Break On Through by The Doors

tcr! diaries - podcast

08/14/20 • -1 min

content: Dec 1, 2017 · podcast: Aug 14, 2020

Audio (MP3): 20171201 - Break On Through by The Doors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOpQjD-rX0g

Peeps, here’s your the-gate-is-straight Friday jam.

Listening to The Doors when I was 9 and 10 opened up my musical world so much more than bands like the Beatles did. Don’t get me wrong, I love yellow submarines as much as the next u-boat commander but I met the darkly cool poet persona in songs like The End and Waiting for the Sun. I became all too familiar with the torture of losing friends, and of longing for closure when I was a teenager.

Hearing Morrison sing, “waiting for you to tell me what went wrong” still resonates with me as much as it did when I was in junior high. I could relate to that so much more than when Lennon and McCartney sang, “I wanna hold your hand.” I never held girls’ hands in school.

Along with the vocals and lyrics in Break on Through, the gritty distorted guitar, the vox continental organ, the bossa nova drums always remind me of driving, accelerating, smashing through whatever it is that keeps me locked up inside myself.

Powerful stuff when you’re a kid.

Anyways, put on some headphones, find your other side. 😊

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Karly · Dec 1, 2017 at 11:28 am

I related more to People Are Strange...and still do...

tcr! · Dec 1, 2017 at 12:06 pm

Yep, I’m with ya. My streets are still uneven.

Wilkins · Dec 1, 2017 at 12:01 pm

Have you read “No One Here Gets Out Alive”

tcr! · Dec 1, 2017 at 12:08 pm

No... reason being is that my brother Scott used to carrying it around his bedroom like it was his personal bible. That kinda turned me off :)

Wilkins · Dec 1, 2017 at 12:21 pm