L.A. Woman

曲风多变的大门乐队最为“布鲁斯”的一张专辑，首发于1971年，这张专辑的全美销量将近300万张，是大门乐队早期的代表作。同时也是乐队成立时的主唱Jim Morrison的最后遗作，在专辑发行后几个月他就在巴黎去世了。

“L.A Woman”是大门乐队的Jim Morrison时期最后一张专辑。尽管在一些曲目上Jim Morrison的声音听上去更加疲倦粗犷，这仍是迄今为止他们最具布鲁斯风情的一张专辑，里面Morrison充满诗意的情欲有增无减。事实上，一些十分直接的布鲁斯歌曲听起来像是一种浮夸的表现，但这仅仅是他们最困扰的到最杰出的作品之间的补偿。七分钟长的同名作品是一首如一次平稳的长距离汽车旅行般的经典作品，同时赞美了洛山矶的繁华和黑暗；另外一首较长的作品，令人忧思且充满爵士风情的“Rider on the Storm”，是乐队创作中最具美妙旋律且最阴沉的一首。它和活力四射的“Love her madly”都是非常成功的单曲，并且“The Changling”和“L’America”被认为是两首更优秀的却很少被人留意的作品。一张来自独创四重唱的虽然参差不齐但是仍旧经典的收场作。

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.