- Gebundene Ausgabe: 210 Seiten
- Verlag: Public Affairs Pr (November 2011)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1586489453
- ISBN-13: 978-1586489458
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,2 x 14,2 x 2,6 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 186.489 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"San Antonio Express-News", August 28, 2011
"With an astounding breadth of knowledge, Marcus unmasks "The Doors" in his latest missive from the cultural trenches.""Publishers Weekly", September 5, 2011"Music critic Marcus offers a relentlessly beautiful and insightful evaluation of the music of the Doors ... but also a complete rethinking of the Doors' work as an entire story that captures the 1960s as 'a place, even as it is created, people know they can never really inhabit, and never escape'.... He contrasts a fascinating range of official and bootleg live recordings of such hit singles as "Touch Me" to show that by 1970 'a war between the band and its audience was underway, a war whose weapon were contempt on both sides.' This is an impressive tribute." "LA Magazine", November 2011
"[A] fine new book.... Published on the anniversary of the band's last album and its singer's death in Paris, the book comes to grips with the Doors without being derailed by the legacy of the
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A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after the singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded, one could drive from here to there, changing from one FM pop station to another, and be all but guaranteed to hear two, three, four Doors songs in an hour--every hour. Whatever the demands in the music, they remained unsatisfied, in the largest sense unfinished, and absolutely alive. There have been many books on the Doors. This is the first to bypass their myth, their mystique, and the death cult of both Jim Morrison and the era he was made to personify, and focus solely on the music. It is a story untold; all these years later, it is a new story.
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Critical Essays for the Critical Fan
27. Oktober 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
With a cover of Joel Brodsky's Elektra publicity photo of The Doors dressed in unexpectedly warm colors of the sun, Greil Marcus' "The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years" is an unexpected look at selected songs of The Doors and pop culture.
Marcus' book is a fans' book, he says that it started at the Avalon Ballroom with his wife and seeing The Doors and on their way out, took a handbill of the show and after a lifetime they still have them. Marcus, best known for music criticism and pop culture, is a Doors fan, but an objective one, he is well versed in all aspects of music and the artists but also the language of music and focuses his lens on The Doors.
Marcus' "The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years" is about twenty critical essays on Doors songs, his prose weaves in and out of the songs to where his thoughts take him, either in relation to the lyrics themselves or some aspect of pop culture. The chapter on "Twentieth Century Fox" is a take off point for an extended essay on 50's-60's pop culture and how The Doors fit in. In the essay on "L.A. Woman" he makes the case that it could be used as a soundtrack for Thomas Pynchon's recent novel, "Inherent Vice," and the song is a pop art map of the city. Marcus isn't an easy ride through The Doors, you'll find yourself agreeing with some of his conclusions, such as on "Take it as it Comes" "seemed to start in the middle of some greater song." Or even disagreeing with his conclusions, such as Morrison's tribute to Otis Redding, "poor Otis dead and gone/left me here to sing his song", "...was beyond arrogant, it was beyond obnoxious, it was even beyond racism..." which always seemed a heartfelt tribute to Redding to me.
As you read you'll find yourself wanting to listen to the songs to see for yourself whether Marcus' critiques are apt or not.
Jim writes The Doors Examiner.
Marcus' book is a fans' book, he says that it started at the Avalon Ballroom with his wife and seeing The Doors and on their way out, took a handbill of the show and after a lifetime they still have them. Marcus, best known for music criticism and pop culture, is a Doors fan, but an objective one, he is well versed in all aspects of music and the artists but also the language of music and focuses his lens on The Doors.
Marcus' "The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years" is about twenty critical essays on Doors songs, his prose weaves in and out of the songs to where his thoughts take him, either in relation to the lyrics themselves or some aspect of pop culture. The chapter on "Twentieth Century Fox" is a take off point for an extended essay on 50's-60's pop culture and how The Doors fit in. In the essay on "L.A. Woman" he makes the case that it could be used as a soundtrack for Thomas Pynchon's recent novel, "Inherent Vice," and the song is a pop art map of the city. Marcus isn't an easy ride through The Doors, you'll find yourself agreeing with some of his conclusions, such as on "Take it as it Comes" "seemed to start in the middle of some greater song." Or even disagreeing with his conclusions, such as Morrison's tribute to Otis Redding, "poor Otis dead and gone/left me here to sing his song", "...was beyond arrogant, it was beyond obnoxious, it was even beyond racism..." which always seemed a heartfelt tribute to Redding to me.
As you read you'll find yourself wanting to listen to the songs to see for yourself whether Marcus' critiques are apt or not.
Jim writes The Doors Examiner.
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Difficult
7. Januar 2012
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I'll try to keep this as short and sweet as possible. If you are looking for a book about the Doors, this is not the one. While I truly can, and do, appreciate the writers' passion for the music and the band, I found it impossible to key in on any of it. He continuously flies off on one tangent after another, while leaving the reader struggling to keep up. I understand the point of the book. It was not meant to be informative, but rather, it is a collection of essays. Sadly, the essays are a disjointed mess of several hundred random thoughts all slammed together into a pile of pretentious nonsense.
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A moonlight drive going in circles
18. März 2012
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As a long-time Doors fan and participating student of that era, I wanted very much to like this book. But I learned very little about either the Doors or the turbulent times in which they emerged. I'm sure the author has the intimate knowledge of the group and individuals he claims to have, but he did not share his experiences with the reader. He didn't even share a coherent story. I'm not exactly sure what he was trying to share and, having handed-off the book within minutes of finishing it recently, just to get it out of the house, I can't even provide a decent synopsis of it. This could have been a good book, a keeper, but it wasn't.
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