Welp, I stopped writing these for another wide gap, as I went on a long, happy family vacation to affirm my central passion in all life as a husband and father - and I also caught up on the entirety of Game of Thrones from Episode 1 to current (Brienne of Tarth is the best and that's final). So now I'll be doing two-a-days to catch up for the time being. The commitments I get myself into...
"Love Me Two Times" is maybe the best Doors song. It epitomizes the unconventional instrumental choices they made for rock music - before there were even many instrumental conventions in rock music! The verse guitar riff is this bouncy piece of whimsy ostensibly emulating a blues riff, but it bends into absurdity. There is a harpsichord just shuffling away at the heart of it all. The drums are perfectly theatrical. They all shade into a palette of ultimate originality that Jim Morrison takes for a sleazy ride in an indelibly visionary vocal performance.
The triplets are cathartic.
This song is about a tryst - from the view of a sailor on his way out of town - to Vietnam. It is at once lurid and hyper politically cynical. It speaks to the simple human needs we have, and how those needs can be twisted into the dark procedures of a violent cataclysm - an orgy of violence. It's an episode of Game of Thrones.