The Doors

Better than the other Doors albums on this list, but not by much. I struggle to think of a more overrated band in rock.

The sound of the Doors is still worth listening to, unfortunately a bit too much synthesizer due to the time.

People like these guys

Kind of boring, repetitive, etc. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I recognized their single “Light My Fire” and some of the tracks were kinda OK. Give this 2.5 stars

personally I don't like The Doors

Not as good as it was in 1967.

not a big fan of them

I struggled. I’ve never really been sure what all the fuss was about with Morrison. I’m sure this was mind bending and totally groundbreaking at the time but listening now it just sounds like a demented fairground ride from a low budget horror movie. Doubt I’ll listen again. 2.4

I’ve heard of them of course and I was expecting to like it more than I did. The voice seemed whiny honestly, and just snoozy. Didn’t appeal to anything. Disappointed.

I grew up hearing these lounge lizards all over the radio as a kid. Sometime during university there was a period where I really gave a fresh go at these fellas although in retrospect I remember now that it was because I was in one of those stupid CD-of-the-month clubs and they sent me this because I forgot to send in my card then I was too lazy to send back. Don't be lazy. I of course found out that they still had that awful/cheesy organ dominating every damn song along with the deep and overly-ponderous stylings of THE POET Jim Morrison. They were obviously good musicians and credit to them - they had a sound that nobody else has ever really come close to. And through many decades of digesting music and shifting preferences, I still never liked the Doors. I suppose one has to listen to this album to fully round out the history of rock - so many famous songs, and much like a lot of other so-called classic acts it does work better all in context (i.e. listening to the entire album). Even a few one-off tracks here that I can listen to...e.g. "Break On Through" is a worthy cut and even if "The End" is so stupidly-pretentious as to seem parodic - still, it's creepy enough to warrant....something. The rest I'll continue to pass on. 5/10 2 stars

Unbelievably mid

the 60s really were a different time, break on through to the other side must have made these people go wild bitch so bad i call her a twentieth century fox "show me the way to the next little girl oh don't ask why" joncore this is music they play in like themed americana restaurants\ take it as it comes rock lobster ass beat but i'm kinda into it ngl fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckawyeahfuck! it was fine, 2.5/5 prob closer to 2 than 3

We all shat on Korn, but "buhm na na uhm, na na eema" is easily as smart as anything Jim Morrison sang

- solid but I wasn’t in love with it

Heavy on keys which I liked. Break on through, soul kitchen, and light my fire are my favs. Sounds like walking into a record store. Not something I'd listen to regularly, just not my type of music.

Good, but some songs are to long and, like, self absorbed?

I've never been a fan of The Doors from the radio hits and other exposure. Listening to this album in its entirety cemented that. Lyrically unimpressive, but my favorite line is "I eat more chicken any man ever seen." The organ is fucking insufferable. Like the phantom of the opera serenading me in hell. Why is it soooo loud? Lead guitar? Fuck no. Lead organ. Morrison has a great voice though. Would have loved to hear him front a post hardcore band.

Some classics but not my speed

I think it would have been fine to close the door on this album early on. 2/5

Heroin music. The Velvet Underground do it better. I like Soul Kitchen.

The hits on this album are great, but some of the deeper cuts are total ass. Like Alabama Song? Annoying instruments coupled with some bizarre kinda pedo lyrics?? Not for me. Some of the organ meandering gets pretty boring in spots on this record too. I was hoping the band would make up for my luke-warm interest in Jim Morrison, but unfortunately I don't think they made up for it either.

At least most of the songs are short.

I like: Soul Kitchen

idk what to think kinda dreamy/wispy idk i can see why people like it but not much appeal for me 2 maybe since i'm sorta waiting for it to be over there's this part in light my fire that reminds me of take five bonus points for that i'm getting into this it got weirder none of it really caught my attention and i just moved on once it was over

Eh

As today's youts would say... "Mid". If some of them even know this album or the artist...? Whiskey Bar > Light my fire Wouldn't actively seek this album out but I am aware of it and the band themselves. Just not for me.

It’s been a while since I’ve listened and I forgot how little I enjoy the non-standout tracks on here. Alabama Song was one of the worst songs I’ve heard on this project. 2.5/5

hmmm not to my taste tbh

I still don't super dig The Doors but I once impulse purchased this album for like a quarter. It was beat to fuck. I made myself listen to it only once and it was so roughed up and noisy that I've never put it on my player again. With that said I remember really enjoying it at that time despite the quality. Nevertheless Break On Through is one of the de-facto THUG 2 themes for me, if not the song I associate with the game the most. The End, of course is also notable for its appearance in accordance with the Lost finale. I don't remember if it was actually in the finale or just for the promo but I digress. I enjoyed this album a lot this time around as well. It's probably redundant to say but this is my favorite Doors album. I particularly like the keyboard sound. Very 60s. Pretty sure it's a Hammond or something similar. Classic sound. I also feel like this album has a little more of a blues edge to it than others I've heard which is always nice. I still don't think there's much here for me. At least not a ton that I'll come back to often. Except Break On Through. Censored version though. This "she gets high" business has to go. 2

I never gave the band much of a chance thinking that all the songs would sound like “Light My Fire”, and there were definitely some that did, but there a few songs I did like. Listen again: probably not Purchase for my collection: I think I have it. Favourite Song: Alabama Song

Never cared about The Doors. Almots 40 years old and it was probably my first time sitting throught this whole album. Still couldn't care less about The Doors.

The music itself is pretty good, but Morrison’s droning and pretentious “poetry” forces the instrumentation to the background. They could’ve been great with a quality frontman.

It’s like listening to the Beatles without the enjoyment of listening to the Beatles.

I acknowledge that they brought some innovation in including different influences into white rock music at the time, and that Manzarek is an interesting musician, but for me this is the Catcher in the Rye of albums. Pot-smoking teenagers love it; as a thinking adult you ultimately can't get past the embarrassing self-declared art god stance of the main character. May be extra biased by having read a lot of Morrison's poetry when I was a teenager; as an artifact of beat-esque counterculture, fine, but it doesn't get much beyond whoa drugs man-style indulgence. with this band for me.

Nope. Not a Doors fan, despite numerous listens over the years to understand the hype.

Mid

Highlights: "Light My Fire," "The Crystal Ship," "End of the Night" I do reckon the main contribution musically is putting the organ so forward. There were other bands doing "Early Beatles but Spooky with an Organ" by this time, like The Zombies in '65. ADoors was really spamming that one minor key modal interchange through the album here; maybe they could call that their harmonic signature. It's professional performances across the board, if a little stiff. That just leaves their extremely divisive reputation on a lyrical basis. Do we think this guy who wrote "Twentieth Century Fox" screaming about statuatory rape in "Back Door Man" is a Great American Poet? Is "drive the snake to the lake" more William Blake or Dr. Seuss? It is ridiculous to argue that Morrison was a full CIA plant to sink the antiwar movement with drug culture propaganda, but that legend has the spirit right; this guy's dad started the Vietnam War, and all he had to say for himself when he worked up the nerve to become a public figure was this offer of a freewheeling doctrine of endless interiority, ie an odyssey ten thousand leagues up their collective asses.

I have never listened to the doors i am a loser i know. whole album had a great vibe until “alabama song”(least fav track) came on and threw me wayyyy off. some of the lyrics are a little rapey and kinda weird. Favorite track was “Light my fire”. the guitar solo towards the middle reminded me of the solo in magic carpet ride by steppenwolf. I probably wouldn’t listen to this album again but i did add a few songs to my playlist.

Some good songs but overrated for me

IDK Not terrible but a little over it..

Oh dear lord don't make me do this! The End is still a banger, the singles are just too played out!

Solid 2 star album. Jim Morrison was an insufferable man and a crap poet, but at least the organ sounds are cool. This album channels 60's blues, but holy F it seems to make a 44 minute album sound like 3 hours of pain. The End is such a self indulgent stroppy teenager whinefest. Urrgh. Whatever.

🙁

The Dude hated The Eagles. I hate The Eagles too. I also hate The Doors. I have almost everything about them, but they’re lead singer most of all. Listening to this album was pure penance and I almost quit this entire exercise. I certainly hate the “1001” critics more for making me endure this pretentious travesty.

I’ve never been a huge fan and still feel the same.

Other than a brief interest in them during my late high school and early college years, I never got into The Doors. There are a few songs I like and I can definitely hear the talent in each performer; it's really a matter of personal preference.

aight

Bis auf Light my fire kannte ich nix. Hat mich auch nicht überzeugt.

Not bad, but nothing really stands out for me.

When its good it good, when it bad its very very bad.

The don'ts

I have always hated the Whiskey Bar song.

not as good as other 60s hits

Not my speed.

show me the way to the next little girl. dont ask why dont ask why. Pretty creepy by todays standards for sure. rest of the cd is good but just feel creeped out and couldnt really enjoy it

you like it or you don't. I don't

the doors by the doors produced by the doors written by the doors recorded by the doors encouraged by the doors inspired by the doors

These guys were crazy. Some drugged out psychedelia to the extreme. Some is good, the rest is not my jam.

Not sure when I’d listen to this album. It’s not background, dinner music, not party music, I wouldn’t have it on whilst out walking. I don’t get high and I think it would probably be good for that.

Ikkje superfan, noen gode sanger, mange litt kjedelige. Helt greit 2.5/5

Shut up. JFC.

Tried. Still the most overrated band of the 60s

Mentally I can’t get past the connotation of the Doors with every neo-hippie in my life. 1994 Ravenswood, WV and everyone else is discovering psychedelic music and pot. I’m into the music but not the pot. Every song seems about 2x long as it should be and repeats itself endlessly. There’s a cult of personality around the dead members of the great bands but nobody cares that the other musicians’ post-death of the lionized martyr art sucked. Anyways. It’s fine.

2.5

What an overrated album. Though "The End" kinda slaps. 2

HÆTTU AÐ GEFA MER 60s OG/EÐA 70s ROCK IM GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF THIS BULL SHIT!!!!!!!!

Sorry Jim, that organ gets boring quickly

I always feel like I should like The Doors but I just can't get into them. It wasn't bad but just isn't for me.

Not awful but there really wasn’t anything on this for me. Not sure I’d press play on any of these songs again. Barely escaped a 1 star rating.

The thing about The Doors that I have always struggled with is the noodling. When there’s a mix between 3 minute pop songs and 10 minute wig outs it all seems a little unbalanced. I love a keyboard but less a fan of a keyboard solo! Has its moments but overall not my thing

We be of the most overrated albums and bands of all time. 2 or 3 good songs, the rest sounds like Smashmouth before Smashmouth.

The older I get, the more I dislike this album

The occasional catchy riff hidden behind a tidal wave of self importance from Jim. It's like Morrissey and the Smiths only 10x worse

Break on through and Light My Fire get a star each. Rest of it is very average. Maybe you needed to be there.

I know I should like it more and give it all the stars it deserves. It's the effing Doors. Everyone knows thm and respects them. But, to be honest, it all sounds the same and the recording quality is underwhelming. Even for their time. I could not see myself enjoying it a bit. 2 Stars

Wasn't a fan in high school, not a fan forty years later. Difficult to stay awake while listening. Light My Fire doesn't warrant the length of the song. Are people really fans of the group, or fans of being a fan?

They never were my cup of tea.

I know that this is not a popular opinion, but man, I can't do this. It's just straight 60s with very little anything to it. As much as I've heard a few of the songs over and over, it's not something I like listening to overall.

Meh

Has a few recognizable songs on it. Not sure I would listen to it on my own. Very 60s stuff

Not a big fan. I have liked the singles, but they're much more polished. Ry said it best: Jim Morrison ate quaaludes like they were lucky charms and drank heroin from a fire hose.

2.5. I do really like some of the tracks, I use to love 'break on through' as a kid. But the album as a whole has so many forgettable tracks between the popular ones. And even the famous ones drag on and on with winding aimless solos for 7+ minutes

A couple of very good songs, but haven't carried through the years.

Doesn't really do anything for me!

It was ok. Light my fire was the best song. A lot of it dragged and was repetative⁸

Here's another album that I never really got into. It's got some interesting grooves, and the lyrics are pretty interesting as well, but it's a bit too trippy for my taste. I'm not feeling very generous today either, so 2 stars.

I quite like the first song, the rest of it got on my tits

I liked the second song on the album. Pretty chill but I kind of tuned it out.

Boringly familiar

Fuck this

No bangers on the first listen. Nothing made me stop and check what song was playing. Will listen to light my fire, come on through, The end again. Famous from this album. Maybe they're famous because they were pioneers in their time? Nothing blew me away on the first listen. second listen break onthrough is a familiar song. I realised ive listened to it without knowing this was the song. still do not like the songs. hearted break on through in hopes Ill revisit the album and change my opinion,

.25 - I knew that I disliked the Doors, but having listened to a full album I now know that I really fucking hate the Doors.

I hate the Doors. Pretentious crap.

lwk ass

didnt catch my attention at all...it sounds like everything from the late 60s

No es mi estilo y ninguna canción me llamó para nada la atención :(

I'm over The Doors.

This might have been wine once but it's aged to the point it's vinegar

It's cool not really what I usually listen to

Not really for me. Not my kind of music. 2/10. Liked The End only.

yuck

I do not like The Doors

-didn’t like

The doors are much like the velvet underground. Always more interesting to read about then to listen to. Morrisons voice was always the least interesting element of this overhyped silliness.

They don’t do it for me

I could not dislike the Doors more if I tried

I'm so sick of these doors

I do not car for the Doors.

Legitimately painful to get through. Two good songs (ironically one of them is called the end- couldnt have come fast enough). Your music’s shiiitteeee it keeps me up all niiiiggghhhtttt… ZERO

Listened to 3/4ths and gave up. Podcast boys make bad honky Tonk album

Them: Jim Morrison is the greatest poet of his generation Jim Morrison: Little girl I'm a cool cat / Look at my new hat This is just to say I really can't stand Jim Morrison.

No, nie. Brzmi meblościanką.

I hate The Doors. Jimbo wasn’t a good poet. Fight me.

Smash Mouth on drugs

I fucking hate The Doors

I really, really, dislike the Doors. The reverence heaped on Jim Morrison is baffling to me - to my ears, his lyrics are pure 6th Form. I tried to give this record a fair listen, and failed. Actually, I didn’t try very hard, and I’m fine with it.

I despise this band. Why is this >2 hours long? No one asked for this.

Not my fave, but want to listen to more

Pub rock band featuring pub philosopher frontman. Pretentious and over-rated.

Not for me. It's hard rating this stuff, because i'd rate it 1 if it's only my rating since in won't listen to it again, and i'd rate it 2 just because its not a thing that I would kill myself if I listened to.

i appreciate, but would u catch me putting this on myself? nah probably not let's be real. fav tracks: Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) Take It as It Comes wtf: I EAT MORE CHICKEN THAN ANY MAN EVER SEEN (back door man)

Hands down the most overrated band of the 60s. Strip away the hyperbole and hormonal sweat surrounding Jim Morrison and you soon spot the emperor has no clothes. Dull.

Wow, never listened to The Doors. And now that I have I can say full heartedly “They suck”. Many of the songs were long winded, and all were such a bore. I did try to listen to it a second time, just in case I was just in the wrong mood for my first listen. Nope that shit sucked worse than the first time.

Nope

Lots of memories of listening to this in high school. Re-listening, yhere is a LOT of "little girl" and "back door" 0/5

No

I hate Jim Morrison. Bloated, overrated. Cannot fathom their popularity or his saint-like status.

A strong argument for sobriety.

I just don't get it.

I really hate this on so many levels! It's the platonic ideal of annoying 60s rock and it's the most annoying because it's so organ driven. Jim Morrison and the deification of him has always always grated for me. Especially the ones that subscribe to the theories that he was still alive for a time. He very clearly was desperate to die from doing drugs based on this album, of course he is dead.

Odd

This is the end … of me listening to Jim Morrison

I fucking hate The Doors.

All I can say is that I hope this is the last Doors album out of the 1,001.

Not a fan.

I know why this is on here but... Just say no to Jim Morrison.

I dislike this quite a lot. I especially don't like Jim Morrison's voice. It's not bad, or out of tune, just one that I find displeasing. Maybe the rest wouldn't be quite so bad without Morrison. Ok no, "The End" would be just as interminable.

I am officially not a fan of The Doors.

Controversial opinion I’m sure but this is just over rated rubbish

Man I simply do not get The Doors. Just listen to Craigslist by Weird Al and you’ll get to experience their sound but also have fun.

Not a fan

God this is ponderous and stale.

I don't like the singers voice.

Not my style of music. This is the equivalent of elevator music for whatever genre this is. I was quite unenthused. Next.

Dated and Overrated

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Creepy incel

heard it much too many times, involuntarily. Not a fan.

Doors

Overdone and overrated.

Didn't like The Doors before I listened to this all the way through... Don't like them now. Maybe 3 good songs across their whole catalogue.

I don't like the Doors.

did a bunch of boomers make this list of albums im tired

Dumb and bad and dumb.

no

Ett riktigt pissalbum. Alla låtar låter likadant och tråkigt.

Someone called The Doors circus music and it’s spot on. Jim Morrison might be a brilliant lyricist - I don’t know because I’ll too bored.

I've had enough of Jim Morrison for a lifetime

Sounds alt for sure, lyrics don't come through easily. Lots of guitar blocking and a kind of driving ticky percussion. Kind of droning and drifting along in the middle of the album. A little too abstract or lacking strong melody for me.