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This was so funky and felt so fresh, I thought I was going to hate it but it was infectious. The usual weird stuff about girls that you expect from the 60s but still gives me the ick so minus a star for that but the rest was banging.
Jim Morrison interesting character would always have died young or did fame push him over the top. Not much not to like from the doors debut, it must have sounded so fresh at the time. Stand out tracks: - Break on through (to the other side) - Soul kitchen - Twentieth century fox - Light my fire - I looked at you - Take it as it comes
Fun album - Very enjoyable listen Solid 8/10 Unfortunately I'm a basic fellow, so Light My Fire was my favourite track (so good)
Liked the live versions of all the songs honestly but some songs definitely were sub par where the mixing between the vocals and the instruments were shambolic.
I'm not really a The Doors fan, I haven't listened to them much, but psychedelic music just doesn't fit me very well. Additionally I'm not a great jazz fan either, and I feel like I hear some heavy jazz influences on this album too. I have heard 'Light My Fire' before, but I think it might have been a cover by someone else, or maybe the single version which I understand to not have the big middle jazz section - I remember enjoying this song more than I feel like I did this time at least. 'Back Door Man' is also one of my standouts, but I'm told that that's not a The Doors number but rather a cover, so the fact that it's one of my standouts probably indicative of me not super enjoying their own sound Standouts Light My Fire Back Door Man The End 3/5
Never could really get into them, but decent album anyway
Can see why it may have been iconic or pioneering back in the day, but it's just not my style of music. Not my type of vocals, lacks the harmonic and textual depth that I like, doesn't draw me in.
A unique collection of psychedelic rock songs. Love em or hate em, The Doors' debut is mostly propped up by two key songs: Light My Fire and The End. Everything else is two or three minutes each, so things tend to move on fairly quickly in comparison. Break On Through and Soul Kitchen are still stone-cold classics for my money though. Speaking on the first of the two centerpieces, Light My Fire is a tour de force in Ray Manzarek's organ skills. It occasionally sounds quite baroque, lending to the fanciful tone of this carefree album. The Doors were a bunch of rapscallions who made music rapscallions, so the end result is a bunch of fairly fun tunes. That is, except for The End. The End is a darkly daunting song that feels akin to drifting slowly down the river Styx. Morrison is out ferryman as the band lives in the ambience they created for this song. Until it gets really scary and then The End ends. Well fellas that was a great time had by all! Not sure why it got so scary but I enjoyed it immensely. We should do this again sometime.
This is easy: five stars is the max, so it’s gotta be five stars!
Not just a classic because of the songs themselves - everyone is a banger - but also because as a debut of a band consisting of such young, hungry men AND as the dark end of the hippie movement. Everyone knows the big hits so I think that songs like The Crystal Ship or Backdoor Man deserve more recognition. The first one is a melancholic ballad with amazing piano, the 2nd one a blues rock song with obscure humour. Yes, this is one of the best albums ever and definitely deserves a place on this list - like many other albums by The Doors.
Flawless? I would argue no, but still a damn good debut. Certainly a landmark rock album that helped define the sound of the 60s.
Classic
Legendär
I can't say that I'm a huge fan of The Doors generally. I have found some of their music to be a bit boring and some a little more interesting. Their self-titled debut however was something special. With all of their best known tracks in one place, this is surely the best of The Doors right from the beginning. The organ sounds throughout the album give them a unique psychedelic vibe, matched with their rock energy. Arguably, this album has some filler, but it's still significant if only for the inclusion of 'Break on Through', 'Light My Fire' and 'The End'. Surely 'The Doors' is one of the best debut albums out there, even if their later work couldn't quite match it in my opinion.
183/1001
Pretty seminal rock and roll album; it's eerily transportive. Super crisp capture for its era, the record still sounds totally alive and kicking for 1967. Jim Morrison is clearly shaping the frontperson paradigm in real time and is absolutely electric all over this record.
Fine, overrated.
Ahhhh my misspent youth! Hard not to like this because I listened to it quite a lot in my early teens (late '70's), so I am biased. That being said, I wonder what it must have been like to listen to it for the first time back in '67 when it was first released?!
I enjoyed the psychedelic parts of the album. They really get into the jams on the longer songs of this album (Light my Fire / The End).
I guess I'm kind of fed up with the Doors.
I just wish they had a song called "The Doors" so they could join the heady company of Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, and Bad Company! Jokes aside, for me, over the last 30 years, The Doors have gone from "This band is my life and Jim Morrison is Kerouac, Rimbaud, and Blake combined" to "Fuck, I'm so embarrassed I used to listen to The Doors", to my latest position. The band is important culturally, a touch stone for many other artists. The music is bloody good actually. Little heavy on the keys occasionally but Krieger has a unique style and Densmore is a fantastic drummer, given the space he has to fill. This is psychedelic with a gothic tint. Later albums move a bit further into the dark and have a bit more interest for me due to that.
This album has some amazing memorable songs but is overall a bit repetitive and mediocre. Incredibly influential but not for me Fav song: Light my fire
I thought I was gonna like this from the first track but it was downhill from there. Take it as it comes was a good breath of fresh air but it couldn't save this album for me. Favourite song: Take it as it comes
No
Great album. Would want to give it more listens to become familiar with the less-known songs. The tracks I marked so far are the popular ones (Break On Thorugh, Light My Fire) and The Crystal Ship.
Neither a Doors fan, nor a hater. Which makes me feel like I'm in rarified air. This Is The End makes me wish it was the end, but beyond that these are all solid songs.
Shocked I enjoyed this as much as I did. I blame the Boomers for inundating me during *my* childhood with *their* nostalgia. Fucking Oliver Stone.
Different genre then i am used to but nice
I've never been a huge fan of The Doors so I really don't have much to say, it's just not for me
Very good album with a lot of hits, only to be let down by its sound quality and annoying mixing
Seminal debut. All style and substance. Also a bonkers ride and some of it only half cooked. But 4 nonetheless
Classic but okay
I sure love CIA-funded circus music
True classic album. I always thought the doors were a bit pretentious. This is the only classic album of theirs I have heard.
Väldigt bra, bättre än L.A woman.
Comes out of the gates strong and doesn't let up. Absolute classic and the best doors album. The end is a bit long but other than that is fantastic
Feel like The Doors have fallen heavily out of fashion in recent years, were definitely considered a classic canonical act when I was growing up. It's pretty good still, although Morrison is insufferable. 3.5 rounded up
Did they have any studio execs telling them to make it more "Beatles?" Because it sounds like if you told the Doors to make a Beatles album. Also, is that just the limit of the organ in the 1960's? It's a pretty boring album, because there's nothing to sell the organ after the hits. They aren't really trying to push the boundaries of the instrument that makes them unique. This makes me want to hear them in a couple of decades more than it makes me want to listen to this album again.
We love a good rock n roll organ Faves: Light My Fire, The End
Classic rock.
Groovy
Again, 4+ iconic songs, radio hits and some added in that could be considered in the same category. Classic album, Top 500 in my opinion and if you dont have it, I suggest you run out and go get it.
Well, this is kinda a weird one, since this is my second Doors album in less than a week. This album feels much much more coherent in terms of the quality of the songs, whereas the other album was much more uneven. This album feels like less straightforward blues and has more of a psychedelic influence. Jim Morrison is still a completely mediocre lyricist parading as a poet, but the music is still really good. Also, what is the fucking deal with the Doors and having 7 minute long singles. Brevity is the soul of wit, Jim 4/5
All killer….no filler. Incredible debut album that doesn’t suffer from familiarity of repeated listening.
Some good songs. Okay album
The Doors have never really been my thing, which has been further proven by this album. Rating: 2
10/10
classic
There’s always that one group that everyone loves, but you don’t get. The Doors fit that description for me. There are moments that grab and mesmerize me like everyone else. When they’re on, their moody, bluesy vibe makes me swoon, but when Morrison goes a little out there with too much of the hippie dippy angle that dominated the culture at the time, they can get a little eye rolling. But when the balance is right, and the majority of this album it is, it’s clear why they’re all-timers. This is probably my favorite album by them.
Not my type of music but was pretty good
The doors can get bent.
60s blues rock. I used to like The Doors but now I find Jim Morrison a bit insufferable. The big hits are classic songs though
I'm bemused by the global rating for this album... Not being born when this was released, 1985's The Best Of The Doors was my introduction to their music and I was immediately captivated. When they were recording this in 1966 they were way ahead of their contemporaries. Some of their later albums are certainly weaker, but this is solid gold 5⭐
Very good.
2.5
The best psychedelic rock album ever. Jim Morrison and company started their career with the right foot! I don’t think there’s a skip here. Its influence is absurdly humongous. It’s a 5 - no questions.
Effortlessly cool in the slacker most way with songs routinely zoning out and doodling half their runtimes, but in a positive way.
Some fantastic songs and some ok ones, but great for a debut album.
Incredible album. Better than LA Woman. Love the psychedelic-ness of it.
“Jim Morrison was a poet” His poetry: “Ride the snake to the lake.”
When I was a kid I couldn’t get over the fact that Jim Morrison sings “if I was to say to you” rather than “if I were to say to you.” It still kinda rankles. But this is a masterpiece of an album nonetheless.
The Doors introduced with this album their unique sound of vocals, keyboards, guitar and drums. It has got two eternal rock anthems with "Break On Through" and "Light My Fire" and except "End Of The Night" and "The End" (that got a bit too long for my taste) only strong tracks. Great debut! 4,5
Comienza el primer álbum de los Doors con la fuerza irresistible de "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", y con este tema (un canto a la libertad alcanzada rompiendo todas las barreras físicas y mentales, con una referencia clara al uso de drogas psicodélicas) sientan las bases de un estilo único que hace reconocible cada una de las canciones de esta banda mítica: letras poéticas y blues y rock duro, con fusiones de jazz y música clásica, sostenido todo por la voz de Jim Morrison, la guitarra de Robby Krieger y los teclados de Ray Manzarek. Para los restos dejaron una influencia brutal en la historia del rock (mucho más allá de la mitificación de su vocalista, Jim Morrison, a raíz de su muerte temprana). Me gusta mucho la rockera "Soul Kitchen", con la estupenda guitarra de Robby Krieger tomando protagonismo, así como el órgano de Manzarek en "Take It as It Comes". Otro gran tema, no ya del disco, sino de todo el repertorio de la banda es "Light My Fire", canción sobre sexo y pasión con una poética descripción del orgasmo utilizando la metáfora del fuego y su ardiente temporalidad. También me gusta la atmósfera surrealista de "End of the Night" para hablarnos de la búsqueda de la felicidad y la insatisfacción utilizando el poema "Augurios de inocencia" de William Blake. El disco concluye con otro monumento musical, "The End", engrandecida más de una década después por ser parte fundamental de la banda sonora de la película Apocalypse Now de Coppola. En sus más de 11 minutos la prosa de Morrison nos habla sobre la muerte y ese momento justo antes del ocaso en el que la vida pasa frente a tus ojos en una secuencia acelerada de forma que, cuando lo comprendes todo, llega el FINAL. Todo un broche de oro a este magnífico disco.
The Doors are probably not underrated, but they are under-hyped. This album is one of the best debuts I've ever heard, even though it's not a style that I gravitate toward. Jim Morrisson is a rock n' roll icon for a reason — great voice, clear lyrical delivery and a brilliant charisma that even shines through on a recording. And then there is the band! The guitar playing of Kreuger basically sums up guitar playing before Hendrix, while still bringing a fresh legato style playing on The End that I think far too few are aware of being influenced by. And the use of organ is something that will dominate the music of the coming decade, be it in soul, prog or early metal. On top of that you have a solid drummer that ties it all together.
Organ lead rock, got a bit rambly
Morrison's voice is the greatest strength and the greatest weakness of the band. He only seems to move on a "how forceful is my voice" axis (as opposed to how sweet, how big, etc.). There are a few exceptions, but the album seems almost bland at times (it doesn't help that I have heard this album many times). All in all, a phenomenal album. If only they had a few singers like the Beatles
I like the overall sound of The Doors. I'd describe it as "spooky rock." There's some really good songs in here and I enjoyed it overall, however a lot of the songs do sound the same. Still decent though.
These guys have a distinct sound of Rock with spooky organ keys mixed in. It reminds you Halloween or something. Maybe it's the time of year. Mostly songs are slow and sleepy. And the recognizable ones are sort of worn out and immediately bland halfway through the song.
83% Best: Break on Through (To the Other Side), Light My Fire, The End Must-Hear? Sure
This is how to do a debut album. From the opening chords of Break on through to finishing with The End it is a must listen. The rest of the tracks don't sound like fillers, each with its unique style. And this isn't even the best Doors album IMHO 5/5
One of the best! This is a great example of an innovative, creative, and perfect rock album to fit the time and genre.
What a great debut album. The Doors are a great band with a deep catalogue. 4.5/5
I hate Jim Morrison. Bloated, overrated. Cannot fathom their popularity or his saint-like status.
One of the best debut albums of all time!
A strong argument for sobriety.
I just don't get it.
Shrouded in mystique sounds of nature and big tops And a voice beyond
I think much of The Doors’ appeal has to do with Morrison’s charisma and early death. Obvious highlights are the famous ones
One of my friends from university decided to listen to all "staple" or "masterpiece" albums from start to finish, like Biggie's "Life After Death" or "The Doors". The Doors was the first album I listened to from start to finish, before embarking on the 1001 journey and it absolutely deserves a 5/5. I had to listen to it for the second time.
# Playlist track - Light My Fire # Notes - Definitely not without its flaws. - There are some boring moments, the lengthy solo, and the over the top moodiness in "The End". But it's a pretty great listen and left it's mark on the history of music.
Maybe iconic for its time, but didn't do it for me. 2* Highlights: light my fire
Some classics but a very dated sound.
Another contender for most obnoxious face on an album cover. Almost as irritating as the organ noodling throughout. First half had some ok bits, enough for a three; second half bored me to tears so two for you. I think I might like the later stuff more? I just don't get the Doors early doors.
I think hindsight has only hurt this album. Not dramatically, but I don't think it stands out as much now, as it probably did when it was released. That said, it's a very, very solid album. Not really "greatest ever" but still great. Nothing particularly stands out, other than the keys/synth work throughout the album, which is really well done and balanced. Favorite Song(s): Light My Fire
I loved the Doors back in high school, but as I got older, Morrison sounds less profound and more like a drunk on acid. Don’t get t me wrong, I still like the Doors, but it’s more about the music than the genius of Jim. The keyboards are really what laid the groundwork for every Doors song, and that is as evident on this album as any other. It’s a solid album that still holds up all these decades later, only for different reasons.
BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE YEAH
I mean it was alright ig, not big on the 60s as a whole but fairs
An album that is not as good as you remember it being when you were 19..
I'm not a fan of The Doors and think Jim Morrison is only held in such high regard because of his early death, but it's hard to deny this album's impact on rock. The hits off this album ("Break on Through", "Light My Fire") are well-regarded but I think the 3rd biggest song off the album, "The End", is such a better representation of the psychedelic rock that The Doors actually were.
Day221 - rating great bands that you don’t like is tough. this is obviously a great album but something about the doors never clicked with me
2.4
Psychedelic, revolutionary, otherworldly
++*: The End ++: Break on Through (To the Other Side), Soul Kitchen, The Crystal Ship, Twentieth Century Fox, Alabama Song (Whisky Bar), Back Door Man, I Looked at You +: Light My Fire, End of the Night, Take It as It Comes 9,5/10
I don’t quite know what it is. If got absolutely nothing negative to say about this. Besides, maybe, I wish there was more? Idk.
Uno de los mejores álbumes de rock de la historia, indiscutiblemente. Las letras e imposición de Morrison, sumando al infinito talento de sus compañeros de banda, logran construir un LP debut increíblemente sólido, hipnótico y psicodélico. En mi opinión, este es el mejor trabajo de The Doors, con himnos inmortales del géenero como "Light My Fire", "Soul Kitchen", "The End", "Alabama Song", y "Break on Through". Solo este disco les merece el estatus de leyenda que tienen, sedimentando su tremenda influencia en el panorama rock, pop e indie.
A decent album, nothing on there to make me stop listening. There were two more well-known tracks, and they were basically a distillation of the rest of the album. If it came on again I'd probably listen to it, but I wouldn't actively search it out and listen again. That, to me, is the sign of a 3 star album.
I can see why people still listen to this album 50 years later
Overall good, some were unnecessary, like the end
Probably the most recognizable of the Doors albums, and it was their debut album to boot! Mostly everything sounds very polished, with iconic psychedelic rock tracks such as "Break on Through", "Light My Fire", and one of my favorites "Soul Kitchen". The Doors really exemplify this era of late-60's psychedelic rock for me, as I was exposed to them frequently throughout my youth. I will agree that some songs tend to meander a bit here (that's a Jim Morrison special), but The Doors are still a psychedelic rock-era staple to me and I never tire of listening to their hits.
Love Doors 🫶🏻 tæt mellem 4 og 5, så svær at bedømme
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Fucking love the doors - the eerie feeling with the use of the organ, the vampire-like persona of Jim Morrison, everything in this album seems to work for me.
Never listened to them before. Surely expanded my music taste
А я знаю альбом двери от группы двери. Я его слушал. Он хороший. Они хорошие. Мне нравится пара песен настолько что я их мгновенно узнаю и такой ого охохо хаха ооо еее нормально. Найсу.
This album is behond good, great or legendary, for me this is the peak of music by on of the best band of all times. The Doors are on of the coolest and interesting band of the 60's with their very unique sound (organ and jazz style drumming and Robbie Krieger guitare style), their imensly charismatic and enigmatic lead singer Jim Morrison and his lyrics that magnify all of this. Its also a crime to not mention what make this band so special, the organ sound by a truly underatted music genius, Mr Ray Manzarek. John Densmore drumming is essential to all the track on this album and Robbie Krieger is a wonderfull guitarist who bring outiside influences like flamenco, jazz or blues. Its easy to forget about because of Jim Morrison appeal (sexual and vocal) but really his poetry, songwritting skills and raw voice work at aboslut perfection with this band. First it has a very very iconic cover, the faces of the band in a black image, kinda like the With The Beatles album, except with Morrison's face way bigger than the other, to show hoe beautifull and magic he was. The name is also cool, the name of the album is the same that the name of the band of course, it came from the Doors of perception a book by Aldus Huckley about his experience with psychedelic drugs, itself inspired by a quote by William Blake in the 18e century. So a reference to literature, to drugs and to niche autours, all of this perfectly summerzie what the band is about. On the top of this the album was a huge commercial sucess, the album itself and some of its songs, with arouynd 20 millions sales wordlwide since 1967 it is their best selling album. the song are honnestly some oif the best songs ever made, its almost criminal to have them all on just of album, they are are better and legendary. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)": Probably one of their most well known and recgonisable song, way faster than their habitual song, very poetic lyrics but sing with the rock and roll might of Jim make it perfect. "Soul Kitchen" is also very poetic, its about a black restaurant that Jim was going in Venice Beach, probaly in reference to the lyrics, the song is pretty much a soul song, a critic call it Funky blues rock, and i agree. Definitly on of the best song of their discography. "Crystal Ship" is way slower, and hade a very smooth vibe that tranport you in heaven, just the organ and Morrison voice are enough to make you dream. The lyrics of the song are pretty vague and open to intepretation could be about a lover, or death, or fame or drugs or all of them. "Twentieth Century Fox", is a cool song, a classical Doors song, with the organ that carry the song away, the song has some intersting meaning, about hollywood, a young actress and fame "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" is cover so good and well done that its almost not a cover anymore, its just a Doors song, everything on this song is good, Jim's voice is just magnetic, Ray Manzarek is really the star on this song i think, he play all the instrument that make the song good. This song is a wierd song from a 1930's german opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, but the song was trasnalted in english in the 30's and its another proof of hoe the literature influence the Doors. Anyway also on of their best song overall. "Light My Fire", the hit song that made the Doors of the most well known band of the late 60's, this song is closely associated with the 1967 summer of love and with big reason, the up beat song, about free love and sex. The song is so intersting musically, and in this song John Densmore have to be credited with the jazz style drumming that bring the song to another level. Ray that play organ and bass (on the organ) with his 2 hands give the song its unique touch, almost like a jazz improvisation. The song was written by Robbie inspired by the Rolling Stone's play with fire. The song topped the charts, and the lyrics "girl we couldn't get much high" was sing live in the Ed Sullivan Show (they ask Jim to not sing it and he did) so they were never invited again, but the damage was done and now the Doors enter rock and roll legend. The song is abviously one of their best and most well known but most, it one of the bets song ever made and just make you want to live in the 60's. "back-door man" is the other cover on the album wich is also so good that it now their song, this time its a Chicago blues song by Willie Dixon. A back door man is a doubble entente, first in the south its an expression to describe man who have affair with married woman (they enter/leave the house by the back door when the husband leave or came back). It could also be man who love anal sex So very very sexually inspired lyrics and the screaming at the beggening also tell us the raw enegery of the song. "I looked at you", its a pretty fast song, nothing so special, but very cool and joyfull. "The end of the night" is a truly beautifull song also classic Doors, very poetic with some literals influences of Jim like William Blake and french autors. The song is so moody and dreamy, and so psychedelic just moved you away. "Take It as It Comes" is way faster than the previous, its about love sex and life moving fast, apparently a tribute to the Maharishi Yogi, with his meditation classes that the band was taking (where some of them met). Pretty decent song. Wich other song would you have concluded this perfect album if not "The End" no better way to do it, the guitare by robbie here carry the song, with the mystical aura aound it its so pure. The lyrics talk about a love that ended and its a farewell to that girl. The song have some beauritufll image in the lyrics by Jim and the music make it even more tragic and mysterious. So the song was pretty simple at first but trought the month anjd the nconcert it grew longer, with the middle part that is a complete improvisation but Jim who was stoned out of his mind on LSD, and make a poems with so story and coherence but somehow is just moving you away (by far my favorite part). And then he stared on a story about a guy who killed his father and fuck his mother (reference to the oeadipian complexe). There is also the part where his said "fuck" repetely . Wich also gave the song an even greater aura, its the reccording where Jim was also very high on acid (wich explain a lot) and sang the song with an almost godly voice. This song its rock and roll at its best, purest form, a psychedelic masterpiece an greek tragedy so wonderfull, and the final where the muci just accelerate an explose in an epic climax and Jim just said "Kill" multiple time and then back to the beggening. Anyway a truly epic and magic song, and its their best song. Its difficult to find a more perfect album form every musical details, everysong every lyrics is good, inspired by so much diffrent kind of music and art, cinema, old, classic and avant-garde literature, psychedlic rock, jazz, blues, classical music. A modern album with old school and niche influence make it just perfect and was so much influential, inclunding for the Sgt peper albums by the Beatles. This album is esoterical, magic and deeply poetic, i have to say it again and again but this album is perfection and i truly love it.
If I grow my hair maybe I could become Jim Morrison. FAT. UGLY. DEAD.
It was good, a really good debut but not perfect, I suppose nothing is…
I discovered the Doors while going through my dad’s vinyl collection in the early 1980s. Along with King Crimson, the Doors were one of the first bands to expand my view of music beyond what was on the pop radio stations. This is a great experimental spoken word poetry album set to complex music that still somehow feels of the 1960s (with a couple of songs that “broke through” to popularity). The End is a haunting, if somewhat overly long and self-indulgent, piece that echoes through my memories.
i've actually been meaning to listen to this album for the longest time, but ig i just never got around to lol break on through is pre good, iconic for sure soul kitchen is kinda a meh song for me currently on the crystal ship, and i'm liking it a lot more, it feels very mysterious and i love that it reminds me of humbug in a way really like twentieth century fox, it oozes 60s with the keys and guitar love the play on words as well
Probably the 60s drug culture music that we studied in class. Just not that interesting to me but I do not hate it.
I knew this day was going to come, but despite the valid arguments that The Doors are over rated as a band, I really do like them and this is a good record to put on and listen to.
The Doors are one of the canonical rock bands I like the least. Jim Morrison just seems like he would be the least enjoyable person to spend time with ever. That fucking organ is SO high in the mix. It all just gets on my nerves. It avoids a 1 because there are some good ideas in here. They just get buried in the crap.
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would
Very good, prob not best Doors, but obv very influential
81/100
I liked it much
Solid album. Really dig Jim Morrison's voice, and the guitar work. Need to listen to more Doors!
I don't have any actually useful comments to contribute; obviously, the Doors' debut album was one of the cornerstones of the decade and so on. I had not heard these songs beyond the two hits before, and the less-remembered songs turned out to be a great listen. It also helped me fill out the Doors' timeline in my head - this first album sounds the closest to the contemporary British trends it parallels, and the later albums lean more into a unique style.
I really enjoyed some tracks, but not others… this is like a 3.5 for me
Hey! It's The Doors! I don't have much to add about this record. No real nostalgia power for me, but I do like their cover of the Alabama Song.
I really hate this on so many levels! It's the platonic ideal of annoying 60s rock and it's the most annoying because it's so organ driven. Jim Morrison and the deification of him has always always grated for me. Especially the ones that subscribe to the theories that he was still alive for a time. He very clearly was desperate to die from doing drugs based on this album, of course he is dead.
It was fine. I thought I hated The Doors, but I discovered I didn't mind them. I listened to this hours into a long drive, so that may have affected my opinion, but I'm not sure how.
"I'm a back door man The men don't know But the little girls understand" jesus fucking christ dude
The singles really carry this, in my opinion. 2.5.
A few weaker songs in here, but overall this is a great album!
Better than I remember
One of the best Doors albums. I'm not as into them as I was growing up, but they are still a solid listen.
Good old mono. Fun listen, classic for a reason I guess. Bit more jazzy than I remembered
anal bum a day 5 Alright FINALLY a first listen album. I'm unfamiliar with any of the context of this album, but I am aware it was released in 1967. That being said, this album does NOT sound like it was released in 1967. what the FUCK. I really didn't expect to like this, but I thoroughly enjoyed every song. absolute heat 7.5/10
i liked the beginning and end but the middle kind of melted together and dragged
holy fire
It was good. Would consider listening again. Fire....
A classic. Need I say more?
This album was actually better than I was anticipating. Unfortunately, in highschool every kid had a doors shirt because they loved Jim Morrison. Which is a horrible person to love. But I must not judge the music off the artist. In a lot of these songs, Jim's lyrics come off as poetry and are rather well written. In other songs, it sounds like an intoxicated rant full of rhyming couplets. The song The End, that every one claims to love... Is unnecessarily too long. I think 4 minutes of that song is just Jim saying nonsense. And it's hilarious how people eat it up and say he's so talented. Mind you, he does have talent. But that shit doesn't showcase it. Would listen to again. Still think Jim is a piece of shit.
If I was born in the 50’s I would have been so devastated when Jim Morrison died.
Love this one. Probably shouldn’t but I do.
Lemppari: Take It as It Comes Vähiten lemppari: Alabama Song
Classic rock staple. Could be seen as a mainstream version of Velvet Underground with a prettier and more traditional lead singer. Highlights: "Break on Through", "20th Century Fox", "Alabama Song"
Regular go to album
Reminds me of that time I took a PT boat into Cambodia…
I've come to really enjoy listening to The Doors. This is a good ass album
Some old influential music. Not bad at all and glad to have listened to it.
Insane debut album from a band that continued to put out stellar albums for 4 short years to come. I’ve grown to love all of the albums in that time span, constantly switching out favorites every few years. This is a band I tell myself I’m tired of and can’t listen to anymore and then the second I throw on one of their albums I’m immediately mesmerized like it’s the first time hearing them.
Such a great album here. Not really any bands like this one in 1967, or now even. Every songs is great, but I'd have to give the nod to The Crystal Ship. Although, Alabama Song is strange, and I LOVE it. Psychedelic circus music at its best. I like that they pushed the censorship envelope with their live performances. Wonderful band!
Can an album be all killer AND filler? Jim Morrison seems to think so, delivering every line in every song with conviction, despite how good it is. An amazing debut album, The Doors has many of their most iconic songs: "Break On Through," "The Crystal Ship," "Light My Fire," and "The End," the latter of which consumed many an attentive gaze over my teen and college years. I love the kaleidoscopic carousel of the instrumental parts of "Alabama Song." Other songs are ok and delivered just as fiercely and poetically, but the melodies were lacking for me a bit. This unique sound of Ray Manzarek's hypnotic keyboards (and bass, via keyboards) helps The Doors to stand out from all else that was going on at the time. "The End" gives us a taste of the improvisational nature of group, reading each other's ebbs and flows and responding accordingly; they remind people that there are differences between recording artists and performance artists, and it's possible to be both.
When I was a younger teen, I read a Jim Morrison biography and pored over a giant tome of his poetry, lying in my bedroom, cocooned by the glow of my black light and lava lamp. Jim was a fascinating figure to me at that time in my life, and listening to this album reignited that fascination today. The Doors sound so different than most other bands from their era; the combination of elements they brought together made such a unique style. At their most iconic, it's like a mystical experience with the trance-inducing music pulling you under its spell, with Jim as your high priest guiding you with his brooding voice and evocative lyrics, building and swelling in passion until it seems like Jim is going to completely come unhinged. You drank the Kool-Aid and this charismatic prophet helped you glimpse the mysteries of the universe…before obliteration. This is music in service of poetry in service of philosophy in service of spirituality. It's clear that the Doors had lofty ambitions with their music/art, if you are willing to take the ride (ride the snake!).
A very easy 5 for me. I started listening to the Doors somewhere around 1994 I think. I was 13. It's one of those bands where on the very first listen I was hooked. Light My Fire was the first thing I'd heard from them and I was pretty captivated by it. I like every song on this album. To me there is no other band that sounds like the Doors. Funnily enough what gives them such a unique sound is that they combine some truly oddball elements and seem to break a lot of musical rules. Elements that maybe would not usually go together are all thrown together. Present on this album are r and b, blues, jazz, rock, bossa nova and flamenco influences. Tie it all together with a combination of descriptive, philosophic, poetic and sexualized lyric delivered on an accessible baritone voice. Jim Morrison gets so much attention because of his persona, and he is a great frontman, however Ray Manzerek and his organ playing to me are what really draws me in. The organ truly makes the band standout. Break on Through and Light My Fire get a lot of attention, which they should, but The Crystal Ship is a masterpiece, and The End and Alabama Song and so many others are such great songs. The Doors are probably a top 10 band for me. I absolutely wore this album out when I bought it as a teenager. A soundtrack for an oddball teenage kid that didn't quite fit into any particular clique.
One of the best self titled albums of all time
A fantastic rush through the 60s from a legendary band cut short.
It's a fantastic album with some classic and timeless songs that hold up even half a century later. I really enjoyed the whole album and found each song interesting and engaging.
Good
Another album where a lot of the songs start to blend
Impressive!
Another 60s album that kinda suffers from its own popularity. The popular songs are used ad nauseum, and it does take some of the shine off what would otherwise be some absolute classics. A bit weaker on the back end but certainly a good listen still.
It's good to finally listen to The Doors after only knowing their reputation for many years, but their music wasn't for me.
It’s hard to appreciate Jim Morrison any more. He has the voice of a lounge crooner, but gets dirty when he needs to. I wish I’d seen them live…
Closer to a 5 without Alabama song.
Feeling extremely neutral about this album 6/10
Nice listen -8/10
44 minutes and 11 songs is the stuff of dreams, so I had high expectations for the album, which were unfortunately not met. I listened to it twice to and from Oakland and the Drizzle fell asleep on the way back. I didn't care for the vocals. I liked the overall sound, different from the other 60's albums we've listened to. High 3.
I was listening to this just like out loud on my phone speaker making breakfast and the album was fine but I put my headphones in to walk to work and then it sounded really good. Idk if the songs at the end were better or if I just needed to not be hearing ambient noise. I really like End of the Night. Overall p good. 8/10 + .5 for end of the night so 8.5/10
6/10 - There was some decent songs but nothing stood out to me. Break on through was pretty good and so was twentieth century fox and light my fire. The beginning of the end i have heard before but the rest of the song was pretty bad.
I had never given a full doors album a chance, and I don't know why. This was really good; probably the most I've liked an album from this list on a first listen
Honestly I get the hype around the Doors now
Some astonishing rock songs, and a couple of clunkers. I was actually astounded by how much I didn't like "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)", but "Light My Fire" immediately extinguished that disgust. Highlights: Break on Through (To the Other Side), Light My Fire Back Door Man, The End
This is a nice, fun album. Lots of familiar songs, decent pacing. Could see myself revisiting it, but it's probably not going in my regular rotation
Great debut album, I knew the hits but there was plenty of new tracks for me. I don’t remember ‘Light my Fire’ being as long as it was. 4.5/5 bit gonna round up
I just listened to this album a few weeks ago! This keeps happening. Among the first CDs I ever bought with my own money was a greatest hits of The Doors. I love love love this album.
didntlike
Fantastic debut album, containing the most perfect marriage of rock song / cinema with ‘the end’ featuring in Apocalypse Now… I think the song makes the film better and vice versa to the extent I can’t think about one without being drawn to the other. For me the doors have always been easy to like, but more difficult to love. I have all the albums, but rarely listen. This is still great though 4/5 - but with lyrics like ‘show me the way, to the next little girl.’ I’m giving this a yewtree rating of 3/5
Few bands have a debut album of this caliber. The Doors come out of the gate fully formed...dark, dreamlike and disturbing with twisted sense of fun. Almost every track here is a classic and one of the most epic ending tracks ever produced.
It was okay. Like Aerosmith, there seems to be a lot of love for the Doors, but it's over my head. Music was fine, not memorable.
Decent
The Doors are not a perfect band and this is not a perfect album, but there is no denying the far reaching influence that this album had on the culture of America and the direction of music for years to come. This is literally the door that opened up so many to the power and excitement of rock and roll.
Classic! I love the Doors, and listened to them quite a bit in my early teens. This one is good, containing the classic hits of Break on Through, Twentieth Century Fox, Light my fire, and The End.
This album is a fullblown masterpiece, still after more than 50 years, Jim morrissons storytelling poetry Can drag you into an almost dreaming Universe . This is highlevel
Despite not having any standout tracks I really enjoyed listening to this and the overall tone of The Doors.
Great doors album.
I will Open the Doors
Uno de los mejores discos de debut de la historia y una de las mejores bandas de la historia. Un disco fundamental. Apetura con un himno como es Break on through y final apoteósico con The end. Por el medio clásicos como Light my fire, The crystal ship, Spul kitchen, Alabama song... Mejor que leer cualquier reseña es escuchar el disco y dejarse llevar. Otros excelentes debuts de ese mismo año fueron los de Jimi hendrix Experience, Scott Walker, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, y también aunque menores los de Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Bowie o First Edition. Otras obras enormes editadas ese mismo año 1967: Sgt. Peppers y Magical Mistery Tour, Forever Changes y Da Capo, Are you exeprienced y Axis: bold as love, The Velvet Underground, Surrealistic Pillow,The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Who Sell Out, Days of Future Passed, Disraelí Gears, Bee Gees´ First, Younger Than Yesterday, Evolution y Butterfly, I never loved a man the way i love you y Arrives, Something Else, Scott, Bee Gees´ First (en realidad el segundo), Wild Honey o Happy Together...
Depressive but great
3/5
Jimmy be singing
This album is in basically every "best debut albums" list and for good reason. It's catchy, lyrically deep, and hugely influential and creative. Fully deserves its spot here.
I've often though that Jim Morrison was a great example of how far a person can go on good looks and an air of mystique, regardless of talent. His terrible singing aside, there are some undeniably great songs on here, and the album is a window to late 60s in the US. There are some pretty terrible songs on here as well though; Twentieth Century Fox, Alabama Song, I Looked at You, and Take it As it Comes. A bit of a mixed bag overall, but I'll round up to a 4 star, given the cultural impact.
Poetry in motion is the best way I can describe The Doors. I have always been a huge fan of this band from the moment I first heard them. I have always been partial to music with a dark and surreal tone and lyrics. It is the reason this is one of my favorites. Although I prefer "Strange Days" to this album, their debut still ranks 5 stars!
I like all of the songs on here. Whisky bar is bad though. Will I listen to again: 100%
Forgot how good this was
Gone too soon
Classic songs, quick pace, love the Doors and had forgotten
From the first outing, the music was interesting and quite different from what surrounded it, but the lyrics and singing wrecked the show.
A good album with some classic songs. I appreciate the Doors more than before after having listened to this album.
Little bit of a mixed-bag this one. There's a few stone-cold, bluesy, psych freak-out, classics, but there's also a lot of moments where Jim Morrison and his whole lounge lizard schtick wears real thin. There's a lot of gritty and gruff moments which I like, and I can't get enough of that organ sound that pops up on a number of these songs, there's also a few moments like "Alabama Bar" that really grate on me. This is still a little bit better than I expected, pretty enjoyable overall. Also cannot help but think of Tony Hawk's Underground 2 whenever I hear "Break on Through" which always creates a positive nostalgia loop.
Loved it
Fantastic, love Jims unique voice and all the instrumentation. Very fun to listen
A classic
1. break - 4 2. zoul kitchen - 3.5 3. cryztal zhip - 4 4. foz - 3.5 5. alabama - 3.5 6. light my fire - 5 7. back door man - 4 8. i looked at you - 2 9. end of the night - 2.5 10. Take it - 2 11. The end - 5
Not that bad, but I enjoy other songs more. Also, I don't get why Light My Fire became so popular. It's bad.
Great album front to back. A few songs on here I didn't even realize were from The Doors! The End is possibly one of the greatest album outros of all time.
The first vinyl I bought was this one. I was 14 and feeling edgy in the 2010s. had a short phase of loving them and now I get surprised that I know every single song of them by heart, completly forgot about this talent of mine.
Okay, listen - we've already talked about The Doors once and I already mentioned that I once liked The Doors because I was a kid and the drama and weirdness was very interesting to me but I "grew out" of it. That's not meant to be dismissive! That being said, there's something interesting about this first album - no bass player, just keys, a weird makeup: poetry, drugs, and an organ. I still don't think I'd ever listen to this voluntarily, but three stars for what this once meant and how original and unique it was.
Classic, but the lyrics are not aging well
One year back in 2000s, I went on a camping trip with friends for about 10 days. We didn't have Internet or any connection, all we had was a small radio with only this album. And believe me, I will never forget those nights with cheap wine in the middle of nowhere, with "Alabama Song" on a loop. Amazing memories. And still, after years have passed, this album is as good as it ever was. One of the few older records, that in my opinion, every song is enjoyable and very good. Big fan forever.
my dad hates the doors
The Doors are weird to me. I like their hits, and I grew up listening to them. The stuff that isn't a hit is just so strange often times .
The End rules, Manzarek rules. Everything else was good in its time I guess. The older I get the more I agree with Danny Fields, Morrison was a twat.
Excellent album. Almost all of the songs are standouts. I have listened before and I am very happy this prompted me to listen again.
This is a great album. That said, one of the tragedies of modern electronic rock and roll music is that The Doors weren't recorded live often enough, and so we don't have the depth of catalog for them that we have for some other significant 1960s artists. Doors live shows were absolutely insane, and if you haven't already, make sure to check out some of the recordings available. Jim Morrison would often go completely off script, occasionally with profanity, ranting, nudity, you name it. When Elektra did send folks to shows to record them, often it seemed like Jim pointedly sabotaged the whole thing... it's kind of wild... the resulting recordings were deemed too outlandish and crazed to be released to Middle America that wanted "Light My Fire" LOL. Nothing quite like listening to a random super weird Doors bootleg from 1967 or 1968 while driving in the car in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night...
The phrase, "All killer, no filler" could have been coined specifically for this album. Every song is excellent without exception.
довольно интересный, хоть и довольно одинаковый
It must be incredible to bounce down to the beach with a notebook containing lyrics to show your buddy from film class, and not have any idea that millions of people will still know these words a hundred years later. Definitely one of the magical debuts of all time. And yet…it’s likely my least favorite Doors album. We’re poised at a perfect moment in Rock History here, between an era of unforgettable singles and perfect albums, and it’s my guess that this album, to capitalize on the potential strength of its singles, was rushed just a little bit. As such, some of the material, for them, is kinda forgettable. It’s a mistake the Doors stopped making pretty quickly, because, despite how much executives likely wanted to make a quick buck here, the band knew what they had. They saw the beginning of a new age, and it’s amazing to think of this moment encapsulated, to think of listening to this album for a first time, before seeing the path that everything was eventually to take.
pretty good
The End was cool and now it is over indulgent
Great stuff. Lots of solid tracks.
The Doors' eponymous album is their debut studio album. Considered psychedelic rock, this album is really just excellent. Jim Morrison's voice is incredible. Ray Manzarek on the keys is astounding. The guitar, the drums, everything is just excellent. This cultural impact of this album is astronomical.
Classic 1960s rock
I really dig the moody vibe throughout the album.
Classic
I can't believe I have never given The Doors the attention they deserve. The space they found at the intersection of prog rock and blues needed to be filled, and boy do they excel at it. My first 5⭐ rating 18 albums in!
It's gotta be a 5, doesn't it? It's just an absolute classic. The End will always make me want to watch Apocalypse Now
Phenomenal
👍 10/10
I listened to this album a lot in my late teens, early twenties and I loved it. I was slightly apprehensive about listening to it again for the first time in twenty ish years, but my fears were without any form of merit because it is still a great album. I see from some of the naysayer reviews that these is dislike of Morrison's weak lyrics, and you know what - some of it genuinely is lyrically weak. For this though, I kind of fall back onto Mansun - the lyrics aren't supposed to mean that much, they're just a vehicle for a lovely voice. And Morrison's voice is lovely. Morrison himself probably was an asshole, but this music is catchy, pushed the envelope of what was around at the time and was the Holy Trinity of popular, influential and good. It has to be a five star review, because it has to be.
Odd
genius,
eh. i liked this at first but it wore out its welcome. probably closer to a 3.5 but i don't really see myself listening to it ever again, sooooo....
the reviews are in: this album is pretty good. I've never been a huge fan of the doors or 60s psychedelic rock in general, but there are some indisputable classics here. break on through and light my fire still go hard almost 60 years later. lots of good musicianship and songwriting here. the end is super cool, and i thought it funny that they had a song called twentieth century fox that is not about a gargantuan media conglomerate. favorites: break on through, the crystal ship, twentieth century fox, light my fire, back door man, the end
5/5
Great until the last two songs
Gear: DCA ÆON 2 Noire Artwork: Wow, ein Bandfoto. "Daring Today, Aren't We?" Mix: teils reichlich ungeschliffener Diamant 💎 Musik: In der Mathematik und in den Naturwissenschaften bezeichnet der Quotient ein Verhältnis von zwei Größen zueinander, also das Ergebnis einer Division. Der Quotient von zwei ganzen Zahlen (Dividend und Divisor) ist immer eine rationale Zahl und kann als Bruch geschrieben werden, z. B. 3/11 für drei Killer-Tracks von einem Album mit insgesamt elf Tracks. Wertung: 🚪🚪🚪(🚪)/5
classic
no comment
listened to again still great
4/5
When I was a self-serious teenager, I found myself at odds with the quotidian, and began to explore how to escape the trap of God and Country, Football and Band, school spirit and fucking corn fields. Trying desperately to not turn into a Republican, I searched outside of Metal and suburban Punk. Naturally, I was drawn to the mystery that The Doors represented, and for an important reason:;they seemed literate. Keen on lyrics that went past the usual, that hinted at actual poetry. And that poetry should speak to—and for me. The Doors, in retrospect, never spoke for me. I never felt anywhere near what The Doors represented; there was something that was L.A. specific about what they did. I enjoyed Manzarek's bass key work. I thought Robbie Krieger was an excellent musician, and with Densmore percussion and Morrison's baritoned poesy, they created a vibe, and I liked that. I would forever love those songs and albums that were self-contained universes, that teleported me out of Shitbag, Indiana, to a world of possibility. Morrison, who I now regard as mostly hackneyed Imagistic poetry, was responsible for showing that such a thing was possible at all. Full disclosure: At this point, Dylan was a vague figure for Hippies. Didn't want to be a Hippie. I grew out of that shit. And Morrison gave me a reading list, so whatever indignities I heap on Jimbo Lizardpants, the Bing Crosby of acid fried alcoholics, I do owe him that. So when I was dealt this, I was relieved that it was one of the first two albums, the only back to front classics the band ever produced, and even then, this comes with the qualification that the self-titled has the phenomenally dumb "20th Century Fox" and the follow-up has three terrible songs "Unhappy Girl", and two back to back turds, "My Eyes Have Seen You" and "I Can't See Your Face in My Mind", between the stone classics "People are Strange" and "When the Music's Over". The relief dissolved into ennui quickly. Do I really need to ever hear "Break on Through" ever again? Is "Light My Fire" really going to set anything ablaze in my soul? Can I enjoy "The End" without the Coppola connection? The answer, today, seems to be "meh". I didn't feel anything, thought about the Dead Milkmen through side one, and realized that part of the problem is they don't move me, like make me physically want to move my body. They just don't. Don't feel like dancing. The Velvet Underground make me want to do fantastic 1960s dances, the chopping clean guitar, the ominously omnipresent bass, the cymbal, high-hat and ride removed from the drums, just beats beats beats, noxious blasts of fuzzed out noise enveloping everything in white noise fog, send electricity through my body (Goddamn that New York Subway Sound. Everytime). Reeds lyrics don't speak for me, either, but they do feel familiar in the rust belt. It's unfair to compare the two, perhaps, as one was a Psychedelic Rock Band, and, if you've even took the twenty minute "Follow the Leader" ride, recorded in San Fran, you know they were a dance band. Certainly, there are multitudes that love The Doors for their own complicated reasons. Maybe they feel it, maybe it’s the cult of Jim Morrison, maybe its nostalgia for the time. And by all means, enjoy it. I don't.
growing up, my brother was the one that was into the doors, not me. so i went into this album knowing a few of the songs on this album that i had heard on classic rock radio, but had never heard the whole album. this is where the story takes a turn… the doors were a unique band that sounded like nothing i had ever heard. sure there were psychedelic bands with organs/keyboards, but jim morrison had a unique vocal delivery, often alternating between singing and spoken word, even crooning at times. he was at once both a charismatic rock star and a soft spoken poet. this was a solid debut album full of great songs. i’m not sure if it is because the radio hits were played to death on the radio (“light my fire” in particular), but i prefer a lot of the deeper cuts on the album. also of note: while as a general rule i am not a fan of songs over seven minutes long, the final track, “the end”, is a stone cold classic, even though it is over ELEVEN minutes long. this was a great reintroduction to this band, and i clearly need to revisit more of their catalog. highlights: “soul kitchen” “alabama song (whisky bar)” “end of the night” “the end”
The first band I ever reeeeeaaalllllly got into. Played out that tape in a car on my Walkman on a vacation.
Great highs. Some of it leaves me a bit cold.... more highs than lows
Loved this one, but didn’t expect to. Would a got a 5 but lyrics did have an essence of ✨misogyny✨ (ik it was the 60s)
Not sure how I’ve managed to go this long without listening to The Doors. Surprisingly wide range of vibes on this album - enjoyed it quite a lot.
Fantastisch. Vind vooral de overgang van dat whisky bar nummer naar Light my Fire prachtig. En natuurlijk The End. Een van de favo nummers van mijn vader en wellicht wel het nummer dat ooit op z’n begrafenis gedraaid zou worden.
Het is te origineel om geen 5 sterren te geven. Ondanks dat ik niet alles kende waren ook de onbekende nummers lekker
Una de las bandas de mi juventud pre y universitaria. A veces pienso que me hubiera gustado aprovechar más esos años para militar alguna causa, para hacer más trabajo comunitario y todo el camino necesario para tener una mayor consciencia de clase, pero se dio que mi adolescencia fueron esos años y como en toda adolescencia, el escape fue con la música. Disco y banda excelentes. Imposible destacar la unidad sobre el conjunto.
Ah, The Doors. I visited Jim Morrison’s grave in Paris last month. I was surprised at how they had to put a barrier in front of it because too many people wanted to see it. Either it’s tourists, of the impact of the Doors was much bigger than I expected. Anyway, the album. I really liked this. Funky in places, funny in others, and really hard rock and driving in others still. Morrison’s voice is undeniable. The organ really makes them standout from other acts that have persisted from this era. There’s a lot to like here. A couple of duds but that’s expected with any album. I’m trying to find more to say about this but honestly, it’s just good and deserves to be here. Four stars. Oh but “The End” is cool but too long. Standout tracks: Break on Through, Soul Kitchen, Twentieth Century Fox, Light My Fire, Back Door Man, Take it as it Comes
Classic great album, everything on this just works!
Before this project, I was not much of a Doors fan. At age 50 I have discovered that I genuinely love the Doors and think they are brilliant. Jim Morrison is great but I especially love the way that keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore play together. When musicians are clicking, it's just magic and that's what I hear. Yes, I'll take that 7 minute long version of Light My Fire anyday over the 3 minute neutered radio version. Great album!
The Doors are the OG of psych rock and they still sounds incredible. The stars here are Jim Morrison of course, and that organ playing, which creates a dark purple acid trip swirl.
This album is pretty spectacular. Jim Morrison’s vocals are so smooth and intimate and at times emotionally raw, and the instrumentation is composed and executed really beautifully. Love the keys. It’s a particularly perfect album to vibe out to with a little greenery. I listened to the Doors in college but they haven’t been part of my regular rotation over the years since, so it’s awesome to hear them again after such a long time…loved!
Great album. A classic.
nothing to say
Iconic album and group of the 60’s. Died way to young.
01) Break On Through (To the Other Side) - 10,0 02) Soul Kitchen - 9,5 03) The Crystal Ship - 9,0 04) Twentieth Century Fox - 8,5 05) Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) - 8,5 06) Light My Fire - 10,0 07) Back Door Man - 9,0 08) I Looked at You - 9,0 09) End of the Night - 9,5 10) Take It as It Comes - 9,0 11) The End - 9,0 TOTAL: 9,18 (92/100) Current ranking: 15/193 I was at Morrison's grave and it was nice to see how much he still means to people. This album is one of those that you don't even have to listen to to conclude that it deserves to be on this list, and when you do listen to it, you realize that it is one of the best albums ever.
Pretty good
Great atmosphere
Great old school music. Strange mix these days, drums on left channel. But when you get used to it, sounds good! Retro vibes.
The Doors are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, not in my normal rotation, but I am a fan. I have often been told that I look like “that guy from the Doors” and dated a few women who were huge fans, these two facts may or may not be related. I thought I owned this album but perhaps not, I know most of the songs quite well, but was not as familiar with “I Looked at You”, “End of the Night” and “Take It as It Comes”. Overall it’s a solid album even if the 12 minute album version of “The End” gets a little long.
Can’t really objectively rate this one. The whole album is too deeply ingrained in my head. The lyrics aren’t always great, but I love John Densmor’s drumming and the overall sound of the band. And this album is really well recorded too. Besides, X covered Soul Kitchen.
I haven’t listened to the Doors in years. My first three CDs that I purchased myself: The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana. I don’t have anything bad to say about this album, nor do I have anything all that good to say about this album. A fine listen, but nothing more than that for me….
I used to love this album when I was a teenager but somehow now I didn't like it :(
Definitely a classic, but sounding dated to me now.
It started off strong but I didn’t really find the rest of the album to be my taste
Had to stop. Did not love the sound.
Classic one. Loved to dig into this one again.
Love Jim Morrison’s voice and the Doors on the whole and even like The End, but damn that song is too long. Every song is absolutely memorable in its own way and this album is one of the greats of the psychedelic movement. I have it at a soft 8/10, probably 9/10 if The End were 5-6 minutes shorter.
it sounds good but also kinda bad
Hard to argue with so many classics. Unavoidable rather than seeking out.
Absolutely love it. Memories of my Dad's old Panasonic stereo on a Sunday afternoon when mum was out. I don't think it's just nostalgia though, there's a foreboding tone that runs through the whole album which I think comes from the tone of the keyboard along with Morrison's voice. A lot of negative sentiment around The Doors being primarily a masturbatory vehicle for Morrison, which I can see. The End in particular is... well, long, meandering, and thoroughly odd. But the music evokes something in me. Fear, or excitement, I'm not sure. And that for me makes this worth a five.
Pleasant and powerful vocals with outrageous accompaniment.
Carousels, psychedelics and a church organ.
I gotta go 5 stars here. Not every song is a gem, but damn close, and there’s enough studs to make this a must have for anyone craving 60’s stoner fueled power-pop. Morrison was a bonafide narcissistic loon, but I can’t help but like his style. Born to die young, never a doubt. The End is a pretty amazing wrap to this great disc, and I’m not ashamed to admit to more than one trip around with this beauty.
This is an incredible debut and "Break on Through" might be the best opening song on a debut album of all time. Unfortunately, a couple of the derivative blues songs pull my rating down a little bit. Still, an absolutely fantastic offering.
rivalutato nel senso che non la vedo piu come una cosa che proprio devo skippare ma comunque non è il mio ne riconosco il valroe oggettivo
obviously a classic album, one that is still iconic of its time and still has a presence in culture. i really go back and forth on the doors as a whole, sometimes i really can't stand them and sometimes i do appreciate them. right now, i am feeling more positive towards them. what i appreciate most about this album is the sound - nothing sounded like it before, or really since. what is particularly important to me is ray manzarek's keyboard playing, which is, in my opinion, what makes the doors music special. without him the group does not stand out from the crowd. his playing is proficient and is incredibly important to the sound of this album. of course, jim morrison's vocals are iconic and the guitar playing and drumming on this one are underratedly good. between 'break on through (to the other side),' 'light my fire,' and 'the end,' you have a trio of terrific late 60s psych.
Kooky Doors being kooky
This is an album I appreciated a lot more than I liked. It's a classic filled with plenty of memorable tracks and I liked it a good amount but something about it just doesn't get me to a 5. Break on through, the end, twentieth century fox, and light my fire are all great and the psychedelic/bluesy sound of every track is great plus it's a super influential album for modern rock but something about it doesn't get me excited like my favorite albums from this list have.
Kind of formulate, but it was a good formula BT.
i can see why this album is so highly acclaimed. love the organ sections that are all over this.
Great old music
The End is fucking amazing
Such an amazing album, start to finish. I put The Doors on the backburner for the last 30 years, probably because of the Oliver Stone movie. Before that, I listened to them a lot, learned many songs on guitar.
What a year 1967 was for rock music, this and the Velvet Underground's debut both pushed the genre forward as an art-form by leaps and bounds. Even if it was just the first 10 songs, this thing would be a stone cold classic. But then hey, they decided at the finale to throw in a 12 minute long fucking masterpiece. A creepy sex/murder fantasy that just gets more deranged and explosive as it goes on. Morrison was a frontman that will never be recreated.
It reminds me of The Velvet Underground’s banana album, but that makes sense for it being released in the same time period. Chill rock mixed with some like bluesy rock, nothing too special about it. I really like “Break on Through”, probably my favorite on the album.
Good album start to finish. I'm not a huge Doors fan, but I'd say most of their songs I do like are on this record.
Few good songs, but overall I don't care much about this. 3/5
The Doors were one of the first classic bands I really got into, but now that I’m older, I keep flipping between still vibing and finding Lester Bangs right. Currently I’m on the former side, and this is still my favorite album of theirs. It felt like they had all of their best songs ready at the getgo, even if “The End” has always been hogwash to me and other songs come close. Despite Morrison’s poetic lyrics and haunted performance, Ray Manzarek is the real MVP here, his melodies are what gave the band their edge. A-, but four stars
Where's the sad '80s brit-noise?
I like it.
STANDOUTS: Break on Through (To the Other Side), of course. Soul Kitchen. Don't know it BUT the background noises/production sounds very familiar. Sample? Smash Mouth "Walkin' on the Sun"??? Twentieth Century Fox. Fun. Just fun? Is it the accordion I like? Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)...this seems so polka-y? Wut? Light My Fire....but way too long, omg. SKIPPED through a third of it. Need to go listen to the radio edit. 2:52 (single version)? IDEAL. OVERALL: 3.5/5
fun songs, lyrics are more odd than I remembered
One of the all time great debut albums. Some classic songs.
I'm no longer really into this, but dang the album remains an almost perfect encapsulation of a certain 60s rock. Makes me want to go smoke a cigarette out in the dark night while listening to it on headphones after a party.
An important band in rock history.
Liked it better than I remembered
I was in college when The Doors movie came out, I swear everyone had that soundtrack and the music from it was ubiquitous. I got so burned out on The Doors I went out of my way to avoid hearing them for decades. Burnout aside, there is no denying this is a great album.
4/5
I mean c’mon
Classic. Legendary. Unique. DEBUT album. I can go on.
Fine for background noise
I’ve often been less than charitable in my opinions on Jim Morrison, but I have this as fresh ears as I could and I have to give credit where it’s due. I still don’t think Morrison is a great poet, but I also don’t think that’s the point. The attitude and intent is the point and when it comes to that, this band pushed rock forward and Morrison created a new kind of front man. Still, End of the Night and Take It As It Comes are weak songs and drag the album down a bit.
I’ve never really been a fan of the doors Top tracks: Break On Through (To The Other Side), Light My Fire