Is there a version of "Touch Me" by The Doors out there somewhere without the fucking strings and horns?

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...Because, i think, you know, that'd probably rule.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 20 November 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Something live, maybe?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 20 November 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, you can't change this thing.
This is one song that is so
unspeakably cheesy, overblown and well, Vegas, that I should
hate it but i don't - i love it.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 20 November 2003 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

What you want is "Touch Me ... Naked."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 November 2003 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't for the life of me even begin to imagine why anyone would want ".... a version of "Touch Me" by The Doors.... without the fucking strings and horns"; however there are a couple of versions recorded live at the Aquarius Theatre, Hollywood available from Rhino Handmade / Bright Moonlight that might be worth checking out - I haven't heard them myself 'though, maybe someone else can confirm or deny whether or not they suddenly wheeled a small orchestra on stage for that one number?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 20 November 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that the "Immmm gonna lurve yew..." as seen on ed sullivan song?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 November 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 20 November 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I reckon the strings make the song; if you want similar stuff but without the orchestra, (on the off chance you don't have it already) get 'Waiting For The Sun'.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 20 November 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the strings and horns. They're what make the song.

― Jonathan Z., Thursday, 20 November 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The strings/horns are a bit of a misfire (especially considering what LA contemporaries like The Millenium, Love, Sagittarius, and David Axelrod were doing in their superior attempts to integrate strings into rock music). However, you can't discount the snazzy tenor sax break by the underrated Curtis Amy -- he has two really cool albums as a bandleader, "Way Down" and "Katanga" that fans of West Coast jazz should check out.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

You made my point! They should have put out a remix with Amy's horns double-tracked playing against one another, as on PE's "Fight the Power" B-side. Which I can't find anywhere on-line, btw.

― musicmope (musicmope), Friday, 21 November 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone remember the live video they sometimes played on MTV? If I remember correctly, during the middle "jam out" section, Morrison is rockin' out on the maracas, and then after the instruments drop out abruptly, he almost misses his entrance and knocks the maracas against the microphone with a hugely distracting *clunk*, completely ruining the effect of the silence.

I always wished that there was a version of "Touch Me" where Morrison sucks on helium right before his entrance of "COME ON COME ON COME ON COME ON...!!"

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 21 November 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

man "Touch Me" is great, easily one of their best songs.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 21 November 2003 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

why would anyone wanna get ridda the horn and strings?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 21 November 2003 06:30 (twenty-two years ago)

by the by, i kinda like the soft parade, precisely b/c it's a greasy blooz/psychedelic group trying to be a vegas-style lounge act.

and considering all the love around here for stuff like "macarthur park," the walker brothers, the tindersticks, and EATB's ocean rain (which is, essentially, the soft parade 15 years after the fact and as conceived by liverpudlians), i'm shocked of the slogging off of "touch me" (let along the song "the soft parade" itself).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 21 November 2003 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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