Artist	Song
The Doors	Break On Through
The Doors	Moonlight Drive
The Doors	Waiting For The Sun
The Doors	L.A. Woman
The Doors	Indian Summer
The Doors	Peace Frog
The Doors	I Looked At You
The Doors	Riders On The Storm
The Doors	Touch Me
The Doors	Hyacinth House
The Doors	Take It As It Comes
The Doors	Strange Days
The Doors	When The Music's Over
The Doors	Hello, I Love You
The Doors	Shaman's Blues
The Doors	People Are Strange
The Doors	The Wasp (Texas Radio & The Big Beat)
The Doors	The E_nd

Comment:

I'm never quite sure whether the Doors should count as a guilty pleasure or not. While they were hugely popular in their day, and remain a classic rock radio mainstay, critics (and particularly those with hipster cred) seem pretty divided on whether they are a band worthy of continued admiration or a bloated, pretentious joke. I personally waver. There's a lot to dislike. Even setting aside the cult of Jim Morrison, you've got lyrics that range from the hysterically overwrought to the hopelessly banal, some keyboards that often verge into headache territory, and music that often relies on stale blues riffs. Still, Morrison's baritone is one of the most striking in rock (alongside Joy Division's Ian Curtis), some of the poppier tunes are inarguably timeless, and some of the longer, jammier tunes (helped out by Krieger's underrated guitar lines and, yes, sometimes even Manzarke's keyboards) are hypnotically compelling. Plus, sonically, the albums (released in various remastered iterations) sound much, much better than almost anything else recorded at that time. So, on balance, I can easily handpick 80 minutes that, for all the fm radio overplay, I still enjoy hearing (in moderation).

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