Doors / L.A. Woman
Artist Doors
Album Title: L.A. Woman
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Primary Genre Rock: Classic Rock
Format CD
Released 04/19/1971
Reissue Date 10/25/1990
Label Elektra Records
Catalog No EKS-75011-2
Bar Code No none
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. The Changeling (4:22)
2. Love Her Madly (3:20)
3. Been Down So Long (4:41)
4. Cars Hiss By My Window (4:11)
5. L.A. Woman (7:51)
6. L'america (4:37)
7. Hyacinth House (3:11)
8. Crawling King Snake (5:00)
9. The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) (4:14)
10. Riders On The Storm (7:12)
Date Acquired 08/15/1989
Personal Rating
Acquired from Down In The Valley
Purchase Price 12.00

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Review by Richie Unterberger
The final album with Jim Morrison in the lineup is by far their most blues-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 blues 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.
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