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Poll Question: Your favorite Track
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13 [16.67%]
18 [23.08%]
20 [25.64%]
6 [7.69%]
4 [5.13%]
15 [19.23%]
2 [2.56%]
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I just watched When You're Strange, a documentary about them.  It's excellent but depressing as hell.  It shows The Doors, especially Morrison, as vulnerable and "caught between heaven and hell" (William Blake reference), not just as the arena rock stars most people remember them as.
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2012 at 22:58
Originally posted by Eärendil Eärendil wrote:

I just watched When You're Strange, a documentary about them.  It's excellent but depressing as hell.  It shows The Doors, especially Morrison, as vulnerable and "caught between heaven and hell" (William Blake reference), not just as the arena rock stars most people remember them as.

That's called reality, dude.Wink

I'll go for When the Music's Over, those keys... damn. However, all of these tunes are incredible in their own different ways.
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The End, of course.
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very tough choice

so many great songs here

went with Light My Fire
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When the Music's Over. All of them are great though.
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Points: 1584 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2012 at 15:27
Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by Eärendil Eärendil wrote:

I just watched When You're Strange, a documentary about them.  It's excellent but depressing as hell.  It shows The Doors, especially Morrison, as vulnerable and "caught between heaven and hell" (William Blake reference), not just as the arena rock stars most people remember them as.

That's called reality, dude.Wink


Totally man.  It's so real.
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When the music's over. 
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2012 at 21:35
Originally posted by Eärendil Eärendil wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by Eärendil Eärendil wrote:

I just watched When You're Strange, a documentary about them.  It's excellent but depressing as hell.  It shows The Doors, especially Morrison, as vulnerable and "caught between heaven and hell" (William Blake reference), not just as the arena rock stars most people remember them as.

That's called reality, dude.Wink


Totally man.  It's so real.

I wouldn't called The Doors "arena rock stars".
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Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Originally posted by Eärendil Eärendil wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by Eärendil Eärendil wrote:

I just watched When You're Strange, a documentary about them.  It's excellent but depressing as hell.  It shows The Doors, especially Morrison, as vulnerable and "caught between heaven and hell" (William Blake reference), not just as the arena rock stars most people remember them as.

That's called reality, dude.Wink


Totally man.  It's so real.

I wouldn't called The Doors "arena rock stars".

It's funny that if you translate arena from spanish to english, literally it would mean: Sand, rock, stars. Hm, no, it's not funny.
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Love the electric piano and jazzy drumming on "Riders"....was never a big Doors fan but that break and restart slays me.  

On a related note, how about Sweet Smoke incorporating "Soft Parade" on their first album....great stuff.
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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I'm surprised there's so little love for The Soft Parade. It's probably the most experimental track The Doors ever recorded - easy vote there. Jimbo's lyrics on that one are amazing. 

Edited by Fox On The Rocks - October 06 2012 at 12:30
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2012 at 12:45
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I would have gone with "The Celebration of the Lizard" had it been included (more of a suite of song poems than an epic, and they didn't record it for a studio album as they had wanted to, so I wouldn't expect it)




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Had to go with "Light My Fire."  Love that Vox Jaguar organ solo in the middle...
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Originally posted by Fox On The Rocks Fox On The Rocks wrote:

I'm surprised there's so little love for The Soft Parade. It's probably the most experimental track The Doors ever recorded - easy vote there. Jimbo's lyrics on that one are amazing. 

I don't find Soft Parade that experimental but rather under developed. I think the band self destructed around the time they made Waiting For The Sun. They wrote good songs after Strange Days but their subsequent albums never reached the same heights as their first two albums.
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Points: 4088 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2013 at 13:23
Toughie, hesitated between The End, When the Music's over and Riders on the storm, and ended up voting Riders, simply because it's more structured and better produced than the 2 others...
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Points: 15926 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2013 at 22:32
I love all of these tracks, but, don't get angry folks - 'Ships w/Sails' gets my vote - I simply love 'Other Voices' - pity there was no 'epic' on 'Waiting For The Sun' (my fave Doors album).
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My favorite of theirs is When the Music's Over :)

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Really tough choice between "The End" & "When the Music's Over"...

Went with "When the Music's Over"...
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Was there ever a studio version of 'Celebration of the Lizard' ??  Always loved that suite on 'Absolutely Live'.  There was plenty of room on the very short 'Waiting For The Sun' album at the time........??
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I seem to be (currently) in the majority here for a change - When's The Music Over for me.
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