Twenty-Five to One: THE DOORS RESULTS THREAD

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Strange - only Changeling, LA Woman and the last three show up

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link

The Doors overview page on Spotify is weird for me... it only loads partially until you scroll down to the bottom, then finishes loading. No other page has done that.

Only my cardiologist knows for sure. (WilliamC), Sunday, 26 May 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link

here in France all of LA Woman shows up on spotify except for "Love Her Madly"

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link

http://youtu.be/hc46l54Cz10

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link

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

clemenza, Sunday, 26 May 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link

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)

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link

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

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link

and Jim's not there anyway

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link

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

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link

seems like it's always like that

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link

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

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link

This is such an amazing song.

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link

alive, she cried

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link

now?

NOW

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link

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.

balls, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link

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

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link

"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!

my mans ray manzarek (some dude), Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link

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.

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link

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

my mans ray manzarek (some dude), Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link

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

balls, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link

Bathroom Echo!

Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link

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

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link

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.

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link

"Love Her Madly" is a fuckin JAM

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link

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.

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link

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

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link

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, 26 May 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link

woah 'love her madly' IS a van morrison jam

balls, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link

yes

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

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link

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

balls, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link

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

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link

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

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link

knew that's what you meant

Euler, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link

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

balls, Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link

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.

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link

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

my mans ray manzarek (some dude), Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link

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

that help any?

(my #1)

Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link

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.

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link

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

Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link

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

my mans ray manzarek (some dude), Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link

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

cock chirea, Sunday, 26 May 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link

i was going to vote in the poll and then I got distracted and now that I've visited with the rollout I feel bad

I'm listening to the Doors now as penance

sorry ismael hope we r still cool

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link

wuhladeegodibbledownabout an hour ago!

how's life, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:35 (ten years ago) link

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

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link

xpost loool

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link

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.

Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link

ohhh so it was perfect without me?

hmph

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link

:)

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link

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.

wk, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link

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

wk, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link

TELEVISION SKIES! TELEVISION SKIES! TELEVISION SKIES!

how's life, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link

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

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link

it's trying to break on through maaaan

wk, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link

stop playing like a toddler maaaaan

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link

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.

Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 June 2013 10:02 (ten years ago) link

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

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 6 June 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link

Less blues is always a good sign with the Doors.

how's life, Thursday, 6 June 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link

otm

BADEEPACHONKA EEESONGHONG YEEAAAAHH RRRIIIIGGGHT

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link

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

hashtag sizzler (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link

lol that's terrible

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link

Less blues is always a good sign with the Doors.

Hmmmm, not always

Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link

HYYYEAAAHHHURRRRIGGGHT

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link

welliwokeupdeezmaownin'

Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link

wellthecuawshissssbahmahwindowowowww

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link

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

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link

i love it

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link

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

balls, Thursday, 6 June 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link

nine years pass...

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.

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 17 November 2022 09:18 (one year ago) link


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