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Rating: The biggest problem for a Doors enthusiast is that their discography was missing a "live" album worthy of them. Indeed, "Absolutely Live", the most famous live album, only gives a taste of the greatness of the Doors on stage. Now, however, "In Concert" allows us to fully savor the greatness of the Doors and in particular, of course, of the "Lizard King," the "Resurrected Christ in Rock," one of the greatest geniuses of modern music: Jim Morrison.
This double CD comprises the entire "Absolutely Live", the most famous bootleg, "Alive She Cried", and various other rare pieces. "Absolutely Live" is already very famous: recorded between 1968 and 1970, it features the strong points of the medley "Alabama Song"-"Back Door Man"-"Love Hides"-"Five To One", the well-known Morrison poem, "The Celebration Of The Lizard", a very fierce version of "Break On Through", an epic "Soul Kitchen" and especially "When The Music's Over", possibly the most beautiful version ever, with Morrison stopping to shout "Shut Up!" at the applauding fans during a moment of silence in the song and dramatically altering the lyrics to dialogue with them.
But this album alone is not enough; much of the greatness of the Doors is missing, many of the most representative songs (calling them just songs is reductive, "works of art" would be more appropriate) are absent. CD 2 opens with an extremely lively and acclaimed "Roadhouse Blues", featuring an incredibly fast solo by Krieger, ending with one of Morrison's many clever interactions with the audience, this time focusing on astrology. Following this, among the various songs taken from "Alive She Cried", are "Light My Fire", swift and sharp, "Love Me Two Times", "The Unknown Soldier", and finally the masterpiece of masterpieces: taken from the film "Live at The Hollywood Bowl," here is a hallucinated and extended version of "The End", with the original lyrics almost entirely replaced by some of Morrison's poems and concluded with an absolutely lethal instrumental coda before returning to the initial theme; Morrison's voice is breathtaking and personally, every time I hear this track, I get a shiver down my spine. Anyone who loves the Doors must have this album.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
04 Back Door Man (02:22)
Oh yeah babe
Yeah I'm a back door man
I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
Hey, all you people that tryin' to sleep
I'm out to make it with my midnight dream, yeah
'Cause I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
All right, yeah
You men eat your dinner, eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken any man ever seen, yeah yeah
I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
Well, I'm a back door man
I'm a back door man
Whoa, baby
I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
06 Five to One (04:34)
Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive
Now, you get yours, baby
I'll get mine
Gonna make it baby if we try
The old get old, baby
And the young get stronger
May take a week and it may take longer
They got the guns but, we got the numbers
Gonna win yeah, we're takin' over!
Come on
Your ballroom days are over, baby
Night is drawin' near
Shadows of the evenings
Crawl across the years
You walk across the floor
With a flower in your hand
Tryin' to tell me no one understands
Trade in your hours for a handful of dimes
Gonna make it baby in our prime
Come together one more time
Come together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
08 When the Music's Over (14:49)
When the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
When the music's over
When the music's over
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection
Send my credentials to the house of detention
I got some friends inside
The face in the mirror won't stop
The girl in the window won't drop
A feast of friends, alive she cried
Waiting for me
Outside
Before I sink into the big sleep
I want to hear
I want to hear
The scream of the butterfly
Come back, baby
Back into my arms
We're getting tired of hangin' around
Waitin' around with our heads to the ground
I hear a very gentle sound
Very near yet very far
Very soft yet very clear
Come today
Come today
What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down
I hear a very gentle sound
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it
We want the world and we want it
Now
Now?
Now!
Persian night, babe
See the light, babe
Save us, Jesus
Save us
So when the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Well the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end
Eh? Okay, let's do one more.
10 Petition the Lord With Prayer (00:52)
When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
11 Dead Cats, Dead Rats (01:53)
Dead cats, dead rats
Can't see what they were at, all right
Dead cat in a top hat, wow
Sucking on the young man's blood
Wishing he could come, yeah
Sucking on the soldier's brain
Wishing it would be the same
Dead cat, dead rat
Can't you see what they were at?
Fat cat in a top hat
Thinks he's an aristocrat
Thinks he can kill and slaughter
Thinks he can shoot my daughter
Yeah right! Oh yeah!
Oh right! Yeeah!
Dead cats, dead rats
Think they're an aristocrat
Crap, now that's crap!
14 Wake Up (01:24)
Wake up!
You can't remember where it was.
Had this dream stopped?
The snake was pale gold
Glazed & shrunken.
We were afraid to touch it.
The sheets were hot dead prisons.
And she was beside me.
Old, she's numb.
Her dark, red hair,
The white soft skin.
Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom,
Look!
She's coming in here
I can't live thru each slow century of her moving.
I let my cheek slide down
The cool smooth tile
Feel the good cold stinging blood
The smooth hissing snakes of rain...
16 The Hill Dwellers (02:40)
Way back deep into the brain
Way back past the realm of pain
Back where there's never any rain.
And the rain falls gently on the town,
And over the heads of all of us.
And in the labyrinth of streams
Beneath, quiet unearthly presence of
Nervous hill dwellers in the gentle hills around,
Reptiles abounding
Fossils, caves, cool air heights.
Each house repeats a mold
Windows rolled
A beast car locked in against morning.
All now sleeping
Rugs silent, mirrors vacant,
Dust blind under the beds of lawful couples
Wound in sheets.
And daughters, smug
With semen eyes in their nipples
Wait
There's been a slaughter here!
18 Names of the Kingdom (01:24)
We came down
The rivers and highways
We came down from
Forests and falls
We came down from
Carson and Springfield
We came down from
Phoenix enthralled
And I can tell you
The names of the Kingdom
I can tell you
The things that you know
Listening for a fistful of silence
Climbing valleys into the shade
'I am the Lizard King
I can do anything
I can make the earth stop in its tracks
I made the blue cars go away
19 The Palace of Exile (02:20)
For seven years I dwelt
In the loose palace of exile,
Playing strange games
With the girls of the island.
Now I have come again
To the land of the fair, & the strong, & the wise.
Brothers & sisters of the pale forest
O children of Night
Who among you will run with the hunt?
Now Night arrives with her purple legion.
Retire now to your tents & to your dreams.
Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth.
I want to be ready
20 Soul Kitchen (07:15)
Well the clock says it's time to close now
I guess I'd better go now
I'd really like to stay here all night
The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes
Street lights share their hollow glow
Your brain seems bruised with numb surprise
Still one place to go
Still one place to go
Let me sleep all night
In your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves
Well your fingers weave quick minuets
Speak in secret alphabets
I light another cigarette
Learn to forget
Learn to forget
Learn to forget
Learn to forget
Let me sleep all night
In your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves
Well the clock says it's time to close now
I know I'll have to go now
I really wanna stay here all night
All night
All night
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