― 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 years ago) link
― Tijn, Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link
for covers, X, "Soul Kitchen"
― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:47 (twenty 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'll second that...
― the soft boy of karate (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 March 2009 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd like to have another kiss.
― james k polk, Friday, 27 March 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
(though I'm sad to see Peace Frog go)
― the soft boy of karate (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
not played a doors record for years, but crystal ship is the one
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 28 March 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah Crystal Ship is fantastic, great melody, sounds like no one else. I actually like a bunch of their songs, still can't stand Light My Fire though. Most of their albums are patchy aside from maybe Morrison Hotel.
POX:Crystal ShipYou're Lost Little GirlPeace FrogIndian SummerStrange DaysSoft ParadeRoadhouse BluesLA WomanWaiting for the SunBlue Sunday
― ColinO, Saturday, 28 March 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
There is a new oldies station in Atlanta that plays "Touch Me" more than any other Doors song, and I always kind of liked it partly in an ironic way partly not. The more they play it the more I like it though. The "I'm gonna love ya" part is too beautiful.
Jim could have been a rad twisted Las Vegas crooner in the 70s if he hadn't offed himself....
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 29 March 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I kind of like "Unkown Soldier." It's got the Byrdsy thing going on. POO Doors of all time has gotta be "Break on Through," though.
― Trip Maker, Sunday, 29 March 2009 16:05 (fifteen 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