Who loves the Doors?
 

Not everyone, I'm sure, to paraphrase the Velvets song. But for those who do, what's your favorite LP? I've just recently dug into my collection and pulled out Doors stuff I've kind of forgotten about, and I find I love those first few Doors albums. The first two are really dark and trippy.

Very funny, you have a warped sense of humour.

Indeed I do. But I'm on the level about this. I think.

The Doors don't do much for me these days, but I used to love Absolutely Live.

i like la woman (since its the only one i have)

They don't do anything for me so I'll stay out of this thread.

Could someone let me know if it hots up please.

Googd luck to them.

They didn't do anything for me for a long time either. Even back in their day when I first bought their albums. But don't you have those albums you pull out and go, eh, I'll give em another go, and suddenly, it's like wham! you connect to something? That's the way it's been with the Doors. I took out the first LP last fall just for a lark, and I had that Wow! moment, went on to try Strange Days, and it was like, what was I thinking all this time, I love this stuff.

Put them away for a while, took them out again recently, and they still hold up for me.

They annoy me. But not as much as people who tell me they're 'avant-garde' or other such bollocks.

Yeah, I hardly think they're avant-garde, or ever were. Patti Smith purported to get off on them, and that's as good an endorsement as any I could want to hear.

Haino has mentioned in loads of interview that 'when the music stopped' (or something like that) made him want to be a musician.

Doesn't mean I like them though.

My broadside wasn't directed at anyone here, by the way, I've just met a lot of people in real life (remember that?) who have insisted that I'm wrong about the Doors. Interestingly, they tend to also be Zappa fans.

I don't listen much to them anymore, but I use to. I'll go for the first one because it starts with a bang!

You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

I also think that the Soft parade and the live stuff is/was good.

ps: I miss Pookie's anti-Jim avatar, by the way.

My perspective on the Doors has changed. I think why I didn't like them when I was younger was that I thought they wanted to be taken seriously. They did, of course, but not they way I was thinking, that they intended something "heavy" on the face of their music. What I've realized is that they were poking fun of the "heavy" side of the 1960s; their genius lies in this, that they could seemingly fit into that 1960s counterculture while also criticizing it by mocking it in their music. That's what I think their music is really about--a critique of American society in general but also a critique--through parody of the rock music they've chosen as their art form--of the excesses of 1960s counterculture.

Exactly!

I'm gonna load my next mix tape with a buncha Doors.

That's the one! Noone here gets out alive!!! Cool! Who is that by?

Savage Pencil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Pencil

As a journalist, he was responsible for me liking Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Big Black & many other American bands you hardly heard about in the UK in the early 80's.

Aha! Isn't he the guy that did that Thurston lp/ep thingy?

Yes, he's done loads of stuff for bands & labels.

Isn't that the Matt Groening compiled cd that came out a few years ago and there was a series of them with sleeves all designed by the great Savage Pencil?

Savage Pencil is great. He was a complete cock when I tried to talk to him though. Just a total, total twat.

I was the other (first) person that voted the debut.

It was a series of CD's, but this one was actually compiled by Savage Pencil.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Songbook-Sav...UTF8&s=gateway

Yes, wasnt quite sure wich one is wich.Do you have it?

Yes I do, and a lovely little thing it is too.

The only thing that i remember about that Groening one is that it had,i think,Royal Trux on it.

The debut is great. Strange Days is like the debut only slightly more psychedelic, and darker. Plus I love that cover--the Doors appear only in that poster in the background.

It's all about Strange Days for me.....The Doors have been one of my favorite bands since I was a child and fell in love with music. I love everything and have a buttload of boots.

I've been wondering about Waiting for the Sun. Haven't heard it, wondering if it's worth adding to the collection. Seems to create some division of opinion among Doors fans.

Oh hell yeah man, get it ASAP....Love Street! Summer's Almost Gone! Yes, the River Knows! Not to Touch the Earth! YES YES YES!!!!

I fuckin love the Doors!!! I used to get stoned and listen to them all the time. Ah, the good ol' days.

Welp, those last two endorsements are good enough fer me, then!

no!

Also, NO! Emphatically. A handful of good songs. Mostly utter cock!

Not to Touch the Earth is a kickin' tune. Hello, I Love You, Spanish Caravan, The Unknown Soldier & Five to One are very good ones on that record as well.

The Soft Parade is the one that's less of a must if one is prioritizing; it's probably their weakest.

Morrison Hotel is noticeably absent from the poll.

he did the halloween II etchings too. one side has halloween on it and one is just savage pencil etching. he's great.

oh, by the way, anyone with a response of "me! me! i do!" or something akin to that should be shot on site.

Lighten up, Francis...

who says i'm even being serious?

shot on site.