When the Music's Over
| When the Music's Over | |
|---|---|
| The Doors | |
| publication | 1967 |
| length | 10:56 |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| Author (s) | The Doors |
| Label | Elektra Records |
| album | Strange days |
When the Music's Over is a song by the rock band The Doors . The song was probably played in live performances by the band since May 1966 at the latest and was recorded for the album Strange Days in August 1967 . Various live performances of the song are documented on several audio recordings and some film recordings.
With this song, the Doors put a more than ten-minute work on the record as the express end , similar to The End on their first album The Doors . At 10:58 minutes it is the second longest piece of all six Doors studio albums after The End , the live version on The Doors in Concert even lasts 14:50 minutes.
reception
Characterized by the line of text "We want the world and we want it ... now!" ("We want the world, and we want it ... now!"), This song is considered by many to be the Doors' first political anthem. The lines “What have they done to the earth, what have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her "(" What have they done to the earth, what have they done to our beautiful sister? Destroyed and looted and tore open and bitten ") can be seen as an early engagement in rock music with environmental issues in response to, possibly Rachel Carson's book Silent spring ( Silent spring ).
The opening of When the Music's Over was sampled by the band Sublime for their song Cisco Kid , which appeared on the album Robbin 'the Hood .
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Ralf-Rainer Rygulla added the lines “Before I sink into the big sleep I want to hear the scream of the butterfly” in their anthology Acid , which brings together well-known authors from the American poetry scene such as Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs "(" Before I fall asleep I want to hear the cry of the butterfly) "from the lyrics of When the Music's Over .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Doors Performance Database: May 23, 1966 (Monday) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed November 17, 2014).
- ^ When the Music's over. (No longer available online.) The Doors, archived from the original on December 18, 2014 ; Retrieved December 18, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ben Fong-Torres (Ed.): THE DOORS by THE DOORS . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89602-785-6 , pp. 96 .
- ↑ Barry Allan Farber: Rock 'n' Roll Wisdom . Grennwood Publishing Group, Santa Barbara 2007, ISBN 978-0-275-99164-7 , pp. 123 .
- ↑ When the Music's over by The Doors. Songfacts, accessed December 18, 2014 .
- ^ Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Ralf-Rainer Rygulla (eds.): Acid . Rowohlt, 1983, ISBN 978-3-499-15260-3 .
