Favorite The Doors Song-- Vote For One!

[SPKrazy]

Below are Doors Songs to vote for

pick one

it's hard to do, I know



but do it



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tah0OnS3nBU break on through

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x34wa2jehek hello i love you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECk9A-07Pw touch me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGq68s_HkmA light my fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB9EShOPwDg people are strange

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmNAB9WekwI roadhouse blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgVA1_qG0e0 l.a. woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Jq1xbQwqw love her madly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XrVTZwI6ek riders on the storm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHFK1yKfiGo the end

[wildhorses]

1. i love break on through but,

riders on the storm changed my life so, i voted for it :hi:

[SPKrazy]

2. Hi horsey!

changed your life?

sounds like a story

:hug:

[wildhorses]

3. yeah, well just a moment in time

is kinda frozen in my mind, you know the FIRST time i heard that song. it was transcendental

i was 14 at the time.

[SPKrazy]

4. Um, Okay...

:hug:

all kinds of ideas pop into my mind :evilgrin:

:shrug:

how are ya?

[wildhorses]

9. no you silly boy NOT that first time--

:rofl:

can you believe i resigned via e-mail :wow:


this past week has been e-mail hell for me. other than that i am doing fine:hug:

how are you:hi:

[SPKrazy]

12. You DID Resign By E-Mail?

:spank:

what will we do with you other than :hug: you!

I hope that makes you feel better though! You gotta do what you gotta do!

:loveya:

[wildhorses]

17. yes, i did

:blush:

i wouldn't be here posting if i hadn't. i would be at work eating their dumbass shit.

working my 10th weekend in a row with out weekend pay and not even their weekenders have to work that many in a row. they get every 7th week end off :wtf:

:grr:

trust me it was effed up. i am NOT the kind of person who does this but, i just could NOT bring myself to give them the honor of seeing my smiling face anymore

[SPKrazy]

22. I Trust You To Know The Right Thing To Do

you are remember, a good egg ;)

things will be better and you will find something where you are happier that sounds like a crappy situation all the way around and I know you have had to work all those weekends and that has to just bite the big one.

Even the regulars get every 7th weekend off? Is that the weekend option folks?

:shrug:


:hug:

[wildhorses]

24. it felt right--

they have what they call weekenders at this hospital who are scheduled to work fri, sat, sun. they get an extra shift diff for doing this and part of their deal is that they get every 7th weekend off at their option.

i however, had been scheduled to orient every weekend for 10 weeks straight, without an option and without the shift diff.

this is just the tip of the iceberg as to what all else has been going on.

you know how political hospitals can be.

[SPKrazy]

25. Um, yes...

I do as a matter of fact!

Glad you are doing okay though and glad it feels better

also, good to see you here! ;)

:hi:

[wildhorses]

35. good to be here---even thought i may be flipping burgers

monday:)

at least i will not be a political football being kicked between 2 diametrically opposed forces.

when 2 hopitals merge...what a mess

[SPKrazy]

37. When 2 hospitals merge...

sounds like an epic movie classic, like the movie "Titanic" :rofl:

I imagine that is true!

I know that you will land on your feet just fine! You be the wild horse!

:hug:

[DBoon]

50. merge?

there is no such thing as a merger in corporate america, only a "conquer, loot, and pillage"

[SPKrazy]

63. This is true

but they use polite terms like "merge" "partner" etc.

where i work will soon be conquered i imagine, we are being looted i fear right now?

:shrug:

gotta be careful what i say sometimes

[NightWatcher]

5. The End, strictly because of Apocalypse Now

I love that part

[SPKrazy]

7. That Is The Perfect Use Of That Song In A Movie

chills went down my spine thinking of that!

:hi:

[NightWatcher]

10. fav part of the movie is when the music fades from the ceiling fan

while we hear chopper blades. The music just plays so well in that part

[SPKrazy]

14. There are so many good scenes in that movie

yes that is a good one

I also love the choppers and Wagner blaring out of the Klepschorns flying over the beach looking for a place to surf

"you wanna surf, or you wanna fight"

Lance wanted to surf of course!

[NightWatcher]

15. Charlie don't surf

If you dont have it, you gotta check out the Apocalypse Now Redoux. It has 50 minutes of previously deleted scenes. It is much darker- like that could even be possible- than the orig.

[SPKrazy]

16. Have to check it out

I haven't seen it I don't believe

and it is hard to imagine 50 min of even darker scenes :rofl:

[Goblinmonger]

46. In my opinion, it is much more true

to Heart of Darkness. It shows the progression back in time/civilization more clearly. Very good version of the film.

[SPKrazy]

61. Cool,

it's a hard story to make a movie, but they did a good job and the use of SE Asia instead of Africa (the original story) was an interesting touch indeed.

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

64. Apocalypse Now is the

second greatest film of all time. There is no cooler line than Robert Duvall's, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." That whole monologue is, uh, classic cinema.

[SPKrazy]

68. yup d00d

you are right!

strangelove and all! :rofl:

[Zomby Woof]

6. Peace Frog

Sums up the dissolution of the late 60's social and poltical scene quite succinctly.

And "L.A. Woman", which is both about a woman who is metaphorically a city and vice versa.

Great driving tune when commuting down the 405.


I also love "Spanish Caravan" and "Running Blue", Morrison's tribute to Otis Redding.

[SPKrazy]

8. And don't forget LA Woman

who is also Nee Nee not metaphorically speaking on DU :rofl:

:hi:

[Radical Activist]

84. Peace Frog is mine as well. n/t

[VelmaD]

89. ditto

Love me some Peace Frog

[SPKrazy]

91. Yeah Great! (with link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbxIWBITQ6A


:thumbsup:

[Ptah]

11. women seem wicked

when you are down

[SPKrazy]

13. people are strange

when you're a stranger

[Madspirit]

18. Riders on the Storm

...because it's nice and sick.
Lee

[SPKrazy]

27. *snort*

we like nice and sick!

:rofl:

:P

[Madspirit]

42. If I could have picked two

People Are Strange would have been second.
Lee

[SPKrazy]

43. I Like The End

hell I can't think of a Doors song I don't like!

:rofl:

:hi:

[saltpoint]

19. 'Went with "People Are Strange."

Lotsa good ones, though.

I think that saxophonist on "Touch Me" is pretty spectacular.

[SPKrazy]

28. Yup!

thanks for your comments

:hi:

[saltpoint]

33. Thanks to you for this thread. It never hurts to go back and

reconsider great music. The Doors freaked a lot of folks out -- especially folks in New Haven and Miami -- but they emerged from those recording studios with some of the most distinctive and disturbingly beautiful music there was.

A very potent band.

[SPKrazy]

34. Yes, They Changed The World

in their own way

and while I like the things that stemmed from them, there are still those that don't.

:shrug:

potent is a good word for them :rofl:

[LSK]

20. Light My Fire!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SSxCD4wyu4&mode=related&search=

Badass!!!!

[SPKrazy]

29. That is a great version!

:thumbsup:

[Qanisqineq]

21. Tough choice

I love The Doors and probably like Riders on the Storm and The End the most as far as listening. However, I have memories of my dad asking me as a teenager to play Light My Fire on the piano (as well as The Sound of Silence but that isn't the Doors). For that reason, I picked Light My Fire.

[SPKrazy]

30. C00l!

I like them all and it is a tough choice

I went with LA Woman, but any other day I could be choosing something else

the Doors rock!

[AshevilleGuy]

23. Horse Latitudes and Moonlight Drive - the others were played to DEATH!!!

[SPKrazy]

31. Well, okay!

:hi:

post some links?

[AshevilleGuy]

76. ??? They are on Strange Days.

All I know about YouTube is that my computer won't play it.

[SeattleGirl]

26. Riders on the Storm

My fav, but I like pretty much everything they did.

[SPKrazy]

32. Yes I knew you did Sis!

;)

How are ya?

:hug:

[SeattleGirl]

75. Hey bro!

Not bad at all. Today was a gorgeous day in SeattleLand! Hung out outside for awhile, sleeveless top and no shoes!!!!!

[SPKrazy]

77. Glad to hear it sis

hope things are going well for you my friend.

:hi:

[lutefisk]

36. light my fire- it's got a good beat and you can dance to it

and it reminds me of riding in a car on hot summer days listening to the am radio- this is a Doors song that works on a 1960s car am radio- it's the 1960s, like a top ten Beatles or Rolling Stones song on the radio, in a car, in the 1960s...

another version- (bad sound, but so what)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNy7-_XuZhk

[SPKrazy]

38. so true!

we didn't need the biggest stereo to make it sound good, it sounded good on a tinny sounding am car radio!

:rofl:

[wovenpaint]

39. Ohhh, so tough to choose

And I just gotta add this one as well, if ya don't mind.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r27K0kVK2o0

What a great group!



:hi:

[SPKrazy]

40. Very Cool!

I hadn't heard that in a long while

I didn't add any extra voting keys for the poll

but that rocks!

thanks

:hi:

[S n o w b a l l]

41. Love them all...

but I voted for Touch Me. Hard choice.

[SPKrazy]

44. Come on, come on now

touch me babe.....

good one though!

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. 'The End'

Freaking awesome tune.



But "L.A. Woman" makes me think of She Who Took My Virginity. :D

[SPKrazy]

52. Yeah baby!

she who took your virginity has been on your mind and your email alot lately

:rofl:

[Goblinmonger]

47. Roadhouse Blues

because it rocks and isn't getting enough love on here. I kinda remember reading somewhere that it was Morrison's favorite song. It was in the same place that I read he wished they had never recorded Hello, I Love You.

[SPKrazy]

53. I always loved Roadhouse Blues

the bar I hung out in when I was in college played it a lot!

brings back memories

:hi:

[Maestro]

48. I voted for Break on Through

Awesome song that deserves more votes. :)

[SPKrazy]

54. It is an awesome song

and it is a "many pointed meaning" kind of song too :D

[martymar64]

49. Peace Frog

Blood on the Streets in the town of New Haven
Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of Venice
Bloody my love in the terrible summer
Bloody red sun of fantastic LA

[SPKrazy]

55. Yeah that is a great one!

:hi:

[DBoon]

51. FIve to One

Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive, now
You get yours, baby
I'll get mine
Gonna make it, baby
If we try

The old get old
And the young get stronger
May take a week
And it may take longer
They got the guns
But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah
We're takin' over
Come on!

[SPKrazy]

56. No one gets out of here alive!

title of the biography of Jim wasn't it?

great song

[liberaltrucker]

57. Oo-pe-do-do-do people are are strange

Knew that as a pre-pubescent when the song was released, experience has
proved it all too true.

:banghead:

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

62. Yep!

people are strange

when you're a stranger

even when you aren't

:silly:

:pals:

[otherlander]

58. I voted The End, but...

I love all of those songs so much! Even if it's kind of silly how in "light my fire", they used the word 'fire' to rhyme with the word... 'fire'. :P

Did you know that Morrison named them after The Doors of Perception? You gotta love a guy who names his band after a Huxley essay about doing peyote...

[SPKrazy]

65. Yes I did know that

and I do admire a lot of Jim's life

he was a maverick of sorts ;)

[RevolutionaryActs]

59. I can't chose.

Either Riders on the Storm or LA Woman... OR People Are Strange... OR Roadhouse Blues... :P



I think I'll go with LA Woman though, I knew all the words to that song by the time I was 8; my mom is a HUGE Doors fan. :hi:

[SPKrazy]

66. Hey there!

I have seen a pic of your mom, she is cool!

big doors fan makes here even cooler!

:hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

69. My mom is most kick ass.

I took that pic off of my Myspace because I decided I hated that pic of me. :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

70. you told me to "lay off"

your mom

:shrug:

I just thought she was cool and looked nice ;)

[RevolutionaryActs]

71. Of course, my mom doesn't know how to handle Stalker Pervs as

well as I do...



And that sounded far more perverted than I meant it to. :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

73. How Do You Handle A Stalker Perv

the stalker perv handler rev acts o4 is one!


:rofl:

[Gatchaman]

60. I used to be really, really into these guys

But I haven't seriously listened to them in ages. I'd vote for Love Me Two Times, but it's not on the list.

There's no way the results of this poll will be bad, since I don't think there's such a thing as a bad Doors song. I know the time they existed in was a period of almost insane creativity, but they recorded six albums that truly transcend rock music. It's not that any member of the band was an amazing talent (even Jim), but the four of them just played together so well. They really did become a single entity, both on vinyl and on stage.

[SPKrazy]

67. yeah, they are a single entity...

no doubt

[jayfish]

72. None Of The Above.

It's obviously "Alabama Song".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYG1O6Okxvc

Jay

[SPKrazy]

74. good song

:hi:

[VenusRising]

78. You ask me to do the impossible!!

Those are all fantastic songs. My all-time favorite though is still The W.A.S.P.(Texas Radio and the Big Beat). No video though, which sucks ass!!

Doors - The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) Lyrics




I wanna tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Comes out of the Virginia swamps
Cool and slow with plenty of precision
With a back beat narrow and hard to master

Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance
Others, mean and rueful of the Western dream
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft
We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping
This is the land where the Pharaoh died

The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered
They are saying, "Forget the night.
Live with us in forests of azure.
Out here on the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned - immaculate."

Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache
I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God
I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
The meager food for souls forgot
I'll tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul

I'll tell you this
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn

I'll tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Soft drivin', slow and mad, like some new language

Now, listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the Texas
I'll tell you 'bout the Texas Radio
I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
Wandering the Western dream
Tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul

[SPKrazy]

79. Love that one too!

and so does reflection Acire here :hi:

:hug:

[gbate]

80. I voted for Riders on The Storm, but my favorite all-time Doors song is Crystal Ship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2oHzc_Lfc

[SPKrazy]

83. Oh Great One!

is there a bad one?

:woohoo:

[Zookeeper]

81. HELL-O, I Love You....

That's my fav of the bunch.

(Probably the most British Invasion sounding song of theirs.)

Thanks for the PM!

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

82. Great Song!

:hi:

welcome

;)

[enigmatic]

85. "Shaman's Blues"

w/ "L.A. Woman" in there, too..

[SPKrazy]

87. Righteous!

:headbang:

[Penndems]

86. "Riders on the Storm", but also "Wishful Sinful", "Twentieth Century Fox", "Alabama Song"

and "Not To Touch The Earth".

[SPKrazy]

88. Yeah just too damned many!

:thumbsup:

:headbang:

[Penndems]

90. It's tough to choose, you know?

The Doors were such a great group, and produced so many classics. :)

[SPKrazy]

92. No kidding..

they were amazing, and their music still haunts at least two generations I think


:D

[Penndems]

93. I'll never forget when Jim Morrison died

It was the summer between my sophmore and junior high school years.

Nobody could believe he was really gone. :(

[SPKrazy]

94. Some say he didn't really die...

mebbe he just broke on through to the other side?

:(

[Penndems]

96. Or living the good life on a deserted island in the South Pacific?

Who knows where The Lizard King might be? :shrug: ;-)

[SPKrazy]

104. some really nice island is where i'd be

if i were him

and lots of women and lots of booze and drugs is where he is

:rofl:

[Penndems]

111. All of those accrutrements would suit Jim to a "T"

:)

[dajoki]

95. Moonlight Drive

Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Penetrate the evening
That the city sleeps to hide

Let's swim out tonight, love
It's our turn to try
Parked beside the ocean
On our moonlight drive.

Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.
Nothing left open
And no time to decide.
We've stepped into a river
On our moonlight drive.

Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
You reach a hand to hold me
But I can't be your guide.
It's easy to love you
As I watch you glide.
We're falling through wet forests
On our moonlight drive.

Come on, baby, gonna take a little ride
Going' down by the ocean side
Gonna get real close
Get real tight
Baby gonna drown tonight.
Going' down, down, down.

[gbate]

97. That's another good one.

[last_texas_dem]

98. Of the choices on the list, I went with "Riders on the Storm"

To try to keep it ahead of "The End", the one song by the Doors I do feel is truly overrated. For me, it would be between "Light My Fire" and "Riders..." out of the choices on the list. It would be truly difficult to pick a favorite Doors song, but some of my other favorites that aren't listed would include "The Crystal Ship", "End of the Night", "Alabama Song", "Take It as It Comes", "Moonlight Drive", "The Unknown Soldier", "Five to One", "Waiting for the Sun", "Wishful Sinful", "Runnin' Blue" (although I seem to stand alone in liking that one a lot!), and "The Changeling."

[SPKrazy]

103. Oooh The Changeling

very good....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx2d6KqOQU

wow

here's a rare version

[mtowngman]

99. "Moonlight Drive" and "The Wasp" (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)

Had a conversation with my 17 year old daughter today and she told me she loves The Doors. She even has a copy of the Oliver Stone movie with Val Kilmer and she watches it all the time. I'm so proud of her.

[SPKrazy]

105. Great songs!

so many

listening to the Changeling right this minute

:hi:

[pintobean]

100. None. They suck!

[SPKrazy]

106. to the rear of the line with you!

[pintobean]

110. I'm not in line.

At least, not for The Doors, but I liked your reply.

[SPKrazy]

112. He he he!

well, thanks!

;)

[Left Is Write]

101. I would have a hard time choosing between:

Break On Through, LA Woman, Roadhouse Blues, and People Are Strange.

[SPKrazy]

107. Sometimes You Just HAVE TO CHOOSE! LIW!

Go with any of them

I know it's hard....

I lean towards LA Woman, but break on through is sort of the feeling that I've always wanted to have

:hi:

[Rhythm]

102. I voted for "Riders", but...

"The Crystal Ship" will always be the one that i love the most...

*listening to it now, as a matter of fact*

[SPKrazy]

108. True

you will probably not ever be able to narrow it down to one that you will always love, but for a moment in time, you were able to vote for Riders, good job!

:pals:

[borlis]

109. Touch Me is such a great song.

I actually used to have it on my license plates before I had kids. :blush:

[SPKrazy]

113. Touch me babe!

can't you see, that I am not afraid!


what was that promise that we made?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf-hGUmQahY