10 Best Final Albums In Rock
9. LA Woman - The Doors
By the time the Doors got to 1971, they had completed half a decade of rock and roll debauchery. Across their previous records, Jim Morrison delivered electrifying performances while the band experimented with styles varying from jazz to rock to blues.
The band got to the LA Woman sessions with a mission to get back to their roots as a rock band. In doing so, they released what critics would claim to be their comeback album. The opening single "Love Her Madly" shows Morrison's voice settling into a mature baritone as he tells the story of a dysfunctional couple. The band also finds time to incorporate ideas from their beginnings like the blues standard "Crawling King Snake" and Morrison's spoken word piece "The WASP." Even the more long-winded tracks on the album are the band's greatest musical moments on the title track and the eerie piano showcase "Riders on the Storm."
After completing the record, the band decided to take a break, with Morrison moving to Paris with his girlfriend Pamela Courson. After just a few short months, Morrison had passed away in his Paris apartment due to heart failure. While the band made a few more artistic collaborations, the spirit of the Doors came to an ominous end on LA Woman.