L.A. Woman

You don't hear guitar solos like this anymore. Easy to listen to but I got bored after a while

Woozy, ambling, scraggly and not in a good way. Very derivative blues music mostly with uninteresting psychedelic interjections from time to time. The only good track for me is Riders, The Wasp is ok. Very disappointed by this one. Hypest hype though. 2.2/5

Not an album I would return to but with the exception of a few slow songs not bad for background.

A couple of these songs are bangers — especially Love Her Madly — but it’s very uneven and some are drag to listen to. The better songs reminded me of a worse version of early Fleetwood Mac, so I’d rather listen to them.

Pas écouté en entier :(

Murrig ljudbild, som vilket genomsnittligt 70-talsalbum. Trummor, bas, gitarr och en orgel. Grupper ger sig på blues och bluesrock. Inleder med en traditionell soul. Sången gör sig inte särskilt väl till låtarna. Sista spåret Riders on the storm, det enda som sticker ut och förmodligen ända anledningen till att albumet finns med på listan. Här låter sången bra.

Didn’t like this

Second Doors I get and I.... Don't care for it either sadly. I guess I just don't find their blues rock thing too interesting or Jim's voice all that, it's also missing the organ from the first record which made it stand out in my mind. So, eh

I’ve never been a huge Doors fan. I’m ok with a few of their songs……but that’s about it. I always felt the keyboards were a bit too much.

I always found The Doors to be overrated, but listenable. This isn’t tear my ears off bad, but wow it is so reductive. This is the twelfth album I’ve listened through this project and I’ve only heard one album by a black artist and at least three white bands blatantly using black music (in a far less effective way than their predecessors)

I was not high enough for this.

There's definitely good stuff here, but I could skip at least have of these so so blues songs.

this would definitely merit inclusion if the title of the book was "The Rise and Fall of The Doors." limp blues facsimiles with a jim morrison who sounds like he has an inordinate amount of phlegm stuck in his throat

Just boring. I didn’t ever need to listen to this. Ever.

Mundane 70s blues rock, it wasn’t even bad per se just nothing stood out in any regard. So I’m having a very difficult time finding even one song to add to my playlist from this. And I’m especially confused why the curator of this list felt the need to include this album as part of the 1001.

Iconic. Though not for me. Morrison put absolutely everything into this album and it shows. It’s weird and disorganized, but it has heart. Resonance - 6 Hooks - 4 Yield - 4 Technique - 6 Heart - 10 Mood - 5 RHYTHM - 35

Eh, didn't like it. Nothing notable, vocals were not my style.

This is far from the best doors album so I can only hope that the other doors albums are on this list somewhere. There are maybe three great songs here and a handful of filler.

I’ve never seen the appeal of The Doors. I still don’t even now. Their organ sound ages this music terribly.

It’s a real shame the band sounds as good as they do because nothing would save Jim Morrison from choking on his own ego. I actually like “L.A. Woman” and “L’America” actually works pretty well, but this is a real fuckin’ whimper from what could have been an amazing band.

Some songs I think are really interesting. However aside from the odd peak the majority of the album I found a very boring rhythm. Secondly it is clearly quite blues in nature which I like but it was the type of blues that just repeats in an annoying slow loop. I even heard some nick cave esk vocals but delivered in a flat and boring way. It has nothing on that!

this was the second Doors album in 5 days from this site. this one was leaps and bounds worse than the other. in the 4 years between them they traded away psychedelia for the blues and it just makes every song far less interesting

I don't know what it is about his voice, but something about it just turns me off. It's not bad, it just rubs me the wrong way. Most of the songs were ok. L.A. Woman and Riders On The Storm were pretty good. L'America was annoying and repetitive. Overall, it's just ok. Best song: Riders On The Storm

2.4 I don't get the Doors. And this list has taught me I never will. This one sounds like I've wandered into a random bar and some drunk guy is on stage trying to do the blues. Not for me Clive.

It contains that one song everyone knows, other than that, nothing remarkable.

I usually find the Doors pretty silly, but this was just mostly gross. Really did not enjoy this.

This is a classic this vs that. There are "doors people" and none doors people. I am a no thank you on the doors person. All the elements are cool sure. Jim, sure. The pianos, fun. But nah. Not for me.

recently I read some Joan Didion where she recounts an experience she had in the studio with the Doors where they all essentially sat around all bored waiting for Morrison to show up, and until now, that was my entire knowledge of them. And I feel with this album, as I do with many of the albums they give me that were considered groundbreaking and revolutionary in the 60/70s is that yeah, I can see how they were groundbreaking. I can! Does that make me listen and get on my knees and praise god these men met and made music? Not exactly. Like, it's fine. Morrison was really hot though, may he rest in peace.

The Doors are weird. They have a few good hits but otherwise it’s boring blues with mediocre poetry.

I don't think I like The Doors

and its exhausting the way you walk across the stage like a cage inside a cage chalkened rage twisted mind and passages miracles hysterical blues drops through the back steals back full circle

Boring

I’d rather listen to Elvis Costello. This is probably their best album which is kind of like saying liver cancer is better than child abuse. There’s a couple of decent songs. But unless you’ve never heard actual blues they’re not that great. Krieger is a good player. And Densmore is a good drummer. Neither good enough to redeem this from ok.

Yeah this didn't move me..... Riders on the Storm is cool tho

This made me sad to listen to

I just couldn’t really get into this one. 2 stars

Idk if I’ll be with the group on this one, but I wasn’t super impressed. The band and name are so iconic I would have expected more. Not bad by any means, but it didn’t stand out to me.

Ehhhh, it's just not really my kind of music.

Не понравилось.

I really don't like The Doors. Jim Morrison comes across as a right prick. Riders on the Storm is a banger but nothing else here is listenable.

One solid song, the title track -- everything works. But every other song is mediocre, and filled with Jim Morrison self-indulgence. Starting with "Changeling" set the tone, and the silly "L'America" song was the same -- repeating "change" or "L'America" doesn't do much for me. All in all, everyone just seems tired and done with being a rock band.

Starts off good, but loses it's way.

2.5

To me, this album has one great tune, Riders On The Storm, two good tunes, LA Woman and The WASP and the rest is filler. Not worthy of this list. I will admit , however, that this is one of my very favorite Morrisonisms: Out here on the perimeter there are no stars Out here we is stoned, immaculate - one of my favorite Doors lines. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" seems to have been Jim Morrison's operating philosophy, but these late period Doors albums make me believe that the palace of wisdom isn't as much fun to listen to as may be to inhabit. After the disappointment of this album I went and listened to "When The Music's Over," the 10 minute beast at the end of "Strange Days." It was like night and day in terms of creative energy. Cancel my subscription to the resurrection! Yes, please!

I appreciate it, but this one’s not for me.

I used to hate the Doors (cannot remember why). Going in with an open mind and largely meh response. Enjoyed Riders on a storm - but large parts passed me by / annoyed me slightly. Some good bass /grooves but do not really care for Jim Morrisons vocals. A high 2.

Blues. Unremarkable. Only semi-highlight is Riders of the Storm

There’s the good Doors songs that become hits and then there’s the rambling blues stuff. This had too much of the latter

I don’t like this band and this album did not change that.

Not bad. Good bye Jim Morrison

I have never been able to get into The Doors and this album is no different. Not the worst thing I've ever listened to, but mediocre at best. 2/5

I thought I liked The Doors, but wasn’t feeling this album…

I think I might actually hate the Doors. The hits on this album - LA Woman, Riders on the Storm - are alright, but this album continues their monotony of bad bar music.

Vinyls getting longer happened at the wrong time because it meant that the Doors could finally make a near-hour record of sludge. He reuses the same melody over and over, the lyrics are stupid, and most obviously he has a horribly unpleasant voice. He somehow drains blues of its signature emotion and rhythm and turns it into a dull slog. Really horrible stuff. I think if one or two of those things from the aforementioned trifecta (bad melodies, bad lyrics, bad voice) were decent then this could be good, so it has potential. I imagine there are probably a lot of great and colorful covers of these songs so the band gets credit for building music with strong bones but unfortunately in its original recorded form, it just sounds like a bunch of guys experimenting with what they thought was really innovative instrumentation but ends up as a cacophony with a drunk guy screaming over it.

Jimbo can blow

only one good song

Wasn’t impressed by this album. It was cool to find out that The Doors sing Riders on the Storm. Never would have expected that. But the rest of it was just okay. Nothing here for me. Standouts: Love Her Madly and Riders on the Storm.

If you take the worst parts of the blues and joined it together with most boring parts of psychedelic rock, and have it be performed by the most boringly named band, with boring and uncreative album art, then you end up with this shit. What is the appeal here? White people who don't want to listen to real blues music? Whack ass overrated album.

Funny how this was a posthumous release because I was also looking for an early exit on this one. It was already feeling pretty slow but I wanted to tap out just a few songs in once he started yelping towards the end of Car Hiss by my Window.

More like L.AY down(for a nap) by the Snores

Riders on the Storm is the only reason this album is on the list. The rest is pretty bad

I recognize the Doors are a very influential band and I only saw some of that in this album. I think it was very instrumental but wasn’t strong enough in that area for me to be completely impressed. I definitely understand why this is an enjoyable album, however I didn’t love it.

Eh. 3rd Doors album is about 2.5 too many. I'm probably in the lower end of the demographic that *should* theoretically like The Doors, but Morrison's voice and Manzarek's lounge-keyboard have always rubbed me the wrong way. On this album you add those ingredients to mostly shitty bluesy songs ("Been Down So Long" is hideous) and you've got shit soup. "L'America" holycow you've got to make an effort to put out a song as bad as that one. HOWEVER! Some positive notes -> saving this album are two songs I actually like: the title track comes just in time at track 5 - it works despite Morrison's ... meta-Morrison thing. This song takes you on a ride so much more than nearly anything else they ever did. Best though is the final cut - it's hard to argue with "Riders On The Storm" though - that's a great mood piece. TL;DR: Take those 2 songs and kill the rest quickly. 5/10 2 stars.

I’m sure it’s critically good, but feels a bit samey. Enjoyable, but drags on for me.

Eh, white boy blues. Nothing new here. Nothing to say.

A few good classic tracks & the rest is just blues filler with an annoying organ.

I hate California

maybe a 1.5. Reading nick's review beforehand really elevated this. Bro went from hot ass to mid with riders on the storm (more like 'please end!!')

Got bored. Probably just didn't grow up hearing these bit of it were new today it wouldn't register with me

Like the acidy, laid back feeling of a number of the song, but it's nothing exiting. Passes by easily, but stays passed by. Best song: L'America Worst Song: The Changeling

It was better than Morrison Hotel, but it's still boring and repetetive. The vocalist seems drowzy and so tired at times I can smell the alcohol breath from afar. I read about how people admire his introspection, but I seriously doubt he knows what he's talking about half the time. Best song: Riders on the Storm Worst song: Cars Hiss by My Window

Oh my god The Doors are so painfully BORING. Why did so many 60s groups feel the need to bang directionless on an organ for 4 minutes in a 7 minute song? And Jim Morrison just sat there tunelessly "singing" for the whole fucking album. I was almost tempted to give this a 1 just because of how highly rated this utter dog shit was, but it's still not as bad as bjork

I don't think it aged that well. With so much variety and soundscapes and production these days, it seemed flat.

Old school rock

I don't know what but something is missing. It just seems like what all the rock bands were doing at the time. It's ok to listen to but there's just not a lot that makes it stand out from the others. I think I might need another listen. Highlights: Hyacinth House

This morning I said “I like the Doors”. I realize now I meant “I like the EARLY Doors”. I admit I like Riders on the Storm but note how different it is from the rest of the album.

It’s fine. Familiar with part of it by listening to the radio for decades. Just isn’t my bag, frankly.

I wanted this to be the moment that I get the Doors. It is not. It's a good band entirely given over to the rampant egomania of a singer who isn't talented enough to make it worthwhile. Like Oasis, which I'm sure Doors fans will be delighted with.

Not my type of music. Probably wouldn’t listen to this. Can understand the style and genre of music though

I have a confession to make. I really don’t like The Doors. I don’t know what it is, but outside of a few songs, I sorta can’t stand them. Maybe it’s Jim Morrison’s voice or the fact that the hits on this album are 7-8 minutes that end up on the radio and linger for 40% of my car-riding experience. It’s weird, they just piss me off. My dad likes The Doors, but my mom doesn’t, so I guess I picked up my apathy for The Doors from her, along with Tom Petty. This album doesn’t change my perspective much. As mentioned, I don’t like either of the 7-minute songs (L.A. Woman or Riders on the Storm) and the deep cuts don’t do much to change my mind. There are a few things that stop this from being a 1-star, mainly because I’m not that insane, but I can’t say I found this enjoyable. If there are more Doors albums on this venture (and I’m 99% sure there will be, ugh), I hope at least one will be at least decent to me. But this is my trash opinion and I’ll stick with it. Favorite track I guess: Hyacinth House (it was nice and short, I actually kinda liked it.) Other hits: The Changeling, The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)

Not a great fan of The Doors. Thought a lot of their music meandered a lot and drug fuelled. However they produced two really fantastic songs Riders Of The Storm (on this album) and Light My Fire on previous album which has one of the best organ arrangements ever. LA Woman is deserving of being on this list as The Doors and Jim Morrison in particular left an enduring mark on pop and rock music. Not a favourite of mine but is redeemed with the inclusion of Riders. 2/5 20/8/24

The Doors are the most overrated band of the 20th century. Prove me wrong

Good but the Doors were burned out at this point. IMO

Along with several terrific tracks, there's some very creative and original bits, some junky filler, and what seems like Morrison trying to be a blues singer. So, a very mixed bag.

as someone said they sound like they just stole a bunch of black people's music

Fine

No lyrics

Bluesy and rock and roll for sure.

I lost all my listening notes! Booo But thought this was alright - a long album, not really what I'd usually listen to

more like the snores

Never listened to the doors much. Not too impressed by this album. I guess I often find blues boring, repetitive

Some tracks okay, like the vocals.Not a great blues fan

Meh.

It was fine. Just typical 70s rock.

For me…always overrated

pretty chill listening, it was alright - not my favorite album ever.

Tighter and angrier than I expected. The blues stuff is good, the more histrionic moments let this album down.

6/2/24 listened to on barefoot morning run. the doors aren’t terrible but just haven’t seemed to be my cup of tea. standouts of this album is at the very end “oh this is the album with riders on the storm” i’ll give it a 5/10

Mostly not my thing, sometimes a little my thing, “huh, that word by this band makes me uncomfortably”. Favourite track: L'America.

I’m not a rock girly at all. Maybe if it was 80s, I’d have more interest but not really feeling it.

What a drunken mess. Half of this album sounds like people who could perform in a different situation all putting something down because they're meant to. Riders on the Storm has a good vibe.

At times this sounds like a drunk white guy making fun of the Blues. The instrumentation is fine. Production is fine for what it's working with.

In the words of Ulysses Everett McGill, “I don't get it Big Dan.” The only thing I found interesting is that the lead vocals in a couple songs sounded almost gothic, not matching the tone of the instrumentation. Kudos to those who like it, but this album isn't for me.

I like The Doors but tbh they really just make me want to listen to the blues

Insgesamt zu melancholisch und psychedelisch. Gut, Riders in the Storm ist natürlich nicht zu toppen.

white ppl cosplay as black ppl and flop miserably

Not my type of thing. Obviously I know Riders on the Storm which is ok (possibly because of familiarity?) but the rest just sounded / felt like 'music to get stoned to' which isn't what I do so it's a "no" from me...

Outside "Riders on the Storm" nothing really stands out for me.

Call me crazy, but I don’t think the local bar band should’ve let the barfly sing with them while he’s actively blacking out. At least they’re a tolerable bar band, even though, based on their blues-heavy riffing, I know the other patrons would try to hate crime me if I tried to get myself my usual fruity little drink.

Liked Riders on the Storm. Otherwise didn't care for this. Reading Wikipedia about the group, didn't realise Jim Morrison died so young.

The Doors have never clicked with me. This type of repetitive blues rock bores me, and Morrison's voice is not my thing. Too much noodling on the organ.

3/10 Not for me this one, a combination of 2 things that I don’t like: bluesy rock and self-serious prevention Marked it up slightly because a lot of the music was pretty good, if often generic, boring, and maybe too long Not much of a fan of the vocals or lyrics Rolled my eyes more than once Best: Hyacinth House

The 2 singles (LA Woman, Riders of the Storm) are great. Otherwise, a lot of wank. The Doors Greatest Hits is the only Doors one needs.

These guys took everything I don't like about rock and blues and put them into one album. The songs are slow and repetitive, and sort of predictable. Riders on the Storm is a decent song.

It was ok

They had some good songs, even a couple great ones. But basically they were a psychedelic Holiday Inn lounge combo fronted by a drunken imbecile.

I was tortured by this album being overplayed and turned up as loud as possible. It made me hate the Doors. It still isn't something I would ever select to hear.

partito col botto poi mi sono persa

non l'ho ascoltato tutto ma Love Her Madly e L.A. Woman carine :)

Pretentious

Ugh I hate The Doors. Something about Jim Morrison’s arrogance and ridiculousness that make him seem like a living parody of a rock star is just so off putting to me. And I hate all that psychedelic noodling they do. But I respect their place in rock history.

I did not enjoy this. If I never have to listen to late 60s/early 70s blues rock again, it will be too soon.

I hate Morrison 's voice so much. Some of this might be bearable with a different vocalist. Riders on the Storm is a pretty good vibe, especially the instrumental bits and saves this album from a 1.

Riders on the storm is great, the rest of the album would be better as aminstrumental.

Overly familiar songs that I've heard a bit too much over the years in pubs etc. Still quality in parts though.

Spoke too soon ... another Doors album. As previously mentioned, just not a huge fan of the Lizard King ... but I can get down with "L.A. Woman." Great tune.

not rly into it

“MR MOJO RISIN” is an anagram for “Jim Morrison”. Poetic genius Jim Morrison came up with that in the days before the internet made it possible for narcissistic nerds to view every possible anagram of their names in seconds. This dork had to sit down with a pen and paper to work that shit out. There is some inoffensive blues rock on this album, but nothing that makes wading through the ocean of pretension that is The Doors worthwhile. Oliver Stone should have to pay reparations to anyone who sat through that awful movie, and anyone who thinks Jim Morrison wouldn’t be a Trump supporting Q-Anon podcaster if he was still alive is kidding themselves. - RIFLE WAILS, MD

It was fun to listen to, but I find it not to be my thing. I wouldn't mind it as bg music, but it's not my first choice for either activities I listen to music for

Can't say I really loved this one. I'm not a huge fan of blues-ey music and I had a difficult time feeling connected to the music. I didn't like it for two main reasons: it was often repetitive without being catchy, and it didn't evoke any emotion, which are criteria that can often make or break my enjoyment of a piece of music. It wasn't a terrible album, just pretty average the whole way through, and there weren't really any standout songs to me even after listening through a couple times. I can understand if people love the album but it didn't do it for me. Favourite song was Love Her Madly. Maybe in the future I'll revisit, but for now this is unfortunately my first 2, not my cup of tea

Nah. JM’s voice is cheesy. The organ is over used. No interest.

I kinda get it but not for me

I didn’t like it at all the first time, second time I kinda got down to it!

Half paying attention this album isn't offensively bad, but when I listened again without distractions I could barely make it through. It was awful bar-band blues rock noodling with high school poetry.

Good Blues album. Jim Morrison is self-admittedly not a musician, and it unfortunately shows in this album since it's all live. Nothing groundbreaking or interesting

Kind of got bored, music that's very easy to zone out to, but not in a good way.

Not one, but 2 Doors albums on this list?? PASS.

I hated parts of this and loved other parts. Great sounds in general, though

not really my taste

Would like to give it 2.5

5/10 Highlights: Love Her Madly

Just doesn't do anything for me. Jim Morrison's voice is aggressive, and the music is dull.

Not my style of music. Pretty typical 70s rock. Found learning about Jim Morrison and the lore around the band interesting but I really did not enjoy the album.

i only listened to a couple songs, did not stick in my head

Like Grateful Dead but bad. I couldn’t give a two rat’s ass.

Okay

Good guitar and drums, but large parts where the songs are directionless.

I can understand why the Doors are influential, but I feel like a lot of the bands influenced by the Doors did this style of music better than the Doors.

Yawn

One of the most overrated bands in rock music, and one that I have tried repeatedly over the years to get into, but the music and lyrics always falls well short of the mark of music that does ANYTHING for me. This album was no exception.

For some reason I really expected more of this.

Classic but not that into it anymore

i appreciate it but not for me

This album encapsulates my relationship with The Doors. They have such fun musical ideas that I really enjoy but then sit on then without really going anywhere. Combine that with Jim Morrison's inconsistency, going from really velvety blues tones to having his larynx attacked by a saw you've got one album that just misses the mark for me. Don't get me wrong there's a few extremely solid songs on the album but the lows are too low for me to be a fan of the album overall

Still not a fan

riders on the storm is one of the singles ever but it’s just bait for the rest of the tagged on tracks that aren’t near as punchy. disappointed, i was really looking forward to this album

might run back into something when in the mood but not very memorable for me

Is it just me, or is the title track a blatant rip-off of Johnny B. Goode and Mona? A bastard love child if you will? The rest of the songs are decent. 🌪🌪

I personally am not a giant classic rock kind of guy, but I did enjoy putting this album on softly in the back and tapping my foot to the rhythms. 2/5

Mellow, lots more going on than I was expecting. Same vibe throughout. Favourite song: L.A. Woman. Least Favourite: Hyacinth House.

Overall 5/10 but I guess this is a very personal review reflective of my intricate perspective. Just missing even a little X factor for me in a lot of the songs and venturing a lil towards blues which I don’t really care for as a genre. Can see ppl who would enjoy it and there are still some killer solos in there and some good songs such as The Changeling which has really good instrument choice,. But I feel these songs are strictly just songs I’d like to play on guitar not to listen on a day to day basis.

Jim Morrison's voice is just very cool, isn't it? That really carries this album, which isn't particularly interesting musically or lyrically in the most part. Not much worth revisiting other than Riders on the Storm, 2/5.

Kinda boring ngl

Confirms The Doors are not my cuppa.

I don't know with this one. The band is incredibly tight. LA Woman and Riders on the Storm are incredible hits and I really liked L'America. Jim Morrison is a goddamn mess though. I wanted the drunk uncle to shut up and let someone else do their impression of a blues singer instead. Who cares if we lose a few clever lines that Uncle Pretense managed to squeak out of his addled mind? I could do without the shouting and mumbling. Seriously, I was born almost twenty years after the man died so I'll never know the culture but from everything I've learned Morrison wasn't counter cultural, he was just an alcoholic dickbag who threw a tantrum when he was told what to do. I don't care how "intelligent" he was. The end result was a pretentious douche who drank himself to death at 27. That shows on this album. Love her Madly sounds like the vocals were recorded in another room. Changeling is a mumbling mess. I'm looking forward to when their earlier albums show up (and try to find the time to listen to them before then even). The Doors launched so much music that I love. I just can't get past Jim on this album...

En dehors de Raiders on the Storm, c'était vraiment pas fou.

I’ve written and deleted about nine thoughts. I don’t like these songs. They’re feathers, no weight behind them. When they do really crank up the feeling, it’s grating. I don’t ever want to hear Jim Morrison do his Louis Armstrong voice again.

Vocals sound like a random dude singing…spanning many different styles. Jim Morrison was a wild dude and I guess this was the intro of many genres to come. Best song Hyacinth House. Loved the organ music. Very Greg’s dads house.

Quite boring. Wouldn’t listen again

I felt neutral about The Doors going into this album. Now I think I don't like them much. This specific brand of boomer blues rock just isn't for me. I can't see myself ever giving this album a listen ever again. The one song that doesn't come across as cheesy is Riders on the Storm. Even still, lyrics like "his brain is squirmin' like a toad" are just goofy. The Doors are goofy.

Way too much blues. Two stars for being Clapton-adjacent. The songs are unpleasant and don't build on the unique sound that the Doors established on the five previous records.

Been Down So Long is a great song and Riders on the Storm is a classic, but the rest of this album is an annoying mess

- 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.

Has there ever been a band with a bigger disconnect between the legend and the reality? If you believe the legend then The Doors are poets and prophets who peeled back the illusion of the American dream and exposed the heart of darkness underneath. And actually listening to the albums, you realise that they're a basic blues band with a sense of their own importance and a lack of skills to back it up. A singer with an average voice who writes some of the most pretentious lyrics imaginable. They seems to be at the level of "There was a young man of Nantucket," but without the laughs. A keyboard player whose idea of a solo is a couple of bars of "Carol of the Bells" or an irrelevant Chopin piece. A guitar player who is, at best, fair to middling. When they decide to "let out their inner James Brown" you realise that you can only let it out if it's there in the first place. It isn't. Love her madly tenderly describes a disfunctional relationship as though it's Romeo and Juliet and rhymes "madly," "badly," and "daddy" with all the confidence of William McGonagall and then, for good measure and no reason, assures us that "Seven horses seem to be on the mark" Their white boy version of Crawling King Snake achieves nothing but help you realise how good John Lee Hooker is. The WASP is like every teenage poetry slam you ever avoided. Riders on the Storm is probably the best thing here, but it's a low bar. Again the lyrics are all deep and meaningful in a shallow way, but at least the musical backing shows a restraint that the rest of the album lacks. Although the gimmick of storm sound effects wears pretty thin. It's all the sort of thing that people who need to get out more might find brilliant.

The Doors’ influence on generations of musicians is unquestionable. Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Stranglers, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tame Impala and Stone Temple Pilots all grew, to varying degrees, from the soil they helped cultivate. And, as any tenured gardener will tell you, shit makes excellent fertiliser.

Neurotic

Don’t like

Decent band rubbish singer

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

Veramente non mio genere

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