WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 16, 2020

Listener comments!
	♥ 3:01pm Doug Schulkind: Bestify!
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug!
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm Julie: Hey guys!
	3:03pm still b/p: I do like this. I do.
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Julie!
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: SBP!
	3:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: doors on FMU is always particularly delicious - gotta hang see where this goes.
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: Rev! Doc!
	🥁 ♥ 3:05pm Julie: there is no denying the doors influence on goth
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: This is true.
	3:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Written by Robbie not Jim funnily enuff.
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm Yvang: Two of a kind!
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Robbie wrote a bunch of their best songs.
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Yvang!
	🥁 ♥ 3:07pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin!
	🥁 ♥ 3:07pm WR: Lunch break, dipping into the stream. Hi all.
	🥁 ♥ 3:07pm Yvang: Hi Funky16th of July!
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR!
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Jeff!
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Funky! Tuning in while working today! :)
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm dutchtheo: Hello Larry and all, let's see how much doors i can handle.
	3:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...on Iggy, Alice, Bowie - I'd venture Ozzy! Though I've never heard it...in case they mattered to anyone... Love, Bunnymen, Cope, Mazzy on & on...
	🥁 ♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Theo! Candy-O!
	🥁 ♥ 3:10pm Erica: I'm tuning in.
	🥁 ♥ 3:11pm Erica: I had to take care of some things before chatting.
	🥁 ♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	🥁 ♥ 3:17pm Erica: The Doors in my opinion were more dark psychedelic rock than jazz or pop.
	♥ 3:18pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm Erica: Not counting their later stuff.
	🥁 ♥ 3:21pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	♥ 3:22pm Little Danny: Hey Larry 'n' all
	🥁 ♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I don't count ANY of that later, Morrison-less stuff
	3:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & who influenced them? Jazz, Zombies, Stones, Them...
	🥁 ♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	🥁 ♥ 3:23pm Funky16Corners: Zombies, Coltrane, Stones, Brecht-Weill, Sinatra and on and on
	3:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Nice.
	🥁 ♥ 3:23pm Funky16Corners: Robbie Krieger was an acoustic guitarist until shortly before the band came together
	♥ 3:23pm CHUCK ROAST: Saw them in "67 at a dance. Annapolis national guard armory.
	♥ 3:24pm Little Danny: I'm one of the few music people I know who doesn't have a strong opinion on the Doors. I like them, and I like some of their songs.
	🥁 ♥ 3:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey Chuck! Really?! What was it like?
	3:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Jim opened Crooning to my mind - & as a gittardiddler who doesn't use a pick Kreiger is a brother...
	🥁 ♥ 3:25pm Yvang: Their first LP sounds so good!
	🥁 ♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I had a regular listener e-mail me this morning saying that were going to have to recuse themselves fro this episode because of their feelings about the band. I knew that was going to happen
	🥁 ♥ 3:26pm Funky16Corners: @Yvang - That first LP is still as exciting as hell. Just brilliantly written, performed. produced all the way around.
	♥ 3:26pm coelacanth∅: i have strong opinions about the doors but i don't love or hate the band in general. i really love a lot of it and pretty much hate some of it.
	♥ 3:26pm Little Danny: Haha, I believe it, Larry. They're very divisive, it seems.
	3:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I also ended up in SoCal for a while - so there's that...
	♥ 3:27pm CHUCK ROAST: Dress code. Girls in skirts or dresses, guys, jackets and ties.
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I think a lot of is is generational. Whether you heard them the first time, were exposed to the wave following No One Here Gets Out Alive, saw The Doors movie or even later. There are a wide variety of reactions to Morrison and to Doors fandom as well
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Yvang: I believe the Doors were badly hurt by the Oliver Stone's biopic
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I can't stand it
	🥁 ♥ 3:29pm Yvang: which I found really bad
	3:29pm Leslie: I once had all the Doors albums, with the exception of the Lizard King, bur due to life circumstances, had to sell them. All were original, and one of my deepest regrets
	♥ 3:29pm coelacanth∅: the whole firat album is good and some of it straight up brilliant. same with their last album. (la woman) everything in-between is patchy.
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey Leslie!
	♥ 3:30pm Little Danny: @Larry: most definitely. I shoulda added that most people born after 1990 or so probably don't have much of an opinion
	♥ 3:31pm coelacanth∅: ...actually strange days is all good; just a little weaker than the first. horse latitudes is one of my favorite songs.
	♥ 3:31pm CHUCK ROAST: Movie not so good, Kilmer brilliant.
	🥁 ♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - They were pushed back into pop culture so many times
	3:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Apocalypse Now really resurrected them with the populace is how I remember it. Which was fitting enuff I think... I happened to be someone who listened to Albums.
	🥁 ♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: I think that people started to feel (righteously) that they were being force fed the legend
	3:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Classic Rawk format. Corporate Radio playlists.
	🥁 ♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: Yes, but even then they were only getting the most obvious stuff
	♥ 3:33pm Little Danny: I heard (and really dug) "The End" long before I saw Apocalypse Now. But the movie instantly and indelibly shaped my experience of that song. It all worked out.
	🥁 ♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: Apocalypse Now is till one of my fave movies of the 70s, and Coppola really made good use of the song
	3:34pm still b/p: Stone's attempts to capture head trips felt pretty conventional and unaffecting. And like many biopics, it became a cycle of main figure behaving badly, then a little more stuff, then main figure behaving worse...on and on. Maybe not inaccurate, but not too interesting.
	3:34pm Leslie: The Door's first album was my 2nd lp, bought for me by my dad. I still love the Doors, the movie sucked as did Kilmer. I used one of their songs for an English paper in 9th grade, about desolation.
	🥁 ♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: I saw it twice in the theater when it first came out
	♥ 3:35pm Little Danny: "Indian Summer" I think remains my single favorite Doors song.
	3:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well Corporate Radio - exactly - the obvious stuff. A taste killer & a culture divider & ghetto-izer.
	♥ 3:35pm coelacanth∅: i never paid much attention to "the legend". and never watched apocalypse now or any other movie with the doors in it.
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Erica: Never had a Doors lp but I've seen one at a yard sale. Didn't buy it though.
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: I sued to love Oliver Stone. I presently regard him as a jackass.
	♥ 3:36pm Little Danny: Don't mean to jump all over your show with my dumb opinions, Larry. I'm really digging everything you've played thusfar!
	3:36pm Leslie: I saw it in an airplane going over the Atlantic on the way to Spain (honeymoon).
	🥁 ♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: Danny, go right ahead! I didn't perceive it as jumping at all!
	🥁 ♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: @Leslie - Which movie?
	3:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Rawk Stars are such singular & charismatic Personas that Drama is gonna be 2nd best. Give me a good Documentary & hope for the best. I like 'When You're Strange' well enough.
	3:39pm Leslie: The one with Kilmer - never watched Apocalypse.
	🥁 ♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: I think - now that Manzarek is gone - someone should mount an attempt on a Morrison doc. It could use some reflection and sober (no pun intended) commentary. None of that shaman shit.
	3:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: But for the direct experience of the doors Live - which is something the studio work is not - it's 'The Doors Are Open'.
	🥁 ♥ 3:41pm Sem: Glad I got here before the music was over. Hiya, Larry the G, and all.
	🥁 ♥ 3:42pm Funky16Corners: @Leslie - I would suggest - if you ever do watch Apocalypse Now - you avoid the "director's cut", which fouls up a perfectly wonderful movie.
	🥁 ♥ 3:42pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	3:42pm Leslie: I don't know, or care about shaman crap, as a female young teen, he was sexy and I loved the music.
	3:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Compare it in most of these ways to what The Who mean to different people.
	🥁 ♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: @Leslie - That's really the bottom line. He was a great performer, and visual icon
	3:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think you have to credit the Writing & Singing as well - & that's just Jim.
	🥁 ♥ 3:46pm WR: I have no idea about rest of world perception about Morrison & the Doors. Many in my peer group, including me loved the first 3 albums. Some mixed reception on Soft Parade and not sure what to think about Morrison Hotel. In late fall of '70 several of my friends were going to see them. I, the only one who had not seen them before, showed up and didn't have a ticket and no money, so I declined to take a loan and see if I could get a ticket at the door. I opted instead to wait at their apartment watching a huge jack 'o lantern melt. Though it turned out to be one of the last shows with Morrison, I sorta think it was best to not see only the end.
	🥁 ♥ 3:47pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry, Hello father, yes son, I want to tickle you. Tee Hee. Waiting for the Sun was a great demo album.
	3:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Patti Smith - another effected by Jim.
	🥁 ♥ 3:49pm dutchtheo: hey Brian, happy birthday!
	♥ 3:49pm coelacanth∅: WR that''s kind of a bummer! i've had a few similar experiences.
	🥁 ♥ 3:49pm Erica: The End was also used in the Simpsons. Break on Through (To the Other Side) is also overplayed Larry.
	3:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Remember their 1st was out before there was even a Sgt. Pepper.
	🥁 ♥ 3:50pm Brian in UK: The Doors, Elektra's first No.1. dutchtheo, man, you are on the ball. Raising a glass of eau de vie to you, my friend.
	♥ 3:51pm coelacanth∅: to be honest the best part of light my fire is the instrumental 2nd 1/2. i always thought that but grew to still love that part of the song, and barely tolerate the verses.
	🥁 ♥ 3:51pm dutchtheo: cheers, i have a cup of tea,... for now
	🥁 ♥ 3:52pm Brian in UK: I am the lizard king I eat at burger king.
	♥ 3:52pm coelacanth∅: Brian, more like waiting for the sun was a great 2/3 of a demo album!
	🥁 ♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	🥁 ♥ 3:53pm Funky16Corners: @Rev - I remember Patti Smith writing about Morrison in Creem
	🥁 ♥ 3:53pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Another one I didn't play!
	♥ 3:54pm coelacanth∅: i'm so glad i don't watch all this crap so the end i still regard very highly.
	🥁 ♥ 3:54pm Brian in UK: coel, yes so where is my copy? Lost in a move. Larry, this is bold for FMU. FREEFORM FOREVER.
	🥁 ♥ 3:55pm Funky16Corners: Brian - I am known for my boldness (and little else)!
	3:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I'd like to see Nick Cave admit the doors - but with Elvis & Iggy it's a small world. Joy Division & the Bunnymen like to say they were about Iggy & Bowie & recognized themselves in the doors after the fact. Don't quite buy it. I'd argue the doors are so fundamental & early it's hard to image even Mark E. Smith without them - but what if (not) is always only an exercise...
	♥ 3:55pm coelacanth∅: my waiting for the sun is probably still in near-mint condition.
	🥁 ♥ 3:57pm Funky16Corners: @Rev - Ian McCulloch is like the guy on Maury Povich denying the paternity of a kid that looks like a miniature version of himself
	♥ 3:57pm Little Danny: RRNov63: Fascinating. I'd never thought of Mark E. Smith in the context of the Doors but I know what you're sayin'.
	🥁 ♥ 3:58pm Brian in UK: Pop music has many faces.
	♥ 3:58pm coelacanth∅: Thank you for not playing hello i love you. (i'm faithful) and i hope you play my favorite song from this album, spanish caravan.
	♥ 3:58pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Hey there! I LOVE THE DOORS.
	3:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Robbie song here & it shows.
	🥁 ♥ 3:59pm Funky16Corners: Hey Photocopy!
	♥ 3:59pm coelacanth∅: the soft parade. i'll be back.
	🥁 ♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: @Rev - I think Robbie's legacy is clouded because the first three albums are all shared songwriting credit to the whole band
	♥ 4:00pm Little Danny: "MacArthur Park" vibes
	🥁 ♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: @C - No Spanish Caravan today (but I'll def play it in the future). Def no Hello I Love You...
	🥁 ♥ 4:00pm doctorjazz: This stuff definitely sounds better to me now than it did at the time (Soft Parade was especially when I had enough). But fun to hear now...
	♥ 4:01pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Dunno about Nick Cave & the Doors - except didn't they (Boys Next Door or an earlier band w/Cave & Harvey) do a cover version of Five To One?
	4:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Was the doors' improv LSD ethos to share credits. Can't be emphasized enuff that Live there were whole other things happening.
	🥁 ♥ 4:02pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I'm convinced I took a pass on The Soft Parade when I was a teen because it has "soft" in the title.
	🥁 ♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: @Rev - I think the shared credit was more of a democratic impulse
	🥁 ♥ 4:04pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Which one is like MacArthur Park?
	🥁 ♥ 4:05pm Funky16Corners: Maaaan, I can't tell you how many times drunken, teenage Larry did a dramatic reading of that opening....hooooboy
	🥁 ♥ 4:05pm Brian in UK: It is amazing how many albums groups made in the Sixties in such a short time compared to now. Ofcourse touring did not make money then that it does now. tour your latest record or one you made fifteen years ago. Is this Elmer Gantry?
	🥁 ♥ 4:06pm Funky16Corners: There are so many groups that were cranking out two or three amazing albums a year back then
	♥ 4:07pm Little Danny: "Tell All the People." I thought I heard a bit of "MacArthur Park" in it. (Or possibly some other '60s pop hit.)
	🥁 ♥ 4:07pm Funky16Corners: Probably wading in the same musical stream!
	♥ 4:08pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: God Bless pre-1970s limited studio technology - in spite of studio experiments, things were done on time.
	🥁 ♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, no Fleetwood Mac and a mountain of cocaine nesting in the studio for a year
	4:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: After Sgt. Pepper everyone had to take a shot @ the Big Studio Statement. Their mates Arthur Lee & Love picked up in everyone else's example & got it about perfect on 'Forever Changes' - which I think of as a sibling to 'Soft Parade' ...
	🥁 ♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: I don't think anybody (Beatles included) got it better than Forever Changes
	🥁 ♥ 4:11pm Brian in UK: Here comes the curmudgeon, I can still play all Love, Elektra albums without sounding dated. Either way, long live Jac Holtzman, a huge influence on my listening habits back then.
	4:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Remember the Big Venues & Arena Tours were completely new to Rawk then! Morrison & the doors adapted their cinematic club intimacy best they could...
	🥁 ♥ 4:14pm Brian in UK: Larry, ref Forever Changes, anything that still sounds contemporary after fifty years is tops and hardly any electricity. Just have to hear the start of Alone Again Or to be transported.
	🥁 ♥ 4:14pm Funky16Corners: I have to say, a lot of the posthumously released live stuff holds up pretty well. Morrison was an entertainer, even when he was disintegrating.
	🥁 ♥ 4:14pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Forever Changes is by far my favorite album of all time. And that hasn't changed in years.
	🥁 ♥ 4:15pm Brian in UK: Love you Larry.
	🥁 ♥ 4:15pm Funky16Corners: It used to confuse the hell out of me that this song wasn't on the album of the same name
	🥁 ♥ 4:15pm Funky16Corners: Love you back Brian!
	♥ 4:15pm coelacanth∅: Larry @4.00 i know that you plan your programs out meticulously or i would've waited to mention spanish caravan! i think suggesting songs to a show host unsolicited is like implying they can't handle it themselves. ...maybe i'll catch it when you do play it some day
	4:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: But I still find it disingenuous everyone embraces Love - & will not even consider their siblings the doors.
	🥁 ♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: @C - No worries whatsoever! I don't mind suggestions at all.
	🥁 ♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: @Rev- Yeah, I feel the same way about Doors vs Velvets
	♥ 4:17pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: If I should start rating The Doors' albums, Morrison Hotel would easily make it to the upper half of the list. This song (Waiting For the Sun) was very cathartic for me as an 8-year old kid, even if I had very little idea about the lyrics (English not being my first language, young age and all)
	🥁 ♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: Fortunately John Cale had better things to do than spend the rest of his life in documentaries pushing for Lou Reed's sainthood.
	4:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ha!
	🥁 ♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: @Photocopy - I agree. I think that the Doors did something a lot of bands were incapable of: they matured
	♥ 4:19pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Well, John Cale had a better solo career than Lou Reed in my opinion
	♥ 4:19pm coelacanth∅: yup. a lot of prejudice. though i think forever changes floats above any doors album, the doors put out more great songs through the course of their career, in my opinion. (do i have to say "in my opinion" every time i'm stating something that's obviously an opinion?!)
	🥁 ♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: I have to say, for all my ragging on Ray Manzarek, I used to find him amusing. It got grating after a while. Still utmost respect for his playing.
	🥁 ♥ 4:21pm Erica: I thought the Doors music was always mature from the start Larry
	4:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The doors' debut & 'Forever Changes' are both in my Top20 Albums Ever.
	🥁 ♥ 4:21pm Erica: I thought the Doors music was always mature from the start Larry.
	🥁 ♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I do too, but they aged well, like a fine wine
	♥ 4:22pm coelacanth∅: despite whatever else Ray was always a superb musician -in every sense. and not a bad singer.
	🥁 ♥ 4:22pm Yvang: Even though the fine wine did some damage to Jim
	4:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& 20 albums is like - nothing.
	🥁 ♥ 4:23pm Eric rea: Oops double post.
	🥁 ♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, if you want my Top 20 you'd better specify a genre and a time period, and then an hour for me to think
	♥ 4:24pm coelacanth∅: my favorite doors album. (speaking of maturing)
	♥ 4:24pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Also I am completely biased, as Morrison Hotel is the first Doors album I heard. It did the job for me - even the Oliver Stone movie making Doors fans of my moronic class"mates" could not drive me away from the music - I actually heard the 2., 3. & 4. album only then, in my early teens.
	🥁 ♥ 4:25pm Funky16Corners: An aside, the Doors have some pretty spectacular album covers. That Henry Diltz picture on Morrison Hotel is classic
	🥁 ♥ 4:25pm Funky16Corners: The quote in my yearbook! "No eternal reward will forgive us for wasting the dawn"!
	♥ 4:25pm coelacanth∅: i once applied for a job at the local rhino record store. the application said to name my top 10 favorite albums. i wrote down 20, which was very difficult.
	🥁 ♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: Were they weeding out bad taste?
	♥ 4:27pm coelacanth∅: i don't know but i'm not surprised i didn't get the job, and glad i didn't!
	🥁 ♥ 4:27pm Brian in UK: @coel, favourite album is a cinch, relatively, they never ask your favourite colour.
	🥁 ♥ 4:27pm Sem: Natal Day greetings and best wishes, Squire.
	4:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Good point on visuals. I mean - the actual Music of the psychedelic experience - there was no way the doors could not have been included for me. For 20 Albums - @ this stage I feel like the Beatles Remasters box is one album...but - digress...
	🥁 ♥ 4:28pm Funky16Corners: Happy Birthday Brian!
	♥ 4:28pm coelacanth∅: pick one favorite album?! !!! -i'd have to just lie! (and i don't have a favourite color either)
	🥁 ♥ 4:29pm Sem: People ask my favourite colour, I always say "plaid."
	🥁 ♥ 4:29pm Funky16Corners: Paisley!
	🥁 ♥ 4:30pm Funky16Corners: Houndstooth check!
	4:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Joyeux Cancerian Solar Return Brian !
	🥁 ♥ 4:30pm Brian in UK: Candy pink does it for me. A pink you could eat. Oh yeah. Thanks Larry.
	♥ 4:30pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Favorite three for me is a piece of piss: Morrison Hotel, The Doors & Strange Days.
	♥ 4:31pm coelacanth∅: i still have the original issue of la woman, with the cellophane window. (actually it left my possession, only to return when my brother died) it's not in great shape though.
	🥁 ♥ 4:31pm Brian in UK: Sem, I am honoured by your greeting.
	🥁 ♥ 4:31pm Erica: Happy birthday Brian!
	♥ 4:32pm coelacanth∅: oh Happy Birthday Brian!
	🥁 ♥ 4:32pm Brian in UK: I am in awe of your friendship. FMU rules.
	🥁 ♥ 4:33pm Funky16Corners: The way they explode out of this part of the song blows my mind
	♥ 4:33pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Happy Birthday Brian - I love WFMU, it is the second time today I get to say Happy Birthday!
	♥ 4:33pm coelacanth∅: our band played this song. we were a punk band primarily but the bass player wanted to play the doors and yes, and we did. i was the only one that knew the lyrics but i had trouble drumming and singing this song simultaneously.
	🥁 ♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: I used to drum and sing this one!
	4:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Jim was into Canned Heat. He dug Blue Cheer...
	♥ 4:35pm coelacanth∅: nice! i had a few albums i played along to -la woman being one. i never practiced otherwise.
	4:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Its funny because now the doors are alcohol music to me.
	🥁 ♥ 4:36pm Brian in UK: Larry, great choice tonight, some people get a bit snooty about some musics. What the heck.
	🥁 ♥ 4:38pm Brian in UK: Paul Rothchild has to take much credit for the Doors sound.
	♥ 4:39pm coelacanth∅: sorry i had to leave for soft parade before Larry! i just can't stand most of it...though you did play one of the 2 songs i like from it. (wishful sinful; the other one, wild child)
	🥁 ♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I agree, Rothchild has a lot to do with shaping their sound
	🥁 ♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: @C - I dig, def not everyone's cup of tea, but that's OK
	🥁 ♥ 4:43pm Funky16Corners: This is a garage band from Ohio
	🥁 ♥ 4:44pm Funky16Corners: And you can tell they learned the lyrics (incorrectly) from the record
	♥ 4:45pm coelacanth∅: ...there is that introduction to (the incohesive amalgam of scraps of ideas that became) the title track. when that came on when i had friends over i pushed it beyond the perpetually pushing it with my mother, who was always stewing in the other end of the apartment, and turned it up as loud as my system would go "YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!" -and everyone freaked for a minute!
	🥁 ♥ 4:47pm Erica: Breakonthroughtotheotherside.
	🥁 ♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: I'd love to know where Morrison got that.
	4:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cigarette / Forget in fact lifted from Van & Them's 'You Just Can't Win'. Soul Kitchen just makes explicit to me the doors presented this whole aspect of Psychedelia that was not flowers. The THC more than the CBD as it were.
	♥ 4:49pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: back when The Simpsons were still good, Krusty the Clown did a kick-ass "Break On Through"
	🥁 ♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: @Rev - They were the darkest band on their scene
	🥁 ♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: @Photocopy - There was a hilarious parody of Break On Through I used to hear on the radio but I couldn't find it
	4:50pm still b/p: Julie sounds like Mama Cass in occasional lines but not in others.
	🥁 ♥ 4:50pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): one just never really knows what one might find on WFMU. Howdy!
	4:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & People Are Strange even more so. It brings Btecht all the way to the kiddies - or it did for me. I mean - that's still a feat.
	♥ 4:51pm Doug Schulkind: Coming up in a couple of hours, Scott McDowell and The Long Rally will be filling in for Explorers Room, here on the Drummer Stream! MEET UP HERE: wfmu.org...
	🥁 ♥ 4:51pm Funky16Corners: Hey Granny!
	🥁 ♥ 4:51pm Brian in UK: The Doors go Weill/Brecht.
	🥁 ♥ 4:52pm Sem: Oh, hell yes. Merry. Been too long. Thanks, Larry, for the shows you do. See you and all next time, on the other side.
	🥁 ♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - That Julie Budd album is pretty interesting considering where her career took her later on
	🥁 ♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: My pleasure, Sem!
	4:53pm Leslie: While I enjoy all the musical knowledge on here, IMHO, the Doors are awesome and for someone who discovered them at 11/12, still loved. nuff said.
	4:53pm Leslie: Oh and Larry, GREAT show!
	🥁 ♥ 4:53pm Brian in UK: Thanks Larry for keeping it lively. Stay safe everyone.
	🥁 ♥ 4:54pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Leslie, Brian!
	🥁 ♥ 4:56pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry! Have a great weekend!
	4:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: If nothing else today - Letterman do doors ! : D
	🥁 ♥ 4:56pm dutchtheo: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:58pm coelacanth∅: that Merry Clayton album gets some regular play over here
	♥ 4:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! take care y'all
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks all! Have a great weekend!
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm Yvang: Thanks! Magic Show!
	♥ 4:59pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: thanks larry, stay alive people!
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm Erica: Great Doors show. Got me into the Doors more than I already was. Until next week!
	🥁 ♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Yvang! Photocopy! Erica!

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July 16, 2020: Testify! - Opening the Doors, with their own sounds a selection of covers.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Jose Feliciano	Light My Fire "Light My Fire" by "Jose Feliciano"	45RPM Single	RCA	1968	45	0:01:10 (Pop-up)
Jackie Wilson	Light My Fire "Light My Fire" by "Jackie Wilson"	Do Your Thing	Brunswick	1968	LP	0:04:43 (Pop-up)
Rhetta Hughes	Light My Fire "Light My Fire" by "Rhetta Hughes"	45RPM Single	Tetragrammaton	1968	45	0:07:33 (Pop-up)
Shirley Bassey	Light My Fire "Light My Fire" by "Shirley Bassey"	Something	United Artists	1970	LP	0:10:24 (Pop-up)

The Doors	Soul Kitchen "Soul Kitchen" by "The Doors"	The Doors	Elektra	1967	LP	0:20:45 (Pop-up)
The Doors	20th Century Fox "20th Century Fox" by "The Doors"	The Doors	Elektra	1967	LP	0:24:07 (Pop-up)
The Doors	I Looked At You "I Looked At You" by "The Doors"	The Doors	Elektra	1967	LP	0:26:36 (Pop-up)
The Doors	Love Me Two Time "Love Me Two Time" by "The Doors"	Strange Days	Elektra	1967	LP	0:28:52 (Pop-up)
The Doors	Moonlight Drive "Moonlight Drive" by "The Doors"	Strange Days	Elektra	1967	LP	0:32:05 (Pop-up)
The Doors	When the Music's Over "When the Music's Over" by "The Doors"	Strange Days	Elektra	1967	LP	0:35:03 (Pop-up)
	a song					0:44:19 (Pop-up)
The Doors	Love Street "Love Street" by "The Doors"	Waiting For the Sun	Elektra	1968	LP	0:51:16 (Pop-up)
The Doors	Wintertime Love "Wintertime Love" by "The Doors"	Waiting For the Sun	Elektra	1968	LP	0:53:59 (Pop-up)
The Doors	We Could Be So Good Together	Waiting For The Sun	Elektra	1968	LP	0:55:48 (Pop-up)
The Doors	Tell All the People "Tell All the People" by "The Doors"	The Soft Parade	Elektra	1969	LP	0:58:08 (Pop-up)
The Doors	Wishful Sinful "Wishful Sinful" by "The Doors"	The Soft Parade	Elektra	1969	LP	1:01:24 (Pop-up)
The Doors	The Soft Parade "The Soft Parade" by "The Doors"	The Soft Parade	Elektra	1969	LP	1:04:19 (Pop-up)
The Doors	Waiting For the Sun "Waiting For the Sun" by "The Doors"	Morrison Hotel	Elektra	1970	LP	1:12:56 (Pop-up)
The Doors	Blue Sunday "Blue Sunday" by "The Doors"	Morrison Hotel	Elektra	1970	LP	1:16:46 (Pop-up)
The Doors	The Spy "The Spy" by "The Doors"	Morrison Hotel	Elektra	1970	LP	1:18:55 (Pop-up)
The Doors	The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)	LA Woman	Elektra	1971	LP	1:23:03 (Pop-up)
The Doors	LA Woman "LA Woman" by "The Doors"	LA Woman	Elektra	1971	LP	1:27:16 (Pop-up)

Freddy Cannon	20th Century Fox "20th Century Fox" by "Freddy Cannon"	45RPM Single	Warner Brothers	1967	45	1:40:08 (Pop-up)
The Lime	Soul Kitchen "Soul Kitchen" by "The Lime"	45RPM Single	Westwood	1967	45	1:42:25 (Pop-up)
Mike Curb and the Waterfall	Break On Through	The Doors Songbook	Forward	1969	LP	1:46:16 (Pop-up)
Julie Budd	People Are Strange "People Are Strange" by "Julie Budd"	Child of Plenty	MGM	1968	LP	1:48:19 (Pop-up)
Merry Clayton	Tell All the People	Gimme Shelter	Ode	1970	LP	1:50:25 (Pop-up)
The Lettermen	Hello I Love You "Hello I Love You" by "The Lettermen"	Put Your Head On My Shoulder	Capitol	1968	LP	1:53:16 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:59:22 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 3:01pm Doug Schulkind: Bestify!
	🥁 ♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug!
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm Julie: Hey guys!
	3:03pm still b/p: I do like this. I do.
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Julie!
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: SBP!
	3:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: doors on FMU is always particularly delicious - gotta hang see where this goes.
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	🥁 ♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: Rev! Doc!
	🥁 ♥ 3:05pm Julie: there is no denying the doors influence on goth
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: This is true.
	3:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Written by Robbie not Jim funnily enuff.
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm Yvang: Two of a kind!
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Robbie wrote a bunch of their best songs.
	🥁 ♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Yvang!
	🥁 ♥ 3:07pm Jeff Ash: Greetings from Wisconsin!
	🥁 ♥ 3:07pm WR: Lunch break, dipping into the stream. Hi all.
	🥁 ♥ 3:07pm Yvang: Hi Funky16th of July!
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR!
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Jeff!
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Funky! Tuning in while working today! :)
	🥁 ♥ 3:08pm dutchtheo: Hello Larry and all, let's see how much doors i can handle.
	3:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...on Iggy, Alice, Bowie - I'd venture Ozzy! Though I've never heard it...in case they mattered to anyone... Love, Bunnymen, Cope, Mazzy on & on...
	🥁 ♥ 3:09pm Funky16Corners: Theo! Candy-O!
	🥁 ♥ 3:10pm Erica: I'm tuning in.
	🥁 ♥ 3:11pm Erica: I had to take care of some things before chatting.
	🥁 ♥ 3:11pm Funky16Corners: Hey Erica!
	🥁 ♥ 3:17pm Erica: The Doors in my opinion were more dark psychedelic rock than jazz or pop.
	♥ 3:18pm coelacanth∅: hey Larry and all
	🥁 ♥ 3:18pm Erica: Not counting their later stuff.
	🥁 ♥ 3:21pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	♥ 3:22pm Little Danny: Hey Larry 'n' all
	🥁 ♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I don't count ANY of that later, Morrison-less stuff
	3:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & who influenced them? Jazz, Zombies, Stones, Them...
	🥁 ♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	🥁 ♥ 3:23pm Funky16Corners: Zombies, Coltrane, Stones, Brecht-Weill, Sinatra and on and on
	3:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Nice.
	🥁 ♥ 3:23pm Funky16Corners: Robbie Krieger was an acoustic guitarist until shortly before the band came together
	♥ 3:23pm CHUCK ROAST: Saw them in "67 at a dance. Annapolis national guard armory.
	♥ 3:24pm Little Danny: I'm one of the few music people I know who doesn't have a strong opinion on the Doors. I like them, and I like some of their songs.
	🥁 ♥ 3:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey Chuck! Really?! What was it like?
	3:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Jim opened Crooning to my mind - & as a gittardiddler who doesn't use a pick Kreiger is a brother...
	🥁 ♥ 3:25pm Yvang: Their first LP sounds so good!
	🥁 ♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I had a regular listener e-mail me this morning saying that were going to have to recuse themselves fro this episode because of their feelings about the band. I knew that was going to happen
	🥁 ♥ 3:26pm Funky16Corners: @Yvang - That first LP is still as exciting as hell. Just brilliantly written, performed. produced all the way around.
	♥ 3:26pm coelacanth∅: i have strong opinions about the doors but i don't love or hate the band in general. i really love a lot of it and pretty much hate some of it.
	♥ 3:26pm Little Danny: Haha, I believe it, Larry. They're very divisive, it seems.
	3:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I also ended up in SoCal for a while - so there's that...
	♥ 3:27pm CHUCK ROAST: Dress code. Girls in skirts or dresses, guys, jackets and ties.
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - I think a lot of is is generational. Whether you heard them the first time, were exposed to the wave following No One Here Gets Out Alive, saw The Doors movie or even later. There are a wide variety of reactions to Morrison and to Doors fandom as well
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Yvang: I believe the Doors were badly hurt by the Oliver Stone's biopic
	🥁 ♥ 3:28pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, I can't stand it
	🥁 ♥ 3:29pm Yvang: which I found really bad
	3:29pm Leslie: I once had all the Doors albums, with the exception of the Lizard King, bur due to life circumstances, had to sell them. All were original, and one of my deepest regrets
	♥ 3:29pm coelacanth∅: the whole firat album is good and some of it straight up brilliant. same with their last album. (la woman) everything in-between is patchy.
	🥁 ♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: Hey Leslie!
	♥ 3:30pm Little Danny: @Larry: most definitely. I shoulda added that most people born after 1990 or so probably don't have much of an opinion
	♥ 3:31pm coelacanth∅: ...actually strange days is all good; just a little weaker than the first. horse latitudes is one of my favorite songs.
	♥ 3:31pm CHUCK ROAST: Movie not so good, Kilmer brilliant.
	🥁 ♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - They were pushed back into pop culture so many times
	3:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Apocalypse Now really resurrected them with the populace is how I remember it. Which was fitting enuff I think... I happened to be someone who listened to Albums.
	🥁 ♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: I think that people started to feel (righteously) that they were being force fed the legend
	3:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Classic Rawk format. Corporate Radio playlists.
	🥁 ♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: Yes, but even then they were only getting the most obvious stuff
	♥ 3:33pm Little Danny: I heard (and really dug) "The End" long before I saw Apocalypse Now. But the movie instantly and indelibly shaped my experience of that song. It all worked out.
	🥁 ♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: Apocalypse Now is till one of my fave movies of the 70s, and Coppola really made good use of the song
	3:34pm still b/p: Stone's attempts to capture head trips felt pretty conventional and unaffecting. And like many biopics, it became a cycle of main figure behaving badly, then a little more stuff, then main figure behaving worse...on and on. Maybe not inaccurate, but not too interesting.
	3:34pm Leslie: The Door's first album was my 2nd lp, bought for me by my dad. I still love the Doors, the movie sucked as did Kilmer. I used one of their songs for an English paper in 9th grade, about desolation.
	🥁 ♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: I saw it twice in the theater when it first came out
	♥ 3:35pm Little Danny: "Indian Summer" I think remains my single favorite Doors song.
	3:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well Corporate Radio - exactly - the obvious stuff. A taste killer & a culture divider & ghetto-izer.
	♥ 3:35pm coelacanth∅: i never paid much attention to "the legend". and never watched apocalypse now or any other movie with the doors in it.
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Erica: Never had a Doors lp but I've seen one at a yard sale. Didn't buy it though.
	🥁 ♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: I sued to love Oliver Stone. I presently regard him as a jackass.
	♥ 3:36pm Little Danny: Don't mean to jump all over your show with my dumb opinions, Larry. I'm really digging everything you've played thusfar!
	3:36pm Leslie: I saw it in an airplane going over the Atlantic on the way to Spain (honeymoon).
	🥁 ♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: Danny, go right ahead! I didn't perceive it as jumping at all!
	🥁 ♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: @Leslie - Which movie?
	3:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Rawk Stars are such singular & charismatic Personas that Drama is gonna be 2nd best. Give me a good Documentary & hope for the best. I like 'When You're Strange' well enough.
	3:39pm Leslie: The one with Kilmer - never watched Apocalypse.
	🥁 ♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: I think - now that Manzarek is gone - someone should mount an attempt on a Morrison doc. It could use some reflection and sober (no pun intended) commentary. None of that shaman shit.
	3:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: But for the direct experience of the doors Live - which is something the studio work is not - it's 'The Doors Are Open'.
	🥁 ♥ 3:41pm Sem: Glad I got here before the music was over. Hiya, Larry the G, and all.
	🥁 ♥ 3:42pm Funky16Corners: @Leslie - I would suggest - if you ever do watch Apocalypse Now - you avoid the "director's cut", which fouls up a perfectly wonderful movie.
	🥁 ♥ 3:42pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	3:42pm Leslie: I don't know, or care about shaman crap, as a female young teen, he was sexy and I loved the music.
	3:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Compare it in most of these ways to what The Who mean to different people.
	🥁 ♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: @Leslie - That's really the bottom line. He was a great performer, and visual icon
	3:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think you have to credit the Writing & Singing as well - & that's just Jim.
	🥁 ♥ 3:46pm WR: I have no idea about rest of world perception about Morrison & the Doors. Many in my peer group, including me loved the first 3 albums. Some mixed reception on Soft Parade and not sure what to think about Morrison Hotel. In late fall of '70 several of my friends were going to see them. I, the only one who had not seen them before, showed up and didn't have a ticket and no money, so I declined to take a loan and see if I could get a ticket at the door. I opted instead to wait at their apartment watching a huge jack 'o lantern melt. Though it turned out to be one of the last shows with Morrison, I sorta think it was best to not see only the end.
	🥁 ♥ 3:47pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry, Hello father, yes son, I want to tickle you. Tee Hee. Waiting for the Sun was a great demo album.
	3:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Patti Smith - another effected by Jim.
	🥁 ♥ 3:49pm dutchtheo: hey Brian, happy birthday!
	♥ 3:49pm coelacanth∅: WR that''s kind of a bummer! i've had a few similar experiences.
	🥁 ♥ 3:49pm Erica: The End was also used in the Simpsons. Break on Through (To the Other Side) is also overplayed Larry.
	3:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Remember their 1st was out before there was even a Sgt. Pepper.
	🥁 ♥ 3:50pm Brian in UK: The Doors, Elektra's first No.1. dutchtheo, man, you are on the ball. Raising a glass of eau de vie to you, my friend.
	♥ 3:51pm coelacanth∅: to be honest the best part of light my fire is the instrumental 2nd 1/2. i always thought that but grew to still love that part of the song, and barely tolerate the verses.
	🥁 ♥ 3:51pm dutchtheo: cheers, i have a cup of tea,... for now
	🥁 ♥ 3:52pm Brian in UK: I am the lizard king I eat at burger king.
	♥ 3:52pm coelacanth∅: Brian, more like waiting for the sun was a great 2/3 of a demo album!
	🥁 ♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	🥁 ♥ 3:53pm Funky16Corners: @Rev - I remember Patti Smith writing about Morrison in Creem
	🥁 ♥ 3:53pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Another one I didn't play!
	♥ 3:54pm coelacanth∅: i'm so glad i don't watch all this crap so the end i still regard very highly.
	🥁 ♥ 3:54pm Brian in UK: coel, yes so where is my copy? Lost in a move. Larry, this is bold for FMU. FREEFORM FOREVER.
	🥁 ♥ 3:55pm Funky16Corners: Brian - I am known for my boldness (and little else)!
	3:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I'd like to see Nick Cave admit the doors - but with Elvis & Iggy it's a small world. Joy Division & the Bunnymen like to say they were about Iggy & Bowie & recognized themselves in the doors after the fact. Don't quite buy it. I'd argue the doors are so fundamental & early it's hard to image even Mark E. Smith without them - but what if (not) is always only an exercise...
	♥ 3:55pm coelacanth∅: my waiting for the sun is probably still in near-mint condition.
	🥁 ♥ 3:57pm Funky16Corners: @Rev - Ian McCulloch is like the guy on Maury Povich denying the paternity of a kid that looks like a miniature version of himself
	♥ 3:57pm Little Danny: RRNov63: Fascinating. I'd never thought of Mark E. Smith in the context of the Doors but I know what you're sayin'.
	🥁 ♥ 3:58pm Brian in UK: Pop music has many faces.
	♥ 3:58pm coelacanth∅: Thank you for not playing hello i love you. (i'm faithful) and i hope you play my favorite song from this album, spanish caravan.
	♥ 3:58pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Hey there! I LOVE THE DOORS.
	3:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Robbie song here & it shows.
	🥁 ♥ 3:59pm Funky16Corners: Hey Photocopy!
	♥ 3:59pm coelacanth∅: the soft parade. i'll be back.
	🥁 ♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: @Rev - I think Robbie's legacy is clouded because the first three albums are all shared songwriting credit to the whole band
	♥ 4:00pm Little Danny: "MacArthur Park" vibes
	🥁 ♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: @C - No Spanish Caravan today (but I'll def play it in the future). Def no Hello I Love You...
	🥁 ♥ 4:00pm doctorjazz: This stuff definitely sounds better to me now than it did at the time (Soft Parade was especially when I had enough). But fun to hear now...
	♥ 4:01pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Dunno about Nick Cave & the Doors - except didn't they (Boys Next Door or an earlier band w/Cave & Harvey) do a cover version of Five To One?
	4:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Was the doors' improv LSD ethos to share credits. Can't be emphasized enuff that Live there were whole other things happening.
	🥁 ♥ 4:02pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I'm convinced I took a pass on The Soft Parade when I was a teen because it has "soft" in the title.
	🥁 ♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: @Rev - I think the shared credit was more of a democratic impulse
	🥁 ♥ 4:04pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - Which one is like MacArthur Park?
	🥁 ♥ 4:05pm Funky16Corners: Maaaan, I can't tell you how many times drunken, teenage Larry did a dramatic reading of that opening....hooooboy
	🥁 ♥ 4:05pm Brian in UK: It is amazing how many albums groups made in the Sixties in such a short time compared to now. Ofcourse touring did not make money then that it does now. tour your latest record or one you made fifteen years ago. Is this Elmer Gantry?
	🥁 ♥ 4:06pm Funky16Corners: There are so many groups that were cranking out two or three amazing albums a year back then
	♥ 4:07pm Little Danny: "Tell All the People." I thought I heard a bit of "MacArthur Park" in it. (Or possibly some other '60s pop hit.)
	🥁 ♥ 4:07pm Funky16Corners: Probably wading in the same musical stream!
	♥ 4:08pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: God Bless pre-1970s limited studio technology - in spite of studio experiments, things were done on time.
	🥁 ♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, no Fleetwood Mac and a mountain of cocaine nesting in the studio for a year
	4:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: After Sgt. Pepper everyone had to take a shot @ the Big Studio Statement. Their mates Arthur Lee & Love picked up in everyone else's example & got it about perfect on 'Forever Changes' - which I think of as a sibling to 'Soft Parade' ...
	🥁 ♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: I don't think anybody (Beatles included) got it better than Forever Changes
	🥁 ♥ 4:11pm Brian in UK: Here comes the curmudgeon, I can still play all Love, Elektra albums without sounding dated. Either way, long live Jac Holtzman, a huge influence on my listening habits back then.
	4:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Remember the Big Venues & Arena Tours were completely new to Rawk then! Morrison & the doors adapted their cinematic club intimacy best they could...
	🥁 ♥ 4:14pm Brian in UK: Larry, ref Forever Changes, anything that still sounds contemporary after fifty years is tops and hardly any electricity. Just have to hear the start of Alone Again Or to be transported.
	🥁 ♥ 4:14pm Funky16Corners: I have to say, a lot of the posthumously released live stuff holds up pretty well. Morrison was an entertainer, even when he was disintegrating.
	🥁 ♥ 4:14pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Forever Changes is by far my favorite album of all time. And that hasn't changed in years.
	🥁 ♥ 4:15pm Brian in UK: Love you Larry.
	🥁 ♥ 4:15pm Funky16Corners: It used to confuse the hell out of me that this song wasn't on the album of the same name
	🥁 ♥ 4:15pm Funky16Corners: Love you back Brian!
	♥ 4:15pm coelacanth∅: Larry @4.00 i know that you plan your programs out meticulously or i would've waited to mention spanish caravan! i think suggesting songs to a show host unsolicited is like implying they can't handle it themselves. ...maybe i'll catch it when you do play it some day
	4:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: But I still find it disingenuous everyone embraces Love - & will not even consider their siblings the doors.
	🥁 ♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: @C - No worries whatsoever! I don't mind suggestions at all.
	🥁 ♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: @Rev- Yeah, I feel the same way about Doors vs Velvets
	♥ 4:17pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: If I should start rating The Doors' albums, Morrison Hotel would easily make it to the upper half of the list. This song (Waiting For the Sun) was very cathartic for me as an 8-year old kid, even if I had very little idea about the lyrics (English not being my first language, young age and all)
	🥁 ♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: Fortunately John Cale had better things to do than spend the rest of his life in documentaries pushing for Lou Reed's sainthood.
	4:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ha!
	🥁 ♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: @Photocopy - I agree. I think that the Doors did something a lot of bands were incapable of: they matured
	♥ 4:19pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Well, John Cale had a better solo career than Lou Reed in my opinion
	♥ 4:19pm coelacanth∅: yup. a lot of prejudice. though i think forever changes floats above any doors album, the doors put out more great songs through the course of their career, in my opinion. (do i have to say "in my opinion" every time i'm stating something that's obviously an opinion?!)
	🥁 ♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: I have to say, for all my ragging on Ray Manzarek, I used to find him amusing. It got grating after a while. Still utmost respect for his playing.
	🥁 ♥ 4:21pm Erica: I thought the Doors music was always mature from the start Larry
	4:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The doors' debut & 'Forever Changes' are both in my Top20 Albums Ever.
	🥁 ♥ 4:21pm Erica: I thought the Doors music was always mature from the start Larry.
	🥁 ♥ 4:21pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I do too, but they aged well, like a fine wine
	♥ 4:22pm coelacanth∅: despite whatever else Ray was always a superb musician -in every sense. and not a bad singer.
	🥁 ♥ 4:22pm Yvang: Even though the fine wine did some damage to Jim
	4:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& 20 albums is like - nothing.
	🥁 ♥ 4:23pm Eric rea: Oops double post.
	🥁 ♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, if you want my Top 20 you'd better specify a genre and a time period, and then an hour for me to think
	♥ 4:24pm coelacanth∅: my favorite doors album. (speaking of maturing)
	♥ 4:24pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Also I am completely biased, as Morrison Hotel is the first Doors album I heard. It did the job for me - even the Oliver Stone movie making Doors fans of my moronic class"mates" could not drive me away from the music - I actually heard the 2., 3. & 4. album only then, in my early teens.
	🥁 ♥ 4:25pm Funky16Corners: An aside, the Doors have some pretty spectacular album covers. That Henry Diltz picture on Morrison Hotel is classic
	🥁 ♥ 4:25pm Funky16Corners: The quote in my yearbook! "No eternal reward will forgive us for wasting the dawn"!
	♥ 4:25pm coelacanth∅: i once applied for a job at the local rhino record store. the application said to name my top 10 favorite albums. i wrote down 20, which was very difficult.
	🥁 ♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: Were they weeding out bad taste?
	♥ 4:27pm coelacanth∅: i don't know but i'm not surprised i didn't get the job, and glad i didn't!
	🥁 ♥ 4:27pm Brian in UK: @coel, favourite album is a cinch, relatively, they never ask your favourite colour.
	🥁 ♥ 4:27pm Sem: Natal Day greetings and best wishes, Squire.
	4:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Good point on visuals. I mean - the actual Music of the psychedelic experience - there was no way the doors could not have been included for me. For 20 Albums - @ this stage I feel like the Beatles Remasters box is one album...but - digress...
	🥁 ♥ 4:28pm Funky16Corners: Happy Birthday Brian!
	♥ 4:28pm coelacanth∅: pick one favorite album?! !!! -i'd have to just lie! (and i don't have a favourite color either)
	🥁 ♥ 4:29pm Sem: People ask my favourite colour, I always say "plaid."
	🥁 ♥ 4:29pm Funky16Corners: Paisley!
	🥁 ♥ 4:30pm Funky16Corners: Houndstooth check!
	4:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Joyeux Cancerian Solar Return Brian !
	🥁 ♥ 4:30pm Brian in UK: Candy pink does it for me. A pink you could eat. Oh yeah. Thanks Larry.
	♥ 4:30pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Favorite three for me is a piece of piss: Morrison Hotel, The Doors & Strange Days.
	♥ 4:31pm coelacanth∅: i still have the original issue of la woman, with the cellophane window. (actually it left my possession, only to return when my brother died) it's not in great shape though.
	🥁 ♥ 4:31pm Brian in UK: Sem, I am honoured by your greeting.
	🥁 ♥ 4:31pm Erica: Happy birthday Brian!
	♥ 4:32pm coelacanth∅: oh Happy Birthday Brian!
	🥁 ♥ 4:32pm Brian in UK: I am in awe of your friendship. FMU rules.
	🥁 ♥ 4:33pm Funky16Corners: The way they explode out of this part of the song blows my mind
	♥ 4:33pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: Happy Birthday Brian - I love WFMU, it is the second time today I get to say Happy Birthday!
	♥ 4:33pm coelacanth∅: our band played this song. we were a punk band primarily but the bass player wanted to play the doors and yes, and we did. i was the only one that knew the lyrics but i had trouble drumming and singing this song simultaneously.
	🥁 ♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: I used to drum and sing this one!
	4:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Jim was into Canned Heat. He dug Blue Cheer...
	♥ 4:35pm coelacanth∅: nice! i had a few albums i played along to -la woman being one. i never practiced otherwise.
	4:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Its funny because now the doors are alcohol music to me.
	🥁 ♥ 4:36pm Brian in UK: Larry, great choice tonight, some people get a bit snooty about some musics. What the heck.
	🥁 ♥ 4:38pm Brian in UK: Paul Rothchild has to take much credit for the Doors sound.
	♥ 4:39pm coelacanth∅: sorry i had to leave for soft parade before Larry! i just can't stand most of it...though you did play one of the 2 songs i like from it. (wishful sinful; the other one, wild child)
	🥁 ♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - I agree, Rothchild has a lot to do with shaping their sound
	🥁 ♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: @C - I dig, def not everyone's cup of tea, but that's OK
	🥁 ♥ 4:43pm Funky16Corners: This is a garage band from Ohio
	🥁 ♥ 4:44pm Funky16Corners: And you can tell they learned the lyrics (incorrectly) from the record
	♥ 4:45pm coelacanth∅: ...there is that introduction to (the incohesive amalgam of scraps of ideas that became) the title track. when that came on when i had friends over i pushed it beyond the perpetually pushing it with my mother, who was always stewing in the other end of the apartment, and turned it up as loud as my system would go "YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!" -and everyone freaked for a minute!
	🥁 ♥ 4:47pm Erica: Breakonthroughtotheotherside.
	🥁 ♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: I'd love to know where Morrison got that.
	4:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cigarette / Forget in fact lifted from Van & Them's 'You Just Can't Win'. Soul Kitchen just makes explicit to me the doors presented this whole aspect of Psychedelia that was not flowers. The THC more than the CBD as it were.
	♥ 4:49pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: back when The Simpsons were still good, Krusty the Clown did a kick-ass "Break On Through"
	🥁 ♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: @Rev - They were the darkest band on their scene
	🥁 ♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: @Photocopy - There was a hilarious parody of Break On Through I used to hear on the radio but I couldn't find it
	4:50pm still b/p: Julie sounds like Mama Cass in occasional lines but not in others.
	🥁 ♥ 4:50pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): one just never really knows what one might find on WFMU. Howdy!
	4:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & People Are Strange even more so. It brings Btecht all the way to the kiddies - or it did for me. I mean - that's still a feat.
	♥ 4:51pm Doug Schulkind: Coming up in a couple of hours, Scott McDowell and The Long Rally will be filling in for Explorers Room, here on the Drummer Stream! MEET UP HERE: wfmu.org...
	🥁 ♥ 4:51pm Funky16Corners: Hey Granny!
	🥁 ♥ 4:51pm Brian in UK: The Doors go Weill/Brecht.
	🥁 ♥ 4:52pm Sem: Oh, hell yes. Merry. Been too long. Thanks, Larry, for the shows you do. See you and all next time, on the other side.
	🥁 ♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: @SBP - That Julie Budd album is pretty interesting considering where her career took her later on
	🥁 ♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: My pleasure, Sem!
	4:53pm Leslie: While I enjoy all the musical knowledge on here, IMHO, the Doors are awesome and for someone who discovered them at 11/12, still loved. nuff said.
	4:53pm Leslie: Oh and Larry, GREAT show!
	🥁 ♥ 4:53pm Brian in UK: Thanks Larry for keeping it lively. Stay safe everyone.
	🥁 ♥ 4:54pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Leslie, Brian!
	🥁 ♥ 4:56pm Jeff Ash: Thanks, Larry! Have a great weekend!
	4:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: If nothing else today - Letterman do doors ! : D
	🥁 ♥ 4:56pm dutchtheo: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:58pm coelacanth∅: that Merry Clayton album gets some regular play over here
	♥ 4:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Larry! take care y'all
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks all! Have a great weekend!
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm Yvang: Thanks! Magic Show!
	♥ 4:59pm Photocopy Cha Cha 2000: thanks larry, stay alive people!
	🥁 ♥ 4:59pm Erica: Great Doors show. Got me into the Doors more than I already was. Until next week!
	🥁 ♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks Yvang! Photocopy! Erica!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from July 16, 2020

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