Is it just me, or does most new music suck ass?

I actually understood what feenix was talking about. uh....does that make me weird?

It still exists in it's modern day version. Much more lucrative now.



NNJ. I don't know how 2 peoples information on the Doors international(Europe/america) stardom can be so different. I don't know how you drew that conclusion about them but they sold out venues everywhere. I would be curious what american band you would compare them to, say, circa 1968. I realize that the ultra lame 'rolling stone ' magazine ran a story on Jim in '81('he's hot he's sexy he's dead' or something on the cover) and a video came out and the 'noone here gets out alive' bullshit book(written by a doors errand boy who was 15 or so when Jim died)and the doors popularity soared in the 80's but still....who was bigger from America? I realize you are tired. Last question for my own knowledge.

Hey Sarah...could have used your help before...lol. But thanks for stepping back in now.

I've enjoyed the Doors debate. As one who was there at the time, I can tell you, "Light My Fire" was huge when it hit the airways. Just saying it was a #1 hit doesn't do it justice. It eclipsed everything else on the charts. They even played 2 versions of it, the "long" and the "short" (which was done to be AM radio-friendly). The radio stations were deluged with requests for the "long" version, so they would play it occasionally.....and a 7 minute song on radio in those days was unheard of.

Cinema discovers its fondest affinities, not
with painting, literature, or theater, but with
the popular diversions--comics, chess, French
and Tarot decks, magazines, and tattooing.
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Cinema derives not from painting, literature,
sculpture, theatre, but from ancient popular
wizardry. It is the contemporary manifestation
of an evolving history of shadows, a delight
in pictures that move, a belief in magic. Its
lineage is entwined from the earliest beginning
with Priests and sorcery, a summoning of phantoms.
With, at first, only slight aid of the mirror and
fire, men called up dark and secret visits from
regions in the buried mind. In these seances,
shades are spirits which ward off evil.
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The spectator is a dying animal.
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Pgs. 66-68, Jim Morrison, The Lords and The New Creatures

That's awesome Stratman...I bet the performance on the Ed Sullivan Show just fueled the "Fire" even more...

That's right. Of course, no one knew at the time (at least not me) that "Big Ed" had ordered Jim NOT to sing "girl we couldn't get much Higher". But of course, he did(he screamed it), which added to the legend years later.

If anyone can come up with a truthful source, not i remember, or trust me I was alive back then, but actual numbers that say The Doors were in the top five acts of the 60s, I'll let it go. But my hunch, and only a hunch, is that they didn't even edge out the Monkees.

NNJ: True, what I offered was only anecdotal evidence, and if we're talking purely about numbers, I would agree with your assertion. The Doors were around for only a very short time, at the very end of " the '60's". Many other acts were around for most of the decade. I'm sure "The Supremes", for example, buried them, number-wise. The point I was trying to make was that for excitement and interest, only the Beatles, the Stones and Hendrix created more at any given moment. Again, that's just my anecdotal observation.

I can't do nothing but to agree with you, people drive near my house blasting that sh#t and it's like you want to throw a brick through their window and hopfully hit their radio.

stratman, I am not trying to deny your memories, but even today, as excited as I or my freinds are about something which we think is huge, numbers-wise it almost always eclipsed by something "pop".

Brittney Spears is probably just a hologram!

Could Pearl Jam be on that list too?

I've killed for far less. You may please inform him that he is a marked man...

Where was this thread before?!

I agree. The Doors were hot during their tenure. Come on! Their demise was brought about by the demise of James. No Jim, No Doors. Easy, eh?

He who says otherwise, hasn't seen charts.

Infact, the one time they were in real trouble, was after the Miami incident, when show hosts and companies became nervous. It was infact some time in the coming for it was plain obvious that the authorities intended a showdown with the Doors frontman.