86. The Doors, "The Doors"
Man, I've had a journey with the Doors. In high school, the Doors were still cool. There was a tattered paperback copy of No One Here Gets Out Alive , one of the best rock biographies ever, that was passed around. I devoured it, and I thought at that point, when I was 14 or 15, that Jim Morrison was maybe one of the coolest guys ever. I mean, he drank all the booze and did all the drugs and had sex with all the girls and just generally did whatever he wanted. How much more appealing could you get to a 15-year-old boy? He told authority to fuck off and never really faced any consequences because he was rich and in a band. The dream! Plus, the Doors were just re-entering public consciousness due to the inclusion of "The End," more on which later, in the movie Apocalypse Now , and the 1980 release of their Greatest Hits album. Then by the time I was in my 20's the Doors were no longer cool but just one of those classic rock bands I never really thought about m