Alive, She Cried
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Alive, She Cried
- Artist: The Doors
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- Release Date: 1983 10
- Total Time: 37:02
- Type: Compilation (best of), Live
- Genre: Rock
Review
For the first 17 years of their history, the only official live Doors album was Absolutely Live, which had its virtues -- especially as it captured elements of their harder, more ambitious repertoire -- but also left more casual fans rather cold, owing to the absence of any of their biggest hits. Alive, She Cried helped solve that problem, including as it did a concert version of "Light My Fire" and also adding a legendary concert piece -- their rendition of Van Morrison's mid-'60s Them-era classic "Gloria" -- to the Doors' official Elektra Records discography. The release was extremely popular but it also revealed the reason why "Light My Fire" had not made it onto the prior live album, which was principally a matter of Jim Morrison's boredom with a song not his own that he'd performed too many times by 1970, and also owing to the fact that the band had done about 90 percent of everything they were going to do with the song in its original album version; Morrison is at his most inspired and involved on the "Graveyard Poem" that he interjects during the break, and everything else is an elaboration of the extended jam originally heard on the studio recording. [Alive, She Cried was later combined with Live at the Hollywood Bowl and Absolutely Live in the In Concert two-CD set.] ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi| Alive, Pt. 2 (2006 Album by Breed 77) | |
| Alive, Vol. 1 (2009 Album by Richie Furay) |
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Alive, She Cried
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| Live album by The Doors | ||||
| Released | October 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1968–1969-1970 in Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, Boston, Copenhagen | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock | |||
| Length | 36:59 | |||
| Label | Elektra/Musician | |||
| Producer | Paul A. Rothchild | |||
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Alive, She Cried is a live album by the American rock band The Doors; the title of the album is taken from a line in the song "When the Music's Over". The recordings are from various concerts during the period 1968–1970; they include "Gloria", originally a hit for Them, and an extended version of The Doors' best known song "Light My Fire". John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful joined the band on stage to play harmonica on Willie Dixon's "Little Red Rooster". The album was discontinued as 1991 saw the release of In Concert, a double-album which included all of the songs from Alive, She Cried and Absolutely Live, as well as a few other live tracks. The version of "Light My Fire" from this album is actually from a variety of sources. "The Graveyard Poem" is actually a recited poetry piece from Boston in April 1970. It was inserted into the break of "Light My Fire" for this album.
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Contents
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Track listing
Side one
- "Gloria" (Van Morrison) – 6:17
- "Light My Fire" – 9:51
- "You Make Me Real" – 3:06
Side two
- "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" – 1:52
- "Love Me Two Times" – 3:17
- "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 7:05
- "Moonlight Drive" Incl. "Horse Latitudes" – 5:34
Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Robert Christgau | B−[2] |
| Rolling Stone | [3] |
Allmusic's Bruce Eder rated Alive, She Cried three out of five stars. He explained that the album "helped solve [Absolutely Live's] problem" of "[leaving] more casual fans rather cold, owing to the absence of any of their biggest hits." However, he pointed out that "it also revealed the reason why "Light My Fire" had not made it onto the prior live album".[1] Robert Christgau gave the album a B-, stating that "the concert and sound-check tapes they've unearthed for the revival are of some quality". However, he also stated that "when [Jim Morrison] emits his poetry or deigns to lay his narcissistic come-on on an imaginary teeny-bopper, it is to duck."[2] Rolling Stone's Parke Puterbaugh rated it four out of five stars, explaining that it "brings [...] the Doors' impossibly strange and wonderful music, Morrison's drunken loutishness and his stabbingly sober poetics, and the brilliant, vivid sparking of a machine too mercurial to last." He concluded by stating that ""Light My Fire" [...] flares upward into an intensifying bolt of passion that crescendos with [...] a scream signifying the communal orgasm of a generation and a decade and a band that would flame out and fall silent all too quickly."[3]
Personnel
- Jim Morrison – vocals
- Robby Krieger – guitar
- Ray Manzarek – organ, keyboard bass
- John Densmore – drums
- John Sebastian - harmonica (track 6)
References
- ^ a b Eder, Bruce. Alive, She Cried - The Doors at Allmusic. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ a b Christgau, Robert. "Consumer Guide Review: Alive, She Cried". The Village Voice. Robertchristgau.com. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=8226. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ a b Puterbaugh, Parke (December 8, 1983). "Alive, She Cried by The Doors". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/alive-she-cried-19831208. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
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