# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published October 29, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-30-best-doors-songs*

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1. **Light My Fire** — score 1000/1000
   The 1967 chart-topping single whose extended organ-and-guitar solos made The Doors stars.
2. **Roadhouse Blues** — score 955/1000
   The gritty boogie opener of Morrison Hotel that became a bar-band and stadium staple.
3. **L.A. Woman** — score 643/1000
   The propulsive title track of their last Morrison album, introducing the 'Mr. Mojo Risin' alter ego.
4. **Peace Frog** — score 625/1000
   A funky Morrison Hotel track pairing Krieger's wah guitar with images of bloodshed.
5. **The Soft Parade** — score 625/1000
   The sprawling multi-part title suite of the band's 1969 album, opening with a sermon.
6. **Riders on the Storm** — score 566/1000
   The rain-soaked, jazz-tinged final single recorded with Jim Morrison before his death.
7. **Soul Kitchen** — score 566/1000
   A groove-heavy debut-album track inspired by a Venice Beach soul food restaurant.
8. **Waiting for the Sun** — score 566/1000
   The brooding title track left off its namesake album and released on Morrison Hotel.
9. **When the Music's Over** — score 566/1000
   The 11-minute apocalyptic closer of Strange Days, famed for Morrison's 'We want the world' cry.
10. **Love Street** — score 500/1000
   A gentle, whimsical ode to Morrison's Laurel Canyon home with Pamela Courson.
11. **Five to One** — score 500/1000
   The menacing, heavy-riffed generational call to arms that closes Waiting for the Sun.
12. **Wild Child** — score 500/1000
   A hard-edged, hypnotic Soft Parade single and B-side of Touch Me.
13. **Twentieth Century Fox** — score 500/1000
   A punchy debut-album portrait of a cool, fashionable modern woman.
14. **Break On Through** — score 500/1000
   The band's debut single and opening track, a driving bossa-rock statement of intent.
15. **The Unknown Soldier** — score 500/1000
   A theatrical anti-Vietnam War single complete with a staged execution in its middle.
16. **Love Me Two Times** — score 500/1000
   A bluesy, harpsichord-driven Strange Days single about a soldier's farewell.
17. **Moonlight Drive** — score 423/1000
   One of the first songs Morrison wrote, the spark that founded the band on Venice Beach.
18. **Love Her Madly** — score 423/1000
   Robby Krieger's breezy Top 20 hit that previewed L.A. Woman.
19. **The Crystal Ship** — score 423/1000
   A tender, dreamlike ballad that was the B-side of Light My Fire.
20. **Back Door Man** — score 423/1000
   A snarling cover of the Willie Dixon blues standard on the debut album.
21. **Spanish Caravan** — score 423/1000
   A flamenco-inspired showcase for Robby Krieger's classical guitar on Waiting for the Sun.
22. **Touch Me** — score 423/1000
   A brass-and-strings Top 3 hit from The Soft Parade ending with 'Stronger than dirt'.
23. **The WASP** — score 333/1000
   Morrison's spoken-word radio-jive piece 'Texas Radio and the Big Beat' from L.A. Woman.
24. **The End** — score 227/1000
   The nearly 12-minute Oedipal epic that closed the debut album and haunted Apocalypse Now.
25. **People Are Strange** — score 227/1000
   A short, carnival-flavoured hit about alienation from Strange Days.
26. **Hello, I Love You** — score 227/1000
   The band's second No. 1 single, a stomping riff from Waiting for the Sun.
27. **Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)** — score 227/1000
   The band's swaggering cover of the Brecht-Weill cabaret song from their debut.
28. **Been Down So Long** — score 227/1000
   A raw, slide-guitar blues from L.A. Woman showing the band's return to its roots.
29. **The Changeling** — score 227/1000
   The funky L.A. Woman opener and B-side of Love Her Madly.
30. **Strange Days** — score 0/1000
   The eerie Moog-tinged title track that opened the band's second album.

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