Strange Days is an album for the lost and the lonely. It will resonate with anyone who finds themselves thrust out of their comfort zone, regularly, wondering how on earth they got to their present predicament.

People are strange
When you're a stranger
Faces look ugly
When you're alone

You get the feeling that Jim Morrison, of course, would jump out of any comfort zone he found himself in as soon as he discovered he was in one. Until his later days, anyway, when he seemed to disappear into the massive comfort zone of three bottles of whisky a day.

All of the songs in this album have an element of isloation about them. Even the more romantic Moonlight Drive is hardly about getting down and having a party. The title track says it all:

Strange days have found us
Strange days have dragged us down

The album cover supports the message quite well. You can listen to the tracks and imagine having found yourself among all these strange people, all doing their strange things, and maybe all thinking that you are the one who's strange.

I was listening to this in my first year at University in Guildford and it fitted my mood perfectly. You can be at your loneliest when you're in a crowd and nobody really knows you.

When you're strange
Faces come out the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name

The last track of the second side, When the Music's Over, has a lot of Jim Morrison's poetic lyrics coming at you, sometimes fairly disjointed, but always evocative. What does he mean when he says "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection"? I think some of that becomes clear on his last album An American Prayer but for now it's nice to let that be a feed for your own thoughts.

Richard