Sunday Afternoon Flamebait: THE DOORS were a great SINGLES BAND!

[NightTrain]

It's their albums that bore the shit out of me.

OK, let the flamewar begin!


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[BigMcLargehuge]

1. Ahhhh their singles suck too

:evilgrin:

[NightTrain]

2. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

God, I love DU! :thumbsup:

[flamingyouth]

3. "The Doors? Jim Morrison? He's a drunken buffoon!"

"Give me the Guess Who anyday! Now, they have the COURAGE to be drunken buffoons!" - Lester Bangs, in Almost Famous.

(For the record, I love the Doors, save Soft Parade, but that's just me.):hi:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. No, it's me too...

...I don't care for a single track off of "Soft Parade." To me, it was a "failed experiment." I hated "Touch Me," and the song "Wishful Sinful" just seemed like a slimier version of "Crystal Ship."

On the other hand, "L.A.Woman"...for me...was really an ALBUM. It's the only Doors CD that I'll put on and play start-to-finish.



Ray Manzarek claims that "Riders On The Storm" was chronologically the last vocal ever recorded by Morrison. I can't imagine the band following up this album.

4. Didn't they rip off the Kinks?

and lose in court!!!
regarding Hello I Love You.

don't get me wrong, I like the Doors.

[pbg]

5. Depends on where you're coming from..

If your complaint is that they weren't Yes or Soft Machine, then I'd tend to agree with you. Although when I was 15 I'd've come after you with a baseball bat.

But if your position is that all those attempts at building large works are stupid and boring and rock bands should keep their stuff down to three minutes, then I'd say take your ADD ass elsewhere.

Both Krieger and Manzarek had enough chops to make extended solos interesting.

And if you sneer at Jim Morrison's poetical bombast, that's your privilege. It's also an easy position to take.

"Waiting for the Sun" is my favorite Album, BTW.

[NightTrain]

6. I almost always prefer the 45 edits of Doors tunes.

That includes "Light My Fire," "Break On Through," and "Riders On The Storm."

I don't appreciate being accused of ADD because I find the band's longer jams boring. I love Duke Ellington's 21-minute "Toot Suite," James Brown's 19-minute "Escape-ism," and a lot of Bob Dylan's lengthier tracks, as well. If a piece of music holds my interest, its length (or brevity) is not an issue with me.

Finally, if sneering at Jim Morrison's poetical bombast is "an easy position to take," it's because Morrison made it that way. The guy was a fucking joke! And if he hadn't made the savvy career move of dying young, that's exactly the way rock fans with a clue would see Morrison today.

[pbg]

9. Then you're in my first category

And I have no quarrel with you.

(Boy, you really tried to find the most hostile interpretation of my post. You really want a flame war, don't you?)

I won't argue with people who hate Jim Morrison's bombast. He weren't no Rimbaud, that's for sure--and he probably thought he was.

But Rimbaud couldn't sing for shit, and his band sucked.

:+

[Lefty48197]

8. Peace frog

...blood in the streets in the town of New Haven, blood stains the roots and the palm trees of Venice...

[LandOLincoln]

10. Wanted to respond, but couldn't make it all the way through your post.

Too damned boring.

:evilgrin:

"The Doors were Kerry's favorite band, 'and he would blast 'Light My Fire' and 'Love Me Two Times' while patrolling Delta rivers.
...Kerry, however, never touched drugs in Vietnam. 'I like the lyrical intensity of The Doors,' he explained. 'Morrison was a poet, in my opinion. The drug part didn't interest me.'"


http://slate.msn.com/id/2096936

[Beware the Beast Man]

11. In hindsight, the Doors sucked

I thought they were the shit back when I was in high school. I think it's the whole legend of Jim Morrison that spoils it for most people. His pretentiousness overshadowed the talent of Krieger, Densmore, and Manzarek, all who were pretty tight musicians.

[Kat45]

12. I always loved the Doors, since I first heard "Light My Fire."

I can still remember hearing it for the first time coming from my friend's radio in her kitchen, back when I was in sixth grade. Once I saw what the band looked like, I developed a major crush on Jim Morrison. Got the first two albums in seventh grade and listened to them through and through all the time. (Yes, I even liked songs like "The End" when I was only 13.) Later, in my twenties, I was heavily into the Doors for a period of time as well. The albums as a whole were great; the singles were great as singles as well.