The Best of The Doors poll

no peace frog no credibility

this compilation being my main introduction to The Doors is exactly the reason i never have any idea what anyone's talking about when they say there's a Doors song called "Peace Frog"

it's their funk moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJKOtM-onM

I kinda can only enjoy them in small RMDE portions so kinda gotta go with either LA Woman or Roadhouse Blues here

i'm torn between "L.A. Woman," "Touch Me" and "Five To One." i'm fine with some of the more ubiquitous songs on here in theory but have no real desire to hear them ever again.

L.A. Woman

I'm kinda where some dude is but I really, really love the opening lyrics to "Crystal Ship": "Before you slip into unconsciousness, I'd like to have another kiss, another passing chance at bliss . . ."

The last 12 months I've been obsessed with the instrumental sections of "Riders on the Storm", wd love that twinkly sleepy ambient keyboard groove to stretch on to infinity. I'd take the whole of L.A. Woman over most of the other stuff on this comp, except maybe "Crystal Ship" and "Touch Me".

In the end I'm voting "Riders" but I'd be harder pressed on a poll of just L.A. Woman.

Riders

Never liked.

L.A. Woman. In my middle age my Doors love has returned with a vengeance--i couldn't stand them in my 20s and 30s.

I rode to school and back in the 11th grade with a girl who was a Doors FREAK! I heard this in addition to each of the studio albums about 80 times each that year. To compound the distress, this was about the time the Oliver Stone film came out and the fucking Doors were everywhere!

About the only one of these I can still listen to without any difficulty is "The End," but even then I rarely make it through the whole thing.

you've never heard "peace frog"?! i get the feeling there's a whole cadre of doors haters who make an exception for this song...

Maybe Riders on the Storm or maybe Light My Fire. Love the long instrumental passages on both of those.

i just watched that recent doors doc on netflix instant -- thought it'd be a cool, different look at the band, but it was mainly the same ol morrison bullllshit. some cool footage, but pretty lame overall. i too had a doors phase as a teen (who didn't?), but don't listen to them a lot these days. still some pretty undeniable stuff. out of the greatest hits ummmm "crystal ship"?

you've never heard "peace frog"?! i get the feeling there's a whole cadre of doors haters who make an exception for this song...

― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, March 2, 2011 10:33 PM (5 minutes ago)

i can be counted in this number

i've heard "Peace Frog" now, but i'm pretty sure the first time i consciously listened to it was after reading some ILM thread where people were talking about it as if it was as famous as "Break On Through" or something

morrison hotel is prob the best doors album -- if all you've heard is the hits, that's the one to get.

Still get a rush from Break On Through.

Toss up between L.A. Woman and Morrison Hotel

4. "Riders on the Storm" – 7:10
5. "Touch Me" (Robby Krieger) – 3:11
6. "Love Her Madly" (Robby Krieger) – 3:17

My three favourites here would be this run on disc 2 - I'm going with with 'Riders...'

'Riders On The Storm' - before I logged on I was just making a CD of intros for one round in the work quiz and had to edit like crazy to crowbar it in. It totally doesn't fit, in between 'Just Dance' and 'The Israelites', but I just had to have it there.

'Break On Through', 'The Crystal Ship, 'Love Me Two Times' - these are all immaculate pop songs.

Riders probably. or Strange Days (also their best lp).

Surprised the Doors haters haven't turned up yet!

I am very, very fond of Strange Days, and that whole album seems peculiarly perfect to me, but I have to go with Riders. Heard this on the radio some time in the late 70s, and it was a few weeks before I figured out they weren't a current band.

eh, the doors are fairly easy to hate on for being overexposed, but taken as a 60s rock/group (w/o all the lame-o mythology that's built up over the years) they're pretty good.

"Riders On The Storm" suffers, for me, from overfamiliarity and the lyrical lulz of the "road/toad" couplet, but man do I have great memories of being in 7th and 8th grade, laying in bed late at night listening to WGCL-FM in Cleveland, and hearing it come on whenever there was a thunderstorm, trying to keep my radio juuuuuust loud enough for me to hear it while I would drift off to sleep but not loud enough for my mom to hear it in her bedroom across the hall.

You can probably tell I am not a Doors fan by my vote for "Touch Me."

"Waiting for the Sun" for me: maximum LA dread, one of my fav sides of the 60s.

I like "his brain is squirming like a toad" - it feels like one of those times when Morrison actually hit on an image worthy of those French poets he loved. Really tho you could take the vocal of "Riders" and it wouldn't spoil it a jot for me.

vocal off

The Blondie/Doors 'Rapture Riders' mix is strangely perfect. You wouldn't think either had scope for improvement but somehow in a way it pulls it off.

a lot harder than it should be. Riders On The Storm? Crystal Ship? Love Me Two Times? People Are Strange? Roadhouse Blues? L.A. Woman? Touch Me?

Remove the hype and this is some great stuff. went with Love Me Two Times

Speaking of "Peace Frog"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-X7r0w3m28&feature=related

...this one's got a riff just like "Peace Frog" inverted, AND it's all about some flamboyant rock star who drops his pants onstage and is immediately arrested! Hmm...

Anyways, in the absence of "Peace Frog", I choose "Break On Through"

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/2647/lagear1.jpg

Speaking of "Peace Frog"...

...this one's got a riff just like "Peace Frog" inverted, AND it's all about some flamboyant rock star who drops his pants onstage and is immediately arrested! Hmm...

Anyways, in the absence of "Peace Frog", I choose "Break On Through"

― honorary mayor of Malibu, California (Myonga Vön Bontee)

Whoa you're not kidding, it's the same riff kinda. Was this before or after 'peace frog'?

Anyhoo in the absence of 'peace frog' I'll vote for... I don't know... either 'riders in the storm' or 'crystal ship'.

It's a hard choice... my three favorite doors songs are 'peace frog', 'indian summer' and 'the spy' and none of those are featured here. I don't really care about them past those songs.

I voted for Touch Me just ahead of Love Her Madly.

My favourite Doors songs not on this compilation are Hyacinth House and Yes The River Knows.

"Love Me Two Times"

I woke up this morning, and I got myself a beer.
The future's uncertain, and the end is always near ...

I always feel like hxc doors fans are scorning me when I vote "Touch Me"

You can probably tell I am not a Doors fan by my vote for "Touch Me."

― wizards of wonder are the keepers of knowledge (Abbbottt), Wednesday, March 2, 2011 6:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha same here but per the Kids In The Hall sketch i think of "Love Her Madly" as the token non-fan favorite

Never liked them apart from at their most melodramatic (Riders, The End) but had to hear the Waiting for the Sun album for work reasons and was pleasantly surprised, as per Euler's description.

... think he meant the song "Waiting for the Sun", which isn't on the album "Waiting for the Sun" <--------- a Doors bore writes

Gah, you are right. But it describes the mood of the album pretty nicely - Californian creepiness. Shame it starts with Hello, I Love You though - doesn't really belong there and should have been replaced by… Waiting for the Sun.

"The End," but there are five or six of these I like almost as much. All the studio albums are good.

The studio albums with Morrison, I mean -- I forget sometimes there were others.

Wow yeah xp, can't believe I'm forgetting 'Roadhouse Blues'

hate that i was raised to dislike the doors by neutered british music journalists, told that they were the sort of thing european exchange students liked

the doors were legit

I was interested in that long "not to touch the earth" thing, so this is the only CD I knowingly bought for money (£5 fopp, obv)

'touch me', just a great pop song really

Don't know what "Spanish Caravan" is doing on this album tho

Was this before or after 'peace frog'?

Probably after: Morrison Hotel released in Feb. 1970; Attila also from '70 but I couldn't determine the month despite spending a half-hour searching. (And that was before you even asked the question, lol)

Drive through your suburbs into your blues...

I am grateful the Doors exist if only for the KITH Doors fan sketch, which makes the world so much a better place.

Even if that sketch did make me forever mildly neurotic about best ofs.

i should have put an image of housewives and little girls in the first post in this thread

The men don't know but the housewives and little girls understand?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xillqqt0Y0

Was this before or after 'peace frog'?
Probably after: Morrison Hotel released in Feb. 1970; Attila also from '70 but I couldn't determine the month despite spending a half-hour searching. (And that was before you even asked the question, lol)

― honorary mayor of Malibu, California (Myonga Vön Bontee)

Yeah that's why I asked the question... noticed both albums were released in 1970 ... if it's not a ripoff it's a very weird coincidence.

Yeah haha, one that's obsessed me for years:

Fun new game: Unintentional (or otherwise) musical theft.

What a coincidence, I just started listening to the Doors again! This is a difficult poll, it depends on where you are when listening to them, the time of day....."Roadhouse Blues".

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"Don't you love her madly"
"Want to be her daddy"

WTF?

I wish "Tell All The People" was on this compilation. Wonderfully overproduced. I settled for "Touch Me" too.

strange days

I wonder, is it worth it to start a "Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine" poll, just so all who wish to can vote for "Peace Frog"?

Break on Through

Yeah, Weird Scenes is my favorite Doors comp.

Waiting For The Sun, Spanish Caravan and Crystal Ship are my faves, but I went for Touch Me as it's much more fun than any of those. I normally hate rasping brass, but this does it very well. Doors can go suck a fuck apart from these.

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

I support a Weird Scenes poll. Much better compilation, wish I had heard it back in high school... probably would've made me appreciate their music much more than I do.

I was watching a cool clip from The Doors, it was late career interview on a soundstage in front of a live audience.. Morrison made a really cool prediction on where he thought music could go..
Saying that eventhough music is brached either from blues or country, as far out as it varies from each it always comes back to the root.. But he saw that technology would be able to change that, and make it possible for guys to play solo with use of electronic sound sorces and tape mashines... I'm paraphrasing of coarse, but what forsite he had...
'Drugs are still bad, nkay'

I was the only one to vote for Light My Fire? It represents a road not taken. Something which could have become a different kind of jazz rock. A jazz rock with latin grooves and leather pants. A jazz rock where the bass came from the keyboard player's left hand, not a guy with a ponytail playing variations on the Seinfeld theme tune.

I wonder, is it worth it to start a "Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine" poll, just so all who wish to can vote for "Peace Frog"?

― honorary mayor of Malibu, California (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, March 8, 2011 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

no, it is really not

There are compilations that have some sort of connection to the artists' psyce, and there are those that are just "compilations"

"Weird Scenes" seems like the former.

I dunno, 'LA Woman' second? The breakdown is one of my favourite moments in all music (is there a better tempo change anywhere?) and it's great from then on in, but when I heard it recently for the first time in ages the first half sounded rather cheesy and it put me off.

xp Sean, that clip with Jim predicting electronica, did it lead into them doing 'The Soft Parade'? Because that is one of the best performances ever.

Well, to me the Doors being cheesy is a given.

abs.

Morrison imagining the future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1PSalLKmD0

ah... you found it! lol!

awesome clip

well, except for the Eminem part

lmao @ that ending

That edit at the end is Oscar material, amazing.