The Doors POX! 'Cause You Know You Can!

1. "Peace Frog"
2. "The End" (if only because of "Apocalypse Now")
3. "Break on Through"
4. ".........

You know what? Fuck the Doors.

Moonlight Drive
Soul Kitchen
L.A. Woman
Hello, I Love You
You Make Me Real
Strange Days
Wild Child
20th Century Fox
When the Music's Over
The Spy

POO. Moonlight Drive.

The Doors
Mazzy Star
Alice Cooper
The Stooges
GG Allin
Guns'n'Roses
The Birthday Party
TSOL
Motley Crue
INXS

Oh boy.

The only thing keyboard/organ playing that is more noodley, boring, tuneless and suicide-inducing is on ELP records.

The Doors blow.

good call on AC. "Black Juju" is so Doors it's not even funny.

Well, what I was saying was close.

Man, they didn't even have a bass man, but that fucking organ just ruined everything because the guy simply didn't know when to fucking quit noodling and play a fucking song!

Hello, I Love You
Love me Two Times
Love her Madly
Break on Through
Roadhouse Blues

LA Woman just might be my least favorite album of all time...

Break On Through
The Crystal Ship
Strange Days
Peace Frog
Hello I Love You
Love Street
Roadhouse Blues
L.A. Woman
Summer's Almost Gone
Cars Hiss By My Window

I could have picked 30, easy.

And, oh yeah, Robbie Krieger has to be one of the more underrated guitar players.

Dorian (though perhaps not strictly--they might have played some lines with minor sixths instead of major).

Glad to see "Peace Frog" at the top of Alex's (aborted) list. I don't think that song gets enough appreciation.

I'm not gonna bother picking 10. Put "Touch Me" certainly would make the list for the weird yelp Jim does at the beginning.

Break On Through
End Of The Night
Take It As It Comes
The End
Love Me Two Times
People Are Strange
When The Music's Over
Love Street
Not To Touch The Earth
Spanish Caravan
Touch Me
Blue Sunday
The Spy
Love Her Madly
Riders On The Storm

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

Just how much did Manzarek listen to the frickin' Zombies, by the way?

Iggy, hard to believe.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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").

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

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

Yes.

No.

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

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.

Thanks!

On the occasion of Ray Manzarek's passing, posting for some non-believers:

Break On Thru (To The Other Side)
The Crystal Ship
Soul Kitchen
Moonlight Drive
The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
Riders On The Storm
Roadhouse Blues
Hyacinth House
Not To Touch The Earth
L.A. Woman

no order:
love me two times
la woman
people are strange
you're lost little girl
unhappy girl
my eyes have seen you
love her madly
l'america
love street
when the music's over

i shold have put peace frog instead of when the music's over.

Isn't "Love Her Madly" hated by Doors obsessives? I think there may even be a passing joke to that effect in the Kids in the Hall sketch...seems well liked enough by ILMers above.

Break On Through
People Are Strange
Peace Frog
The End
LA Woman
Riders on the Storm
The End
Soul Kitchen
Unknown Soldier
Twentieth Century Fox

Well, if you become a Doors fan, Love Her Madly is the only song you won't like.

i think it's more of a comment on the 'real fans hate the pop hit' cliche than any particular truism about Doors fans. i could see "Light My Fire" or "Touch Me" being the taboo song instead.

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?

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.

they like the groove and that guitar sound

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)

(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

plus "Peace Frog"