An American Prayer
The American Prayer. Not an album, not just music, it is journey, a path on which Jim Morrison guides you through your greatest fears and joys. After all these years it is still a journey that is truly revealing, a trip where you leave your mind and give in to whatever Morrison asks of you. It is not just American, it is about the world, even if you have never heard of the album or even about The Doors(god forbid) everyone has heard parts of Morrison's words on The American Prayer.
It is a journey which you will never forget, it will force you to leave your body and the inhibitions of your mind to realize the world and its sorrows. Morrison celebration to stay etched unto eternity and beyond, he plays a storyteller, a poet, a friend, a guide, anything to make his celebration of his day truly wondrous. The album captures your mind, into a dream, into the strange mind of morrison himself, the music guiding you and helping you through to forget the world, its people and everything we know about. You close your eyes, and wonder, think not about the music, not about the words but that what Jim Morrison, the shaman, wants you to.
The reading that he gives on this CD is recorded on Morrison's birthday in 1970. And though it must be allowed that Morrison probably never intended for musical accompanyment to be added to his words the surviving Doors members have given great life to his words through their music. Jim is overtly vulgur in his recital, and asks his audience to do the same, to stand up and voice ther obscenities to the world including the sometimes silly remarks such as "Ode to my C**k." But it is this freedom on part of Morrison that gives his words such power, he often refers to religion and mythology, of The Dorrs interest in Oedipal complexes and the end of the world, of Thanatos against Eros, it is tragedy, it is copulation. Ultimately, it is realization; of flesh, of God, of the consumerism and material centered culture of the modern world, which holds us all in an eternal check - money beats soul - and ultimately destroys free will and spirituality.
Many call Jim's poetry just random words,pseudo-poetic crap , fueled by excessive drugs. These people have not paid attention to the full, the complete, the album cannot be seperated into songs, into pieces, it is meaningful only in its entirety. It is like Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Tommy" of The Who, an idea, an abstract that have defined generations.
It is a journey which you will never forget, it will force you to leave your body and the inhibitions of your mind to realize the world and its sorrows. Morrison celebration to stay etched unto eternity and beyond, he plays a storyteller, a poet, a friend, a guide, anything to make his celebration of his day truly wondrous. The album captures your mind, into a dream, into the strange mind of morrison himself, the music guiding you and helping you through to forget the world, its people and everything we know about. You close your eyes, and wonder, think not about the music, not about the words but that what Jim Morrison, the shaman, wants you to.
The reading that he gives on this CD is recorded on Morrison's birthday in 1970. And though it must be allowed that Morrison probably never intended for musical accompanyment to be added to his words the surviving Doors members have given great life to his words through their music. Jim is overtly vulgur in his recital, and asks his audience to do the same, to stand up and voice ther obscenities to the world including the sometimes silly remarks such as "Ode to my C**k." But it is this freedom on part of Morrison that gives his words such power, he often refers to religion and mythology, of The Dorrs interest in Oedipal complexes and the end of the world, of Thanatos against Eros, it is tragedy, it is copulation. Ultimately, it is realization; of flesh, of God, of the consumerism and material centered culture of the modern world, which holds us all in an eternal check - money beats soul - and ultimately destroys free will and spirituality.
Many call Jim's poetry just random words,pseudo-poetic crap , fueled by excessive drugs. These people have not paid attention to the full, the complete, the album cannot be seperated into songs, into pieces, it is meaningful only in its entirety. It is like Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Tommy" of The Who, an idea, an abstract that have defined generations.
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