Cover Versions
- Annabel Lamb covered the song in 1983. It peaked at 27 in the UK NME chart of 24 September.
- Cameo covered the song in 1990 as an homage to Jim Morrison's influence on the band.
- Brutal Bill released a song in 1998 called 'Woman Of Angels' on Muggsy Records that heavily sampled the instrumentation of 'Riders on the Storm'.
- The Jacka sampled most of the song in 2008 for the single "Storm" featuring Cormega for his album "Tear Gas".
- Creed also covered this song in 2000 for the album Stoned Immaculate.
- Forthcoming Fire covered the song on their album "Je Suis" as a hidden track.
- Infected Mushroom remixed the song, and it appears on the 2009 album, Legend of the Black Shawarma.
- Nightmares on Wax remixed the song for the limited edition of "The best of the doors", which appeared in 2000. Three other remixes are on the bonus cd by Baez & Cornell, Ibizarre and SpaceBats.
- Snoop Dogg covered the song for the 2004 game, Need for Speed: Underground 2, in a remixed version produced by Fredwreck. The cover was dubbed over the original track.
- New Age/Electronica music group Dancing Fantasy released a cover off their 1991 album "California Grooves."
- Rapture Riders, a 2005 officially-released mashup version of the song produced by Go Home Productions, featured Jim Morrison's vocal combined with music and vocals from Blondie's 1981 single "Rapture".
- Ray Manzarek & Bal collaborated on a electronic jazz version for their Atonal Head CD, 2006.
- Dezperadoz covered the song in 2008 for the album An Eye for an Eye .
- Wolfmother covered the song live at Outside Lands 2010, blending it with their own "The White Unicorn."
- Carlos Santana covered the song on his 2010 album Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time. This version features Chester Bennington (of Linkin Park) on lead vocals and Ray Manzarek (of The Doors) on keyboards, as he did on the original.
- Incubus is known to medley into the song while playing "Are You In?" during their live shows.
- Wednesday 13 covered the song with altered lyrics and an original chorus, retitling it 'Welcome to the Strange', on the 2000 Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 album Songs from the Recently Deceased.
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