POO!: The Doors

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.

the doors became good when they stopped all the musical shaman-psychedelica horseshit and morphed into doing greasy bar-blooz.

for covers, X, "Soul Kitchen"

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.

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How did I never answer this thread? Huh. Well, "Moonlight Drive" it is, with "L.A. Woman" a close second.

(Answer to trivia question above: xgau.)

Incidentally, for real Rockist evangelism, please see the ongoing Marquee Moon thread. Now, there's a Great Rock Classic in the worst way.

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?

..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.

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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

into your blue, blue, blues

Every post on here needs to be changed to "Crystal Ship"

i'll second that...

I'd like to have another kiss.

(though I'm sad to see Peace Frog go)

not played a doors record for years, but crystal ship is the one

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 Ship
You're Lost Little Girl
Peace Frog
Indian Summer
Strange Days
Soft Parade
Roadhouse Blues
LA Woman
Waiting for the Sun
Blue Sunday

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....

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.

riders on the storm
most mature sounding doors. best balance of instruments and voice. doesn't sound like they're all competing with each other.

and to think 'you're lost little girl' was my vote 4 years ago. much has changed since then.

"Sensitive Cavemen Take The Blue Bus Into The Goldmine..."

"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.