The Doors vs The Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
Submitted by Revolver on Fri, 10/05/2007 - 11:34
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Though I love the Doors debut album and no one should doubt its influence, I prefer to listen to Pink Floyd debut album tracks like Astronomy Domine, Lucifer Sam and Bike especially compared to the Doors. Though the Doors album is more influential I prefer Pink Floyd debut album.
Piper at the Gates of Dawn is superb, but to me it is no match for The Doors' masterpiece, one of the greatest, most intensely focused rock albums of all time.
The Doors album is great but to me only the End and the middle section of Light My Fire is what I consider progressive compared to Pink Floyd. I agree with you The Doors album is a masterpiece and an album does not have to be complicated to be great. I like the Stones a lot and they made great songs and the Velvets did not use many chords either, I just prefer Pink Floyd debut album to the Doors first album.
hey man - i think you've been using the term progressive wrong in a bunch of your posts. It doesn't mean what it sounds like - music that makes "progress" by expanding rock into experimental territories. If it really did, then definitely the Doors were "progressive". Instead, it was coined at a time when people were trying to make "progress', but when the meaning of making progress was usually misconstrued into making music more sophisticated by appropriating jazz and classical aspects, in particular the literally "sophisticated" aspects of those genres. So "progressive rock" usually came off as pretentious, an attempt to show off "skill" in composing/playing, rather than in actually making "progress"/