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(YouTube) Video Today would have been Jim Morrison's 65th birthday. Here's 1967's "Light My Fire"   (au.youtube.com) divider line 32
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Sybarite [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 02:11:22 PM  
If you scream, "Viva la Doors!" loud enough for your landlord to start thumpin' on the walls, then you might in fact be a Doors fan.

There's one way to know for absolute sure. Get an eight-track tape of LA Woman -there's only a few in existence- and steal a car. Even if you own one, steal a car. Get in that car, play the tape, full blast, and drive West. When the tape ends, get out, and go to the nearest bar, and start to play pool, or pinbball, or possibly even foosball, and wait to get into a fight. Afterwards, get back into that car, and drive till it runs out of gas. Then, torch it. And if, as you're standing there, watching those flames, if you can still hear the Doors sound, you will have become a Doors fan.

 
Doctor Funkenstein [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 02:12:45 PM  
Try to set my farts on....fiiiiirrrrreeeeee

My friends and I used to sing that when we were teenagers because...well, we were teenagers (in the '90s, you bastards...we still listened to it then.) Unfortunately, I will forever hear the "farts on fire" lyrics rather than the actual ones until the day I die.

You know that it could be a poo
You know a loaf could aspire
If I was to hit the loo
And try to set my farts on fire...yeah!
C'mon set my farts on fire....

 
PC LOAD LETTER [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 02:20:34 PM  
He's dreamy.

wait, what?

 
NuttierThanEver [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 02:39:39 PM  
OVERRATED
*clap, clap, clapclapclap*
OVERRATED

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 03:04:33 PM  
great baritone lounge singer. worst. lyricist. evar.

 
darkhorse23 [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 03:08:44 PM  
My first concert - The Doors in 1967. Not overrated. Changed my life forevar.

 
Doctor Funkenstein [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 03:35:15 PM  
darkhorse23: My first concert - The Doors in 1967. Not overrated. Changed my life forevar.

I are jealous Funkestein. This are jealous post.

/wasn't born until the late '70s
//still have all my Dad's LPs...love 'em
///Bobby Krieger's funky solo from Light My Fire (as well as the awesomeness that is Love Me Two Times) and Hendrix Live at Winterland (pretty much all of it) is why I picked up a guitar as a kid

 
BunkoSquad 2008-12-08 03:45:07 PM  
What do you mean, would have been? He lives, man.

 
klymen [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 04:20:27 PM  
overrated.

 
HappyHarryHardOn [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 04:29:51 PM  
Bozo Dionysus in action. yay

 
LoneDust 2008-12-08 05:56:06 PM  
Just love them.

Link (new window)

 
Elephantman 2008-12-08 06:28:37 PM  
There's nothing like dieing to boost your career to heights that would never have been reached if you were still alive.

 
DammitSmithers 2008-12-08 06:34:26 PM  
Song is full of fail without the long trippy solos.

/dig it, man

 
Nowhereman 2008-12-08 07:26:54 PM  
There's nothing like dieing to boost your career to heights that would never have been reached if you were still alive.

While I love Jim Morrison and the doors I do not think they would have survived through the 70s and 80s mainly because they couldn't have reinvented themselves.

 
John Buck 41 2008-12-08 07:31:34 PM  
I know people love to slam the Doors. I, for one, am not a Doors slammer.

Late 70's, UMO...Doors parties...reef, beer, and Spacey's. Good times.

 
frostus [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 07:55:10 PM  
NuttierThanEver: OVERRATED
*clap, clap, clapclapclap*
OVERRATED


I like the Doors, but yes, Morrison is overrated. The band is always spot on though.

 
FreeLoveFreeway 2008-12-08 08:23:08 PM  
He would have been Bono if he didn't die.

 
WFern 2008-12-08 09:32:38 PM  
Sybarite: If you scream, "Viva la Doors!" loud enough for your landlord to start thumpin' on the walls, then you might in fact be a Doors fan.

There's one way to know for absolute sure. Get an eight-track tape of LA Woman -there's only a few in existence- and steal a car. Even if you own one, steal a car. Get in that car, play the tape, full blast, and drive West. When the tape ends, get out, and go to the nearest bar, and start to play pool, or pinbball, or possibly even foosball, and wait to get into a fight. Afterwards, get back into that car, and drive till it runs out of gas. Then, torch it. And if, as you're standing there, watching those flames, if you can still hear the Doors sound, you will have become a Doors fan.


I've been trying to find that on YouTube... no luck. Still, your post had me grinning.

NuttierThanEver: OVERRATED
*clap, clap, clapclapclap*
OVERRATED


Don't fret yourself - we can't all have good taste. Matter of fact, I'm terrified to know what you find enjoyable.

 
WFern 2008-12-08 09:56:00 PM  
Huh... did a check again tonight and found it. (new window)

 
NuttierThanEver [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 09:59:06 PM  
WFern: Sybarite: If you scream, "Viva la Doors!" loud enough for your landlord to start thumpin' on the walls, then you might in fact be a Doors fan.

There's one way to know for absolute sure. Get an eight-track tape of LA Woman -there's only a few in existence- and steal a car. Even if you own one, steal a car. Get in that car, play the tape, full blast, and drive West. When the tape ends, get out, and go to the nearest bar, and start to play pool, or pinbball, or possibly even foosball, and wait to get into a fight. Afterwards, get back into that car, and drive till it runs out of gas. Then, torch it. And if, as you're standing there, watching those flames, if you can still hear the Doors sound, you will have become a Doors fan.

I've been trying to find that on YouTube... no luck. Still, your post had me grinning.

NuttierThanEver: OVERRATED
*clap, clap, clapclapclap*
OVERRATED

Don't fret yourself - we can't all have good taste. Matter of fact, I'm terrified to know what you find enjoyable.


No where did I say that I don't enjoy an occassional doors tune. I just think that the Poet Laureate of rock bon mots that get tossed at Morisson are BS. They had a few good songs but only Morissons death vaulted them into rock royalty.

 
mandingueiro 2008-12-08 10:01:52 PM  
darkhorse23: My first concert - The Doors in 1967. Not overrated. Changed my life forevar.

i think i love you.

 
mandingueiro 2008-12-08 10:03:59 PM  
FreeLoveFreeway: He would have been Bono if he didn't die.

no. morrison was way too self deprecating instead of a self aggrandizing douchebag that deflects his narcissism on charities.

 
frostus [TotalFark] 2008-12-08 10:14:41 PM  
WFern: NuttierThanEver: OVERRATED
*clap, clap, clapclapclap*
OVERRATED

Don't fret yourself - we can't all have good taste. Matter of fact, I'm terrified to know what you find enjoyable.


No, you're wrong. Morrison is absolutely overrated. The Doors had plenty of good tunes but the music is what elevates the band, not Jimmy's often inexplicable and incoherent ranting and wailing.

/I know, I am from those times
//they were a good band but not gods
///kinda like The Beatles in that sense

 
sbcjack 2008-12-08 10:26:57 PM  
Jim was my 10th grade God. That was in 1984 and man do I feel old tonight.

 
tagjim 2008-12-08 10:30:38 PM  
NuttierThanEver: OVERRATED
*clap, clap, clapclapclap*
OVERRATED


THIS.

/only one talented member of The Doors, and it wasn't Jim. Or Robbie.

 
MethFreek 2008-12-09 12:24:40 AM  
mandingueiro: FreeLoveFreeway: He would have been Bono if he didn't die.

no. morrison was way too self deprecating instead of a self aggrandizing douchebag that deflects his narcissism on charities.




Beautiful!

 
otis rushmore 2008-12-09 01:42:45 AM  
Love Morrison: great crooner with a bluesy voice. Happy Birthday Mr. Mojo Risin'.

 
zunkus 2008-12-09 02:10:50 AM  
I'm not here to argue whether or not they were a great band in a technical sense but it must be admitted that they are farking awesome!

 
Marisyana 2008-12-09 08:59:51 AM  
Jim Morrison is overrated as a lyricist, underrated as a singer.

/listened to "Moonlight Drive" in his honor today

 
OldManDownDRoad 2008-12-09 10:29:04 AM  
FlashHarry: great baritone lounge singer. worst. lyricist. evar.

I think Hendrix or Sting could give him a run for the money in the Worst Lyricist Category.

 
crazycooter 2008-12-09 11:24:24 AM  
FreeLoveFreeway: He would have been Bono if he didn't die.

Holy shiat, Bono died??? When did that happen?

 
tinfins 2008-12-12 12:14:04 AM  
Have any of you questioning Jim Morrison's songwriting ability listened to The Soft Parade, where Krieger wrote half the songs? Did you prefer that album?

 
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