The Doors - Strange Days
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Free Music Review: strange days is a great doors album but underappreciated...
Hit: 5 Stars
somewhat underappreciated masterpiece by the eternal doors... It stands as one of the most coherent albums ever released... with gradual build up of tension with variance, and return to tension pools, with an unbelievably effective ending... Deep thinking and deep sounding rock can not get any better than when the music's over, the only other over- 10-minutes-long studio-recorded masterwork by the doors. The other one being the end on the first album obviously. The album kind of flows like a river with eddies and tributaries, and actually achieves a more consistent line of appeal than their first album which has the weakness of being somewhat less consistent in the choice of song-sequencing, that is: great songs interspersed with much lesser works that often leads to a sense of averaging to mentally sustain the interest. This album is superior in that aspect of maintaining a higher dergee of profundity. this album would be in the top five most underrated masterpieces of rock. i know of no other group that has achieved such a feat of releasing such two great works of art back to back in the same year...KTFree Music Review: The Best
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is simply the best Doors LP! No doubt. The entire mood of the album is well...Strange! A complete concept album with some of the strongest writing I have ever heard/read!!
From the title cut right on thru to the end...there isn't a single flaw. This was the Doors at their best and Jim's writing was POWERFUL.
Get it and you won't be disappointed...why can't they make music like this anymore.
RIP...Jim.
Free Music Review: The Doors, "Strange Days", 1967
Hit: 5 Stars
Realesed around September of 1967, this album remains to be a classic Doors album. Though not nearly as good as there first debut album, "The Doors", self titled debut, it still is a good album and almost like a part two of there first album. Strange Days is a little more psychedelic than there first album, but they both compare really the same on that level. Classics that came from this album are, Strange Days, Love Me Two Times, People Are Strange, and When The Musics over. Of course there's other good songs on here like, Unhappy Girl, My Eyes Have Seen You, etc.. And really every track on the album. Horse Lattitudes is really just Jim Morrison talking and it has some weird sound effects in the background good song, every song is good on this album. If you really liked The Doors first album than I would recomend purchasing this album,
5/5 Stars
Free Music Review: Strange, indeed
Hit: 1 Stars
Strange why you would mess with a classic.
This is NOT the original recording. It has been remixed. Bad idea. I don't understand why the Doors albums were remastered in 1999, but only released in the US in that box set. The '99 remasters sounded great. But remixed?? I think even the average listener would be able to tell that something just doesn't sound right here. It isn't the same classic recordings you're used to hearing.
Now, why am I against the remixes? Well, for one, it opens the door to reinterpretation. I mean, why not get a whole host of remixers for the project? You could have today's top DJs remixing classic albums from every era. You could buy the Scissors Sisters version of People Are Strange for when you want that combination of Jim Morrison and super sexy deep club beats. Why not just put the raw tracks on DVD audio and let the listener "remix" for themselves? Maybe you could get some guest musicians to add tracks to the original recordings. I mean, maybe what LA Woman really needs is a Slash guitar solo. Or how about getting Linkin Park to add some crunchy heaviness and rapping to When The Music's Over?
Do you get the point? If you start rearranging the past, where do you stop? And now these remixed CDs are taking the place of the original catalog, so new listeners will be hearing something totally different than what we originally heard and fell in love with. Classics are classics for a reason. Remastering for higher fidelity is one thing, but remixing, rearranging, and reinterpreting are quite another.
Free Music Review: Not Necessarily An Improvement, But Quite Good
Hit: 4 Stars
This 40th anniversary mix shares a few of the flaws of the other Doors albums of this period, Jim's vocals have been pushed back a little more than needed and Densmore's (quite well-played) drums are a touch too loud. Fortunately, the new mix retains the psychedelic atmosphere of the original while provided some nice added clarity and decompression. Some of the effects like Jim's echoing vocals on the title track actually sound a little better here. The strange vibe of "Horse Latitudes" comes across quite well here. Some of the added instrumental and vocal parts (from the original sessions, mind you) are also more welcome here. I'm still keeping the 1999 remaster of this one on my ipod, but I'd be much quicker to recommend this remix than those of the proceeding or following albums.