The Doors

Loving the nostalgic vibes! My favorite track is The Crystal Ship. I can picture the 60s American life while listening to it.

No one told me The Doors covered Brecht

Some true classics on this album, but also some lesser songs

Guau

A classic, iconic album. It has a very distinct, signature sound, which is a huge accomplishment when you think about how many psychedelic rock albums were floating around in the late '60s. So many of them were painfully mediocre too, which makes this stand out even more. Everything about the record is interesting, but what I enjoyed the most were the keys. Jangly, whimsical, sort of like carnival music at times - pairing really well with the guitars and Jim Morrison's droning (but also powerful) voice. Standout tracks are Alabama Song, Soul Kitchen, and Twentieth Century Fox.

Nice memories, but it is the past

I loved this. Iconic psychadelic jams.

There have been a few albums by The Doors that I’ve reviewed now. With both Morrison Hotel and L.A. Woman, I’ve found myself being left somewhat underwhelmed. The Doors are of a legendary status, and certainly have had some good songs, but I’ve yet to really see the greatness. Let’s see if this album changes my mind! Songs I already knew: Break On Through (To The Other Side), Alabama Song (Whisky Bar), Light My Fire, The End Favourites: Light My Fire, The End I recognised more than I expected off this album. Strangely, I think it was because I hear some of these songs sang at home so often - I’m more familiar with very amateur versions (sorry Rach) than the originals. This album was markedly better than the others I’ve listened to so far. It’s interesting in the arrangements - you can see how Light My Fire was rearranged into jazz-pop for Will Young and how it worked so well as that. I love that very distinctive electric piano sound I’ve heard over a few of their albums. Overall, a very good album. I’m starting to see the fuss a bit now.

Really outstanding album, especially for the time

Classical album. Very good!

minchia Bello, ma pensavo da 5 stelle

mt bom

Very good, unique and lots of different moods

Top tracks were Break on Through and Twentieth Century Fox. This is like the most 60’s rock album I’ve ever heard, very catchy tracks, I love the vocals particularly when they get echoey and layered.

It’s familiar to me when listening this album. Even thought I had no idea that I listened it before.

I wonder how I would rate this if I hadn't been exposed to it in my youth

Nothing

This is not my first listen, but it is the first one where I actively realized that this is kind of a weird album. Many of the songs here have a strange, almost eerie feeling to them, which is a fun angle to approach psychedelia from. Having the keyboard be so central to a band's sound almost always earns points with me, too. Morrison is certainly an odd duck, but his howl can send shivers down your spine. A few of the tracks here are sort of half-baked or simply not that good, which prevents me from considering this a perfect, 5-star album. But the highlights are real good.

It's alright but the last song is too on the nose it ruins the vibe

I have to say it was definitely not as good as I'd expected. The organ and Jim Morrison's voice were nice throughout, but songwriting was a mixed bag. The first half, including the overrated Light My Fire, was just not exciting at all. The album picked up steam from Back Door Man on and ended pretty solid. Rounded up from 3.5

3 bangers and the rest is solid too, morrisons voice is just godly

Much better than I was expecting. Freaky circus music. Squelchy, distorted sounds. Incredible bass tones throughout.

Never listened to any Doors album all the way through, but I always enjoyed some of their songs. With that being said, I thoroughly enjoyed this album. Something about Morrison’s distinct and dark voice coupled with the off putting organs on these tracks really did something for me. I typically really dislike long tracks, but man I enjoyed every second of Light my Fire. Point taken away for cringe lyrics

try to set the night on FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Listened to the doors a lot growing up but fell off listening to them in recent years so this was a nice re-listen. It’s cool to see when bands hit the ground running with their first albums and immediately find their sound like with this debut. Manzarek’s keys lead the way on the best songs off of this one like Soul Kitchen, Break On Through, and Light My Fire. Jim Morrison’s vocals and lyrics are also unique and an interesting contrast to the light hippy music of the 60’s. The vocals can go from a deep, jazzy tone to erratic and loose rock singing that elevates a number of songs. I think the lyrics are best on songs like Break On Through where they aren’t the focus of the song but add a darkness to it that matches the jazz/blues rock instrumentals. On The End the lyrics lose that sleekness and come up really flat in their aim to be groundbreaking. Other slight complaint with this album is the covers don’t really seem to add much and even though Alabama song is kinda funny idk why you’d put it in this one. 👍: light my fire, break in through, soul kitchen

Classic

Great debut from a great band.

I love this album are ya kiddin

Liked it, banging

Classic.

Enjoyable. Band better than the singer.

Genres: Psychedelic rock, hard rock, art rock, psychedelia Formed: Los Angeles in 1965 Run time: 11 songs, 44 min, 11 sec As far as first albums go, it’s unique. It must have been quite shocking at the time. Obvious drug references, profanities, references to incest and murder; it’s got it all. How did they get published? “Break on Through (To the Other Side)” and “Light My Fire” both have over 250M plays on Spotify which makes it very popular. They are probably more popular today (over 40 years later) than in their hay day. The least played track has over 15M plays. I enjoyed most of the tracks and loved four of them. Yes, I will be playing this album again in the future. My Rating: ****

Some great timeless songs and others are easily forgotten but enjoyed non the less

The organ sound is excellent through out. Break On Through and Light my Fire still hold up. I guess if you can get past the Jim Morrison baggage and parodies the rest of the album works.

Great sound and an enjoyable listen

Great album! I can hear the influences of 60's blues all over the place, also a little bit of The Beatles? Loved "Soul Kitchen" specially.

Groovy, psykedelisk 60’er rock, rimelig nice

Relaxing and fätzy.

Some absolute classics, but also some songs that haven't stood the test of time.

Cracker of a debut. Soul Kitchen for stand out track.

This album came back in a big way when I was in high school because of the Oliver Stone Doors movie. If you ever listened to classic rock radio, you've heard all of these songs except for a couple of album tracks that lead up to The End. I like this album well enough, but because it seems so ubiquitous, I don't really need to go out of my way to listen to this going forward.

There are some legendary tracks here, and some I didn't know. I've always liked The Doors so this was an easy listen today.

A classic, of course

Songs like Break On Through, Soul Kitchen, and Light My Fire were some hot hits from middle school Joey days. I have never listened to this album in its entirety, however. I will honestly say some of these tracks are not super memorable to me. They don't hit as hard as, well, the hits. Alabama Song is so very very strange (learned about what a marxophone is through this listen). Ray Manzarek absolutely makes this album what it is in my mind but Jim's vocals are punk as hell and I LOVE when he lets it all out. I will be honest, I do think a few songs drag a little bit or just weren't very memorable. I think the only songs I could really feel "something" with aside from the hits were Back Door Man and I Looked At You. I enjoyed the first couple of minutes of The End but damn this song just goes and goes and goes. And not really in a way that draws me in. I kind of just want it to end. I would put this one at a 3.75 but will round up to 4 just considering the fact that this was their debut! They came in hot, for sure!

10/11 Very shocked that I liked it this much. There were a few 'weird' songs, but it goes with the time that they were made in. I liked the vibe, will definitely listen again.

The Doors are one of those bands that is iconic and also not that good. Even so, this album is basically their greatest hits. Just about every “good” Doors song is on this album - which makes it a no-brainer for the list. I’m giving it a bump based on that deserved mess, but -musically - it’s a 3 at best.

По-простому хороший и интересный альбом с небольшими нотками психодела, классика того времени, которую можно слушать бесконечно. (8)

yeah yeah yeah - classic

The praise for this one is understandable - The Doors definitely had something unique. For sure it's one of the most impressive debut albums, as their signature sound was already fully formed, and there are some truly classic tracks as well. When the organ riff in Light My Fire slots back in after all the soloing it's always a great moment, every time I hear it. I'd stop short of saying it's one of the best ever albums period, though.

Honestly, I love this album. So many of The Doors best songs are right here on this outstanding debut album, and they are culturally known and significant songs, at that. I am not a huge psychedelic rock fan, but I have always loved The Doors' take on it. Furthermore, they mix a lot of blues into their psychedelic rock, too, which is another thing I don't typically like, but I find it works well here. This is psychedelia at its best, and every song has its own weird quirkiness to it. In my opinion, when you hear a Doors song, you just know it is them -- they immediately made a significant mark on music that has lasted over the years.

4.5

Two brilliant tracks, 4*

I'm familiar with their bigger hits and listening to this album was quite a journey. I think they revolutionized music and they brought a very unique take to the world. It is a shame that Jim Morrison's flame burned out so quickly. There are so many what-ifs?

very good, a couple of absolute classics. pretty similar sounds throughout most songs. but still quite solid album.

Opens with break on through, also has light my fire, and closes with the end. This album basically is the 60's. The organ, Morrison's voice, everything about it is great

The first six songs flow seamlessly into each other and the guitar and organ instrumentation is amazing, the second half is also great but do not feel as cohesive as the first

I think Mr. Lizard King is finally clicking for me; still not a favorite of mine, but I definitely get it now. And this one has some classics and some nice deep cuts; and that organ is always killer.

Really great Album Some great songs

Very vibey.

Yo 4/5 this shit slaps the 60s knew how to bop no wonder James acaster loved them

It really is an excellent album and sums up the tone and theme of the 60s rock bands of LA in a perfect way. 4/5

Say what you will about Jim Morrison and the Doors, the man truly performs like a man possessed. Pretentious lyrics aside, he had "it", whatever that is. Also, the Doors had a sound that I don't think many bands have ever been able to truly match. The organ-heavy sound has been copied multiple times, but I don't think they ever come close to what the Doors were doing. Favorite tracks: "Soul Kitchen", "Break on Through", "The End"

j'ai manqué à mes obligations je ne peux pas travailler et en plus écouter Bob Dylan

Good album

Sheer brilliance, rock music of the type that never fades. File under “what a debut”. Who could have imagined a rock song with such a huge organ solo could light my fire so consistently? Or that The End could provide the such an effective soundtrack to one of the best films ever, Apocalypse Now? My second favourite Doors album, by the tiniest of margins (LA Woman, you’re my woman).

This is probably one of the stronger efforts by the Doors. Jim Morrison's poetry is not all over the place ("I am the Lizard King, I can do anything." "Um.... ok, Jim. Whatever...."), the band is fine form, the organ is really complimenting the guitar. I'm embarrassed to say, this is my first time hearing the uncut versions of both "The End" and "Break On Through". I had heard them on a Best Of , but they took out the word "high" in "Break On Through" so Morrison sings "She gets..." and that's all I ever heard. And they edited out Jim chanting "f**k" as well. So the song felt... slightly different this time. Even the non-single songs sounded better. They're not so... ramble-y. "Soul Kitchen" and "Twentieth Century Fox" I had heard before, and I always liked the wordplay of the latter's title. The other songs work well, and their brevity does help with that, they don't overstay their welcome. So all in all, a pretty solid effort.

Not my favorite band or album but it's solid. Their different sounds (blues, jazz, rock, psychedelia) come through well. Jim Morrison is appropriately unhinged. Honestly, I wasn't exactly blown away by any songs I didn't already know, but I found myself re-appreciating the songs I did know - Break on Through, Soul Kitchen, 20th Century Fox, Light My Fire, and The End (ok, the full version is a little much).

Some fabulous songs on here! A few not as good ones keep it from being a 5.

It is a classic. I was surprised how many of the songs I recognized...not just the big two singles. Twentieth Century Fox was a fun find.

Double doors. Marginally better than L.A. Woman.

Didn't think it was good as their L.A Woman album but I still really liked this. "Break On Through", "The End" and "Light My Fire" were highlights of the album.

Double Doors! As of 2 days ago I already knew I was cool enough to listen to the Doors, so no issues there. I liked this too. Quite different to LA woman. This sounded more Beatlesy, or rather the Beatles sound Doorsy? I preferred the more blues sounding LA woman album. However this had many more "hits" that I knew and I can imagine it was a bigger commercial success. I should've given LA woman a 5, and this a 4, but alas.

4.5

One of their best

Likte dette overraskende godt ✨ bra jobbemusikk

Great album

I liked it, I thought it was somewhat basic and not breaking the bounds but it was very good with what it was trying to be.

I never know what to do with The Doors, I'll be honest. So many of my friends and other people I respect their musical tastes off see this as a landmark in musical history, even calling it the best debut album ever made. But I must be really missing something that everyone else is hearing, because this never clicked with me. I know this album well, I enjoy listening to it, and it has some great moments on it (The organ solo in Light My Fire, and The End of course.) But songs like 'Twentieth Century Fox' or 'Take It As It Comes' are just decent rock songs and I'll always nod my head up and down when I hear them in a pub or a party, but nothing more. It's a 3,5* album and maybe some time in my life it'll click.

Very solid album with some great hits. The deep cuts here are pretty meh but don't drag the good songs down. The End takes this album up a notch.

The boreds Not!!

The great tracks are fantastic, the others are good too. Definitely an album you have to hear b4 you die

Great record

Some of their biggest songs are here and Jim absolutely kills it! The band’s sound is so unique and identifiable.

album perfetto nel senso della musica, le parole mi sembrano un po' a caso. sinceramente non capisco se mi piace o no però da ascoltare sicuramente

Discazo de rock con toques en ocasiones psicodélicos, pero todo un emblema, con canciones muy reconocibles y una gran voz

Good stuff. The organ breaks are all a bit samey, but The End is a great track.

There’s a couple of missteps but by and large this is still an outstanding, evocative, almost dangerous sounding debut record, especially songs like ‘Break On Through (To The Other Side)’, ‘Light My Fire’ and of course epic psychedelic freak out ‘The End’, which is forever seared in my brain through its use in ‘Apocalypse Now’. ‘This is the end, beautiful friend’ indeed.

great album - the mother of angst

A nice album where you can obviously see the weirder and innovative roots you would see in later Doors' albums, but the organ solo stuff, while good, does feel a little too safe and extended at times. Still though, overall very good, and still earns a four star.

Deras bästa album.

Absolute classic

great listen from start to finish

4/5. First half is perfect but second half has a lot of filler songs. The End is great but doesn’t make up for the three songs before it that don’t land.

Great album with a few major hits, "Light my Fire", "Break on Through", "Soul Kitchen". Love Ray Mazarek's synthesizer. 8/10.

Superb debut album. Starts (Break on through) and finishes (The End) so strongly while also boasting the magnificent Light My Fire. What stands out for me is the way that Ray Manzarek's keyboards drive the songs and of course the deep, distinctive quality of Jim Morrison's singing.

Okay hold on, hold on. This album is fine right, it’s enjoyable. I enjoyed most of the frilly little organ solos and Jim Morrisons scraggy voice but ‘The End’ is something else. That’s a fucking great song. 8/10

Very cool record. The songs feel really well structured and performed, but for me the organ really separates everything on this album from the typical ‘60s sound. 8/10

Really loving the sound so far. Don't really care for Alabama Song, also has some questionable lyrics. "Show me to the next little girl, don't ask why" ???? Final thoughts: Loved most of this album, I wanted to give it 5 stars but that one song kinda ruined it. I would give it 4.5 if I could.

highlights: - break on through - soul kitchen - alabama song (lmao) i enjoyed it more that i should've

Great album that I just can't ever get into.

Chill vibe

This album still sounds cool more than a half-century after its release. Like a west coast Velvet Underground.

Far out man

I have no nostalgia for this album but I can still appreciate how impactful this one is.

Altijd goed, de deuren.

One of the best doors albums, I would say the definitive doors album. If you’re even a little interested in the doors this is where to start!

A true classic!

4.75

Listened to on 7/18/22 4.2/5 Favorite song: Break on Through, Twentieth Century Fox Shockingly phenomenal debut album - the Doors are clearly so talented and I was bopping

Solid album with strong start. Favorite songs were Break on Through and Soul Kitchen.

For a debut album, it’s shocking how many songs became hits or at least recognizable. Nothing is groundbreaking (by today’s standards at least), but for an album released during the heyday of both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones, it shows the Doors can hold their own, even though it falls apart a little toward the end of the album for me. Fav Track: Break On Through (To The Other Side) 4/5

Pretty Good. Classics I regonize.

Interesting sound. Pretty prog

Manzareks keys are genius

Not a huge fan of the doors and the singer but this was a really good album

4.5/5 that was a nice album!

7/10. Enjoyable in a moody way, but the last song was a bit much.

The best songs are quite good, the rest are decent. 8/10

Best Song: Break on Through (To the Other Side). Such an immense kickoff to the album. Showcases Morrison's unique vocal qualities, with the keyboard accompaniment that really signifies The Doors. Worst Song: The Crystal Ship. I don't want to hear Jim Morrison croon and romance. I want the Lizard King. I want noise and passion and bravado. Overall: It's good. Weird and good. It still feels like they haven't totally nailed down their aesthetic here, and there are a few too many forgettable filler tracks, but that is easily overcome by the long, meandering, drug-fueled tracks like "Light My Fire" and "The End". Morrison's simple poetry and the unique blend of backing instrumentals just work well together. Ambitious but accessible.

Many memories

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Har alltid blanda the Doors og the Who av ein eller anna grunn, men trur kanskje the Doors er bedre. (Hadde berre høyrt sånn 3 Doors songar, og har vel fortsatt ikkje hørt meir enn 3 the Who songar, så me får sjå kossen da utvikle seg) Bra album i alle fall, har nesten lyst å gi 5 stjerne men da blir litt vel ivrig på første album kanskje

Arch lizard king thinks he's a poet when really he's just a bit of a nob; however even that prancing tit can't undermine the strength of most of the tunes. Best Tracks: Break on Through (To The Other Side); Soul Kitchen; Light My Fire

Absolute banger right up until the drugged out, 12 minute final track. Minus one. Definitely sounds of its time.

Man I had to scroll down quite a bit further than I expected to find a negative review of this. I wouldn't say I hate The Doors but do kind of think they're for high school boys who think they're more sophisticated than they really are. Man, that's a super pretentious thing to say isn't it? Even if it is, it for sure was a pretty good description of high school me. I definitely owned the double album greatest hits collection, it was one of my earliest Columbia House purchases and I definitely bought into the myth that Jim Morrison was like a real poet, dude. Listening to this now I think I'm liking it more than I would have believed. Maybe it's the fact that I don't really listen to classic rock radio anymore, so it's not as omnipresent in my life as it was back in the day. I'm not gonna say this is dated because that's a stupid criticism, what does it even mean? Morrison is a pretty good songwriter and maybe there's a cult of personality surrounding him (maybe? Lol) but he actually is an amazing front man and really no one else sounds like The Doors musically, certainly not in 1967 anyway. They'll never be my favorites again, that Crystal Ship has sailed (sorry. Also that song will always make me think of The Dead Milkmen, iykyk) but this might be their best album. 4 stars.

My vinyl of this is weed green which fees appropriate

Doory

9/10

Like being on a ride to a Californian beach in a van driven by the Manson Family.

I've never been big on The Doors for some reason, but these are undeniably innovative songs with evocative lyrics and swirls of psychedelia that must have sounded even better live.

Flawless. Timeless. The End.

It drops off pretty quickly after this, but I like this album.

It was pretty pog I think. Definitely would have gone pretty hard if I was alive in the 60s. :D

light my fire went absolutely bonkers

One of my favorite albums by one of the better bands.

Cool

Break On Through To The Other Side. Jammed out to that one on the piano in Rock Band 3 Everything else, goes on for way too long. Not that I didn’t enjoy it.

Do you think every song needs an electric organ? Are you also painstakingly horny? Then boy do I have an album for you

This is solid throughout but it has some of the most timeless tracks of all time in Break on Through, Soul Kitchen and Light My Fire, somehow nearly 60 years old? Deserves a 4.

This is fab, really like this. Almost falls out of the 4 category because it does get a bit self indulgent - to a lesser extent at the end of Light My Fire, and definitely on This Is The End. It's amazing that this album is 55 years old, there are bits of it that sound so fresh, and it keeps up the quality pretty well throughout. Some really nice changes of pace, too.

it's aight

Some amazing stuff on here, certainly lit my fire

Morrison's vocals made them such a standout for the era. Love his rough edges on their psychedelic sound. So much organ too

A great debut showing their intent and what they would become.

By far my favorite Doors with by far my favourite Doors song; The End. 4.5 🌟

Good start. Some other good spots. Would be a 5 if it had riders on the storm

7/10

This is the end. My beautiful friend, the end.

Ich hasse das Jahrmarkt-haftige an The Doors. Aber ich gestehe, das das meiste wirklich super gealtert ist und immer noch ganz schön mitzieht hinab ins dunkle, verknarzte Sofa. Schon gut 3.5

Difícilmente se pueden abrir mejor las puertas a un grupo que con este disco. “The Doors” irrumpe en la escena con aura divina y generosa obsequiándonos con manjares como “End of the night”, “Break on through (to the other side)” o “The end”. Los mendrugos de pan para rebañar la salsa son “Soul kitchen”, “Back door man” y “Light my fire”. Un álbum para chuparse los dedos y querer repetir.

The Doors achieve some of their most notable and impactful tracks in this album, and truly set their trajectory as a group. Morrison's gristle and erratic temperament is measured in this album as he sings with a polish and focus.

Great music Lyrics are kind of mediocre when you actually listen to them

Ja voor ik m hoor, dit is gwn n klassieker

Very compelling

A classic for a reason! Jim Morrison's voice is so haunting and sultry and the music is just so good

I really enjoyed it, probably another gummy album, but it works. So many songs on here I have heard before.

Excellent debut album by one of the most unique rock bands of all time. The Doors' sound is decade-defining, and it is amazing to see how fleshed out they were in their first studio release. I really enjoy Jim Morrison's low and haunting vocals, and the emphasis on the electric organ really makes this music stand out from other acts at the time. Instead of emulating the Beatles or The Who like a lot of other bands were doing back in the mid-late 60's, they went in their own direction which makes me respect them a lot. There are obviously some very popular songs on this record (Break on Through (To The Other Side), Light My Fire, and The End), but I would say there was not a weak song on this entire album. I listened to it in both stereo and mono, and upon these two listens, the track that stood out the most to me that I hadn't already heard was I Looked at You (added it to my Starred list). While I enjoyed this one quite a bit, I will say that some of the songs do blend together since they all feature the same instruments. I still think this album is great despite this, and I would recommend any fan of rock give this one a listen. 4/5.

Great album overall. Some tracks I wouldn't have missed, some are a bit long.

Solid album, never listened to the full thing before. can easily see how it's a classic

The Doors have been one of those bands that I skip on playlists, but I think it's just because their biggest songs are so overplayed. I'm enjoying this listen way more than expected based on my history with The Doors. It's quite remarkable that this is a debut album. It's excellent.

Geggjuð plata

A classic

Yes, yes yes! Break on Through muthafakkas! The Doors, consisting of the wailing, moaning and screeching of Morrison, the synthesized sounds of Manzarek’s keyboard, the thumping of Densmore on drums rounded out by Krieger’s guitar, took us on am emotional and psychedelic rock and roll rollercoaster that will never be matched. They broke into the scene with their first album The Doors. Maybe not their best but a well-rounded classic first album non the less. Break on Through and Soul Kitchen are funky, straight forward rock songs that can’t be denied. The Crystal Ship provides the first glimpse into Morrison’s often times fragile state. Right back to the rock and roll with Twentieth Century Fox, shifting back to their unique quirkiness with Alabama Song (and must have whisky, oh, you know why!). Their performance of Light My Fire on the Ed Sullivan show will live on in infamy (and is sooo tame by today’s standards, but at that time, Jim was breaking through). Back Door Man is one of my all time favorite songs, not just of the Doors. Despite there being so few lyrics. Don’t know why but just LOVE the line ‘I eat more chicken any man ever seen’. I Looked at You is probably the weakest song on the album for me. End of the Night is the first song that takes us on that psychedelic ride. Some sound advice in Take It as It Comes. And of course there’s The End with a full 11 minutes and 34 seconds peak into the psychosis that made up Jim Morrison, the intellectual, rebellious, loving, insecure bastard posing as a confidant man. Note: album was close to a 3 star rating because as I said, not their best. But taking into consideration it was their debut album, some of the specific tunes on the album along with the fact their is no 3 star rating, went with 4.

The album with my favourite closing song of all time

Impression: A dark, creative album with references drinking, testing perceptual limits with drugs, affairs, death, etc Favorite songs: Soul Kitchen, Light My Fire, The End

A classic. I listened to this a lot as a kid with my grandfather. Jim Morrison was a fucking poet. A real shame that he died so young. I really would have loved to see him churn out so much more music.

Very interesting listen, clear influence on further generations albums

8/10

A classic album, so many hits on it but I feel like you have to be a specific type of person to enjoy this fully. 4/5

Starts out strong and keeps a good, consistent sound. definitely something I could listen to again, and there's a bunch I feel like I've heard before -Soul Kitchen and Light My Fire come to mind. Overall a very nice album

Did not care for this album on my first listen a couple years ago. Enjoyed it much more on this second listen

After an endless British expedition through the desert with only IPAs to drink, 1001 returns to the land of the free and delivers a stone cold classic American record. Full of diesel, sleeze, arrogance. Every track is either perfect or imperfect and interesting. I think at some point recently it became fashionable to hate on the Doors, but that's silly. So what if the poetry is amateur. I'll stand up for you, Jim. You're the ideal brooding wild man. You have one of my favorite quotes on being fat "I was 185 pounds. I felt so great. I felt like a tank. I felt like a large mammal or a big beast. I could knock anybody out of their way." A-

Very fresh for its time. Some of the tracks still have a feel that’s never been imitated well others, like the Kurt Weill standard , must have give Bowie inspiration if not cover to try it himself. I’m still not a Doors fan, but this one LP holds up.

Geen slechte muziek! De band vond Freud zo inspirerend dat ze de band zo hebben genoemd omdat het alle deuren opent heb ik vandaag geleerd

Lyrically, I never really know what's going on with The Doors. I don't really care, though, because I enjoy them musically. With the exception of the more "circus-y" vibe ones.

I dig it

Having no previous exposure to The Doors I listened to their debut album without nostalgia and I still could recognize most of the tracks, that's how influential they are. Very good first album.

Very classic Doors stuff; vocals and instrumentals work perfectly together and the length of songs is fit ideally. Nothing much to say, great album.

I think they would not be as big today if Jim had lived.

Grew up listening to the doors!

Such hard panning, relatively few instruments on each track, low and delayed vocals.

4.5/5. Very good. I expected nothing less. Not my favorite doors album, however. But that doesn't mean it's bad.

Brilliant album - further comment superfluous

I have difficulty separating the album from the movie. Break on Through is a great, quick track. Songs like light my fire and The End are still good for a listen now and again.

pretty good

The Doors

A lot of classics on this album. Starts off great and finishes. This is The End didn't need to be 11 minutes long.

Light My Fire

groovy! minus one point for creepy lyrics about children

Another good Doors album. I think LA Woman is a bit better, but I still just love their whimsical sound.

The drive rock with amazing electro-guitar music.

Not a bad song on the album. 4.25. Songs are memorable, but something about it doesn't inspire relistens. I can't say why. It also feels like it's trying to be "smart" music. Also can't pinpoint why.

Cool, groovy, bluesy and interesting

The attribute I like most about Jim Morrison's voice is that you believe every thing he says. Great album.

not their best, but still fucking excellent.

2nd album I’ve gotten that I’ve heard before but that’s cool. This is a decent album. Preemptively predicting I’ll give it a 4. I think this is a good example possibly. “Break on through” is a classic for a reason. “Light my fire”. Another great song. So far the songs I already loved stand out and the others are... eh not bad not amazing. “The end” is a spectacular song. Great vibe. Also lol at “the west is the best”. It feels like such a weird brag about where Morrison lives in an otherworldly song. I mean I think I get where he’s coming from but looking back at how that movement died out... it’s just pretty silly.

Hot diggedy dawg. Reminds me of a sex-fuelled heart attack I once had.

I always lumped The Doors in with Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin as a band I thought were hugely overrated. I might have to reassess that as I really enjoyed this.

Clima bacana. Velharia boa. Melhor música: Break on through

Klasssikkobiisejä ja leppoisaa rokkia. Kyllä tämän voisi laittaa myöhemminkin soimaan ja fiilistellä. Ei ihan ykkössuosikki, mutta selkeä like kuitenkin.

8

“The Doors” by the Doors (1967) One look at the facial expressions on the album cover suggests to the listener that it’s time to put away the bubble gum. Jim Morrison’s lyrics on this album are of uneven, but mostly high, quality. His metaphors are not cheap, unlike most mid sixties rock songs. They reveal a mature mind working in an under-traveled metier, and the results are arresting. Rock and roll is now demanding to be taken seriously. These are not songs for teenagers, in 1967 or in 2021. From a distance of almost 55 years, it may be difficult to discern how revolutionary this music was, and much of it withstands aging. Morrison’s vocals are only average, salvaged by enormous passion, and punctuated by screams and wails that definitely do not age well. But try to put yourself in 1967. Maybe try listening with a little inebriation (I said this wasn’t for teenagers). There is virtually no bass guitar on this album, which might have been a fatal flaw. But gifted keyboardist Ray Manzarek plays all the bass lines on a keyboard bass. And he pulls it off. Excellent guitar riffs and solos (especially on “The End”) by Robby Krueger, and generally well-executed drums by John Densmore (He occasionally drops tempo on elaborate fills—a frequent weakness of 1960 rock & roll drummers). When listening to “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar), it might be helpful to know that it is the only song on the album not written by Morrison. It was written by Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill (in German) in 1927, originally as an anti-bourgeois parody of sermons of Martin Luther. This was back in the day when Germany was eight years into their first (unsuccessful) experiment with democracy, and five years before Hitler ‘successfully’ said, “Enough is enough”. Brecht was a communist, being awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1954, after 40 years of artistic labor, pioneering Marxist dialectical aesthetics. But back to the music: There’s a wonderful and entrancing middle section on “Light My Fire” which is not to be missed. But the artistic centerpiece of this album is the closing track “The End”. It helps to be familiar with the plot of “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles (429 B.C.). Set aside twelve minutes, put on headphones, and listen to this. Loud. Francis Ford Coppola’s decision to use this song in the opening scene of “Apocalypse Now” (1979) helped to fix this work in the American psyche of the Vietnam era. It worked then, and it still works today. 4/5

Coool, very cool

Really solid album. There were plenty of songs that were just ok in my opinion, but there were some that were great jams. Lyrically a solidly written album as well Favorite Track(s): “Break On Through,” “Light My Fire,” and “The End”

great sounds, the doors are a hit

Well obviously a bander because of its classic nature, I don't like ALL the songs. I like also that this album hasn't been remastered, like so many of the others ones we listen to. You can hear the age in the music - I love it! That's more to do with Spotify than the music itself

Some good tunes.

Wasn't sure how much i was going to enjoy this as it's been forever since i listened to it. It is still amazing... even though "the end" gets up its own navel a bit. Love Crystal Ship.

This is a really nice slice of Doors music. If you wanted to know if you like the Doors this would be a really good place to start before diving into their deeper stuff. Classics and some semi weird stuff without it getting too weird. Very enjoyable.

Ooh baby that organ. This album is actually pretty damn unique for the time. Psychadelic, loud-rock, sort of garage jammy. When put in the context of a classic rock radio station, it's easy to look past all it has going for it. Not to mention this album is chock full of bangers.

Not my favorite genre, but the songs are very pleasant.

I'm starting to really like this style of rock. Some British Invasion bands are better, but this is a strong contender.

I'm wishing they'd skipped the ratings with this thing, or at least made them optional. This album might deserve a 3 or even a 2 from some perspectives of sophistication; I'm inclined to give it a four on pure nostalgia. I played this to death in the early 90s.

A good, classic rock album. Heard some tracks before but liked some I hadn't like Alabama Song. Break on Through to the Other Side and Light My Fire are classics of course.

Este album es más mi estilo. Tiene algunas cosas experimentales, pero no es TAN DENSO y lo escuché dos veces al hilo. Además tiene Baby Light My Fire 🔥 Descubrí la canción ‘Soul Kitchen’

Love Morrison. This is the end, beautiful friend, the end.

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There's so many great songs on here, and it's very rewarding to tune in for it. Alabama Song was my personal fave!

Vacker, drömsk och mörk

Break on through

Nice one with lots of classics. Surprisingly short songs, except for the End!

This album continues to be great despite the best efforts of Jim Morrison.

Enjoyed this more than their latter albums. Turns out Ray Manzerak was the main talent in the band, I’d assumed Morrison had written the big tunes but new respect for the organist.

Very nice thank you the doors

Pari legendaarista rallia

Great debut!

Pretty cool stuff

Chef-d’œuvre de Jim Moriarty

This album had some bangers, but it also had a lot of forgettable songs. I love Light my Fire and it's 10 minute keyboard solo, but some of the other songs just didn't really stick with me. I know the Doors are a classic, and I respect them and do love their sound at times, but overall I think the album was just "pretty good." I might need to re-listen to it sometime and give it my full attention. I did, admittedly, listen to much of this while I was at work and doing other tasks, so this review is subject to change.

Actually, quite solid and enjoyable.

Disco que reflete a trajetória da banda: alterna momentos de rara inspiração com outros bem fracos.

Triggers a summer of witnessing a teenaged friend slip into depression. We had so few albums so we listened to this one over and over. Listening to it now, a few songs are decent, others just sound like Morrison is an aging lounge act, drunk and lacking energy. Saw his grave in Paris with same depressed friend a few years later. The whole thing now gives me the ick.

A classic album, of course. I especially enjoyed The End on this listen.

Very self-serious for a bunch of hard-drinking 23-year-olds

Alright but a bit samey

This was fine. Kind of felt like Boomer slop

Not really my thing, but Jim Morrison's talent is undeniable

interesting

Yksi erinomainen biisi (Light my fire), paljon hyviä biisejä ja muutama selvästi heikompi ralli. Yleisarvosana helppo 3/5. Hyvä ja parempi kuin aiemmin listalla ollut The Doors -albumi. The Doors ei vaan tipu mulle kovinkaan hyvin joten siinä mielessä 3/5 on todella hyvä arvosana. 3/5

not bad, but too psychodelic for me

The organ tone became grating but I don’t find anything remarkable enough to account for the hate Jim gets

I found this enjoyable but often a bit repetitive for me. I’m also not the biggest organ fan. It was interesting to listen to the full album, already knowing a few of the songs. Not sure I would come back to it though. Fav song: Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) Least fav: The End

It's pretty great except for the shitty songs. '20th Century Fox' is amongst the DOAT (dumbest of all time)

Solid 6/10 carried by break on through, twentieth century fox, soul song and take it as it comes rest were mid to buns

a solid collection and ahead of its time but not timeless

Yeah I wanted to like this way more than I actually did. Light My Fire will always be a classic but outside of that the songs are fine, even bad at times? The themes are shallow and I'm really not crazy for Jim's voice. I feel like this album is more hyped because of everything that happened to them after. But just not really as good as the hype makes it out to be. Top Songs: Break On Through (To the Other Side), Light My Fire, Take It as It Comes

Heb er niet veel mee. Orgelguy ging wel gek

Saai

Highlights: Soul Kitchen, Light My Fire, Break On Through, Back Door Man. 3.9

That last track is just gross. I didn’t care much for Morrison before this listen, but… ugh.

Organ is the baking powder of rock instruments, more than a little renders the resulting concoction unconsumable.

The best part is that electric organ (?) that they play in almost every song. What a brilliant instrument. First half of this album was far more interesting and fun than the second, for it lost that excitement in the second half rather.

has bangers but not a full album listen session recommended

very good

I actually thought I was gonna like this one more but it was slow and boring and I didn’t have that good of a time. They definitely belong on the list for revolutionizing slow weird music but I wasn’t huge on it.

overrated

This was ... fine. I don't think it was groundbreaking as everyone else seems to believe. Maybe you "had to be there". But as a record, it's fine.

Never been a big fan of the Doors.

If at age 20 you are not a fan of The Doors you have no heart. If at age 30 you are still a fan of The Doors you have no brain.

6,50/10 Buenos temas, muy tranquilos. Por momentos sube un poco la intensidad pero sin desentonar

its ok i like the bumblebee vibes the end song being 11minutes though and the lyrics weren't the vibes so 3/5.

Ok so everyone here talks either about how great it is or how overrated it is. So from someone who really didn’t know anything about them, and honestly didn’t know much at all before starting this project, it just sounds like a weirder Beatles I can play if I wanna pretend I’m pretentious

I kinda get it, some of the guitar riffs are cool. Fun listen

I enjoyed this more than I expected. There are just some great classics here.

2.5 round to 3. Three great songs and the rest just make me think they'd be better if I was high.

Decent. I've heard a couple of the songs. Wouldn't go back to it tho. I could see back in the day that it would slap hard.

A good debut album, and it provided a nice walk to work in the morning. Love that groovy sound of the organ, with Jim Morrison's deep somewhat spooky vocals. It hasn't really cemented me as a fan of The Doors yet though. Favourites: Soul Kitchen Light My Fire Back Door Man

1 Break On Through (To the Other Side) Rock and Roll 💃 Banger Einstieg 2 Soul Kitchen Gitarrensolo und Keyboard sind Banger Und auch von den Lyrics sehr comfy cozy 3 The Crystal Ship Das Lied von CAS ist ein Cover?? 4 Twentieth Century Fox Sweet 5 Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) Griechischer Wein Vibes (Betrunken schunkelnd) "Show me the way to the next little girl"???? 6 Light My Fire Sehr sweet und sehr lang 7 Back Door Man Einen Song namens Back Door Man auf dem Album The Doors von der Band The Doors zu haben ist schon ein Banger 8 I Looked at You 9 End of the Night 10 Take It as It Comes 11 The End elfminütige Erzählung der ich nicht ganz folgen kann. Ist sehr brutal und ich weiß nicht so ganz was ich damit anfangen soll. Allgemein finde ich es musikalisch recht gut, ich mag vor allem die Gitarre und das Keyboard. Aber von den Lyrics finde ich es schwierig

It's good and has some great moments, on the other hand I feel some parts are now somewhat overrated.

Хз ок

Gave it a 3 for the standout tracks at start and end of album but otherwise it's a meh. The band are pretty good but singer is awful

I didn't love the other Doors records in the list but can't deny I got a bit excited when Break On Through started... Jim Morrison sounds a lot more energised here but overall it's not that interesting even if the highs are pretty high (Light My Fire is great and The End is definitely pretty cool)

it's...fine. I don't get it. But it's fine.

Mmm, a different flavor of 70s, like some haunted roadhouse by the side of a dusty ill-lit highway.

в целом прикольный батя рок, прикольные синтезаторы, ну не мое

Definitely notice the famous songs on this. I don't especially love the songs that aren't famous. Overall it seems pretentious. Would listen to Light My Fire and Break On Through again but I'm not sure that I'm going to be re-listening to much more of the album. Also, the end is 11 minutes long?!?

It’s a fine album but nothing to write home about, I don’t get the appeal behind the doors or the big songs on this album, they’re long and make this album more bloated then it needs to be.

fine but not great, few saved tho

A promising debut but essential?

Yeah always been overrated. I like it, don’t love it.

Not a Doors fan at all. I'd give this a 2, but "The End" raises it to 3.

Half great, half OK. Alabama Song gets a bit creepy...

Fine for me

better than I remember. A lot of self-indulgent teenage boy crap. And of course the classics.

good classic cant go wrong with it

Fine album.

Break On Through (To The Other Side) is such a classic, great shit. The rest of this album is pretty good. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) was kinda of funny, while Light My Fire was solid. Back Door Man is 100% about fucking men you can't tell me otherwise. I don't feel like I have much to say about this one otherwise other than "pretty good" though.

While this record was good, I feel like this was missing a bigger sound. I guess it was doing its job with the mellower sound, but I was expecting a little more. Favourite Track(s): Soul Kitchen, Break on Through (To the Other Side) Least Favourite Track(s): Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)

Gwoovy

i didn't realize i already knew all the songs on this album. pretty good not mindblowing

This was good but it wasn’t super standout to me. I liked a bunch of songs but for me to give it a 4+ I need to really feel something out of the ordinary.

Sounds like good Christmas music.

hahaha 67. a shake and shimmy and bop around kind of album with a rock ebb and flow. although not all of the songs are exactly my cup of tea, i would say i’m a fan overall. wish i could rate this a 3.5

First Listen: NA, already listened OVERALL: I feel as though The Doors in theory are far greater than The Doors in reality. If you told me that there was a keyboard heavy 60s psychedelic rock band with a raging alcoholic for a frontman, I would assume the music would be some life-altering shit. Unfortunately, The Doors have never clicked for me fully, and most of the time I find music influenced by them supersedes them. That aside, this album is pretty good! I personally find the singles to be the strongest, but songs like 20th Century Fox and End Of The Night pull their weight. The End might be an all time closer. 7/10 T3: Breakdown On Through, Light My Fire, The End

A little disappointed after hearing the first half of the album and then disconnecting with it later down the line. Usually psychedelic rock is a good start but this isn't the kind I can't drown myself in which is concerning since this album is recognized as one of the landmark albums for the genre. Thank you for ***potentially ***inspiring Kiltro. I'll treat it as some kind of butterfly effect. The first half of the album is filled with classics (didn't know BOTTOS and Soul Kitchen were part of this album) and the kind of instrumentals I can get behind . One song in particular I want to highlight is Alabama Song and it's scratchiness along with some other silly (e.g. melody and keyboard-performance) elements that I found very enjoyable to listen to. Probably my favourite after the first two tracks. Take It as It Comes is probably the only track in the later half I liked though, the end to The End was good (not only because the track is 11 minutes too long and I wanted it to be over). Some of the lyrics I couldn't really get into and felt like some ***"poetic nonsense" that I couldn't really lean into all that well. Probably just a me thing. I'd say that about half the album I found myself enjoying a lot and it contains songs I'll never forget but it wasn't exactly the kind of psychedelic rock I enjoy. Also, thank you for laying out the path for Kiltro :D Also, also, more of a 4 than a 3 (damn this 5 point rating scheme). T3: BOTTOS, Soul Kitchen, Alabama Song

I've never warmed to The Doors as much as some of their peers. I think if you're not really allured by the myth of Jim Morrison as a sex-god-rockstar-shaman-poet, they don't have much appeal left. He had a good voice, a lantern jaw, and died young. And...? It's rare that a baritone in leather trousers leaves me completely cold. Plus I'm rarely in the mood for much Manzarek – the guy just goes on and on, and I don't know why they let him. I think I prefer The Doors when they keep it brief. I ended up enjoying a simple cover like Back Door Man, which at least knows how dumb it is, more than the meandering indulgence of Light My Fire and The End. As a huge Depeche Mode fan, I have no high ground from which to mock Morrison for rhyming "west" with "best" and "snake" with "lake", but I will because the guy's held up as a messianic poetic talent.

The Doors. What more do we need to say. It's Jim Morrison.

it was good, but whether or not it was for me, i don't know

It got weird but not terrible?

High hopes for this one, then dashed to smithereens when I realised it just isn’t very good. Couple of bangers on it though