The Doors: Classic or Dud?

Yeah, their Yardbirds love runs deep. But I was listening to Morrison Hotel today, and it struck me how RB sets a template for the Aerosmith Blooz numbers you mention, down to Jimbo's scatting.

really feeling "Indian Summer" rn, so dreamy and introspective, is that Krieger on bass?

That track was left over from the recording sessions for their 1st album and I think it's just Manzarek playing bass on a Fender Rhodes

This is...sort of interesting: Apparently WMG (or whoever) released a "stripped" (no strings, no horns) version of The Soft Parade for Record Store Day.

Not much info here, but this is now a thing which exists.

It came out last year as bonus tracks of the 50th Anniversary edition, though it was called "Doors only mix" and I think there were new overdubs too, I haven't heard it but I guess they are really grasping at straws w/r/t to "unreleased" material

No strings no horns sounds just about right ?

Interesting to check out like all these leftovers for a deep listener, but rare to have it be a real nugget I would figure at this point.

I kind of like listening to that American Prayer record or the two without Jimbo sometimes, as there is some really good 'music' there that might have taken step to the other side if liz' king would have still been around. Fatboy Slim found one hook in the debris.

the rework of Waiting For The Sun that whitehallunity made is soooooo good

Gave the 'Other Voices/Full Circle' another listen this morning in a mix. Casually listening to it, it hit me on how some tunes got a similar sound to "Loaded" VU. I had some old Flaming Lips, Grifters, Gallon Drunk in the same mix and the tunes fit better than you would think. The Lizard King-less Doors do kinda have sound that would fit with some 90s UK indie rock, especially hearing it side by side with an Inspiral Carpets track.

my favorite sound is the guitar tone during krieger's big solo in "when the music's over"

cancel my subscription to the resurrection > the west is the best

I think "When the Music's Over" is in every way an improvement over "The End", even though it may be the weakest song on Strange Days.

Never liked it tbh.

I like it but I prefer 'The End'.

It just kind of chugs along for 11 minutes, at least "The End" has highs and lows.

uh may i refer again to krieger's solo

Here's my ranking of Doors epics (original studio albums only, 5 minutes plus):

The Soft Parade
L. A Woman
When the Music's Over
Riders on the Storm
Light My Fire
The End

I like or love the top three and am ambivalent about the bottom three.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zzzt_r6wj8

All I can stand.

I like a lot of your picks but "LA Woman" and maybe "Riders on the Storm" are Top 10 for me

Also, "Whiskey Bar (Alabama Song)"--or is it vice-versa---I was in Alabama, wanted to get into whiskey, also bars, and it did get me into Brecht and Weill, also marxophones.

Five To One

Roadhouse Blues

Not To Touch The Earth is easily my #1

Love Me Two Times. When the Music's Over!

Nice to see their Forever Changes tribute "Wishful Sinful" get recognized.
"The Unknown Soldier" is also good, and reminds me of Simon and Garfunkel's "Fakin' It": both late 60s singles with a theatrical/dramatic interlude.

la woman brings me so much joy i can't stand it. immediate mood lift

off the top of my head the best doors songs are

la woman
five to one
when the musics over
riders on the storm
break on through

i feel like there are more but maybe not? of the bands that are not very good they are truly one of the best

is it bad that i like Peace Frog? i like Peace Frog

I thought everybody liked Peace Frog?

top 5 musical frog imo

Crazy doesn't get a look in.

Frog Chorus in the wings, croaking in vain.

mashup idea:

"(Peace) Froggy Went A-Courtin'"

LMAO

I like "Peace Frog" too. Even though there's only a few cuts from Morrison Hotel that I kept in my library ("Peace Frog" being one), it's actually an okay album. Not a great one, but mostly listenable.

Love Indian Summer and The Spy off Morrison Hotel.

I Can't See Your Face In My Mind

“The Soft Parade” is the first disco song ever, specifically the “Peppermint miniskirts” bit. Loop that over and over again and you’ll be disco-dancing fool. CHANGE MY MIND.

my issues with this band are widely documented on ILM, but i'm really enjoying listening to Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine, which i guess was a comp intended to speak to their jammier/proto-proggier side or something? like it has some of their big hits, but not their earlier, poppier hits besides, significantly, "Break On Through." and a lot more extended droney, arguably monotonous jams. so i think it paints a picture of the band that i can be on the same wavelength of. although lugubrious in places, and stops dead in its tracks for "You Need Meat" imho, it works better than their Greatest Hits that i dug out of my parents' collection as a teenager, which had those other songs like "Light My Fire" and "Love Me Two Times" and "People Are Strange." (i don't dislike them because they're poppier, to be clear, i've just never found them very exciting as 60s pop-rock songs!) "Hello I Love You" i think i like in my head, but it's really "Crush With Eyeliner" my brain is conjuring, mostly.

really was tempted to do another Honkin' on Bobo display name, with "Mister Mojo Risin'" ...but that's gotten so firmly attached to "Mister JoJo Rabbit" after seeing the posters for that movie at the subway entrance for six months.

"Weird Scenes" is a great comp and yeah it was specifically meant to highlight their more out/weirder stuff vs the stuff that was on "13".

You Need Meat is insanely bad, I'm pretty sure the only person who thought Ray should sing a song was Ray

"Who Scared You" is a great b-side on that record, and would have been better than a lot of the songs that made it onto Soft Parade.

oh wow this comp hits the spot

I started wondering last night: what songs from the original six Doors albums have never been extracted for a compilation? By my count, there are only eight:

I Looked At You
My Wild Love
Yes The River Knows
The Soft Parade
Indian Summer
Been Down So Long
L'America
Crawling King Snake

Two or three good ones!