{"id":6972,"date":"2017-01-26T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T10:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2017-01-26T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T10:04:59","slug":"vinyl-respin-get-10-off-the-doors-and-forever-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/26\/vinyl-respin-get-10-off-the-doors-and-forever-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl Respin: Get 10% off The Doors and Forever Changes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each week, we respin a pair of classic records and offer you an amazing 10% off both of them. This week, we\u2019re going back to the Summer of Love with two classic records celebrating their 50th birthday this year: The Doors\u2019 self-titled debut and Love\u2019s Forever Changes.<\/i><\/p>\n

In 1967, the hippie movement was at its height. Young people across the globe embraced free love, anti-consumerism and sticking it to the man by growing their hair, moving into communes and taking a lot of illicit drugs. In the US, so many people moved to San Francisco that it was dubbed the Summer of Love.<\/p>\n

Music played a huge part in the movement, with the Monterey Pop Festival, The Beatles going full on psychedelic with Sgt Peppers<\/i> and the Mamas and the Papas providing the movement\u2019s anthem with San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in your Hair)<\/i>.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t all world peace and daisy chains though. In this week\u2019s vinyl respin, we\u2019re going to take a look at two of the year\u2019s darker psychedelic masterpieces: The Doors<\/i>and Forever Changes.<\/i>You can get 10% off each of them right now with the code RESPIN10<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Whether you think Jim Morrison was a seminal poet or wrote like a sixth former after a few cans of Carling, it\u2019s impossible to deny the huge influence The Doors\u2019 debut has had on rock music.<\/p>\n

Released at the very start of 1967, it takes many hallmarks of the hippy movement – the tripping out, the hunt for transcendence, the love – and presents them in a hard-edged blues and jazz-inspired freakout.<\/p>\n

Light My Fire<\/i>, the album\u2019s first hit single, is a good representation of the record as a whole. It\u2019s a mix of the traditional and the strange, starting off as a fairly standard ballad before segueing into a lengthy jazz-inspired organ and guitar solo jam.<\/p>\n

The record too is a mix of the normal and the strange, mixing fairly straightforward rockers like Break on Through<\/i>and I Looked at You <\/i> with trippy oddities like The Crystal Ship<\/i> and The End<\/i>, which remains possibly the only popular song to end with an extended rant about Oedipus. It even includes a cover of a Brecht song, Alabama Song<\/i> (Whiskey Bar)<\/i>.<\/p>\n