He was a Flamenco guitarist and had to go buy an SG. After Jim heard him play slide, he tried to get him to play slide on every song. He used it a LOT and it is magnificent.
Robby plays shit I'd never think of. The way he dances around Manzareks Keys, which are often dominate in a lot of Doors songs, is masterful. There seems to be a lot of subtlety to his playing. ...and Spanish Caravan (I could listen everyday)and the spy (delicious main riff). I think his playing on " the end" is a great example of his brilliance. Hypnotic and tasteful, sounding like no one else. Robbies playing still baffles me. Edit: and of course, the first song he ever wrote was, " light my fire", one of the greatest rock songs ever written.
1. L.A Woman 2. The Doors 3. Morrison Hotel 4. Strange Days 5. Waiting for the Sun 6. The Soft Parade L.A Woman and the debut flip-flop for me...both are excellent!!
I agree but I think strange days is number 2, but otherwise good call, love that you see LA woman as number one, it almost makes me sad cause of what was evolving out of them and especially Jim, god what could have been !
Eirik Rødberg kiss should’ve stopped after dynasty. Creatures of the night is good tho. Lick it up is, ok ig I was never really super impressed with it but other than those two in the 80s I think they just kept beating the dead horse. But their 70s run is killer and is pretty underrated in my opinion.
1. Strange Days 2. The Doors (debut album) 3. L.A. Woman 4. Waiting for the Sun 5. Morrison Hotel 6. The Soft Parade I agree, Pete. All these albums are great and it really is difficult to put some over others because the quality of the albums is so damn close. RIP Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek. Thank you for the immortal classics.
*The Doors, the one band I never stopped listening too.* Even favorites; the Beatles, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Bowie and Pink Floyd have had off times! A lot of people UNDERRATE 'The Soft Parade'. It IS underrated. My order! #1 *LA Woman* , #2 *The Doors* , #3 *The Soft Parade* , #4 *Morrison Hotel* , #5 *Strange Day's* , #6 *Waiting for the Sun* . So Pete and I have the same weakest (but still good but it is the one somewhat not perfect for me).
@@l.salisbury1253 With a bass player and with a new fuller sound and NEW songs! On 'Touch Me' we get to see romantic Jim have fun and the horns sound perfect for that song. 'Wild Child', 'Shaman's Blues' and 'The Soft Parade' however sound nothing like that at all. indeed it is pure savage ferocity and poetic Jim at his most entranced since the First LP and reminds me of my favorite three songs there. 'Break on Through', 'Backdoor Man' and 'The End'. The epic opening and crescendo of the title track is my 2nd favorite song after 'The End'. Pure Acid Punk!
1- Strange Days 2- Waiting for the Sun 3- Debut 4- La Woman 5- Morrison Hotel 6- The Soft Parade. ... From the post-Jim albums, I'd highly recommend the song Ships With Sails from the Other Voices album, it sounds like the classic Doors, You can almost hear Jim singing it.
PETES right. Ton of tremendous Doors songs. It made me revisit their catalogue. I just played NOT TO TOUCH THE EARTH from Waiting for the 🌞 SUN. Come on. After 52 yrs. It still pumps me up. Obviously/ just my opinion. Thanks 🙏 again PETE
Every album incredible, but I'd go with Bryan's list, switching Hotel with Waiting. However, Mr. Video Man, LA Woman indisputably number one, and surely among the most timeless, non-anachronistic, and perfect albums of the era.
So damn tough to rank. For me: 6. Soft Parade 5. Waiting for the Sun 4. Strange Days 3. Morrison Hotel 2. LA Woman 1. The Doors (debut) Although I’m with you, so hard to pick a favourite and I like them all…only one which was easily my last lick was Soft Parade as I really haven’t listened to much to that album. Great video
I'm in total agreement, Pete, and you did a great job as always! For my money, I always choose the debut album as my personal fave, but essentially everything is really interchangeable, and there is no bad Doors LP. I also agree with the comment below that Robby Krieger is an amazing guitarist, but seriously underappreciated and under-recognized. Also, after missing Jim for so many years, I now equally miss Ray. RIP boys.
Great video, Pete. I love all 6, therefore it’s a hard list to do. My favourite band ever. I consider myself a hardcore fan. Glad you did this video. Always had a connection to The Soft Parade. I think the orchestration suits Morrison’s crooning vocals. 1. The Soft Parade 2. Strange Days 3. The Doors 4. L.A. Woman 5. Morrison Hotel 6. Waiting For The Sun
The Doors are one of those bands that had a near perfect discography, and didn’t stick around long enough to go downhill, or at least until Jim’s death. Here’s my ranking: 1. The Doors / self-titled (could very well be my favourite album of all time) 2. Strange Days 3. L.A. Woman 4. Waiting For The Sun 5. Morrison Hotel 6. The Soft Parade (still a great album, despite it being very different from the other five) 7. An American Prayer (there’s something very mysterious about this album, and I like it) From here, it there’s an immense drop: 8. Other Voices (I actually quite like side 1 of this album, but side 2… not so much) 9. Full Circle (‘The Mosquito’ rocks! The rest does not…)
I'm 14 years old and I love The Doors, my Ranking : 1 - The Doors 2 - L.A Woman 3 - The Soft Parade 4 - Waiting For The Sun 5 - Strange Days 6 - Morrison Hotel 7 - Full Circle 8 - Other Voices Favorite Songs : 1 - Light My Fire 2 - Touch Me 3 - The Changeling 4 - The End 5 - Hyacinth House 6 - Alabama Song ( Whisky Bar ) 7 - Hello, I Love You 8 - Been Down So Long 9 - Love Her Madly 10 - Good Rockin
1) LA Woman, 2) Morrison hotel, 3) The Doors, 4) Strange days, 5) Soft parade, 6) Waiting for the sun. Amo profundamente esos seis discos. Junto con Absolutely live y Alive she cried son la discografía perfecta y nada más se precisa.
1. The Doors 2. Waiting for the Sun 3. The Soft Parade 4. Strange Days 5. L.A. Woman 6. Morrison Hotel Im not a big L.A. Woman fan tbh but The Soft Parade is so underrated! Also, they never had the same strangeness as the selftitled ever after, one of my favourite albums of all time!
One of my favorite bands of all time even though they didn't make a lot of albums but who cares when you got Jim Morrison on your team your lucky to make it through the year because he was the greatest singer/maniac/frontman in music in my opinion. My top five Doors albums are; 1- L. A. Woman 2- The Doors (1st. Album) 3- Strange Days 4- Morrison Hotel 5- The Soft Parade 6- Waiting for the Sun Favorite songs; 1- L. A. Woman 2- When the music's Over 3- The Wasp(Texas radio) 4- Five to One 5- The End 6- Soul Kitchen 7- Roadhouse Blues 8- Riders on the storm 9- Back Door Man 10- The Changeling
At the start of your video I paused it to make my list: 1) The Doors 2) Waiting for the Sun 3) Strange Days 4) Morrison Hotel 5) LA Woman 6) Soft Parade I always felt bad about the Soft Parade. I never liked the orchestra. Jim hated the line 'Tell all the people that you see: follow me'. On the first 3 albums all songs were contributed to the Doors, no matter who wrote them, but since Jim didn't want to have anything to do with this song this album became the first on which they left that habit. Keep up the good work, I enjoy it!
1: The Doors 2: Strange Days 3: Morrison Hotel 4: LA Woman 5: Waiting for the Sun 6: Soft Parade (though I love the title track, the rest is fairly meh imo) I really like American Prayer too but Other Voices & whatever the other one's called, not so much. Robbie Krieger - great guitar player!
Love the Doors my list. 6. The Doors 5. Waiting for the Sun 4. Strange Days 3. Morrison Hotel 2. L.A. Woman And my favorite 1. The Soft Parade Shamans Blues and Wishful Sinful along with the unreleased track Who Scared You are best songs ever written.
Funny enough the album that I get a hankering to listen to the most is The Soft Parade. Jim's vocals are so commanding on that album, he crooned his ass off! I love it. Too bad it's so low on most people's lists. I'll continue the theme of the comments section, something like this but really depends on mood; 1. Strange Days 2. The Soft Parade 3. L.A. Woman 4. The Doors 5. Morrison Hotel 6. Waiting for the Sun
Can't really rank them easily and I agree with Pete Pardo that they could be changed easily, depending on time and mood , but here goes: 6. Waiting for the Sun; a bit generic at times and some tracks don't segue as well, and some are half sketched, but still some great individual songs on it, even Wintertime Love has charm. 5. LA Woman I love this album. The singing voice grates on me at times and there are a couple of tracks are a bit depressing in light of Jim's troubles, but I like how JM gives us an insight into his unravelling mind 4. Soft Parade I feel uneasy putting this over LA Woman, but I like BST and this is influenced by them 3.Strange Days some good ideas here, I like the poignant 'I can't see your face in my mind' 2. The Doors the first one I heard an old favourite 1. Maggie McGill staying in the Morrison Hotel is a sight to behold. Just have some great memories listening to it.
This is why I subbed, I had a feeling he'd touch on another one of my other favorite bands besides Rush! As John or Robby has stated, we didn't have to make the 1st album we could have just made Strange Days. Oh and Soft Parade has a great remix without Horns and Strings, love it! 1. Strange Days, 2. The Doors, 3. LA Woman, 4. Soft Parade, 5. Waiting For The Sun and last Morrison Hotel.
I like all the Doors albums except for The Soft Parade. The Soft Parade was released in 1969, a year when harder, grittier rock was coming to the forefront, but The Doors chose to make a record with songs that sounded like showtunes.
It'll be 50 years next year since Jim left this mortal sphere, half a century unbelievable how times flies, a great loss and way too short a career but what a legacy.
1. L.A.Woman 2. Morrison Hotel 3. Strange Days 4. The Soft Parade 5. The Doors (a lot is overplayed and I think The End gets dull as it goes). 6. Waiting For The Sun
I always had a soft spot for The Soft Parade. Not that acclaimed critically, but I think the use of horns and strings is really powerful. Title track is dynamic and great.
Great video, Pete! I haven't listened to the Doors albums minus Jim. I would imagine they missed Jim's voice and lyrics greatly. My order is not too different. A lot of material for just 5 years!
1. L.A. Woman; 2. Morrison Hotel; 3. The Doors; 4. Strange Days; 5. Waiting For The Sun; 6. Soft Parade. I agree, they are all great however. Thanks for covering this, Pete!
My Top 8 Doors Albums. 8. Full Circle 7. Other Voices 6. The Soft Parade 5. Morrison Hotel 4. L.A. Woman 3. Waiting for the Sun 2. Strange Days 1. The Doors No Other Doors Albums Can Beat That Debut Album.
Oooh, I've been waiting for this. One note: overlooking American Prayer was disappointing, but otherwise it's funny how personal preferences work. I would've ranked these differently 20 years ago. Anyway, as a 40 years-in Doors freak, this is my ranking of the six. 1) Morrison Hotel 2) LA Woman 3) The Doors 4) Waiting for the Sun 5) Strange Days 6) Soft Parade
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Their eponymous album is my favorite as I cannot think of any other group with such an amazing debut album. Lotsa bands take 2-3 albums to find their sound and hit their stride.
My list... 1. The Doors 2. L.A. Woman 3. Strange Days 4. Morrison Hotel 5. The Soft Parade 6. Other Voices 7. Waiting For The Sun 8.Full Circle I own both of the post-Morrison albums and American Prayer and think that Other Voices and Full Circle should be included, though An American Prayer is more a poetry reading than music, so I didn't put it here. That's my take.
Everybody is different but here's my choice....... 6. The Soft Parade 5. Morrison Hotel 4.Waiting for the Sun 3. The Doors 2. LA Woman 1. Strange Days My own name for the music on Strange Days I call " Graveyard disco music 😏 It's poetically flawless, musically also and the two combine to give a very surreal and beautifully epic encounter within a world that is becoming more and more aesthetically grotesque by the day. Its genius, Morrison at his best!!! The last three albums, 4 to 6 you could choose any at any number really but for me the first three albums are totally sublime. LA Woman proved just how good a band they were after going through what they did with the nationwide ban and trouble with the authorities and they produced it themselves. My favorite all time Band!!!
The Doors self-titled debut album has and will always be my #1 , i am constantly telling my friends, especially wanting to get back into vinyl, that i think the best way to experience the Doors' first album is to listen to it on vinyl, preferrably an original mono pressing, and you will instantly hear and learn why they were such a dark band, i'm still always amazed by it. of course that's my personal taste but i think experiencing it way carries weight for anyone wanting to try it that way ,as we all can hear it differently. and what a totally strong catalog for only these 6 albums!!! Morrison Hotel and L.A. Woman do change constantly for me for 2 & 3. Waiting for The Sun ,The Soft Parade and Strange Days continually flip-flop for me for 4,5 & 6.
Great channel! 1-Morrison Hotel 2-LA Woman 3-Doors 4-Soft Parade 5-Waiting for the Sun 6-Strange Days So true that there’s very little separating the one from the six. Probably the only band that I can list tracks in order, and lyrics. My favorite band, with LZ, Stones, Morphine, and Guided by Voices.
1. The Doors 2. LA Woman 3. Morrison Hotel 4. Waiting For The Sun 5. Soft Parade 6. Strange Days Very tough to rank these albums as none of them are better or worse by a wide margin. They're all fantastic!
One of the finest bands to grace this earth, with a killer studio album archive. For me impossible to rank, as it depends on my mood on the day, as there is great musical range within the various releases. When you too and tail between The Doors and L A Woman and only six all standout albums. Impossible. If you took Yes as a counterpoint with a large catalogue, and a development of the band’s direction, and band member changes, this would, for me be easier to rank. For instance their debut album was good and suggested better to come, which it did. Easier to rank. When you take The Doors debut album, with killer track after track it still takes my breath away all these decades later. It was and is unbelievable.
Hey, it's your show. You post what you want to. If anybody doesn't like it, let them get their own show. I'm enjoying all of these "Ranking the albums". I plan to listen to all of them eventually. Of course I'll have to listen to them on You Tube because there aren't any places in Southeast Alabama where I can buy them and I don't drive so I can't go anywhere very far.
I completely agree with you on how hard it is to rank them, Pete. Lots of great stuff on each of them. When it comes to Soft Parade, which I love, would the album have been stronger with “Who Scared You?” in place of “Do It” or “Easy Ride”?
Haven’t heard the Morrison-less albums either, but of the proper Big 6, I’d rank/grade them as follows: 1. S/t- A+ 2. Morrison Hotel- A 3. Strange Days- A 4. LA Woman- A- 5. Waiting For the Sun- A- 6. Soft Parade- B
Long time Doors fan here...love all the albums...funny thing, I ranked them all practically in the order they were released - almost....I'm not saying the quality of music was declining with each album...all were fantastic albums -- all classics! but I had to put ''The Soft Parade'' last...that was my least favorite album for sure... 1. The Doors 2. Strange Days 3. Waiting for the Sun 4. Morrison Hotel 5. LA Woman 6. The Soft Parade
My # 5 favorite band of all time. For me, there is not a single bad egg in the catalog. This was difficult. One of my hardest to rank. This is my list for today, probably different form last week, and will be different next week.1.Soft Parade 2.The Doors 3.Waiting For The Sun 4.Strange Days 5.Morrison Hotel 6.L.A.Woman 7. An American Prayer
I agree with you Pete tough to rank the Doors LPs. The first Doors album I ever owned was Doors 13 which was a greatest hits compilation of sorts. Sadly no longer available but I loved the mixture of songs on it. Listened to that album over and over again one summer years ago. Probably their debut album would be my number 1 if I had to pick but LA Woman a close second.
Picking out your favorite doors album is like picking out your favorite child. Their albums are so interchangeable, also they don't have any bad songs thier catalog is so neat and tidy.
1.The Doors 2..LA Woman 3.Soft Parade 4.Morrison Hotel 5. Waiting for the sun 6. Strange days Of course you can scramble 2 thru 6 on any given day depending what mood your in.
06. Waiting for The Sun 05. The Soft Parade 04. Morrison Hotel 03. L.A. Woman 02. The Doors 01. Strange Days. Waiting for the Sun has some excellent tracks but I feel like it was compromised because it was meant to have a long track that they only wound up using a small part of and the Waiting for The Sun title track that was later revisited on Morrison Hotel. The recent deluxe edition of The Soft Parade made me enjoy the album more. I ended up making a custom mix of Touch Me by taking the orchestra free mix from the deluxe edition and editing in the sax solo from the surround sound mix.
Best double album comp of ANY band. Brilliant song selections and sequences. It's said, that for maximum fidelity, record sides shouldn't be much longer than 20 minutes, but they managed to fit almost exactly 25 minutes on each side and it's just brilliant. Great artwork on the gatefold jacket as well.
I got into the Doors in the late eighties when I was a teenager. I agree that the six albums are almost on the same level but to me Morrison Hotel and The Soft Parade are the two that can’t keep up with the other four. My rating has always been the same, since the day I first heard them: 1. Strange Days 2. Waiting For The Sun 3. L.A.Woman 4. The Doors 5. The Soft Parade 6. Morrison Hotel (Yes, I walked in an ugly Jim Morrison t-shirt from 1987 ‘til 1992)
#1 Waiting for the Sun #2 Morrison hotel # 3 Strange days # 4 LA Woman # 5 The Doors # 6 The Soft Parade. My favorite Doors songs are almost all of them in Waiting for the Sun.
@@joshuabennett3059 No doubt. I was heavy into Rush and Triumph, and an untold story that some might echo - some friends said they didn't like Rush or Triumph because of Geddy Lee and Rik Emmett's high pitched voices. They said it about Dennis DeYoung too. I told them liked good music, didn't matter. I listened to everything with blazing guitar work!
Other Voices is ok. Only non-Jim album I have on vinyl. Still near the bottom of my list. At least it was just Robby and Ray sharing vocals, and not finding a new singer. 1. Morrison Hotel 2. L.A. Woman 3. S/T 4. Strange Days 5. Waiting For the Sun 6. The Soft Parade
Ha! Waiting For The Sun is my #1. First heard it while waiting for a girlfriend to get ready. Knew all about Light My Fire and after hearing My Wild Love I was; "What the hell is this?" "If you don't like it, don't listen to it." Went to work at a campground for the summer. Owner's daughter had the album. The bass run in Spanish Caravan inspired me to play guitar. Funny how The Doors didn't have a bass player but they used four of them on Waiting For The Sun. I love every song now. L.A Woman and Strange Days are at the bottom of my list.
My The Doors album rankings (Studio albums from Morrison era only): 1. The Doors 2. L.A. Woman 3. Strange Days 4. Morrison Hotel 5. Waiting For The Sun 6. The Soft Parade
Nice one Pete. Every time I go back to the Doors they just get better and better. In the top six of greatest and most important American bands. They really captured the madness of their times and the dark underbelly of the late sixties and early seventies. You're right that they never made a poor album but I'd have to go with the first one and the last, L.A.Woman. I've always loved the debut (One of the greatest ever debuts) but it took me a long time to appreciate their swansong L.A.Woman. It's their generation coming to knowledge in its dissection of the SoCal dream and the ruins of 60s idealism. The Eagles would come back to it years later on Hotel California, but the Doors got there first. When you get to the great album covers show I'd throw in a couple of Doors entries: Strange Days, and Weird Scenes inside the Goldmine. Keep up the great shows...
I agree that it isn't all that easy to rank their albums.I like them all in different ways.The title track of The Soft Parade is one of my favorite Doors tracks.The last 2 minutes get so intense. 1.Strange Days 2.Waiting for the Sun 3.The Doors 4.L.A. Woman 5.The Soft Parade 6.Morrison Hotel
1. The Doors (for historical reason). 2. Waiting for the Sun (for musical/lyrical reason). 3. LA Woman 4. Strange Days 5. Morrison Hotel 6. The Soft Parade
Glad to see Pete do the DOORS! I became a big , big fan in high school, once i read the book No One Here Gets Out Alive. I drove an hour away to a college town to see a late night film on the DOORS, My high school friends, just didnt get it. Never get tired of the band, I even liked when they got Ian Astbury for the short time. Its weird when you think they only had 6 proper studio albums! when they rank along bands like Floyd, Purple, etc. 1)The Doors 2) Strange Days 3) Waiting for the Sun 4) Morrison Hotel 5) LA Woman 6) Soft Parade
Robby Krieger has always been a criminally underrated guitarist and songwriter.
He was a Flamenco guitarist and had to go buy an SG.
After Jim heard him play slide, he tried to get him to play slide on every song.
He used it a LOT and it is magnificent.
All Doors musicians are underrated. Just hear the bossa nova rhythm on Break on Through
@@SoundMuzak
A Flamenco guitarist, with a classical pianist, a jazz drummer and a poet.
It doesn't work on paper.
Robby plays shit I'd never think of. The way he dances around Manzareks Keys, which are often dominate in a lot of Doors songs, is masterful. There seems to be a lot of subtlety to his playing.
...and Spanish Caravan (I could listen everyday)and the spy (delicious main riff). I think his playing on " the end" is a great example of his brilliance. Hypnotic and tasteful, sounding like no one else.
Robbies playing still baffles me.
Edit: and of course, the first song he ever wrote was, " light my fire", one of the greatest rock songs ever written.
He didn't have that mean and hungry look so he wasn't taken as seriously. One of the truly greats
1. L.A Woman
2. The Doors
3. Morrison Hotel
4. Strange Days
5. Waiting for the Sun
6. The Soft Parade
L.A Woman and the debut flip-flop for me...both are excellent!!
I agree but I think strange days is number 2, but otherwise good call, love that you see LA woman as number one, it almost makes me sad cause of what was evolving out of them and especially Jim, god what could have been !
I reckon that’s pretty much spot-on.
Aww
c'mon
The Soft Parade is awesome
I love L.A Woman, but is not one of my favorites cause Jim's voice was not so good than the previous albums
I'm with you on that 100% !
What makes the Doors so memorable is that they came in fast , hit hard, and didn't stick around long enough to get stale.
Eirik Rødberg kiss should’ve stopped after dynasty. Creatures of the night is good tho. Lick it up is, ok ig I was never really super impressed with it but other than those two in the 80s I think they just kept beating the dead horse. But their 70s run is killer and is pretty underrated in my opinion.
Pete seems like a great and genuinely nice person. Strange Days for me. Although all the doors albums are legendary.
1. Strange Days
2. The Doors (debut album)
3. L.A. Woman
4. Waiting for the Sun
5. Morrison Hotel
6. The Soft Parade
I agree, Pete. All these albums are great and it really is difficult to put some over others because the quality of the albums is so damn close.
RIP Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek. Thank you for the immortal classics.
The Doors debut is the crown jewel of their brilliant albums
It's a great album, but so many of those songs have been played to death.
I couldn't agree more Pete. The Doors albums are incredibly difficult to rank as they are all solid.
I wonder is Pete that talking here, a music Journalist.
*The Doors, the one band I never stopped listening too.* Even favorites; the Beatles, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Bowie and Pink Floyd have had off times!
A lot of people UNDERRATE 'The Soft Parade'. It IS underrated. My order! #1 *LA Woman* , #2 *The Doors* , #3 *The Soft Parade* , #4 *Morrison Hotel* , #5 *Strange Day's* , #6 *Waiting for the Sun* . So Pete and I have the same weakest (but still good but it is the one somewhat not perfect for me).
With it OVERUSED brass section "Soft Parade" sounds more Vagas than CA! At times it could almost pass for a Dead Martin LP!
@@l.salisbury1253 With a bass player and with a new fuller sound and NEW songs! On 'Touch Me' we get to see romantic Jim have fun and the horns sound perfect for that song. 'Wild Child', 'Shaman's Blues' and 'The Soft Parade' however sound nothing like that at all. indeed it is pure savage ferocity and poetic Jim at his most entranced since the First LP and reminds me of my favorite three songs there. 'Break on Through', 'Backdoor Man' and 'The End'. The epic opening and crescendo of the title track is my 2nd favorite song after 'The End'. Pure Acid Punk!
I like Soft Parade. Shamans blues is a hidden gem. Runnin' blue is another solid deep cut. Touch me and Wild Child are 2 of my favorite Doors tracks.
YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!!!
I love the soft parade
1. Waiting for the Sun
2. Strange Days
3. L.A. Woman
4. The Soft Parade
5. The Doors
6. Morrison Hotel
7. Other Voices
8. Full Circle
1. L.A. Woman
2. Strange Days
3. The Doors
4. Waiting for the Sun
5. Morrison Hotel
6. The Soft Parade
uh dude why - just realised I posted right behind you and agreed totally! 👍
That would be my ranking, too.
Solid list. Love the bluesy direction they went down, but that debut is basically a Best Of. Looking forward to Jethro!
1- Strange Days
2- Waiting for the Sun
3- Debut
4- La Woman
5- Morrison Hotel
6- The Soft Parade.
... From the post-Jim albums, I'd highly recommend the song Ships With Sails from the Other Voices album, it sounds like the classic Doors, You can almost hear Jim singing it.
I have the same top 4.
1-The Doors
2-Waiting For the Sun
3-Morrison Hotel
4-Strange days
5-L.A. Woman
6-The Soft Parade
in my opinion
I completely agree with this
Where are all the Doors fans? I can't be the first to comment....I'm speechless.
I love the debut most. The rest are equal in my mind.
Right here buddy
Break on Through!
Um it was just posted today. Geez. There's now over a 100 comments
@@allsystemsgo8678 I know, that now, lol. Being the first to comment was just such a shock. Im not used to being such a celebrity😎
PETES right. Ton of tremendous Doors songs. It made me revisit their catalogue. I just played NOT TO TOUCH THE EARTH from Waiting for the 🌞 SUN. Come on. After 52 yrs. It still pumps me up. Obviously/ just my opinion. Thanks 🙏 again PETE
Completely agree with you Gary re:Not to Touch the Earth 🤩
Gary Joyce Great song!
I do love Not to Touch the Earth. Fantastic song that I know quite well.
My ranking:
1. L.A. Woman
2. The Doors
3. Strange Days
4. Waiting for the Sun
5. Morrison Hotel
6. The Soft Parade
they all share number 1 for me
Every album incredible, but I'd go with Bryan's list, switching Hotel with Waiting. However, Mr. Video Man, LA Woman indisputably number one, and surely among the most timeless, non-anachronistic, and perfect albums of the era.
Not a studio album but a favorite Doors compilation/best of is Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine. Love it.
So damn tough to rank. For me:
6. Soft Parade
5. Waiting for the Sun
4. Strange Days
3. Morrison Hotel
2. LA Woman
1. The Doors (debut)
Although I’m with you, so hard to pick a favourite and I like them all…only one which was easily my last lick was Soft Parade as I really haven’t listened to much to that album. Great video
I'm in total agreement, Pete, and you did a great job as always! For my money, I always choose the debut album as my personal fave, but essentially everything is really interchangeable, and there is no bad Doors LP. I also agree with the comment below that Robby Krieger is an amazing guitarist, but seriously underappreciated and under-recognized. Also, after missing Jim for so many years, I now equally miss Ray. RIP boys.
1- the doors
2- LA woman
3- strange days
4- morrison hotel
5- waiting for the sun
6- soft parade.
Yes. The perfect list!!!👍😀✌
@@frederickfranchi6408 same for you ?
“I don’t know what’s gonna happen, man but I’m gonna get my kicks before the whole shit house goes up in flames.
All right!”
Great video, Pete. I love all 6, therefore it’s a hard list to do. My favourite band ever. I consider myself a hardcore fan. Glad you did this video. Always had a connection to The Soft Parade. I think the orchestration suits Morrison’s crooning vocals.
1. The Soft Parade
2. Strange Days
3. The Doors
4. L.A. Woman
5. Morrison Hotel
6. Waiting For The Sun
The Doors are one of those bands that had a near perfect discography, and didn’t stick around long enough to go downhill, or at least until Jim’s death. Here’s my ranking:
1. The Doors / self-titled (could very well be my favourite album of all time)
2. Strange Days
3. L.A. Woman
4. Waiting For The Sun
5. Morrison Hotel
6. The Soft Parade (still a great album, despite it being very different from the other five)
7. An American Prayer (there’s something very mysterious about this album, and I like it)
From here, it there’s an immense drop:
8. Other Voices (I actually quite like side 1 of this album, but side 2… not so much)
9. Full Circle (‘The Mosquito’ rocks! The rest does not…)
I consider American Prayer an essential DOORS album, Waiting For The Sun is probably my favorite.
Celebration of the 🦎
I'm 14 years old and I love The Doors, my Ranking :
1 - The Doors
2 - L.A Woman
3 - The Soft Parade
4 - Waiting For The Sun
5 - Strange Days
6 - Morrison Hotel
7 - Full Circle
8 - Other Voices
Favorite Songs :
1 - Light My Fire
2 - Touch Me
3 - The Changeling
4 - The End
5 - Hyacinth House
6 - Alabama Song ( Whisky Bar )
7 - Hello, I Love You
8 - Been Down So Long
9 - Love Her Madly
10 - Good Rockin
It makes me happy to meet someone young like me who enjoys this band :)
@@otrovato_musica Time passes and I'm already 16
1) LA Woman, 2) Morrison hotel, 3) The Doors, 4) Strange days, 5) Soft parade, 6) Waiting for the sun.
Amo profundamente esos seis discos. Junto con Absolutely live y Alive she cried son la discografía perfecta y nada más se precisa.
1. The Doors
2. Waiting for the Sun
3. The Soft Parade
4. Strange Days
5. L.A. Woman
6. Morrison Hotel
Im not a big L.A. Woman fan tbh but The Soft Parade is so underrated! Also, they never had the same strangeness as the selftitled ever after, one of my favourite albums of all time!
One of my favorite bands of all time even though they didn't make a lot of albums but who cares when you got Jim Morrison on your team your lucky to make it through the year because he was the greatest singer/maniac/frontman in music in my opinion. My top five Doors albums are;
1- L. A. Woman
2- The Doors (1st. Album)
3- Strange Days
4- Morrison Hotel
5- The Soft Parade
6- Waiting for the Sun
Favorite songs;
1- L. A. Woman
2- When the music's Over
3- The Wasp(Texas radio)
4- Five to One
5- The End
6- Soul Kitchen
7- Roadhouse Blues
8- Riders on the storm
9- Back Door Man
10- The Changeling
At the start of your video I paused it to make my list:
1) The Doors
2) Waiting for the Sun
3) Strange Days
4) Morrison Hotel
5) LA Woman
6) Soft Parade
I always felt bad about the Soft Parade. I never liked the orchestra. Jim hated the line 'Tell all the people that you see: follow me'. On the first 3 albums all songs were contributed to the Doors, no matter who wrote them, but since Jim didn't want to have anything to do with this song this album became the first on which they left that habit.
Keep up the good work, I enjoy it!
1: The Doors
2: Strange Days
3: Morrison Hotel
4: LA Woman
5: Waiting for the Sun
6: Soft Parade (though I love the title track, the rest is fairly meh imo)
I really like American Prayer too but Other Voices & whatever the other one's called, not so much. Robbie Krieger - great guitar player!
Love the Doors my list.
6. The Doors
5. Waiting for the Sun
4. Strange Days
3. Morrison Hotel
2. L.A. Woman
And my favorite
1. The Soft Parade
Shamans Blues and Wishful Sinful along with the unreleased track Who Scared You are best songs ever written.
James Farrar The Soft Parade. Totally agree.
You are the fitst I heard of who puts yhe soft parade so high!!!
There will never be another one
like you
Cold grinding grizzly bear jaws hot on your heals
My top 2 are the first album and L.A. Woman.
1: The Doors
2: Morrison Hotel
3:
Strange Days
4: LA Woman
5: Waiting for the Sun
6: Soft Parade
Funny enough the album that I get a hankering to listen to the most is The Soft Parade. Jim's vocals are so commanding on that album, he crooned his ass off! I love it. Too bad it's so low on most people's lists. I'll continue the theme of the comments section, something like this but really depends on mood;
1. Strange Days
2. The Soft Parade
3. L.A. Woman
4. The Doors
5. Morrison Hotel
6. Waiting for the Sun
Can't really rank them easily and I agree with Pete Pardo that they could be changed easily, depending on time and mood , but here goes: 6. Waiting for the Sun; a bit generic at times and some tracks don't segue as well, and some are half sketched, but still some great individual songs on it, even Wintertime Love has charm. 5. LA Woman I love this album. The singing voice grates on me at times and there are a couple of tracks are a bit depressing in light of Jim's troubles, but I like how JM gives us an insight into his unravelling mind 4. Soft Parade I feel uneasy putting this over LA Woman, but I like BST and this is influenced by them 3.Strange Days some good ideas here, I like the poignant 'I can't see your face in my mind' 2. The Doors the first one I heard an old favourite 1. Maggie McGill staying in the Morrison Hotel is a sight to behold. Just have some great memories listening to it.
I totally agree! Perfect ranking, but it's by hairs all the way. Here it is Aug 2023 and that's all I been listening to for weeks. Great job Pete!
I enjoy listening to Pete. You know your music.
His passion for the Doors and music in general is infectious and makes for great viewing.
This is why I subbed, I had a feeling he'd touch on another one of my other favorite bands besides Rush! As John or Robby has stated, we didn't have to make the 1st album we could have just made Strange Days. Oh and Soft Parade has a great remix without Horns and Strings, love it! 1. Strange Days, 2. The Doors, 3. LA Woman, 4. Soft Parade, 5. Waiting For The Sun and last Morrison Hotel.
1- L.A. Woman
2- The Doors
3- Waiting for the sun
4- Strange Days
5- Morrison Hotel
6- Soft Parade
Cool, same as mine!
Without doubt the most difficult ranking you could attempt. My rankings for the Doors change all the time. Every album are packed with classics.
Their debut album is one of the greatest albums of all time, in my humble opinion.
Good opinion
1. The Doors
1. Strange Days
1. Waiting for the Sun
1. The Soft Parade
1. Morrison Hotel
1. LA Woman
They are all #1 to me. Freaking LOVE The Doors.
"Come on baby, light my fire". An epic song. The Doors (debut) is their best album.
I like all the Doors albums except for The Soft Parade. The Soft Parade was released in 1969, a year when harder, grittier rock was coming to the forefront, but The Doors chose to make a record with songs that sounded like showtunes.
1. The Doors (1967)
2. Strange Days (1967)
3. Waiting for The Sun (1968)
4. L.A. Woman (1971)
5. Morrison Hotel (1970)
6. The Soft Parade (1969)
It'll be 50 years next year since Jim left this mortal sphere, half a century unbelievable how times flies, a great loss and way too short a career but what a legacy.
My top:
1: The doors
2: Morrison Hotel
3: Waiting for the Sun
4: People are strange
5: LA Woman
6: The soft parade
Special love to MORRISON HOTEL :)
I actually like Other Voices haha. My favorite Doors album is LA Woman. It is absolutely great.
I always thought Ray had a pretty awesome voice! Ships w/ Sails is one of my favorite Doors songs
Love your reviews. I’m not into your favorite styles at all, but when comes to these more broadly popular artists you really do it well.
5 - Waiting For The 🌞 Sun
4 - The Soft Parade
3 - Morrison Hotel
2 - L.A. Woman
1 - The Doors S/T (1967)
1. L.A.Woman
2. Morrison Hotel
3. Strange Days
4. The Soft Parade
5. The Doors (a lot is overplayed and I think The End gets dull as it goes).
6. Waiting For The Sun
I always had a soft spot for The Soft Parade. Not that acclaimed critically, but I think the use of horns and strings is really powerful. Title track is dynamic and great.
1. The Doors
2. LA Woman
3. Morrison Hotel
4. Strange Days
5. Soft Parade
6. Waiting for the sun
Great video, Pete! I haven't listened to the Doors albums minus Jim. I would imagine they missed Jim's voice and lyrics greatly. My order is not too different. A lot of material for just 5 years!
1. L.A. Woman;
2. Morrison Hotel;
3. The Doors;
4. Strange Days;
5. Waiting For The Sun;
6. Soft Parade.
I agree, they are all great however. Thanks for covering this, Pete!
My Top 8 Doors Albums.
8. Full Circle
7. Other Voices
6. The Soft Parade
5. Morrison Hotel
4. L.A. Woman
3. Waiting for the Sun
2. Strange Days
1. The Doors
No Other Doors Albums Can Beat That Debut Album.
American Prayer, Debut Album. L.A. Woman, Full Circle. I love them all.
Oooh, I've been waiting for this. One note: overlooking American Prayer was disappointing, but otherwise it's funny how personal preferences work. I would've ranked these differently 20 years ago. Anyway, as a 40 years-in Doors freak, this is my ranking of the six.
1) Morrison Hotel
2) LA Woman
3) The Doors
4) Waiting for the Sun
5) Strange Days
6) Soft Parade
Let's Go Guys almost 20K Subs... Pete deserves 1 Million because his passion for music is unreal. Makes me cry of happiness. Just wonderful! Can't wait for the next video- Love you Pete, Best Regards!
Their eponymous album is my favorite as I cannot think of any other group with such an amazing debut album. Lotsa bands take 2-3 albums to find their sound and hit their stride.
My list...
1. The Doors
2. L.A. Woman
3. Strange Days
4. Morrison Hotel
5. The Soft Parade
6. Other Voices
7. Waiting For The Sun
8.Full Circle
I own both of the post-Morrison albums and American Prayer and think that Other Voices and Full Circle should be included, though An American Prayer is more a poetry reading than music, so I didn't put it here. That's my take.
The Doors, L.A. Woman, Strange Days, Morrison Hotel, Waiting for the Sun (too psychedelic), The Soft Parade (overproduced).
Everybody is different but here's my choice.......
6. The Soft Parade
5. Morrison Hotel
4.Waiting for the Sun
3. The Doors
2. LA Woman
1. Strange Days
My own name for the music on Strange Days I call " Graveyard disco music 😏
It's poetically flawless, musically also and the two combine to give a very surreal and beautifully epic encounter within a world that is becoming more and more aesthetically grotesque by the day. Its genius, Morrison at his best!!!
The last three albums, 4 to 6 you could choose any at any number really but for me the first three albums are totally sublime. LA Woman proved just how good a band they were after going through what they did with the nationwide ban and trouble with the authorities and they produced it themselves. My favorite all time Band!!!
The Doors self-titled debut album has and will always be my #1 , i am constantly telling my friends, especially wanting to get back into vinyl, that i think the best way to experience the Doors' first album is to listen to it on vinyl, preferrably an original mono pressing, and you will instantly hear and learn why they were such a dark band, i'm still always amazed by it. of course that's my personal taste but i think experiencing it way carries weight for anyone wanting to try it that way ,as we all can hear it differently. and what a totally strong catalog for only these 6 albums!!! Morrison Hotel and L.A. Woman do change constantly for me for 2 & 3. Waiting for The Sun ,The Soft Parade and Strange Days continually flip-flop for me for 4,5 & 6.
Doors debut album; all killer, no filler.
Great channel!
1-Morrison Hotel
2-LA Woman
3-Doors
4-Soft Parade
5-Waiting for the Sun
6-Strange Days
So true that there’s very little separating the one from the six.
Probably the only band that I can list tracks in order, and lyrics.
My favorite band, with LZ, Stones, Morphine, and Guided by Voices.
Morrison Hotel celebrates its 50th anniversary in about 9 days!
Hi,
What 50th Anniversary as he died in 71'?
Regards Andy H
Sorry just realised Morrisn Hotel,
Bet there's a 50th Anniversary edition on all formats. 😉
Andy H
@@snakebite69 In 2070, there'll be a 50th anniversary edition of your inability to read.
@@SpaceCattttt LOL
1. The Doors
2. LA Woman
3. Morrison Hotel
4. Waiting For The Sun
5. Soft Parade
6. Strange Days
Very tough to rank these albums as none of them are better or worse by a wide margin. They're all fantastic!
One of the finest bands to grace this earth, with a killer studio album archive.
For me impossible to rank, as it depends on my mood on the day, as there is great musical range within the various releases.
When you too and tail between The Doors and L A Woman and only six all standout albums. Impossible.
If you took Yes as a counterpoint with a large catalogue, and a development of the band’s direction, and band member changes, this would, for me be easier to rank.
For instance their debut album was good and suggested better to come, which it did. Easier to rank.
When you take The Doors debut album, with killer track after track it still takes my breath away all these decades later. It was and is unbelievable.
Great ranking of your Doors albums/cd's! 🎤🎸🎵🥁
Hey, it's your show. You post what you want to. If anybody doesn't like it, let them get their own show. I'm enjoying all of these "Ranking the albums". I plan to listen to all of them eventually. Of course I'll have to listen to them on You Tube because there aren't any places in Southeast Alabama where I can buy them and I don't drive so I can't go anywhere very far.
I completely agree with you on how hard it is to rank them, Pete. Lots of great stuff on each of them.
When it comes to Soft Parade, which I love, would the album have been stronger with “Who Scared You?” in place of “Do It” or “Easy Ride”?
Haven’t heard the Morrison-less albums either, but of the proper Big 6, I’d rank/grade them as follows:
1. S/t- A+
2. Morrison Hotel- A
3. Strange Days- A
4. LA Woman- A-
5. Waiting For the Sun- A-
6. Soft Parade- B
Long time Doors fan here...love all the albums...funny thing, I ranked them all practically in the order they were released - almost....I'm not saying the quality of music was declining with each album...all were fantastic albums -- all classics! but I had to put ''The Soft Parade'' last...that was my least favorite album for sure...
1. The Doors
2. Strange Days
3. Waiting for the Sun
4. Morrison Hotel
5. LA Woman
6. The Soft Parade
My # 5 favorite band of all time. For me, there is not a single bad egg in the catalog. This was difficult. One of my hardest to rank. This is my list for today, probably different form last week, and will be different next week.1.Soft Parade 2.The Doors 3.Waiting For The Sun 4.Strange Days 5.Morrison Hotel 6.L.A.Woman 7. An American Prayer
I agree with you Pete tough to rank the Doors LPs. The first Doors album I ever owned was Doors 13 which was a greatest hits compilation of sorts. Sadly no longer available but I loved the mixture of songs on it. Listened to that album over and over again one summer years ago. Probably their debut album would be my number 1 if I had to pick but LA Woman a close second.
Picking out your favorite doors album is like picking out your favorite child. Their albums are so interchangeable, also they don't have any bad songs thier catalog is so neat and tidy.
1) Morrison Hotel
2) The Doors
3) Strange Days
4) LA Woman
5) Waiting for the Sun
6) Soft Parade
7) American Prayer
8) Full Circle
9) Other Voices
All of their albums are quality but the Debut is Defo the best!!
Thank you, Oliver Stone.
Wow, earlier today I was just hoping for a ranking of the doors album by you! I haven’t watch the video yet, but I already wish it was longer!
1.The Doors
2..LA Woman
3.Soft Parade
4.Morrison Hotel
5. Waiting for the sun
6. Strange days
Of course you can scramble 2 thru 6 on any given day depending what mood your in.
What about the Skynyrd albums with Ronnie Van Zant
06. Waiting for The Sun 05. The Soft Parade 04. Morrison Hotel 03. L.A. Woman 02. The Doors 01. Strange Days. Waiting for the Sun has some excellent tracks but I feel like it was compromised because it was meant to have a long track that they only wound up using a small part of and the Waiting for The Sun title track that was later revisited on Morrison Hotel. The recent deluxe edition of The Soft Parade made me enjoy the album more. I ended up making a custom mix of Touch Me by taking the orchestra free mix from the deluxe edition and editing in the sax solo from the surround sound mix.
I work a block from Sniffen court, Where the strange days cover was shot. Very swanky hidden st in NYC.
Best Doors compilation; Weird Scenes inside the Goldmine.
Best double album comp of ANY band. Brilliant song selections and sequences. It's said, that for maximum fidelity, record sides shouldn't be much longer than 20 minutes, but they managed to fit almost exactly 25 minutes on each side and it's just brilliant. Great artwork on the gatefold jacket as well.
I got into the Doors in the late eighties when I was a teenager. I agree that the six albums are almost on the same level but to me Morrison Hotel and The Soft Parade are the two that can’t keep up with the other four. My rating has always been the same, since the day I first heard them:
1. Strange Days
2. Waiting For The Sun
3. L.A.Woman
4. The Doors
5. The Soft Parade
6. Morrison Hotel
(Yes, I walked in an ugly Jim Morrison t-shirt from 1987 ‘til 1992)
#1 Waiting for the Sun #2 Morrison hotel # 3 Strange days # 4 LA Woman # 5 The Doors # 6 The Soft Parade. My favorite Doors songs are almost all of them in Waiting for the Sun.
Great choices / placements ! Hooked on my Soft Parade vinyl LP lately.
Love your channel!
I steer clear from anyone who is a big Doors fan. It's served me well over the years.
Love the band album rankings, Pete. Any chance you do Triumph's collection? Thanks!
Triumph is awesome.
@@joshuabennett3059 No doubt. I was heavy into Rush and Triumph, and an untold story that some might echo - some friends said they didn't like Rush or Triumph because of Geddy Lee and Rik Emmett's high pitched voices. They said it about Dennis DeYoung too. I told them liked good music, didn't matter. I listened to everything with blazing guitar work!
1. LA woman
2. Strange days
3. The doors
4. Waiting for the sun
5. Soft parade
6. Morrison Hotel.
I agree; so hard to choose...
Other Voices is ok. Only non-Jim album I have on vinyl. Still near the bottom of my list. At least it was just Robby and Ray sharing vocals, and not finding a new singer.
1. Morrison Hotel
2. L.A. Woman
3. S/T
4. Strange Days
5. Waiting For the Sun
6. The Soft Parade
Gotta love Morrison hotel...solid start to finish and more straightforward rock..not as weird as some of the earlier stuff
Ha! Waiting For The Sun is my #1.
First heard it while waiting for a girlfriend to get ready.
Knew all about Light My Fire and after hearing My Wild Love I was;
"What the hell is this?"
"If you don't like it, don't listen to it."
Went to work at a campground for the summer.
Owner's daughter had the album.
The bass run in Spanish Caravan inspired me to play guitar.
Funny how The Doors didn't have a bass player but they used four of them on Waiting For The Sun.
I love every song now.
L.A Woman and Strange Days are at the bottom of my list.
My The Doors album rankings (Studio albums from Morrison era only):
1. The Doors
2. L.A. Woman
3. Strange Days
4. Morrison Hotel
5. Waiting For The Sun
6. The Soft Parade
Nice one Pete. Every time I go back to the Doors they just get better and better. In the top six of greatest and most important American bands. They really captured the madness of their times and the dark underbelly of the late sixties and early seventies. You're right that they never made a poor album but I'd have to go with the first one and the last, L.A.Woman. I've always loved the debut (One of the greatest ever debuts) but it took me a long time to appreciate their swansong L.A.Woman. It's their generation coming to knowledge in its dissection of the SoCal dream and the ruins of 60s idealism. The Eagles would come back to it years later on Hotel California, but the Doors got there first. When you get to the great album covers show I'd throw in a couple of Doors entries: Strange Days, and Weird Scenes inside the Goldmine. Keep up the great shows...
I agree that it isn't all that easy to rank their albums.I like them all in different ways.The title track of The Soft Parade is one of my favorite Doors tracks.The last 2 minutes get so intense.
1.Strange Days
2.Waiting for the Sun
3.The Doors
4.L.A. Woman
5.The Soft Parade
6.Morrison Hotel
1. The Doors (for historical reason).
2. Waiting for the Sun (for musical/lyrical reason).
3. LA Woman
4. Strange Days
5. Morrison Hotel
6. The Soft Parade
My top:
1. The Doors
2. L.A. Woman
3. Strange Days
4. Waiting for the Sun
5. Morrison Hotel
6. The Soft Parade
Glad to see Pete do the DOORS! I became a big , big fan in high school, once i read the book No One Here Gets Out Alive. I drove an hour away to a college town to see a late night film on the DOORS, My high school friends, just didnt get it. Never get tired of the band, I even liked when they got Ian Astbury for the short time. Its weird when you think they only had 6 proper studio albums! when they rank along bands like Floyd, Purple, etc.
1)The Doors
2) Strange Days
3) Waiting for the Sun
4) Morrison Hotel
5) LA Woman
6) Soft Parade