Wednesday, September 4, 2024: The Doors - L.A. Woman

 

"On September 4, 1781 a group of settlers consisting of 14 families numbering 44 individuals of Native American, African and European heritage journeyed more than one-thousand miles across the desert from present-day northern Mexico and established a farming community in the area naming it "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula" which in English translated to "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula". Over time this community would grow under the flags of Spain, Mexico and eventually the United States to become one of the largest metropolitan cities in the world, the City of Los Angeles."

Source: https://lacity.gov/government/history-los-angeles 

I see your hair is burnin'
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin' down your freeways
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars, the topless bars
Never saw a woman
So alone, so alone
So alone, so alone

Monday, November 22, 2010: The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)

I'd like to start by saying that I appreciate all my overseas followers of my humble blog, many thanks for your continued support. Hopefully I do try to keep my content here vague enough that anyone, regardless of country of origin, should be able to enjoy the music I choose for CSOTD.

This week, however, is a pretty big week here in the 'ol US of A. It's Thanksgiving Week. More on what exactly that means later.

Just know that I've decided that this week is to be special.

This week will be all killer, no filler.

And we'll start with an atomic bomb of coolness: the opening track from The Doors self-titled debut album.

Break On Through was not just a song, it was a statement of intent.  This song set up the themes that The Doors and Jim Morrison would explore for the rest of their careers.  And for Jim, the rest of his life.

Everything about this song clicked.

And, yes, I know that Morrison didn't even write this.  But any song about pleasure, destruction, obsession, lightness, darkness, regret, seeing through the lies and trying to explore everything about this life would effortlessly conform to the Morrison cannon.

Everything about this album clicked.  I could easily take a week off and just play a single track each day as it's own CSOTD.  And everyone would smile and everything would be right with the world.

However, everything will not be right with the world now, for this is Thanksgiving Week.

So, let us all put on our best efforts to see this week through.  To break on through, as it were.

To the other side.

Is everybody in?


The ceremony is about to begin.........