The Doors

Imagine rock-'n'-rollin' to this in '67 🤠

Lots of hits that you'll recognize from TV shows, commercials, and movies. Was never a huge Jim Morrison fan and there's just too much Vox Organ sound on this album.

Cool enough. I really like Light My Fire. Good organ playing. Tad overrated.

A combination of the iconic and some forgettable filler

You can hear a lot of future psychedelic rock. Came out much earlier than I thought.

Weird muted sound throughout, doesn’t sound like recording was very high quality, which isn’t shocking for the time but is for such a big time album. Music itself is solid

Mid

Decent, but not a band I love, and only a handful of good songs.

To put this review in proper context- I've never dropped acid before. Alright now that that's out of the way, it should be easier to understand why I never went through a Doors phase in college or while trying to expand my music knowledge and tastes. I always liked Peace Frog, Riders on the Storm (Mostly because of that Snoop Dogg version from Need For Speed Underground 2, but I digress), and Roadhouse Blues- there's no denying it, The Doors have hits. But even in recognizing those hits and the insanely talented Ray Manzarek, I never had an AHA moment with them like other bands. It is probably because I'm a shitty musician and have 0 blues chops, so even if I can say I understand why they are hailed as a great band, I never fully wrapped my head around it. And honestly they felt dated anytime I tried to get into them. If you play some other records from the time- The Velvet Underground, Van Morrison, Led Zeppelin a few years later, I know that music IS old, but it hardly ever feels that way, somehow they feel fresh and relevant. And unlike the Beatles or Rolling Stones, or Chuck Berry which are even older, at least most of their songs are fun. The blues basis keeps the Doors more palatable than some other psychadelic acts, but am I the only one who ever wonders who that genre was even for? I guess white people from the 60s who hadn't heard Hendrix yet, but I digress. The point is, when I looked at it through that lens and preconceived notions, I risked missing the point of revisiting an album. So I went in with a clean slate. And honestly, it made this record fun to listen to. When I tried not taking it too seriously, it made me open to lot of the cool things they did on these tracks. First off- right from the get go, Break on Through is one of the greatest opening tracks to a record, period. The explosiveness of the final 40 seconds. Also Soul Kitchen is fucking sick. From an iconic keyboard riff, tasty guitar licks, and the yelps and range of Morrison's vocals- it's just a terrific rock song. And the lyrics- any band that talks about Pork and Beans is alright by me. (Ride or Die for Weezer) Worst Song: Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)- Everything about this song is terrible. Best Song: Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)- Everything about this song is SO terrible that it is hysterical and brilliant that it made it on this record, and that the record went on to be a commercial success.

A lot of fun was had on the keys in this album. I don’t mind it. I like the sonic landscape they make. Oh na he fucked his mom in Track 11, bro is wild. Overall the first half had a couple good tracks and the sound is pretty consistent and cohesive. I def like this more bc of my nerdgasam about Francis ford Coppola and the final track.

The doors have a super distinct sound. The organ/harpsichord or whatever it is. The dark, dramatic vocals. The overall mysterious vibe it all creates. Very cool and sexy. For some reason that sound doesn’t really do a ton for me. Imo break on through is the best here and it’s not even close. Then soul kitchen and light my fire are pretty good. Other than that, nothing really interests me here. It’s not bad though. I can’t really explain how I feel about their sound, but it’s not something I’ll be going out of my way to listen to again. Best: break on through, light my fire, soul kitchen Mmm: BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE

A classic album, for sure; and I can see how it was monumental in its day. But now it’s not my favorite.

BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE SLIP N' SLIDE!! I feel like these songs have been woven into the background of my life so much that I almost don't even recognize it as music anymore; more just like people in an airport talking. I don't know them, they don't know me, but we're both there doing our separate things. I still like "The End." To me, it's the ultimate Doors song. And then the rest is just weird music you might hear at a Renaissance Faire and the occasional blues-rocker.

This was alright. I like the organ + the song “Take It As It Comes”.

More like The Boors, am I right? This is classic rock everyone has heard before. The music is fine, some interesting stuff, nothing bad here. Really good for a debut album, just not my favorite band. Fave Songs: Light My Fire and The End

It's the doors. They're fine.

Pompous, not as clever as Jim Morrison intended. This is why drugs are a bad idea, kids. Slightly better than LA Woman.

Classic, not the biggest fan

Break in Through and Light My Fire are amazing songs but the album doesn’t do much for me from there. Alabama Song annoys me to no end. Maybe it’s a great album, just not my thing.

I’ll admit I did not listen to the whole album. I did not need to hear mono and live versions of the tracks. The famous songs are good - the other songs not so. Sorry super fans, I don’t get the hype.

It was good album and I completely understand why it's revered and respected but I don't completely vibe with the synths and constant, haunting vocals.

A banger or two

3.4/5

brings back memories of my HS teacher playing this for us in our 3D CAD class

Jim Morrison is overrated

Good

First time sitting down and listening to. Doors album. Sounded good. Like what I think I expected. Songs were fun but the few keyboard solos were a bit shrill.

Good album, very close to a four if some of the last few songs were better but strong 3

Thought it was a solid album, but no song particularly stood out. I think the ones I liked the most were Whisky Bar and Light My Fire

Fine. The album opens strong with "Break on Through" - a high energy rock song that really got me dancing on my toes (& I really love that rock organ!). However, from there the album really wears on me. I don't know if it's just a question of era, but I don't believe a word the lead singer sings - it seems too affected to me. I listened to the album twice through, and it never got better to me.

Break On Through is such a great song. I’ve heard that what separates a good rock song from a great one is the management and buildup of intensity (Everclear’s “Santa Monica” is a great example). But Break on Through builds up super quick to the punch line, and I love it. And it sounds like the perfect soundtrack to every 60s movie. Light My Fire does too. But that’s about it. The rest are just okay. Twentieth Century Fox was familiar, but that doesn’t make it enjoyable. The Doors just aren’t my thing. I did like Soul Kitchen. In fact, I always liked Smash Mouth’s “Walking on the Sun”, but now I realize it’s just a complete rip off of Soul Kitchen from this album. Soul Kitchen feels more authentic. Between a 2 and 3, but Break On Through makes it round up for me.

Unique sound with the keyboard but some of the songs (Alabama song) are simply not great. Glad I listened to it but not a game changer.

I liked it! I’m intrigued. I’m eager to hear more from the Doors. Some of the songs give you this offbeat, unsettled feeling. You get the sense that there’s something odd about Jim Morrison. He’s not immediately scannable. Like there’s something brewing under the surface. I’m only getting a quick look with an album that has a couple of standouts, but is mostly a mood. Where do they go next? (No spoilers). 3/5

"Break on Through" and "Light My Fire" are excellent. They have such a recognizable sound, and really paint a picture of a certain LA stereotype. Some of these songs are trash (looking at you, "Alabama Song"), and overall a mixed bag. In the end, it's an iconic debut from an iconic band.

it's always fascinating when an artist releases their debut album and knew exactly at that moment what they wanted to do. this self-titled album contains that very psychedelic rock sound that the doors cultivated. i knew a good amount of these songs already, due to my upbringing on classic rock radio, but i was struck how progressive the doors could be. most of their songs are under or around three minutes, but their two longer songs show their intrigue in experimentation. the keyboard instrumental in "light my fire" is a perfect example of this. mostly, psychedelic rock isn't for me. it's kind of too weird for me! the doors' hits are undoubtedly good, but with the non-hits being too different to enjoy, sometimes i wonder if i don't like them as much because i did not live through the sixties. no matter--still a worthy entry to this albums project.

Last song was cool. First song is a classic. Didn’t particularly fall in love with anything.

Wasn't expecting to like it but it was probably better than expected.

Listening to this as an adult I realize that The Doors have a certain X factor that I don’t know if I can get down with. It’s just a hits for me.

Jim Morrison has this effortless swagger when it comes to his singing, this is a pretty good album to listen to while driving to the beach in the sweltering heat. Interesting instrumentation throughout, but both Light My Fire and The End are way too long and could have been easily trimmed.

3 Good listening

its psych ish blues rock. youve heard it no doubt. i enjoyed it. its not bad at all. glad 11 minute tracks exist. yeehaw.

Probably not my first choice for albums by The Doors. That being said, I'm into it, given that I'd been indoctrinated from a young age. The highs are all-timers, but the lows are kind of monotonous and otherwise uninteresting. I love how they've worked the organ into it, and while I can't really imagine putting this record on to just listen to it as a standalone activity, it still actually feels kind of cohesive. Standouts: Break On Through (To the Other Side), Light My Fire, Back Door Man, The End

Puertas

More Doors! Preferred LA Women but this was still good. Enjoyed the weirder tracks the most.

Pretty good but didn’t love any particular song

This was fine I didn't really have feelings either way on this one

Tosi hyvä, vaikka biisit kuullostaa samanlaiselta, rento, vika biisi kiroilua, jee!

I've always written off The Doors as just another psychedelic rock band with 6 minute acid induced organ solos throughout most of their music, but after listening to this self titled debut album, boy was I wrong. They are so much more than that. Yes, those organ solos do exist (in Light My Fire for example), but there is also many songs that are less than 3 minutes long, and have funky, jazzy, bluesy feels to them with typical 60s rock overtones. The addition of an electric organ was, at the time, revolutionary to the genre of rock, and led to many other bands doing the same thing. Jim Morrison had such a unique singing voice. Some of his vocals may make more sense when high on psychedelics, but one can definately appreciate the magnitude of this album, even when sober. I was worried about the song The End when it started playing and I saw an almost 12 minute run time, but the solos are kept short in it, and Jim keeps the song flowing well throughout, making the time fly by (the song doesn't go on so long that it becomes stale). Overall, impressed with this album. It has opened my eyes to more of what The Doors were. Favourite songs: Break on Through (To The Other Side), Soul Kitchen, Back Door Man, Twentieth Century Fox, Light My Fire, The End Least favourite songs: Alabama Song (Whisky Bar), The Crystal Ship 3/5

Favorite song: Break on Through (To the Other Side)

Break on through is a great song, the rest of this album really drags.

Also the second Doors album in this experient leaves me kinda cold. Just personally not my vibe, the songs are too similar and the concept of this relaxed half singing half speaking by Jim doesnt appeal to me

A mix desse album é bem diferente dos padrões atuais, foi um pouco difícil de me acostumar, mas é uma parada bem orgânica, como se eu estivesse ouvindo uma banda no palco mesmo. No geral, é bem interessante, mas maçante. 6/10 Músicas favoritas: Break on Through Alabama Song Back Door Man Light My Fire

Good album. Still not a fan of the Doors, but I see why some people love the music.

Some iconic hits, but also plenty of filler. The poetry is indeed stupid, but only noticeably so on The End.

I've always been pretty indifferent to the Doors. Sure, Morrison's voice is distinctive, and they've got a few classic songs, but overall ... *shrug* I was hoping that listening to this album would enlighten me, but my opinion remains unchanged. They're fine, but my life wouldn't be any different if they'd never cut an album.

I "discovered" them back in my high school days back when Val Kilmer was trying to embody Jim Morrison on the silver screen, listened to the morning noon and night it seemed. Today I discovered that over the decades I've gotten over it. Nice trip down memory lane. A few songs I still really dug, but overall, tastes have changed.

not new for me

A classic, but a bit samey, apart from the classics, riders on the storm, the end, and touch me baby. Nice to recall but I was never a massive fan.

Solid.

nice debut, amazing sound, you gotta give it to the Doors, they knew how to explore new territories

Never been a fan, possibly the lack of a formal bassist. It's fine, overly repetitive in places and corny bar music in others. Separated from Apocalypses Now, 'The End' is a boring drone, 'Light My Fire' and 'Break On Through' still stand up though.

This is a tough album to rate - the hits are fuckin masterpieces, but there's also a lot of bland 60s psychedelic drivel. I want to give it both a 5 and a 1. Oh and fuck Jim Morrison's status as anything more than some idiot junkie. I think TISM said it best: "your mysticism is a load of shit, and so are all the girls you've rooted". 3/5.

Leuk, niet weggeblazen.

The magic is not there as much as I remember it

I used to love the Doors when I was younger. I can't say I like them as much, but Break on Through and The End are still great songs.

An iconic cornerstone of the psychedelic musical genre. I'm rating this a bit lower than what I suspect the norm is, only because I'm not a big fan of the group, but that is mostly just a matter of personal taste.

I’m not a big Doors fan by any stretch, but you can’t deny the power of The End.

Doors on aina ollut mulle 3/5. The End on kyllä kaunis ja nostalginen.

Onhan tämäkin klassikko mut en kyllä koskaan oo juurikaan välittänyt Doorsista. Crystal Ship on ihan hyvä biisi ja Light My Fire meemikäs, joten annetaan nyt 3/5

Somewhat boring and repetitive. They do a good job at creating a certain mood and I can see why people like them. The keyboard solo in "Light My Fire" is hot garbage.

eh

Hefði verið fjórar hefði ég ekki svona svakalegt ofnæmi fyrir Viskílaginu. Annars mjög nett hlustun á hljómsveit sem ég hef ekki hlustað á mjög lengi.

60’s noodling. How did they ever get so much clout?

This is pretty cool

These guys were crazy. Some drugged out psychedelia to the extreme.

Meh

Histórico, com praticamente todos os hits. Só que pra mim o teclado é excessivo

not the end, but The End of the beginning

Best use of an organ since Johnny Holmes

Organ player is great, I'd argue he defines The Doors just as much as Jim Morrison does. Never was really a big fan of The Doors Favorite Song - Soul Kitchen

What? No riders on the storm? Solid first album. It has sure made waves through time.

3.5

Morrison is a charismatic front-man, and this album has some really quality psych rock. I think this is a bit inconsistent or at least not as appealing as some of the other psych being done at the time but the doors had a really wild yet refined style to them. The singles pop out here, even the ones i didn't know were singles, and the rest kind of fall by the wayside. Not that they're bad songs or anything but from the opener to light my fire to the closer the famous songs really cast a show.

I don't care for The Doors all that much, but this is a solid album.

Jim Morrison’s voice was so unusual and haunting, it always makes me sad that he died young and we couldn’t see where he would go. Not my favorite album but I love the use of keyboard in their music.

3 for deserving to be on the list. Was never a fan of the heavy keyboards.

Toppen, klassisk proggig rock. Innehåller några panglåtar och ger en bra sammanfattning av The Doors. Inte jättemycket att klaga på förutom att det kanske är någon låt som skulle kunna petas utan allt för stor förlust

Ett helt ok album. Jim Morrison sjunger bra nog för att rädda flera annars ganska tråkiga låtar, men Light my fire är den enda jag känner att jag vill gå tillbaka till. Dänga!

3.5/5 - This is better than the first doors album!

Show me the way to the next whiskyyy barrr. Oh don't ask whyyyy 3.5/5

I wasn't the biggest fan of this one. Wasn't bad or anything, I just didn't really dig it. I'm just not a huge fan of the electric keyboard sound, sad to say. Not to say it never worked for me, just not super often.

Played this to death in my late teens, then moved on. Musically it’s great, lyrically I just don’t quite get it anymore, perhaps a little too metaphorical for me now!

Turns out I don’t don’t hate the Doors music, just Jim M. A Doors instrumental album would be top notch.

I like the way he rhymes "friend" with "end" and "fire" with "fire."

LA Woman or bust

3.0 - It’s The Doors, playing The Doors songs.

I liked this better than the other The Doors album that I listened to (L.A. Woman). But still It feels somewhat stale I don't know if it's just me not liking the style or if its something else. But I will say that "The End" is a really cool song, but not enough to make it a great album for me. Overall it did not grip me and engage me in the sound. Rating: 7/10

It just swept through my ears like a breeze...

This exceeded my expectations. I had always heard that the Doors are one of the most overrated bands of all time. However, I quite enjoyed this. Maybe still overrated, but perfectly decent. 3.5/5.

72. The Doors - The Doors 11 tracks. I love singing/mumbling along to this album. I don't know any of the words & I certainly have no idea which track they belong to or in which order, but does it really matter? There's even guitar solo's for some severe #BaseFace 3/5

Just a whole lot of meh here. Didn't love or hate any of the tracks. Liked Light my fire (fave track), but not in love with any of them. Mildly forgettable album for me, I don't know what it is. Just made me wish I were listening to the Kinks or the Beatles.

Decent classics, has some lengths

Scores on the Doors: 3⭐️

song 1 - turned a bit shit after 20 seconds; not my style, not promising at all 2/10 sould kitchen - trippy, had good start and was pretty good through out 7/10 the crystal ships - pretty nice, chill sound 8.5/10 20th century fox - meh, not the best 4/10 alabama song (whiskey bar) - like its playful sing songyness probably my fav song here 8.5/10 light my fire --pretty nice to be honest would casually listen 6.5/10 just realised it is 7mins long, turns good at like 3:30 7/10 back door man --rowdy song, would listen when I'm drinking straight vodka from the bottle walking in the middle of the street, feeling lonely and angry 6.5/10 i looked at you - pretty nice. starting to feel the repetitiveness 6/10 end of the night - truly a song to be listened to in the middle of the night in my kitchen bright lit with flourescent yellow lights. drunk. not knowing what to feel. love how its so slow. like my brain at these times 8/10 take it as it comes - a banger to dance to, got me dancing right now 8.5/10 the end - eleven fucking minutes ?? ok- pretty bland. would not listen again 3/10 overall: 6.5/10 an ok album with a few nice songs. would not listen to the whole thing again but the few songs i like would deffo feature in many of my playlists.

Sin dejar de tener cosas interesantes, está un poco sobrevalorado.

This is a solid album but I found myself annoyed at some of the sounds.

God, I totally don't know what to do with the Doors... Morrison is a total pretentious prat and not nearly as deep as he pretends, the band are a glorified lounge act... and yet, and yet, THIS record is surprisingly listenable. Most songs are 3 minutes or under, not enough time to outstay their welcome, and the tunes are catchy, the band can swing a little bit and their dynamic interplay is not too bad. The lyrics are not TOO dumb (for the most part). Light my fire and The End have a tendency to drag on a bit. I really want to hate the doors, but this album is kinda fun. I can forgive the band for this record. (Footnote: Alfie did point out that the opening of Soul Kitchen sounds a lot like Walking on the Sun by Smashmouth. Just sayin')

Liked the sound, but wasn't a huge fan of the lyrical styling

Enjoyed listened to it properly for the first time and the journey of the highs and lows (some a bit too depressing!) of the album as a whole. Good melodies. Didn't like the plinky plonky electric keyboard. Great guitar solos.

Great start and strong finish with The End, the middle was all over the place for me.

First time listening through all of a Doors album and it was a decent listening. I really liked the instrumental breaks and the loose feel of the longer songs and Break on through was a great song but was tempted to skip some of the album.

Solid classic rock album both contemplative and riff-filled. Some dynamic contrast could have livened things up a bit but good compositions nonetheless

OK

Some great songs. Some not so great haha

That Byrds album came out the same year and this is massively more interesting. However, I could probably take or leave a fair number of the tracks. The End is an iconic and great track - Is it enough for me to buy the album? I think so but I probably wouldn't splash out too much

Classic rock.

More style than substance on the Doors debut here. Some good tracks and great singles but a bit meandering for my tastes.

3/11 songs added Favourite songs: Break on through Alabama song End of the night

I get The Doors were a big deal. I get they influenced a whole lot of people in their day and since. But I don't know if I can ever be so under the influence of either drugs or alcohol to make their music not be boring as hell. The organ is too fucking loud on every song. I'll round up the score to the next star for the Oedipus Complex part in the final song.

Rockin album, I think I'd appreciate it more if I heard it for the first time in 1967, the grooves and overall energy is very infections and would be killer to see in concert, but lyrics are repetitive in some spots and overall not that enthused, favs - Break on Through (To the Other Side), Light My Fire

Reminds me a bit of Blank Generation. Does punk have roots here? Feels like safe psychedelic. Not very remarkable on my end, but still an enjoyable listen.

Couple of good ones on here

Good, but not great. Certainly as a first album, its a statement, but I'm prefer their later sound, specifically on LA Woman

Opening so soon after another of their creations this doesn't pack the punch it once may have.

3/5

The Doors debut album is widely regarded as the best debut album. The album sound is mostly rock, but mixed in it is jazz, blues, pop, classical, and r&b. 'Light My Fire' may be the most popular song on the album, and the band even remixed it for a radio edit because it was so highly requested. In conclusion, this album is a classic piece of rock history and might be the best debut album from any group of musicians.

One of the stand out examples of the time. Free ranging experimentation.

Cool but not my style, gave it a chance though...

Pretty much what I expected. Solid. Unique. And not my thing.

Some absolute classics there

Favourite Song: Light My Fire

Obviously synonymous with Apocalypse Now due to 'the end' but the whole album shares that same sound of annilhation thanks to Morrison's wild vocals and the whirling arrangements of various electric instruments.

Classic, aber nicht ganz meins.

Great sound….

I like the hits on here, and this is probably my favorite Doors album, but I'm not the biggest fan. This is the 3rd Doors album on this list and I kinda hope it's the last.

Little Mark with a C with his flowing hair.

un poco coñazo segun van pasando los temas

It’s alright

Not a bad album honestly. Not my style of music, but not bad music if that makes sense. Really nice drumming on most of the songs. Hopefully will listen again.

Para calificar un álbum siempre imagino con cuantas canciones la gente se prendería en un concierto sin ayuda de drogas fuertes... este disco tiene menos de la mitad. Bueno para tenerlo de fondo, aunque repetitivo.

Don't have the stomach for Jim anymore I must be getting old. This band is so good I see that but his whole...cloud or vibe or whatever...ugh

1967, Rock, starke 3

Un clásico pero nunca me ha enganchado

Honestly I was expected more from this album, still a good listen it just suffered from high expectations for me.

Nice

3* good start gets boring

Le daría 2, le pongo 3 nada más por aceptar que musicalmente fue muy relevante e influenció bastante. Es un disco que me gusto mucho... hace 25 años. Hoy en día casi no lo soporto. Dicen que los poetas sin talento se pueden hacer compositores grandes y Morrison es el ejemplo perfecto. Lo mejor de todo el disco sigue siendo la canción favorita de Ber... The End (porque la oigo y quiero salir del pantano de una jungla con mi cuchillo listo a ir por el Coronel Kurtz).

I know this is seemingly blasphemous to some people, but I never got into The Doors. That Being said, this album is great for what it has done for the course of music, and its many genres. I want to give it a 4, but its my personal rating, so suck it!

Extraña la combinación de canciones tan pequeñas (2:15, 2:26) con otras tan largas (7:10, 11:43) Tracks: Break on Through, Take it as it comes y ps sí, Light my fire Avoid: Alabahama (whiskey song), The end.

Never listened to the full album, couple of classics here. Discovered them when the biographical film was released in 1991 (I was 15 years old at this time). Top track: Light My Fire

Classic tracks but overall not my cup of tea

I'm getting worried that this list is going to disproportionately consist of boomer rock. This album was solid.

Si me late pero depende el humor. Hoy hace hueva y me lo vo'a saltar a la mitad.

Una de las bandas con las que crecí escuchando en casa, mucho power en el inicio con break on through pero se nota como se les fue trepando el trip y terminan haciendo cosas incomprensibles como Alabama song y the end. mucho blues y eso me gusta

Soy un poco ambivalente con este disco. Por un lado, hay rolas que sí me gustan aunque están muy choteadas (Break On Through y Laimaifaier) y por otro lado está el parto llamado The End… No sé cómo les dieron permiso de poner eso en un disco.

Way more psychedelic Vietnam war apocalypse now vibes compared to LA Woman. The End and Light My Fire are obvious classics but Alabama Song is straight up creepy

not a fan

Meh.

Started off GREAT, ended a little too weird for me.

I really like this album, the “breakthrough” and “the end” are amazing. The Doors are a little overhyped, but a good band nonetheless.

Meh. It’s okay. The first half was alright, really lost steam after Light my Fire which was just so long and boring. The End was boring and too long. Just kinda a boring album overall.

oh, the Doors... Jim Morrison seems like a lot of girl's crushes because they can just romanticize the party boy lifestyle, when it reality this guy would be no one's friend. The music is pretty good; sloppy bluesy keyboard-heavy grooves with Morrison warbling over the top.

The kind of door I want to open!

Pretty good

Quite liked the psychadelic vibe but probably wouldn't revisit it...

Pretty good!

Oh boy. I went through a Doors phase in junior high, obsessed with every album. I'm no longer in junior high. The Doors have not aged well for me. Twentieth Century Fox is still a good tune though.

Ummmm mid mid mid... wouldn't listen again. First song yas

Review - The Doors really just aren't that good, fight me. Score - 4/10 Need to listen? NO

La película de los doors es mejor que los doors

I just really don't like them much at all. Never have.

The Doors inspire very strong feelings of both love and hate in people, so it was a bit shocking to me how bored I was by this album. I like a lot of this era of psych rock but this really didn't feel very psychedelic to me, and the parts that did were actively annoying (particularly Alabama Song). I think the lack of bass guitar really didn't do this band any favors, because every song lacks a certain depth of sound that bass provides, and without that depth a lot of these songs just sort of slide off my ears. This is especially a problem in a genre like psych rock where wallowing in the atmosphere is an essential part of the atmosphere, and these songs feel like they have no atmosphere without a bass player. The organ parts were frustrating because Ray Manzarek is clearly talented, but the organ he's playing sounds so chintzy that it becomes grating. For me, the saving grace of this album was Jim Morrison. I get why people find him annoying, but I liked how much raw energy he put into his performances, especially when he just lets loose on tracks like Back Door Man. I don't think it's necessarily a bad album but I have trouble seeing how it's considered such an important part of the rock canon.

Not my type of music.

Seems like somebody got an organ for Christmas. Slightly snoresville.

Not a fan. I can understand that they were importation in that time though

But of a snooze fest TBH. Also, they say the phrase "little girl" a little too often for my liking. You mean grown adult woman, right?? Right?????

Gets a star for “Alabama Song”, the one Doors song that is preferable to white noise

The doors? More like The Bores.

It just sounds old, I think that's the organ's fault because it is ROUGH. why does he keep talking about little girls

Klassiker

I can see why this is required listening. It's so everyone can stop idol worshipping this band and realise how mediocre they are. This is basic. It's mostly generic blues filler songs. The only bit of joy I found was the bit where it gets all messy in Light My Fire and the guitar is noodling, then the organ cuts through in its perfect chromatic refrain before the final verse. It's fine. If I was 16 in 1967 and this was the only music I'd ever heard, Jim would be a god to me. But also like 25% of this album is The End. And that song is embarrassingly bad.

Not my thing, too much of that organ and too much repetitive sounds for me, not my cup of tea to be honest

Lots and lots and lots of organ. Didn’t hate it, but didn’t love it either. Some really cool moments of build & lyricism I want to dissect a bit more, but it didn’t have the personal “it” factor that draws me to an album instantaneously. I know it does for plenty of people, given its spot on the list, but from my 21st-century ear I’m a little more lukewarm. Strong two bordering on weak three. STAND-OUT SONG: “Soul Kitchen” HONORABLE MENTIONS: “Light My Fire”, “Take It As It Comes”

Only aware of the hits before listening to this. JMs voice is pretty terrible but the drumming is pretty good. That organ is something else - and not in a good way. Lyrically very immature, that kind of pretension a 6 former who has discovered poetry and the fact there’s more chance of getting laid if you’re in a band has. Kinda all sound a bit like Smash Mouths Walking on the Sun which I would rather listen to tbh.

The Doors could undoubtedly write a hook, and I like that 'Light my Fire' is a catchy pop song but also a 7 minute psych odyssey - this is really the best version of this band for me, I don’t care for pretty much everything else on here (and I think I just like this cos it’s funny). Also, I wish Manzarek would drop the Vox Continental, or at least limit it to one or two songs, or maybe do something a little different than that sort of sloppy chromatic chord change thing that's on EVERY TRACK. Actually, I guess Alabama Song is a bit different, and it's dreadful, so maybe not. 'The End' is without doubt my favourite song on this album, even though 'Light my Fire' is the best - it's brilliant because it's so bad and it makes me think of Homer's psychedelic pepper trip in The Simpson's and, of course, Apocalypse Now. Ride the snake, the snake is long, 7 miles long etc. etc. never ever ever fails to make me laugh and drifts through my head more often than it should. Also the 'father i want to kill you' bit - excellent in its own awful way. Jim Morrison was a hack!

sehr slow und bisschen langweilig, nicht mein geschmack hab schon besseres gehört

Interesting album. Not really into psychedelic rock.

I enjoyed Morrison Hotel much more than this which is odd because I know more of the songs on this album. I'm a sucker for that 60/70s organ stuff, but it just feels like they are trying too hard.

this is i suppose objectively good but i’m a little disappointed honestly. this is a good friend of mine’s favourite band so my expectations were quite high but i just found this to be .. OK. ‘take it as it comes’ and ‘the end’ (though i felt it could’ve been 4 minutes shorter) stood out to me but aside from that this album didn’t invoke much feeling in me. probably wouldn’t listen again on purpose.

After first listening

really not my style.

Brilliant debut, brilliant musicality and blending of styles, let down by schoolboy lyrics.

I have never understood how The Doors are considered such rock legends and this didn't help. Pretentious, overly long nonsense from a bunch of strung out people who seem like they wouldn't be fun to be around. Lyrically it is just beat poet crap for people who want to think they are smarter than everyone else in the room so they pretend the lyrics are deep. I'm sure I have more albums from this overrated band in my future and I'm dreading each one of them.

Boring and slow. There was one good song and it was the very first one. After that it became a lame slog fest.

I used to like this album earlier, but now for some reason they put me to sleep

My wife loves The Doors. I do not. It has less to do with the band and their sound than it does with Jim Morrison, which I suspect is true for both of us.

This sounded exactly like I expected it to sound. The Doors had a unique sound, I think it is more the organ than anything. I never really dug it too much. It isn't bad, just not my thing.

Loved the organ and los partes instrumentales! Other than that it's just fine

I like The Doors well enough, but this is the third time I’ve gotten one of their albums in the short time I’ve been listening… Not very random…

Reminded me of the Vietnam war. Felt like those times. Kinda boring at times.

no me transmitió nada, algún que otro lindo tema

As far as The Doors albums go, this is fine, I guess. I'd still rather not.

Good album but to me one of the bands that I’ve grown tired of hearing.

Old mixing

Very dated.

Jesus this is annoying

Not for me.

If anyone says The Doors to me, I think of People Are Strange due to an abiding love of The Lost Boys, so I was a bit sad to discover it's not on this album. There were bigger hits on though, with Light My Fire and Break On Through (To The Other Side) included and I was also very familiar with The End for some reason. From the songs I didn't know, many of them seemed pretty different than I imagined the album tracks would be - much of it felt far more "swinging 60s" than I was ever expecting. I liked Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) but I could not explain why, even if I tried. The singles are great, but nothing else won me round in quite the same way. So I think this is a 2.5 ⭐ that's going to instead get a: 2/5

This was kinda cool, I guess. Nothing really caught my ear though (save for a couple tracks). Maybe need a relisten? I don't know. Favorites: Light My Fire, I Looked at You, End of the Night

Never been a Doors guy (I can not sanction Jim Morrison's buffoonery), but I do love Ray Manzarek's work on the keys. Iconic. Highs are high on this record but the lows are pretty bad/forgettable. Just not for me. Maybe not enough drugs on my part.

2/5 inget som stack ut som bra för mig. Helt okej

Back Door Man, Light My Fire and The End were the highlights for me, but the rest were kinda forgettable. Didn’t really know what to make of this one. 2-2.5

Light My Fire rips, but I didn’t care for the rest of this one.

aburrido

The doors are boring and their songs sound the fucking same

Yeah, this was difficult to listen to. I can't help but think how much better the songs would sound with a bass. It's an essential part of a song for me personally, not just saying it as a bassist. On top of that, the keyboard is grating to me, I hate the tone sooooo fucking much and the only one I sort of liked was The Crystal Ship because the piano part drowned it out for the most part. So yeah, not my thing and don't really get why people would like them sorry

I’ve always liked Light My Fire, but otherwise this really sounds of its time. Didn’t do much for me.

I went in with high hopes but found this really dreary

questionable lyrics

I'm sure this one did numbers once, it just felt repetitive and boring to me

Another album I felt like I was supposed to love. His voice is beautiful but I found the lyrics mostly uninteresting and the music repetitive.

I'm not high enough for this. That's the problem, I think, I've never been high enough for this. In addition, I just straight up dislike the organ as an instrument. I think it sounds dumb. Which is a tough beat for this band, because this shit is like 80% organ. I recognize the classic songs as such, I recognize Jim Morrison as a singular sex symbol, I heartily approve of the Aldous Huxley connection. I just don't care about The Doors and never have. Not for me.

I never understood why this band was considered a super band. Mediocre musicians who stopped at dense lyrics and a character typical of the emerging music "industry"

But then other times, it turns out you were oversaturated and there was no new ground.

idk it wasn't bad it just sounded kind of antiquated in a way that i didn't enjoy, it wasn't bad it just didn't stand out to me and i don't think i would go out of my way to listen again

Carnival music sung by a clown.

Break on Through (To the Other side) - 5.5/10 Soul Kitchen - 4.5/10 The Crystal Ship - 5/10 Twentieth Century Fox - 4/10 Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) - 4/10 Light My Fire - 3/10 Back Door Man - 4/10 I Looked at You - 4/10 End of the Night - 4/10 Take It as It Comes - 4/10 The End - 4.5/10

Bettter than expected, with some songs being actually enjoyable. The theatralics ruin it for me, though.

Kinda disappointed by this album. Thought i'd like it more.

not a huge fan. A little boring. Don't love his voice. Guitar is good though.

Very groovy and obviously classic. However I don't really get all the hype. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad! but I am so tired of hearing that organ.

Standard and boring rock. Vocals are a little annoying.

Bonne musique d'arrière plan mais sans plus. Déçu de la monotonie de l'album. Je n'ai pas accroché. Quelques musiques sortent du lot mais ne sauve pas l'album. Note : 2 À réécouter : Non

Meh

Hard to hear this with fresh ears, but Break on Through is still an incredible first salvo. And then we’re right into the blues rock and what sounds like a bar band doing its set, including Light My Fire, which I can take or leave for the most part. The End eventually made for a great film soundtrack, but I’ve always found its album execution tedious. I don’t dislike Morrison and co. as much as my peers, when they’re on, they’re a timeless rock band, but the rest of the time is spent chasing contemporary pop sounds which are nails-on-a-chalkboard ill-fitting.

Some classics songs, but I have never been a huge fan of the doors. 2.5 stars

Too much electric organ for me!

I don't like the doors. 2/10/2026

One of the most overrated bands ever. Eveeeerrrrr. This is what happens when a dude that can sing thinks he's the poetest poet that ever poeted.

I really don't like this band

Great first song. Pretty good last song. The middle? Meh. Not for me.

I don’t like it

I like the classics but everything else is too out-there for me.

wasn't digging it at first but it grew on me as it went on. I dont like the more upbeat songs, but the slower ones are nice. Its the electric keys noises that bother me. fav songs: the crystal ship, the end

Two classics in it. But the rest was just painful noises.

Not as good as the first time i listened to The Doors. The live stuff was good to listen to, can’t say much for the rest of the album tho.

had much higher expectations for this one..

I don't get the hype. All the songs are pretty similar, and lyrics lack and depth, substance, or meaning. This album doesn't make me feel anything.

alright.

I did not like it

I tried to like them back when I was young and rebellious because that's what I thought young and rebellious - and cool - people were into. I'm no longer young, I'm still rebellious and, well, I think I'm cool, and it turns out that I always thought The Doors were overrated and Jim Morrison was a bit of a dick.

Well that didn't go as expected 😂

I didn’t enjoy this re-listen as much as I expected. This particular sound just feels a bit worn out. Loved it 30 years ago when I first discovered them. Now I found it a bit of a slog.

overall a 2/5... some songs were good, but mostly unimpressive... i was expecting more honestly :(

2,5 sterren

eksperimetalni su, posebni, ali ovo je album koji poslusas jednom kao dozivljaj, nije nesto sto bih slusala za zabavu, eventualno pocetak the enda i 20th century fox kao neka pjesma na koju pleses u baru. cijeli album ima malo spooky halloween vajb zbog klavijature.

not really my thing i fear. wasn't a fan of some songs lacking any kind of percussion

mid ig

2/5 A little too old and low-res for me, did not appreciate it much

Reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite/Django Unchained soundtrack.

I wish there was a 2.5 star ranking as that is exactly what the doors were, a 2.5 star band that the death contributing mythos of the lead singer somehow made them legends. Had Jim lived into his 50s they would have faded into the background of the good but not great bands of their era, yet here we are.

2.6/5 I've never liked the doors and I've never understood the fascination with them, but I didn't mind this album to be honest. Might have to give them another chance. Not that big a fan of the keyboards though and some of the long songs. Light my fire is a great track but it's brought down by the massive long bridge. If it was a tight 3.30-4min song I'd love it more.

Not for me

Some stand out tracks, and some boring bluesy jams. I wonder if we’d still be talking about The Doors if Morrison hadn’t died young, or if they’d just be a footnote on the ‘60s.

Meh

Break on Through came on and I was like “Oh man, have I been too hard on the doors? Do they actually kind of rock the way I thought they did when I was fourteen?” Then it was followed by like four of the shittiest songs I’ve ever heard. That’s an exaggeration but whatever. There are some cool songs, and Manzarek is pretty cool. But overall, more bad than good.

I'm not a contrarian for the sake of it, but man, I _fucking hate_ this album. Ray's organ is way too prominent in mix, and the timbre is nasally and grating. It's like nails on a chalkboard. Particularly with no bassist to thicken up the sound. And then you have Jim’s brooding, pretentious, college-dorm philosophy and slurred, droning vocals. It's an awful pairing that my brain just can't enjoy.

Some good ones in here

I respect them for turning doing drugs into a career, but their music is kinda meh

Not my taste

I normally enjoy psych rock, but this album just doesn't work for me. Everything's fine, but for the most part, things are just that: fine. I don't really see myself coming back to this album. Favorite tracks: "Light My Fire," maybe "The End"

The greatest CIA funded band in history, recruited him for his psychical attractiveness. Something, something MK-Ultra. Something, something CIA circus music playing. Something, something, I eat more chicken than any man ever. Something, something, she gets high. Something, something, eat more pork, beans and chicken because I'm the back door man. She poops everywhere, Hol up the bathrooms are clear. Something, something about Indians and Snakes. Thank you Jim Morrison for some truly groundbreaking music.

Mid

Ok - I love The Doors and LA Woman is probably in my Top 20 albums. However, like David Bowie, The Doors have produced some really dross - I cannot stand Alabama Song, and why does Jim need to sing about Back Doors all the time? Really?

Nothing crazy stand out except for the famous ones, and even then my mind isn't blown. But atmospheric, and great voice.

Great for montages of young people in the 60s doing drugs and fornicating.

I'm not a fan, never was, never will be. I think that Ray Manzarek's playing is atrocious.

some songs ok i got the cutie ness of it and then it was also just fucking wack as hell LMAO

This band were on the list of bands that I knew I would have to begrudgingly endure doing this. Listening to this and trying to equate it to the twittering of Morrison devotees is odd because there’s really not much to see here at all. Musically it’s ok. Certainly not the work of genius that some claim Morrison to be. Vastly overrated and dull. Struggled to a 2.

The hits are bangers, the rest is filler. Too much noodling.

I spent half of this album looking forward to the end and wishing Ray Manzarek would quit playing the keys so loud and start playing them more creatively. But then the B side started and that redeemed a lot of the album for me. There was a lot more I enjoyed on the B side, including “The End” which is unnecessarily long but I was kind of into it.

it was okay, only liked one song in the end

Honestly, couldn’t finish it. Their hits are neat, big Vietnam vibe. Sure it was important but it wasn’t for me

There was a time when I liked this shit, but it was 25+ years ago.

These guys have never really been my cup of tea…

It’s honestly really impressive how this album manages to be awfully boring and awfully annoying at the same time. Can’t help but respect that

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Technically fine and there’s a few songs I really like individually. Overall as an album it just doesn’t leave a mark on me though, and the hagiography of JM throughout my life predisposes me to shrug the effort off

The tracks everyone knows are great but the rest are just ok.

The doors are like the epitome of overrated Rock band for me. Hammond organ is cool and all, but it dominates the mix on some of these tracks... I just don't get how this is a good album. There's a friggin polka in the middle!

I've come back to this one many times over the years. No doubt it is famous and influential. I like this era and genre, but this one just never grabs me. The singles are OK, but the rest is pretty forgettable.

I get it, but not for me.

meh

Idk its fine Didn't finish it Date listened: 10/09/25 Favourites: Light my fire Rating: 2

6/10

idk kinda boring for me

lame

just not that into the pedo lyrics i guess

i liked the other one better

2 star album. I’m sure it was amazing at the time, but it’s far too linked to that specific counter culture moment