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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 19, 2020 0:58:44 GMT
Most of these didn't do a damned thing in the UK, of course, but whatever.
Jim stuff only.
"Break On Through (To the Other Side)" / "End of the Night" "Light My Fire" / "The Crystal Ship" "People Are Strange" / "Unhappy Girl" "Love Me Two Times" / "Moonlight Drive" "The Unknown Soldier" / "We Could Be So Good Together" "Hello, I Love You" / "Love Street" "Touch Me" / "Wild Child" "Wishful Sinful" / "Who Scared You?" "Tell All the People" / "Easy Ride" "Runnin' Blue" / "Do It" "You Make Me Real" / "Roadhouse Blues" "Love Her Madly" / "You Need Meat (Don't Go No Further)" "Riders on the Storm" / "Changeling"
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Post by loveless on Feb 19, 2020 1:04:22 GMT
LMF is undeniably #1. Strong ass B side too.
The Unknown Soldier is my second favorite - an unlikely single, but a really strong number with a great vocal.
The fact that they released four singles from Soft Parade tells you everything you need to know about how indifferent I'm gonna get after that.
People Are Strange, Love Me Two Times, Hello I Love You and Touch Me are also pretty great. And, Riders is a nice slow burn.
Dare I say it, so many of my favorites remained tucked away on albums.
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Post by Sneelock on Feb 19, 2020 1:14:13 GMT
Break on Through is A Number One.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2020 1:34:04 GMT
"Break On Through (To the Other Side)" / "End of the Night" "Love Me Two Times" / "Moonlight Drive" "Light My Fire" / "The Crystal Ship" "People Are Strange" / "Unhappy Girl" "The Unknown Soldier" / "We Could Be So Good Together" "You Make Me Real" / "Roadhouse Blues" "Riders on the Storm" / "Changeling" "Touch Me" / "Wild Child" "Love Her Madly" / "You Need Meat (Don't Go No Further)" "Hello, I Love You" / "Love Street"
"Wishful Sinful" / "Who Scared You?" "Runnin' Blue" / "Do It" "Tell All the People" / "Easy Ride"
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Post by osgood on Feb 19, 2020 9:53:24 GMT
I was not aware of their singles, certainly the selection of the material is great most of the times.
"Light My Fire" / "The Crystal Ship" Top of the class, killer A and B, best tracks on the album
"Break On Through (To the Other Side)" / "End of the Night" Just slightly below, but again both tracks are superb
"Riders on the Storm" / "Changeling" Riders is my fave track on LA Woman, but Changeling always sounded rather annoying to these old ears. "Love Her Madly" / "You Need Meat (Don't Go No Further)" A side is wonderful, but that B side sounds like theyr'e killing time in the studio (probably it's exactly that) "You Make Me Real" / "Roadhouse Blues" Another good one, except they should have flipped sides.
"People Are Strange" / "Unhappy Girl" A nice pair, B side is a hidden gem. "Love Me Two Times" / "Moonlight Drive" Best tracks on the album "The Unknown Soldier" / "We Could Be So Good Together" Nice A but rather crappy B "Hello, I Love You" / "Love Street" B is fuckin' ace, A is just ok
Then we have four(!) singles off The Soft Parade, dog knows why. To the bottom they go.
"Touch Me" / "Wild Child" "Wishful Sinful" / "Who Scared You?" "Tell All the People" / "Easy Ride" "Runnin' Blue" / "Do It"
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 19, 2020 16:33:01 GMT
I love these two A-sides equally:
"Light My Fire" / "The Crystal Ship" = "Touch Me" / "Wild Child"
The first is archetypal Doors with THEE most evocative, beautiful mid-section (is it silly to say it actually sounds like fire?), and the other, like it's from a completely different band. They'd gone from dark, druggy underground band to Vegas showmen in two years! But those chord changes, the horn section (I'm always a sucker for a horn section - and there's a SAX SOLO too!), Morrison's vocal, the fist-pumping 'STRONGER THAN DIRT' ending - pure 60s mad magic, just glorious. And incidentally, one of the greatest TV appearances of a band ever
Didn't Krieger write both songs? Hell of a job if he did! And very nice B-sides too
I like both sides of this one about the same:
"Love Me Two Times" / "Moonlight Drive"
the A-side is a bit tougher and bluesier than a lot of their early material, and the harpsichord really adds something special (as does the slide guitar on 'Moonlight Drive'). And again, those fancy chord changes (maybe a Krieger trademark). That strong DOORS smell there, embedded in every groove
love this A-side:
"Love Her Madly" / "You Need Meat (Don't Go No Further)"
the band really are cooking, all playing their part (you sense sometimes that Ray wants to start diddling all over the keyboard but they rein the old man in), more of that Am-C-F-Em-G (ah, you know what I mean) Krieger stuff, Morrison's vocal had changed (not worse, just different - and still great)
these three singles are all similarly great to me:
"People Are Strange" / "Unhappy Girl" "The Unknown Soldier" / "We Could Be So Good Together" "Hello, I Love You" / "Love Street"
'We Could Be...' sounds just like the Seeds! I guess it's the keyboard (I know the Seeds wanted to sound like the Doors, but this seems to go the other way). I'm with JSJ on 'The Unknown Soldier' (it's kind of an 'event' single, if you get me, with a really great vocal). 'Unhappy Girl' has a backwards rhythm section, doesn't it? And 'Hello I Love You' is I think the first song of theirs I heard, and I love the fuzz bass and the extended fade with all the talky bits
these two A-sides are a lot of people's favourites but I've never been that wowed by them, they seem preoccupied with setting a mood at the expense of good songwriting. They're pretty good tho'
"Break On Through (To the Other Side)" / "End of the Night" "Riders on the Storm" / "Changeling"
these two are OK:
"Tell All the People" / "Easy Ride" "Runnin' Blue" / "Do It"
not interested
"Wishful Sinful" / "Who Scared You?" "You Make Me Real" / "Roadhouse Blues"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2020 18:36:28 GMT
I'm kinda surprised they never released Soul Kitchen or Alabama Song as singles.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 19, 2020 18:42:06 GMT
Or 'L.A. Woman'!
Maybe some of them were, in some countries.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Feb 19, 2020 19:53:41 GMT
Roughly...
"Break On Through (To the Other Side)" / "End of the Night" "Light My Fire" / "The Crystal Ship" "Touch Me" / "Wild Child"
"Tell All the People" / "Easy Ride" "People Are Strange" / "Unhappy Girl" "Love Me Two Times" / "Moonlight Drive" "The Unknown Soldier" / "We Could Be So Good Together"
"Hello, I Love You" / "Love Street" "You Make Me Real" / "Roadhouse Blues" "Love Her Madly" / "You Need Meat (Don't Go No Further)" "Riders on the Storm" / "Changeling"
"Wishful Sinful" / "Who Scared You?"
"Runnin' Blue" / "Do It"
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Post by Charlie O. on Jul 12, 2020 2:56:21 GMT
"Break On Through (To the Other Side)" / "End of the Night" What a mission statement! I have to assume that the only reason it wasn't a monster hit was because radio was scared to play it."Light My Fire" / "The Crystal Ship" Irresistible - I like the single edit of "Fire" just as much as the stretched out album version, if not more. But it's really the B-side that puts this in this spot (as opposed to a lower one) for me."Wishful Sinful" / "Who Scared You?" Yeah, I said it. "Wishful" is mind-bendingly gorgeous, and "Scared", despite a few lazy lines, would have made The Soft Parade substantially stronger."Hello, I Love You" / "Love Street" A sentimental favorite. It was a hit when I was not yet three years old, and I remember hearing it on Top 40 radio. At least one local station re-added The Kinks' three-and-a-half-year-old "All Day And All Of The Night" to their rotation, in recognition of a certain musical similarity; I've adored both songs ever since. (No one, including me, seemed to notice that the bass riff at the end was cribbed from "Hungry" by Paul Revere & The Raiders!) More trivia: early US pressings show the song title as "Hello, I Love You, Won't You Tell Me Your Name?"; also, it was among the first high profile stereo 45 releases. Oh, "Love Street" is nice enough - works better as an album track, I reckon."People Are Strange" / "Unhappy Girl" "Love Me Two Times" / "Moonlight Drive" Both killer A-side/B-side match-ups. Like "Paint It Black" it's funny to think of a song like "People Are Strange" making the Top 10. Strange days, indeed."The Unknown Soldier" / "We Could Be So Good Together" Ballsy."Runnin' Blue" / "Do It" Humor me. Though I hadn't heard it I asked my dad to buy me this when I was four because I remembered "Hello, I Love You" and especially because I liked the Doors logo. Neither side had any business being on a 45, but I kinda like 'em. Especially the B-side - a brazen throwaway thanks to James Douglas, but by gum the music cooks."Touch Me" / "Wild Child" It works."You Make Me Real" / "Roadhouse Blues" Another odd choice of A-side, but I like it a lot (there's at least one live version that's better, though), and the B-side kicks. Like osgood said, it would have made more sense with the sides flipped."Love Her Madly" / "You Need Meat (Don't Go No Further)" Not a big L.A. Woman fan, but I have a soft spot for "Madly" - and I prefer it in its shortened-for-Top 40 form. The B-side is meh. "Riders on the Storm" / "Changeling" Another meh B-side, and an A-side I like but I'm kinda tired of (regardless of length). "Tell All the People" / "Easy Ride" The two Soft Parade tracks I really dislike on one crappy mini-platter. Gosh, thanks, Elektra!Honorable (?) mention - my favorite post-Jim single:
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jul 12, 2020 15:02:21 GMT
Wow, how much better those Jimbo-less tunes could have been if they had only hired Iggy!
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Post by Charlie O. on Jul 14, 2020 4:09:11 GMT
I just realized: Other Voices, the first Jim-less Doors album, came out a mere three and a half months after Jim's death!
I guess I knew they'd started working on it after he went to Paris - expecting he'd come back and finish it with them...
Still - jeez, the body was barely cold!
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