The Doors - L.A. Woman

1: The Changeling
2: Love Her Madly
3: Been Down So Long
4: Cars Hiss By My Window
5: L.A. Woman
6: L'America
7: Hyacinth House
8: Crawling King Snake
9: The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
10: Riders on the Storm


Well, The Doors are my all time favourite music group, no questions asked. Also, 'L.A. Woman' is my favourite Doors album, again, no questions asked.

There's many reasons why this album is my favourite Doors album and probably my favourite album of all time. Reasons like, this was The Doors last album with Jim Morrison before he moved to Paris and passed away at very lowly age of 27 years. Other reasons, would be because it was their return to form, after the shambles of 'The Soft Parade' in 1969, The Doors came back in 1970 with 'Morrison Hotel' which they went back to their roots, which is obviously, the Blues. But what parts 'Morrison Hotel' and 'L.A. Woman' is that the later is more bluesier and more tightly compact. What I mean by more 'Tightly Compact' is that this album is tight, everything is running smoothly in this record, Ray Manzarek's keyboard skills are in full flight and Robby Krieger's solo's are probably the best I've ever heard in comparison to all their previous albums. John Densmore as well adds his perfect hand of experimental and almost jazzy drumming to the attack, that is The Doors. One thing people can't criticise is Jim Morrison's song writing, like all Doors albums except 'The Soft Parade', it's shows up and it's beautifully sculptured and chisels it's way around the music in almost terrific fashion.

My favourite songs from the album are 'The Changeling', 'Love Her Madly', 'L.A. Woman', 'Hyacinth House' and 'Riders on the Storm'. Reasons why, well, 'The Changeling' is what the Doors are all about, bluesy rock. 'Love Her Madly' displays The Doors craft at what they can do in creating a song fit for radio purpose, it's so catchy it's hard not to like. 'L.A. Woman' on the other hand, is a typical classic Doors song, epic and a beautiful story about the bungalows in Los Angeles and the beautiful woman there which am sure Jim had a lot of. This song, is also my favourite track from 'L.A. Woman' and my favourite song by The Doors. The 'Hyacinth House' is a nice tale about Jim wanting a brand new friend, who doesn't care for him. The song expresses elegant song writing as Jim tells us a story in bluesy fashion that he doesn't want to be cared for and then, the final Doors album with Jim Morrison finishes of in perfect transition from blues, to Psychedelic Blues. This piece of haunting music about a killer on the road and actors out on loan totally perfect what The Doors do best, create tales, create music to go with it and blow it apart until it's a free flowing sound which makes you want to out and get totally wrecked and sleep with some pretty L.A. Woman but despite that, 'Riders on the Storm' demonstrates something which makes The Doors original and unique, especially for their time, is their sense of darkness and how they delve into it like they would delve into a cookie jar, they do it so easy and it's so accessible to them like if it's like a natural function which is something the likes of The Beatles missed out on... a song like 'Riders on the Storm'.