#OTD #LAWeekly's #NewWave Music Album Chart for this week in 1981...

Early 80's faves including #BowWowWow at #1, U2 's #October at #3 and locals #SuburbanLawns' self-titled LP at #9.

"L.A. Woman" is a song by the American rock band #theDoors. The song is the title track of their 1971 album #LAWoman, the final album to feature #JimMorrison before his death on July 3, 1971. In 2014, #LAWeekly named it the all-time best song written about the city of Los Angeles. In 1985, fourteen years after Morrison's death, #RayManzarek directed, and #RickSchmidlin produced a music video for the song.
https://youtu.be/pDlx-ZUj9qs
The Doors - L.A. Woman - HQ (official music video)

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Some classic hate for classic #rock #music performers. Coming up on its ninth birthday, this #LAWeekly Jeremiad is absolutely excoriating.

#JerryGarcia's "candyass jamming" paved the way for "spineless hippie quasi-folk"

"[John] #Fogerty’s self-propelled legacy of sanitized bubblegum blues and all around douchery is unparalleled."

"David #Crosby’s appalling legacy of faux-folk rock epitomizes the worst of hippie-era dreck"

#Springsteen is a "lifeless groaner"

Enjoy!

https://www.laweekly.com/the-10-biggest-classic-rock-douchebags/

The 10 Biggest Classic Rock Douchebags - LA Weekly

While rock ‘n’ roll is necessarily classified as a form of pop music, it is actually an idiom whose radical, destructive primitivism established a new type of socio-cultural disorder. It’s about rejection of the status quo and celebration of the dis-imprisonment it instills. Always exploited for profit, rock’s unmanageable aspects...

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Just discovered that the LA Weekly used one of the photos of Cake that I took some years back.
#cake #laweekly #photography
#LAWeekly from July 3-9 2009 Michael Jackson