Jim Morrison vs. Mark Lanegan

Lanegan all fuckin' day and night.

Lanegan one of all-time faves so him

but the Doors rule, make no mistake

i like jim morrison, never got into lanegan

It's weird how much I like the two of the singers most influenced by Morrison--Iggy and Laengan--but I can't stand the Doors.

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Haven't cared about Lanegan since Screaming Trees' Even If And Especially When in 1987. Still care about Morrison, to some extent, despite his blowhardiness. And he had a much better band. So him.

I will defend the Doors 'til the day I die.

Lanegan

Tough. Not a huge Doors fan, was a huge Trees fan but not so much on Lanegan's solo stuff, and I beg to differ... a better band. I've had the opp to work with both Mark & Van, and Van's very gifted.

Mark's voice through a tube pre-amp, soloed up, is a deep dark valley w/much sonic space to explore. Of course so is Calvin Johnson's, but that''s a different argument.

Lanegan was a whiskey and Marlborough man, so I wonder what Morrison smoked, and is there's a textural difference between the Marlborough-men and the Camel-heads.

I'll also toss Kim Salmon's hat in the ring (Jameson, no smokes though).

Morrison smoked life itself.

Jim Morrison: JD & Marlboroughs. (Doors messageboard)

Was just thinking about how perfect the Strange Days LP is, so Morrison.

Agreed. I think Strange Days is a stronger album than the debut, in part because it contains the better closing epic: "When the Music's Over."

also doesn't contain any filler tracks like "Take It As It Comes"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/music/library/l/mark_lanegan_203.jpg http://soran.elb.net/barachiel/WiS/images/hellboy.jpg

Am I the only one who sees this?

Lanegan all the way

Lanegan needs to go with either longhair or the super-short look. That middle-of-the-road thing is just no good.

Mark's least successful songs are the ones where he comes closest to outright aping Morrison's style, but it seems like he (mostly) got over his Doors obsession by the early '90s. I can't think of anything on his solo albums that's as blatantly Doorsy as stuff like "Before We Arise" and "Closer" from Uncle Anesthesia, at any rate. Tim Hardin seems like a much more obvious inspiration for Mark's rootsier work, although vocally the two aren't all that similar.

Lately I think Mark's been going for a Roger B. Taney look. Surely I'm not the only one who sees this:

http://kevchino.com/graffix/bandphotos/photo-1532_1133181421_1133181421_MDL.jpg

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1864/october/roger-taney.jpg

Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli live in Berlin 24.1.09:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3NX28BL8

Bless them both. What a lovely pair of singers they make.

I'll vote against Jim Morrison in ANY showdown.

Katy Perry v. Jim Morrison? Perry FTW.

Jim Morrison v. Leonard Nimoy? Beam me up.

etc.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/aviano.jpg

I can remember more Morrison tunes off the top of my head, but Lanegan grips me more. Yet, I admit, I can only recall a handful of tunes, but maybe that's because my brain stopped absorbing things correctly sometime out of adolescence while everything I heard when I was 14 -- good and bad -- is stuck, stuck stuck...and won't leave...

Lanegan isn't a joke, so him. By a LOOOOOOOOOOONG way.

Hellboy looks more like Tom Waits to me.

Put the three of them together. Must be related.

Mark Lanegan looks like Will Ferrell's evil brother.

Lanegan's flavor saver looks a little off in that more recent pic.

xpost: Can't find it right now, but there is a picture of Waits with a pair of welders goggles pushed up onto his forehead that HAS to be the inspiration for Hellboy.

Lanegan isn't a joke, so him.

this is a good thing???

Bozo Dionysus forever!

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Bozo Dionysus forever!

Wonder what Morrison would've made of Bangs' essay. Anyway, yeah: "I see the bathroom is clear," etc.

there is a picture of Waits with a pair of welders goggles pushed up onto his forehead that HAS to be the inspiration for Hellboy.

Close enough?

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/lx/mark-lanegan-WI-0408-lg.jpg

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when is somebody going to make an animated gif of the executing corpse in the Day Today that says "Justice"

lol grunge.