The Doors Albums Ranked From Worst to Best
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- Kramzer and Joe look at one of the most iconic bands of all time in this week's Listography. Today they're ranking the nine studio albums of The Doors.
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The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most controversial and influential rock acts of the 1960s, mostly because of Morrison's lyrics and voice along with his erratic stage persona, and the group was widely regarded as an important part of the era's counterculture.
The band took its name from the title of Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, itself a reference to a quote by William Blake. After signing with Elektra Records, the Doors with Morrison released six albums in five years, some of which are considered among the greatest of all time, including The Doors (1967), Strange Days (1967), and L.A. Woman (1971). They were one of the most successful bands during that time and by 1972 the Doors had sold over 4 million albums domestically and nearly 8 million singles.
Morrison died in uncertain circumstances in 1971. The band continued as a trio until disbanding in 1973. They released three more albums in the 1970s, two of which featured earlier recordings by Morrison, and over the decades reunited on stage in various configurations. In 2002, Manzarek, Krieger and Ian Astbury of the Cult on vocals started performing as the Doors of the 21st Century. Densmore and the Morrison estate successfully sued them over the use of the band's name. After a short time as Riders on the Storm, they settled on the name Manzarek-Krieger and toured until Manzarek's death in 2013.
The Doors were the first American band to accumulate eight consecutive gold LPs. According to the RIAA, they have sold 33 million records in the US and over 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. The Doors have been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by magazines including Rolling Stone, which ranked them 41st on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 1993, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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I absolutely love The Doors. They are a Top 10 band for me. The bluesy psychedelic sound, Morrison's hypnotic yet equally lush and menacing voice, his fascinating lyrics. But I get why people don't like them.
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LA Woman is my favourite Doors album by a mile. Their musicianship and writing really matured. Brilliant album.
The End is one of the greatest songs of all time
It's my favorite song from the doors
I agree.
@@therealmomo8033 Same here.
The greatest
No, it isn’t. It’s just a bunch a nonsense rambling that even Jim Morrison admitted didn’t mean anything at all.
Great lists, one of my favorite bands, at least the first 6 albums and American Prayer with Jim that is. Here's my rankings :
1 - L.A. Woman
2 - Morrison Hotel
3 - The Doors
4 - Waiting For The Sun
5 - Strange Days
6 - The Soft Parade
7 - An American Prayer
8 - Other Voices
9 - Full Circle
We are simpatico, sir (although I, admittedly, haven't listened to the last two because... life is short!).
Love these breakdowns. I go back and listen to the band's albums that you rank. I's been fun little trip listening to some albums I haven't listened to in a while.👍👍
Great review & discussion of the Doors. I've listen to a dozen or so of your videos in the last few days and have enjoyed them all.
Thanks, Bill. Greatly appreciated. - Joe
Big Doors fan such an iconic band. 50 years after Jim passed they still sell millions of albums. Pretty impressive.
6. The Soft Parade
5. Waiting for the Sun
4. Morrison Hotel
3. LA Woman
2. The Doors
1. Strange Days
Strange days is not a popular album, and usually not so well ranked as the debut or Morrison Hotel, but to me it is the most consistent one, with an overall dark moody psychedelic feel. It lack hits like the other ones, but all songs seems to go very well together. I feel the other albums are somehow a little disjointed, and this is the only one that really feels like a real album.
I really enjoy Strange Days too. I have it just behind the debut.
Strange days is my fav too!
This would be my exact ranking as well. I always come back to this one. Makes you go down on a dark trip. And I'm sure I'm being weird but You're Lost Little Girl... I like that song over many of their hits xD
@@Punkadelic2112 i love that one too. That one and Unhappy Girl are among my favourites on this one
I’m blown away at how head scratching some of Joe’s calls can be when I find myself mostly agreeing with his choices more than kramzer and jason but how on earth is the soft parade better than la woman AND strange days. Mind boggling sir just outright mind boggling
I was surprised myself how much I liked Soft Parade. The bluesy LA Woman seems like a creative step back and Strange Days didn’t connect other than the singles. - Joe
Great review. Thanks guys.
Hi guys. Working my way a bit haphazardly through your listographies - really enjoying them.
In regard to The Doors' influence, you might want to check out The Stranglers, an English band from Surrey whose original line-up was very popular in the UK and also did pretty well in Australia and parts of Europe.
Having denied it initially, they later admitted that they were quite heavily influenced by The Doors, most evident through the work of their keyboard player, Dave Greenfield (who, sadly, died of Covid-19 last summer).
Although they broke through as part of the UK punk scene, they were a bit older and more musically adept than their peers, and the original four-piece line-up (10 studio albums of rankable quality) remain one of my favourite bands - easily in my top 30.
Thank you for the lists. Looking forward to seeing what you tackle in the future while I continue to catch up.
The Doors have been my favorite since about 12 when I bought the 2CD Best Of, so it was a little tough to hear some of your opinions and rankings on this, but appreciate them nonetheless. I have always deeply connected with them, and later in life came to appreciate each member's contributions. They were/are so unique, and very American - for whatever that means, not sure how to articulate it.
Morrison Hotel and Soft Parade are my two favorites atm.
I also bought that 2 CD "Best of" as my first introduction to The Doors and it was great! But then when I delved deeper into their catalogue, there was so much gold to find. It's not often that happens for me. Usually, when a band puts out a "greatest hits" album, the songs they didn't include are decidedly mid (ahem... looking at you, Eagles!). Not so for The Doors!
Not even gonna bother to rank the albums released after Morrison's passing...
1. The Doors
2. Morrison Hotel
3. Strange Days
4. L.A. Woman
5. Waiting for the Sun
6. The Soft Parade
My top three are 5-star classic albums, imo. The others are good with some stellar moments on each.
My Rankings exactly. All of the Morrison albums are all really good. The debut and Morrison Hotel are both absolute classics.
One of my favorite bands of all time. Jason, you need to give them another chance.
My list is:
1. Strange Days.
2. The Doors.
3. L. A. Woman.
4. Morrison Hotel.
5. Waiting for the Sun.
6. Sof Parade.
I don't even consider the post-Morrison records as part of their catalogue.
Fantastic job guys!!!
hey Fran - Not surprized yer a Doors fan! At imes I actually had Strange Days as my #1 Doors album. Always close debut/strange days/morrison hotel . .
@@NaughtyVampireGod I checked out your list too. Awesome taste mate!
I'm a big Doors fan and have a fondness for Strange Days too, but as NaughtyVampireGod says it is always a close call.
Finally got to the last couple of Morrison albums I hadn't heard yet!
1. LA Woman
2. The Doors
3. Strange Days
4. Waiting for the Sun
5. Morrison Hotel
6. The Soft Parade
I'm with Jason I'm not a Doors fan, but I wanted to say I loved the first 2 seconds of this video.
the main 6
1. L.A. Woman (fav. love her madly)
2. The Doors (fav. crystal ship)
3. The Soft Parade (fav. wishful sinful)
4. Morrison Hotel (fav. peace frog/blue sunday, usually played together)
5. Strange Days (fav. you're lost little girl)
6. Waiting for the Sun (fav. love street)
My favourite Doors albums are the debut and LA Woman. The issue I have with the ones in between is that no matter how many times I listen to them, I can never remember the songs - the titles, how they go, anything about them. In one ear, out the other. Nice discussion guys.
Debut, Waiting For The Sun and Strange Days are the only ones I like. Thanks for sharing guys!
1 - L.A. Woman
2 - Strange Days (MONO!)
3 - Morrison Hotel
4 - The Doors (MONO!)
5 - Other Voices (Fuck Yeah!)
6 - Waiting For The Sun (With Celebration of the Lizard King Studio Edition)
7 - An American Prayer (Yeah !!)
8 - The Soft Parade
(Half of it pure genious, the rest cringe)
9 - Full Circle (Mosquito Instrumental Themes, Verdilac too is fantastic!)
Live, u totally need "In Concert" 2 CD and also the 4 CD box from 1997 is well worth your money !
Also Manzareks first solo LP "The Golden Scarab" is a must have album !
I love the Doors. I actually like some elements of the post- Morrison albums but it's obvious there is a gaping hole in the band without him. I like a lot of their live stuff too. Thanks guys.
1. LA Woman
2. The Doors
3. Morrison Hotel
4. Strange Days
5. Waiting for the Sun
6. The Soft Parade
7. An American Prayer
8. Other Voices
9. Full Circle
1. Strange Days
2. Waiting For The Sun
3. The Doors
4. Morrison Hotel
5. L.A. Woman
6. The Soft Parade
7. An American Prayer
8. Other Voices
9. Full Circle
1. The Doors
2. L.A. Woman
3. The Soft Parade
4. Waiting For The Sun
5. Strange Days
6. Morrison Hotel
7. Other Voices
8. American Prayer
9. Full Circle
1. The Doors
2. Strange Days
3. LA Women
4. Morrison Hotel
5. Waiting For The Sun
6. Soft Parade
7. An American Prayer
8. Other Voices
9. Full Circle
1)The Doors /Strange Days/morrison Hotel/L. A Woman
2)Waiting for the Sun
3)the Soft Parade.
6. LA Woman
5. Morrison Hotel
4 The Soft Parade (the title track is fantastic!)
3. debut (at as high a level as the following 2 but not as well produced and Light My Fire and The End, I've just heard too much)
2. Waiting For The Sun
1. Strange Days
6. LA Woman
5. Morrison Hotel
4. Waiting for the Sun
3. Strange Days
2. The Doors
1. The Soft Parade
Last time I did a ranking of these albums, The Soft Parade was last place.
Soft parade is great. Not my favorite, but wildly underrated. - Joe
The Door with Jim where a great band, my favourite, especially songs such as The End, When the music is over, the Soft Parade and many others. No one put the energy into music like Jim did with his vocals, and the great lyrics. Absolutely Live is my favorite album. The Doors are an acquired taste and not for everyone.
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Great to see The Doors and Morrison Hotel in the Top 2. I agree with the entire rank other than swapping The Soft Parade and Waiting For the Sun. Always good to see Other Voices and Full Circle included.
1- the doors
2- LA woman
3- strange days
4- waiting for the sun
5- morrison hotel
6- soft parade .
1)The Doors 2) Strange days 3) morrison hotel 4) Soft Parade5) Waiting for the sun 6)L.A. woman
I’m definitely a certified Doors hater, but this was pretty interesting! Good job guys 🤙🏼
Yo igual los odio
1.Strange Days
2.The Doors
3.Soft Parade
4.L.A. Woman
5.Waiting For The Sun
6.Morrison Hotel
1 Strange Days 2 debut album 3 LA Woman 4 Waiting for the Sun 5 Morrison Hotel 6 Soft Parade 7 all the rest tied. Strange Days is their psychedelic lp with the best carnival atmosphere. The debut is their objectively best album, hands down, but to me Days is my sentimental fav. Even the Doors thought Days was second best along with LA Woman
For some reason Strange Days and LA woman didn’t click with me. Debut is best. - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic yeah, I get you - the debut is monumental, hands down the best debut ever along with Hendrix. Amazed at how confident these two debuts are. It would be my number 1 but Strange Days was the first Doors for me so more sentimental, but so atmospheric. I got the reissued 45 RPM audiophile vinyl pressings of Days and LA and they blow your socks off, so as a proper listening experience (which they didn't quite get the on first time pressings) these two are sparkling.
I wish you guys would do one of these on The Tragically Hip. One of my all time favorites band. Gordon the lead singer has passed on so I dont think they are together any more.
Great stuff. New subscriber!
Thanks for subscribing, Mr David Langley!
@@TastesLikeMusic Loved the review.
My favs:
6 Waiting For The Sun
5 Strange Days
4 Soft Parade
3 LA Woman
2 Morrison Hotel
1 Debut
I think Other Voices and Full Circle have some excellent music and some of their best instrumental work.
Interesting listing. I should do the Doors myself.
Surprised you haven’t already!
Waiting for the sun does have my favorite doors song with not touch the sun.
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1. Debut
2. La woman
3. Strange days
4. Morrison hotel
5. Soft parade
6. Waiting for the sun
Don't care about the others
I love The Doors! Here is my list:
1. LA Woman- I am no singer, but this is my all time favorite sing along album. I love every track. 5
2. Strange Days- There's a fantastic darkness to this album. 5
3. The Doors- A very close third. 5
4. Morrison Hotel 5
5. Waiting for the Sun 5
6. The Soft Parade 4.5
7. An American Prayer 3
8. Other Voices 2
9. Full Circle 2
Morrison Hotel is my #1 because it was my first Doors album. And, no long tracks.
Well done. I disagree with the order (LA Woman is my #1, Soft Parade is #6, the ones without a breathing Morrison are travesties), but I enjoy that you guys generally liked this band. They're definitely in my top 10 overall. The "epic" songs are definitely something you have to be in the mood for. You can't be in halfway with those songs!
The Doors are, definitely, one of the most original and, at the same time, subversive bands ever. The word "manacing" is SO much fitting for this band. I like their unique chemistry, specially at their prime in the beginning. Part of their discography I can't rank, though, because of Morrison's absence.
6 - The Soft Parade
5 - Waiting For The Sun
4 - Morrison Hotel
3 - L.A. Woman
2 - Strange Days
1 - The Doors ("The End" is, by far, their best song!)
I don't know if you have done episodes for these bands, but I suggest incorporating some non-English speaking bands... Such as Mutantes, from my country. :)
It's their best song, but not by far.
Your intro music reminds me of "Your applications failed" by Roxy Music (it was on the b-side of the UK version of All I Want Is You).
6. The Soft Parade
5. Waiting for the Sun
4. Morrison Hotel
3. Strange Days
2. L.A. Woman
1. The Doors
Good list
1. The Doors
2. Strange Days
3. L.A. Woman
4. Waiting for The Sun
5. Morrison Hotel
6. Soft Parade
Your list is Almost like my List.
Jason’s #1, The Soft Parade, and Joe’s not liking “The End”, from their debut album, wtf?
I like the concept of a band being too like itself. Someone once told me the problem they had with the Beatles is that they're 'too Beatle-y'. It would have been fun to have heard Jason talk about The Doors.
Maybe someday we’ll do an episode where we talk about bands that we don’t like and share some thoughts about the bands covered in episodes that we sat out. -Jason
Hearing Jason vent about the Doors would have been both infuriating and great at the same time! :)
LA Woman-#1 Morrison Hotel #2 The Doors #3
I have never listened to the Doors that much. I can not rembember my parents to ever listended to them at home. I'm very glad discovering und enjoying them now a lot.
Son muy malos men, evitalos
My worst-best the doors albums of all time.
9. Full circle
8. Other voices
7. An American prayer
6. The soft parade
5. Morrison hotel
4. Strange days
3. Waiting for the sun
2. La woman
1. The doors
Great band
Debut album is my favourite album
I have the six Morrison albums plus a compilation and a couple of live albums. The only two I tend to play unless I'm going through an intense Doors period are LA Woman and the compilation.
I got The Doors > LA Woman > Strange Days > Morrison Hotel > Waiting For the Sun > The Soft Parade > Other Voices > Full Circle. The debut is one of those rare 'all killer, no filler' albums for me
I definitely rate Soft Parade higher and LA Woman. Off the top of my head, a top 5:
1. The Doors (Classic with amazing songs throughout)
2. LA Woman (title track, Riders on the Storm, Love Her Madly, good stuff)
3. Strange Days (title track, Love Me Two Times, When the Music's Over)
4. Soft Parade (title track, Touch Me, Tell All The People, solid album IMO)
5. Morrison Hotel (ROADHOUSE BLUES!, Waiting for the Sun, Indian Summer, amazing 1-2 opener)
Honorable mention for Five to One, GREAT TRACK! I just rediscovered these guys after many years and they rule. They were doing stuff in the late 60's that reminds me of Deep Purple. Their music was really diverse and a lot of it rocked. I would not call them a "proto metal band" but some of their stuff scorches. Great band that I encourage anybody to discover today, in 2024.
My Obligatory Ranking:
1.Strange Days: 9.2/10 :
2.Waiting For The Sun: 8,5/10 :
3.Morrison Hotel: 8,2/10 :
4.L.A. Woman: 8/10 :
5.The Doors: 7,7/10 :
6.The Soft Parade: 7,5/10 :
7.An American Prayer: 5,75/10 :
8.Full Circle: 5,5/10 :
9.Other Voices: 5/10 :
Haven't heard any of the releases after Morrison's passing, I'll have to give them a chance.
6. Morrison Hotel
5. The Soft Parade
4. L.A. Woman
3. Waiting for the Sun
2. Strange Days
1. The Doors (debut)
Don’t give them a chance. Run far away from them. - Joe
They're decent - don't listen to Joe, despite his good ranking of the Morrison albums.
The best Doors albums 1)the Doors/Strange Days 2) Morrison Hotel/LA Woman
Stay in the moment. Be whole. That's exactly what makes The Soft Parade so great. The album runs like a soldier, as if conducted by Sir Eliot Gardiner. Of course there are the bigger songs on the Doors' other LPs. Hardly any of their other albums are so well rounded.
My list goes
1. The Doors
2. Waiting For Sun
3. Morrison Hotel
4. LA Woman
5. Soft Parade
6. Strange Days
All the albums are amazing but if I had to rank them it would be this.
My DOORS top 10 is a bit predicatble. On top is the debut album THE DOORS followed closely by LA WOMAN and STRANGE DAYS. All 3 absolute classics! Almost as good is MORRISON HOTEL with WAITING FOR THE SUN and SOFT PAARADE being a bit lesser albums but still crying to be heard.
I remember some of American Prayer sounding pretty cool musically
I was 17 when The Doors came out. In my opinion they never produced a bad song. I can listen to any Doors album and get a different mood from each one.
They really grew on me doing this Listography. - Joe
Thanks guys. I'm only ranking the six. 6 The Soft Parade. 5 LA Woman. 4 Waiting for the Sun. 3 The Doors. 2 Strange Days. 1 Morrison Hotel.
Not To Touch the Earth was definitely a great Heavy song ( though it does seem like it's incomplete ) , I love Unhappy Girl from Strange Days . My least favorite is easily the Soft Parade , it comes across as a bit experimental , and alienated from the other albums. I lean towards their weird music , more than the pop and blues . Fortunately I have never heard the post Jim Morrison material . This video certainly didn't inspire me to go out and buy them. I do however enjoy American Prayer , as it is equivalent to a whole album of the song The End ( always wanted that song to last another 25 minutes ) . That along with Pink Floyd - Ummagumma are both brilliant when you want to get in that strange place hid within your mind . I love the Celebration of the Lizard the long song that includes the incomplete Not to Touch the Earth . I would have liked to see Hello I Love You replaced by Waiting For the Sun , and Celebration of the Lizard included to make Waiting For the Sun the album it should have been . Hello I Love You would fit the mood of Soft Parade much better than Waiting For the Sun . As it is I believe the Doors debut , Strange Days , and Morrison Motel to be the best albums ( LA Woman just has too much Blues for my tastes ) . I would put the 3 I mentioned as all equal to each other as the Doors most consistent , and engaging body of work
My favourite Doors record is Best of the Doors....I only have LA woman which is very good....and the BBC documentary on it is a great watch.....but only encouraged me to stick with best of because it's ace all the way through!!! A great hits band for sure
Kramzer's list is dead on. ✨
IMO, that's the righteous, accurate ranking.
🚪
Marc
p.s. one thing though, the song "The Soft Parade" contains a pretty badass musical section.
My Top 6:
1. The Doors
2. Strange Days
3. The Soft Parade
4. LA Woman
5. Morrison Hotel
6. Waiting For The Sun
Jason, where were ya? Were you serious about The Soft Parade? Or were you just bustin' their chops? I love The Soft Parade, but never knew anyone else that did, hahahehe. Title track is GREAT. "everything must be this way". So true.
Contrarian is Jasons' middle name.
Not a big fan, but they're kinda fun. Definitely prefer the earlier, more psychedelic stuff rather than their bluesy shit:
1. Strange days
2. The Doors
3. The soft parade
4. Waiting for the sun
5. L.A. woman
6. Morrison hotel
7. Other voices
8. Full circle
9. American prayer
Back when I had almost no knowledge of this kind of music, I used to think that all of the Misfits and Danzig songs were sung by Jim Morrison because of how similar their voices sounded. 😂
My 6
6. The Soft Parade
5. Morrison Hotel
4. Strange Days
3. Waiting For The Sun
2. L.A Woman
1. The Doors
agree with your number one Doors album
1. The Doors
2, Strange Days
3. Morrison Hotel
4. Waiting for the Sun
5. LA Woman
6. The Soft Parade
I was a teenager when the Oliver Stone movie came out, and that’s when I started listening to them. Their debut is in my Top-50 of all time. #2 would be in my Top-100. #3-4 would be in the Top-150. I don’t care much for Soft Parade and I think LA Woman is their most over-rated.
I think Strange Days is their best album.
7, 8 and 9 - haven't heard the last three, and kind of don't feel like it
6 - "The Soft Parade"
5 - "Strange Days"
4 - "L.A. Woman"
3 - "Morrison Hotel"
2 - "Waiting For The Sun"
1 - "THE DOORS"
Nice list, as always. For me, a very good band, though probably not in my top 20. I know using the word "interesting" is typically not a great thing in rock music, but they really were. For my list, I did not include An American Prayer. For me, this should've been called An American Cash Grab. Just pretentious and unnecessary.
Other than that:
8. Other Voices. Wretched. I was too young to remember when this came out, but I can only imagine the universal shrugging of shoulders and shaking of heads when it did.
7. Full Circle. Slightly better. But slightly better than #8 isn't saying much.
6. Strange Days. Hard to repeat their classic debut. In hard rock/metal terms, this would be like Van Halen II compared to Van Halen I. But that's just me.
5.The Soft Parade. Wishful Sinful is great. Touch Me, even better. Overall a pretty polarizing record, but holds up well.
4.Morrison Hotel. Very confident record. Peace Frog still one of my favorites.
3. Waiting For The Sun. I wanted to rank this higher. I should be terribly sick of Hello, I Love You, but nope. Still great. Love Street, same.
2. The Doors debut. I'm so torn between this and my number one. It will never get old.
1. LA Woman. I can't think of a band with better bookend albums (obviously not counting the post-Morrison debacle). Just fantastic.
Didn't know where these guys are from but realised, despite their love of Rush, they are not Canadian as Joe said "Surprised no has tried to emulate the Doors" as he's obviously not aware of the Canadian band The Tea Party. Not recommending them just saying they made a little career out of
For me, the first 2 albums are the best by a lot, with both making my 1967 top 5 and Strange Days edging out the debut (I think “When The Music’s Over” works a bit better than “The End” and the darkness overall feels more convincing). “Light My Fire” is my favorite song of theirs, though. At the bottom, Other Voices may be the most consistently mediocre album I’ve ever heard, but I think the lows are worse on Full Circle, and An American Prayer seems to suggest that Jim Morrison’s poetry outside the context of actual songs is mostly just stupid.
1. Strange Days
2. The Doors
3. L.A. Woman (this was my #4 for awhile, but I like the title track more than I used to)
4. Morrison Hotel
5. Waiting For The Sun
6. The Soft Parade
7. Other Voices
8. Full Circle
9. An American Prayer
Strange days is their best album?? Wtf, also when the musics over is the best closer... bruh how is it too long
The Doors are one of my favorite bands and have been for a long time. I don't really recognize the non-Morrison albums (or the spoken-word album). ALL six Morrison albums are fantastic.
1. The Doors - s/t
2. Morrison Hotel
3. Strange Days
4. The Soft Parade
5. Waiting for the Sun
6. LA Woman
Not a big blues fan, so LA Woman is my least favorite. Basically agree w Joe's comments on that.
Kram: I think Tell All the People is good opener. Not surprized I agree w you guys on the top 2. Yeah, Doors definately had terrific album closers. "Maggie M'Gill" a phenomenal and menacing closer.
Crazy how music is so subjective. I've known musicians who only like The Doors when they're at their most bluesy. They're not fans of stuff like "Light My Fire" because to them it sounds like circus music. Personally, I enjoy the bluesy and the baroque side of The Doors. If they didn't have both dimensions I probably wouldn't think as highly of them.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Hey Whammy - Yeah. It's not that i'm a blues-hater just don't find the genre that interesting. I love the carnivelesque sound which I suppose is a combo of the keyboards, no bass, and the songs thenselves. Nothhing in the world like Jim's voice of course.
@@NaughtyVampireGod To me, Jim pretty much *was* the band- all due respect to the other guys. I can't fathom people who say they don't like his voice. He was otherworldly. The proof of how important he was is in how bad their music got once he wasn't around anymore.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Well yeah, all about Jim. For sure. They were a great band - just not without Morrison as history has shown. I kind of agree the statements that the other band members don't get enough credit. Yet it was such a BAD decision to try to continue on without Jim. At the very least The Doors name should have been retired. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the Morrison-less band was actually going to call themselves "Other Voices" but ultimately decided to call the album Other Voices and keep the Doors name.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Very true. Jim was the key, the perfect voice to put in front of that music. The psychedelia and blues and every other style were all the elements that made their sound work so well. I didn't even find out that they continued on without Jim until many years later. I still only stick with the classics.
Ill do the 7 I have listened to. The main 6 + An American Prayer. I do want to make it clear, I dont hate any of these albums. I love them all being totally honest.
1. Waiting For The Sun
2. The Doors
3. Strange Days
4. L.A. Woman
5. The Soft Parade
6. Morrison Hotel
7. An American Prayer
LA woman is basically a live album. I first heard it 1971, blew me away and should be No.1
It disappointed me in 2020. - Joe
By then there was no way to cover up Morrisons' descent into alcoholism.
How about the albums of Jethro Tull? There are many! Really enjoy your lists. I’ve revisited many albums as a result.
Don't know when, but we will definitely hit them eventually. -Jason
That could take even more time than the Neil Young ranking did!
The Doors (perfect debut album), L.A. Woman (Robby's best moment), Strange Days (very similar to their debut, just a bit slower), Morrison Hotel, (roadhouse/peacefrog/maggie great, the rest is soft rock), Waiting for the Sun (too psychedelic), The Soft Parade (overproduced).
Mmmmm disagree. - Joe
LA Woman is in my top ten favorite albums.
Interesting and unexpected. I rate the first album and LA Woman as head and shoulders above the four others. I've never listened to the post Jim Morrison material.
My favorite doors album is "astral weeks".😊
9-7. Don't really wanna listen to those
6. Morrison Hotel
5. L.A. Woman
4. The Soft Parade
3. Waiting for the Sun
2. Strange Days
1. The Doors
Not a Doors fan but the debut is so perfect.
You would think the Doors would have gotten Eric Burdon from the Animals to be lead singer
The song Soft Parade is awesome. Not too long. Wild Child is great too. Morrison stuff is better than Krieger's on Soft Parade
1.L.A. Woman
2.Morrison Hotel
3.Strange Days
4.The Doore
5.Soft Parade
6.Waiting for the Sun
1. The Doors; 2. The Soft Parade; 3. Morrison Hotel; 4. LA Woman; 5. Strange Days; 6. Waiting for the Sun. I think the critics missed the point of The Soft Parade, which is a concept album about man's rejection of God, and his descent into hell, as epitomized by song The Soft Parade. I think the Doors wrote songs like The End, When the Music's Over, and The Soft Parade because of Jim Morrison's fixation on God, death, and hell.
Love the doors.
1. The doors
2. La woman
3. Morrison hotel
4. Waiting for the sun
5. Strange days
6. Soft parade
Dont care about the rest.
Greatest song riders on the storm.
Nice review soft parade never number 1
Steve from liverpool
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Frankly Full circle isn't that bad, there was definitely a lack of complex lyrics, but the instrumentation is still great.
The Doors first album is top 10 album of all time for me. The rest are ok but that one is incredible.