The Doors: Classic or Dud?

I was listening to Mazzy Star last night and thought about The Doors. They get into a sweet kind of "The End" zone occasionally.

Also as far as denmore swinging, I wanna tell you about Texas radio and the big beat

i was talking to a friend the other day about how i like doors knockoffs better than i like the doors themselves. your faves?

There's a song I remember from an old psych comp called "The Black Door" by the Loose Enz that's a really obvious Doors knockoff, but I don't know. Mostly, the Doors strike me as being pretty singular.

Alice Cooper, "Blue Turk"

xp re: Mazzy, 'Ghost Highway' feel like a Doors homage to me.

Stranglers, "Walk On By", duh.

that mazzy star song sounds more like "idiot joy showland" than the doors!

I can't stand these fuckers.

That’s like the one Doors song I like!

Doors rule
Ride the snake
The West is the best

i like the Doors generally but I dont like Touch Me

it feels too slobbery

Father
“Yes son?”
I’ve left you two comp tickets at the Whisky, tell the door guy you’re on “Jim’s list”; feel free to bring mom

"Touch Me" is awesome, great vocal, Alfred is full of it.

I first heard this song when a girl put it on a mixtape for me in high school. I eventually got the message she was sending, but the young ilxor in me couldn't get over how contemptibly cheesy it was. What was this Butt Bacharach shit?

Now, as a mature ILXor, you accept cheese.

ricotta, Stilton, sure

Morrison, Krieger...

oh ffs, "butt Bacharach" was autocorrect.

Beyond the great vocal, “Touch Me” has a genuinely groovy instrumental breakdown...

Peace Frog grooves

This is funny and accurate:

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

^^^ I hadn't seen that before! Spot on, even looks like Manzarek back there.

i was talking to a friend the other day about how i like doors knockoffs better than i like the doors themselves. your faves?

― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Saturday, April 21, 2018 1:34 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Do you know Phantom's Divine Comedy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0wijDxY3rk

touch me feels like jim projecting into the future envisioning vegas elvis

so yeah pretty awesome

Every time this thread gets bumped I fear that Jim has died

Jim cannot die, in the moments prior to the death of "body", more aptly described as his terrestrial flesh vehicle, his soul BREAKS ON THROUGH to his next host shell.

Best Band Ever.

"Touch Me" is great. So sleazy.

Touch Me is a little like one of those corny Strokes songs (in a good way).

Every time this thread gets bumped I fear that Jim has died

― calstars, Monday, April 23, 2018 10:37 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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We found a finally spot to kick it
Where we can drink liquor and no one bickers over trick shit
A spot where we can smoke in peace, and even though we G's
We still visualize places that we can roll in peace
And in my mind's eye, I see this place the players go and pass it
I got a spot for us all, so we can ball, at thug's mansion

#westside
#outlawz

The Doors have a surprisingly large amount of Vegas/crooner songs. Touch Me is probably the most famous. On some others, notably Wishful Sinful on The Soft Parade, you can hear the disgust in his voice.

haha alfred i loved your piece

i love the doors but i hate "touch me"

but then i just read ums post about foreshadowing elvis in vegas <3

now im not sure

Xp lol

man late period doors live albums are INSANE

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, January 23, 2012 12:13 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes!

"Yes the River Knows" always felt pretty Vegas crooner-y.

"Touch Me" is pretty rad. "i'm gonna love you til the heavens stop the rain" is such a sweet middle 8. and that live video, where Jim's hair is the prettiest in the world. dude could have gone on to be in soap operas.

i have lot of love for the "Soft Parade" album as a whole. i prefer the psychedelic vegas lounge to the more straight faced blues cocktail lounge of the last records.

"Soft Parade" is a crazy record, I generally love it even though I wouldn't begrudge anyone who hates it. "Runnin' Blue" would be my favorite Doors song if it didn't have the embarrassing faux-hillbilly Robbie break downs. "Tell All the People" is great, the title track is insane.

Also funny to think immediately after SP they were considered basically washed up, they'd been a band for barely 4 yrs, it was only 2 yrs since the debut. The cliched "return to their roots" comeback record is out less than 8 months later.

I like the Doors. I accept them as schlockmeisters, pseudo-Latinized, pseudo-blues, just like Don Van Vliet or Dr. John. But pop in a way neither of those artists could exactly muster. I dig their minimalist style and I get off on the thinness of their sound. "Riders on the Storm" is really the one I relate to the most. They were better when they laid back. Alfred Soto did a takedown of "Touch Me" that makes interesting points about how "Touch Me" and the ricky-ticky schlock-blues-pop of the Kinks' Something Else and the Stones' Between the Buttons, how "Touch Me" (I think) is a more Vegas-ized version of that. Not sure I totally get his point, but it's worth considering...

"Tell All the People" is great

yes! and very cultish too. "Come on, take me by the hand, gonna bury all our troubles in the sand"

funny to think immediately after SP they were considered basically washed up

By how many, I wonder. Certainly, some critics, but...Every album they made went top ten and "Touch Me" was one of their three top ten singles.

"not to touch the earth" is still ahead of its time. nothing left to do but run run run. let's run

haha, I was just about to post my love for 'not to touch the earth'.
love 'waiting for the sun'

waiting for the sun is def the most underrated album

"hello, i love you" is an all-time first jam

Very little Doors music strikes me as "psuedo-Latinized" or "psuedo-blues."

Came across this recent video a few weeks ago with Robbie Kreiger which gets into the origins of some of the tunes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p24lgQv1r8w

"They were better when they laid back."

'The Crystal Ship' is my favorite Doors song. I need to try and put together a chill out Doors CDR. That section of 'Cars Hiss by my Window' and are a couple of deep tracks that fit that feel too. Love how 'Cars Hiss by my Window' segues into 'LA Woman'.

I mean, why not judge them as a rock band? A genre in which they were quite advanced.

"one to five" sounds like ACTUAL BLOOD is being shed