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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 ceremony was held on Sunday, April 29 at the Asbury Hotel hosted by Shelli Sonstein, two-time Gracie Award winner, co-host of the Jim Kerr Rock and Roll Morning Show on Q104.3 and APMFF Board member. The film Break on Thru: Celebration of Ray Manzarek and The Doors, won the best length feature at the festival. [187]
The Doors: A Tribute to Jim Morrison (1981) The Doors: Dance on Fire (1985) The Soft Parade, a Retrospective (1991) The Doors: No One Here Gets Out Alive (2001) Final 24: Jim Morrison (2007), The Biography Channel [234] When You're Strange (2009), Won the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Video in 2011. Rock Poet: Jim Morrison (2010) [235]
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 FAQ author Richie Weidman declared "Hyacinth House" as "one of the strangest Doors' songs ever recorded". [5] Critic Ryan Leas of Stereogum, who ranked L.A. Woman the second best Doors album, praised "Hyacinth House" as "secretly one of the Doors' finest songs" and that it "still fits into the universe of L.A. Woman". [13]
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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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.