Favorite Record - The Doors, but favorite song - LA Woman

I forgot about Morrison Hotel. Any good? (I don't own it.)

^Yes it rules.....Peace Frog into Blue Sunday is glorious.

never liked em. the lizard king is just overrated. like hendrix


ill get my coat!

Hendrix is disturbingly underrated by anyone who doesn't intrinsically understand that he is the best guitarist that there ever was or most likely ever will be.


Yes, it's among their very finest recorded moments.

I think Hendrix did some fantastic stuff. The problem is, "classic rock radio" has overhyped Hendrix. If you can get past the "classic rock" stigma and keep your mind open, you'll hear great music on his first few studio albums.

this is interesting , so how were they satirizing their own culture ? im 22 . when i look back and see the 60s, the doors seems like one of the very bands leading the psychedelelia flock , no ?

hypertonic and atari. i know im sorry! this opinion has caused me grief for many a year. as i said


ill get my coat..........

Hendrix's best material is to be found on the numerous high-quality live recordings that are available & not necessarily his studio releases. He had minimal control over what was officially released to the public while he was alive.

The Doors are much darker than most of their contemporaries.

"Five to One" directly critiques the flower-power hippie movement and encourages a revolutionary uprising.

Yeah, cmon
Love my girl
She lookin good
Cmon
One more

Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive, now
You get yours, baby
Ill get mine
Gonna make it, baby
If we try

The old get old
And the young get stronger
May take a week
And it may take longer
They got the guns
But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah
Were takin over
Come on!

Yeah!

Your ballroom days are over, baby
Night is drawing near
Shadows of the evening crawl across the years
Ya walk across the floor with a flower in your hand
Trying to tell me no one understands
Trading your hours for a handful of dimes
Gonna make it, baby, in our prime

Come together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, aha
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, gotta, get together

Ohhhhhhhh!

Hey, cmon, honey
You wont have along wait for me, baby
Ill be there in just a little while
You see, I gotta go out in this car with these people and...

Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, got to
Get together, got to
Get together, got to
Take you up in my room and...
Hah-hah-hah-hah-hah
Love my girl
She lookin good, lookin real good
Love ya, cmon

No. They were not psychedelia at all.

Lester Bangs has written about them. Check some of his old essays on the Doors.

I LOVE THE DOORS

My friends and bro and I would sit and listen to doors albums out of our boomboxes and we would rock and space out (at age 11-14) and it was the perfect thing to get us into the darker side of music. It brought us closer to the great satan. ha ha! ha ha ha HA!

and by the way
JIMI HENDRIX IS GOD

Yes, he is. Anybody who could turn out stuff like Axis, Experienced, and Electric Ladyland, among all that great live stuff, in just a few short years cannot be a mere mortal.

manic depression's a frustrating mess

I voted for the Soft Parade, but I've never loved the Doors. Mostly, it's just a matter of tolerating with Morrison for me, but he does have his less insipid moments where real art shows through all the ego. Soft Parade is more of that, less of American Prayer psuedo intellectual bullshit.

I think I have a Doors "Greatest Hits" but it doesn't have "The End" on it so I don't really listen to it.

Back when I was in high school, 20 to 25 years ago, the two essential bands to have come out of the '60s were The Doors and The Velvet Underground (with The Pink Floyd and The Who coming in next on just a slightly lower tier). If you liked The Doors, you liked The Velvet Underground, and vice versa. The Doors were seen as having been the west coast equivalent of The Velvet Underground, and The Velvets were seen as having been the east coast equivalent of The Doors. It was as simple as that. Morrison was compared to Reed because of their shared beatnik influences, poetry, occasional nastiness, and black clothes and shades. As well, the two contemporary groups that were seen as the truest (then) modern-day extensions of these bands were Joy Division and Sonic Youth--JD evolving more according to The Doors' strands of DNA, and SY more according to The Velvets'.

How the hell did this thread get resurrected? This is from last summer!

Yes, The Doors are great enough that when you listen to them, one gets the inevitable feeling of a somewhat irrational notion that hey, this might be one of the best bands ever. A lot of great bands do that when you listen to some of their best material.


Because swa(y) decided he'd try to stir-up some brownie points with fellow Doors-haters earlier today.


Was Jim an out-of-control alcoholic and drug-addict during his last few years? Yeah, he was. Where's all your threads about Rimbaud being an asshole? Just wondering.
Look, I haven't listened to The Doors regularly in many, many years, but Morrison has astoundingly good influences and he's easily one of the finest lyricists in rock history that displays a poetic bent.

There are no longer "dancers", the possessed.
The cleavage of men into actor and spectators
is the central fact of our time. We are obsessed
with heroes who live for us and whom we punish.
If all the radios and televisions were deprived
of their sources of power, all books and paintings
burned tomorrow, all shows and cinemas closed,
all the arts of vicarious existence...
We are content with the "given" in sensation's
quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad
body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes
staring in the dark. - Morrison, The Lords (excerpt)

Note that there's no such word as "metamorphosised" or, for that matter, "metamorphosized."
Ignorance rears its ugly head (as always, and) even in the midst of such a fine passage as the quoted one.
Written properly, it's not "have been metamorphosised," it's "have metamorphosed."