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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 .
All songs are performed by The Doors and written by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore, except where noted. All spoken tracks are poetry read by Johnny Depp and written by Jim Morrison, except where noted. "Poem: Cinema" – 0:25 "Poem: The Spirit of Music" – 0:22 "Moonlight Drive" (Jim Morrison) – 3:01
Film directors Quentin Tarantino, [2] Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and William Friedkin had all flirted with making a Doors biopic over the years. [3] In 1985, Columbia Pictures acquired the rights from the Doors and the Morrison estate to make a film. Producer Sasha Harari wanted filmmaker Oliver Stone to write the screenplay but never ...
In the book A to X of Alternative Music, "Touch Me" was described as a "solid gold soul classic". [1] Writing for AllMusic, critic Jason Elias wrote that the song has "the style of pop and pure lounge." [13] Some critics suggested the track blends pop [14] with psychedelic rock; a combination which was unique at the time. [9]
Doors drummer John Densmore later explained the story of the line: After we recorded the song, he wrote "Mr. Mojo Rising" on a board and said, "Look at this." He moves the letters around and it was an anagram for his name. I knew that mojo was a sexual term from the blues, and that gave me the idea to go slow and dark with the tempo.
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 ...
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R-Evolution is a 2013 music documentary featuring 19 live performances, TV performances and music videos by American rock band the Doors.The compilation features TV performances not previously released as well as original music videos from the 1960s, the 1980s and the 1990s.