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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]
Morrison Hotel is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Doors, released on February 9, 1970, by Elektra Records.After the use of brass and string arrangements recommended by producer Paul A. Rothchild on their previous album, The Soft Parade (1969), the Doors returned to their blues rock style and this album was largely seen as a return to form for the band.
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 lyrics differed from the original; for instance, "I should have made you" instead of "Ashen lady". [30] The track was released as a promotional single, with Black Sabbath's "Children of the Grave" on the B-side. [28] The song was a regular feature of Quo's live setlist throughout the 1970s, its performance coming towards the end of the show.
For the first time on a Doors album, all the songs on The Soft Parade had individual songwriter credits. [3] Previously, all songs had been credited to the entire group. This change was instigated by Jim Morrison , who did not want to be held responsible for the lyrics of "Tell All the People", which includes a line encouraging listeners to ...
The Doors has since been ranked by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. In 1993, New Musical Express writers cited The Doors the 25th greatest album of all time, [92] while in 1998, it was named the 70th in a "Music of the Millennium" poll conducted in the UK by HMV Group, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. [93]
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An American Prayer is the ninth and final studio album by the American rock band the Doors.Following the death of Jim Morrison and the band's breakup, the surviving members of the Doors reconvened to set several of Morrison's spoken word recordings to music. [6]