Specifically, the debut album, Morrison Hotel, and L.A. Woman.
Let's not forget Strange Days 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).
"The End" and "When the Music's Over", from The Doors and Strange Days respectively. Two tracks over ten minutes long, and both are considered some of the best songs, if not the best songs, of The Doors.
Epic Riff: 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.
Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: "The Soft Parade" could be interpreted as a Stealth Insult 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 Friedrich Nietzsche, this is a fairly plausible interpretation.
Harsher in Hindsight: After hearing that Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix 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": Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones. Making the poem he wrote for Brian a lot eerier.
He's Just Hiding: In a case rivaling that of Elvis Presley, 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.
Misattributed Song: Doors cover band The Australian Doors Show once performed "Stairway To Heaven"In the Style of 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).
Narm Charm: 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.
Once Original, Now Common: Some people find this band's music to be incredibly boring, and Morrison insufferably pretentious. (Of course, they more or less inventedthe 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, Ozzy Osbourne, Johnny Rotten, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, whoever, Morrison was the first to go that route.
Signature Song: "Light My Fire", "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", "The End", "Riders On the Storm", and "Touch Me".
"Hello, I Love You" may sound a bit too much like The Kinks'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 Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love", although Ray Manzarek admitted in an interview that it was "a lot like a Kinks song."
The opening bass riff on "Riders on the Storm" is really close to the famous Epic Riff from the Peter Gunn theme.
"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 20th Century Studios in 2020.
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 concerns Robby a little).
. Not to say there's lack of amusement from it.FUCK HER UP THE ASS!!!