The Doors Poll
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Topic: The Doors Poll
Posted By: Zitro
Subject: The Doors Poll
Date Posted: January 22 2007 at 18:27
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All 4 are epics from The Doors. Which one is your favorite? Moderators: You can move this to the "prog related" section. I put it here because I cannot create a poll in there for some reason. |
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Posted By: Modrigue
Date Posted: January 22 2007 at 18:32
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It is The End for me, and Riders on the Storm comes in second.
But all are great !
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: January 22 2007 at 18:32
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The End although the choice was tough. ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 22 2007 at 18:35
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Don't ask me why I picked The End. Light My Fire was more revolutionary for it's time than epic material, unless by epic you mean long. The Soft Parade would have been a good option, too. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: January 22 2007 at 18:37
Light My Fire, extended live version 
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Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: January 22 2007 at 18:52
| He-he, an impossible one. Absolutely impossible. The very fact of voting means you have to rule out three out of these four. Personally, I can't do it. |
Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: January 22 2007 at 19:30
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he he. I don't care much about the end, but the choice between the other three is kind of impossible. EDIT: Wow The end is winning by a landslide! I thought all tracks would get at least 15% of the votes. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 22 2007 at 19:38
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Light my fire is great but not my favorite. The End is a marvelous jamming passed on as a song, with some great parts but not a real song structure to speak of... It's between the sheer elegance, the class, the finesse of Riders on the Storm and the trip, the voyage through music that is When the Music's over. I guess I'll go with this last one. ------------- 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: January 22 2007 at 19:48
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The End is one of my favorite Doors tunes,so the choice is pretty easy. -------------  |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: January 22 2007 at 20:19
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Riders on the Storm!
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: January 23 2007 at 03:41
| All four are amongst the greatest rock songs ever written. I have long considered "Riders On The Storm" as the greatest single of all time and would be in the running for greatest song ever so....not surprisingly, that got my vote! |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: January 23 2007 at 03:43
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Dude, Watchers of the Storm? ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: MattiR
Date Posted: January 23 2007 at 08:26
| "Riders of the Storm" |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: January 23 2007 at 10:36
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Light My Fire, the guitar and organ solo are so perfect. ------------- 
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Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: January 23 2007 at 11:19
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I played LA Woman this weekend, and when Riders on the Storm was over, I was speechless with incredulity. It is the perfect blend of poetry, errie production effects (the storm, Jim's whispering accompaniment to the vocal track), and fiery instrumental improvisation (one of Mazarek's shining brilliant moments is the solo during that song; Krieger's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" reverby guitar.
The amazement...the amazement... ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: January 23 2007 at 15:24
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Both Riders on the Storm and The End for me... Great songs ! ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: January 23 2007 at 15:30
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When The Music is Over. Also a point of interest, Light My Fire was written by the guitarist (I can't remember his name right now) and it was also the very first song he wrote. |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: January 23 2007 at 15:34
Robby Krieger ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
progismylife wrote:Posted By: Bastille Dude
Date Posted: January 23 2007 at 15:47
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Riders, could have been any of them though! "The End" always gives me Apocalypse Now flashbacks. ------------- DEATH TO FALSE PROG! |
Posted By: ZowieZiggy
Date Posted: January 24 2007 at 07:13
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I voted for "Light My Fire" although "The End" is my fave one.
The reason ?
I went and see "The Riders From The Storm" two weeks ago in Antwerp (Belgium). The last encore was "Light My Fire" and it was grandiose.
Cheers. ------------- ZowieZiggy |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: January 24 2007 at 07:16
How much more underrated can Robby get???
 I voted for The End. ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: Alibongo
Date Posted: January 24 2007 at 08:12
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The End is my favourite Doors song, and a decent piece of prog to go with it. The End gets my vote ------------- 
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Posted By: Daydreamyng
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 16:44
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Riders on the Storm |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 03 2007 at 09:19
| Tough choice. In the end I chose When the Music's Over. |
Posted By: Seyo
Date Posted: February 03 2007 at 10:49
This is a tough one. All 4 are equally stunning and I cannot easily pick a favourite, but since "Riders" got me into starting discovery music in the first place, there it goes.. 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 03 2007 at 11:04
| "Riders on the Storm" for me - one of my all-time favourite songs. |
Posted By: Jeams Pfirp
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 21:40
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I chose When the Music's Over. L.A. Woman and Celebration of the Lizard were forgotten, though. -------------  
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Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 21:44
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The End is the most fun to sing/scare people with, but the subtle beauty of Riders on the Storm is unparalleled. ------------- 
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Posted By: trauma0
Date Posted: February 12 2007 at 18:58
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when the music's over!!! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/trauma0/?chartstyle=itunesrecent"> 
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