luka

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nick cave is a middlebrow hack. jim morrison is a rock god. thats the basic difference.
 

luka

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caves attempts to write novels are 1000 times more embaressing than jim morrisons poems. at least morrison wasnt fawning in the direction of the observer culture supplement.
 

luka

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anyway words are unlikely to sway you
instead heres one you might not have heard, put your preconceptions aside and check it out
 

luka

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break on thru is the rock and roll impulse hes put it in a nutshell. what a great lyric and he got it right off american fascist ezra pound one of my favourite poets.
 

luka

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i suppose im quite interested in the resistance to the doors. i hadnt realised it was so strong. i started the police thread cos i knew there was resistance but had underestimated it it turns out. with the doors i just thouhgt everyone liked em, like ice cream or sunshine.
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
fwiw I would definitely rather listen to The Police than the Doors. the inauthenticity is at least authentic there. plenty garbage but a few jams too.

Voices Inside My Head is killer, and a million times better than any Doors song
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
ya I was gonna mention he tells the exact same story in Please Kill Me, oiled ringlets + Soul Kitchen + all

what that clip leaves out is that he was also actively trolling the U of M frat boys shouting for Light My Fire, messing w/their machismo a bit, etc

if that Morrison ever came across on the records I could maybe see some of the appeal, but he doesn't
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
I do find it interesting to be so far apart on this, cos on major touchstones - jungle, post-punk (PIL etc) - there's a basic dissensus consensus

I wonder what other wedge issues are lying in wait, ready to spark major polemica
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
luka, who knows, I doubt even he's sure all the time, that's kinda the point

blissblogger tho? seems an awful lotta trouble to go to. just a true Doors fan.

as long as we can all agree The Eagles are terrible, everything is still perfectly copacetic.
 
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