Well, I'd like to make some comparison with Morrissey and Jim Morrison. I don't know where it came from, but that's how it is with thoughts - you don't where they come from. It's just some thoughts, maybe some crazy ones, I dunno.
I think it started when I realised that both of them are/were very solitary, shy and reclusive, especially before they started collaborate with their bandmates (i.e. the Smiths and the Doors). And my thoughts kept on, and I then realised that both of these handsome creatures also mingled literature, drama and music, but of course in their own way, marked by they own personal visions. While Morrissey represents some sort of ascetic and - maybe more - mundane pop, an Englishness, or whatever, Morrison represented some sort of symbolic dionysian rock, being American, but that's may also be a very used and clichéd and boring way of thinking, which I'd like to challenge with this comparision. Well, maybe they'll be a bit simplistic, but that's how "science" is ... very black and white in order to propagate "the gospel".
You got the Doors, reviving popular music with Jimi, Janis and Velvet Underground an all that in the mid-sixties. They seem to put an end to the early part of rock n roll scene for real, consisting of Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly etc. - and maybe a bit early Beatles and Stones. And then you got the Smiths during a bit the same in the early eighties, reviving popular music anew by putting an end to clichéd drunken rock n roll scene. A scene which in this theory was started by the Doors and the Velvet Underground and such, and that had inspired the punksters, but seems to have died out in the early eighties ( or should I say "the early hateties" ).
Another interesting thing is that both bands, the Doors and the Smiths, had a great influence on their time, they even seem to challenge their time. They were very original and intelligent, yes, both bands were indeed very significant for their time, maybe even more than The Beatles and Madonna. But then again, in a very strange way, I think, maybe because that ... it was a very personal relationship that they had to their songs and art. Still they managed to reach the charts, and express what people felt like in the sixties and eighties. And they were both sort scapegoats - Morrissey, may even still be! - when they were on.
Well, keep on draw some more parallels if you like. If you understand what I am saying. Hope not I have offended your beliefs and images of the reality too much, but what do you think of a comparision like this? And what would Morrissey possibly think, I'm not sure if he digs the Doors? I don't thinks so, and that's how it is, true pioneers don't really care about what came before them. Just like Morrison, and ... of course Morrissey. - Cudweed
I think it started when I realised that both of them are/were very solitary, shy and reclusive, especially before they started collaborate with their bandmates (i.e. the Smiths and the Doors). And my thoughts kept on, and I then realised that both of these handsome creatures also mingled literature, drama and music, but of course in their own way, marked by they own personal visions. While Morrissey represents some sort of ascetic and - maybe more - mundane pop, an Englishness, or whatever, Morrison represented some sort of symbolic dionysian rock, being American, but that's may also be a very used and clichéd and boring way of thinking, which I'd like to challenge with this comparision. Well, maybe they'll be a bit simplistic, but that's how "science" is ... very black and white in order to propagate "the gospel".
You got the Doors, reviving popular music with Jimi, Janis and Velvet Underground an all that in the mid-sixties. They seem to put an end to the early part of rock n roll scene for real, consisting of Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly etc. - and maybe a bit early Beatles and Stones. And then you got the Smiths during a bit the same in the early eighties, reviving popular music anew by putting an end to clichéd drunken rock n roll scene. A scene which in this theory was started by the Doors and the Velvet Underground and such, and that had inspired the punksters, but seems to have died out in the early eighties ( or should I say "the early hateties"
). Another interesting thing is that both bands, the Doors and the Smiths, had a great influence on their time, they even seem to challenge their time. They were very original and intelligent, yes, both bands were indeed very significant for their time, maybe even more than The Beatles and Madonna. But then again, in a very strange way, I think, maybe because that ... it was a very personal relationship that they had to their songs and art. Still they managed to reach the charts, and express what people felt like in the sixties and eighties. And they were both sort scapegoats - Morrissey, may even still be! - when they were on.
Well, keep on draw some more parallels if you like. If you understand what I am saying. Hope not I have offended your beliefs and images of the reality too much, but what do you think of a comparision like this? And what would Morrissey possibly think, I'm not sure if he digs the Doors? I don't thinks so, and that's how it is, true pioneers don't really care about what came before them. Just like Morrison, and ... of course Morrissey. - Cudweed
