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Poll Question: To celebrate the late Ray Manzarek...What Doors songs are Proggiest?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
4 [3.81%]
3 [2.86%]
3 [2.86%]
1 [0.95%]
11 [10.48%]
1 [0.95%]
22 [20.95%]
1 [0.95%]
1 [0.95%]
15 [14.29%]
1 [0.95%]
1 [0.95%]
1 [0.95%]
0 [0.00%]
9 [8.57%]
3 [2.86%]
1 [0.95%]
5 [4.76%]
1 [0.95%]
3 [2.86%]
0 [0.00%]
8 [7.62%]
7 [6.67%]
1 [0.95%]
2 [1.90%]
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Hhmm a little weird that I'm the first to vote for L'America. 
The cut-up avantguarde flavour of this piece is one of the most compelling and odd these guys ever put together.
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Interesting that Light My Fire is doing so well. I find it hardly prog at all.
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Yes, I also want to go on record that the Doors never did that much for me.  The drug addled years of Morrison don't do anything for me.  I can tell when a person is about to kill themselves with drugs and alcohol.  Some people call it
"genius" -- maybe because there is money to be made for them off it.  There was something about the Doors that I never liked, compared to bands like Floyd or Hawkwind that had the reputation for drugs but had great longevity.  Ever notice that hardly anyone in prog has died early from drug or alcohol use, or suicide in some other way?  I think that speaks volumes for the importance of this music. 
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Originally posted by brainstormer brainstormer wrote:

Ever notice that hardly anyone in prog has died early from drug or alcohol use, or suicide in some other way?  I think that speaks volumes for the importance of this music. 

Perhaps prog musicians rank music as their ultimate priority rather than the 'rock star' trappings that can surround it? 
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Interesting that Light My Fire is doing so well. I find it hardly prog at all.
Jazzy leanings, a skillfully done organ improv, and a skillfully done guitar improv ... what are you confused about? Proggy-ish is a better word, I think, and last time I checked, The Doors did not make prog.
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Albinoni's Adagio from Box Set 1997
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Originally posted by Roj Roj wrote:

I can't really handle the majority of their music but my God The Doors had some incredible moments didn't they.  Most of them are found in the selection above too Clap.

I absolutely loved Manzarek's organ work.

As to the vote, too many to choose from.  An impossible choice.
A multiple one at that.

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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Interesting that Light My Fire is doing so well. I find it hardly prog at all.
Jazzy leanings, a skillfully done organ improv, and a skillfully done guitar improv ... what are you confused about? Proggy-ish is a better word, I think, and last time I checked, The Doors did not make prog.
Never said  they did but the thread asks it.

I hear. A basic bluesy rock song with extended solos. Not  proggish, not prog.
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^ Extended solos (one is Chicago roots jazz, one is flamenco-styled) with a theme and a reprise. I guess, that said, a good number of things before prog had at least a slight degree of prog in it. An evolution in progress.

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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Interesting that Light My Fire is doing so well. I find it hardly prog at all.


I think it's a case of people voting for their favourite song on the list as opposed to which one they think is 'the most Prog'. Happens all the time.
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This !!!
Not especially the track, more like the entire "American P" album
 
 


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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Or if we talk most avantgarde : This
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ Extended solos (one is Chicago roots jazz, one is flamenco-styled) with a theme and a reprise. I guess, that said, a good number of things before prog had at least a slight degree of prog in it. An evolution in progress.
True, some proggy elements - but Elvis had those same jazzy/flamenco rythms here and there Disapprove 


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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:



Originally posted by Roj Roj wrote:

I can't really handle the majority of their music but my God The Doors had some incredible moments didn't they.  Most of them are found in the selection above too Clap.

I absolutely loved Manzarek's organ work.

As to the vote, too many to choose from.  An impossible choice.
A multiple one at that.


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I think of the Doors as prog very much. But, they had hits on AM radio. There is the difference. Listen to what other bands were doing at that time and they were definitely prog. And, I love the Doors. They were so unique and original. Probably the best American band of that era. 'Unknown Soldier' is one of my all-time faves.

It's just sad that Morrison was so messed up.
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^ Sad? His lifestyle was the epitome of "live every day like it's your last".
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Originally posted by humor4u1959 humor4u1959 wrote:


It's just sad that Morrison was so messed up. 

I don't think it was sad, I think it was part of what made him...well, him.  Without being "messed-up" he wouldn't have written the words/lyrics/poems that he did.  
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I haven't heard all of these songs, not the greatest The Doors fan around even though they made some nice tunes and Ray is a very big inspiration on me as a keyboardist. His use of keyboard sounds is simply stunning, especially on songs like "People are Strange", "Strange Days" and "The Crystal Ship". Which of these is the most prog is a hard question as I've never really thought about them in that way, but I'd say "The End" for it's craziness and conceptual theme, even though it's hardly my favorite, the beginning is magical but frankly it still bores me after a few minutes. Anyway, the question wasn't which song I liked the most :D
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