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If you like The Doors, then maybe check out a Canadian band called The Tea Party. They are a bit more hard-rock, and are also influenced by Led Zepplin, but the singer sounds a bit Jim Morrisonish...
 
Schism said:
In 2007, that may be a valid comment. It's all been done, and it's hard to be original without being quirky. In the Doors era though?Please..
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I think The Door's music was unique enough for it's time.

With their strong emphasis on keyboard interaction with the guitar i'm not sure too many other bands of the time had that going on in such a successful way.

Unless you can dip into your fountain of knowledge and come up with some examples?

There's no mistaking a Doors song through it's sound and voice, but how many other bands sound like them of the time?
 

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AndSmithMustScore said:
I think The Door's music was unique enough for it's time.

With their strong emphasis on keyboard interaction with the guitar i'm not sure too many other bands of the time had that going on in such a successful way.

Unless you can dip into your fountain of knowledge and come up with some examples?

There's no mistaking a Doors song through it's sound and voice, but how many other bands sound like them of the time?
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Deep Purple
 
"The Doors?? Jim Morrison's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet! Gimme the Guess Who. They've got the courage to be drunken buffoons... which makes them poetic!!"

Add me to the list of those who call them overrated. Not that I don't own all their albums, or enjoy their songs on more than the odd occasion.

There's just a part of me that doesn't just think, there's a part of me that knows that the only reason they're as popular as they are is because Jim Morrison was such a knob and when he went and got himself killed it secured the band's immortality. Same thing applies to heaps of people - Joplin, Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Jeff Buckley (especially Jeff Buckley). These people had such good starts to their careers that they weren't given the opportunity to show us how much they could suck, which they inevitably would have. (After all, McCartney, Lennon, the Stones, Neil Young, Springsteen, Dylan and all the other greats have sucked at one time or another during their careers).

But to me, Morrison was a fraud. I don't find his lyrics insightful or intruiging. His voice could be powerful, and there's no denying he had a presence about him, but to me he wasn't even the most important member of his band.

Fire away boys... fire away!
 
UpForGrabs said:
"The Doors?? Jim Morrison's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet! Gimme the Guess Who. They've got the courage to be drunken buffoons... which makes them poetic!!"

Add me to the list of those who call them overrated. Not that I don't own all their albums, or enjoy their songs on more than the odd occasion.

There's just a part of me that doesn't just think, there's a part of me that knows that the only reason they're as popular as they are is because Jim Morrison was such a knob and when he went and got himself killed it secured the band's immortality. Same thing applies to heaps of people - Joplin, Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Jeff Buckley (especially Jeff Buckley). These people had such good starts to their careers that they weren't given the opportunity to show us how much they could suck, which they inevitably would have. (After all, McCartney, Lennon, the Stones, Neil Young, Springsteen, Dylan and all the other greats have sucked at one time or another during their careers).

But to me, Morrison was a fraud. I don't find his lyrics insightful or intruiging. His voice could be powerful, and there's no denying he had a presence about him, but to me he wasn't even the most important member of his band.

Fire away boys... fire away!
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It's not all about Jim.

I, like more than a few people, like the Doors for Ray Manzarek's work.

Maybe I'm on my own but I actually appreciate keyboards in a band so i am a big fan of 60's keyboard men in Manzarek, Manfred Mann, Alan Price etc..
 
To compare them to Deep Purple is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen, bye bye credibility!
 

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UpForGrabs said:
Same thing applies to heaps of people - Joplin, Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Jeff Buckley (especially Jeff Buckley).
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One of the more ridiculous statements I have seen.
Especially Jeff Buckley?:rolleyes:
 
Crissy_v said:
...but I've never really listened to 'The Doors' before, and after just a few songs I'm certainly a fan. Brilliant, Genius are just some words that spring to mind when describing them. If only Jim was with for just a bit longer.

Anywho they now join 'The Coral' and 'Dungen' as one of my favourite Psych Rock bands.
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Good news! Waiting For The Sun is my fave Doors album, 5 to 1 my fave track also Touch Me, Wintertime Love, Spanish Caravan and of course Riders On The Storm.

Happy listening!
 
AndSmithMustScore said:
I can vaguely hear it, but it's not a very strong link.
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Re: All Day and All of the Night v Hello I Love You - I thought that sounded familiar. It's one of those subliminal similarities like A Day in the Life v Hush.

Anyway, the Doors have some great songs. Five to One is awesome and I like the way it was used on The Takeover by Jay-Z.
 
Schism said:
Oh you're one of those people.Well, i've never picked up a musical instrument in my life.

So i need to have played AFL to form the opinion that Jonathan Brown is good and Ian Perrie isn't?
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You have ears and eyes don't you?

It's not hard to listen to a song, then go read up on its background and bingo you have some knowledge in ya noggin on the matter.

To say you have knowledge on football simply means you know Brown is a far better player than Perrie.

To suggest otherwise would be tant amount to saying The Doors and Deep Purple sound the same.
 
AndSmithMustScore said:
You have ears and eyes don't you?

It's not hard to listen to a song, then go read up on its background and bingo you have some knowledge in ya noggin on the matter.

To say you have knowledge on football simply means you know Brown is a far better player than Perrie.

To suggest otherwise would be tant amount to saying The Doors and Deep Purple sound the same.
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Why would i bother to look up the history of something i don't like? So i can come on a forum with my googled factoids and wiki'd tidbits and vie for the "king of the douche bags" title with self declared musical demi-gods?
 
Schism said:
Why would i bother to look up the history of something i don't like? So i can come on a forum with my googled factoids and wiki'd tidbits and vie for the "king of the douche bags" title with self declared musical demi-gods?
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:eek: OUCH!

:D

I wasn't having a go at you in my post about Zep.

:)
 

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