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The Doors were ranked number 20 by top music artists while Rock on the Net readers ranked them number 15. [174] In 2000, the Doors were ranked number 32 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Artists, [175] and "Light My Fire" was ranked number seven on VH1's Greatest Rock Songs. [176]
The use of the Doors song "The End", from their debut album, in the popular Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now in 1979 and the release of the first compilation album in seven years, Greatest Hits, released in the fall of 1980, created a resurgence in the Doors. Due to those two events, an entirely new audience, too young to have known of the band ...
"Light My Fire" has been widely considered as the Doors' signature song, [42] [43] and a quintessential work of the psychedelic rock genre. [2] In 2004 and 2010, the song was ranked at number 35 on Rolling Stone ' s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time , [ 44 ] then it was re-ranked at number 310 on the 2021 list. [ 45 ]
By mid-1968, the Doors had established themselves as one of the most popular groups in the US. The band's third studio album, Waiting for the Sun, released in July of the same year, became the Doors' only number one hit on the Billboard 200 while also spawning "Hello, I Love You", their second number one single.
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [1] The billion-view mark was first passed by Gangnam Style in ...
The Best of The Doors is a compilation album by American rock group the Doors. Released in 1985, the double LP set contains 18 songs from their six albums with lead singer Jim Morrison , including charting singles and selected album cuts. [ 1 ]
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American rock band the Doors, released in 1980. The album, along with the film Apocalypse Now, released the previous year, created for the band an entirely new audience of the generation that did not grow up with the Doors. The album went on to become one of the highest-selling compilations of all time ...
"L.A. Woman" is a song by the American rock band the Doors. The song is the title track of their 1971 album L.A. Woman , the final album to feature Jim Morrison before his death on July 3, 1971. In 2014, LA Weekly named it the all-time best song written about the city of Los Angeles.