The final album with Jim Morrison in the lineup is by far their most lues-oriented, and the singer's poetic ardor is undiminished, though his voice sounds increasingly worn and craggy on some numbers. Actually, some of the straight lues items sound kind of turgid, but that's more than made up for by several cuts that rate among their finest and most disturbing work. The seven-minute title track was a car-cruising classic that celebrated both the glamour and seediness of Los Angeles; the other long cut, the brooding, jazzy "Riders on the Storm," was the group at its most melodic and ominous. It and the far bouncier "Love Her Madly" were hit singles, and "The Changeling" and "L'America" count as some of their better little-heeded album tracks. An uneven but worthy finale from the original quartet.
This is the first of five posts from Treblezine's feature about Murder Ballads. The link is below.http://treblezine.com/features/171.htmlThe Doors "Riders on the Storm" from L.A. Woman The Doors were an L.A. band born on the Dionysian ethos of excess, sin and celebration of the dark side of life. Jim Morrison was someone seemingly possessed by his obsession about death. Whether it was on "The ...
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