The Doors

Wow, a bit of a roller coaster, but, like, the wooden kind.

Every song on this album is of the highest quality, not a bad one among them. Every song on this album is recognisable and still sounds great over 40 years later. This is what is meant by 'iconic', everyone knows these songs, they perfectly pinpoint a time in musical history. Apparently I really like The Doors.

Astonishing for a debut. A cultural colossus.

I am reminded of the many times I used to put 'The End' on the jukebox in my local pub, hear 30 seconds of it and then it being rejected and the barmaid giving me my quid back. "Who put that bloody song on again?!?!" jt4527? Here's your quid back!!!!! The Doors for me are a band I can not think about, not listen to for years and then immediately jump right back in without skipping a beat. I think I secretly and very subtly love The Doors very much. Classic album, brilliant! 5 / 5 stars!

try to run, try to hide RF: Classic/10

Songs I've heard 100 times too many, interspersed with deep cuts that should stay hidden. A bad trip at the surfing circus. I've always found The Doors to be fairly tedious, and this album didn't change my mind. 'Hey add another 5 minutes to this last song, Jimmy came up with a little tune about butt-fuckin' that we just *can't* cut."

I went through a huge Doors phase, and still love going back to their music. This album is arguably their best, and there aren't really 'bad' songs or filler, as in some other albums. I used to really buy in to the Jim Morrison as poet thing, but I think it's mostly nonsense, now. I still really enjoy their music, though!

A tiresome album from a tiresome band full of their worst excesses - Morrison’s meandering sixth form poetry, shouting and moaning dressed up in pretension coupled with Manzarek’s wailing, screeching organ solos overpowering everything else on the track (which is a shame because the rest of the band are pretty solid). There’s the famous tracks you already know, plus plenty of filler, pale imitations of better blues rock or psychedelic rock where the doped up audience really are imagining The Doors are the key to unlocking the doors of perception, man. The problem is, you can accidentally be that but you can’t set out to be that. Stop trying so hard, guys. Can you imagine being at a gig where this happens?: ‘Morrison was well known for improvising spoken word poetry passages while the band played live.’ If this is his best un-improvised poetry I dread to think what his improvised work was like. Some choice morsels; ‘ Time to live/ Time to lie/ Time to laugh/ Time to die’ ‘ You know the day destroys the night / Night divides the day’ ‘ The days are bright and filled with pain/ Enclose me in your gentle rain’ ‘Here is Jane/ See Jane run’ Dont get me wrong - popular music can be totally disposable and throw away. It doesn’t have to be deep and meaningful. The problem here is that Morrison and the band think they and their music are deep and meaningful. The album concludes as you might imagine - with a ten minute plus self congratulatory number, an attempt at some long form jazz, not so much The End as When Will This End?

The Doors! One of the most overrated bands of all time. Boring never ending music as a backdrop to pathetic junkie cod philosophy that’s got undeserved kudos because music journalists are generally not that clever.

Fantastic album. Might as well be a greatest hits part 1. Unique sound.

Nr. 19/1001 Break On Through 4/5 Soul Kitchen 3/5 The Crystal Ship 3/5 Twentieth Century Fox 3/5 Alabama Song 3/5 Light My Fire 4/5 Back Door Man 3/5 I Looked at You 3/5 End of the Night 2/5 Take It as It Comes 2/5 The End 3/5 Average 3,0 Good, just don't vibe with The Doors music that much

A ma grande surprise, cet album des Portes de Marbre était plutôt agréable et bien senti, et m'a permis de passer un bon moment. C'est ce que j'aurai écrit si j'avais écouté, comme me l'a fait remarquer en plein milieu de l'écoute mon compatriote l'illustre Robdesert, cet album avec mon seul écouteur gauche... En effet, dès l'instant où l'on a le MALHEUR d'insérer son écouteur droit à l'intérieur de sa trompe auditive, tous les maux de The Doors font irruption, ou plutot LE mal de The Doors, j'ai nommé le detestable Manzarek. Nous proposant un synthé aux sonorités d'orgue tout le long de ce putain d'album, Manzarev nous fait passer un véritable supplice, camouflant la performance de Jim Morrisson en utilisant des extraits de discours du Grand Schtroumpf. Le plus grave dans tout ça, c'est que Manzarev vient même imposer sa loi 7 minutes durant, sur le titre désormais classé comme indésirable Light My Fire, nous offrant un solo tout bonnement inaudibe, non sans rappeler le générique du non méconnu Il était une fois l'homme. Manzarev rentre dans le top 3 des ennemis publics de ce générateur, et rejoins ainsi Elvis Costello et le créateur de cette liste ridicule.

I used to love the doors. Probably enough that I overlistened to them. Still awesome. Jim Morrisons voice is still iconic. It's rare I find the mood to actually listen to them anymore though.

Au fil de l'écoute, on s'aperçoit d'une véritable différence de niveau entre le deux écouteurs. Du côté gauche, les musiciens s'appliquent, le son est propre, le rythme juste. C'est dans l'écouteur droit que les choses se compliquent ; ça grésille, ça bourdonne, et, cerise sur la gâteau, ça joue de l'orgue. Le coupable n'est autre que Manzarek et celui-ci est bien décidé à pourrir l'album. La comparaison avec Framal du S-crew est dès lors inévitable.

When I think of 60's rock, I think of music just like this. This album must have had a profound influence on the rock counter-culture scene then, but there's something profoundly darker in this album than their generational counterparts. I've actually read the book that this band based their name on, and I can totally see the influence in it's psychedelic nature. I love the organs on the songs, its just so groovy and classic sounding. Morrison's vocal performance is fantastic, the guitars are good but mixed a little low, there's nothing too special to say about the drums or bass, the vocals and organ really carried most of the songs. I don't think this type of sound has aged too well though, it's good but it sounds so terribly dated. Maybe that gives it novelty, being a unique product of the times, and thankfully the Doors did this type of music very well. I will also admit that some of these songs didn't flow together well at all (like alabama song). But on a positive note, the organ solo on light my fire is one of the greatest things I've ever heard though. Overall, I liked this album a lot, but I had some problems with it, so I'll rank it a 3.5/5. Favorite song: Light My Fire - Least Favorite: Alabama Song

This album carries so much nostalgia for me. It was something I’d listen to as a teenager in order to connect with my dad. Jim Morrison is an iconic frontman, and his rich baritone over the Hammond organ and the rest of their rocking set the standard for the genre.

I groaned when this came up today as it was the second Doors album in as many days. But to my surprise it was much better than Morrison hotel. Even more impressive is the fact that this was their debut album. Morrison’s powerful voice and Manzarek’s keyboard playing are standouts. The highlight for me are the organ and guitar solos in Light my fire. The only song that I really didn’t like is the Bertold Brecht / Kurt Weill inspired Whisky Bottle.

I was fully prepared for Pink Moon to be my favorite album of the week, and my favorite album on the list for at least more than 24 hours, then we get THIS?? One of my favorite albums of the '60s and of all time. It's the second one on this list that I have on vinyl. A true classic. I don't know how much I need to say here. This album is a hit machine. Jim Morrison's voice and Ray Manzarek's organ make the perfect psychedelic combination, and every song sounds like it could've been a single (even "Alabama Song"). "The End" is one of my favorite songs ever made. I have so many memories tied to it--I put it on during a tornado warning once in Greeley for dramatic effect, I play it during COD zombies matches when I know we've reached our wit's end, and of course the use in Apocalypse Now is legendary. We needed to balance out the British Invasion, so I agree with the Lizard King when he said "The West is the best. Get here, and we'll do the rest." Favorite tracks: THE END, Break On Through, Light My Fire, Soul Kitchen, Take It As It Comes. Album art: Iconic. In the words of Sleepy Joe, "c'mon, man!" The fact that 75% of the band is standing neatly next to a massive, superimposed headshot of Jim Morrison is hilarious and insane. Plus the font is awesome. 5/5

I can't think of many bands whose debut album made such an impact, with great songs and a truly fresh sound. Definitely the Beatles, Nirvana, and the Doors. The Doors aren't my favorite band or even close to my favorite band, but I've always loved Crystal Ship and did have my mind blown when in high school, I went to a performance of the Weill/Brecht opera Mahagonny with my Aunt Royanne and suddenly heard a guy sing the Alabama song, which I had no idea was a cover.

What better way to start this challenge than with the debut album of one of my favorite bands? This one's really solid, and contains a great mix of energetic blues-rock and slower psychedelic tracks. Fun times all the way through.

Much of the discourse surrounding The Doors relates to Jim Morrison’s almost divinely sensual mystique. And while his musings certain contribute significantly to the creative accolades of the band, The Doors are more than Morrison alone. Ray Manzarek’s genius, I would suggest, is at the heart of The Doors’ sound; they would be unrecognizable without his lines driving , his solos disorienting, ultra-psychedelic.

Great! But stop talking about little girls, creep

A monument in music history

Outstanding album. Fun fact: my friend and I once used The End at the end of a high school theatre sketch (could there be a sentence which more perfectly describes what I was like in high school? I think not). The first sentence of the song was met with great hilarity from the audience. Anyway, we filmed the sketch and put it on YouTube, and then it got flagged for copyright infringement. We never took it down, so it's still out there, with the audio removed.

Absolutely fantastic. "The End" is one of my favorite all time songs ("Apocalypse Now" anyone?) Would love to blast this one on the stereo, or car with the windows down. The crazy stereo mixing actually works great, I usually hate that, but it just puts this in the time period so perfectly and the separation of the instruments is cool.

That was fun! Listening to this inspired me to do a Doors binge yesterday

“Father…yes son…I want to kill you.” I just got this on vinyl from my record club. It’s a great combo of swingin’ sixties lounge and late sixties psych. Goes back and forth between dancing playboy bunnies and general Kurtz. Jim Morrison’s lyrics might be a bit overwrought, but we can for give the ol’ king snake, all these songs are undeniable, not a bad one in the bunch. All got radio play but one, and it’s still a banger. On the backbone of catchy keys and guitar licks it really shines. I don’t revisit the doors as much as a used to, but when I do, I really enjoy. It’s fun to imagine how weird/fun Jim Morrison would’ve become had he made it to old age. 5.

One of the greatest debut albums ever - I can only imagine how much more I'd enjoy this if I did psychedelics. Morrison's voice is obviously iconic and although I don't know what he's singing about half the time, I'm fully down with the ethereal imagery it creates. It is Manzarek's work on the keys, however, that really helps elevate and define the sound of The Doors here. Best track: The End

Fantastic music for a fall back to the 60’s. I never listened to them since I was a toddler and marijuana wasn’t legal. I image a psychedelic couch in a smoke filled room with pillows, plants and pot everywhere. They are the grooviest then and now. I’m sure my parents were terrified of them more then Elvis bringing rock and roll to the world. I could do meditation and yoga to this music all day long. Great drummer or should I say Symbolist! Great lyrics and a true opening up to the expanding minds of the 60’s revolutionary times. Don’t know if I would have like this music then but now see the beauty to it in all counts: lyrical, artistic, musical and dimensional. Girl we couldn’t get much higher. Come on baby light my fire. So cool man!

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The original psychedelic masterpiece. Loved it!

A Doors album on the day of an enormous fight? 🤔

There’s two ways of approaching The Doors. If you go into this album assuming it’s going to be something challenging and PROPERLY dark then it’s an abject failure. This is not 48 minutes of dangerous and satanically euphoric rock ’n’ roll mixed in with unholy wisdom beamed down to us by The Lizard King himself. This is 48 minutes of uneasy organ led oom-pah-pah music lead by a drunken boob reciting doggrel from off his own flaccid cock. This brings us to the second way of approaching The Doors: agreeing with all the above and deciding it’s only the better for it. This album is self evidently ridiculous. Jim Morrison is not even in the vague peripheries of being a good poet; his performance here is like watching someone repeatedly trip over a never ending cavalcade of banana skins. That laughable quality is what makes Morrison so amazing though. There is something about the insane pomposity of Morrison’s unarguable charisma that fully sucks you into the steely eyed psych of The Doors music. The majority of the songs here are amazing; from the mystical fury of ‘Break On Through (To the Other Side)’, the haunted menace of ‘End of the Night’ to the adjectives are entirely unnecessary ‘Light My Fire.’ Admittedly, I’m not sure it hangs together especially well as an album, and I do find the oh-so-iconic ‘The End’ to be unlistenable nonsense. Despite this, it’s still a fun and intriguing listen that both stands up today and so clearly points towards the blueprints for what would become punk and goth music. Now: let us all “ride the snake to the lake” as “the west is the best.”

The Doors by The Doors is an engaging album that’s a pleasure to listen to, with hardly any low points. It maintains a consistently high quality, featuring well-crafted instrumentals, beautiful and fitting vocals, and impressive poetry. The album opens with a powerful intro and closes with a fitting outro, making for a cohesive and fun listening experience throughout.

Discovered that I own this, and "Waiting For The Sun"; I guess I am a secret Doors fan unbeknownst even to myself. Gotta agree this is a high quality debut and admit I am quite fond of the organ. Docked a point for that godawful Brecht/Weill number. Highlight is (most of) The End which was used so perfectly in Apocalypse Now that I play the opening bars in my mind whenever I see a cluster of palm trees, excitedly waiting for the napalm. Quite a burden if you lived in SoCal. The horror, the horror

Woooo The allegations are true, i am a rock organ enjoyer. and enjoy i did. gorgeous wee album, best in the first half but full of lovely tunes. Oh to have hit a blunt before listening to this

I bought this tape when I was a kid. I was firmly in the classic rock Aerosmith / Led Zeppelin mode and The Doors was a necessary album at the time. And that tape was censored, which I didn't know at the time. So that bit in 'Break On Through To The Other Side' when he screams "She gets high!" for me was just "She gets!". Which honestly made enough sense back then and hearing "high" now sounds all wrong. Anyway - these tunes are good. Jim Morrison is just a good enough poet to land some good lines and the rest of it comes off as ridiculous pretentiousness that's pretty fun. It's a heckuva mix, which intentional goodness and untintentional goodness that adds up to a lot of goodness. I mean 'Soul Kitchen'? 'Soul Kitchen'? It's hard to hate an album that has a song about sleeping in someone's soul kitchen.

I'm a sucker for a good organ line and this album holds some sentimental value. The lyrics are the sort that probably sounded deep if you were high but otherwise come off as kind of silly. 4/5 stars

I've listened to this album quite a few times. This like wild mixture of Jazz, Blues, rock, and a heavy dash of poetry. It slaps, hard. Break on the through, what a solid fucking intro song for a band on their debut album. It sticks with you. Also man, I wish more modern music incorporated Organs more into the sound. It's so solid.

What an album. I loved this! I knew of The Doors, but never really listened to them. Some great songs and The End is an absolute study in drug taking. The only dud track for me was Alabama Song where I could almost taste the LSD. Great album and will be revisiting. Love that 60s organ sound as well. Best tracks: Light my Fire & Take It As It Comes.

With this album coming into the list I hope we have now broken through to the other side. The minute I saw this classic cover of the group shadowed by a pensive yet determined lead singers headshot (sort of looks like Tom Brady), I knew I was in for a treat. I’m sure I’ve listened to this album before but this felt like a new listen. There are so many gems on this one. Break On Through, Soul Kitchen, Alabama Song, Light My Fire, and of course The End. A classic song that is featured both in Apocalypse Now and when we play Call of Duty: Zombies. I love how the album, when thinking about it, screams classic Rock, but when you listen to it, it feels a lot lighter than Rock. It plays a lot more like other late 60’s early 70’s albums with the electric piano. Reminds me a little of Ryan Goslings band Dead Man’s Bones, especially on In the Room Where You Sleep. I say this as I’m listening to I Looked At You. So I don’t really see this as a Led Zepplin or Journey type of Rock but that doesn’t diminish the power in this album. Even with a few weaker songs this is still a fantastic album to listen to at any time. 9/10

This is one good example of how the radio can sometimes distract from the art of an album. Songs like Crystal Ship remind me how many good vibes are found between the overplayed hits. Whether psychedelics are involved or not, this self-titled LP of wild organ riffs and raw Morrison vocals provide quite a trip!

The Doors had an iconic sound from the start. That classic organ paired with Jim Morrison's howl is unbeatable. Both cool and rebellious, it's a solid debut, even if a few songs meander a bit.

I’m sure this was so cool when it came out but it is just kind of dorky to me. Jamming on that little organ? Okay.

“Jim Morrison was a poet” His poetry: “Ride the snake to the lake.”

Hey, I’ve *watched* ‘Apocalypse Now Redux* and will *willingly* watch it again! Bit grumpy RNG has given us a consecutive weekend doses of the Doors, and almost defaulted this to 2 over an impatient first listen, but skipping through this a second time, I realised most of the songs I thought sucked have their charms. The vocalist’s horny shamanistic pretensions are present, yet they work with the setting, and the band is never less than listenable. I picked up a couple of sonic puns: ‘“This is the End…” DUM DUM DUM!’ And the Alabama whisky bar song being a cabaret-worthy oompa-oompa rollick. Not crap, a perhaps mean 3 here. Writing this on Friday, going back to the Associates record to see if I like it as much a day later.

"You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door." jim morrison died when he 27. in that time he accomplished this great album. he died from the excesses of the rock and roll lifestyle. when i die at 27 it will be due to pork pie related injuries. please play beethoven at my funeral. for all its high peaks of greatness this album has far more dead spots than i remembered - hence the mean looking rating. however this is a proper album. 'soul kitchen' fucking rules. 'break on through' gives me that devo/jerry lee lewis/punk type foam at the mouth focused destruction kind of feeling that i so very much adore. not a bad wee disc.

I think there might be something wrong mentally with lead singer. For a debut and 1967 it's insane. Every 5 minutes something disturbing is in the lyrics. Obviously couldn't be a rock album without mentioning little girls. It's a good album but personally I don't think I'd find myself returning to it. The End was awesome though, I feel like Swans took a lot of influence from this song. Score: 70 Art: 60

Starts off sort of strong but then falls apart quickly. "Twentieth Century Fox" is just a bad attempt at a song and I don't care what anyone else says. "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" is a very good attempt at ruining a Bertolt Brecht song. Their attempt at covering Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man" fails miserably and ends up sounding like some teenagers jamming in their parents' basement. I refuse to spend another second listening to "Light My Fire." This is a downright horrible album that suffers from the weight of their own egos. The only highlight is the openers and closers. But, they've also been ruined by overplaying on classic rock stations. Confirms that the Doors were a shit band.

I knew that the Doors would show up one day. Not sure why I am so out of step with the rest of the world on this but there is something so grating about them. 0 stars if I could. But, I did listen to the whole thing so I think I deserve something.

Gem!

One of the greats. They were unique, and they still are.

It was good

This is what you want from music. An incredible debut album. Largely known for light my fire, I’m coming away from it entranced by most of the songs, with a special shoutout to end of the night, the end, and the Chrystal ship.

love the basslines, the length, and the eerie ambiance of the album. just awesome!!! :D really cathartic by "the end" (badum tss).

Favorite Track: Light My Fire

This is the end. Well, the end of my group getting The Doors albums, anyway. I suppose it's fitting, and maybe for the best, we ended up getting their debut album last. Not just because it concludes our trilogy of albums with "The End", but... I mean, I get the feeling that if I hadn't made the discoveries I had while listening to MORRISON HOTEL and L.A. WOMAN, particularly the latter, I might've been a bit harder on this album. Might've tried too hard to look for the "BIG IMPORTANT ARTSY POETRY" band the public has made them out to be, instead of the psych/blues band led by a former fat kid who **really** wanted to be a poet. Under that light, their music becomes so much easier to just... Kick back and enjoy, y'know? Not hafta stress too much about whether Morrison "deserves" to be buried in that French graveyard for poets. And of all of the Doors albums we've gotten, this is by far the one I've enjoyed the most. After all, it sounds the most like what Weird Al's pastiche of them, "Craigslist", had led me to believe they all the time sounded like. That's legit a bias I had to get past with the other two albums, and 100% why I enjoyed this album as much as I did. And, like, we talk about Morrison a lot, but holy shit, what a band he had behind him. John Densmore and Robert Krieger are great drummers and guitarists respectively, and for real, not enough praise can be put on Ray Manzerik's name. His keyboard sound is just **the best thing**, and **the** defining feature of The Doors' sound, you ask me. That riff on "Light My Fire" is so iconic, goodness. Now, "Light My Fire" is probably the best representation of "classical Doors." What you imagine this group sounds like at a base level. However, if I were to narrow in on any song as the best on the album, and a good contender for their masterwork... Yeah, it's "The End". To my ears, only "Rivals On The Storm" rivals it as the greatest thing they ever made. Some might call this song a self-indulgent slog, but to me, it's an epic. A slow, psychedelic epic with heavy progressive and brooding jazz tones... It's a marvel. A feat unto itself. There's no more perfect way I can imagine this album — or, for that matter, my group's journey through The Doors' albums — ending. I feel like reviewing these albums has given me a new appreciation for The Doors. I can see why there are people who consider them pretentious and over-rated, but for my money? Nah, they deserve the acclaim they get, and this album particularly. It's a 5 — just an incredibly strong collection of songs, worth a few dozen spins and then some more. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say these songs are STRONGER THAN DIRT. Yeah, that's a good reference to end on.

Absolutely stellar. Solid 5 Stars.

It’s a very easy 5. This is the third (and final) time we’ve pulled Jim Morrison and friends, and they’re gonna go 3 for 3 on getting 5’s. For a debut album, talk about knocking it out of the fucking park – that is 44 electric minutes of music. Not a single miss here, although perhaps my experience with “End of the Night” was enhanced a bit more by sitting in a pitch black room while listening to it. I haven’t been able to write more than 2 or 3 paragraphs about any of the Doors albums we’ve gotten because they usually put me into such a zone while listening that I just melt into the music and appreciate the experience. That might still be true here, because I don’t know what to type about this that someone else hasn’t typed – it’s got great blues influence throughout, it’s a landmark piece of psychedelic rock, the gritty tone in Jim Morrison’s vocals glide on each track, and Smash Mouth totally ripped “Walkin on the Sun” from “Soul Kitchen” (ok, maybe nobody’s typed that last one). I’ll say this – my main experience with “Light My Fire” before listening to the full 7 minute version on this album, was with… Stevie Wonder’s excellent, excellent cover, from his 1969 album “My Cherie Amour”. It’s an album that’s not on the list, but I think it’s worth listening to regardless. That cover of “Light My Fire” gave me a very different expectation from the version featured here, and honestly, they both stand up really well next to each other. I think Stevie Wonder somehow turning that into a big band swinger track with a jazzy vibe & room for a harmonica solo, when it originated with Jim Morrison’s sort of duller (but good!) vocals, and the craziest organ/guitar solo ever, is simply a testament to how radically music can be interpreted. Anyway, this is a fantastic album – it's a great debut, an incredibly strong package from front to back, and for the last time we’re getting The Doors in this 1001 album experience, it’s a hell of a way to go out. It's a very, VERY easy 5.

Great debut of psychedelic blues rock where each member seems to have a different unique influences, but they come together as one. Classic album with no bad songs. They can rock hard, spacey, carnivals, jammy, bluesy - they cover a lot of ground while still having a cohesive sound. Love the keys, love the guitar work, dig the jazzy drumming, and Morrison does his thing.

The Doors were a unique and interesting sound and even the weaker songs are worth hearing. 5 stars or A-.

A great album, especially for a debut. I always find it remarkable when a band appears fully formed with their own distinctive sound, but it's even more remarkable in 1967 - bear in mind that only a few years before that undisputably great bands like the Beatles and the Stones started out releasing covers interspersed with pretty generic tracks before establishing themselves as the bands we know today. This album sounds unmistakenly like The Doors, and includes several of the bands iconic songs (Light My Fire, Break on Through, The End), a long with some really solid album tracks. I was very familiar with the likes of Alabama Song and Back Door Man, but the likes of Soul Kitchen and 20th Century Fox are great too (and I bet sounded terrific live if Morrison and co let loose).

10

girl we couldn't get much HIGHER it's hard to put into perspective what it meant to say FU to Ed Sullivan.

The Doors have always been one of my favourite bands with this being my second favourite Doors album. Almost flawless, bar a few tracks that fall a bit short for me personally. Psychedelic, dark and enigmatic the entire album is just oozing with personality. As it has been a while I'll do a full active relisten with notes, just to refresh my thoughts and to see if they have changed in any way. Break on through to the other side. One of the absolute greats. The keys, the vocals and the drums all work perfectly together to create a song that is dark but also so full of colour. Everything here just works in tandem. Absolutely perfect. 5/5 Soul Kitchen The keys create an iconic pattern that introduces a deep moody vibe that is continued in the vocals. The vocal performance on the chorus blows my mind. The post chorus verse is also fanatastic. Underrated guitar solo. Simple and sweet. Sublimely produced. Ends on a conclusive and solid note. 5/5 The Crystal Ship Never been my favourite on the album. Evocative lyrics. Slower pace. Quiet instrumental. Good. 3.5/5 Twenieth Century Fox The verses are great, the chorus works though feeks like it's missing something to push it over the edge. The guitar is a highlight. Jim Morrison does a great job on the vocals here. Great. 4/5 Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) Fun tempo. Whimsical in a scary way. Sounds like a cursed carnival ride. Serial killer lyrics. Interesting instrumental break. Menacing. 4/5 Light my Fire Iconic opening keys. Iconic first verse. Iconic chorus. A defining song for the era and rock music in general. Keyboard break deserves every praise it gets. Delightfully psychedelic and moody. Everything just takes its time and leaves enough space for the music to just hit you. Blissful. The guitar just complements the keyboard so well, and the drums while doing nothing fancy ground the track well. And the bassline is another pillar for the track to stand on. When the vocals come back with the keyboard line preceding it is just pure bliss. Never overstays its welcome. Absolute perfection. 5/5 Back Door Man The wild vocals in the intro with the bouncy instrumental really sets the tone. Bluesy and raw. Fantastic vocal performance. An instrumental that just oozes coolness. Strange and unhinged lyrics at times. Underappreciated. 5/5 I Looked at You Driven and well structured. Again, keys are a highlight. Not sure if I think the bass here is too great. Full of energy and pure rock and roll spirit. Solid drum work. Great. 4/5 End of the night Mysterious. Gloomy. A raw vocal performance, almost regretful. Psychedelic guitar. Appreciate it a lot more than I used to. Underrated. 4.5/5 Take it as it comes Big. Dense and tight chorus. Amazing keyboard solo. Bass here is also extremely catchy. Great. 4/5 The End The Godfather of all album closers for me personally. Just almost 12 minutes of pure psychedelic goodness. Not a single second wasted. A true experience, from the enigmatic lyrics to the slithering tempo. Perfect performances from everyone culminate into an absolute explosion of absolute beautiful chaos and madness at the end. Almost too good for words... 5/5 I love this album so much. It always delivers. Just an absolute joy to listen to at any time. Deserves all its plaudits. While I do enjoy Strange Days slightly more these two albums are pretty neck in neck for me and both would be in the discussion for my personal top 10 albums of all time. Just an absloute masterpiece. Fave song. The End Least fave song. The Crystal Ship

Excellent. Seminal.

Omfg sooooo good

OK, wow. The Doors debut is, when ya sift through it, basically a greatest hits compilation. It’s 1967, so a bit before my iintro to music listening , but this album has captured the moment. The first six songs are a line up that is insane and will not be touched in comparison. Break On Through as the opening song and initial offering to the public makes a bold statement. Soul Kitchen, still one of my favorites. (Damn, that still holds up.) Crystal Ship: another flashing chance at bliss. 20th Century Fox is just a clever little play on words that somehow has made it through to the 21st century. Whiskey Bar was included ion the album at the request of one of the girlfriends at the time, she thought it grounded them a little more with the general public. Light My Fire was (and perhaps still is) the most covered song through the 70s. Back Door Man and The End are songs I’m surprised Electra allowed on the album, the Lizard King getting weird inside the gold mine, but it was the 60s after all. 4.8*s)

The Door

God how I love this album. Iconic.

Insane album for a debut. There a multiple massive hits on here that still hold up nearly 60 years later. Even the songs that are not hugely recognized still bring something new and are borderline experimental at times. 9/10

A classic.

Epic debut album.

I don't know if this hits as well as it did when I was younger but it's a formative album for me so it feels wrong to not rate it like a classic. Weirdo circus music.

Phenomenal album

Do I love rock organ? No. But what would The Doors be without it? Above all, I’m a sucker for that voice. *Swoon*

BEST SONGS: - Soul Kitchen - The Crystal Ship - End of the Night - Light My Fire

So... classic rock -- not my favorite Songs I have heard enough to memorize -- a lot on here Stuff not typically on my playlist -- true... So I must not be big on this album than? Boring? Not my thing? This album is one of the best albums in rock history, fact is. The songs are deep and meaningful, and still have meaning today. It is full on amazing and astonishes me every time I hear it. Maybe it is not on my playlist because it is so intense and demanding. What a band they were! People should just own this album outright and just play it now and then. Technically I could not overstate the awesomeness that this album is: it will speak for itself-- have a great day!

Hit after hit and a debut album. Jim has his haters but I've always loved these guys. They stand head and shoulders above almost everyone else. A TITAN of an album

Classic

Nobody does it quite like The Doors

Genialne! Zapomniałam, jak dobry to jest zespół. Każdy kawałek powala. Te klawisze! Ten wokal! Ta dynamika! Kocham. 9.5/10!!!!

I mean, this is The Doors? Of course it's great. But there is "great" and there is "great!!!" This is the latter. The album starts off with a musical explosion from Break on Through (To the Other Side) and then proceeds from one hit song to another. Just naming the one's everyone knows we have the aforementioned Break on Through, the obvious drug song The Crystal Ship, their most famous song, Light My Fire, and the epic The End. In between there is more great music, from start to (pun intended) end. This is the album that changed rock music. Instead of a tenor crooner, Jim Morrison was a bass, with a deep rich voice. Instead of lyrics about holding a girl's hand or be infatuated with someone, The Doors sang about death. Even when they sang about "love" it had a lustful element not seen in rock music before, not even blues rock. Rather than big, lush, overwrought arrangements, The Doors reintroduced minimalist rock and roll. All told, this album was a game changer.

Exceptional first record

Moody, broody and juicy! Probably the best example I've heard of the citar/indian music influences that crop up alll the time in the late 60s, because it didn't feel out of place. Normally it makes me want to tear my ears off because it's so obvious they just whacked it in there because of the Beatles. But in The End, the song was perfectly constructed around it, and fit well in the album at large too.

Outrageously good. This album has it all.

I am a generation X child who came to The Doors in the vicinity of the mid-80s. By High School, I'd read biographies, books of Morrison's poetry, and traversed The Doors' catalog with other (looking back, now, clearly gifted, traumatized, and neurodivergent) somber weirdos seeking capital-t Truth. I don't know, now, looking back, about any of it. Morrison's poetry and songwriting don't seem nearly as profound and expansive as they did when I was a flailing young man, myself. Nevertheless, this is a killer band, and this is a killer debut album. Each instrumental musician in the band... Krieger, Densmore, and Manzarak... were absolute beasts on their respective instruments, and they came together in a singular, iconic, "one of one" manner. Add Morrison, who I contend is the single greatest baritone front man in popular musical history, and you have perfect, albeit chaotic, mentally and emotionally raw, drug-addled chemistry. Yeah, this is a 5 of 5 for me. Top to bottom.

5/5 about as good as a debut can be. No skips.

Стильно. Даже в наше время.

R.I.P JIM

Timeless Classic

Perfect!!! Iconic! Timeless!!! So many exceptional tracks on this album. Absolutely brilliant 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

If I’m honest it’s more of a four. But “The End” persuaded me to give it five. I listened to all the Doors albums and there’s a main four of five which have more good songs than average songs but none a complete classic-all-the -way-through. That’s why I love the Best of The Doors cassette tape I used to have. But, five points for being so Doorsy.

Arguably the best debut album of all time

Well, it remains one of the most iconic and important Rock music records of all time. Just interesting how much aggression this creates with some, how much loathing and obvious jealousy. Yes, Morrison soon became an overly self-indulgent and pretentious appearance soon, and the song writing didn't overly advance later on, and yes the Doors might me overrated as a whole. But this one is a stand out by far.

That special voice and the prominent organ in the music. It's far more timeless than anything else I've heard from that time.

Classic

JIM MORRISON IS A MONSTA

LP

Nice Album