The Doors:

The Doors:(1967)

This is one of the best debuts in Rock'n'Roll history. For me it doesn't get more wicked and mysterious than the fully formed band you hear on this LP. 

Strange Days:(1967)

The rate at which the Doors evolved is fairly staggering. The proverbial candle was blazing at both ends in the most intense way possible.

Waiting For The Sun:(1968)

I love this album, it's not my favorite Doors album, but it's close. My Wild Love is in my Doors Top Ten list. There's a reason I have two copies of this one.

The Soft Parade:(1969)

I know a lot of people dismiss this album, but I really dig it. Beyond, Touch Me, which I dig, this album gets weird in a great 1969 kind of way, and you really start hearing the band fragment.

Morrison Hotel:(1970)

Much in the way the Beatles attempted Let It Be to try and regain focus, the Doors go after Morrison Hotel. But it seems by this time the entire band was immersed and under the influence of Jim Morrison's persona and drunken psyche.

  

L.A. Woman:(1971)

"Hey, Gang, let's give it one more go!" This seems to be the mantra that sparked L.A. Woman, and it worked. This album is killer.  

I love the Doors. They were, and continue to be a fascinating band of land sailing pirates. For a time I even had the post Jim Morrison album, Other Voices. But, The Doors without Jim is not the Doors, and I sold it. My favorite Doors album is American Prayer. You know, the one where the surviving members created sound collages to work with a bunch of poetry Jim Recorded before he died. That's my favorite. No need to list the songs, you know them.