Like a lot of folks my age, I went through a Doors phase around the time of No One Here Gets Out Alive, buying all of their albums in a two-month period near the end of 1980 — five of them in November — and yet, by the time that Rolling Stone came out with their infamous “He’s Hot, He’s Sexy and He’s Dead” cover a year later, I was already pretty much over the whole thing.
So when I lent someone at my work my entire Doors collection in exchange for three early Kinks albums — Kinks-Size, Kinks Kingdom and Kinda Kinks, so not even particularly good early Kinks albums — and neither of us ever bothered to mention trading them back, I felt like I’d won.
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