L.A. Woman

While their earlier output is weed music, L.A Woman is clearly booze blues. And it's not some cold beer on a hot noon weekend, no, no, no. This is dark arts music. The "heavy blinding, alcohol mixed with god knows what in your system" music.

With that in mind, don't come here looking for some cogent musical expression. This album is made for vibing. Jim's lyrics are incoherent, some may say poetic (to an extent), the music is moving, and the whole thing has a lot of character to it, even if it has some duds sprinkled in, and some trademark "Jim Question Marks".

L.A. Woman ist das letzte große Aufbäumen einer Band, die im Chaos ihre Klarheit findet. Die Doors klingen hier frei, wild, ungefiltert: bluesgetränkt, staubig, voller Straßenlicht und Nachtluft. „Riders on the Storm“ schwebt wie ein Gewitter über dem Album, „L.A. Woman“ selbst ist ein fiebriger, endlos rollender Trip durch die Stadt.🥲

It's hard to beat a Doors album. Almost gotta do it with another Doors album, you know?

Cudowne, z resztą ponownie, zestawienie tej płyty z pogodą. Idealne, szare i deszczowe sobotnie popołudnie spędzone z tą płytą. I o dziwo, bardzo spodobało się małżonce, która przecież "nie słucha płyt". Zatem dzisiaj ocenę wystawia ktoś inny, aczkolwiek z moim pełnym poparciem. Wspaniała płyta.

Many listens. I enjoy the singles and the more “Doors-y” songs to the straight up blues tunes. L.A. Woman is one of my favorite songs of theirs.

It's a blues album with Riders on the Storm at the end. Did I need to listen to it after the previous two? I don't think so. It's very well produced but Rather listen to Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters. 3/5.

god i do not need to listen to more blues

Dacht dat ik dit album minimaal zo goed zou vinden als self-titled, maar dit valt vies tegen. Echt een paar snoozers van jawelste, en dat tikt aan met 10 nummers. Riders on the storm is uiteraard fenomenaal.

I like Riders on the Storm, but the rest is fairly mid.

3 of the songs I knew from hearing on classic rock radio way too many times. I struggle with bluesy stuff, I just don’t like it. Riders on the Storm brings it up a bit though.

standardna dorsovska solidnost

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.

I'm usually not a big fan of blues rock from this era but something about the psychedelia and the vocals elevates it for me.

Best: L'America, Riders on the Storm

'But I never been so broke that I couldn't leave town.' Final albums - & yes, this is the last record The Doors ever released b/c w/o Morrison counts for naught - are about as inconsistent in terms of quality as this group was for their tenure. Turns out The Doors were in the right mood for this one, a last gasp that's more a deep, confident breath in than a gasping for the original magic of a debut. 'I said warden, warden, warden / Won't you break your lock & key.' Not bluesy, nope, tracks like 'Been Down So Long' & 'Cars Hiss by My Window' are the real-deal blues, but this got funk, soul, psychedelia, + that Doors signature grit & smoothness that makes them the imperfect tho essential sixties act: range, I mean. Black Sabbath nearly ('L'America').

i want to be a hater but this album is undeniably pretty good. it's yet another mid-century white guy rock band appropriating the blues, but a pretty good one of those. jim morrison calling himself "mr. mojo risin'" because it's an anagram of his own name is genuinely insufferable. but the song he does it in is still pretty good.

highlights: love her madly, been down so long, cars hiss by my window, l.a. woman, hyacinth house, riders on the storm

could easily bump this up to a 4 or down to a 2 depending on my mood.

#previously listened (partial)

Solid record, not my favourite band of the 60s but they have a few good tracks here

Loved the Doors as a kid. Haven't really given them much run-time in years though. This is a solid album. The Changeling into Love Her Madly is just a great way to kick this off. Really nice blues basis throughout. fewer jazzy elements than previous releases makes this a little more accessible.

Pretty good, but pretty one-note. I find that a lot of blues rock sounds the same to me. But this album kinda makes up for that by way of virtuosity, cool guitar work, and a killer rhythm section. This is my first time hearing Jim Morrison's vocals, and he better sound far more interesting in the other Doors albums, because he sounds just dead tired here. Like he's constantly about to pass out. The latter half of the album is pretty great!

A very good album, obviously. The Doors sound had definetely evolved at this point to incorporate more Jazz-like elements and had moved away a bit from Psychedelia. This feels like one of those great albums for road trips, especially with songs like L.A. Woman and Love Her Madly. One or two songs here don’t do as much for me, but on the whole it’s probably one of my top Doors albums.

Better than Coldplay