― o. nate, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J Blount, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I would agree with this, except that I find Morrison at his best to be a very charismatic vocalist and though he was responsible for lots of overblown lyrical conceits and probably the worst excesses of the band, he also provided an imagery and sensibility which was central to the band's overall effect.
― Jeff W, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (i forgot my blog password), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
That said, "LA Woman" makes my top ten list of great driving songs- and when the tune follows the Mojo jam by kicking right back into the initial melody, it is an exhilarating moment.
― Ryan, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
the doors became good when they stopped all the musical shaman-psychedelica horseshit and morphed into doing greasy bar-blooz.
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 June 2003 07:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tijn, Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
for covers, X, "Soul Kitchen"
― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:36 (twenty years ago) link
― person#0 (person#0), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
i mean, i hear the "here comes the sun" sample no problem, but that's the beatles, obviously. and the "fellas what fells what get ready i'm ready i think i'm gonna" is from "mama said knock you out" by ll cool j, and the "OVERDOSE" bit is from "once you understand" by think, but i don't hear no doors.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt (hyloolnuspstt), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― deekew (deekew), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
roffle
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link
How did I never answer this thread? Huh. Well, "Moonlight Drive" it is, with "L.A. Woman" a close second.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― edde (edde), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
(Answer to trivia question above: xgau.)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joek Poster (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 October 2006 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Incidentally, for real Rockist evangelism, please see the ongoing Marquee Moon thread. Now, there's a Great Rock Classic in the worst way.
― Soukesian (Soukesian), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Radio Free Albemuth (DocMartensBoots), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Diddumsismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Can we do a POX of Doors 'blues' songs? I know all the hits (and a few non-hits) but gravitate toward the 'greasy bar blues' Tad refers to upthread, like "Roadhouse Blues." What are the 'sleepers' of this ilk and on which album(s) do they appear?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 27 March 2009 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link
..they sound like a drawn-out, dull Question Mark and the Mysterians with a second-rate Vegas lounge singer droning idiotic gibberish that only the most severely stoned of the pretentious, goth literature-reading teenage crowd would think was anything resembling 'poetry.'
this is sooo otm. and sooo the reason why The Doors are better than the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, & Floyd combined.
― I am Robertson Speedo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 March 2009 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/perplexed_gorilla_small.jpg
― knive k (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 March 2009 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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― I am Robertson Speedo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 March 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
can't say that i love them more than the beatles, stones, zep & pink floyd combined, but i will say the doors are massively underrated by dudes on the internet
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Friday, 27 March 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
into your blue, blue, blues
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 March 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Every post on here needs to be changed to "Crystal Ship"
― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 27 March 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I tried going further with the Doors, and not a single one of their albums held up from start-to-finish. I only kept this reference comp I made from audiophile reissues - few tracks are faultless, but I still enjoy listening to the whole thing quite a bit:
1 Break On Through (To The Other Side) 02:292 The Crystal Ship 02:353 Twentieth Century Fox 02:344 Light My Fire 07:085 Back Door Man 03:346 The End 11:427 Love Me Two Times 03:188 Moonlight Drive 03:019 People Are Strange 02:1210 Hello, I Love You 02:1511 Touch Me 03:1812 Roadhouse Blues 04:0213 Peace Frog 02:5414 Land Ho! 04:0815 Love Her Madly 03:2216 L.A. Woman 07:5217 The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) 04:1618 Riders On The Storm 07:14
Most of it's already on the U.S. (i.e. single-CD) version of the 2001 compilation The Very Best of the Doors which Christgau graded as an A, the only Doors release to get that from him.
― birdistheword, Friday, 29 October 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
Actually maybe there's only one single-CD version? Hard to say, there's way too many Doors compilations (which makes burning my own kind of funny, but I wanted audiophile sources for mine).
― birdistheword, Friday, 29 October 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
anybody remember what that video was that stirmonster posted upthread?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
nope. it might have been some version of "the crystal ship".
― stirmonster, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link
Growing your own comp might well be the best way to go---but then again, I did like several of their albums pretty much all the way through: the debut (personal revelation: "Alabama Song [Whiskey Bar], or vice versa, though I had heard tell of Brecht-Weill and Threepenny Opera, this led me to that and a lot more by those guys, sep and together---also, that marxophone, yow), Waiting For The Sun(Thee Eclectic Album which every aspiring and many a status-maintaining band had to make about then, and I played the HELL out of it man), also most of Morrison Hotel and LA Woman, which xgau did give an Aminus, o thank you Lord, and Absolutely Live, the only live Doors album I've heard, which is sensitive and caveman in just the right places.
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
And OK, sometimes sensitive caveman at the same time, long before early Vedder etc.
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:52 (two years ago) link
And a few years before most of us heard Kristofferson.
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:54 (two years ago) link
Of course he's more of a singer than either, but can come across as an asshole, unlike them)
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:57 (two years ago) link
xgau on Morrison Hotel...Morrison's gliding vocal presence--arty and self-absorbed though it may be--provides focus. He's not the genius he makes himself out to be, so maybe his genius is that he doesn't let his pretensions cancel out his talent. But will he blow it on this verse, or the next? Keeps me on my toes, not too laidback.
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
"Sensitive Cavemen Take The Blue Bus Into The Goldmine..."
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 October 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
"Chowin' Down..." sorry I just watched original Night of the Living Dead on TCM. He'd like to be visionary caveman, but that's more John Garner, singer-drummer ov Sir Lord Baltimore, even before (waaay before) they returned w xtian lyrics.
― dow, Saturday, 30 October 2021 04:20 (two years ago) link