POO!: The 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.

LA Woman or Break On Through

the Crystal Ship love earlier in the thread is well-deserved. One of the song where they manage to sound enchanting and mysterious in the way that I think they thought they were all along.

"Strange Days"

this song is incredible. it sounds like it could be a Cure b-side. only downside is the drumming deficiency becomes a bit obvious as it builds and builds.

i just listened to the album for the first time since discovering The Damned and a lot of other stuff. it really seems obvious the Doors were massively influential on 80s pop in particular. Morrison's mopey/ironic/gothic baritone is so ahead of its time. this band can be playing chintzy Hammond organ demo music and he elevates it to Dark Bubblegum. the cool goth lyrics certainly help ("Don't miss your chance/to swim in mystery/you are dying in a prison/of your own device.").

"Riders on the storm" is my jam

Doors are so great

My favorite Doors song is their cover of "Who Do You Love" on that live album.

Peace Frog

I also think they're a painfully overrated band by rockists and I'm of the opinion that Morrison (and the rest of the band too) didn't take themselves seriously and the whole poet thing was trolling on their part.

Rockists? They exist, do they?

it really seems obvious the Doors were massively influential on 80s pop in particular.

No Doors, no Echo & the Bunnymen for sure. Among many others!

I love the Doors and don't care who knows it! My pick is the performance of Roadhouse Blues from An American Prayer, one of the great performances by any band anytime anywhere.

i love the doors too.

LA Woman for me

it is like an immediate mood lifter for me

i was a huge doors fan as a teenager and eventually felt embarrassed by them but now i've come back around and i think they are a wonderful and fun band

^^ my experience exactly

David Crosby sneered on twitter the other day that Jim was a "poser"...said the scion of the Van Rennselaers, one of the oldest and fanciest of New York's Dutch-era families [eye roll]