Album of the day (#3047): L.A. Woman by The Doors

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Today's album of the day

L.A. Woman by The Doors (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1971.
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Overall rank: 179
Average rating: 83/100 (from 1087 votes).



Tracks:
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

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Overrated album. If not for the singles and the title track, this album would be pretty weak. I'll grant it's better than Soft Parade and Morrison Hotel but it's not even close to their first three.
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The BEA algorithm has this sitting second of the Doors albums, behind the debut, and I think that is a fair assessment. The two nicely bookend the Doors output, which was rather amazing for just a 4 year period. It would have been interesting to seen where the group would have gone had they not flamed out so quickly.
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I mean, it's not a good album. But the back half is all right.

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5. L.A. Woman
6. L'America
10. Riders On The Storm
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This is my 2nd fave Doors album after their debut album.
For me its a classic although by this stage you can hear how the booze had got hold of him.
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Fischman wrote:
The BEA algorithm has this sitting second of the Doors albums, behind the debut, and I think that is a fair assessment.
Stover75 wrote:
This is my 2nd fave Doors album after their debut album.

How did this become the popular opinion, not only for Fischman and Stover, but almost everywhere in music discussion? If you take away Tracks 2, 5, and 10, this collection of songs is pretty bad. Some are okay (e.g. Tracks 1 and 5) while others are awful (e.g. Tracks 4 and 8_) . Do listeners just overlook the filler and point to the Big 3 tracks on this album? Some of The Doors's worst music is on this album, and it should be called out. Or do listeners find value in the album's deep cuts?
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StreetSpirit wrote:
How did this become the popular opinion, not only for Fischman and Stover, but almost everywhere in music discussion? If you take away Tracks 2, 5, and 10, this collection of songs is pretty bad. Some are okay (e.g. Tracks 1 and 5) while others are awful (e.g. Tracks 4 and 8_) . Do listeners just overlook the filler and point to the Big 3 tracks on this album? Some of The Doors's worst music is on this album, and it should be called out. Or do listeners find value in the album's deep cuts?


Yes.
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StreetSpirit wrote:
How did this become the popular opinion, not only for Fischman and Stover, but almost everywhere in music discussion? If you take away Tracks 2, 5, and 10, this collection of songs is pretty bad. Some are okay (e.g. Tracks 1 and 5) while others are awful (e.g. Tracks 4 and 8_) . Do listeners just overlook the filler and point to the Big 3 tracks on this album? Some of The Doors's worst music is on this album, and it should be called out. Or do listeners find value in the album's deep cuts?


Hmm...maybe you're just wrong...
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StreetSpirit wrote:
How did this become the popular opinion, not only for Fischman and Stover, but almost everywhere in music discussion? If you take away Tracks 2, 5, and 10, this collection of songs is pretty bad. Some are okay (e.g. Tracks 1 and 5) while others are awful (e.g. Tracks 4 and 8_) . Do listeners just overlook the filler and point to the Big 3 tracks on this album? Some of The Doors's worst music is on this album, and it should be called out. Or do listeners find value in the album's deep cuts?
Romanelli wrote:
Hmm...maybe you're just wrong...

No. I'm not. For two reasons. 1. It's subjective. 2. I know The Doors well beyond the superficial level. They were the first band I ever got into, been listening to them more than 15 years. L.A. Woman is an overrated album. It just looks great at first glance because of three killer tracks.
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StreetSpirit wrote:
No. I'm not. For two reasons. 1. It's subjective. 2. I know The Doors well beyond the superficial level. They were the first band I ever got into, been listening to them more than 15 years. L.A. Woman is an overrated album. It just looks great at first glance because of three killer tracks.


So...you can easily state that millions of people, and even specific ones, are wrong, but if I say that you are wrong, that doesn't work for you. Got it.

And just looking at your timetable a little bit...I've been listening to The Doors since probably about 15 years before you were born. If you want to believe that LA Woman is overrated, that's fine. You ask how an album you don't seem to get can be praised "almost everywhere in music discussion"...maybe you're just not getting it. You say that if you take away "Love Her Madly", "L.A. Woman" and "Riders On The Storm" that it would be a weak album. Be fair. You've taken the time to list the top 3 tracks on your favorite albums on your chart. Take away those top 3 on any of those albums, and an argument can be made that they are all overrated as well. But you don't get to take away those top 3...and you'd be realistically hard pressed to find a whole lot of albums with a top 3 as strong as the ones you listed for L.A. Woman.
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