The Doors

[meesterperfect]

My top 5
Wintertime Love
Summers Almost Gone
Crystal Ship
Love Street ( Still think it's one of the best and beautiful songs ever recorded, what a mood it sets)
Blue Sunday
Hyacinth House

As you can see I like the melodic ones over the Rockers and Trippy ones.
I feel they peaked with the Waiting for the Sun album. One of the few groups I can say I like everything they put out (except Love her Madly).

 

[John_8581]

Either I'd go with "Roadhouse" or "other"....

"G-L-O-R-I-A"



-- I'm a bit biased as I am a big Van Morrison / Them fan :o

"Hello I Love You"



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And my :bowdown: goes out to G. Puglese on Morrison Hotel. As you all know who he was. Don't you?

 

[Lolita_Borgia]

I absolutely luv Jim Morrison he was the sexiest man ever!!! I used to always see a cover band of the Doors called Pamela's Curse, always felt that I had been born in the wrong era... From the selection of songs I like 'The End' because it's so trippy & I like to listen to it with candles flickering, laying there while the music creates images & thoughts in my mind. Their version of Stairway to Heaven was also brilliant - it took the song to a new level!

 

[Mayhem]

I voted "When The Music's Over" before I thought of "Crystal Ship". And the two are tied with "The End" for me.

I gave a high school presentation on the life of Jim Morrison. Whatever the time limit that the teacher imposed, I went massively over it and didn't care one bit. And I played "The End" in the background. Good memory.

 

[Maggie Green]

I grew up listening to the Doors!

Roadhouse Blues is probably my fave. I used to blare it on the way to school once I had my own car. Ah, those were the days!

 

[Jagger69]

If you have an hour to invest, this is excellent. Jim was reasonably sober here so it's a great performance. Recorded almost exactly 3 years prior to the date that Jim died.

 

[Deepcover]

I think my top 3 fav Doors tracks would be...

Ghost Song (ATF Doors track)
Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
Crystal Ship

 

[Mayhem]

It's nice to see so many people who appreciate Crystal Ship as much as I do. I've never done karaoke and never plan to, but it's the only song I would attempt if I did.

 

[Jagger69]

And my :bowdown: goes out to G. Puglese on Morrison Hotel. As you all know who he was. Don't you?

Just now say this in your post, John. Cool Doors trivia. Bet a lot of people didn't know he could play the harmonica like that!! :thumbsup:

You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later.

The FOs rep police are never happy. "Gotta spread it around more"...."you spread it around too much"....Geezus. :hairpull:

 

[meesterperfect]

It's nice to see so many people who appreciate Crystal Ship as much as I do. I've never done karaoke and never plan to, but it's the only song I would attempt if I did.

Well Mayhem if you ever do be sure you know the very last couple words, I could never figure them out.
I always thought he said " I'll travel light".
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/doors/crystal+ship_20042630.html
Nice Vid above Jag, hour long.

And apparently Alice Cooper liked Jim enough to write a song for him.

Another thing about the DOORS was how all 4 members contributed pretty much equally. All 4 were key, in my opinion especially Kreiger.
I bought every DOORS album for 5 bucks off some kid when I Was a Teenage Doors Fan. I remember his friend telling him " Dude, don't sell your Doors records".

 

[Jagger69]

^
Very cool, MP. I was not aware of this song and video. I'd rep you but....you know the drill.

I agree about Robby too. He wrote "Light My Fire", not Jim. He also set a style that was totally unique on guitar just like Ray did on keyboard. Jim and John hated each other and this led to a lot of friction in the band.

There's a little bit of Jim Morrison in me that I recognize (persona, not talent). Sometimes it scares me. :eek:

 

[Mayhem]

Well Mayhem if you ever do be sure you know the very last couple words, I could never figure them out.
I always thought he said " I'll travel light".

Well fuck me. Seriously, I have thought all this time that it was, "I'll travel light". I was even challenging your source and decided to listen again (Lyrics Depot also backed you up) and now, decades later, I hear it correctly. Unreal.

I wonder if this was what Jim had in mind when he wanted to bend my perception. :o

 

[HappyHapyJoyJoy]

I really like Light My Fire and People Are Strange, but The Doors are a band I generally have to be in the right mood to listen to. Or at least to appreciate them when I do.

 

[John_8581]

Another other song: "Touch me" for the Ajax cleaner "Stronger than dirt" ending! Very cool :bowdown:

 

[Deepcover]

Another other song: "Touch me" for the Ajax cleaner "Stronger than dirt" ending! Very cool :bowdown:

I like the Val Kilmer version. Funny as hell when he sings ad-lib version and then goes berzerk at the concert.

 

[Rey C.]

I like the Val Kilmer version. Funny as hell when he sings ad-lib version and then goes berzerk at the concert.

I usually don't like Val Kilmer's work. But I have to admit, I thought he did a really good job in that film. He does a reasonably decent job of playing broken people, I guess. He wasn't bad in Wonderland either, where he played John Holmes.

As for my favorite Doors song, I'd have to go with Moonlight Drive. Just a couple of months ago, I downloaded The Essential Doors Hits off iTunes. And I caught part of a docu-drama about Jim Morrison on some channel on DirecTV while I was surfing last weekend. It was called Final 24 or something like that. It was part of a series of docu-dramas about famous people who have died and what they did in their final hours. They also had one on John Belushi.

 

[luis1972]

All are great songs but "When the music is over" is párticularly good...

 

[C.K. Lawrence]

The End... still waitin'

 

[Jagger69]

The End... still waitin'

Be patient. It'll happen.

 

[mekhet]

Celebration of The Lizard King