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"People Are Strange" is a song by the American rock band the Doors. It appears on the band's second studio album, Strange Days , released in September 1967. The song was written by the Doors' vocalist Jim Morrison and guitarist Robby Krieger , although all of the band are credited on the sleeve notes.
The chorus from the album's single "People Are Strange" inspired the name of the 2009 documentary of the Doors, When You're Strange. [ 23 ] Although session musician Larry Knechtel had occasionally contributed bass on the band's debut album, [ 52 ] Strange Days was the first Doors album recorded with a studio musician, playing bass on the ...
The film featured the four group members playing the song on a darkened set with alternating views and close-ups of the performers while Morrison lip-synched the lyrics. Morrison and the Doors continued to make short music films, including "The Unknown Soldier", [58] "Strange Days" [59] and "People Are Strange".
Both Krieger and Densmore believe that the Doors’ debut album from 1967 and their fast, loose last record with Jim Morrison, 1971’s “L.A. Woman,” were their band’s finest recordings.
Retrospective reviews to the album have been equally favourable. In 2007, on the occasion of the release of the 40th anniversary edition, Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine, argued that "while The Doors had more frequent, obvious peaks, the quirky Strange Days is a more ambitious, unified work. There are fewer filler tracks and each song carries ...
The Doors Special Edition. Released: November 30, 2013; Label: Eagle Vision; Format: DVD (Box set of 2002's The Doors Soundstage Performances, 2004's The Doors Live In Europe 1968, and 2012's Live at The Bowl ‘68) — 2014 Feast of Friends. Released: November 4, 2014; Label: Eagle Vision; Format: DVD, Blu-ray - 2018 Live at the Isle of Wight ...
People Are Strange; Queen of the Highway; Riders on the Storm; Roadhouse Blues; Rock Is Dead (The Doors song) Runnin' Blue; The Soft Parade (song) Soul Kitchen (song) Spanish Caravan; The Spy (The Doors song) Strange Days (Doors song) Summer's Almost Gone; Take It as It Comes (The Doors song) Tell All the People; Tightrope Ride; Touch Me (The ...
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.