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The Soft Parade is the fourth studio album by American rock band the Doors, released on July 18, 1969, by Elektra Records. Most of the album was recorded following a grueling tour during which the band was left with little time to compose new material. Producer Paul A. Rothchild recommended a total departure from the Doors' first three albums: develop a fuller sound by incorporating brass and string arrangements provided by Paul Harris. Lead singer Jim Morrison, who was dealing with personal issues and focusing more on his poetry, was less involved in the songwriting process, leaving guitarist Robby Krieger to increase his own creative output.
The album peaked at number six on the Billboard 200, but it failed to retain audiences in the UK and other European countries that their previous album, Waiting for the Sun, had succeeded in engaging. Three preceding singles, "Touch Me", "Wishful Sinful", and "Tell All the People", were included on The Soft Parade, with the former becoming another Top 10 hit for the Doors. Another single, "Runnin' Blue", also followed the album's distribution. Upon release, The Soft Parade was denounced by both music critics and the band's underground music scene followers, who viewed the album as the Doors' trending into popular music. Over time, historians have reassessed the album and its critical standing has slightly improved, but it is still widely considered the group's weakest effort with Morrison.
The phrase "The Great American Novel" has been around for a while. The The Oxford Learner's Dictionary (OALD) defines such as:
Along those lines, what American firearm would you think would be the "great" of a given decade or similarly time period? Why? Any you feel are evocative of a given...
(spittoon ping) Well howdy partners! How about a picture thread devoted to the wackiest, most outlandishly adorned, curious experimental designs, or otherwise oddball front-stuffers? According to Hoyle, gots to be:
From 19th or very early 20th century.
A muzzle-loader of some kind...
Thread title kind of says it; anyone order recently? I was looking around their site today and couldn't help but notice a couple revolvers (Astra and Llama) and an automatic (CZ) that at those prices would make decent "beaters" or "just cuz" pieces. But it has been an eternity since I've...
Ed Schieffelin was the prospector behind Tombstone, Arizona. He later met his fate here in south Oregon. The wife and I were talking about said character tonight, so google searches proceeded. Can anyone identify the long gun in this photograph from 1880? Thanks.
I've always found these neat-o. Not sure why. Maybe it is the penchant for light carbines and subguns and how the concept manifested in the mid-19th century. Anyway, I found it interesting, so passing it along. Cheers. :)
The latest edition of the periodical Guns of the Old West has an interesting article about westerns of the 1990s, dubbing said period as "the Second Golden Age of Hollywood Westerns". It covers such pictures as Tombstone, Unforgiven, Dances with Wolves, El Mariachi, etc. It also took a...