10 Worst Final Albums In Rock
2. Full Circle - The Doors
Jim Morrison is one of those rare breed of frontman that comes once every 20 years. When he first started to make waves on the Los Angeles club scene with the Doors, fans were amazed by the raw sexual inhibition and the poetic symbolism behind everything he did. However, if you take Morrison out of the equation, things are bound to get really boring really quickly.
After Morrison was found dead in his Paris hotel room of apparent heart failure, the remaining members of the Doors seemed to think that they could continue on without their undisputed leader. Though the building blocks for something decent were accounted for on the album Other Voices, by the time we got to Full Circle, it was clear this lineup wasn't going to go the distance like Morrison did.
On the surface, there's nothing too wrong with an album like this, with Ray Manzarak doing his best to fill the shoes of his former singer. Then again, there's nothing that really separates songs like these from the dime-a-dozen rock acts that were trying to make a name for themselves at the time. Even their decent attempts at covers on songs like Good Rockin Tonight just feel hollow without a proper voice. Full Circle might be good for what it is, but if this didn't have the Doors name stamped on it, no one would have cared.