Post by SAT-I need more room!! on Feb 13, 2006 17:45:47 GMT -5
Although I'm not a huge Doors-head, I can acknowledge their contribution to rock music, especially in such a short time.
Today I focus on their first three releases.
The Doors-This is a classic, and is usually the album people own, if they own any non-compilation by The Doors. Looking at it, it's probably the first non-Beatles album to get-and still get-radio play to an extensive amount of the album tracks. Every song on side 1 gets airplay, or at least has. While not cracking the Hot 100 (something that today still amazes me), more people probably know Break on Through than they do their other singles, such as The Unknown Soldier. (Quite appropriate they should start their debut album with this song.) Soul Kitchen & Crystal Ship are 2 typical trippy Doors tunes. Twentieth Century Fox is the song on this album beyond the singles that gets the most play here, and it's one I enjoy, as well as the next song, Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar). In fact, it was this song that made me pick up the album on vinyl. Light My Fire makes every oldies and classic rock station top 10 list (in spite of how overplayed it is). Back Door Man seems to be picking up airplay around here in recent years, on the Rock station. The End of course was a concert "highlight" for the group, and an appropriate ending. Seven out of eleven songs on an album getting airplay in 1967. That's something.
Strange Days-Love the album cover. The album kicks off with the title cut, another journey into psychedelia. Two tracks later, we have probably the most popular cut, Love Me Two Times, which ended up getting a lot of MTV play due to the release of Alive, She Cried. Moonlight Drive is another band fave kicking off side 2, then right into the other popular track on there, People Are Strange. I honestly never knew this song until I picked up a compilation in the mid 80's. My Eyes Have Seen You and I Can't See Your Face in My Mind both ended up on Classics, but it's When the Music's Over, another appropriate album closer, that is big among fans.
Waiting for the Sun-The album I am least familar with. It kicks off with their popular number 1 single, Hello, I Love You. Two tracks later we have Not to Touch the Earth which is the sort of centerpiece to this album. This song I also discovered when I got that compilation in the mid 80's and I hated it at the time-too spooky. It has since gone on to become one of my Doors faves. Track 6 is the aforementioned The Unknown Soldier, which despite cracking the Top 40, I've never heard on the radio. Honestly, I probably wouldn't recognize it if I did. Spanish Caravan is yet another popular track that has ended up on compilations, but it's the yet again appropriate album ender, Five to One, that has become a big fave among fans.
With only six studio albums from the original lineup, the hat trick can go many different ways. I picked this because there is no WAY you can leave out that debut. (And I've never been overly impressed with L.A. Woman beyond the 3 biggies.
Whattya think?
Today I focus on their first three releases.
The Doors-This is a classic, and is usually the album people own, if they own any non-compilation by The Doors. Looking at it, it's probably the first non-Beatles album to get-and still get-radio play to an extensive amount of the album tracks. Every song on side 1 gets airplay, or at least has. While not cracking the Hot 100 (something that today still amazes me), more people probably know Break on Through than they do their other singles, such as The Unknown Soldier. (Quite appropriate they should start their debut album with this song.) Soul Kitchen & Crystal Ship are 2 typical trippy Doors tunes. Twentieth Century Fox is the song on this album beyond the singles that gets the most play here, and it's one I enjoy, as well as the next song, Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar). In fact, it was this song that made me pick up the album on vinyl. Light My Fire makes every oldies and classic rock station top 10 list (in spite of how overplayed it is). Back Door Man seems to be picking up airplay around here in recent years, on the Rock station. The End of course was a concert "highlight" for the group, and an appropriate ending. Seven out of eleven songs on an album getting airplay in 1967. That's something.
Strange Days-Love the album cover. The album kicks off with the title cut, another journey into psychedelia. Two tracks later, we have probably the most popular cut, Love Me Two Times, which ended up getting a lot of MTV play due to the release of Alive, She Cried. Moonlight Drive is another band fave kicking off side 2, then right into the other popular track on there, People Are Strange. I honestly never knew this song until I picked up a compilation in the mid 80's. My Eyes Have Seen You and I Can't See Your Face in My Mind both ended up on Classics, but it's When the Music's Over, another appropriate album closer, that is big among fans.
Waiting for the Sun-The album I am least familar with. It kicks off with their popular number 1 single, Hello, I Love You. Two tracks later we have Not to Touch the Earth which is the sort of centerpiece to this album. This song I also discovered when I got that compilation in the mid 80's and I hated it at the time-too spooky. It has since gone on to become one of my Doors faves. Track 6 is the aforementioned The Unknown Soldier, which despite cracking the Top 40, I've never heard on the radio. Honestly, I probably wouldn't recognize it if I did. Spanish Caravan is yet another popular track that has ended up on compilations, but it's the yet again appropriate album ender, Five to One, that has become a big fave among fans.
With only six studio albums from the original lineup, the hat trick can go many different ways. I picked this because there is no WAY you can leave out that debut. (And I've never been overly impressed with L.A. Woman beyond the 3 biggies.
Whattya think?
