The Doors - Strange Days
2 October 1967
01. Strange Days
02. You're Lost Little Girl
03. Love Me Two Times
04. Unhappy Girl
05. Horse Latitudes
06. Moonlight Drive
07. People Are Strange
08. My Eyes Have Seen You
09. I Can't See Your Face In My Mind
10. When The Music's Over
To everyone reading this, specially metalheads who are now listening to all kind of revolutionary music and radical pieces in general: please let's not forget our roots, rock music is the main vein in our system, and I see people bashing real rockers for no particular reason, the rockers who changed the music into what it is today; that's exactly why I'm doing this review on a metal website… to show you all the actual origin of the music we are worshiping nowadays.
The Doors was surely an impressive band in their time, of course nowadays everyone gets naked on stage and all, but those days were different you know? This album is the actual proof of what I'm saying, "Strange Days" created the new "almost depressive" sound that is so common at the moment. It takes just one glimpse of the really dark and suicidal "Unhappy Girl" to realize Jim Morrison was really fucked up in the head and that he was able to make drastic pieces in matter of minutes; there's also the poetical and profound song called "When The Music's Over" which is also very sinister and mysterious. The album is covered with this kind of songs which actually can scare more than one due to the lyrical content and to the ominous atmosphere shown in the music.
Have you ever seen a cover this twisted? I'm a fan of Brutal Death and Grindcore in general, so I get to see a lot of sickening covers these days… but damn it, seeing this cover actually gives me the creeps, you can't see what's happening there, a midget dancing on a really miserable street with a fat dude carrying something we can not see, broken windows, gloomy atmosphere, that's creepy no matter what anyone says. And that's actually the concept of this album; Strange Days is all about eeriness and disturbing stuff in general, just hear the experimental and bizarre song called "Horse Latitudes", you can even hear a guy hitting something with a belt or a whip, don't ask me why but I really think that's odd.
Yes there's no metal in this album of course, but the guitar chords are really hard and tightened, and even though there's no bass-lines everything sounds wrapped and filled without gaps; we all know about the magnitude of Ray Manzarek (Keyboards) he is a master in creating environments of ANY kind, last but not least we have Jim Morrison, one of the most twisted and brilliant guys ever to walk the earth, a great band if you ask me.
Strange Days is a brilliant album, their best I think… if you're new with this band I suggest you to try this album you'll get classics such as "People are Strange" and "Moonlight Drive"; the other albums will mess your head way to much (for example "the soft parade" a really complex album)… so do you want to feel older and wiser? Get this album and hear it my friend.