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"Moonlight Drive" is a song by American rock band the Doors, released in 1967 on their second album Strange Days. It was edited to a 2:16 length for the 45 rpm single B-side of " Love Me Two Times ". Though a conventional blues arrangement, the track's defining feature was its slightly off-beat rhythm, and Robby Krieger 's "bottleneck" or slide ...
The Doors has been numerously cited as the group's finest record. [2] [75] [95] In 2000, the album was voted number 46 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. [96] The Doors was ranked No. 42 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [97] When the list was revised in 2020, the album was repositioned at No. 86. [98]
A conventional blues arrangement, "Moonlight Drive" features a defining slightly off-beat rhythm and Krieger's bottleneck guitar, which create an eerie sound. [ 17 ] The LP's first single, " People Are Strange ", was composed in early 1967 after Krieger, drummer John Densmore , and a depressed Morrison had walked to the top of Laurel Canyon . [ 5 ]
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 ...
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 407.
The album was released from the Bright Midnight Archives collection which contains a number of previously unreleased live concerts by the Doors. [11] PopMatters music critic Steve Horowitz observed in his review of Live at the Matrix 1967, entitled "Money...That's What I Want," [12] that the Rhino CD was not sourced from Peter Abram's master ...
The concert was recorded on July 5, 1968, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Doors' hometown. A VHS video of the concert was also released, containing 14 songs. The full version of the concert, entitled Live at the Bowl '68 , was released in October 2012 on CD, LP and Blu-ray Disc.
The first track from Full Circle the Doors have reissued was "The Mosquito", released in 2000 as "No Me Moleste Mosquito" on the double-disc version of The Best of The Doors. On September 27, 2011, the Doors finally gave Full Circle, along with Other Voices, its first official reissue through digital download. It was confirmed that the original ...