#51

When The Music's Over

Artist: The Doors
Album: Strange Days
Released: 1967

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Notes

A sprawling, intense song with Jim Morrison's typical end of the word imagery, I find this one the most engaging of the Doors classics. Clocking at either 10 minutes or over 16 minutes depending on which version, this song builds to a true crescendo at the end.

Light My Fire is another ground breaking song, which is famous for the spat between Jim Morrison and Ed Sullivan over the words "girl, we couldn't get much higher". Morrison agreed to alter the words to "get much finer" but then sang the actual lyrics anyway.

The 3rd song of mention for the Doors is "The End" which is another of Jim Morrison's end of the world scenarios. Too bad Jim didn't live long enough to see how it turned out.


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