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Morrison's lyrics draws upon themes of depression, liberation, and sexuality, referring to his imprisonments during live performances. [9] The title makes reference to Richard Fariña's book Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, [10] [11] and was influenced by the lyrics of Furry Lewis's 1928 song, "I Will Turn Your Money Green": "I been down so long/It seem like up to me."
[‡ 1] Doors was released on August 10, 2022. [31] A major update revamping the hotel was released on January 29, 2023. [‡ 2] [32] A nod to Rooms was added as part of said update, featuring a revamped version of the game as a secret level. [33] On August 26, 2023, modifiers were added, allowing the player to change their game after beating it.
The cover for the album is of Jim Morrison as portrayed by Val Kilmer. It is a photo of Kilmer looking straight in the camera's lens.His face is in black and white and his hair has the color of burning flames, it is the same effect created on the movie's posters and advertising material.
"The End" has been characterized as a precursor of the gothic rock genre. In a live review published in The Williams Record in October 1967, critic John Stickney described the Doors' music as "gothic rock", which was one of the first uses of the term in print. [22] In 2017, Pitchfork included it on their list of "The Story of Goth in 33 Songs ...
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Morrison asserted that the song's lyrics are not political. [2] Part of the song ("Your ballroom days are over, baby/ Night is drawing near/ Shadows of the evening/ crawl across the years"), was seemingly lifted from the 19th-century hymnal and bedtime rhyme "Now the Day Is Over" ("Now the day is over/ Night is drawing nigh/ Shadows of the evening/ Steal across the sky") by Morrison. [10]
Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine declared "Soul Kitchen" as a "classic Doors song". [9] According to rock critic Greil Marcus, "Soul Kitchen" is the Doors' version of "Gloria" by Van Morrison, a song the Doors often covered in their early days. Marcus writes, "It was a staircase—not, as with 'Gloria' in imagery, but in the cadence the two ...
The collection was released in several formats: a vinyl box set containing 20 7-inch singles in packaging replicating the original singles; a double CD version containing four bonus mono radio tracks; and a three-disc deluxe edition containing the double CD version plus a bonus Blu-ray disc containing the quadraphonic mix of the 1973 album The ...