Mark wrote:
>I hate to interrupt a good harangue -- especially one
with which I agree
>- -- with facts, but Light My Fire was a Doors
original.
Yep. By Robby Krieger. But you get extra points for the Dixon
and Knack references.
And Dave wrote:
> >> A killer on the road whose brain is
squirming like a toad? Toads hop,
> >> they don't slither. Ah, but then "snake"
doesn't rhyme with
>"road"...
>
>I guess as a kid you never picked up toads. If you
did you'd know they
>can squirm like hell.
Sure, I did all that kid stuff. But Morrison didn't say the
killer's brain is squirming like a toad in the hand of a kid.
Most people think of toads as hopping, not squirming. So the
imagery is a little shaky. Though it does rhyme.
But is the brain of the killer on the road that's squirming
like a toad? Or is the killer's brain actually squirming like
a toad on the road? If the latter, the killer can't be much
of a threat, what with his gray matter squirming all over the
pavement. Sort of like the song is all over the place, what
with those riders on the storm and lonely actors and boneless
dogs and groovy sound effects and all that loving your man
stuff. But it does mostly rhyme.
>Hey guess what, your and other posts simply prove
that music, like
>literature, is SUBJECTIVE.
No need to shout -- most of us here already know that
opinions are subjective. But some opinions are worth more
than others. An opinion without backup is, you could say,
like "a dog without a bone."
And I still don't think Morrison's lyrics, whatever his
other
"talents" were, were particularly hard-boiled. And nobody,
including you, has so far offered up any evidence to convince
me otherwise. I'm not saying he didn't write some good pop
songs, or couldn't sing or wasn't a snappy dresser or
anything like that -- I just don't think he was a
particularly good example of someone who wrote hard-boiled
lyrics.
And please, don't take it personally. It's the argument I'm
interested in, not you.
(Hmmm... maybe I'm a Jesuit after all...)
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