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Yeah, "Blue Turk."

Iggy, hard to believe.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Cars Hiss By My Window
L.A. Woman
We Could Be So Good Together
People Are Strange
Five to One
Touch Me
Hyacinth House
Roadhouse Blues (live)
Light My Fire ('Alive She Cried' version)

Desperado (life goes on and all that . . . )

"Steal a car . . . even if you own one . . . "

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Dan, by the way, greatest-hits albums are for housewives.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Iggy: "Let's face it, you may as well call me Jim Jagger or Mick Morrison"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link

For some reason, I'm kind of very surprised that you like the doors, dada.

The noodling organ playing is one of the best things about them, plus, yes, r krieger is very good and does not get the props he deserves.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link

... difficult to narrow it down to 10, very difficult

I know. :(

Crystal Ship
L.A. Woman
People Are Strange
Riders On The Storm
Light My Fire
Not To Touch The Earth
I Can't See Your Face In My Mind
The Spy
The Unknown Soldier
The End

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

the much maligned soft parade is a near-perfect record

the much-praised morrison hotel is pretty rank

waiting on the sun is fairly patchy

the first one is hard to listen to despite being solid gold cos its contents are so overexposed

there's bass on the actual studio records, right? if there isn't, it's not exactly an audible lack -- the records smoke

1/ shaman's blues
2/ the soft parade
3/ peace frog
4/ LA Woman
5/ the celebration of the lizard
6/ strange days
7/ moonlight drive
8/ horse latitudes
9/ end of the night
10/ people are strange

runners up: texas radio and the big beat; do it; wild child; all of An American Prayer; love street; crystal ship

― blissblogger, Friday, 14 January 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link

A lot of the records have bass guitar on them - various people played bass, Douglas Lubahn for one

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

and when they didnt have a bass player ray would play the bass lines
with his left hand on a fender rhodes bass piano (just one and a half octave if I remember correctly). Very nice sounding and works well on Light me Fire. Ray does noodles (Robbie does as well) but is doesnt sound like he's playing scales like other organists who followed him such as Tony Banks and Rick Wakeman. That being said I thinks Ray's solos and playing is not as good (but is probably influenced) by Rod Argent's work in the Zombies

― jb, Friday, 14 January 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Whovever said Greatest Hits records are for housewives is nuts by the way.

― danh (danh), Friday, 14 January 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Lonnie Mack played bass on "Roadhouse Blues"!!! Holy shit, I never knew that. Carol Kaye & Harvey Brooks played bass on Doors records too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

and larry knechtel and jerry scheff and marc benno played bass too. and apparently danny sugerman too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone hear Scorpio Rising's cover of "Peace Frog"? I prefer it to the original.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello to the Cities/Break on Through (live on Ed Sullivan)
Roadhouse Blues
LA Woman
The End
Peace Frog
Riders on the Storm
Hyacinth House
Whiskey, Mystics and Men
Black Train Song
Hello, I Love You

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Black Train Song and the broadcast version of Soft Parade from the box set are the Doors at their best.

― D.J. Anderson, Friday, 14 January 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

They DIDN'T?!?? Then how did they get that great bass sound with their left hand?

You're kidding, right Ken? At least with regards to Monk, he always had a bass player and never played the organ, I don't know about Prof Longhair.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I was just stirring up trouble. Somehow I was thinking of the old joke: how does a keyboard player change a lightbulb? and deliberately mixing up all the keyboards. I actually like it when some of those New Orleans guys like Longhair do that lefthand bass on piano. (And I believe Monk did do some solo piano stuff but I don't know if he actually played any basslines per se). Now that I read that Carole Kaye and Larry Knechtel and Harvey Brooks played on those records maybe I'll give the Doors another chance, just maybe.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to love the Doors, but the only album I've ever had is In Concert. It sounds great, and most of the tracks are way hotter (Not to Touch the Earth, Five to One esp.) than the studio versions I've heard on the radio or in, you know, dorm rooms.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

1. Shaman's Blues
2. Riders On The Storm
3 Awake (from American Prayer)
4. LA Woman (more disco)
5. Runnin' Blue
6. I Can't See Your Face In My Mind
7. Hyacinth House
8. Cars Hiss By My Window (bluezak)
9. I Can't See Your Face In My Mind
10.Love Street

Only one track I can't abide - 'You Make Me Real'

― Edmundo (Edmundo), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

er, I mean 9. The WASP

― Edmundo (Edmundo), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay, another vote for "Runnin' Blue."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

god, i hate the doors.

― john'n'chicago, Friday, 14 January 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i can't bcz I've only heard their first album - the last time I heard it my fave one wz 'take it as it comes'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

1. Riders On The Storm
2. Break On Through
3. Love Her Madly
4. People Are Strange
5. Light My Fire
6. Hello, I Love You
7. The End
8. LA Woman
9. 20th Century Fox
10. Love Me Two Times

Oddly enough, my first awareness of this band was as a nine-year old baseball fan at Three Rivers Stadium; the organist would play "Light My Fire" whenever a Pirate infielder named Jim Morrison batted. "Riders" is my clear favorite; it's a great soundtrack for driving around Pittsburgh on a rainy day. I've always been unimpressed by their blusier side ("Roadhouse Blues," "Back Door Man, "The Wasp").

― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

1) Wishful Sinful - Probably their absolute best, IMO.
2) Wild Child
3) Touch Me
4) Alabama Song - Great cover
5) L.A. Woman - City of Night...WhoooOOOOAA YEAH!
6) Crystal Ship
7) Shaman's Blues
8) Roadhouse Blues
9) Five to One - 'get together one more time' chorus = **zombies**
10) Moonlight Drive - great slide lick

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:33 (nineteen years ago) link

1) Wishful Sinful (Joe OTM)
2) Crystal Ship
3) Tell All the People
4) My Eyes Have Seen You
5) Light My Fire
6) Alabaman Song
7) Wintertime Love (yessss!!!)
8) End of the Night
9) Horse Latitudes
10) Touch Me

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Saturday, 15 January 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, i went thru a Doors phase in middle school. "Soft Parade" was my favorite record.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Saturday, 15 January 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Just Heard Roadhouse Blues last night at dinner, and the BASS on that song kills. As does the song itself. Also something that should be mentioned, Jim Morrison is pretty great at taking some of the weaker musical moments and completely obsucring their weakness with some vocal that just blows the place up. He could scream with the best of them.

― danh (danh), Sunday, 16 January 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link

" Carol Kaye & Harvey Brooks played bass on Doors records too."
Carol Kaye also claims to have played bass on many Motown sides attributed to James Jamerson so maybe a shaker of salt is in order? I'm not gonna go near the Danny Sugerman thing....

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 16 January 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

i read the sugerman thing on an internet scuttlebutt site so take that one with lots of salt.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 16 January 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link

1-5 the good ones on the first record
6-10 the good ones on la woman

― Bumfluff, Sunday, 16 January 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I remember being ten years old and walking down my suburban street when I heard the first Doors album blasting out of an open window. So I sat down in the tiny side-yard, under the window, and listened.

20th Century Fox
Break on Through
Love Me Two Times
Riders on the Storm
Horse Latitudes
Moonlight Drive
Light My Fire
Roadhouse Blues
My Eyes Have Seen You
LA Woman

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 16 January 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

X did a good "Soul Kitchen" with Manzarek behind the boards. Carol Kaye supposedly played bass on some of their early songs. That's cool. I can't imagine wanting to hear the originals at this stage of my life.

Has anyone ever heard "Other Voices?" Is it any good?

― mike a, Sunday, 16 January 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I bought a bootleg of "Other Voices" years and years ago, and I remember thinking 'shit....this isn't bad at all' contrary to my expectations. Then again thinking back on it, it probably is kind of bad. Worth listening to once or twice though. I think a few of the songs may have been written with Jim in mind...

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Sunday, 16 January 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

[Months later, reads end of thread.] Dan, the greatest hits/housewives thing was a joke, referencing something somebody wrote on another thread.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, I was drunk for most of this.

― dan. (dan.), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Not really.

Yes.

No.

― dan. (dan.), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I think I'd had a couple of beers, too, actually.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

It's from a Kids In the Hall sketch ("Doors fan"). "Greatest hits albums are for housewives and little girls".

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 20 May 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Break on Through (To the Other Side)
Light My Fire
Touch Me
Love Me Two Times
Hello, I Love You
L.A. Woman
Riders on the Storm
Love Her Madly
Roadhouse Blues
The End

― Tremendoid A. Black, Friday, 20 May 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, I knew I got it from somewhere. Thanks, Sundar! I also quoted another line from that on this thread.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 20 May 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

LA Woman
Light My Fire
Peace Frog
Moonlight Drive
Wintertime Love
Riders On The Storm
Waiting For The Sun
You're Lost Little Girl
Break On Through
L'America

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 21 May 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link

the greatest hits are for housewives line is from a Kids in the Hall skit about a guy who comes to a store and asks for depeche mode, to which the clerk says "we have it...but it sucks". Google kids in the hall and doors for the full script. It's hilarious.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 21 May 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"If they say I never loved you, you know they are a liar!"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 26 May 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

haha. They are such an asshole...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 27 May 2005 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link

What video of theirs had Native Americans in it, circa 1985 on MTV?

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 27 May 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link

???

did they make a video for something off Alive, She Cried maybe? I can't remember.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 27 May 2005 05:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Bimble - that video you're thinking of is "Wild Child."

1.Break On Thru (To The Other Side)
2.Peace Frog
3.The Crystal Ship
3.Light My Fire
5.Love Me Two Times
5.Soul Kitchen
5.Moonlight Drive
8.Waiting For The Sun
8.Not To Touch The Earth
10.The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)

I can name 6-7 others that I think are as good as WASP, but the quality of their music dips sharply right after that. Haven't heard it in so long, I wish I could remember if the whole "Celebration Of The Lizard" extravaganza is good enough to make the ten.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 27 May 2005 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link

that video you're thinking of is "Wild Child."

Thanks!

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 27 May 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

10. Jose Feliciano
9. NO BASS PLAYER OMGWTFLOL!?!?!?!?!
8. That Kids in the Hall sketch
7. Oliver Stone really blows, doesn't he?
6. That "brain in the road/squirming like a toad" couplet
5. Perpetuating the whole bullshit "rock lyrics=POETRY" ethos
4. Perpetuating the whole bullshit "drunkenly flashing your tiny shriveled phallus at a crowd=THE SPIRIT OF THE ERA, YOU JUST HAD TO BE THERE" ethos
3. Though I guess any band whose biographical movie gets Kyle McLachlan and Crispin Glover paying jobs can't be all bad
2. On the other hand, Val Kilmer and Meg Ryan, eeuurrgghh I just threw up in my mouth
1. Jim Morrison's bloated, hairy, pickled-in-alcohol corpse

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

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why do so many people like peace frog? I seem to remember there was a whole thread on here for that track with several people saying they hate the doors but like peace frog. was it in some movie or something?

― wk, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 05:07 (eleven years ago) link

or maybe there wasn't a specific thread. more like on every doors thread there are a handful of people saying peace frog is the only one they like. wtf? Is it the one acceptable track for people who don't like the gothy mysterioso side of the doors? but how did they even hear it? it wasn't on any of the big greatest hits packages as far as I can tell.

― wk, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 05:23 (eleven years ago) link

they like the groove and that guitar sound

― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 08:47 (eleven years ago) link

You can petition the DOORS TRACKS POLL with ballots! Ray Manzarek memorial ilm artist poll no.36a (voting closes 4am Sunday 26 May, LA time)

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 10:49 (eleven years ago) link

(In No Order)

The Soft Parade
Shaman's Blues
Five To One
Love Me Two Times
People Are Strange
When The Musics Over
Moonlight Drive
Break On Through
Soul Kitchen
20th Century Fox
The End

― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 11:22 (eleven years ago) link

plus "Peace Frog"

― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 11:23 (eleven years ago) link

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