Line #14 YMMV/TheDoors


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Pretty much all of it.
2	** Specifically, the debut album, ''Morrison Hotel'', and ''Music/LAWoman''.
3	** Let's not forget ''Music/StrangeDays'' either. And while ''Waiting for the Sun'' and ''The Soft Parade'' are generally considered somewhat more uneven, even they have their moments ("The Unknown Soldier", "Five to One", "Touch Me", "The Soft Parade" and others are rightly considered classics).
4	** "The End" and "When the Music's Over", from ''[[Music/TheDoorsAlbum The Doors]]'' and ''Music/StrangeDays'' respectively. Two tracks over ten minutes long, and both are considered some of the best songs, if not the best songs, of The Doors.
5	* EpicRiff: Frequently provided by keyboardist Ray Manzarek ("Light My Fire", "Peace Frog", "Soul Kitchen", "The Changeling", "Riders on the Storm", "When the Music's Over") and guitarist Robby Krieger ("The End", "Roadhouse Blues", "Peace Frog", "Love Her Madly", "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", "Hello, I Love You", "Love Me Two Times", "L.A. Woman"), and in an odd bass example for a band known for not having a bassist as part of their main line-up, you're lying if you say the bass riff to "Riders on the Storm" doesn't give you chills.
6	* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: "The Soft Parade" could be interpreted as a StealthInsult against organized religion, with numerous examples of sacred imagery (both Christian and pagan) and its veiled references to the supposed complicity of religion in propping up the corrupted status quo: "All our lives we sweat and save / Building for a shallow grave / Must be something else we say / Somehow to defend this place / Everything must be this way...." As Morrison was heavily influenced by Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, this is a fairly plausible interpretation.
7	* FirstInstallmentWins: Their first album is considered their masterpiece, though ''Music/StrangeDays'' and ''Music/LAWoman'' are fairly well-liked as well.
8	* FountainOfMemes: "Light My Fire" survived far beyond its original context, being covered many times and sometimes by very unusual musicians. There was the Latin-flavored José Feliciano version (which rivaled the original in popularity and radio play), a 1930s-style "cabaret" version by a then-elderly Creator/MaeWest (!), a slower BaroquePop version by Music/TheFreeDesign, and a disco mix in the late 1970's by Ami Stewart. Classical pianist Friedrich Gulda even wrote a thirteen minute theme and variations piece based on the song and also performed a jazz trio cover of it, complete with drum solo.
9	* HarsherInHindsight: After hearing that Music/JanisJoplin and Music/JimiHendrix had died at 27, Morrison told friends "You're drinking with number three". Needless to say, he was right. He also happened to die two years to the day after a fourth member of the "Club": Music/BrianJones of Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}. Making the poem he wrote for Brian a lot eerier.
10	* HesJustHiding: In a case rivaling that of Music/ElvisPresley, quite a few people believe (or ''want'' to believe) that Jim Morrison faked his death so he could get away from fame. Ray Manzarek himself seemed to entertain the possibility, saying that Jim was the kind of person he found plausible to stuff his leather clothes in a coffin and flee to Africa. Some say he now writes poetry under one or more assumed names, and there are even conspiracy theories that he ended up as a secret agent.
11	* HilariousInHindsight: The fact Jim's girlfriend was named Pamela...[[Series/TheOfficeUS and called Pam.]]
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13	%% All examples of Memetic Mutation should explain the origin of the meme as well as how it's used.
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15	%%* MemeticMutation:
16	%%** "I am the lizard king. ''I can do anything.''"
17	%%** "Come on baby, light my fire!"
18	%%** "Father?" "Yes, son?" "I want to kill you. Mother? I WANT TO..... [[spoiler:[[CarefulWithThatAxe RAVAWJSJAHHYEAHYH COME ON BABY]]]]"
19	%%*** "And he... [[MundaneMadeAwesome WALKED ON DOWN THE HALL!]]"
20	%%** "BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE, BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE...!"
21	%%** "Well, I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer!"[[note]]But then he sings it again, which means he actually got two beers. Also, that should be pronounced BEE-YAH. Thank you.[[/note]]
22	* MisattributedSong: Doors cover band The Australian Doors Show once performed [[Music/LedZeppelin "Stairway To Heaven"]] InTheStyleOf The Doors for Australian comedy show ''The Money or the Gun''. This naturally started circulating online as a cover by The Doors themselves (despite the fact that Jim died just before "Stairway" was first released).
23	* NarmCharm: Some of their lyrics can be...out there, to say the least. But the strength of the music and Morrison's charisma and performance often make it work anyway.
24	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: Some people find this band's music to be incredibly boring, and Morrison insufferably pretentious. (Of course, they more or less ''[[TropeMakers invented]]'' [[TropeMakers the concept of a rock band being pretentious]], so they're easy to blame.) Likewise, they more or less invented (or at least popularized) the idea of a rock and roll front man being deliberately as controversial and provocative as possible. No matter who your favorite example may be, Music/OzzyOsbourne, [[Music/JohnLydon Johnny Rotten]], Music/AliceCooper, Music/MarilynManson, whoever, Morrison was the first to go that route.
25	* SignatureSong: "Light My Fire", "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", "The End", "Riders On the Storm", and "Touch Me".
26	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
27	** "Hello, I Love You" may sound a bit too much like Music/TheKinks's "All Day and All of the Night". Dave Davies was pissed off by it, saying that he once did a show where he played "All Day and All of the Night" and stuck in a piece of "Hello, I Love You" and that "there was some response, there were a few smiles", while Ray Davies said that the Kinks' publisher wanted to sue, but that he was content with just having the Doors admit it, and suggested that an out-of-court settlement was reached with them. Robby Krieger for his part denied the allegations that the song was stolen from them, instead saying that the song's beat was taken from Music/{{Cream}}'s "Sunshine of Your Love", although Ray Manzarek admitted in an interview that it was "a lot like a Kinks song."
28	** The opening bass riff on "Riders on the Storm" is ''really'' close to the famous EpicRiff from the ''Series/PeterGunn'' theme.
29	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The only known time Morrison performed with Music/JimiHendrix. Should be full on Awesome, right? Yeah, too bad [[TheAlcoholic Jim]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIFTLnPei2M wasn't sober]]. Not to say there's lack of [[CrossesTheLineTwice amusement]] from it.
30	--> FUCK HER UP THE ASS!!!
31	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
32	** "20th Century Fox" was already obsolete come 2000, but the studio of the same name it was named for at the time was renamed to Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios in 2020.
33	** The post-Morrison track "Four Billion Souls". The title was a reference to the global population at the time. As of 2020, the world population is almost twice that. (This apparently [[https://youtu.be/HIMtJSWC8bY concerns Robby a little]]).

Context YMMV / TheDoors