August 2011
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Sky Cries Mary: “Lay Down Your Head”...
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The Doors (20)
The Caretaker (15)
Slow Club (11)
Fruit Bats (11)
Wire (10)
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Marv Johnson: “Come To Me” (Tamla 101,...
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Aerosmith: “Dream On” (Aerosmith,...
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Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell:...
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Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton:...
lifesgrandparade asked: Hey, thanks for the mention. How much of an impact do you think Oliver Stone's movie had on our modern conception of Jim Morrison?
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The Doors: “Waiting For The Sun” (Morrison Hotel, 1970)
Let’s talk about The Doors.
According to Patti Smith (in Just Kids):
I had a strange reaction watching Jim Morrison. Everyone around me seemed transfixed, but I observed his every move in a state of cold hyperawareness. I remember this feeling much more clearly than the concert. I felt,...
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More on The Doors
For better or worse, what rock was meant to be.
grand cabaret of grotesques - breathtaking at best - came off rails..
overrated/underrated in equal measure
Bad poetry and arty overreach = good trashy melodrama (occasionally).
To some degree, each of these responses describes my own feelings about The Doors.
It makes me wonder at one point I began to think critically about...
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Playing Bass For The Doors
Dreadfully dull; ponderous; get a bass guitar; lose the singer. [click to visit the Tumblr of the commenter]
My first-ever opinion of the Doors was a negative one. We were in my family’s 1984 Chevrolet Caprice Classic station wagon, driving the central Connecticut Valley, most likely on the way to New Haven from my hometown of Tolland. I was maybe six? My parents had the oldies station...
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Cut Off Your Hands (37)
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aktion (11)
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The Doors: “Waiting For The Sun”...
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In ten words or fewer, please reply with your...
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Giddy Motors: “Sassy” (Make It Pop!,...
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Tod Dockstader (25)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius (22)
Disco Inferno (15)
XTC (15)
Modest Mouse (15)
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Derek & The Dominos: “Layla”...
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XTC: “Greenman” (Apple Venus, Vol. 1,...
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The Persuaders: “Thin Line Between Love And...
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Peppermint Harris: “I Got Loaded”...
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The Doobie Brothers: “I Cheat The...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-7) →
Pulp (63)
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Jens Lekman (39)
Fred Buscaglione (25)
Modest Mouse (19)
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The Edgar Winter Group: “Frankenstein”...
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Cold Cassettes
Under my desk, leaning against the modesty panel, is a big rack of cassettes. It’s made a few multi-state moves with me now. I keep telling myself I’ll throw it away and not lug it to the next place, but I never do.
Most of these cassettes are collections that I taped off the radio when I was a teenager. I made the first several when I was 14, just beginning to listen to the local...
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Bargain-Hunting At An Old Friend's Funeral
Yesterday, I went to Borders. I bought books and a few CDs and maps, all of which were marked well down from their usual sale price.
There are two Borders locations within a ten-minute drive from my house. I live in Southeast Michigan, which is the bookstore chain’s home turf. The original location is on Liberty Street in Ann Arbor. I bought my Metro Detroit road atlas there on my first...
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Tangerine Dream: “Genesis” (Electronic...
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Fred Buscaglione: “Juke Box” (A...
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Jens Lekman: “Maple Leaves” (Rocky...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31) →
Philip Selway (26)
Los Zafiros (22)
Dave King Trucking Company (18)
Dog Faced Hermans (15)
Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán (14)
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The Mamas And The Papas: “California...