The LA Woman Phenomenon

In a future post I will be discussing the “Dark Side of the Moon Phenomenon,” but for now I just want to present something that maybe only Doors fans will appreciate, which is why LA Woman just had to be the Doors last record.

Sowing the Seeds of Love

LYRICS
High time we made a stand & shook up the views of the common man
And the love train rides from coast to coast
DJ’s the man we love the most
Could you be, could you be squeaky clean
And smash any hope of democracy
As the headline says you’re free to choose
There’s egg on [...]

Journey to the Center of Your Heart & Mind (The Amboys vs. the Elevators)

Amazing song, huh?  That’s a young Ted Nugent playing guitar there.
Here are the lyrics of said song:
 
 Amboy Dukes The – Journey To The Center Of The Mind 
Leave your cares behind
Come with us and find
The pleasures of a journey to the center of the mind      
(CHORUS)
Come along if you care
Come along if you dare
Take a [...]

Moby Grape: OMAHA — An OM AHA (M)OMent

 

           You don’t have time to read, nor I to write a long post, so I’ll keep this brief.
           Been listening to the Grape.  Like you perhaps, I’d heard about them for a long time before I finally looked them up (on YouTube) and heard “Omaha,” which, like [...]

CAN MUSIC SAVE YOUR MORTAL SOUL?

 

 
 
 
[or] CAN (ROCK) MUSIC SAVE YOUR MORTAL SOUL?
(Don McLean”American Pie”; Lou Reed, “Rock and Roll”; Elvis Costello “Radio Radio” — see lyrics below)
 
 
        I got into rock music at age 11, the year I started going through puberty.  Before that I basically listened to everything except rock, though I had heard and [...]

An Early List of Songs and Themes for the Ministry

To be a rock and not to roll — Zep — I gotta roll, can’t stand still…
 Let it roll, baby, roll – The Doors (also Cars, REO)
 Lighten up while you still can — Eagles
 It’s better to burn out than it is to rust – Neil Young (“There’s more to the picture, than meets the eye.”)/Long [...]

“You Only Gotta Do One Thing Well” (Janis Joplin)

              
 
 
           YOU ONLY GOTTA DO ONE THING WELL

                           “CRY BABY” – Janis Joplin
 
 
   There are two studio versions of this song out there, the “alternate” with Janis’ famous cackling and at the end you [...]

Closer to Your Heart — Rush

 
 
                 Closer to Your Heart

              

    What is it that keeps us returning to the same piece of music time and again?  After hearing it once or twice, why would we need to hear it again?  I mean, before recorded music, people [...]

Triumph’s “Fight the Good Fight”

Triumph,
Triumph, “Fight the Good Fight” words and lyrics by Rik Emmett, on Allied Forces
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
(I Timothy 6:12)
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is [...]

Bob Dylan’s “Too Much of Nothing”

Bob Dylan,
Bob Dylan, “Too Much of Nothing”
Krishna counsels Dylan
Now too much of nothing
Can make a man a liar.
It can cause some men to sleep on nails
It can cause others to eat fire
Everybody’s always doing something
I heard it in a dream…
But it’s all been done before,
It’s all been written in the book.
And when there’s too [...]