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Dec 8, 2023 · Been down so Long. The grimiest, grittiest number on the Doors’ hardest album, “Been Down So Long” consciously plays with a few shopworn blues tropes—sentiments that the band doesn’t...
Apr 6, 2013 · Like so many other classic bands from the '60s, the Doors truly were a sum of their parts. But more than any of their contemporaries, they came dangerously close to being overshadowed by the...
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Jan 19, 2024 · Their music, marked by Jim Morrison's poetic lyrics and Ray Manzarek's unmistakable keyboard work, ranges from the darkly psychedelic to the raw and rebellious. This list brings together the cream of The Doors songs, assembled with the insight of rock music connoisseurs.
Mar 14, 2017 · The Doors were unlike any other U.S. classic rock act of the 1960s. There was their instrumental make up, first of all: They bucked the default setting of lead guitar-rhythm guitar-bass-drums,...
- Riders on The Storm
- Light My Fire
- Break on Through
- The End
- L.A. Woman
- When The Music’s Over
- Roadhouse Blues
- People Are Strange
- Touch Me
- Five to One
Riders On The Stormremains a popular track on rock radio to this day and is widely regarded as one of, if not the best song ever put out by The Doors. The part that’s so sad about it is that, while it was such a great track, it was the final time we saw all four members of The Doors produce a song together. When it came to commercial success, it sh...
For our second entry to the best songs of all time from The Doors, we’ll go all the way back to their debut album in 1967. Light My Fire parallelled the 1960s psychedelic and sexual movements with its eroticism and off-meta song structure, and it was inspired by earlier work from The Rolling Stones and the track, Hey Joe. It actually entered the Ho...
We’ll stick with The Doors’ debut album for this one as well. Break On Through (To The Other Side)is the opening track for their eponymous debut album and was issued as the group’s first single in 1967. It never was a major seller or one that did incredibly well on the charts, but it still became one of their signature songs and one of their most-p...
The End started out like many songs do, with lyrics describing the breakup of a singer and a girl. Morrison originally wrote the lyrics to mirror that situation, but the song never stopped evolving. Frequent plays at the Whiskey a Go Gosaw the track continue to get longer and longer, eventually ending with The Doors recording a 12-minute version fo...
The title track of The Doors’ 1971 album L.A. Woman, which was the final one the band released before Morrison’s death in the same year, has to be one of their best-ever songs. It served as a bit of a goodbye from Morrison to the city of Los Angeles, personifying the city itself as a woman and giving an excellent description of the atmosphere surro...
When The Music’s Over has a bit of an ironic title as it’s one of The Doors’ longest songs ever, clocking in at over 11 minutes. It was among the tracks the group composed before their record deal that found its way to their second album Strange Daysin 1967 and was one of their most intense songs when it came to actually playing it live. It has a d...
Roadhouse Blues is one of those infamous B-side songs that end up being better than their A-side counterparts. It originally was released on the 1970 album Morrison Hoteland became one of The Doors concert staples shortly after. It only peaked at number 76 on the Cash Box Top 100, but rock radio stations played the hell out of it anyways. When the ...
Within a month of The Doors releasing their Strange Days album, they released People Are Strangeand found an instant hit. It ended up peaking at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 10 on the Cash Box Top 100, addressing the peak of hippie culture and other outsiders in “normal” society. Psychedelic rock never stopped with early songs f...
Touch Me became one of The Doors’ most notable songs on their 1969 The Soft Paradealbum. It made extensive use of brass and string sections, even featuring a saxophone solo courtesy of Curtis Amy, in what marked a turning point for the band and a shift to adding orchestral elements to their music. Sadly, it was the last time their song would wound ...
A lot of the best songs from The Doors were written or composed outside of the studio and then recorded and polished with producers. Not so with Five To One, it has the distinction of being one of the band’s only songs to be made entirely in-studio. It adapted several hymns and children’s rhymes to produce several lines, but it has a long-lasting l...
Jun 26, 2021 · The 20 greatest songs by The Doors, from Love Her Madly to Light My Fire. Over six albums, The Doors produced a remarkable number of intriguing songs, and more than a few classics. Graeme Ross...
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Oct 14, 2023 · Looking to explore some of our best songs of the 60s? Check out our two playlists on Spotify: Volume 1 and Volume 2. 100: Roger Miller – King of the Road (1965)
