What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Thought I liked this more than I did on this listen. Seven years between spins can do that. It can muddy things up
or clear them up. State of mind I guess. Not a real bad album, just not a real Doors album. Put together after
Jimmy bit the dust. Some of his poetry, probably when he was stoned immaculate, then the remaining group members
added the music. Nice music for the most part, and cleverly put together. Just the concept of it seems kind of dry,
wondering if Jim would have even approved. He had planned on releasing this himself, but not with the Doors. Seven
years after his death seems a long time to come up with this. Probably legal issues entered into that. The Morrison
poetry was originally recorded in 69-70. A live version of Roadhouse Blues made it on here someway, along with
excerpts of a few other Doors tracks. Maybe an album for those who became late fans and want that complete
collection, but don't think of it as a Doors album. Made #54 on the U.S. charts.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Lament

Best Track - Dawn's Highway/Newborn Awakening


Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

Me and my -ah- mother and father - and a
Grandmother and a grandfather - were driving through
The desert, at dawn, and a truck load of Indian
Workers had either hit another car, or just - I don't
Know what happened - but there were Indians scattered
All over the highway, bleeding to death.

So the car pulls up and stops. That was the first time
I tasted fear. I musta' been about four - like a child is
Like a flower, his head is just floating in the
Breeze, man.
The reaction I get now thinking about it, looking
Back - is that the souls of the ghosts of those dead
Indians...maybe one or two of 'em...were just
Running around freaking out, and just leaped into my
Soul. And they're still in there.

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven
Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of Venice
Blood in my love in the terrible summer
Bloody red sun of Phantastic L.A.

Blood screams her brain as they chop off her fingers
Blood will be born in the birth if a nation
Blood is the rose of mysterious union
Blood on the rise, it's following me.

Indian, Indian what did you die for?
Indian says, nothing at all.

1) Awake *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAwx0Zk35LA
2) Ghost Song **
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Ja7wDuY9o
3) Dawn's Highway/Newborn Awakening ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvqEuglm2I
4) To Come Of Age *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrhWL5dawxE
5) Black Polished Chrome/Latino Chrome **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFpevPjFW_s
6) Angels And Sailors/Stoned Immaculate **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuZ08uM9bI8
7) The Movie *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul5HTPES-yU
8) Curses, Invocations **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX48zs20yt8
9) American Night *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGQ9VJDYPs4
10) Roadhouse Blues **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Kzrn9H09E
11) Lament *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7aB09T8R9k
12) The Hitchhiker *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBTV_5PM-5s
13) An American Prayer **
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pkymTQysNg

3's - 1
2's - 6
1's - 6

Grade - 1.5

so many albums, so little time