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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
I have been listening to the first three stooges records for months now, and I have to be frank. They are each of them , maybe 30% crap. just plain crap. suck ass shit songs with suck ass riffs and suck ass stupid lyrics. so what? the 60-70% on each stooges album that is fucking GOLD makes up for it.
the doors are that way. Their albums are not transcendent. They are not perfect albums, but their songs are fucking amazing and hold up.
Morrisson was never claiming to be some stop-the-world poet. he wrote his poetry and put it to music with the doors. I find his poems atrocius, but then I find all poetry by his idols (Baudelaire, whoever) atrocious.
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I think what stops a lot of people in their tracks when it comes to The Doors is the manner in which they seemed to have been four different groups in the space of just 6 or 7 years, based solely on their 8 original studio albums alone.
The Doors and
Strange Days are art rock/proto new wave;
Waiting For The Sun (their least consistent album, due to its consisting of the remnants of 2 or 3 abandoned or Elektra-condemned projects) and
The Soft Parade are jazz-inflected big-time;
Morrison Hotel/The Hard Rock Cafe and
L.A. Woman lean towards blues and early rock 'n' roll; and
Other Voices and
Full Circle stand apart simply by virtue of the band having been reduced to a trio (they were also heading towards a Santana- or Focus-style fusion to a certain degree on those albums). In these jazz-hating times, people tend to think of them in the contexts of studio albums 3 and 4 and 7 and 8, and, as a result, get put off.