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re: Any fans of The Doors on here?

Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:09 pm to
Posted by Tigerwaffe
Orlando
Member since Sep 2007
4975 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:09 pm to
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He's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet

Agreed, the band's attempts at poetry are bad. But when the Doors wrote and played 2-4 minute ROCK songs, they put out a fine body of music. Break on Through ... Soul Kitchen ... Crystal Ship ... Alabama Song ... End of the Night ... People Are Strange ... My Eyes Have Seen You ... You're Lost Little Girl ,,, The Unknown Soldier ,,, Spanish Caravan ... Summer's Almost Gone ... Roadhouse Blues... Peace Frog ... Changeling ... L.A. Woman ... and on and on.

Skip Celebration of the Lizard, American Prayer and all that stuff. The best of the Doors is the rock and blues stuff they created.
Posted by Mouth
Member since Jan 2008
23102 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:26 pm to
Anybody ever listen to The End cranked up with earbuds/headphones on?

The beginning chopper riff hops from ear to ear. Check it out.
Posted by TreyAnastasio
Bitch I'm From Cleveland
Member since Dec 2010
46759 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:37 pm to
You ever listen to it

On weed?
Posted by Mouth
Member since Jan 2008
23102 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:42 pm to
Yeah man. Best snicklefritz ever.
Posted by HeadyBrosevelt
the Verde River
Member since Jan 2013
21591 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:45 pm to
As far as Doors epics go I always thought When the Music's Over was superior to The End
Posted by Mouth
Member since Jan 2008
23102 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 6:54 pm to
I'd put WTMO slightly ahead of The End as well. I was just telling you peeps to listen to the End with earbuds and cranked up. It's badass. (Studio version)
Posted by OldTigahFot
Drinkin' with the rocket scientists
Member since Jan 2012
10507 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 8:55 pm to
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Five to One






And any live version of "When the Music's Over".
Posted by blueslover
deeper than deep south
Member since Sep 2007
22792 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 8:57 pm to
no order, the first that come to mind...

The Changeling
LA Woman
Roadhouse Blues
Riders On The Storm
When The Music's Over
(Govt Mule had an incredible rendition of WTMO at Mahalia Jackson in NOLA in 2010 that's on youtube)
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27875 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:03 pm to
LA Woman.

The End

WTMO

Spanish Caravan.

Really no 5th for me. The rest are just good but overplayed but I guess Break on Through.
Posted by RoyalBaby
South Central
Member since Jul 2013
2316 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:03 pm to
LA Woman
Break on Through
Love her Madly
Riders on the Storm
Crystal Ship

One of the greatest American bands.
Posted by Backinthe615
Member since Nov 2011
6871 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:20 pm to
Almost Famous did for the Doors what Lebowski & Sideways did for the Eagles & Merlot.

I remember as a kid buying Soft Parade with the scant money in pocket...going home, putting on the vinyl and thinking WTF?!!? But I'm still a bigtime Manzarek fan. He was an inventor, legend, and the key piece to their sound.
Posted by Marciano1
Marksville, LA
Member since Jun 2009
20182 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:24 pm to
Soft Parade is easily my least favorite album of The Doors.

But their debut album and LA Woman are classics. Strange Days/Morrison Hotel are damn good too. Waiting for the Sun is behind all of those but ahead of Soft Parade.
Posted by northshorebamaman
Mackinac Island
Member since Jul 2009
38578 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:26 pm to
I actually like Soft Parade. But I can understand why a lot of people don't.
Posted by Backinthe615
Member since Nov 2011
6871 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:31 pm to
yeah, I chose poorly. I just meant to say that Ray might've been the biggest talent in the band.
Posted by BobbyGoulet
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2007
3784 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:24 pm to
My favorite band of all time


In no particular order

When the Music's Over
Riders on the Storm
L.A. Woman
Back door Man
Light My Fire

Theres so many more, but I'll stick with that for now
Posted by CherryGarciaMan
Sugar Magnolia
Member since Aug 2012
2497 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:39 pm to
quote:

Posted by Message TreyAnastasio Any fans of The Doors on here? The Doors? Jim Morrison? He's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet. Give me The Guess Who. They got the courage to be drunken buffoons, which makes them poetic.




I'm afraid this went over some posters heads.

RIP Phillip Seymour


Fact de jour, Alabama Song (aka Whiskey Song) was not a Doors original. It was written in the 30's.
Posted by ColoradoAg03
Denver, CO
Member since Oct 2012
6690 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:49 pm to
Spanish Caravan
People Are Strange
When The Music's Over
Crystal Ship
Riders On The Storm
Posted by northshorebamaman
Mackinac Island
Member since Jul 2009
38578 posts
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:51 pm to
quote:

Fact de jour, Alabama Song (aka Whiskey Song) was not a Doors original. It was written in the 30's.

Yeah, I thought it was a vaudeville song? Something like that.
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
Cloud 8
Member since Nov 2012
6493 posts
Posted on 2/25/14 at 12:52 am to
People Are Strange
LA Woman
Break On Through
Hello, I Love You
The End
Roadhouse Blues
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
106119 posts
Posted on 2/25/14 at 2:08 am to
My LSU roommate's dad was a Navy pilot. His commanding officer was Admiral Morrison. True story.
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