Twenty-Five to One: THE DOORS RESULTS THREAD

Thank you, Ismael! Here are mine:

1. The End
2. Roadhouse Blues (Live)
3. Soul Kitchen
4. Moonlight Drive
5. Love Me Two Times
6. Yes, the River Knows
7. The Crystal Ship
8. Touch Me
9. You’re Lost Little Girl
10. Celebration of the Lizard
11. Light My Fire
12. Take It As It Comes
13. Waiting for the Sun
14. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
15. Orange County Suite
16. The Unknown Soldier
17. End of the Night
18. Hyacinth House
19. Blue Sunday
20. The Spy

My totals by album:
The Doors 7
Waiting for the Sun 3
Morrison Hotel 3
L.A. Woman 3
Strange Days 2
The Soft Parade 1
American Prayer 1

Very pleasantly surprised at Crystal Ship winning

Crystal Ship and Hyacinth House have a mystery about them that has lasted the decades well

1. "Hello, I Love You" (40)
2. "Soul Kitchen" (36)
3. "L.A. Woman" (33)
4. "Riders on the Storm" (30)
5. "Love Me Two Times" (28)
6. "Love Street" (26)
7. "The Crystal Ship" (25)
8. "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" (24)

"You're Lost Little Girl" slipped my mind, and, if I'd really tried, I'm sure I could have come up with a tenth. Surprised by "The Crystal Ship" winning. I kind of hate "Touch Me"--that and the Guess Who's "Undun" go together for me.

my ballot:

Five To One
Touch Me
L.A. Woman
Riders On The Storm
My Wild Love
When The Music’s Over
Do It
Break On Through
Waiting For The Sun
The Soft Parade
Roadhouse Blues
Alabama Song
Hello, I Love You
Land Ho!
Maggie M’Gill
The Changeling
Moonlight Drive
Not To Touch The Earth
Yes, The River Knows
The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)

My totals by album (which, now that i look at it, does make me feel not very centrist here):
Waiting for the Sun 5
Morrison Hotel 5
L.A. Woman 4
The Soft Parade 3
Strange Days 2
The Doors 1

'crystal ship' winning doesn't surprise me though 'riders on the storm' struck me as the heavy fave before this started. i'm guessing 'not to touch the earth' and 'celebration of the lizard' canceled each other out.

Even as a lapsed, part-time fan, I do think "The Crystal Ship" has one of the greatest opening lines ever.

am i crazy or would 60s sunset strip scene beat 60s san francisco scene in an ilx poll pretty easily?

Would that be Love and the Seeds and who else? Probably would, but I'd be an SF guy.

Spirit, Buffalo Springfield, Byrds,...Rhino has box sets devoted to this

kaleidosope too

The L.A. Nuggets box is amazing

Okay, the Byrds and Mothers, too...the Airplane/Dead/Charlatans/Moby Grape/Beau Brummels would still be tough to beat for me. It'd be a good poll, though.

am i crazy or would 60s sunset strip scene beat 60s san francisco scene in an ilx poll pretty easily?

Byrds threads seem to outnumber Dead threads by a wide margin

interesting poll idea

Very happy to see The Crystal Ship at number one it's great song and yeah I like the Duran version too.

My list,

1. Touch Me
2. Yes The River Knows
3. Hyacinth House
4. Strange Days
5. Love Me Madly
6. The Crystal Ship
7. Love Me Two Times
8. Love Street
9. Blue Sunday
10. Unhappy Girl
11. Waiting For The Sun
12. L.A. Woman
12. I Can't See Your Face in Mine
13. The Changeling
15. You're a Lost Little Girl
16. Indian Summer
17. Riders on the Storm
18. My Eyes Have Seen You
19. Light My Fire
20. Peace Frog

Riders On The Storm
Roadhouse Blues
The Soft Parade
Break On Through
Who Do You Love?
Cars Hiss By My Window
The Crystal Ship
Touch Me
The End
Love Me Two Times

Maggie M'Gill
Spanish Caravan
When The Music's Over
Yes, The River Knows
People Are Strange
LA Woman
Strange Days
The Wasp
Wild Child
Graveyard Poem

In the Forever Changes 33 1/3 they listed a 60s LA eccentric-genius canon: Zappa, Beefheart, Neil Young, Arthur Lee, Brian Wilson. Add the Byrds & the Doors, and maybe Kaleidoscope, snd I'd vote LA over SF in the blink of an eye

Parsons might have been in the genius canon as well...

My ballot:

1. The End
2. Roadhouse Blues
3. The Changeling
4. Love Her Madly
5. Five to One
6. People Are Strange
7. L.A. Woman
8. Break On Through (To the Other Side)
9. Peace Frog
10. Light My Fire
11. Riders on the Storm
12. Hello, I Love You
13. Touch Me
14. Love Me Two Times
15. When the Music’s Over
16. Waiting for the Sun
17. The Soft Parade
18. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
19. Land Ho!
20. Crawling King Snake

Thanks for running this one, Ismael!

1. Break On Through (To the Other Side)
2. Light My Fire
3. Riders on the Storm
4. The Crystal Ship
5. The End
6. Twentieth Century Fox
7. Roadhouse Blues
8. Hello, I Love You
9. Love Street
10. The Spy
11. L.A. Woman
12. Soul Kitchen
13. Love Me Two Times
14. Waiting for the Sun
15. Peace Frog
16. L’America
17. Hyacinth House
18. Take It as It Comes
19. Touch Me
20. Love Her Madly

Looking forward to Moka's ballot to see what changes in the final order.

1. Riders on the Storm
2. The End
3. Roadhouse Blues
4. Light My Fire
5. L'America
6. L.A. Woman
7. Cars Hiss by My Window
8. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
9. Break On Through (To the Other Side)
10. The Spy
11. Five to One
12. The Unknown Soldier
13. People Are Strange
14. Soul Kitchen
15. The Crystal Ship
16. Love Street
17. Peace Frog
18. Strange Days
19. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
20. Waiting for the Sun

nos. 1 and 2 in this poll are otm, though you could reverse them and i wouldn't mind

My ballot

01 Strange Days
02 The Crystal Ship
03 Alabama Song
04 People Are Strange
05 Touch Me
06 Spanish Caravan
07 Indian Summer
08 My Eyes Have Seen You
09 Tell All the People
10 Blue Sunday
11 Light My Fire
12 Riders on the Storm
13 L.A. Woman
14 The Soft Parade
15 End of the Night
16 You're Lost Little Girl
17 When the Music's Over
18 Five to One
19 Wishful Sinful
20 Peace Frog

YES YES YES Crystal Ship is amazing.

Doors get so much shit, it's one of those things that make me IA. But then I clicked on that "Touch Me" video link and before watching some hilarious rad 60s vegas clip I had to endure 40 sec of poetry and ambient noise, and I was like "oh yeah, I remember why they are hated". But still. So many great bands take themselves too seriously. So many music fans and critics take music too seriously. Why pick on the Doors? Is it some fallout from the almighty gospel of punk rock where pretension is hated unless you are singing about heroin or something?

Btw, there is a bit in "L.A. Woman" where Jim Morrison is rocking out and audibly almost falls on his ass but is the exact right level of intoxicated to just barely turn it into a badass rock n roll "Yeah!" instead. Every time I hear that song that part makes me LOL.

Oh hell yes it's at 6:10 in this version:

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

If my ballot had made ir Riders would have gotten the first place (it was my #2) and peace frog would have entered the top 10 (well, not sure about this one... It was my number one vote, not sure how many points that gets).

Fucking stupid ipad wifi mail ruined my ballot.

My ballot, it'd be totally different if I did it now, all of 5 days later:

1. Love Me Two Times
2. Break On Through
3. Light My Fire
4. Touch Me
5. Five to One
6. The Unknown Soldier
7. L.A. Woman
8. You're Lost Little Girl
9. Wild Child
10. Riders on the Storm
11. The Crystal Ship
12. Peace Frog
13. Wishful Sinful
14. The Soft Parade
15. Waiting for the Sun
16. Yes, the River Knows
17. Moonlight Drive
18. Tell All the People
19. Love Her Madly
20. Alabama Song

If there's a drunker vocal than "Five to One" in recorded music I'd like to hear it.

Alabama Song
Waiting for the Sun
Riders on the Storm
Five To One
LA Woman
Break On Through
People Are Strange
Roadhouse Blues
Love Her Madly
Back Door Man
The End
Indian Summer
The Crystal Ship
Touch Me
Hyacinth House
The Changeling
Strange Days
My Eyes Have Seen You
Love Me Two Times
When the Music's Over

"If there's a drunker vocal than "Five to One" in recorded music I'd like to hear it."

i think there might be a few other contenders that also happen to be sung by Jim.

the noodling towards the end of Five to One really does expose Krieger as a guitar novice. that's not to say that he couldn't be extremely effective at times.

You have a strange idea of what constitutes a guitar novice

ha...that's just what i was thinking

Many thanks to Mr. Klata (one of the few of you who appreciates Maggie M'Gill) for running this poll. It will always hold a special place in the Hyacinth House of my heart. Here is my ballot.

L.A. Woman
Light My Fire
Maggie M'Gill
Peace Frog
Moonlight Drive
Break On Through (To the Other Side)
The Crystal Ship
Wintertime Love
Riders on the Storm
Roadhouse Blues
Waiting for the Sun
Soul Kitchen
Love Street
Love Her Madly
The End
The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
Twentieth Century Fox
Take It as It Comes
Five to One
Not To Touch The Earth

how the hell did I manage to miss this

I mean, my 9 song ballot would have been semi meaningless but "Alabama Song" deserved better

"show me the way to the next little girl" <-- so he could sell a compilation album to them no doubt

weird that "The Crystal Ship" won; I guess it's a consensus point in a poll without much consensus

I think it needed a perfect alignment of the planets to win - e.g. Riders On The Storm would've won if JF had voted, or if moka's email had got though; and I got another late ballot through last night that probably would also have given Riders the win (it was also unranked, so will remain a mystery). And while I haven't checked, I suspect Riders was leading for about 95% of the time voting was open. It was like nineteen Riders and one Crystal Ship, all playing pass-the-parcel.

I'm so happy The Crystal Ship won though, it's beautiful.

yeah, I voted for it! just even when I was 13 it never stood out at the their best. still, it's a cool result, yay ILM

yeah i figured 'riders' was the heavy fave and so when 'la woman' (it's strongest comp in my mind)(ie i voted it #1 lol) finished TOO LOW i thought 'riders' had a pretty clear path though 'crystal ship' had alot of stuff working for it - ubiquitous enough for everyone to know it/remember it but not so ubiquitous (like 'riders' thx to classic rock radio) for ppl to be a little tired of it and maybe underrate it or strategically vote in re: to it or whatever. i love both but i'm glad 'crystal ship' won and not just cuz i like it more than 'riders' but cuz anywhere else 'riders' would win a doors track poll (or if not 'riders' than 'light my fire' (never a real contender on ilx) or 'la woman' or maybe 'people are strange') but on ilx the winner is 'crystal ship'.

Has David Bowie ever commented on the Doors?

i can't think of any direct comments but between also doing 'alabama song' and 'jean genie' which ok is just 'i'm a man' but sounds very much like 'i'm a man' via 'roadhouse blues' to me (enough that i always sing some 'roadhouse blues' if i ever do 'jean genie' at karaoke) i can't imagine he's not a fan on some level or at least was at some point.

I've got Wild Is The Wind right next to Crystal Ship on a well-played old playlist.

I was one of the #1's for Crystal Ship. It has always struck me as the Doors' one perfect song: ethereal and anthemic, docile to the point of saccharine AM fodder, but with the powerful undertow of the first (perfect) line, Morrison's visions manifesting themselves in the tawdry hedonism of "a thousand girls, a thousand thrills" while Manzarek's super-cheesy piano solo definitively establishes Jim as the lounge singer on the cruise ship towards oblivion, perhaps his most enduring persona, certainly moreso than the Lizard King or Mojo Risin or even Oedipus Rex

I still have lots of love for the Doors, and I always kind of wince whenever I see someone take an easy pot shot at them, always silently applaud whenever anybody sticks up for them. As a band they were certainly more fascinating than great, and every album after the first two are imo a hot mess, but they were huge for me for quite a while when I was younger. They absolutely helped to invent psychedelia, for better or for worse, and for all of their gauche elements, there really is a startling originality there that has not really faded that much after almost fifty years...

The Crystal Ship
Light My Fire
Peace Frog
Soul Kitchen
Touch Me
Waiting for the Sun
The End
The Soft Parade
Hyacinth House
Yes, the River Knows
You're Lost Little Girl
Horse Latitiudes
Riders on the Storm
Break on Through
Strange Days
Indian Summer
Alabama Song
My Wild Love
L'America
Wintertime Love

(also: lol @ me being the only one to vote for "Horse Latitudes" which really isn't that bad as a poem. One of the main reasons I connected so much with Jim was because around the same time I was also obsessed with Faulkner, and both of them were influenced by many of the same poets in their early-20s, ie the French Symbolists. I wd say that a phrase like 'mute nostril agony' probably would not at all be out of place in "Carcassone" or even Flags in the Dust)

"Not to touch the earth" is their actual #1 shit though, it's ok if you guys were on crack when you voted
http://collections.museumca.org/?q=system/files/imagecache/collection_image2/z0004249.jpg

lol

happy to see someone else voted for "My Wild Love," that's such a cool-sounding track

"Not to touch the earth" is their actual #1 shit though, it's ok if you guys were on crack when you voted

I am proud to have carried the banner for Celebration of the Lizard...was I the only one to vote for it?

Has the passing of Manzarek and his constant shilling made it safe to like the Doors again?

If there is one thing I have discovered by watching Doors videos since Ray died, Robby Krieger and his wardrobe are much more embarrassing than Ray ever was. The baggy (pleated?) leather pants at the RnR Hall of Fame induction are particularly indefensible.