 In 2003 , L.A. Woman was ranked at 362 on Rolling Stone magazine 's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . When the list was revised in 2012 , to accommodate a number of albums released since 2003 , the album was repositioned at number 364 . Stereogum named it the Doors ' second best album , with the website 's Ryan Leas adding , " It traveled the same raw blues @-@ rock lane as its predecessor , but now the Doors sounded ragged , bleary . It 's one of those early- ' 70s records that comes off like a beleaguered hangover from the end of the ' 60s . " 
