glorious, powerful and the words are timeless.

Absolutely perfect!

It's a little hard to believe that that organ sound was ever cool.

I love the part in this song where Jim says "we want the world and we want it now...NOW!" and then Robby's guitar, Ray's keyboards, and John's drums kick in.  I remember listening to this song over and over when I was younger waiting for this section in the song.

 kylemichael wrote: 
Yeah, being sober doesn't help this song.

So timeless and one of my favorites. I literally had to go to the fridge and open up a beer to listen to them properly.

 tnt_thomas wrote: 
Much worse. ABBA could eventually write music and didn't pretend their pop songs were anything else then pop songs.

off topic link to what Björn and Benny are doing now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POky4woIaH4

What have they done to the earth? Morrison's question still resonates and the music works just fine without acid or beer. Love it! One of the best by the Doors. 

The popularity of the Doors puzzles me. I think Morrison is DREADFUL. The songs are immature (not in a good way) and the lyrics could have been written with fridge poem magnets in a drug house. They are nonensical in a not-poetic way. He's showing off. He's guessing. He's faking it.

Morrison is the ultimate in cheese factor. He gets a 1 becuase he can carry a tune, a little.

LSD and an untimely death have made him soooo much more than a MINOR MINOR Blip. He's the ABBA of his time. Or worse.

This song in particularly dreadful, by the way.

Close the Doors. Just stop.

Hmmmm,  I'd have to agree with the Lester Bangs character in "Almost Famous".

 BC_Night_Heron wrote: 



What he said.

Bleh.  Some music just doesn't transcend into a new age.  Sorry, raced for the -mute- button.

 dctrpunda wrote: 
I too, drank the koolaid. My first album was the doors. To my older ears, nowadays the words to seem a bit, um, well you know, better when your stoned. Adolescent? I wrote pomes like this when I was 13. And stoned.
The music is timeless. Kreiger was my guiter hero!

Cancel my subscription to the .. something something

 Blasserman wrote:  Ah, the police coming by and telling you to turn the sound down. Sorry son, but the music's over.

The Doors are fantastic - but it's funny that as I get older - and having heard these tunes hundreds of times by now - the musicianship stands taller and taller, but some of Jim Morrison's lyrics and posturing - what was mind-blowingly profound when I was a teenager, now starts to sound overblown and at times ridiculous. But obviously the best Morrison is brilliant - LA Woman, Crystal Ship, etc etc....

First, I was initiated to the Doors as a child. I remember liking it even then (when it came out), and I wasn't doing any drugs or drinking. Yah, they did lots of drugs, but their music is remarkable. It's a ORIGINAL blend of blues and, well, rock kind of. How can you not think the organ is amazing!  I'll admit, they do sound better to me after a couple beers, but then, what doesn't!

 gjeeg wrote: 

Oh I drank that koolaid, I was there.  He has lost his power, like watching your kid do a somersault for the first time, you're really proud of him the first time he does it, but get a little bored after he makes you watch it for the 59th time.

I've seen the somersault Jim, yea, that was really a good one Jim, no.. that one was much better than the other one Jim.  What? you want me to watch you do it again?  umm okay ah.. sure...

In its time this was groundbreaking. Now, what is 40 years later, no body still can pull this off. Saw the guitarist, Robbie Krieger forgive my spelling about five years ago, solo. He is a great player and did a tremondous version of some Doors tune on his own. Curiously he had two guys from the Knack playing with him and they were not slouches either

I'm surprised people can't hear the power and haunted poetics of the Doors, their unique sound, the demented and acid tinged grooves. You had to be there. If you were born too late, sorry. 

When the still sea conspires an armor
and her sullen and aborted currents breed
tiny monsters
TRUE SAILING IS DEAD

ahh but we still got Mr. Mojo and Co. and they eternally jam!

HeHeHe gave it a 9 to mess with the people that don't understand what the counter-culture was about and what we had to listen to, the lizard king messed with the establishment and yes it went good with drugs, least thats what my friend told me, he lives 2 houses down on left

Ugh, where to start?  Thank god for the volume control.  Love ya RP, but this Doors fascination... I dunno what that is about.  

Morrison a genius?  "Come on baby light my fire."   Yea.   

ndfan75 wrote:
As with most drunken/drug-addicted rock n' roll "geniuses", it's easy to over-think their delivery. I don't think JM was nearly as deliberate as this description, any more than Cobain or Joplin was. I mostly enjoy The Doors, but let's call the music for what it is...the product of some talent, 60's counter-culture, film school pretentiousness, and a whole lotta booze/drugs.

 faehnledj wrote:Yup, like many things in life they are better under the influance... take dentistry for example.