Articles tagged "the doors"

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The Vast Immensity of it All: Fear and Loathing on Sunset Boulevard

by Rodger Jacobs

[19.Dec.08] :. Faces of Sunset Boulevard is, without a doubt, one of the strongest statements about man’s dark fate in the West ever committed to paper in the author and photographer’s chosen form.

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The Doors: Live at the Matrix 1967

by Steve Horowitz

[11.Dec.08] :. Live at the Matrix 1967 works as an archival document of the Doors before the band exploded and fame overtook them.

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The Doors: Open for Business (Again)

by Sean Murphy

[8.May.07] :. If the first two Doors albums are drugs, they’d be of the decidedly psychedelic variety; the next couple are a dangerous cocktail of amphetamines and Quaaludes. Morrison Hotel is beer: authentic, unfiltered, as American as it gets. L.A. Woman manages to be all of the above.

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The Doors by The Doors by The Doors, with Ben Fong-Torres

by Sean Murphy

[21.Dec.06] :. Death has been very good to Jim Morrison, but it's been even better for those who continue to profit from his fleeting but fruitful body of his work. Not to mention his body. With that in mind, the following words will be eschewed for the duration of this discussion: Shaman, Dionysus, Rimbaud, God, Satan, and Witchcraft.

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The Doors: The Very Best of the Doors

by Andy Hermann

[18.Sep.01] :. Why did Elektra release this? Did some marketing survey reveal that there are fans out there who simply won't pay the extra six bucks for a double album? I don't get it -- but maybe that's why I had such a short-lived career in music marketing and promotions.

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The Doors: The Bright Midnight Sampler

by Fred Kovey

[28.Nov.00] :. Jim Morrison’s legacy makes it easy to forget that the Doors were primarily a pop band.

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