There isn't one serious cut on [L.A. Woman]….

[Morrison is] taking no chances about being taken seriously or with universal import. In fact he's not even writing his own snake lyrics anymore. Instead there's John Lee Hooker's "Crawling King Snake," a whopper of a readymade and proof positive that he and his boys are still listening to the roots….

[The] Doors have never been more together, more like the Beach Boys, more like Love (the band they originally played second fiddle to at the Whiskey or the Troubador or wherever it was)…. Morrison [sets] the tone with lines like "Why did you throw the jack of hearts away?" on "Hyacinth House."… In terms of what they're after here the Doors as a band never falter and there isn't one bummer cut on the entire album—obviously a first for them.

It's also the first time since "The...