I grew up listening to The Doors. I thought for the longest time that they were the greatest band ever...I was young. I do like them..a lot and I do recommend that everyone should at least give them a shot...and dont write them off because people think they are "overrated". And the movie with Meg Ryan and Val Kilmer was a great great movie. Check it out.

Days of the New has an awesome feel to their music..its nothing spectacular but its good..its post grunge but entirely underated.

The Doors are great for sure, I think most people I know had some sort of Doors phase.

Not the greatest band ever, but certainly one of the best. Their music was unique and ground-breaking.

Too bad Morrison crashed and burned. If he had lived, I believe the Doors probably would've had a few more good years. Unfortunately, without him, they just weren't the Doors.

I like The Doors a lot. So many songs that were really good. Such a pity Morrison died so young :(

BUMPPP

<3 Morrison's voice.

The Doors appreciation thread.
 

Band dosen't get enough love here, apparrently because drug use is uncool or something.

I thought this was a damn ROCK forum.

Ugh... The Doors? They were ok for a week then i was done with that. Deleted all but 3 songs from my iPod. I only keep around Rider's On the Storm, People are Strange, and the Alabama song... Not that great of a band. Much better out there.

For a while when I was a teen, they were my absolute favorite band and pretty much the only thing I listened to. I got into them via my sister who was obsessed. My favorite album is L.A. Woman (the intro to that song is one of the best, ever?), my least favorite was The soft parade (I really wasn't digging the orchestral experimentation).

I was also rather obsessed with Peace frog for a while, probably the most danceable song they ever did? I forget, it's been a while...

Jim Morrison died at age 27...same as Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Brian Jones. Which I find is a pretty strange coincidence.

the '27 Club'?
I've had the first Doors album forever and I can't listen to it anymore, total overkill... Except 'the Crystal Ship'. Should I get another one?
also lol@ Ethan's post at the beginning of this thread from 2004, so sweet

Also dead at 27

Robert Johnson
Ron Mckernan (Grateful Dead)
&
Peter de Freitas (Echo and the Bunnymen)

Whole bunch more too. Here's a list that includes explanations of the unfortunate circumstances.

GIGWISE, Dead At 27: Rock'N'Roll Music's Infamous Death Club

Once upon a time I loved the Doors...I listened to The Soft Parade (the song, not the whole damn album) at least once a day...then I heard the Sex Pistols. To this day I haven't been able to voluntarily sit through Light My Fire.

So you saw the light... By discovering The Sex Pistols? :laughing:

Man, I used to like really sh*tty music like The Doors, but then I saw the light and discovered REAL talented bands like The Sex Pistols.

That's a good laugh.

The Doors s/t, Strange Days and LA Woman are great albums, I don't care what anyone says.

I always thought The Doors were cool. More so when I was younger but that organ music grew old on me.

Morrison was a nut if he would have had a better band behind him who knows what he would have done. Probably still die though.

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison died all at 27 within 1 year of eachother.

Ray Manzarek is a bad ass! If he would have had another band they would have bailed on him after day #1, the Lizard King was a drunken bastard (albeit incredibly awesome).

I think if possible the mods should add a poll for favorite Doors album to this thread.

I think it would be great if that became mandatory for every official artist/band thread.

Blender Mags hates Jim Morrisons Lyrics...

The 40 Worst Lyricists In Rock — #10 to #2
Posted Tuesday 10/09/2007 1:00 AM in Guide by Jon Dolan, Josh Eells, Tim Grierson, Andrew Harrison, Ben Mitchell, Tony Power and Mark Yarm
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10 • Jim Morrison
Why would a guy who looked this good shirtless want to be smart, anyway?

As a teenager, Morrison was alleged to have read a hundred books a week. Before his 1971 death in a Paris bathtub the Lizard King made pretentious-rocker history fusing French symbolism, Blake-ian romanticism and Beat shamanism into dreamlike evocations of L.A. excess. The result: poetry a drug-mad hippie would come up with if he’d never read a single book.
Worst lyric: “Breakfast where the news is read/Television children fed/Unborn living, living, dead/Bullet strikes the helmet’s head” (“The Unknown Soldier”)

-Blender Magazine

I actually love these lyrcis:love:

Me too!!

They also hate progressive rock and most things that have to do with musical decency.

http://cdn1.ioffer.com/img/item/247/...TxnFdM0fS4.jpg

Does this look like a music publication you should take seriously?

Yeah I know. but still..

And what really pisses is that on July 3 no one Mentioned him.. No One!! The radio station here played "Light My Fire" and talked about how much his house is going for... Who cares??? It was his Death anniversary..

Not liking the Door seems almost in-human. But that's coming from a Doors fan. I guess I can see why some people wouldn't like them, but guys like the ones at Blender don't really have jusifiable reasons for not liking them.

I`m a big Doors fan and we are in the minority on here.

I guess their fanbase has thinned out since the 80's("He's hot, he's sexy and he's dead", anyone?). I really thought that they'd have some decently sized following here(that's not based on anything though). @_@

I really like Doors too ;) And I don't care so much what others think about it...

me too!
http://thefifthcorner.com/wp-content.../955816656.jpg

favorite is probably s/t > l.a. woman > strange days.

For me personally, I like the Doors more for the influence they have had on the music scene in the last 30 years or so, especially the last couple of decades, more so than actually liking their music as one of my personal favorite rock bands.
Not only musically, but also the outlaw personality that Jim Morrison has had on other frontmen through the years, not only in attitude (stage presence) but as a lyricist also.
Here is a single that shows just one example of influence by the Doors, YouTube - Hurt - Rapture
So I personally respect the Doors/Morrison more for their influence on rock music, especially since 1990, more so than to say that they have 'great rock songs' or albums.
Of course thats just my opinion.

they aren't quite a favorite of mine, but they do have some good songs. the lyrics do little for me to be honest(as is often the case for me for all music). props to the organs in their music.

I love every musician in The Doors, but I find Krieger to be an especially underrated guitarist.

Peace Frog is the only example you need for his awesomeness.

Hi, has somebody seen movie or DVD When You're Strange? Your opinion about it?

I watched it, and I liked it. I usually watch a band's documentary or history at one point, it's just a habit, learn the band's history. It was a good dvd but it didn't reallly cover the whole doors history, I think they missed out some albums but that's no big deal, great DVD.

Love the quote at the end - "In Order to Burn Out, You Had to Be On Fire"

That quote was sick! I'm watching the doco now, I'm impressed.

Break on Through is my favourite song by The Doors.

just heard Strange Days (album)

pretty spiffy

i still didn't really like the debut much, keyword here being the past tense, of coz

People who hate The Doors have no idea about music and poetry.

have heard Waiting for the Sun

i like the 15 minute track at the end (bonus track?) - the songs are all unnamed on my mp3

The song you are talking about it´s Celebretion of The Lizardoriginally out of the record

The Doors Debut and Sophomore albums were two of the greatest releases of 1967, and there was some stiff competition that year, including The Beatles SPLHCB & TMMT.

To the piano teacher to who doesn't like the Doors, He/She should be ashamed. Ray M. is one of the most inventive organ/ piano/ keyboard players in all of rock history.

This piano teacher obviously hasn't heard the organ parts in Riders on the Storm! Manzerak is an absolute keyboard legend.