The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #87099   Message #1636527
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
29-Dec-05 - 01:33 AM
Thread Name: Most Influential Album?
Subject: RE: Most Influential Album?
Fats and Jim Morrison are amazing on Silent Night...Holy Kingdom of the Death Adder. While Fats coaxes distorted feedback from a combination mellotron and banjo which he invented (the mellanjo), Morrison seduces the listener down a ghostly path littered with "cracked scotch pines oozing fragrant itching sap, cradling fractured ornaments like the crowns of crawling swamp-creatures" to the very graveyard of Christmas itself described : "Cold Holiday spirit groom courting the crouching bestial new year...at his feet let us lay a pantomime!".
Great listening for the entire family at this festive, and yet somehow depressing, season.