Favourite song by the Doors?

[overgrowthegovt]

I love the vast majority of what came out of that band of genius, but I really dig:

The Crystal Ship
The End
Peace Frog
People Are Strange
Love Her Madly
When the Music's Over
Take It as It Comes

What are yours?

[DTRave420]

Lost in a Roman...Wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain,yeah!!!
:stoned::smokin:

[dlovejah]

So I walked on down the Hall, Mother , well you know the rest..... The End is my favorite. What about Crystal Ship??Man I love the Doors.:thumbsup:d beautiful friend...

[overgrowthegovt]

Yeah, The End has to be Jim Morrison's magnum opus for the lyrics and his voice--you can just FEEL the full brilliance and charisma of that remarkable individual in that song.

Almost forgot: I must add "Soul Kitchen", "Roadhouse Blues", "L.A. Woman", "Moonlight Drive" and "Spanish Caravan." Fuck, I love the Doors.

[killerweed420]

Yeah my vote go's for The End. Its definitely a great song.

[dlovejah]

Im going to go watch Apocalypse Now...I cannot get that scene out of my head, with The End playing in the background as Martin Sheen is hacking up Marlon Brando in a ritualistic manner with all that other weirdness going on in the background... oh yes:stoned:
that is some truly genius demented filmmaking.....Breaking out the 33's later....:hippy: Damn I love the DOORS:wtf::wtf::wtf:

[jimmy8778]

people are strange, i like using a weird voice to sing with it
riders on the storm
and The End, a classic for the ages.

[thcbongman]

Yeah, The End has to be Jim Morrison's magnum opus for the lyrics and his voice--you can just FEEL the full brilliance and charisma of that remarkable individual in that song.

Almost forgot: I must add "Soul Kitchen", "Roadhouse Blues", "L.A. Woman", "Moonlight Drive" and "Spanish Caravan." Fuck, I love the Doors.

2nd your selection, those songs came to mind as my favorites.

[silkyblue]

People Are Strange
Love Her Madly
When the Music's Over
Take It as It Comes


'Riders' is my fav


rip Jim

[Born To Stone]

Five to one baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive :D
LA Woman
Riders on the Storm

[overgrowthegovt]

Great choices, everyone. Hard to go wrong with the Doors. Anyone read Jim's biography? Very interesting.

[jimmy8778]

Great choices, everyone. Hard to go wrong with the Doors. Anyone read Jim's biography? Very interesting.

speaking of reading, anyone wanting to get to know the brain of what the doors were all about, you gotta read The Doors of Perception, it is pretty much where the doors got their name, and Morrison actually quotes huxley often.

[overgrowthegovt]

speaking of reading, anyone wanting to get to know the brain of what the doors were all about, you gotta read The Doors of Perception, it is pretty much where the doors got their name, and Morrison actually quotes huxley often.

Aldous Huxley's the man! I've read Brave New World, Ape and Essence, and Point Counter Point, but Doors of Perception is still on the list.

Yeah, Jim seems to have been most fond of Huxley, Blake and Nietzsche.

[dlovejah]

Now you guys are right up my ally.. Aldous Huxley... Amazing.... Dont forget about the Hash Eater.... d:rastasmoke: Well hell you spoke of Blake, I thought of T.S Elliot..... d

[overgrowthegovt]

Now you guys are right up my ally.. Aldous Huxley... Amazing.... Dont forget about the Hash Eater.... d:rastasmoke: Well hell you spoke of Blake, I thought of T.S Elliot..... d

The Hasheesh Eater has to be one of the best things I've ever read...Ludlow's genius just blows my mind. Haha yeah, I think Eliot would have been a little conservative for Jim.

[OZO]

I have always liked Moonlight Drive.

[thecreator]

Love love love The Crystal ship more than life itself

[VapedG13]

For obvious reasons...back door man:thumbsup: then LA woman

YouTube - The Doors - BackDoor Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ4xsxQSarc)
YouTube - The Doors - L.A Woman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3jf9_rua5Q)
:rasta:

[overgrowthegovt]

Love love love The Crystal ship more than life itself

Whenever I hear The Crystal Ship I imagine making love to a beautiful and alluring painter or some woman like that.

[RamblerGambler]

A few of my favorites:
Not to touch the earth
5 to 1
My Wild Love
Crawling King Snake

Anyone looking for a good read should check out the Morrison biography "No One Here Gets Out Alive" by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman. I took that book with me with me when I went backpacking in Europe and I lost track of how many times I've read it.

[mysensiherb]

People are strange is one of my favorites at the moment. That song can mean so many things (like all the doors songs) :)

[overgrowthegovt]

A few of my favorites:
Not to touch the earth
5 to 1
My Wild Love
Crawling King Snake

Anyone looking for a good read should check out the Morrison biography "No One Here Gets Out Alive" by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman. I took that book with me with me when I went backpacking in Europe and I lost track of how many times I've read it.

Funny, that book disturbed me because of how strikingly similar my behaviour was to Jim's when I was a little kid....outrageously flippant, burned through arcane literature, would wear the same shirt for a week, etc. Nowadays I'm an aspiring poet/actor who doesn't think much of the status quo..hope I don't die at 27.

[Dutch Pimp]

I like ..."Twentieth Century Fox"-Doors

[Lit Up]

Oh them Doors, the memories, the memories.

[jdez87]

light my fire

[boaz]

:smokin: to see things how they truly are . . . infinite. :stoned: :jointsmile:

the second Doors song that i ever heard as young kid was Crystal Ship, it was the flip side of Light My Fire that I somehow ended up with, prolly from my really cool uncle . . :stoned: i dug it even back then. tuff to choose just one, love all the ones mentioned so far. Peace Frog and 20th Century Fox is cool for a funky little keyboard rhythm to get you going, When The Musics Over or The End for a long slow burn. :stoned: :stoned: :smokin:

[jimmy8778]

i actually just bought the compilation "13" on vinyl. it sounds pretty sweet. the doors really knew how to make some good music.

[overgrowthegovt]

i actually just bought the compilation "13" on vinyl. it sounds pretty sweet. the doors really knew how to make some good music.

They were such a creative and original band...I mean, who sounds like them?

[RamblerGambler]

Their music stretches beyond the mundane and commonplace. "When the music was over, there was a stillness, a serenity in connection with life and a confirmation of existence. In showing us Hell, the Doors took us to Heaven. In evoking death, they made us feel alive. By confronting us with horror, we were free to celebrate with them joy. By confirming our sense of hopelessness and sorrow they led us to freedom. Or at least they tried." (No One Here Gets Out Alive)

This could have something to do with Morrison as poet rather then rockstar. He lived more life then many of us could imagine. "Not to touch the Earth, not to touch the Sun, all that's left to do is run run run." 27 years before his body could take no more.

This leaves me wondering, could he make it in todays world of soulless corporate rock? Granted, radio rock has always been about money over content, but does anyone doubt that the quality of rock has slowly deteriorated over the years (See helpful graph)

And as a side rant, damn so called "emo" music. Bands like the Doors put more more emotion, more anguish in a single song then these bands will experience in a lifetime. Your girlfriend left you? Boo-fucking-hoo. Channel those feelings, don't just whine about it over and over on album after album.

*This is in no way indicative of the alternative music scene

[overgrowthegovt]

Their music stretches beyond the mundane and commonplace. "When the music was over, there was a stillness, a serenity in connection with life and a confirmation of existence. In showing us Hell, the Doors took us to Heaven. In evoking death, they made us feel alive. By confronting us with horror, we were free to celebrate with them joy. By confirming our sense of hopelessness and sorrow they led us to freedom. Or at least they tried." (No One Here Gets Out Alive)

This could have something to do with Morrison as poet rather then rockstar. He lived more life then many of us could imagine. "Not to touch the Earth, not to touch the Sun, all that's left to do is run run run." 27 years before his body could take no more.

This leaves me wondering, could he make it in todays world of soulless corporate rock? Granted, radio rock has always been about money over content, but does anyone doubt that the quality of rock has slowly deteriorated over the years (See helpful graph)

And as a side rant, damn so called "emo" music. Bands like the Doors put more more emotion, more anguish in a single song then these bands will experience in a lifetime. Your girlfriend left you? Boo-fucking-hoo. Channel those feelings, don't just whine about it over and over on album after album.

*This is in no way indicative of the alternative music scene

Yeah, I really think if the Doors were formed in 2005 instead of 1965, they'd never have made it...they're not formulaic and easy to categorize, and their music is thought-provoking, something modern mass entertainment consciously tries to avoid. In 1968 the music that the people heard was ABOUT something...nowadays if you want to hear stuff with passion or meaning, you have to go underground, and no 16-year-old dipshit is going to bother doing that when he can listen to the assembly line trash his friends think is cool. The Doors didn't make "sick beats", so they're out.

[wonderjoint]

The Doors have a lot of great stuff, but some of their more popular songs I have heard far too often, and they leave me less inspired than they once had. But this happens with other artists too, Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is a classic example, it was inspiring up until like the N thousandth time. That being said, the song Hyacinth House was stuck in my head for at least a week, not too long ago.

A few of my all time favorites include: Peace Frog and Queen of the Highway. Some of Morrison's spoken word performances are also very good, but I just don't think of them as songs, other than there being an instrumental backdrop. :jointsmile:

[overgrowthegovt]

The Doors have a lot of great stuff, but some of their more popular songs I have heard far too often, and they leave me less inspired than they once had. But this happens with other artists too, Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is a classic example, it was inspiring up until like the N thousandth time. That being said, the song Hyacinth House was stuck in my head for at least a week, not too long ago.

A few of my all time favorites include: Peace Frog and Queen of the Highway. Some of Morrison's spoken word performances are also very good, but I just don't think of them as songs, other than there being an instrumental backdrop. :jointsmile:

I see what you're saying, but the old law that familiarity breeds contempt doesn't in any way lessen the actual quality of a song....Stairway to Heaven, though of course grossly overplayed, is still a truly phenomenal track.

I love Peace Frog; it's like a perfect blend of Morrison as poet and the Doors as band.

[RamblerGambler]

Not to mention that the lyrics are taken from a poem Jim Morrison wrote about abortion. Hands down B-A in my book.

[Dutch Pimp]

...wanted to add: Roadhouse Blues...:thumbsup:...(Morrison Hotel, CD)

[wonderjoint]

I see what you're saying, but the old law that familiarity breeds contempt doesn't in any way lessen the actual quality of a song....Stairway to Heaven, though of course grossly overplayed, is still a truly phenomenal track.


I agree, but I wouldn't call it contempt because it suggests active hostility, if there is an active component it's hope for the song to continue to inspire as it once did, maybe nostalgia. It's like the stimuli has been depleted, like when you smoke too much pot and stop getting higher. :stoned:

[wonderjoint]

Actually, I should say exhausted rather than depleted, but eventually you build a tolerance to just about anything. It certainly doesn't detract from the work.

Though, I admit some contempt for Light my Fire, but I think Jim had contempt for that song too. :D

[Dutch Pimp]

"When The Music's Over"-Doors....very acid rock, too...."when the music's over, turn out the lights"...:thumbsup:

[kingkeef]

i like alot more songs by them,but my favorites are People are strange, Five to one, Waiting for the sun, Touch me.

[O. G. ganja smoker]

Moonlight Drive, Crawling King Snake look on you tube for this song live at the matrix!!! Also check out Dead Rats Dead Cats/Break On Through on there 2 the part where Jim says she gets high you can hear Ray say she smoke sum grass cant censor that can ya!!!:D I also like Wishful Sinful his poem woman in the window is amazing just b4 he died too. Jim believed in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. :stoned:

[jimmy8778]

heres a neat trick with the doors. take a vinyl record of theirs, any of them really. make sure its a 33 though, a 45 could work just do it in reverse. then set the speed to the other one, aka 45 for a 33 and 33 for a 45, it will make it sound that much cooler especially while baked. plus if you have friends who like the doors as well it is a great way to experiment with different sounds by them. i almost feel like they meant us to listen to their records this way now. try with other bands to see how they sound.

[Buster2010]

The End
Riders on the storm
L.A. Woman
Light my Fire

[fUNKYcDOG]

im sure its been said, but i would take THE END over anything

[RodLu13]

Oh, man.....I cannot just name one song.....I guess I damn near like them all.....heh..... :jumphappy:




"LIGHT MY FIRE", though *cannot* be unmentioned herein, of course.......-Lu :smokin:

[mazman1989]

people are strange
riders on the storm
La women
I love the movie The Doors with Val Kilmer

[Its a Plant]

Not too fond of the Doors but a few of their songs are good. I think it's amazing they are still held in high regard when none of the members were that good at their respective instruments. While I admit they have help further intertwine the jazz and rock genres, most of their work is void of any sort of emotion. They're rather elementary when it comes to classic rock/jazz. Jim rambling on and on gets old after awhile. Krieger is the one thing that held them back I think he's an average guitarist at best.

The thing that draws me to them is honestly Jim. The man behind the music. I've read a number of books on him and he's just so interesting. His life was a total mess, and I suppose it ended properly with him overdosing in France.

[crazzycat]

I like Light my fire:thumbsup:

[Burnt Toast]

1) Love Street
2) Wild Child
3) I Looked At You
4) Unhappy Girl
5) Hyacinth House
6) Moonlight Drive
7) Soul Kitchen
8) Cars Hiss By My Window
9) Not To Touch The Earth
10) When The Musics Over
11) Peace Frog / Blue Sunday
12) L'America
13) Youre Lost Little Girl
14) Spanish Caravan
15) Been Down So Long
16) Strange Days
17) Land Ho
18) Twentieth Century Fox
19) Waiting For The Sun
20) Summers Almost Gone
21) My Eyes Have Seen You
22) My Wild Love
23) The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
24) We Could Be So Good Together
25) The Unknown Soldier

[rudy2010]

I like the Wasp and not sure the title but she went down to tangy town. Hard to pick one favorite it depends on my mood and state of mind.:stoned: