Hey guys.. So.. I love The Doors, however, I find that they are somewhat inaccessible for our times. It seems like electronic music and hip hop is sweeping the world. Keeping that in mind, I wanted to challenge myself and create a piece of music which blends the flower generation with electronica.. so, I created a Nu Disco cover of The Doors Light My Fire and I was wondering if you guys could offer a little feedback. My question is: Does it work? This is part of a bigger project I have been killing myself for so any feedback would be greatly appreciated.. and if nothing else, you may trip a little to hear The Doors presented in this way..
1. "ive just recently been digging deeper into the doors" In response to Reply # 0 Mon Jan-07-13 01:12 PM by fontgangsta
always liked them on the surface, but just got most of their discog in my collection a couple weeks ago as for this, i dont know, i think its pretty cool im not into this particular branch of electro personally - id rather hear the doors mixed into something a little heavier (either DnB or rap style beats) BUT, thats just my personal taste - i can't say that this mix doesn't "work" - i think it does.
>always liked them on the surface, but just got most of their >discog in my collection a couple weeks ago >as for this, i dont know, i think its pretty cool
appreciate it, thank you for your time..
>im not into this particular branch of electro personally - id >rather hear the doors mixed into something a little heavier >(either DnB or rap style beats)
interesting.. i was struggling to hold back on this because i wanted the "flowers" to come through.. i'm trying to hold on to that era.. but i could definitely hear The Doors on something harder as well.
>BUT, thats just my personal taste - i can't say that this mix >doesn't "work" - i think it does.
thank you. i think i might try another one for The Doors and try something different..
the whole philosophy they brought appeals to me.. the vibes, all of it.. kind of a band i was crazy in love with in high school so it always has a soft spot for me.. personally all their classic material is my fave.. esp during Jim's most insufferable stage... I would love nothing more than for kids of today's generation to get them and enjoy their sounds/lyrics.
7. "I think you are 100% right." In response to Reply # 6
>I think you're searching for too much cohesion in work that >was most likely created on the fly or in the grips of powerful >psychedelic drugs.
One of the biggest problems with the Doors is the sense of profundity that has been thrust upon the band in the years since their dissolution. If you look at them in their proper context and realize that Jim Morrison was not necessarily the Voice of a Generation so much as he was a drunken troll, you can accept them for what they are.
I agree. I've lately been studying the late 60s LA scene and it's given me a better understanding and appreciation of the Doors (which does not equate to actually liking them). Just getting a sense of the world they lived in, which bands they were inspired by, which bands they were reacting against, etc.
10. "Well, I wouldn't call im a troll.." In response to Reply # 7
I wouldn't attribute him with the title of "the voice of a generation" either. He played his part in the flower power movement and did it well. He was an erratic figure who preached the power of love/drugs so naturally, he was going to stumble and fall over a few times. I take them with a light heart and I enjoy the psychedelic nature to their sound.
15. "i copped n listened to their entire discog in 2009..." In response to Reply # 0
...and i luvd every minute of it. i mean i can agree that the whole steez can have holes poked in it, and Jim's poetry and eminence were overinterpreted to mean more than they did, but that kinda viewpoint pokes holes in the complete and total facade that is artists and artistry, and TOTALLY takes the fun out of it lol. it's all context in the end anyways. Jim & The Doors had their part to play in their time and space and did it well. and just from an aural standpoint, i really dig/dug the sounds they produced. and Jim's voice.
that said, i find deeper intangible connections to art born out of heavy drug use, spesh psychadelic. in some corners of the world, thats how u get to see behind the veil, so to speak. so i cant ever bash it, whatever the resulting work post-drug-binge or whilst in the middle of it.
18. "agreed, my experience is pretty identical to yours" In response to Reply # 15
however, it was the movie that first gave me some awareness of the band.. i went out and bought their music on the strength of it lol.. no one was listening to them in my teens though..
21. "They were very popular amongst teens in the early 90's..." In response to Reply # 18
There was a lot of hype and documentaries and stuff when the Oliver Stone movie came out. Even MTV did a lot of stuff on the Doors and showed their "videos" more often than they did other old music in that era. Morrison became a sex symbol again and the "artistic" and bohemic types loved the Doors
I cannot help but feel that the massive backlash their status has experienced since then in critic- and cool "music-nerd-circles is partially because of the massive hype at the time.
Personally, I don't like them at all but I can recognize that they were very "important" and blah-blah (=introducing a sense of the dramatic, theatrical and dynamic to rock to an unpreceded degree not to mention Morrison's love of Brecht and other yurrupean stuff like that which preceded Bowie and others) but the thing that makes them stand out is also what makes them unbearable; that makes them a bit unique for me because often it is the outstanding feature(s) that is a bands "ingredient X"; the thing that make them stand out and be doper than the more plain competition, for the Doors, it's the opposite...
> that makes them a bit unique for me >because often it is the outstanding feature(s) that is a bands >"ingredient X"; the thing that make them stand out and be >doper than the more plain competition, for the Doors, it's the >opposite...
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