Favourite song by the Doors?

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:

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Originally Posted by 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:

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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.

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

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

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Originally Posted by overgrowthegovt

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.

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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:

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

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

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

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:

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.