L.A. Woman

- I've never loved The Doors. I can respect them, and they have some tunes. But I just can't get excited about them. - The title track kinda sums up everything I don't like about these guys. The endless lackluster jamming. The crushing self-importance. The most basic lyrics imaginable delivered as if they're the most profound poetry of all time. The "Mr. Mojo Rising" section is so stupid it makes my physically upset. - "Love Her Madly," though? That's the kind of Doors I can get behind. They're at their best when they focus their morose intensity into tight little pop songs. Apparently their producer quit over how terrible he thought this track was, which is ludicrous to me. - Okay, so 6 songs in I think I can say this: the main thing The Doors had going for them was their sense of atmospherics (that "morose intensity" I alluded to before). So stripping themselves down and doing a blues album, to me, is kinda working against their strengths. Not that there's anything wrong with the blues, but so far it's really not their forte. - Nope, not for me.

Was it just me or was this album goofy as hell? Like so silly? The vocals are so silly? Not that thats a bad thing. Just in this case it might be a bad thing. Instrumentals not bad, but nothing worth saving. Fave track: Riders on the Storm

Vocals are kinda mid sometimes. Decent Riffs and solos

I was excited for this but turns out I was actually thinking of The Who. This was too noodley

The beginning was good but I got bored eventually. Couldn't hold my attention. I like the grooviness

the doors more like the bores am i right

Tolerable but not my taste Couple songs were "ok"

Overall, I don’t care for this album. I’m not a fan of the early 70s keyboard sounds. I did like Car Hiss By My Window and Been Down So Long. Don’t remember ever hearing those songs.

Wasn’t super engaging, and didn’t appreciate the vocals too much. Had some very unique and cool guitar riffs but they were the exception on this record that proves the rule. The Doors are classic but this album was not for me

Ground breaking at the time but now sounds dark, dated and indulgent

The songs are long and repetitive. The bluesy feel is strong, but I don't like the keyboards / organ vibe that much.

No está mal, pero un poco turra de boomer.

started funky and fresh, but quickly became samey

The title track and Riders On The Storm are great, the rest feels like a boozy blues club band, boorish, whilst still musical tight, it put me on a bit of a downer. 2.5

More pretentious yet middling blues-rock courtesy of Morrison & Co. I literally fell asleep while listening to it.

A classic example of a band being in the right place at the right time for a cultural moment. Morrison thinks he’s scarier than he is, the rest of the band think they’re better musicians than they are, and the end result is mediocre blues that would, in any other time period, only be heard from the back of a Fresno dive bar. One or two good songs an album does not make up for the other dozen bits of filler.

The Doors attempt to make a blues album with this one. The album ends up long overstaying it's welcome. The aside from bright spots in L.A. Woman and Riders on the Storm, the songs are just exhausting and not very memorable. Even those are far too long for the musical ideas they bring. On top of that one of the WORST album covers of all time. Looks like it was designed by an AI whose prompt was "give me the most un-inspired 70s blues rock cover possible."

Like listening to a really good band indulge themselves

Fattar int da doors dehä va rätt tråkigt

Doors are probably one of the most overrated rock band. Especially Jim Morrison , pretty boring voice actually and I don’t really like his lyrics. This is like their blues album but their blues playing is pretty uninspired sounding. Would much rather listen to cream , stones, zeppelin etc.I guess what they do best is the psychedelic rock stuff Riders on Storm and Changeling and La Woman are the best ones on this album. Every other song is the worst

Wow this sucks.. the doors have like this romanticized aura of cool psychedelic vibey-ness but then you listen and they’re actually just a shitty band. Especially when they try to play the blues. Their feel is not groovy or soulful at all and maybe I’m missing something but Jim morrison is not that great. I feel like for every box they check there’s another band that does it better.

Sometimes I’m just like…men are so strange. I’ll give a point for weirdness and a point for not hating it. Otherwise, not interested. What is going on lyrically in Hyacinth House?

This album kinda blows, only two good songs and they could frankly be better

Ooh, not my cup of tea at all.

Everyone is so sad...

too yelly

Didn’t do much for me.

I was really not in the mood for this, especially since there was a very similar doors album not too long ago. Not sure why both are needed and I liked Morrison Hotel more. High 2.

I personally don't really like The Doors music, and reading about him exposing himself kind of takes away from things too.

Some good tracks but overall a bit overdone and drawn out. Some tracks very dated.

Smack bang in the middle for me. Not all on board with the Doors to be fair. Some songs I know like Riders etc. meh

Oh my god, shut up Jim Morrison.

Ik werd hier sjagarijnig van. Misschien lag het aan mij, maar die stem stond me tegen.

Aburrido. Pero L.A. Woman salva

The Doors are one of the dad rock bands whose legacy has aged the worst - while they share the blame for influenced hair metal with Led Zeppelin, they offer in place of muscular guitar riffs the cheesy timbre of electric organ, dunderheaded mysticism, and sweaty self-importance. Jim Morrison's mysterious death doesn't really hold sway the way it once dead since we've gone through whole generations of Kurt Cobains and Elliott Smiths since then. In a world of consequence, the bad boy swagger Morrison had is no longer really held in reverence. It's just Vegas lounge lizard chicanery speckled with dried flecks of peyote vomit.

What a bloody racket.

This was far more blues based than I anticipated.

Love the instruments, no songs stood out though

Still feel like the only Doors songs that I enjoy are the ones I already know. Love Her Madly? Yes. A whole album? No.

Don’t understand all of the acclaim for this. L’America and Riders on the Storm are both well-deserving of praise, but the blues focused numbers sound like a cheap version of the blues being played by a band that doesn’t really understand the blues.

So I already had love her madly and riders on the storm saved to my liked songs, but I don't really recognize love her madly or even riders on the storm. I’ve heard about the doors quite a lot so I was pretty excited to listen to this, but I guess just like with the other ones this is just not the type of music that I typically like. That’s why I’m doing this though, to expand my music taste and get used to the sound of different genres and styles that I wouldn’t normally like. The pacing of the songs and their lyrics were pretty unpredictable for me. Like the lyrics seemed to be a lot more drawn out than I anticipated looking at them. I guess what I’m trying to say is I was expecting the singing and the progression of the songs themselves to be a bit faster. Maybe a bit too slow for my taste. Again, I skipped some of these songs like half or ¾ of the way through because they just were not piquing my interest at all. And it’s late and I have to be up early tomorrow for 12 hours and school. I really love the drums in these songs.

I used to love this album when I was a teenager. Now I hear a pretty run of the mill blues album.

Too old school for my liking

Never was a fan of the Doors, but I did think this album is OK. Not so much the songs you hear on classic radio, but others you don't hear so much. Liked Changeling, Been down so long and Crawling King snake. Not sure I'd go out of my way to listen again, but did think it was alright. 2.5

2 I’ve never been much of a Doors fan tbh, not sure why. I enjoy Soft Parade but that’s about it. LA Woman came later in their career than I thought it did and boy does it sound sloppy. No one sounds like they care and everyone sounds drunk. It’s almost a decent blues rock album but I have others I’d sooner listen to. Favorites: Love Her Madly, Riders on the Storm

Interesting music, good for sampling, didn't grab me though. Lyrically it wasn't interesting

Bluesy growly

Not interested in listening to again. Could see how it’s cool

Just ugh

Really kind of an overrated band. This album has what are probably my favorite songs by the Doors, but in general I can take a hugh pass on this band. 2/5

one of the most over rated bands of all time. a second rate blues band with a poet out front, who often doesn't make any sense.

Ehh. I’ve always thought Riders on the Storm never impressed with the lyrics or vocals, and the music was pretty okay so I feel like the rest of the album is just more of the same. Too calm, not enough hype

Not a favourite

In all honesty, its a bit of a slog

Here The Doors, the most over-rated band of the 20th century. The hagiography surrounding Jim Morrison entirely undeserved - lousy singer, lousy poet - DID look good in leather trousers (actually quite important for a front man) - and this recording full of near cover versions of blues rock (straight up copies of riffs in some cases), all of which begs the question why? There are tonnes of artists to enjoy instead of these sub par pretentious rockers (and that goddamn Manzarek organ over every fricking track…). So that’s one star for the leather trousers and one star for Riders on the Storm. Cool.

Not my favorite by the Doors. Doesn't have the same feeling of excitement or any sense of pushing the boundaries. I guess my hot take is the more they lean into a blues style the less interested I am, and it's not because of the blues, it's because of the Doors doing the blues.

Some good tracks -- I like 'Riders On The Storm' -- but mostly this is only so-so for me because on a personal aesthetic level I just don't like The Doors very much.

Historically, this is an iconic album. I don't believe it holds up completely. There are great moments, but there are some dull parts that make up a majority of the album. 5/10

as boring as a door

a struggle 2.

Starts off strong, but lots of filler, lots of derivative takes and rip offs. Pure hype.

There are some melodies and ideas which try to extend beyond the rock canon here, but ultimately they're crushed by the mediocrity of noodling, overlong track lengths, and harsh vocals.

Whatever. Too blues-y and monotonous. Never was a huge fan of Morrison's voice. Riders of the Storm is the definitive highlight, that song's great.

It's alright

Sai che non riesco a capire se mi piace? Forse troppo blues. Ha un che troppo soddisfatto di sé che mi infastidisce.

Solid production, sounds great. Not a huge fan. Riders on the Storm is a solid classic. 1st half of the record is better than the last half IMO. Good blues rock but a bit too much psychedelic influence? IDK. Not my cup of tea.

Jim Morrison sounds like such a mess on this to me. I could take or leave this one, but I do love Riders on the Storm. That one works for me all the way. Love Her Madly is also strong. But the rest... ehhhhh.

"I am a victim of a hate crime!"... I hate The Doors. I like some other blues rock but The Doors are so repetitive and I hate Morrison's voice. Riders on the Storm is ok though.

Not my thing, didn’t enjoy. Found it dull to be honest.

Didn't like. Overated Band

There was a time when I would choose to listen to The Doors. I've heard a few of the tracks on this album so many times. I don't believe I've heard this album as a whole before. There were some tracks that seemed like they were new to me. With enough time listening to and seeing performances from Jim Morrison, I can't get past feeling like Morrison was just a creepy letch. Some of the lyrics are definitely sung by a creepy letch. The tracks that possibly aren't so creepy still hang on to that uncertain feeling that I'll figure out what the songs really mean, and it just took me a while to realize that Morrison is just being a creep again. I do love the work on the keyboards fom Ray Manzarek. "Riders on the Storm" is the prime example of what Manzarek can do, and it is a track that I will go back to. Other tracks on the album keep me listening just for Manzarek's contribution. There are tracks on the album that I know I would skip every time ("Been Down So Long", "Crawling King Snake"). Knowing that I would skip at least 2 or 3 tracks keeps the album below the line for "okay".

Riders in the storm was the only one I cared about really. One of them genuinely did my head in. Obvs Doors are legends, but I felt quite a lot of filler on this one

An average 70's rock album. That's all.

The blues-based rock on L.A. Woman sometimes makes for an entertaining listen, though the record largely unimpresses me. This is mainly due to tracks filled with monotone and unengaging vocals, sleep-inducing guitars and dragging on for way too long. A 2/5.

abslument naze, 2/5

Meh

Didn't find particularly interesting or engaging (only listened to first half)

Pastiche blues apart from Riders On The Storm which sounds like The Doors does lounge music. I like the one that sounds a bit like a carnival version of the Only Fools And Horses theme tune though.

I'm not a Doors fan. Some interesting song writing, but the repetitious droning of so many of these songs...ugh.

I had previously heard their self-titled album, but didn't care for it. I think I like the bluesier sound here more, but it's still not for me. It's not about the album (or the band) itself being good or bad, it's just not the style of music I like.

Not really my thing

Bluesy, kind of got bored

Some classic tracks but overall not for me.

I wish i could

Folky but a bit too ol' school for me

In listening to this, I found one track I never knew before that I thought was cool. Otherwise this album is super overrated lol

Stoner rock is not so much my jam.

Not a big fan. Do not like the blues. It evokes images of chain barbecue restaurants

Veramente non mio genere

As a teen, finding out that Mr Mojo Rising is an anagram of Jim Morrison lowered my esteem for him so drastically that I could never listen to that Godforsake song again without laughing. Kill your boomer idols.

did not like it with the exception of one song

If I wanted to hear blues music I'd go listen to Muddy Waters, who did this much better and didn't blow any talent he had on booze and heroin. I made it 3.5 songs into this album and feel positive about quitting it.

The Doors opened a portal to crap music. All music that followed would have been even better if not for The Doors negative effect on the universe. That's science.

Insufferable

If The Doors have no haters then I am dead

The Doors suck.

This sounds like a bunch of guys got together at a high school reunion to “get the band back together” after shotgunning 17 beers each. Couldn’t finish it.

it genuinely just sounds like a drunk guy singing at a bar and I never want to listen to that

Not my type

Decent start, I’d only listen to Love Her Madly again by choice.

did not care for this one

Man - I just don't get the Doors. I just can't see what others see. It just dribbles on for me...and the organ ruins every song. 1

only liked one song

not really my thing, even the best song on this album was meh to me. overall pretty forgettable

I don't know if its the age or an internal bias against a lot of classic rock but this 100% not clicking for me

Too slow, not my style

Interesting because it was unexpected. I’d describe this album as a set of rejected, deconstructed blues songs from the 1950s, played on instruments from the ’70s. It’s the kind of music you can tap your foot to after swinging out the screen door of a trailer home, settling in by a trash-can fire, with people who lost their teeth 20 years ago.

Didn’t like any

fuchi kaka

A couple of classics, but not for me. 1/5

First listen

not a fan of that man’s voice

Despise.

The doors are terrible.

Of all the bands from the 1960's and 70's, the Doors might be the most overrated. These are mostly blues songs done poorly. Jim Morrison sounds terrible throughout the album. I'm unimpressed.

Sounds like a live album with talking in the background and JM singing off mic. I've read other reviews saying it is tight musically, maybe it is, the singing makes sound amateurish.

could have sworn it took 3 hours for this to end. extra star for resisting the circus organ urge, star taken back for replacing it with terribly mixed piano

Riders on the storm

The doors are a band for the musos. Nobody has seriously said "oh my favourite band is the doors" because there isn't much to like. Bland arrangements, lackadaisical delivery and just dull songs. Not for me Clive.

Oh my god, I hate The Doors. Most overrated band. But, I have it a listen. Love the title track. Everything else is garbage.

Ugh. Not my favorite. Kept waiting for it to end.

Hard for me to get through. Not for me.

Didn't like

Didn’t like any of the songs

A few standout tracks but mostly filler made up of boring hippie blues.

I fucking HATE the Doors. HATE HATE HATE. Self-indulgent twaddle.

ugh NO thank you. i do not like the doors i do not like jim morrison. i do not like this album.

Fake poetry boomer crap.

LA woman was the only one i might go back to download. not my cup of tea. was building a bed so maybe i should give it another shot

Nothing will ever make me like The Doors

Have I not suffered enough

holy ass

I always feel like I'm missing sonething when I listen to The Doors. They are fine musicians and songwriters, but there is a simplicity and campy quality that keeps me from fully connecting to any of their songs. Jim Morrison is also a character I have a hard time enjoying. His reputation as an asshole proceeds his vocal talents, and on LA Woman he sounds absolutely shit faced. I smell booze when I listen to this album. Some singers sound great when they've had a few drinks, but Jim really needed to put the bottle down. Good thing Riders On The Storm was on this album or else there would be nothing here for me to compliment.

One middling track at the end of this record cannot save all the filter here. This album sucks.

Pretty boring and slow imo. just not my thing unfortunately. 1.5/5 stars.

Possibly the most overrated band ever. This album is almost entirely just formulaic 12-bar blues with self-indulgent lyrics taken from a teenager's poetry book.

👎🏼

Dreary.

The Doors are trash. Full stop.

Indulgent and experimental, but mostly annoying

I'm a firm believer that there is no longer be a Doors fan once you turn 15. Because at 15 you become too mature for lyrics written by someone with a 14 year old's mentality. The Doors may be a great band, I wouldn't know. It's impossible to get past Jim Morrison and his ego. This album did nothing to change my mind from that opinion.

Meh. I do like some Doors songs but there are so many better bands of this era and frankly better Doors albums. Jim Morrison was an inspiration for the early punks, so I have to give him that.

Not my vibe. Some old samples from this album

Okay, full disclosure, I think the Doors are the most overrated band in History!!!!!!

Ride the lightning ah album

This album sounds like it was recorded at the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Morrison drones on about being some kind of mysterious “L.A. man,” but really, he sounds more like a lost tourist at a karaoke bar. The Doors managed to take every psychedelic cliché and shove it into one bloated album. If I wanted to listen to a midlife crisis, I’d call my uncle and ask him how he’s doing.

No

More effort needed

Reminded me why I dislike The Doors - THIS BORING AS HELL!!! I think the fact that The Doors are so widely lauded makes me dislike them more. Jim Morrison sounds like he's 45+ years old.

Not a fan of this band

First half of the album felt like the extended version of “bad to the bone”. Very boring

I do not like the doors

His voice is so annoying.

Not a fan

Hate it.

Some very strange album choices on this list. This wasnt great, really sounds like a band that had run out of ideas.

Straight out the gate with a growling, gravely, sex-god voice. Maybe trying /too/ hard to have a growling, gravely, sex-god voice. Yerk - dad blues. Overall, not a lot of "there" there.

Riders on the storm ist das einzige, was man ohne Drogen hören kann...

I really didn’t like The Doors growing up. So when I saw this album pop up I was very apprehensive. But then I listened and I have to say, I was right. The Doors aren’t good. I don’t care for this. Nearing the end of the album I thought “at least this wasn’t the album with Riders on the Storm.” But - BAM - there it was, one of my least favorite songs ever. Hard pass.

No.

Too country

The Doors have all the same problems as the Red Hot Chili Peppers - three gifted musicians and a gibbering fool for a frontman - but none of the self-awareness or entertainment value. What a dogshit band.

I get why people like Greta Van Fleet now.

... ok fine

I fucking hate The Doors, honestly the SHIT you can get away with if you're good looking, it's disgusting. Terrible.

God it's so boring.

משעמם

1/3

This album did not do it for me. I wanted to like it but all the songs sound the same and didn’t have any catchy hooks that reeled me in.

The Doors are not for me.

Overrated.

I'm just happy it's over

I *do not like* gravelly Jim Morrison. Like fingernails on a blackboard. For the two recognizable songs that are fine where he doesn't sing gravelly: 1.5/5.

Another bland "classic/alt/psychedelic rock with a touch of country" albums to throw on the pile.

The ultimate pub rock band? I have never seen the appeal of Jim and co. The band are tight, but it just all feels a bit obvious. And the lyrics seem fairly banal while trying to sound mysterious. Maybe the album recorded 3 months before Morrison's death is not the best intro, but this is not for me.

If this didn't have the name of The Doors on the front, then you might dismiss it as a CD sold after a pub gig by a village blues band.

ok y q pretendes q haga no se..

This was a struggle. Turgid 12 bar blues.

Possibly the most overrated band of all time. This album has few high points. The big 2: Love Her Madly and Riders on The Storm aren't bad and L'America is at least a bit interesting but that's about where it ends. Too much awful, awful blues rock. It was a chore to get through. I could probably give it a 2 for the few positives that it has but I want to completely dunk on this album because the band is so overrated and the fans...well, I'll just not say anything more.

Meh

doors more like MID

Terrible blues with a terrible singer. 3/10

An all time classic

Marty likely was a racist fuckhead, but I can't deny he's the king of the mid-century country ballad.

Great! Love the bluesy feel.