Darken My Fire: A Gothic Tribute To The Doors

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Cleopatra
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 741157078220
EAN: 0741157078220
ASIN: B00004L8B4

Release Date: 2000-02-29

Darken My Fire: A Gothic Tribute To The Doors

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Tracks:

Love Me Two Times - The Mission UK
L.A. Woman - Eating Crow
Hello, I Love You - The Newlydeads
Five To One - Alien Sex Fiend
Light My Fire - The Electric Hellfire Club
Strange Days - Spahn Ranch
Riders On The Storm - Ex-Voto
Peace Frog - Mephisto Walz
The Spy - Eerie Von
End Of The Night - Rhea's Obsession
When The Music's Over - Controlled Bleeding
People Are Strange - Nosferatu
The End - Rosetta Stone

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Album Description

Darkwave tribute to The Doors featuring The Mission UK 'Love Me Two Times', Alien Sex Fiend 'Five To One', Spahn Ranch 'Strange Days', Controlled Bleeding 'When The Music's Over', Rosetta Stone 'The End' and many more. Also includes a special remix from Kevin Haskins (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) of Eating Crows cover of 'L.A. Woman'. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

It moves me..........2007-02-17

I love love love this CD. I've been listening to it for almost 10 years now. I love the doors, but when I heard this alternative version I thought it was great. (I used to workout on the treadmill to it) It's fun to crank in the car too!

An ok tribute album.......2004-04-11

I have never really been crazy about The Doors. To me, some of their songs have a tendency to be too long. Secondly, I am not a classic rock fan. I bought "Darken My Fire" because I loved the two Madonna tribute albums and the Tori Amos tribute album that Cleopatra Records released a few years ago so I thought "Darken My Fire" would be something of interest. In general I think Cleopatra Records has gone overboard with the tribute albums and really needs to take a break from churning out more tribute albums. "Darken My Fire" is interesting to say the very least however I wouldn't rank it as good as the two Madonna tribute albums or even comes close to the Tori Amos tribute album. It just lacked the magic that I felt that the other tribute albums for Madonna and Tori Amos had. There were a lot of hits and misses. I loved The Mission Uk's interpretation of "Love Me Two Times". It was very dark and sinister. I also liked Nosferatu's "People Are Strange" (my favorite song by The Doors), and Mephisto Waltz's "Peace Frog". I didn't like The Newlydeads' "Hello, I Love You". Although I never liked the song to begin with but at least I thought The Doors' version was ten times better which is saying a lot. I wasn't wild about Eating Crow's "L.A Woman" or The Electric Hellfire Club's "Light My Fire". I think The Doors' music is like New Order and Depeche Mode, don't cover their music because no one can out do the original versions. Thanks to tribute albums like "Darken My Fire", I consider tribute albums nowadays so unbelievably cheesy and pointless.

Proto-goth!.......2003-10-03

Been WAITING for a buncha goths to make this exact album and honor these guys properly! A decent effort for Cleopatra. Some weak spots as usual (I would love to find one compilation that doesn't have the Electric Hellfire Club on it), but the stronger songs make the album worth buying, at least a used copy.

Standouts: LOVE Spahn Ranch's cover of "Strange Days". Athan Maroulis's gorgeous shot-of-codeine-syrup-on-the-rocks vocals pay just the perfect homage to Morrison's famous croon, but the tribal electrotweaker drums & thick synth backdrop make the song all their own. Love the Newlydeads-- they turn "Hello I Love You" into a sloppy batcave-rock number that should've been on the 'Return Of the Living Dead' soundtrack. And while I'm really not fond of techno, Alien Sex Fiend's gleeful trashing of "Five To One" just brings a warm glow to my heart.

I love the Doors originals and I love these modern interpretations. Cover songs that sound too close to the original are usually anticlimactic (viz. Echo & The Bunnymen's "People Are Strange" a billion years ago, technically flawless but hardly Bunnified at all). And I agree with the others here-- if you're a Doors purist, don't go buying ANY tribute albums, because tribute albums DO sound necessarily different from the original artist's sound. This is the idea: take the old influence and build something out of it. Long live Jim and vive le goth.

Even darker than the Doors?.......2002-05-10

Various groups perform gothic interpretations of Doors' songs in this CD; another way to describe the music, with its murky instrumental and bass line overlays, could be "gothic baroque." The best songs are those that most preserve the basic melodies while employing overlays that fit the texture of the song. This is definitely accomplished in "Strange Days," perhaps the strongest track, in which the atmosphere is preserved and embellished, and "Hello I Love You," in which The Newlydeads pretty much follow the original but intensify the rhythm blasts and sing more forcefully than Jim. "The Spy" interposes a supplemental fast-paced beat to contrast with the otherwise-followed slow tempo of the original. Lovely female vocals from Rhea's Obsession grace "End of the Night," which is very pretty and one of the best covers. "Peace Frog" is also strong, and the most regular-sounding rock number. Among the long cuts, "Riders on the Storm" is well-done, great synth, and "The End" is intermittently successful, but "When the Music's Over" is too much of a carbon copy of the original and the singing is wishy washy. Warning 1: "Light My Fire" and "LA Woman" are not so hot, with grungy vocals and blah truncated instrumentals, and the most glaring omission is "Break on Through"--inexcusable. Warning 2: Keep in mind that one thing everyone, even Doors detractors, agrees on is that The Doors are listenable. Such a fluid sound, no fuzz boxes, synth distortion, etc. This set, while interesting, is not very listenable, with mostly gruff vocals, some distortion, and heavy texture. While it may not be totally a case of not wanting to listen to this CD more than once, you probably will not have the impulse to put it on in most of your moods.

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