Twenty-Five to One: THE DOORS RESULTS THREAD

so, no Spanish Caravan?

I've been trying to think of a suitably buoyant, motivational lyric to get us through - but like I say, there's nothing but bad vibes.

just push on through to the opposite side

I'm gonna whip some horses' eyes, that'll make me feel better

Don't wanna derail, but I found this in The Book of Rock Lists (1981 edition), thought it was kinda cool:

Ray Manzarek's Most Memorable Doors Concerts

1. Whisky a Go-Go, Los Angeles
When Jim first did "Father, I want to kill you, Mother I want to fuck you!" We were fired that night.

2. Fillmore West, San Francisco
The weekend of the Human Be-In, the world's first love-in ever. We were the opening act. The first number was "When the Music's Over." We'd never opened with it before, or since.

3. Singer Bowl, New York
What a show! The Doors and The Who. And what a riot! One of the best riots I've ever been in.

4. The Roundhouse, London
The Doors and The Jefferson Airplane: Psychedelic West Coast comes to England.

5. Miami
I think we all know what happened there. Or do we? Did he really do it? If he did it, how long was it?

6. Des Moines
Thirty-four people in the audience. One of the last college gigs before "Light My Fire" hit the top of the charts. We were a little early for Des Moines. The promoters told us that the week before, more than 5000 people had come to the same auditorium to see The Association.

Take a long holiday

Derailment welcome - that's great, The Doors at a love-in

(erm, xp)

nice. The Doors and The Who in '68, jesus christ.

^inspired "Sally Simpson"!

Yeah, the Who weren't happy about opening for the Doors (they weren't exactly fans), and their smashup "accidentally" damaged some of the Doors' gear.

yeah i can't picture townshend enjoying the doors

another tie

http://www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2013/05/2013-05-20-ray_manzarek_2-533x348.jpg

http://youtu.be/A0kypyGSKsE

7. Waiting for the Sun
Morrison Hotel (1970)
371 points, eighteen votes

yay for that one!

"Waiting" is one i hadn't heard in ages before this week and i was like oh i kinda remind how it goes, i guess it's ok, no wait hold up this is AWESOME

first major instance of 'the title track for an album actually ends up on a later album'?

"Waiting" is one i hadn't heard in ages before this week and i was like oh i kinda remind how it goes, i guess it's ok, no wait hold up this is AWESOME

otmfm

remind=remember obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE32pvvaDT8

7. Roadhouse Blues
Morrison Hotel (1970)
371 points, fifteen votes

in some ways the motherseed of all buttrock, over the stones possibly even

It is immense, was my no.2. I can only imagine how much fun to open your show with it.

Can't get enough of that live version

guh i knew there'd be some stuff i'd forget to put on my ballot due to not listening to this stuff in awhile but boy 'waiting for the sun' is a big regret right now.

out in back of the roadhouse they got some bungalows

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/3246/whenyourestrangemovieim.jpg

http://youtu.be/M_yWyBjDEaU

6. Light My Fire
The Doors (1967)
490 points, nineteen votes, one no.1

Well then my ballot got lost :( Peace Frog deserved better.

You love it, I love it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAv6_ZebiN0

5. Touch Me
The Soft Parade (1969)
507 points, nineteen votes, three no.1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOecSnD1qdY

very nearly my #1, such a jam

So many great moments in that clip, but I love that sax jam the best

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/695/barpt.jpg

http://youtu.be/b-wgIht3roA

4. LA Woman
LA Woman (1971)
526 points, twenty-one votes, two no.1s

Just checking this thread out now.

Too Low:
Moonlight Drive, Peace Frog, Light My Fire, LA Woman (my #1)

Too High:
Touch Me, Love Me Two Times, Alabama Song

Can guess 1 of the top 3 fer sure. The other 2 are a little tricker, depending on how many of you go for Doors ballads.

aw man too low on la woman (listening to it right now lol), thought it had a very real shot at #1

rooting for 'crystal ship' to pull it out (EH?) over 'riders on the storm'. ecstatic if 'the wasp' takes it.

And allow me to preemptively say that Maggie M'Gill wuz robbed!

ROTS, BOT and ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkGxwE-wBZc

Yes, that's it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOpQjD-rX0g

3. Break On Through
The Doors (1967)
582 points, twenty-one votes, three no.1s

She get high (in this poll)

wow

o duh

lol 'the wasp' was #16 i'm an idiot

If there's one song that's completely wack, that really ought to be no higher. A song I always skip in fact, someone should throw it in a fire. Peace Frog is just fucking dire.

had to be done

Break On Through was my #1, without having to think about it for more than a second. How many cheap plastic radios must that have melted in 01/67.

always so weird to me that 'break on through' flopped on initial release (enough so that it apparently nearly threatened the future of the band), always wondered if it got revisited by radio and became a hit after 'light my fire' was so huge (the same way 'welcome to the jungle' was a small hit on first release but became a huge megasmash when rereleased after 'sweet child o mine' was a huge hit) or if it became a hit thru fm radio a la 'roadhouse blues' and 'la woman'.