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Welcome to Barbara Cuts, Beats and bars.
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We're a father to daughter music podcast that slices into some of
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the greatest albums, one cut at a time.
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With no industry ties or formal training, just a shared love of
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music, we explore albums across genres, writing favorites and
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skips while digging into what makes each one iconic.
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I bring the beats. And I bring the bars and
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together we deliver real talk and fresh takes from both sides
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of the sound. Hey everybody, I'm Riley.
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And I'm Todd, and welcome to this week's edition episode of
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So look forward to that. That being said, let's get to
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the music this week. We are 1967, The Doors, The
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Doors. So the group is the doors, the
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album is the Doors. So we will do our best as we
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talk about this to make sure and we distinguish as best we can
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when we're talking about album and when we're talking about
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group. And if we don't, hopefully
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context clues, we'll reign supreme.
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So let's get into it. Riley, what are your least
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favorite two from the album? My least favorite two were 01
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was 20th Century Fox. OK.
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I just, I didn't like it. I don't really have a defense
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for these. I'm really bad at defending the
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ones I like, didn't like. I just didn't like that it was
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all about like 20th Century Fox or like a person on 20th Century
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Fox. It just was kind of like a OK
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song to me. And then my other least favorite
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was Backdoor Man. This was another one where I
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just, I didn't love it, but I just don't like for some reason.
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It just really brought me out of like the album.
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Whenever he's just talking about you may eat your dinner, like
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your pork and beans and stuff like that.
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I'm like, OK, what is this? Also, I know they probably
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didn't mean it like this, but given the context of today, it's
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never a great thing to hear. The men don't know, but the
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little girls understand. When it's men singing, it's
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never what you want to hear. And I'm not saying that's what
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they meant. It's just very weird to hear in
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the middle of the song no matter the context.
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Yeah, I can get that. It's just off to here.
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So it just kind of took me out of it.
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Those two songs I just would say kind of caught me off guard and
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didn't let me feel as fully immersed in the album.
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Yeah, so back Door Man context on that.
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It's a cover song that was originally recorded in 1960.
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So the Doors remade it in 67 for this album and Backdoor Man was
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about a man having an affair with a married woman and needing
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to use the back door to get away before husband comes home.
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So that's the the context of Back Door Man.
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Doesn't make it better. No, but it.
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But at least at least some of that you it.
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It makes sense why some of those lyrics are the way they are.
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Not that, not that I agree with what is going on, but you know
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that's we do. Not support affairs.
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That is, that's what that's what the lyrics mean.
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So that one, that one was a cover.
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So my least favorite too are so one of them was End of the
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night. And I will say much the same
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thing you did. I got no real reason other than
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just to put 1 here. This is this is 1.
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And there there was two or three like this that I, I wouldn't, I
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wouldn't just go out to listen to any of those.
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And and of of those two or three, this this was my least
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favorite of that bunch. So like, OK, and then my least
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favorite was the crystal ship. And the only note I had on it
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was it almost sounded like a show tune to me.
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Yeah, that one, that one was like my third.
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And that was my reason too. Like even if someone who likes
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show tunes, it was it was like. And I did that, so I'm glad you
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said that because I was like, this sounds like a show tune.
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This may be one of Riley's favorites.
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No, I like in my defense, I like very particular show tunes.
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For context, I very enjoy very much enjoy Hamilton and like
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more new edge musicals rather than your like classic show
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tunes and even then I don't listen to them much anymore.
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Yeah, but. I agree with you.
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So those are my least favorite 2 Riley.
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What about? What about favorites?
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One of my favorites was I Looked at You.
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Just an entertaining song. It was a fairly short song,
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which most of them were except for like 2 songs that ended up
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taking up like the bulk of their album time.
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It may have been more than two, but I just noticed too going on
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for a long time. But I just liked how it sounded.
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It was a little bit more of like that rocky feeling that they're
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kind of known for and I just liked how that sounded.
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My favorite one was one of the long ones.
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It was the end, which it's always a bold choice to make
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your last song having something to do with it saying the end or
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end or anything like that. But this one worked well in my
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opinion. It's almost 12 minutes long.
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However it changes a lot throughout the song so it
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doesn't get boring. I wouldn't say there's like bits
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of it singing and then instrumental and the
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instrumental is what kind of changes the vibe and then it's
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singing again, instrumental and it just kind of does that over
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and over and there's each section.
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Of dimension is spoken word in the middle.
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Oh, I forgot that we're on video now.
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Don't like it? You're going to see how much I
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fidget whenever I talk. Or leave.
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I thought you were leaving. Like where is she going?
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Whoops. No, I I think that each little
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section feels like it's own little song.
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Obviously the part I would take out is the part where it just
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repeats the F word over and over again.
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That one was a lot to take in, but I mean he kind of had to go
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from that to like the kill kill, like repeating the kill.
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It kind of worked in its own little weird way, like the anger
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almost was building in that part.
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And then to just kind of slow back down to this is the end
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beautiful friend. And it's it's just a good old
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creepy song that kind of stays feeling a little iffy.
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And it it talks about not the end of the album, but the end,
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like, like death being killed and all of that.
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And I thought it was just interesting to kind of read
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through those lyrics and like, listen through and hear how he
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or how the singer in the Doors put to music each part of what
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seems to be a murder. Yeah, and so, you know, just
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this this wasn't one of my favorites, but I really do like
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it. And I agree.
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It's it's a great ending song for this album.
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So if you do, if you've never listened to this album all the
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way through, but you've heard of, you know, the the big ones
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of, you know, Break Home through and Light My Fire are are the
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two big ones. The end doesn't doesn't make as
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much sense unless you listen to the album.
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Listen to the album. It's a great ending song.
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And, and it started as a breakup song from Jim Morrison to his
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girlfriend. And it grew in length and
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meaning through various live shows to the almost 12 minutes
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that that you get now. And it's the the lyrics there
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are to where it it can be for the end of anything, you know,
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and the, the I'll add to your my only friend, the end.
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I mean, it's such a painful but simple lyric and you know.
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They have a lot of those in this song.
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Yeah, yeah. And.
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Specifically the song. It's what kind of made me of
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like the just really short but very emotional, like strong
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small lyrics. Yeah.
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And so a lot of people know this.
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You know, there's a 1979 Francis Ford Coppola movie called
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Apocalypse Now. Have you ever seen it?
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I wouldn't think so. OK, so but this is actually the
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opening song for that movie titled the end.
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And so it's it's said that Coppola's would was like,
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wouldn't it be funny if we started the movie with a song
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called the end And, and I I if that's true.
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And then they made and if and if he took the movie and put it to
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some of that, the opening 7-8 minutes of apoc of Apocalypse
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Now is and you can go online and look this up.
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It is some of the best cinema there is just because the the
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movie and the song goes so well together in that moment.
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And you know, for instance, his lyrics come in, you know, it
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opens to you see the jungle helicopter occasionally flying
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by. And when his opening lyric, this
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is the end comes in, the jungle just blows up like a firebomb
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has hit it. And so like, again, this is the
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end. Anything in that jungle gone the
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end, you know, dead on fire, you know, and and then there's also
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this internal on camera struggle of Martin Sheen is the main
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character and he's having this struggle at a hotel room.
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And so you can feel it with the music.
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And so it's just a masterful opening scene with masterful
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music. And as you listen to this, you
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can see visually what the Doors are doing through through the
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audio and it's really good. Yeah, I it's interesting that
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you said that like they kind of made it as they were going, like
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it started with something in this building and you said they
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made it like as they performed it almost like the additional
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parts it it. It looks you.
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Can tell which parts, you can tell which parts like were new
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and which parts like when parts came in and which parts go
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together and which parts kind of were a new part of the story
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branch. And yeah, it's just an it's a
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very interesting, very intricate song.
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Yeah, so I'm I'm a fan of the entire movie.
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It's it's dark, I'll leave it at that.
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But very, very well done. But just to play on this, you
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can go watch the first 7-8 minutes just to see how it opens
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and and to with this song. And it's it's really good.
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That's probably found that on YouTube.
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After watching this. Your streaming service yes,
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after watching this. So for me, mine, one of mine was
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soul kitchen and it was between this and and break on through
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and and again, this is this is an older album and so one of the
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ones that I grew up listening to just as you probably gathered
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from listening to our podcast the the classic rock is is where
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I did most of mine. And so this was I listened to
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the doors and so radio you you heard break on through like my
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fire. So I, I do like those, but I
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want to include something a little different.
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And so Soul Kitchen, it's about a restaurant in Venice Beach
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that Jim Morrison loved to go to and would hang out at night and
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would more than likely often times get kicked out because it
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was closing. And so you can see that in the
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chorus, the opening few lines. Well, the clock says it's time
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to close now. I guess I'd better go now.
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I'd really like to stay here all night.
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Very deep. It's so it's just him won't stay
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there in the chorus. Let me sleep all night in your
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soul kitchen. And so it has a nice soul and
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bluesy rock sound to it, which I find funny given that it's about
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a soul food restaurant. So it's like, let's truly play
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on this. The the guitarist of the band,
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Robbie Krieger, said that James Brown had an influence on him
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for the song. And if you listen to the guitar
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riff going through the song, they were trying to simulate
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what a horn section might sound like from from the James Brown,
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you know, the traditional soul song.
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It's also nice little fun upbeat song.
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So it was, it was nice to listen to the my favorite song off.
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This one is Light My Fire again, as you mentioned, one of the
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longer ones. This one's just over 7 minutes.
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But you know, we, we talked about last week with Prince and
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some of the iconic openings. This one is another iconic
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opening with the snare shot and then the opening organ.
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And that opening, you know, 10 seconds or so, plays a repeated
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part through the song. This was that Robbie Krieger,
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the guitarist, it's his first try songwriting for the Band.
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And, you know, lo and behold, he, you know, cranks out one of
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the biggest hits of the Doors. And so that's kind of got to
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feel good about that if that's your first song or not, because
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I could only go downhill, but about, you know, so it starts
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with that a verse and then about a minute, 10 seconds into the
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song, they actually start 2 separate instrumental solos.
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So the first one is an organ synthesizer, organ keyboard that
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that goes about two minutes and then it switches to guitar goes
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about another 2 minutes. So that's a it's about a 4
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minute instrumental in the middle of the two verses.
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And then when the guitar solo ends, that's when that same
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organ iconic intro from the beginning picks back up.
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Morrison starts singing again to the end of the song.
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And then you get what seems to be the end.
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And then that same drum shot, the little 10 second organ again
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to end the song. So that that's that's pretty
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neat. There's also a radio edit
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version which cuts out most of the instrumental part of it.
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And so, you know, it drastically reduces the, the time of the
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song to get it to, you know, again, in the 60s, seventies,
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back to OK, time to play on the radio now.
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I think a lot of times when I hear it, it's it's still the
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seven minute version. Also, I like that last lyric.
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Try to set the night on fire. His.
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He's got this raspy high voice. You know, it seems like I said,
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seems like it's the end of the song, but then you get the the
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pop and it takes off again. So it's a great song.
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Lots of different things going on with the instrumentals, the
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organ, guitar, drums, but it blends together real nice.
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Has a nice pleasant sound to it so that those are my two
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favorite, Soul Kitchen and Light My Fire.
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So that takes us to why is this album on our list?
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Why should people go out and listen to The Doors?
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So I have like the technical answer and that and it's what's
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what they wrote about themselves.
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But I thought it it worked well. And it was the first sentence of
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the doors mark the moment when the American rock underground of
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the 1960s came crashing into the mainstream.
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And I think that's that's a good start.
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I also think Jim Morrison is such a big name in everything.
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And to like kind of hear it, I don't know if is the doors where
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he started and then he grew to. I I don't, yeah, I don't know
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for sure, you know, I just. Know he's a huge name.
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Yeah, he has a huge name. So there's that and then past
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that, I would say we ended up getting pretty lucky with where
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the song, where this album, Sorry, popped up on our list.
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I think it would have been even better if it was a few weeks
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later because because of things that we've talked about with the
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lyrics being sometimes a little bit darker, getting that
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electric scent or not electric, not the electric scent organ.
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Is that what you called it? Yeah, organ synth synthesizer.
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Synthesizers, whatever. And also without having like the
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technology that we do with guitars today, like the guitars
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are very are pretty unclean sounding.
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They're not as like pure. They still have that kind of
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like grittiness that you often hear in like the 50s and 60s
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recordings. It leads it to feel very fitting
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for fall and Halloween season, to me at least.
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I thought like this this. There's not many Halloween songs
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that I like that come to mind and this is just one.
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The end is kind of spooky. Yeah.
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So it just kind of fit really well with the changing of the
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season, even though I think it's still pretty toasty in Memphis,
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I'm pretty sure. But here it's it's getting to be
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high 70s, which is cool. Cool.
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And the leaves are changing and it just kind of set the moon for
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fall October season. So I think that was pretty cool.
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Nice. And so you know the other thing
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just about the Doors in general. First American band to
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accumulate 8 consecutive certified go gold LP's.
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So that's, that's pretty cool. One of the most successful bands
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during the time they were together.
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Short amount Jim Morrison died and again, another artist that's
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was 27 when he died. So we'll we'll hit a few of
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those on our list. Already got Cobain and now Jim
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Morrison. I think those are the only two
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so far out of a sneak peek. I know off the top of my head
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two more on our list, but the Doors were inducted into the
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 93.
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The It's specifically to this album now.
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The album and the song Light My Fire both been inducted into the
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Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015. The Library of Congress added
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this album into the National Recording Registry.
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It is the band's best selling album and widely considered one
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of the best debut albums in by rock band in rock history.
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I will selfishly promote another one that we have already
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discussed which is 10 by Pearl Jam.
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And so we've got another one or two I know that I've seen and
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remember that are coming up as well.
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So but again, the album, it infuses Blues, soul, jazz,
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classical, R&B, pop all into the rock version that The Doors
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really pioneered or known to be pioneers called this psychedelic
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rock is really the genre that that most people drop them into.
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And so, you know, that's a lot of where it started.
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So that's why you go listen to it.
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Some of the other reasons would be what you hear in people that
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you hear on the radio today that say, hey, I was influenced by
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The Doors or by Jim Morrison often times.
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And so Paul McCartney sided The Doors as an influence on
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Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which also released
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later in 67. And if I'm not mistaken, the
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Doors album made it to number 2, and the album that kept them out
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of the number one spot was that Sergeant Pepper's album.
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So that's how good this album was.
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The only thing that kept them from being number one that year
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was quite possibly The Beatles best album.
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You know, arguably so. Also you got Lane Staley of
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Alice In Chains, Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, Scott Weiland, the
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Stone Temple Pilots, all said Jim Morrison was a huge
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influence, the lead singer of Sushi and the Banshees, lead
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singer of the Cult, lead singer of the Strokes as well as Billy
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Idol. Again, I'll say Jim Morrison is,
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you know, very influential in their music.
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So if any of those bands make sense, you like any of those
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bands. Then again, another reason to go
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and listen to The Doors. There you go.
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Yeah, both the band and the album.
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Yeah. So any, anything else there,
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Riley? I don't think so.
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Now that comes to my mind, yeah. And I guess another reason if
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you're Apocalypse Now fan, go listen to the entire T of the
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end so you can see what the rest of it sounds like.
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Because obviously what's in the movie is cut to to fit what they
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wanted for for the cinematic effect.
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But it is it is quite the interesting and good song, I
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agree. So that being said, Riley,
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what's the best bar or lyric from the album for you?
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I mean, I would say it kind of goes along with what you said
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with the end. Just super short, super
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impactful lyrics. Just like little bits here and
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there such as no safety or surprise.
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The end, I'll never look into your eyes again.
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Desperately in need of a stranger's hand there.
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There's just so many through throughout, but just to end with
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it hurts to set you free, but you'll never follow me.
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The end of laughter and soft lies.
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The end of nights. We tried to die.
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This is the end. And then it and I mean it's
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that's just like you said, I'll be all all together.
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Pretty simple lyrics, small words, a young person could like
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understand the words, you know, but just the, the pain and hurt
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and just openness in those lyrics, like it's very, it's
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very pretty and it's a very great way to end that album.
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Yeah. And and this was one of, you
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know, I didn't I didn't see exactly what order it was, but
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read somewhere where it was one of the last shows that they
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played in their last concert. And so, you know, I think their
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last concert was in New Orleans. And Jim Morrison did had some
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type of episode on stage and and he's worthwhile to go and read
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about him and some of the things that that he did.
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You know, part of story where he was on an airplane called such a
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ruckus where they were waiting for him when the plane landed to
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arrest him and somebody was traveling with.
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And so like this was late 60s, early 70s where you could get on
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an airplane with just a ticket and you could smoke.
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And like, it wasn't anything like plane traveling now.
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And so I can just imagine what he had to go through or what he
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did or his partner, whoever was with him did to have like police
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waiting for you when you get off an airplane.
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Yeah, it's like, oh, my goodness.
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So for me, the the best beat in in short version is the opening
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10 seconds of light my fire. And so the snare pop and then
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the organ. But since you're there, listen
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to all 7 minutes if you don't. If you don't want to listen to
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all 7 minutes, do. Like this is makes sense why I'm
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recommending this and not rally skip the lyrics.
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Go from the opening. Go from the opening 10 seconds.
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Go to the instrumental in the middle.
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In the middle, hear the build up when the guitar and organ come
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back together to a crescendo, where then all of a sudden you
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hear that organ kicked back in for the lyrics.
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Then go to the very end of the lyrics, hear the hear the Jim
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Morrison raspiness of that last line and then listen to the
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snare pop and the organ. It's like the song comes to a
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full circle from beginning to end and it's it's really well
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done. I, you know, I really like that
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song. So that's my best beat, although
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it's extended to all the instrumental portions of a song.
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There you go. Yeah, so all that being said,
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let's let's get into ratings rally.
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Would you? Would you rate this album?
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I did not like it. I'm giving it.
30:43
I'm giving it A4 purely because of the end.
30:46
Like that's, that was it's redeeming quality to me.
30:49
I, I did not like it. I, I know, I know I was
30:54
expecting to really like it, which may have impacted why I
30:58
didn't like it so much because I was going into it, looking
31:03
forward to it. I, I know they have those two
31:08
pretty popular songs. I've never heard them.
31:11
I don't remember ever hearing of them talked about, which you
31:15
said was like your failure as a father to me, but we've failed
31:21
even harder now. I don't even like it.
31:24
No, I just you talking about them kind of being known for
31:27
their being founders, forerunners in psychedelic rock,
31:32
makes sense as to why I don't like it.
31:34
I'm not a big psychedelic rock person, just a lot of it, and I
31:40
don't I don't have a great reason, which is unfortunate.
31:44
Most of my reason is I just didn't love how it sounded for
31:47
most of it. I I just just didn't really like
31:51
how it sounded. And I'm sorry to all the the
31:54
dwarfs album and band fans out there, but my my personal rating
32:01
was a four, but my objective rating jumps back up to an 8
32:05
1/2. I think they have a few weak
32:09
songs and a few weak parts even in strong songs and that kind of
32:15
breaks it down. But I mean, learning more about
32:19
them and the influence they've had, The Doors themselves
32:25
probably deserve a higher rating than that.
32:27
But this album in particular, I think just had a few weak points
32:32
in there that we talked about that could have been stronger.
32:37
All right, so my personal rating was an 8 1/2, which is better
32:44
than your 4. So, you know, I, I like, I like
32:50
the doors. And as I was going through this,
32:53
there was maybe one or two that I that I hadn't heard before.
32:57
So I'd, I knew all these, even if I didn't realize it was on
33:02
this album, like, you know, a song started playing like, Oh
33:05
yeah, didn't, didn't know that one was on this album.
33:08
And so I'd I'd enjoyed the doors, enjoyed this album.
33:15
My objective was a nine just because of again, the the what
33:24
the doors became in such a short time frame and this album being
33:32
still listed as one of their better albums.
33:36
You know, it, it's got, it's got to be, it's got to have a good
33:41
rating to it, you know, and, and plus you hear a lot of the other
33:46
artists at the time, their contemporaries, plus people that
33:50
you hear of now talk about the Doors and Jim Morrison.
33:55
You know, they've, they've done a lot for the, the musical
33:58
world. It's especially the, the rock
34:00
side of things. So 8 1/2 and 9 for me on, on my
34:05
end. So those are the ratings.
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What's next? Song of the week?
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You're laughing. I'm.
34:14
Sitting. I've been sitting.
34:17
I've been sitting here playing with my mouth this whole time.
34:23
OK, Oh, you're you're just go. Watch the video.
34:26
Yeah, you're just realizing. I was like pulling down my lip
34:30
and like making weird faces, like just fidgeting.
34:34
I'm a fidgeter, guys. I'm a fidgeter.
34:37
This will be fun. It's so unfortunate.
34:40
That was really embarrassing to read just.
34:43
This. Last month.
34:44
Whoops. Anyway, yes, it's on to Songs of
34:47
the Week. Yes, on the Songs of the Riley.
34:51
What's your song of the week? By Songs of the Week.
34:58
So it relates to the end. I kind of mentioned it.
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It seems as if somewhere in there a murder occurs because,
35:08
well, it, it says the bad man comes in, he takes something and
35:12
then he says to his dad, I want to kill you, dad.
35:16
So it it seems as if that's kind of where it's going, which made
35:22
me think of an artist that I, I very much love Jack Van Cleef.
35:29
He has a song called Rattlesnake with Zach.
35:33
He has a recording with Zach Bryan.
35:34
I think so. There's that, but he has an EP
35:40
that was released on Halloween in 2022 called Music City Murder
35:44
Ballad and it's 3 songs that are surrounding a murder in
35:53
Nashville, hence Music City. It's the case of Bucky Briar,
35:58
which is from the perspective of a murderer and Murder out of
36:04
rage, The Primrose Chopper, which follows the story in case
36:09
of a serial killer, and then Victory's Brother, which is from
36:13
the perspective of a cop who has been on a case for a really long
36:20
time. Victory's Brother is probably my
36:23
favorite one. It's a long song 2.
36:27
It's about 11 minutes long and it just kind of follows this
36:34
cops like from the very beginning of the murder to being
36:38
destroyed to where he's not, he can't even be a cop anymore.
36:41
And then when he's just a citizen, he finds the guy who
36:45
was the murderer and like just has to act on it.
36:52
And then in the end he ends up being the villain, depending on
36:56
how you view things. And I've made you listen to
37:00
these songs before. I, I, I know I have.
37:04
I just think it talking about something so delicate and
37:08
writing a story around it is a very difficult thing to do in
37:11
music because you don't have much time to form that
37:15
connection. Like in shows, typically you can
37:18
form that connection. And Victory's brother is long,
37:21
but the other two are very short.
37:23
And it takes, it takes a lot of talent to form that connection
37:27
super quickly to where like, it's not just like this person
37:30
sucks, they're killing people. It's more like, wait, wait,
37:32
wait. They have a story.
37:35
And he does that beautifully. Lyrically, it sounds it, it,
37:39
it's amazing. Musically, they all fit
37:43
individually in their little genres that all sound different
37:47
but similar and it's just a really fun EP to listen to
37:51
around Halloween and this type of season.
37:55
Actually got to see Jack and Cleveland concert maybe last
38:00
year around this time and he played two of the three songs
38:07
because it was it was nearing Halloween.
38:09
Unfortunately he is had a short set so he wasn't able to play
38:14
Victory's brother. But I got to talk to him
38:16
afterwards and he was super nice and I was like Victory's brother
38:19
is like my favorite song of yours and you're not playing
38:23
like you can't play it because he was just opening that time.
38:25
And he jokingly told me that the next time he is a Knox Hill, he
38:30
would have a basement concert of just Victory's brother just for
38:34
me. So super nice guy, super great
38:38
music, and just beautiful, beautiful songs all.
38:43
Right, good. Mine is a little less on the
38:51
beautiful side. It is back to more of my roots
38:59
and what I like. So 1993 it's called.
39:03
The song is called Grease Box Spy Group named Tad TAD, which
39:13
you know, with Todd, I often get mistaken.
39:16
I don't know if I've ever been mistaken for Tad.
39:18
Now that I'm randomly having this squirrel moment, I don't
39:23
ever had Tad So interesting. So 1993.
39:30
The album is called Inhaler. They're from Seattle, same time
39:35
frame as you know, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Soundgarden, Alice
39:39
In Chains, all those. Something's in that water.
39:42
Yeah, but for for this one, what I really like is I really like
39:48
the opening baseline, but, and you know, the rest of the song
39:55
as well albums. All right, if you need to know
39:59
why I like it, go listen to the Pearl Jam and Nirvana episodes.
40:05
They're out there. And the other one that's that's
40:09
neat about this one is that they they are a little bit harder
40:15
musically and then Pearl Jam and Nirvana from the rock side of
40:21
things. You know, Nirvana, Nirvana is
40:24
pretty hard, but they're they're basses, more punk sounding, Tads
40:29
a little bit hard. You know, Pearl Jam's more
40:32
classic rock as well, but tads a little bit harder than Pearl
40:37
Jam. So if you if you like that, go
40:41
give Grease Box by Tad a listen off the Inhaler album.
40:46
I guess we're ready for our next album, right?
40:48
Album. Yeah.
40:49
So our next album, I am excited for it, but I know I can be
40:53
excited for it. I think it is Doolittle by the
40:58
Pixies. Oh yeah, which is already had a
41:03
mention somewhere in one of these episodes.
41:07
Nirvana. Nirvana.
41:09
Nirvana and and Prince 'cause I was talking about the loud
41:13
class. Loud, yeah, but I even had a
41:15
song of the week off this album too, and one of our first ones.
41:22
Wow, shout out Pixies. So.
41:24
Here comes my you were singing the here Here comes my girl.
41:28
Yeah, no, yeah, Here comes your man.
41:33
Here Comes Your Man, Here Comes My Girl is a very different
41:36
song, so. Yeah, but this is this is a good
41:40
album. Shout out the Pixies.
41:44
So I guess listen along with this.
41:48
Oh yes, so again, I'm pointing at you and everybody else now.
41:54
So you got Instagram X? Are you waiting for me to say it
42:02
or? I'm just trying to my old brain
42:04
is trying to think Facebook, Spotify and Spotify.
42:08
Yeah, we got a playlist on Spotify and now YouTube, so have
42:16
we'll have those links in the added into the show notes and
42:22
get. Me embarrass myself when I
42:24
forget that I'm being. Recorded yeah you can go see her
42:27
her you can see her Wi-Fi cut out and then me awkwardly
42:32
staring at the screen while I'm trying to figure it out so like
42:36
yeah you'll you'll be able to tell that this is the first
42:42
video and hopefully yeah hopefully it gets better so that
42:49
being said until next time I'm Todd I'm.
42:53
Riley and this is another episode of Barbara Katz.