Today would have been Jim Morrison's 80th birthday!

He was pretty much a dick.

A talented dick, r1.

Nice-dicked dick.

Yes, I love The Doors, however unfashionable it may be these days. Morrison was over-the-top, pretentious, a drama queen... I mean, that's rock 'n' roll, isn't it? The Doors had a louche, campy, lounge-y thing about them that I adore; so different from any of the other "hippie" bands.

R4, I think Jim was at his most pretentious on the first album, all subsequent albums were less so (at least to me). Jim was a very good singer with a distinct voice. He could actually sing, unlike someone like Mick Jagger. And he was hot for a short time!

A fresh faced Jim Morrison participates in an educational promo in1964(almost 60 years ago) while at FSU.

He was a poet who also sang. Unfortunately he was living life to excess, drinking, drugging, not going to sleep. He got not surprisingly bloated for a while, but had lost weight and was drinking less before he OD'd in 1972, and joined the 27 Club.

R6 If that film is from 1964, that would make Jim 21. He is very youthful and looks like more a high school senior there.

I was just thinking of how the popularity of The Doors music has dipped quite a bit while Creedence is more popular now than their heyday. The Doors were the most popular American band of the 60s so that's pretty disappointing. They need some kind of movie or miniseries made to bring back interest in their music.

Viola Davis IS Jim Morison!

Pulled his dick out onstage! Happy to simulate fellatio on the guitarist also onstage! A great artist and poet. And they wonder why current shit isn't enthralling to some of us. Arrested for whipping it out!

jim had a hot and dirty ass but he couldnt live forever

Can we get an AI of the 80 year old version? TIA

You bitches are jealous

R6 One thing hasn’t changed: Florida State is a second-rate university in a state that doesn’t care about higher ed.

Picture taken by Andy Warhol in 1969, at the Madison Square Garden.

Anyone else love LA Woman (the album)?

R16, I know that's supposed to be a Warhol photo of Jim, but it doesn't look like Jim to me and Morrison was never photographed in that kind of Schott motorcycle jacket OR in a plaid shirt OR in what looks like wool trousers OR with what looks like an ordinary business-style belt, least of all at a Madison Square Garden show. And the two figures in the back look more early-mid 70s to me, especially the woman. My 2 cents.

Re Jim's 80th -- if you listen to YouTube videos isolating just his voice, particularly on more crooner-y songs like "Blue Sunday," you'll hear that he had a rich baritone, if totally untrained. It would have been amazing if he'd survived, protected and trained his voice, and branched out into other styles beyond blues and rock. Ah well.

Me R17. The title song is one of my all-time favorites.

R19, I love all the songs but Changeling is one hell of an opening track.

Yes, it is R19. My least favorite song on that album and my least favorite of all of their songs is Love Her Madly.

I also adore Hyacinth House.

Sorry, the above was meant for R20.

He had a good voice.

Well, that's where I got the information, r18. I have no idea if it's true or not.

That's definitely him. The angle and lighting is not ideal, but it's unmistakably Jim Morrison, before he grew that beard.

Not a big Doors fan but this song is so eerie especially when you know it mentions an actual serial killer

The Doors were the soundtrack of my hash infused youth.

Love Peace Frog, LA Woman, Riders on the Storm was especially great to listen to when high, People are strange, etc.

They got me through my freshman year at Berkeley…well, with a little help from hash, shrooms and acid🤠

So fucking gorgeous and a great voice - the perfect late 60s frontman. Shame it all went to shit fast.

Yes I'm a fan. Happy Birthday Jimbo!

Goofy but ripe as hell in his day. And by all accounts packing.

Mole, mole, mole!

Roadhouse Blues is a masterpiece.

I love Orange County Suite, one of his last songs. I agree that a lot of the Doors' music is enhanced by edibles.

Happy Birthday, but you probably didn't want to stick around to see 80...

Moonlight Drive, L.A. Woman, great songs. I always listen to The Doors. I love Robbys playing on Moonlight Drive.

Val Kilmer was beautiful as Jim in the Oliver Stone movie. The Doors were given a great revival by that flick.

I really hated that movie, but I thought Val Kilmer was great as Jim Morrison. Such an awful letdown that movie was.

"Light My Fire" is notated in the key of A Minor.[27] Ray Manzarek's keyboard playing descends from G to D Major, then goes to F and B-flat major; continuing onto the pitches of E-flat and A-flat major, before returning to the initial key of A Major.[28] This alternation was based on Johann Bach's "Two and Three Part Inventions",[29] but author Philip Clark has suggested that it may have been inspired by Dave Brubeck's compositions.[30] The extended solo arrangement is performed throughout the keys of A Minor and B Minor, the same chord progression used by John Coltrane on his cover version of "My Favorite Things".[31][32] According to Manzarek, the instrumental sections were an homage to John Coltrane whom the band admired.[33] Parts of the solos are polyrhythmic.[34]

r38, uhhhh, wtf?

R38, I never knew any of that; that's deep!

Ask Ted Gioia—he’ll tell ya