POO!: The Doors

(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]

lol yeah Crosby's one to talk

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

many many others! imo "Don't You Forget About Me" also trafficking in the same territory as many "Strange Days" tracks.

Morrison not taking himself seriously but also ironically taking himself seriously feels very postmodern and is one of the elements that surprises me every time i come back to the band.

I hear Jim's phrasing in a lot of Ian Curtis lines

Feel like goth in general has roots in the Doors creepy haunted house organ vibez

Iggy Pop and Johnny Ramone (who in one of his last interviews said the Doors were the only good American band of the 60s) were both huge fans, and probably the 2 men most responsible for punk

Morrison not taking himself seriously but also ironically taking himself seriously feels very postmodern and is one of the elements that surprises me every time i come back to the band.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, December 2, 2016 12:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Morrison could rock a terrible lyric with the best of them but I think when people talk bout him being humorless or pompous or whatever I believe they are mistakenly critiquing Val Kilmer's performance in the "True Detective" prequel "The Doors"

Jim's in on the joke a lot more than people give him credit for

I hear Jim's phrasing in a lot of Ian Curtis lines

Always thought Ian Curtis was doing Iggy doing Jimbo.

though my tolerance for the doors themselves is about as low as ever, i do find myself with increasing appreciation for bands that are obviously trying to sound like the doors. i like one st. stephen, for instance. and children of the mushroom - their archival rehearsal tape release is particularly on a heavy doors trip, and it sounds good.

but jim's poetry is just so profoundly awful. i can't imagine anybody writing poetry that bad and _not_ being serious about it. i mean obviously he wasn't serious about _everything_, nobody is, but the poetry? pretty sure he was serious about that.

structurally they are the most post-punk of all the name brand 60s bands....the chording and melodies are much more carried by the keyboards and bass and the guitar tends towards more textural or ornamental, clean tone single note picked lines

Also, echoing what several have said here is the correct Doors fandom trajectory

13-14 "OMG GOD THIS IS AMAZING"
15-16 "Fuck man the Doors really get me"
17-35 "This is so awful, this music is so corny! The lyrics is so dumb! No bass player? LAME"
36-37 "Eh this isn't so bad, the first record is pretty good"
38 and beyond "OMG GOD THIS IS AMAZING"

structurally they are the most post-punk of all the name brand 60s bands....the chording and melodies are much more carried by the keyboards and bass and the guitar tends towards more textural or ornamental, clean tone single note picked lines

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

if you don't consider the music machine "name brand", i guess. manzarek's playing gets a little too proggy to really fit in with post-punk imo

Also, echoing what several have said here is the correct Doors fandom trajectory

13-14 "OMG GOD THIS IS AMAZING"
15-16 "Fuck man the Doors really get me"
17-35 "This is so awful, this music is so corny! The lyrics is so dumb! No bass player? LAME"
36-37 "Eh this isn't so bad, the first record is pretty good"
38 and beyond "OMG GOD THIS IS AMAZING"

― chr1sb3singer

and this is why logan's run had it right

Also Jim poetry outside of the band is an entirely different kettle of fish and "An American Prayer" is this close to being the worst record made by anyone ever.

Ride the snake tho