Rob Conroy

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Another flashing chance at bliss (2 CDs)

Side A
Artist Song
The Doors  Break on Through (To the Other Side) 
The Doors  Soul Kitchen 
The Doors  The Crystal Ship 
The Doors  Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) 
The Doors  Light My Fire 
The Doors  Back Door Man 
The Doors  Take It as It Comes 
The Doors  The End 
The Doors  Indian Summer [8/19/66 version] 
The Doors  People Are Strange 
The Doors  Unhappy Girl 
The Doors  Strange Days 
The Doors  You're Lost, Little Girl 
The Doors  Love Me Two Times 
The Doors  Horse Latitudes 
The Doors  Moonlight Drive 
The Doors  My Eyes Have Seen You 
The Doors  When the Music's Over 
The Doors  Spanish Caravan 
The Doors  Love Street 
The Doors  Wintertime Love 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
The Doors  Not to Touch the Earth 
The Doors  Touch Me 
The Doors  Wild Child 
The Doors  The Soft Parade 
The Doors  You Make Me Real 
The Doors  Roadhouse Blues 
The Doors  The Spy 
The Doors  Peace Frog 
The Doors  Ship of Fools 
The Doors  Land Ho! 
The Doors  Queen of the Highway 
The Doors  Love Hides/Five to One [live] 
The Doors  Universal Mind [live] 
The Doors  Dead Cats, Dead Rats [live] 
The Doors  Love Her Madly 
The Doors  L.A. Woman 
The Doors  The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) 
The Doors  Riders on the Storm 

Comment:

It's time for me to come out of the closet: after years of near-hostile ambivalence, I've decided that I like the Doors quite a bit. There's certainly no excuse for the Cult of Morrison (who was pretty much a belligerent, pretentious and drunken blowhard as a human being, at least by most accounts, and whose lyrics are frequently embarrassing) or for Ray Manzarek's post-Doors life as a perennial talking head on "History of Rock" docs proclaiming Jim to be a "shaman" (his keyboard sound can grate on the nerves, as well). But with all of that said, they wrote quite a few very-good-to-great songs (too many to fit onto one CD, at least as far as I'm concerne), John Densmore and Robby Krieger are both great, and Jim did have a pretty cool rock croon/bellow. Last tracks cut: "Who Do You Love [live]," "Twentieth Century Fox," "The Changeling," "Waiting for the Sun," "Hello I Love You," and "We Could Be So Good Together."

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The Midnight Moonlight Records
Date: 7/10/2008
Nothing wrong with The Doors man. Great group, but yes very overrated in rock and roll. I am a fan of The Doors in fack just listened to them over the 4th of July weekend. My friend had some weed that I havent smoked for 3 years. Everybody else went to bed around 1am. So we sat up listening to some of The Doors albums. The will make you trip and they did love the blues!! :) R.I.P - Jim Morrison......
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hemizen
Date: 7/10/2008
The Doors are welcome anytime.
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mahdishain
Date: 7/10/2008
no closet for me, loved the doors in high school and though i've moved on i can still appreciate them.
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p the swede
Date: 7/10/2008
I know what you mean, after that horrible Oliver Stone movie and that hype, I couldn't hear a Doors tune for years. Nowadays I lika the one when Jim is softest
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KathrynandRupert
Date: 7/11/2008
I liked them 20 years ago but with the odd exception, L.A. Woman and Touch Me, I find them unlistenable. I can't really explain why. Anyway you've included my two acceptable tracks.
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xim of the tra
Date: 7/11/2008
L.A. Woman is a bad ass tune, I find that guy unlistenable.
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Pop Kulcher
Date: 7/11/2008
Once again, I am wholly with you Rob, every step of the way -- went through an extended period of viewing them as just another classic rock band who I knew inside and out from a lifetime of radio listening but really never felt compelled to go out of my way to hear (see also, e.g., Led Zeppelin, Clapton, Hendrix), with intermittent period of active dislike (for the very reasons you cite -- Morrison's lyrics, Morrison's personality, Manzarek's keyboards). Yet as I mellow with old age, I'm finding a lot to like in their back catalog (personal faves would be The End, Peace Frog, WASP, and Riders). Plus, more so than a lot of music from the late 60s, the recordings sound truly amazing today, and remastering brings out a shimmer to the music that obscures hopelessly hokey lizard imagery.
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Mesh
Date: 7/11/2008
I don't think I'll ever deny the musicianship of Manzarek, Densmore, and Krieger, but I confess I find myself in a rather Anti-Morrison mode at the moment, with the exception of very, very few tracks that have to hit me at the right time.
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sammyg123
Date: 7/12/2008
Good Songs, a tad overrated. I remember at age 14 borrowing a Best of Doors and a Best of Hendrix on tape from a school pal. Shortly after I was ill with a bout of tonsilitis, and listened to these 2 tapes to pass the time. As a consequence both these artists remind me of feeling sick!
Favourite here is Peace Frog - that track wasn't on the tape!
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doowad
Date: 7/12/2008
I agree with all picks here, looks a lot like the Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine collection I listened to in the days when I didn't say no. I'm pleased to see the old warhorses (The End & When the Music's Over) here as well as the four I rattled off the top of my head in my email. Touch Me is the only downer for me, but you more than make up for it with Love Street and The Spy (doowadette's middle name is AnaA_s).On a personal note, I saw a guy in the Nuevo Laredo bus station when I was 16 who sure looked like the old acid freak lizard king hisself with his knees jerkin' and eyes twitchin', if Pamela did as Sugerman suggested she did, that is.
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avocado rabbit
Date: 7/12/2008
I can't imagine how anyone could deny the huge influence of The Doors on rock's golden era. Sometimes, our problems come from knowing too much about the personal lives of the musicians (or actors, athletes). That's the unfortunate aspect of the Information Age.
Great closer with Riders on the Storm, by the way.
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anthony lombardi
Date: 7/12/2008
in my mind, pretty much one of the two or three most overrated bands in the history of recorded sound (maybe the most overrated, but i won't split hairs here), & the cult of jim probably turns me off to their music more than it normally would had they just released the amount of dreck that they did. couldn't agree with you more on jim's drunken buffoonishness & the banality of his pretentious pseudo-poetry, or the ear-piercing faux-fushion of manzarek's keyboards. with that being said, however, i did grow up with them, & i concur that jim had a pretty damn cool rock croon - even if 90% of what he uttered was total horse shit. i count their first album as an almost-classic, but after that they're really spotty, though the moments where they were good they truly did shine.
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your name here
Date: 7/12/2008
A very spirited debate. The Doors were definately loved or hated, with small middle who could go either way (like me.)

I agree with Pop Kulchur, classic rock radio may be the real culprit here, beating the crap out any significance the songs may have had, and "hero worship" aspect of it all. During the grungy 90's, I refused to listen to any classic rock radio at all. It was after listening to these artists in their entire albums, I truly started to appreciate them.
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SMoss
Date: 7/12/2008
why guilty? Just because they had some mediocre songs, Morrison was too self-destructive, and they have been overplayed on the radio, most of these songs are masterpieces. I loved the Doors. The only song I don't like on here is Soft Parade.
I'll disagree with Anthony and say that Morrison Hotel was another masterpiece after their first album
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Vinz Clortho Keymaster of Gozer
Date: 12/14/2008
I'm glad to see you've mellowed on these guys. I recall you being pretty harsh to them on your single artist mix a few years back. Having said that, it's been a very long time since I've gone through any kind of Doors phase, although they were incredibly influential on me in my teen years. I keep meaning to revisit them and see how these songs sound to me now. "Strange Days" was always my favorite album. Great vibe and much clearer sound than the debut.
Bit of trivia for you, Rob: I met John Densmore at a convocation at my university in the mid-'90s...and the guy was an incredible jerk.