Agreed on their songs ( and maybe them too ) being dark. I listened to them back in my "wild" young years. Didn't listem to many of the lyrics ( except "Riders on the Storm" ) but enjoyed the musical composition which is true for me for many artists/groups.

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>Absolutely. Jim Morrison was a strange dude, and Ray Mancarek was not exactly an amiable guy. But they were one of our greatest bands. One of my college buddies was in a professional band and thought the Doors were the epitome of darkness. Some of their songs were, yes. But some of them weren't. Even "Light My Fire" was an energizing song once you got past the lyrics <g>.
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>OK, I'll back halfway off. The lyrics were dark. But there was something propulsive in the music that made you want to get up and dance.
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>Wow, what am I saying? LOL The Doors were a very dark band. They make the Stones look like the Carpenters. They did make you want to dance, though.
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>The best Doors song was the darkest one of them all, appropriately named "The End." It was memorably used at the beginning of "Apocalypse Now." Jim Morrison and Francis Ford Coppola were students together at USC Film School. It was a modern retelling of "Oedipus Rex."
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>I am not a conspiracy theorist. I do not believe JFK is still alive living on some desert island. I do not believe Elvis is still alive. Jim Morrison, I'm not so sure. It would be just like him. To the best of my knowledge he was never seen dead. There was no funeral. Word just came out that he had died in Paris at the age of 27. Maybe he really did, but the alternative would not surprise me.

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