Favorite Doors album
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Topic: Favorite Doors album
Posted By: Melomaniac
Subject: Favorite Doors album
Date Posted: June 12 2007 at 17:42
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I know this will be moved to the proto-prog and prog-related lounge, but we STILL CANNOT post polls in there (can someone take care of this, please ?).
Speak your mind !
Edit : I'll vote later as I still have to listen to Morisson Hotel. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
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Posted By: Odyssey
Date Posted: June 12 2007 at 18:09
| I'll go for Strange days |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: June 12 2007 at 18:09
the first album 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?
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Posted By: andu
Date Posted: June 12 2007 at 18:17
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I haven't listened to any in ages, but since "The Doors" is the one vividly populating my mind&soul when I think of them, while for some other albums I can barely remember the basic tunes, there goes my vote.
------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: June 12 2007 at 21:38
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Their self titled debut is my favourite."Light My Fire" still amazes me. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 12 2007 at 22:13
As I say in my detailed series of reviews of the 2007 remixes, ( cheap advertisement) , my absolute favorite is STRANGE DAYS, which combines the best elements of THE DOORS with the psychedelia and darkness and Morrison's voice and writing at their peak.
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.  ------------- 
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: June 12 2007 at 22:49
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Strange Days is also my favorite!!
------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 10:22
Just finished listening to The Soft Parade, and it is DEFINITELY not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Not my favorite, but good nonetheless. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
The T wrote:Posted By: Samir
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 11:42
| My favorite its L.A. Woman, though i have not heard Waiting for the Sun and The Soft Parade |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 12:15
| I don't think their debut is very impressive. I tend to get bored with it, but The mid-later albums are awesome. L.A. Woman, Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel. |
Posted By: Philip
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 13:32
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"The Doors" and "Morrison Hotel" are the best ones.
From the first one, we can take legendary doors' songs, songs that "people" associate with the band, and that are "known" in the popular culture, like "break on through" or "light my fire", but we have also "the end ".
"Morrison Hotel" is a different album, and which works better for a continuous listening, and this is why i prefer it.
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Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 14:31
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I have narrowed it down to the first three, still cannot vote though, be back later. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 15:47
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With amazing songs like The Changeling, LA Woman, L 'America, The Wasp and Riders on the Storm who could deny an album like that. I could mention all of the tracks. Not a single weak one!!
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 15:50
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The eponymous album simply blew me off, it's half of the music I totally love from the Doors (yes, I've become a fan after listening, so typical of me...).
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Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 15:51
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I'll go with the first, but LA Woman is an extremely close second ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 15:51
I still haven't heard Strange Days. 
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 15:53
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Waiting for the Sun. Spanish Caravan is amazing. ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 15:59
Carry me Caravan take me away......
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date 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. |
Posted By: Jeremy Bender
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 16:26
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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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Posted By: Cold Deep
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 16:55
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for me Waiting for the Sun
------------- Remember, the death is not the end, but only a transition 
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 17:06
To Canter - bu - ry  -------------
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 23:36
Indeed! Got to love that Vox Jaguar organ sound that was so Doors in that 1967 timeframe!
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: June 19 2007 at 23:50
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Was it a Vox Jaguar? I thought it was a Vox Continental -------------
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 00:00
Indeed it is. Five To One and Yes The River Knows are excellent songs as well.  Twas my first Doors album. -------------
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 00:24
I love Yes The River Knows and Not to Touch the Earth...and Summers Almost Gone -------------
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 00:31
Ah yes. How could I forget Not To Touch The Earth? Great song as well. -------------
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Posted By: Wishbone Ash
Date Posted: June 20 2007 at 02:33
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 ------------- Elizabeth? |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 09:15
Looks like you´ve got your first patient! It´s not me, though, I go for Strange Days. ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 13:11
If you study on Jim Morrison his troubled mind, you will be a psychologist very soon 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 13:26
Please, I'm not a PHD yet....  -------------
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: June 23 2007 at 06:52
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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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Posted By: Crazy_Chester
Date Posted: June 23 2007 at 13:35
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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). ------------- No one knows what the purpose of it originally was or if it had a purpose at all. Personally I think it was a pure artistic creation from the beginning. - William S. Burroughs |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: June 27 2007 at 11:05
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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...) ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: StarBreaker
Date Posted: June 30 2007 at 13:01
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S/T, easily, though L.A. Woman, Morrison Hotel and Strange Days are superb as well. The others - not so much. |
Posted By: dedokras
Date 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. |
Posted By: meinmatrix
Date Posted: August 03 2007 at 04:03
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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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