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Rating: History/Tribute/Anniversary
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They say that living in the past isn't good, that one must always look ahead... so they say. They probably don't have many exciting things to remember, or maybe I'm an anxious depressive who sees little and nothing good before me in this world (I'll go with the second hypothesis!). I breathe in what I've lived, both the good and the bad; great emotions, passions, Events, tragicomic situations, incredible adventures, periods on the edge, always on the wire. Even dramas and tragedies... and these mark you, if you're not already an optimist, you risk derailing. Time passes, my peers talk about money, Renzi, the government doing nothing, immigrants, like old people dazed by the system... not me anymore, I've withdrawn. Anyway, memories I was saying; today everything is immediate even I am ignobly surpassed by technology haha, madness! I live on memories, what's the problem?! There are many and very intense. But when even as a kid you awaited the letter or the postcard from your girl, and every morning you raced to the mailbox and perhaps there was one from someone else and not hers?! ... crappy day and everything postponed to the next day, forget about WhatsApp; and when you ordered a record or a fanzine or a magazine and when it arrived you were like a child unwrapping gifts under the tree?! Now you listen and read "live" even without buying. Better or worse?! For an animal that always wants to feel adrenaline and feeds on emotional jolts, worse now, but I am a pathological case and luckily, I'm not the average.
So while I was waiting for this edition of the fifty from the debut, I was like a child; for what?! For an album I know by heart and wouldn't even re-listen to. But who cares, it's an excuse to have something that makes me remember... and this makes me remember so much... and many beautiful things for once.
Do I need to talk to you about the album?! Almost all of you know it by heart, but in case some very young noble (like me in the early eighties), now or in the future reads this writing and doesn't know the Doors... well this album isn't half bad, on the contrary, it’s really great! Buy it and enjoy listening boy. They were just four youngsters like you playing music. They were good and strange and one of them was a very curious poet who always wanted to experiment with how far he could go, what he could know or discover, and at 25 he already wanted to just be an old bluesman; listen to this album and enjoy it to the marrow because here they are pure as they will never be again.
Because from the breathtaking initial beat of "Break On Through" to the final epic, wonderful, and theatrical "The End", you will be wrapped in a magical atmosphere.
Enjoy listening boy, dive into the curiosity and read the lyrics of that poet who couldn't play a lick, because they deserve it... they certainly do. Welcome to the world of the Doors and James Douglas Morrison. They are old, it’s true, but you will feel at home, trust the Count.
For us "old" friends, instead, it's a gift. I took it, not just for memories, to leave to the Young Countess together with everything else... hoping she doesn’t sell it all because she'll listen to crappy music. But watch out, there's also the "London Fog", and in the next 4 years everything will come out for the fifty years that were. So, short arms, Doors lovers, put away some euros, for heaven's sake.
“Bad” story getting old, “Beautiful” story old records.
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