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Poll Question: Which is your favorite album ?
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    Posted: August 03 2007 at 04:03
Musically it would be their first album, but for me L.A. Woman is pure emotion and blues genious - now who could have imagined Art Rock band like The Doors can pull out such a blues masterpiece with some really serious proto-prog elements?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2007 at 10:51
Waiting for the sun for me, followed closely by  the eponimous. All their albums have great songs though.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 13:01
S/T, easily, though L.A. Woman, Morrison Hotel and Strange Days are superb as well.

The others - not so much.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2007 at 11:05
Now made up my mind : Waiting for the Sun is my favorite, with Strange Days very close behind.
 
WFTS is so eerie and dark in parts, very engaged lyrically, and it has so many great songs (Not to Touch the Earth, Spanish Caravan, Five to One, The Unknown Soldier, Hello I Love You,etc...)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2007 at 13:35
I have been switching back and forth between their debut (2007 remastered) and The Soft Parade (2007 remastered) for a while. I introduced myself to them 8 years ago with The Soft Parade, and that might be the reason that it stands as my favorite. Their first album was never my favorite (I love all the songs - but it felt like it lagged) - thanks to the 2007remasters it has become one of my most played albums (it sounds so fresh now).


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2007 at 06:52
The debute is one of my all time fav albums. Might have something to do with that it was the first i heard and then dident buy a new one before years later. Got em all now and like em all very much. But the debute is still the best.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2007 at 13:26
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If you study on Jim Morrison his troubled mind, you will be a psychologist very soon Wink
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2007 at 13:11
If you study on Jim Morrison his troubled mind, you will be a psychologist very soon Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2007 at 09:15
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

By the way, if anybody votes for THE SOFT PARADE, I demand you to wait till I get my psychology degree in a couple of years, and then come visit me as my first patient. Tongue


Looks like you´ve got your first patient! It´s not me, though, I go for Strange Days.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2007 at 02:33

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2007 at 00:31
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Originally posted by chamberry chamberry wrote:


Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Waiting for the Sun. Spanish Caravan is amazing.
Indeed it is. Five To One and Yes The River Knows are excellent songs as well. Thumbs%20UpTwas my first Doors album.


I love Yes The River Knows and Not to Touch the Earth...and Summers Almost Gone

Ah yes. How could I forget Not To Touch The Earth? Great song as well.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2007 at 00:24
Originally posted by chamberry chamberry wrote:


Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Waiting for the Sun. Spanish Caravan is amazing.
Indeed it is. Five To One and Yes The River Knows are excellent songs as well. Thumbs%20UpTwas my first Doors album.


I love Yes The River Knows and Not to Touch the Earth...and Summers Almost Gone

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2007 at 00:00
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Waiting for the Sun. Spanish Caravan is amazing.

Indeed it is. Five To One and Yes The River Knows are excellent songs as well. Thumbs%20Up
Twas my first Doors album.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2007 at 23:50
Was it a Vox Jaguar? I thought it was a Vox Continental

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2007 at 23:36
Originally posted by febus febus wrote:

the first albumThumbs%20Up has it all!   freshness, energy, great songwriting, great pop songs, great weird long song,the whiskey bar , some psychedelism and Morrison not yet tired!!
 
How can you do anything better than ''the crystal ship'' anyway?
Indeed!  Got to love that Vox Jaguar organ sound that was so Doors in that 1967 timeframe!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2007 at 17:06
Originally posted by glass house glass house wrote:

Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Waiting for the Sun. Spanish Caravan is amazing.

 

Carry me Caravan take me away......Big%20smile

 


 




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2007 at 16:55
for me Waiting for the Sun
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2007 at 16:26
LA Woman, their most mature album. Tight bandplaying and pretty down-to-earth lyrics from Mr. Mojo Rising.
First album contains a bit too much filler imo.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2007 at 16:11
While writing the The Doors biography for this site, I decided to give all The Doors albums an intense listening session. My personal experience is that their first sounds the most captivating and unique (on the level of albums like The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd and Santana their first) and then gradually all following albums sound a bit less interesting with Wating For The Sun and The Soft Parade as their lowest artistic effort. Then their final album  LA Woman sounds fresh and inspired, like a new band , more blues oriented.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2007 at 15:59
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Waiting for the Sun. Spanish Caravan is amazing.
 
Carry me Caravan take me away......Big%20smile

 

 


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