{"id":39842,"date":"2006-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/stoned-immaculate-the-music-of-the-doors\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:20:13","slug":"stoned-immaculate-the-music-of-the-doors","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/stoned-immaculate-the-music-of-the-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoned Immaculate: The Music Of The Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s difficult to obtain a solid tribute album. At least half of the artists turn in lifeless or carbon copies of the original songs, and only occasionally does a cover come to life. The tribute to Led Zeppelin, Encomium<\/i>, showcases this well <\/a> .<\/p>\n

So I had low expectations going into Stoned Immaculate<\/i>, which brings together several modern rock artists, a couple of classic rockers, the remaining Doors and even Jim Morrison on a generous 17-track collection. The beauty of the collection is that it shows how much influence the Doors had on modern music. The downfall is that the Doors were never as good as everyone says they were.<\/p>\n

The collection starts off promisingly enough. STP turns in an STP-ized version of \u201cBreak on Through,\u201d and I’m ashamed to say that I prefer Creed’s rock version of \u201cRiders On The Storm\u201d to the original, likely because Mark Tremonti turns on the guitar heat about halfway through. And Smashmouth’s version of \u201cPeace Frog\u201d is almost as good as the original, albeit a little more pop.<\/p>\n

Days of the New turn in a solid, short rewrite of \u201cL.A. Woman,\u201d while Aerosmith does to \u201cLove Me Two Times\u201d what they did to \u201cCome Together.\u201d The Cult’s performance of \u201cWild Child\u201d far surpasses the original, although it’s still not a great song, and John Lee Hooker teams up with the original vocals for \u201cRoadhouse Blues,\u201d but what should have been a great song is subdued and annoying, save for the brief harmonica solo.<\/p>\n

Some of the songs try for a different approach and fall flat, like Oleander’s take on \u201cHello, I Love You\u201d and Train’s inexplicable reggae-pop version of \u201cLight My Fire,\u201d surely the worst remake of a classic I’ve heard since, well, Aerosmith’s version of \u201cCome Together.\u201d Ian Astbury lengthens \u201cTouch Me\u201d but only leaves the listener clamoring for the original, while Bo Diddley remakes \u201cLove Her Madly\u201d to decent results.<\/p>\n

Now, like any Doors album, there is weirdness to be found. For some reason, the compilers thought it would be a good idea to put Morrison’s spoken poetry to Doors backing tracks, evidenced on \u201cUnder Waterfall\u201d and \u201cThe Cosmic Movie.\u201d Sadly, Morrison’s poetry makes no sense, and the songs chosen would have been better as covers (I would have loved to hear \u201cFive To One\u201d done by one of these rock bands, for example). These tracks completely slow the momentum down, as does the Morrison\/Burroughs pairing \u201cIs Everybody In?\u201d that is neither entertaining nor worth listening to even once.<\/p>\n

Finally, Days of the New reappear to turn in \u201cThe End,\u201d and since I never liked this song to begin with, a 13-minute remake does not appeal. To their credit, the band keeps it interesting for a while, laying down a solid foundation, but they have nothing to build on and the song falls apart.<\/p>\n

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-Doors. I happen to like several of their songs and I can understand their cultural impact in their day. But I don’t think many of their songs are all worthy pieces of art that deserve to be held up as classics. For that matter, I never saw Morrison as a spokesman or hero -\u2013 just a literate druggie who only made sense to other literate druggies, and who pushed the envelope simply because he could. <\/p>\n

The album pays tribute to most of the good Doors songs, and offers a few fresh takes on some old classics. But the project as a whole, while paying tribute to the Doors’ legacy, is too uneven to be recommended except to fans and the curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":28397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5827],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-39842","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-various-artists","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39842"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}