guys, jackets and ties.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:28pm
Funky16Corners:

@Danny - I think a lot of is is generational. Whether you heard them the first time, were exposed to the wave following No One Here Gets Out Alive, saw The Doors movie or even later. There are a wide variety of reactions to Morrison and to Doors fandom as well
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Yvang:

I believe the Doors were badly hurt by the Oliver Stone's biopic
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah, I can't stand it
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Yvang:

which I found really bad
  3:29pm
Leslie:

I once had all the Doors albums, with the exception of the Lizard King, bur due to life circumstances, had to sell them. All were original, and one of my deepest regrets
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coelacanth∅:

the whole firat album is good and some of it straight up brilliant.
same with their last album. (la woman)
everything in-between is patchy.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Leslie!
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Little Danny:

@Larry: most definitely. I shoulda added that most people born after 1990 or so probably don't have much of an opinion
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coelacanth∅:

...actually strange days is all good; just a little weaker than the first.
horse latitudes is one of my favorite songs.
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CHUCK ROAST:

Movie not so good, Kilmer brilliant.
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Funky16Corners:

@Danny - They were pushed back into pop culture so many times
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Apocalypse Now really resurrected them with the populace is how I remember it. Which was fitting enuff I think... I happened to be someone who listened to Albums.
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Funky16Corners:

I think that people started to feel (righteously) that they were being force fed the legend
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Classic Rawk format. Corporate Radio playlists.
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Funky16Corners:

Yes, but even then they were only getting the most obvious stuff
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Little Danny:

I heard (and really dug) "The End" long before I saw Apocalypse Now. But the movie instantly and indelibly shaped my experience of that song. It all worked out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
Funky16Corners:

Apocalypse Now is till one of my fave movies of the 70s, and Coppola really made good use of the song
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still b/p:

Stone's attempts to capture head trips felt pretty conventional and unaffecting. And like many biopics, it became a cycle of main figure behaving badly, then a little more stuff, then main figure behaving worse...on and on. Maybe not inaccurate, but not too interesting.
  3:34pm
Leslie:

The Door's first album was my 2nd lp, bought for me by my dad. I still love the Doors, the movie sucked as did Kilmer. I used one of their songs for an English paper in 9th grade, about desolation.
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Funky16Corners:

I saw it twice in the theater when it first came out
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Little Danny:

"Indian Summer" I think remains my single favorite Doors song.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Well Corporate Radio - exactly - the obvious stuff. A taste killer & a culture divider & ghetto-izer.
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coelacanth∅:

i never paid much attention to "the legend". and never watched apocalypse now or any other movie with the doors in it.
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Erica:

Never had a Doors lp but I've seen one at a yard sale. Didn't buy it though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Funky16Corners:

I sued to love Oliver Stone. I presently regard him as a jackass.
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Little Danny:

Don't mean to jump all over your show with my dumb opinions, Larry. I'm really digging everything you've played thusfar!
  3:36pm
Leslie:

I saw it in an airplane going over the Atlantic on the way to Spain (honeymoon).
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Funky16Corners:

Danny, go right ahead! I didn't perceive it as jumping at all!
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Funky16Corners:

@Leslie - Which movie?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Rawk Stars are such singular & charismatic Personas that Drama is gonna be 2nd best.
Give me a good Documentary & hope for the best. I like 'When You're Strange' well enough.
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Leslie:

The one with Kilmer - never watched Apocalypse.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
Funky16Corners:

I think - now that Manzarek is gone - someone should mount an attempt on a Morrison doc. It could use some reflection and sober (no pun intended) commentary. None of that shaman shit.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

But for the direct experience of the doors Live - which is something the studio work is not - it's 'The Doors Are Open'.
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Sem:

Glad I got here before the music was over.
Hiya, Larry the G, and all.
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Funky16Corners:

@Leslie - I would suggest - if you ever do watch Apocalypse Now - you avoid the "director's cut", which fouls up a perfectly wonderful movie.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Sem!
  3:42pm
Leslie:

I don't know, or care about shaman crap, as a female young teen, he was sexy and I loved the music.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Compare it in most of these ways to what The Who mean to different people.
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Funky16Corners:

@Leslie - That's really the bottom line. He was a great performer, and visual icon
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I think you have to credit the Writing & Singing as well - & that's just Jim.
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WR:

I have no idea about rest of world perception about Morrison & the Doors. Many in my peer group, including me loved the first 3 albums. Some mixed reception on Soft Parade and not sure what to think about Morrison Hotel. In late fall of '70 several of my friends were going to see them. I, the only one who had not seen them before, showed up and didn't have a ticket and no money, so I declined to take a loan and see if I could get a ticket at the door. I opted instead to wait at their apartment watching a huge jack 'o lantern melt. Though it turned out to be one of the last shows with Morrison, I sorta think it was best to not see only the end.
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Brian in UK:

Hello Larry,
Hello father, yes son, I want to tickle you. Tee Hee.
Waiting for the Sun was a great demo album.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Patti Smith - another effected by Jim.
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dutchtheo:

hey Brian, happy birthday!
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coelacanth∅:

WR that''s kind of a bummer! i've had a few similar experiences.
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Erica:

The End was also used in the Simpsons. Break on Through (To the Other Side) is also overplayed Larry.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Remember their 1st was out before there was even a Sgt. Pepper.
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Brian in UK:

The Doors, Elektra's first No.1.

dutchtheo, man, you are on the ball. Raising a glass of eau de vie to you, my friend.
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coelacanth∅:

to be honest the best part of light my fire is the instrumental 2nd 1/2. i always thought that but grew to still love that part of the song, and barely tolerate the verses.
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dutchtheo:

cheers, i have a cup of tea,... for now
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Brian in UK:

I am the lizard king
I eat at burger king.
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coelacanth∅:

Brian, more like waiting for the sun was a great 2/3 of a demo album!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Brian!
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Funky16Corners:

@Rev - I remember Patti Smith writing about Morrison in Creem
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Funky16Corners:

@Erica - Another one I didn't play!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
coelacanth∅:

i'm so glad i don't watch all this crap so the end i still regard very highly.
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Brian in UK:

coel, yes so where is my copy? Lost in a move.

Larry, this is bold for FMU. FREEFORM FOREVER.
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Funky16Corners:

Brian - I am known for my boldness (and little else)!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I'd like to see Nick Cave admit the doors - but with Elvis & Iggy it's a small world. Joy Division & the Bunnymen like to say they were about Iggy & Bowie & recognized themselves in the doors after the fact. Don't quite buy it. I'd argue the doors are so fundamental & early it's hard to image even Mark E. Smith without them - but what if (not) is always only an exercise...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
coelacanth∅:

my waiting for the sun is probably still in near-mint condition.
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Funky16Corners:

@Rev - Ian McCulloch is like the guy on Maury Povich denying the paternity of a kid that looks like a miniature version of himself
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Little Danny:

RRNov63: Fascinating. I'd never thought of Mark E. Smith in the context of the Doors but I know what you're sayin'.
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Brian in UK:

Pop music has many faces.
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coelacanth∅:

Thank you for not playing hello i love you. (i'm faithful) and i hope you play my favorite song from this album, spanish caravan.
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Hey there! I LOVE THE DOORS.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Robbie song here & it shows.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Photocopy!
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coelacanth∅:

the soft parade. i'll be back.
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Funky16Corners:

@Rev - I think Robbie's legacy is clouded because the first three albums are all shared songwriting credit to the whole band
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Little Danny:

"MacArthur Park" vibes
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Funky16Corners:

@C - No Spanish Caravan today (but I'll def play it in the future). Def no Hello I Love You...
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doctorjazz:

This stuff definitely sounds better to me now than it did at the time (Soft Parade was especially when I had enough). But fun to hear now...
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Dunno about Nick Cave & the Doors - except didn't they (Boys Next Door or an earlier band w/Cave & Harvey) do a cover version of Five To One?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Was the doors' improv LSD ethos to share credits.
Can't be emphasized enuff that Live there were whole other things happening.
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Funky16Corners:

@Doc - I'm convinced I took a pass on The Soft Parade when I was a teen because it has "soft" in the title.
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Funky16Corners:

@Rev - I think the shared credit was more of a democratic impulse
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Funky16Corners:

@Danny - Which one is like MacArthur Park?
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Funky16Corners:

Maaaan, I can't tell you how many times drunken, teenage Larry did a dramatic reading of that opening....hooooboy
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Brian in UK:

It is amazing how many albums groups made in the Sixties in such a short time compared to now. Ofcourse touring did not make money then that it does now. tour your latest record or one you made fifteen years ago.

Is this Elmer Gantry?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:06pm
Funky16Corners:

There are so many groups that were cranking out two or three amazing albums a year back then
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:07pm
Little Danny:

"Tell All the People." I thought I heard a bit of "MacArthur Park" in it. (Or possibly some other '60s pop hit.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Probably wading in the same musical stream!
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

God Bless pre-1970s limited studio technology - in spite of studio experiments, things were done on time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, no Fleetwood Mac and a mountain of cocaine nesting in the studio for a year
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

After Sgt. Pepper everyone had to take a shot @ the Big Studio Statement. Their mates Arthur Lee & Love picked up in everyone else's example & got it about perfect on 'Forever Changes' - which I think of as a sibling to 'Soft Parade' ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:10pm
Funky16Corners:

I don't think anybody (Beatles included) got it better than Forever Changes
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Brian in UK:

Here comes the curmudgeon, I can still play all Love, Elektra albums without sounding dated. Either way, long live Jac Holtzman, a huge influence on my listening habits back then.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Remember the Big Venues & Arena Tours were *completely new* to Rawk then! Morrison & the doors adapted their cinematic club intimacy best they could...
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Brian in UK:

Larry, ref Forever Changes, anything that still sounds contemporary after fifty years is tops and hardly any electricity. Just have to hear the start of Alone Again Or to be transported.
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Funky16Corners:

I have to say, a lot of the posthumously released live stuff holds up pretty well. Morrison was an entertainer, even when he was disintegrating.
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Funky16Corners:

@Brian - Forever Changes is by far my favorite album of all time. And that hasn't changed in years.
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Brian in UK:

Love you Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

It used to confuse the hell out of me that this song wasn't on the album of the same name
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Funky16Corners:

Love you back Brian!
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coelacanth∅:

Larry @4.00 i know that you plan your programs out meticulously or i would've waited to mention spanish caravan! i think suggesting songs to a show host unsolicited is like implying they can't handle it themselves.
...maybe i'll catch it when you do play it some day
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

But I still find it disingenuous everyone embraces Love - & will not even consider their siblings the doors.
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Funky16Corners:

@C - No worries whatsoever! I don't mind suggestions at all.
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Funky16Corners:

@Rev- Yeah, I feel the same way about Doors vs Velvets
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

If I should start rating The Doors' albums, Morrison Hotel would easily make it to the upper half of the list. This song (Waiting For the Sun) was very cathartic for me as an 8-year old kid, even if I had very little idea about the lyrics (English not being my first language, young age and all)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
Funky16Corners:

Fortunately John Cale had better things to do than spend the rest of his life in documentaries pushing for Lou Reed's sainthood.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Ha!
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Funky16Corners:

@Photocopy - I agree. I think that the Doors did something a lot of bands were incapable of: they matured
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Well, John Cale had a better solo career than Lou Reed in my opinion
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coelacanth∅:

yup. a lot of prejudice. though i think forever changes floats above any doors album, the doors put out more great songs through the course of their career, in my opinion.
(do i have to say "in my opinion" every time i'm stating something that's obviously an opinion?!)
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Funky16Corners:

I have to say, for all my ragging on Ray Manzarek, I used to find him amusing. It got grating after a while. Still utmost respect for his playing.
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Erica:

I thought the Doors music was always mature from the start Larry
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The doors' debut & 'Forever Changes' are both in my Top20 Albums Ever.
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Erica:

I thought the Doors music was always mature from the start Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I do too, but they aged well, like a fine wine
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coelacanth∅:

despite whatever else Ray was always a superb musician -in every sense. and not a bad singer.
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Yvang:

Even though the fine wine did some damage to Jim
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...& 20 albums is like - nothing.
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Eric rea:

Oops double post.
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah, if you want my Top 20 you'd better specify a genre and a time period, and then an hour for me to think
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coelacanth∅:

my favorite doors album. (speaking of maturing)
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Also I am completely biased, as Morrison Hotel is the first Doors album I heard. It did the job for me - even the Oliver Stone movie making Doors fans of my moronic class"mates" could not drive me away from the music - I actually heard the 2., 3. & 4. album only then, in my early teens.
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Funky16Corners:

An aside, the Doors have some pretty spectacular album covers. That Henry Diltz picture on Morrison Hotel is classic
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Funky16Corners:

The quote in my yearbook! "No eternal reward will forgive us for wasting the dawn"!
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coelacanth∅:

i once applied for a job at the local rhino record store. the application said to name my top 10 favorite albums. i wrote down 20, which was very difficult.
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Funky16Corners:

Were they weeding out bad taste?
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coelacanth∅:

i don't know but i'm not surprised i didn't get the job, and glad i didn't!
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Brian in UK:

@coel, favourite album is a cinch, relatively, they never ask your favourite colour.
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Sem:

Natal Day greetings and best wishes, Squire.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Good point on visuals.
I mean - the actual Music of the psychedelic experience - there was no way the doors could not have been included for me.
For 20 Albums - @ this stage I feel like the Beatles Remasters box is one album...but - digress...
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Funky16Corners:

Happy Birthday Brian!
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coelacanth∅:

pick one favorite album?! !!!
-i'd have to just lie!
(and i don't have a favourite color either)
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Sem:

People ask my favourite colour, I always say "plaid."
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Funky16Corners:

Paisley!
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Funky16Corners:

Houndstooth check!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Joyeux Cancerian Solar Return Brian !
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Brian in UK:

Candy pink does it for me. A pink you could eat. Oh yeah.

Thanks Larry.
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Favorite three for me is a piece of piss: Morrison Hotel, The Doors & Strange Days.
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coelacanth∅:

i still have the original issue of la woman, with the cellophane window. (actually it left my possession, only to return when my brother died)
it's not in great shape though.
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Brian in UK:

Sem, I am honoured by your greeting.
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Erica:

Happy birthday Brian!
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coelacanth∅:

oh Happy Birthday Brian!
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Brian in UK:

I am in awe of your friendship. FMU rules.
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Funky16Corners:

The way they explode out of this part of the song blows my mind
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

Happy Birthday Brian - I love WFMU, it is the second time today I get to say Happy Birthday!
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coelacanth∅:

our band played this song. we were a punk band primarily but the bass player wanted to play the doors and yes, and we did.
i was the only one that knew the lyrics but i had trouble drumming and singing this song simultaneously.
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Funky16Corners:

I used to drum and sing this one!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Jim was into Canned Heat. He dug Blue Cheer...
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coelacanth∅:

nice! i had a few albums i played along to -la woman being one. i never practiced otherwise.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Its funny because now the doors are alcohol music to me.
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Brian in UK:

Larry, great choice tonight, some people get a bit snooty about some musics. What the heck.
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Brian in UK:

Paul Rothchild has to take much credit for the Doors sound.
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coelacanth∅:

sorry i had to leave for soft parade before Larry! i just can't stand most of it...though you did play one of the 2 songs i like from it. (wishful sinful; the other one, wild child)
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Funky16Corners:

@Brian - I agree, Rothchild has a lot to do with shaping their sound
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Funky16Corners:

@C - I dig, def not everyone's cup of tea, but that's OK
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Funky16Corners:

This is a garage band from Ohio
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Funky16Corners:

And you can tell they learned the lyrics (incorrectly) from the record
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coelacanth∅:

...there is that introduction to (the incohesive amalgam of scraps of ideas that became) the title track. when that came on when i had friends over i pushed it beyond the perpetually pushing it with my mother, who was always stewing in the other end of the apartment, and turned it up as loud as my system would go "YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!"
-and everyone freaked for a minute!
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Erica:

Breakonthroughtotheotherside.
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Funky16Corners:

I'd love to know where Morrison got that.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Cigarette / Forget in fact lifted from Van & Them's 'You Just Can't Win'.
Soul Kitchen just makes explicit to me the doors presented this whole aspect of Psychedelia that was not flowers. The THC more than the CBD as it were.
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

back when The Simpsons were still good, Krusty the Clown did a kick-ass "Break On Through"
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Funky16Corners:

@Rev - They were the darkest band on their scene
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Funky16Corners:

@Photocopy - There was a hilarious parody of Break On Through I used to hear on the radio but I couldn't find it
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still b/p:

Julie sounds like Mama Cass in occasional lines but not in others.
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Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

one just never really knows what one might find on WFMU. Howdy!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

& People Are Strange even more so. It brings Btecht all the way to the kiddies - or it did for me. I mean - that's still a feat.
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Doug Schulkind:

Coming up in a couple of hours, Scott McDowell and The Long Rally will be filling in for Explorers Room, here on the Drummer Stream!

MEET UP HERE: wfmu.org...
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Granny!
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Brian in UK:

The Doors go Weill/Brecht.
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Sem:

Oh, hell yes. Merry. Been too long.

Thanks, Larry, for the shows you do. See you and all next time, on the other side.
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Funky16Corners:

@SBP - That Julie Budd album is pretty interesting considering where her career took her later on
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Funky16Corners:

My pleasure, Sem!
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Leslie:

While I enjoy all the musical knowledge on here, IMHO, the Doors are awesome and for someone who discovered them at 11/12, still loved. nuff said.
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Leslie:

Oh and Larry, GREAT show!
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Brian in UK:

Thanks Larry for keeping it lively. Stay safe everyone.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Leslie, Brian!
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Jeff Ash:

Thanks, Larry! Have a great weekend!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

If nothing else today - Letterman do doors ! : D
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dutchtheo:

Thanks Larry!
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coelacanth∅:

that Merry Clayton album gets some regular play over here
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Larry! take care y'all
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks all! Have a great weekend!
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Yvang:

Thanks! Magic Show!
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Photocopy Cha Cha 2000:

thanks larry, stay alive people!
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Erica:

Great Doors show. Got me into the Doors more than I already was. Until next week!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Yvang! Photocopy! Erica!
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