The 30 Best Doors Songs

Radio staples sit next to deep album cuts and a few B-sides that only the faithful still argue about.

1. 1
   Light My Fire

   The 1967 chart-topping single whose extended organ-and-guitar solos made The Doors stars.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Roadhouse Blues

   The gritty boogie opener of Morrison Hotel that became a bar-band and stadium staple.
   955pts
3. 3
   L.A. Woman

   The propulsive title track of their last Morrison album, introducing the 'Mr. Mojo Risin' alter ego.
   643pts
4. 4
   Peace Frog

   A funky Morrison Hotel track pairing Krieger's wah guitar with images of bloodshed.
   625pts
5. 5
   The Soft Parade

   The sprawling multi-part title suite of the band's 1969 album, opening with a sermon.
   625pts
6. 6
   Riders on the Storm

   The rain-soaked, jazz-tinged final single recorded with Jim Morrison before his death.
   566pts
7. 7
   Soul Kitchen

   A groove-heavy debut-album track inspired by a Venice Beach soul food restaurant.
   566pts
8. 8
   Waiting for the Sun

   The brooding title track left off its namesake album and released on Morrison Hotel.
   566pts
9. 9
   When the Music's Over

   The 11-minute apocalyptic closer of Strange Days, famed for Morrison's 'We want the world' cry.
   566pts
10. 10
    Love Street

    A gentle, whimsical ode to Morrison's Laurel Canyon home with Pamela Courson.
    500pts
11. 11
    Five to One

    The menacing, heavy-riffed generational call to arms that closes Waiting for the Sun.
    500pts
12. 12
    Wild Child

    A hard-edged, hypnotic Soft Parade single and B-side of Touch Me.
    500pts
13. 13
    Twentieth Century Fox

    A punchy debut-album portrait of a cool, fashionable modern woman.
    500pts
14. 14
    Break On Through

    The band's debut single and opening track, a driving bossa-rock statement of intent.
    500pts
15. 15
    The Unknown Soldier

    A theatrical anti-Vietnam War single complete with a staged execution in its middle.
    500pts
16. 16
    Love Me Two Times

    A bluesy, harpsichord-driven Strange Days single about a soldier's farewell.
    500pts
17. 17
    Moonlight Drive

    One of the first songs Morrison wrote, the spark that founded the band on Venice Beach.
    423pts
18. 18
    Love Her Madly

    Robby Krieger's breezy Top 20 hit that previewed L.A. Woman.
    423pts
19. 19
    The Crystal Ship

    A tender, dreamlike ballad that was the B-side of Light My Fire.
    423pts
20. 20
    Back Door Man

    A snarling cover of the Willie Dixon blues standard on the debut album.
    423pts
21. 21
    Spanish Caravan

    A flamenco-inspired showcase for Robby Krieger's classical guitar on Waiting for the Sun.
    423pts
22. 22
    Touch Me

    A brass-and-strings Top 3 hit from The Soft Parade ending with 'Stronger than dirt'.
    423pts
23. 23
    The WASP

    Morrison's spoken-word radio-jive piece 'Texas Radio and the Big Beat' from L.A. Woman.
    333pts
24. 24
    The End

    The nearly 12-minute Oedipal epic that closed the debut album and haunted Apocalypse Now.
    227pts
25. 25
    People Are Strange

    A short, carnival-flavoured hit about alienation from Strange Days.
    227pts
26. 26
    Hello, I Love You

    The band's second No. 1 single, a stomping riff from Waiting for the Sun.
    227pts
27. 27
    Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)

    The band's swaggering cover of the Brecht-Weill cabaret song from their debut.
    227pts
28. 28
    Been Down So Long

    A raw, slide-guitar blues from L.A. Woman showing the band's return to its roots.
    227pts
29. 29
    The Changeling

    The funky L.A. Woman opener and B-side of Love Her Madly.
    227pts
30. 30
    Strange Days

    The eerie Moog-tinged title track that opened the band's second album.
    0pts

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