Unlike my articles on Russian rock bands I am not going to put any information about “The Doors”. You should know it yourselves; you can read it elsewhere, etc. Also I was surprised to find that no one wrote about this band on this web yet. I am going to tell you about my impression of their songs. I was told about this band from my dean at the university. Yeh, I had a really cool dean. Not a young one, but still cool. Also before I start listening to “The Doors” advisedly I had heard “The end”. When I got to know that this is the song by “The doors”, my interest grew. So I started listening to the songs by this band. Nice motives and good rhythms, - these are the prominent features of their music, I suppose. Electric organ is magnificent. Vocal by Jim Morrison is impressive. This is what I call good old rock. No annoying noise and roars of modern bands which call themselves rockers. A lot of today’s music is either too noisy with lots of electronic effects, etc. or non-emotional and “grey” like a Britpop for example. Lot’s of modern songs lack soul. Many people produce songs just to get money. The art is not a business. Of cause there is nothing bad when you get money for your art, but when money is the essential goal – it is not an art then. For a pity nowadays some rock is just pop and nothing more. The songs by “The Doors” have everything: beautiful melodies, groovy rhythms, good lyrics, powerful vocal. They provokes some fillings and some thoughts. They makes the impression. The lyrics are not meaningless. The songs carried some message: either mental or just emotional. The art should contain the message. The message may be different: mental, emotional, spiritual. The artwork may contain no special meaning, but it should be beautiful then. For a pity a lot of modern songs have none of the mentioned. When the message of the song is just something like: “I’ve got money, cars and girls” or ”Let’s make sex. I love to make sex”, - it’s not the art, but it is a self-promotion (of some freaky kind). Jim Morrison had money and lots of sex, but his songs about love are romantic and he never sang anything like: “I am a rich person and that’s why I am better than you”.
