10 Perfect 1970s Rock Albums With No Bad Songs

10. The Doors - Morrison Hotel

Every band worth its salt ends up going through that phase where they want to go back to their roots. As much as fun as it might seem to play with different sonic textures, it just gets to the point where you have to rediscover the joy of being a rough and tumble band playing music together. When your sound wasn't all that normal to begin with though, coming back home even sounds a bit strange.

After making different strides in the worlds of psychedelic rock and experimental territory, Morrison Hotel is the Doors at their most uninhibited, using the blues as their main template. From the opening guitar riff of Roadhouse Blues, this record doesn't let up for a second, going for other psychedelic runs like Waiting for the Sun while still letting Jim Morrison flex his poetic chops on songs like Peace Frog.

Before a record like this, most of the Doors' output felt like something that was a lot more chaotic, almost as if everything could fall apart in an instant. When you throw on Morrison Hotel, you just feel like you're right alongside Morrison at the bar as he tells you about all the hardships life has to offer. Since the same problems Jim has with the world tend to turn up today, it's best to just keep the drinks flowing.