your favorite Doors song vs. your favorite ELP song

i don't know, "five to one" vs "toccata"?

LA Woman vs. A Taste Of My Love

"Peace Frog" VS "Still...You Turn Me On"

I mean, I'd probably give Bartok most of the credit for "The Barbarian". But I'd also give Albeniz credit for "Spanish Caravan"...

hmm ... "Moonlight Drive" vs. "Trilogy" ... I am going 'Moonlight Drive' on this one

The Doors haven't released anything ever that comes even remotely close to "Karn Evil 9", so easy one.

LA Woman vs. Karn Evil 9 is pretty impossible for me actually

Okay, well I quite like this You Tube track Mulvaney posted, here, trying Karn Evil 9 now, but it'll be awhile because I don't want to hear crappy live versions on You Tube with no sound quality.

Someone is gonna have to try pretty hard to convince me that "The End" by The Doors isn't like, you know, one of the most amazing things ever. And this video I found of it was even better than the album version, SORRY DO NOT ARGUE WITH ME ON THIS. I used to have this whole video on my iPod, but I got rid of it because it took to much room, and...man I'm sad now ;_; Thank god it's still up and easy to get ahold of.

Also that song begs me to smoke weed, but I'm not going to do it.

I have a "pee test" in a couple weeks and I've been a good boy. Leave me alone.

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"!

I mostly loathe the Doors, but I'm afraid I just don't have a "favorite ELP song."

Robby Krieger's opening guitar on "Peace Frog" certainly takes a big dump over anything that plopped out of ELP's pompous backside.

Sorry, that was a remarkably scatalogical post.

scatOlogical (meaning the preoccupation with poop) and not scatAlogical (presumably meaning a preoccupation with wordless jazz vocals).

Alex, you are the one who knows about Coil and a particular record regarding Scatology which I bought years ago for cheap and didn't like.

or maybe you don't, and that's fine. I'm just saying, I didn't dig it. And I don't know jack shit about Coil aside from that, really.

Geddit? Jack Shit! Scatology! Bahahaha.

How can you not like that record? You need help.

I mostly loathe the Doors, but I'm afraid I just don't have a "favorite ELP song."

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, April 19, 2009 7:50 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^^^^ Except I actually don't "mostly loathe" the Doors, I range from indifferent to "Hey, that's not a half bad song at all" to "Fuck yeah!" So, probably, "Love Her Madly" vs. nothing.

"break on thru" vs "the endless enigma" = win for ELP even tho I like plenty of Doors tracks.

You could give "windowpane" a try maybe bimb.

Battles of the worst is more difficult for me. Would be "The End" Vs. "Toccata" or "The Barbarian", I guess.

Are we counting Emerson, Lake, and Powell?

"The Barbarian" for the worst ELP track??

Like I say, Bartok deserves most of the credit but I mean, it's Bartok on distorted organ, you know?

the more that I think of it "Touch Me" is my favorite Doors song
but the endless enigma is definitely my favorite ELP song and it sucks you can't hear it all on youtube

Break on Through > Lucky Man. That Keith Emerson synthesizer part no longer astonishes.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

weird that i didn't see this -- fav ELP song, definitely

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Hah! Contrarians take a beating, for once!

I might take the best Doors song over the best ELP song too but I'm curious why ELP has had such an extremely dismal reputation amongst critics. They're not my favourite prog band but they were tight and they did have some decent tunes that weren't that far removed from other music of that era. Like, why is it rare to read reviews that say things like "Sometimes they overplay a bit but 'From the Beginning' is pretty."?

26 of you are pooheads. alpha whales win again

Break on Through > Lucky Man. That Keith Emerson synthesizer part no longer astonishes

Check out Dick Hyman's "The Minotaur" to hear how much further out Emerson coulda taken it.

lol at Lucky Man being somebody's favorite ELP song!! i mean it's a nice song but ...

woulda definitely voted for ELP had i seen this :/

Posts very much in hang on what???

Missed this one, but prefer "Karn Evil 9" to "Strange Days" any day.

(OK, didn't miss this one, apparently, even though I don't remember it)

I like the ELP song "Knife Edge" more than I like any Doors song.