10 Perfect Hard Rock Albums Of The 1970s

10. L.A. Woman - The Doors

By the time that rock and roll reached the start of the '70s, any hope of psychedelic rock thriving seemed to be a pipedream.

After realizing that the revolution of the youth didn't work, a lot of the Flower Children decided to move as far away from the sounds of psychedelia as possible and dipping their toes into hard rock. Change was in the air, and the Doors set their sights on a comeback by getting even more bluesy.

Though Morrison Hotel served as a great litmus test for bringing them back to their roots, LA Woman has a few more tricks up its sleeve. Along with the amazing singles on here like Love Her Madly, you can hear Jim Morrison start to flex his bluesy chops on covers of songs like Crawling King Snake, while also finding time to put in some more poetic lines on songs like The WASP or Hyacinth House.

This is still a Doors record though, and the focus is still on that trademark darkness in their sound, especially when the title track travels on for 7 minutes and culminating in one of the greatest musical climaxes of their career.

When the album finally wraps up with Riders on the Storm, the spirit of Jim Morrison becomes all the more ominous. Dying shortly after this album hit shelves, it felt like we were listening the final remains of his spirit.