The Doors vs Rolling Stones

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  • voodoopug
    voodoopug Posts: 1,011
    Sathogwa wrote:
    I'm a fan of the Stones and love a lot of the stuff they have done, but they seem one dimensional compared to the Doors. Their sound is not that far removed from their influences, while the Doors made a decided effort to be different and sound different. As a result, no one sounds like the Doors, they made an attempt to be unique and achieved that goal while writing compelling music. Even the Doors' bluesy songs don't sound like straight blues, and are tweaked in a unique, cool way. I don't think the same can really be said of the Stones.
    As a frontman the powers that Jagger was only playing with, Morrison had a complete understanding of. In Jagger's defense he did realize right away that he couldn't do as many drugs as Keith and keep living, however! I am continually being blown away by discovering things that I had previously thought to be Morrison's poetic gibberish or a throw-away line actually to have profound meaning and depth; concepts that I am only now understanding by randomly coming accross them in some obscure book, Morrison had a grasp of in his early 20's, or even before. A lot of people who write off the Doors as juvenile I think miss this aspect of them.

    Some excellent points, but I must encourage you to listen to the following songs to see the range that the Stones have and see how far away some of these sound from Chuck Berry:

    1. Dead Flowers (Sticky Fingers)
    2. Shine a Light (Exile on Main St)
    3. Miss You (not my favorite, but different than what they normally did, its on Some Girls)
    4. Laugh I Nearly Died (A Bigger Bang)
    5. You Don't Have To Mean It (Bridges to Babylon)
    6. Back of My Hand (A Bigger Bang)
    7. Monkey Man (Let it Bleed)
    8. Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadows (Big Hits High Tide and Green Grass)
    9. Hot Stuff (Black and Blue)
    10. Heaven (Tattoo You)

    There are ten songs with ten distinct different styles. When I play the Doors, whom I do like, they all have the exact same feel to me.
    There's Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson......and then everybody else.
  • Steve Dunne
    Steve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    Love The Doors

    But The Stones have my vote.
    I love to turn you on
  • Mine
    Mine Posts: 556
    Two bands you can't compare.
    To me The Doors win, and btw if Ed admits it or not, he learned to scream from Morrison, check some mid 90's stuff.
    There are many anecdotes about the doors vs rolling stones from the 60's.

    Morrison was a performer, he had a different concept of performance on a rock concert than anybody else at the time.
    He actually left the doors when he left for Paris. He had different plans before he died. The most important artist/fan of his is Patti Smith.
    The guy got a bunch of bad publicity from some of the people who knew him that cynically exploited him.
    I knew who I was before other people started telling me who I was. J.Joplin
  • Schoki
    Schoki Posts: 5,072
    Stones

    Have been around forever. Like their stuff much more (Sympathy for the devil! Can it get any better?)
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    dizzoors

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