Twenty-Five to One: THE DOORS RESULTS THREAD

http://youtu.be/hc46l54Cz10

22. You're Lost Little Girl
Strange Days (1967)
260 points, eleven votes

(xpost) If you're camping out at Morrison's gravesite, you're taking this poll too seriously.

almost every song on Strange Days has the song's title in its first line (not "Horse Latitudes" obv & I guess not "Moonlight Drive" either but the rest)

haha yeah I thought about going there when Ray died but...well, it's been rainy

and Jim's not there anyway

he should go hang it, it's always a party there

http://25.media.tumblr.com/b9679dc4f15c2960bc740be09bf13740/tumblr_mgu6awr1o61s035h6o1_500.jpg

seems like it's always like that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPNl6rMsQ3Q

21. When The Music's Over
Strange Days (1967)
264 points, fourteen votes

This is such an amazing song.

alive, she cried

now?

NOW

i can remember i think dave marsh or someone writing about the doors for i think a rolling stone guide and comparing them to tommy james and the shondells w/ the understanding that therefore these guys aren't true rock artists, they're bubblegum singles makers ie they're pop ('hello i love you' seems the most obv exhibit a for this argument). at this time i had kinda turned from the avid fandom i had circa 13 to thinking 'these guys are overrated, this poetry isn't very good, morrison's obv an asshole, etc' but i loved tommy james and the shondells so that cornball rockist diss inadvertantly made it impossible for me to write these guys off, cuz in a late 60s am radio context (which is a context they were in - 'light my fire' was a huge huge pop hit, much much huger than jimi or janis ever approached) the doors began to seem everything 13 yr old me imagined they were and more. one reason i can totally sympathize w/ iggy and patti smith and griel marcus and joan didion totally buying in; for ppl my age and younger (too young to have been there) morrison can seem like a cliche and empty ridiculous myth, someone just completely bettered by those who came in his wake be it iggy, patti, nick cave, david yow, whatever, but to have experienced it first hand, to have experienced in the context of the summer of love ('light my fire' knocked the association's 'windy' from #1 and was the arising of this dark byronic elvis figure from the west? i'm not sure i could trust anyone who was there and didn't buy in.

Morrison is ridiculous but it's interesting how nowadays people call him out for that, whereas say Robert Plant doesn't get the same flak for being more or less just as ridiculous in Zep days

"When The Music's Over" is amazing, i am hugely partisan about that song over "The End"

love how short and to the point "Hello, I Love You Is," and I'd been trying to figure out for AGES what "All Day And All Of The Night" reminded me of besides other Kinks songs, question answered!

Yes! to balls. Why is it that Jim attracts such contempt when nobody else really does? Patti Smith writes in her book about feeling that mixture of awe and contempt when seeing them in 1969.

rightly or wrongly, Morrison shoulders a lot of blame/guilt by association for 'rock lyrics are like poetry' types, whereas Plant's lascivious Tolkien nerd schtick had would up regarded more affectionately

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/172873/The+Doors.jpg

http://youtu.be/OAZdkCExkj8

20. Love Her Madly
LA Woman (1971)
267 points, twelve votes

blargh- ('light my fire' knocked the association's 'windy' from #1 and was replaced by the beatles' 'all you need is love') rather

Bathroom Echo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiS2kVJ6uJ0

19. People Are Strange
Strange Days (1967)
274 points, twelve votes

This was looking like a contender early on, but faded badly over the second half of polling

Balls, Marsh was comparing the Doors unfavorably to Tommy James and the Shondells, saying the latter were the superior singles band.

The line in that review that probably resonated the most for me was about how the Densmore was "too laid back to really kick out the jams." I dig some Doors songs (most of all "Go Insane"), but the drumming was always a huge sticking point for me.

"Love Her Madly" is a fuckin JAM

I always liked the drumming in the instrumental section of Light My Fire.

Is the Byrds' drumming a turnoff too? They always struck me as similar.

on "Love Her Madly" you get the Van Morrison influence face on

yeah i never had a problem w/ densmore's drumming (though i will definitely defer to you there) but thinking about 'love her madly' just now and how great manzarek and krieger are there it did become apparent that johnny drama's the weak point of this band.

woah 'love her madly' IS a van morrison jam

yes

would have loved to heard Thin Lizzy do "Love Her Madly"

didn't vote for it but do love 'ppl are strange' even if it's become the doors anthem for ppl that post facebook macros

I just think of The Lost Boys when I hear it. voted it high of course

It's time for the greatest clip in television history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuZUrjWz-PE

18. The Soft Parade
The Soft Parade (1969)
289 points, twelve votes

knew that's what you meant

if we'd somehow done this poll at the height of my doors fandom it wouldn't have made my ballot, now it's #2

yeah i never had a problem w/ densmore's drumming (though i will definitely defer to you there) but thinking about 'love her madly' just now and how great manzarek and krieger are there it did become apparent that johnny drama's the weak point of this band.

― balls, Sunday, May 26, 2013 5:37 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf, Densmore's laidbackocity serves songs like "Roadhouse Blues" very well.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2010/4/5/1270461640599/The-Doors-001.jpg

http://youtu.be/OCaDjpwuh08

17. Moonlight Drive
Strange Days (1967)
290 points, twelve votes

I wasn't expecting Moonlight Drive to place at all. Not sure why, now I hear it and it sounds great.

http://i1.fastpic.ru/big/2010/0108/85/88d2a2330a18ff97d92b707946c87d85.jpg

http://youtu.be/g425uuTkya4

16. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
LA Woman (1971)
292 points, fifteen votes, one no.1

That'll do me for the evening, talk amongst yourselves.

i grew up with "The End" and "When The Music's Over" as the big Doors epics, was surprised to hear something like "The Soft Parade" do something so different with that kind of running time

Just why is The Wasp so popular? I even voted for it myself, though I don't think I know why.

dunno, Ismael, but out here on the perimeter there are no stars.
out here we is stoned, immaculate.

that help any?

(my #1)

Sort of. It's not the only time Jim aimed at epic imagery, but it seems to be the one that resonates. Unless you all dig the hokeyness.

it's prophetic bullshit of the first order! also, as a modernist I go for strange new languages....

yeah personally my ballot did not feel complete without some batshit screaming Jimbo on it

densmore owes his entire career to good ol' ray and what'd i say in particular, i love his drumming tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPP8w0wMRgQ

i was watching the Classic Albums ep on the first album the other day, i like how Densmore came across in interviews and how he'd break down certain drum parts

I never understood the Densmore hate.

Thanks to killing myself putting in garden beds I didn't get to send in my ballot, but Love Her Madly would have been my #1 or 2.

xpost loool

Of course we're cool, silly! I'm actually just as grateful to everyone who didn't vote - I feel like we achieved perfection here, a single ballot more and somehow it would've turned into a boring Light My Fire landslide.

ohhh so it was perfect without me?

hmph

:)

actually I have a legit question -- how do ilxors rate their albums? I'll admit to really only ever listening to The Very Best Of, a lot a lot alot

I think the first 3 are all great, but Strange Days is a total classic imo.

and probably has more killer songs that aren't on the greatest hits collections than any of the other albums

TELEVISION SKIES! TELEVISION SKIES! TELEVISION SKIES!

i still really hate one of the organ breaks in Break On Through

the one where it goes DOOT DOOT DOOTDOOT DOOTDOOT DA DOOTDOOT ... DA DOOTDOOT DOOOTDOOT

the short sharp bursts annoy me, it reminds me of car horns playing la cucaracha but not in the good awesome way

it's trying to break on through maaaan

stop playing like a toddler maaaaan

actually I have a legit question -- how do ilxors rate their albums? I'll admit to really only ever listening to The Very Best Of, a lot a lot alot

I like all of them! Seriously, that's like six albums in a row with only a few dud tracks here and there, pretty consistent if you ask me, having said that I don't think any of their albums are genuinely great.

Strange Days, definitely. Less organ and more piano, less blues and more psychedelia.

Less blues is always a good sign with the Doors.

otm

BADEEPACHONKA EEESONGHONG YEEAAAAHH RRRIIIIGGGHT

brb, going over to the "Posts you had second thoughts about" thread to enter the "Cambodian grocer" joke I was about to make in re: BADEEPACHONKA EEESONGHONG

lol that's terrible

Less blues is always a good sign with the Doors.

Hmmmm, not always

HYYYEAAAHHHURRRRIGGGHT

welliwokeupdeezmaownin'

wellthecuawshissssbahmahwindowowowww

it's the funnest way to sing, cards on the table here

i love it

yeah i've done doors karaoke where i didn't sing a single word except the occasional 'well ALRIGHT NOW' as punctuation, ppl "loved" it

Ugh. “Crystal Ship”? Really? “BEEE FORE YOU… listen to the first-class pop tune 20th Century Fox I’d like to bore you for two minutes and thirty seconds.” Lovely piano solo though.