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The Doors: Original Soundtrack Recording is the soundtrack to Oliver Stone's 1991 film The Doors. It contains several studio recordings by the Doors , as well as the Velvet Underground 's " Heroin " and the introduction to Carl Orff 's Carmina Burana .
The lyrics also reference Redding's song "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay."[7] Music critic Bart Testa found it ironic that this Doors song was extolling "The Dock of the Bay", which for Redding was a place of defeat and "where he wasted time having found the struggle for life useless", when earlier Doors songs such as "The End" and "When the Music's Over" call vehemently for revolution. [7]
The Doors are soon invited to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show, only to be told by one of the producers that they must change the lyric "girl we couldn't get much higher" in the song "Light My Fire", due to a reference to drugs. Despite this, Morrison performs the original lyric during the live broadcast and the band is not allowed to perform on ...
It should only contain pages that are The Doors songs or lists of The Doors songs, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about The Doors songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
In 2011, the Doors received a Grammy Award in Best Long Form Music Video for the film When You're Strange, directed by Tom DiCillo. [180] In 2012, Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included three of their studio albums; the self-titled album at number 42, L.A. Woman at number 362, and Strange Days at number ...
The use of the Doors song "The End", from their debut album, in the popular Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now in 1979 and the release of the first compilation album in seven years, Greatest Hits, released in the fall of 1980, created a resurgence in the Doors. Due to those two events, an entirely new audience, too young to have known of the band ...
The song's promotional film received enthusiastic comments at the Fillmore East, and has been publicized ever since as one of the first music videos in rock history. [3] When playing the track in live concerts, the Doors usually approached a cinematic performance, with Morrison pretending to be shot by Robby Krieger onstage, illustrating the ...
Despite the fact that "Waiting for the Sun" was not released as a single or how it did not surpass Morrison Hotel's much more popular songs "Peace Frog" and "Roadhouse Blues" in significance, "Waiting for the Sun" is considered to be one of the Doors' best songs of all time for its haunting composition and lyrics, with it gaining mostly positive reviews from critics.