The Doors - L.A. Woman (1971) [SACD] (2013 AP Remaster PCM Stereo)

The Doors - L.A. Woman (1971) [SACD] (2013 AP Remaster PCM Stereo)

Artist: The Doors
Genre: Psychedelic, Blues rock
Label: Analogue Productions CAPP 75011 SA
Source: SACD
Release date: 1971 / 2013
RipType: tracks
Bits per sample: 24bit
Sample Rate: 88.2KHz
Chanels: PCM Stereo
Covers: Yes

1. The Changeling 04:21
2. Love Her Madly 03:21
3. Been Down So Long 04:41
4. Cars Hiss by My Window 04:11
5. L. A. Woman 07:51
6. L’America 04:37
7. Hyacinth House 03:12
8. Crawling King Snake 05:00
9. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) 04:14
10. Riders On The Storm 07:22

L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by The Doors, and the last recorded with lead singer Jim Morrison, who died in July 1971, less than 3 months after the albums release. Its style is arguably the most blues rock-oriented of the band’s catalog.

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.