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Other Voices/Full Circle by The Doors (CD, Jul-2004, Time)
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After listening to 'Other Voices' for the first time in many years and 'Full Circle' for the first time ever, I was again impressed with how Jim Morrison was the reason the Doors achieved brilliance. At various periods of my life, I was literally addicted to the Doors, and they remain my favorite band, despite feeling on various songs that either Manzarek or Krieger's playing was letting the song down. (As an aside, they really needed a great bass player to fill out their sound.) 'Other Voices' has some wonderful songs, and with Morrison some of them would have been Doors classics, but the vocals reduce them musically and make them merely okay. Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger simply have thin, uninteresting voices. You don't need a great voice to be a great singer-- I love Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Tom Waits among others-- but a singer's voice does need character. Some of the songs from 'Other Voices' also don't sound fully realized, though for the most part you can really hear the band working on this album and the musicianship is generally fine. 'Down on the Farm' has a fabulous honky-tonk country chorus, but the lead-in is a weird mellow jazz bit that significantly undermines the song. The engineering on this cd made the music sound somewhat flat too. The second part of this cd, beginning with 'Get up and Dance', comes from 'Full Circle' and I only listened to it once. I strongly suspect I will never listen to it again. With most of the songs my reaction was "If an unknown bar band recorded these songs for a demo, no record company would ever turn them into an album." The vocals again were a major liability, but the song writing also struck me as weak. There were several songs that I know I would grow to like if I kept listening to them, but there were also others that sounded completely generic and devoid of personality. The Doors seem fairly dispirited on this one, with little creative tension or spark. Morrison was a real handful, but he was also an artistic force and without him Krieger, Manzarek and Densmore were good, but far from great.Read full review
2 album cd import containing last 2 Doors albums without Jim Morrison.
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Excellent music. One tends to miss Jim Morrison at first, but once you get past the fact that he is not with the Doors, the music stands on its own. It is well worth the purchase for any Doors fan. I wish these LP's were in print and available everywhere.
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