Why do people like this band?

Why do people like this band?
It's just generic blues/psychedelic rock with Jim Morrison's pretentious psuedo-poetic lyrics and annoying voice. Am I missing something? Or are Doors fans just retarded?
I'll go listen to the Velvet Underground or the Stooges over this shit

No, you are right. Its a shit band,

>not breaking on through to the other side

Their sound, a fierce blues-rock far more mature than the shy beat in circulation at the time, catapulted them to the top: the exuberant organ played by Manzarek (that also served as bass and chorus), the neat, dreamy, hallucinogenic, typically West Coast guitar of Krieger and the bluesy fiber in the fabric of Densmore's drumming sound, created the suggestive backdrop to which Morrison added with his cavernous voice continual references to darkness, void, oblivion and death. His sensational sermons shocked and enlightened the existentially damned. Like many of the Bay Area, Doors concerts also became actual "acid tests", during which the band rambled and stretched blues classics to the limit.

The Doors were offered a contract in the summer of 1966. The following January their first album, The Doors (Elektra, 1967) was released and was accepted enthusiastically by those who had followed them underground.

The album is the outcome of the fusion of six elements of highly suggestive potential: the coarse skin-tight twitch of blues-rock (sealed by the obsessive beat of Densmore); a personalized baroque interpretation of psychedelia (trademark of the fatuous and eclectic Manzarek's organ that varies from sluggish swing to a peeling of the bells onto majestic liturgical swirls); an accurate plan of exotic infection (Latin and Hawaiian flavors in Krieger's guitar), the seducing and sinister voice of Morrison, the evangelic charm of his personality and the shocking value of his lyrics, halfway between Greek tragedies and Freudian psychoanalysis.

>he still hasn't been shown the way to the next whisky bar

So it's blues rock with pretentious lyrics
Really don't get why the old duck calls the Doors a masterpiece, but he has shit taste all around.

>he hasn't taken it as it comes

love that pic of serj

Please find some blues/psych bands from 1967 that had The Doors' sound.

>he hasn't taken the highway to the end of the night

Please find a Doors song that isn't shit
It's all boring crap

Nobody needed that. I agree with you to the end, but this is either a shitpost or autism.

you are trying so hard

Poorest bait I've seen, ever.

Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
Back Door Man
Been Down So Long
Blue Sunday
Break On Through (To The Other Side)
Cars Hiss By My Window
End Of The Night
Five To One
Hello I Love You
Horse Latitudes
Hyacinth House
Indian Summer
L'America
L.A. Woman
Land Ho
Light My Fire
Love Her Madly
Love Me Two Times
Love Street
Maggie M'Gill
Moonlight Drive
My Eyes Have Seen You
Not To Touch The Earth
Peace Frog
People Are Strange
Queen Of The Highway
Riders On The Storm
Roadhouse Blues
Runnin' Blue
Shaman's Blues
Ship Of Fools
Soul Kitchen
Spanish Caravan
Strange Days
Take It As It Comes
Tell All The People
The Changeling
The Crystal Ship
The End
The Mosquito
The Soft Parade
The Unknown Soldier
The WASP (Texas Radio and The Big Beat)
Touch Me
Twentieth Century Fox
Unhappy Girl
Waiting For The Sun
When The Music's Over
Wild Child
Yes, The River Knows

>generic
this is why millennials shouldn't be allowed to share their opinions on anything in the arts. you have no knowledge of context

Said the user that copy pasted shit Scaruffi wrote
Why are Doors fans so insufferable
All shit
Nigga listen to more garage rock
Specifically bands like Them
Also hi dad

Hey woah there let's not generalize. I am a millennial. I fucking hate everyone around me for being retarded and uncultured, but I am still a millennial. Well I guess that makes me an outlier and irrelevant though, huh? Either way this post is autistic, obvious shitpost. Doors has THE most unique sound in the era. Nobody sounded like The Doors, or even came close to capturing their sound.

Nope, wasn't me with the Scaruffi thing.

>Specifically bands like Them
they never made a song like the end. and they were mediocre

Great job you bought into the hype
And no in a world where the Velvet Underground exists the Doors are not the most unique sound of their time
I never get an explanation of WHY the Doors are great beyond basic "they have their own sound" or "dude drugs and scary visions wool"
I believe ya

Like the Doors?

>nu-male can't into the doors

Nobody sounds like the doors today, manzarek was just too much, even my mom and my retarded 10 yeard old nephew can recognize a doors song 100 miles away.

Still fucking NICKELBACK tier bait. I've listened to their discography because I'm just a poser fag, right? Okay sagesagesage there's no reason to be here, you're obviously really autistic to be this persistent with such meager bait.

???
Why do Doors fans always freak out when you insult their favorite band?
Nobody explained to me why the Doors are so great.

see

Already did
Still don't see it, and it doesn't help that Scaruffi (or his translator) is shit at writing
Explain what YOU like so much about the Doors.

i like the unique combination of the four members. densmore's great jazzy drumming, krieger (although his playing was better on Strange Days), Manzarek's keyboards and Morrison's voice. i've listened to a lot of psychedelic rock but i think the way the Doors did it is pretty unique. in their prime, they were also pretty versatile. the debut has catchy pop songs (I Looked at You, Break on Through), blues (Back Door Man) and extended psychedelic improvisations.

also if you're just trying the first album, the production may be off putting. the stereo mix is pretty shit with the hard panning and IIRC the only mono that exists is the original vinyl rip because the tapes were lost and couldn't be remastered.

what psychedelic rock from the time period do you like?

>Complains about Morrison's "annoying" voice
>Would rather listen to Lou Reed instead
top kek

I don't really like any psychedelic rock from that time period. I've tried and tried but none of it ever sticks with me

You do realize the Stooges wouldn't exist without the Doors, right? They were incredibly influenced by them, and Iggy initially modeled himself off of Jim's stage antics. There first album is basically them playing as a Doors tribute band, I mean just look at the cover

I know that, that's why I checked out the Doors
But I really prefer Funhouse and Raw Power to their s/t which has like 3 good songs