Love

since it's valentines day (or moreso 3 days afterwards) I thought i'd talk about an emotion that's very dear to me

actually i'm joking

Love is the name of a 60's band that was better than The Doors! You better believe it! Love, like The Doors, were a psychedelic band from LA, signed to Elektra records, both had frontmen who were a bit on the edge from a combination of substance abuse and mad genius, and both blew my mind several times. 

except lets get one thing straight - it was Love who got the Doors signed to Elektra, and not only was Arthur Lee a poet genius like Morrison, but he was black! Dig that, Arthur Lee was the first psychelic black man, before Jimi Hendrix, before George Clinton, before Sly Stone, LOVE was an interracial band and because of that along they broke more boundaries than The Doors.

but anyway, we all know it's the music that matter most. Love albums, as a whole, were probably not as even as the best Doors albums, (except for Forever Change which i'll talk about in a sec). However Love's best songs are in my opinion better than the best Doors songs. 

listen to this, one of the greatest punk songs of the 60's:

fuck yeah! what an amazing song! Now go get yourself a copy of Forever Changes, their 67 release

really blew my mind out of the water when I first heard it

it looks like this:

and remember - John Densmore of the Doors said the goal of The Doors was to be as good as Love.

They weren't as good in the long run though they got close, but they did gain waaaaay more popularity.