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A masterful psychedelic classic linking in elements of folk and jazz into some truly epic songs.
Classic
Wat een terugkomer voor mij in de lijst, een absoluut mastodon van een album. Hoewel ik bands als de Beatles etc ook voor sommige albums een 5 zou geven, ontstijgt the Doors bijna al z’n generatiegenoten. Wat een debuut van een album, niet bang om 2 lange nummers erop te zetten. Ik vind de stem van Morrison ook bijzonder, heel karakteristiek en past perfect bij de muziek. Openen met een banger als Break On Through en eindigen met The End, fenomenaal. Easy 5
Nostalgisch klingender, fröhlich stimmender Psychelic-Rock.
One of the greatest records ever produced. There are so many good tracks here.
Amazing album, like nothing before or after it
Fantastic debut album from The Doors Nearly all the tracks are classics that most people have heard
An easy 5 stars. I hadn't realized how many of the Doors' classic songs were on their debut album.
One of the few albums I can rate without needing to play. All these tracks are etched deep in my brain and need nothing saying. All this without a bassist! A true marvel. Less than four years separates Please Please Me from this, but it seems like four light-years.
!967. 12 years old. The most wicked, dangerous album I had ever heard.
Absolutely brilliant is all I have to say. This band has had a great, solid run up till the last record with frontman Jim Morrison. Their first album features many fan favorites, lot of earworms and hum alongs. I can only imagine how great it must've been to see this band back in the day! It's a great culmination of Rock, Psychedelic, R&B, Jazz & Pop. 9,5 out of 10
Between 4 and 5... Personally a 4 but culturally, its significance for music history rather a 5.
I like doors 🚪
The west is the best
The Doors have become the easiest band to hate. Every aspect of them is now an invitation to ridicule, from the wankcanon Oliver Stone film to Jim Morrison’s leather trousers. Nowadays, a jejune critic seeking to establish their chops only need bash out 500 words on how they always considered the Doors a fistful of pretentious chancers led by a genuinely unpleasant sot who imagined himself the new Rimbaud yet could barely manage to match William McGonagall. One could rebuild the Twin Towers with the printouts from poorly edited blogposts saying that everybody now realises Love were actually the great 60s LA band and how the mighty Lizard King couldn’t even survive a strenuous toss in the bath. Indeed, it’s quite easy to plot the contemporary trajectory of how an aspirant member of the musical cognoscenti will regard the Doors: firstly, they become interested in the band as a teenager, after one of the hippyish types in school copies a tape/ burns a CD/ sends a link (delete according to decade), then late adolescence will spark an infatuation, with the male youth growing out his hair and the female youth spannering herself giddy over a topless shot of Morrison when he was still thin. But at university, our poor, impressionable student will grow self-conscious when some pompous git with a trust fund declares the Doors too pompous to take seriously, and thus they will finally reject the Doors outright as part of a needy grasp at performative sophistication. Well, bollocks to that. The Doors were absolutely brilliant, with one of the greatest back catalogues in the rock oeuvre, and there is little more dispiritingly ostentatious than some berk claiming that he doesn’t get the point of the Doors, all the while poking you with a copy of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in the hope you’ll hold him in higher esteem and perhaps offer a grateful blowie. No no no me laddo, I want something that actually rocks, that actually has some real ambition to it, and that has songs I can actually bloody remember. The Doors consisted of four members: drummer John Densmore, organist Ray Manzarek (he would also play bass on keyboard), Robby (occasionally Robbie) Krieger, and rock shaman Jim Morrison. Yes, Morrison styling himself as a rock shaman is extraordinary pretentious, but that’s one of the main appeals of the Doors. Pretentiousness is a treat; I’m happily pretentious, and at least the pretentious give difficult books a try. And we pretentious types enjoy the literary and philosophical references with which Morrison loved ornamenting his lyrics (from the album, off the top of my head, the title End of the Night comes from Celine’s Journey to the End of the Night, which also ends with a quote from Blake; Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) is a song from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera; the title Take it as it Comes was a saying coined by Maharishi Maresh Yogi, the inventor of Transcendental Meditation; most notoriously, The End contains a passage where Morrison howls Freud’s Oedipus complex, the pseudoscientific psychoanalytic concept where the male wishes to kill his father and fuck his mother). This, my beautiful lambasters, is the good kind of pretentiousness, a majestic pretentiousness, the pretentiousness that inspires one to quest ever further. But quest where? The Doors’ debut album came out almost contemporaneously to another artsy, pretentious debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. And indeed, one can view both albums as instigating the artsy trend in rock, the first to tread the furrow leading to the Stooges, Bowie and Roxy Music, heading to the magnificence of the Sex Pistols and Joy Division. This is not a controversial take; everyone involved would concur with that assessment. And one can draw easy parallels between the Doors’ debut and the Velvet Underground and Nico: Break on Through pairs with I’m Waiting for the Man; like End of the Night, Venus in Furs gestures to decadent Europe with its title taken from a sordid novel from the old world; both The End and Heroin sought to piss over the America their 50s fathers declared was the only America worth fighting for. But the Doors’ debut album, despite the desired contrarianism of Pitchfork jerkoffs, is the real revolution in rock, not the Velvets’ interesting-but-unfocused attempt to overturn the world. One of the key strengths of the Doors is the sheer quality and versatility of Morrison’s voice. For all the degradations Jimbo suffered from his Dionysian swilling of booze, the fucker could sing, and sing in whatever style he wanted. From psych-out hollering to Sinatraesque crooning, his rich baritone had no hurdles in adapting to the Doors’ adventurousness. This was a white army brat with a degree in film and literature who somehow managed authentic blues. Rock is littered with the corpses of bands embarrassing themselves to death with their attempts at Sweet Home Chicago, and the Lizard King just rode on past, howling with the wolves. And that voice delivers one of the strongest, trippiest, most successfully ambitious debuts in rock. The Door’s debut is astonishingly well-sequenced, fierce when it needs to be, languid when it needs to be, charming and often funny. But let’s be honest: the real reason you’re here is that you want Jim the shaman, with the band melding organically, and all slipping into the dark, deep unconscious. You want to investigate the thoughts you fear to examine, you want the shudders from those enthralling nightmares. You want the confrontations with the wonderful and terrifying id. You want to be stuck screaming in the passenger seat as the streetlights blur alongside whilst the wired driver slams his foot spasmodically at the accelerator. You want the visions of ghosts along the highway, reaching in to seize your tiny, eggshell mind. I think that paragraph provides a suitably pretentious end. NoRadio, signing off.
This is the soundtrack of my teenage years, even if I was born in 82 .Best first album in the history of first albums. All the songs are good and Ray M. Is a keyboard/organ genius. 5/5
Classic. Love every song
Incredible album. Classic after classic, with an unmistakeable sound.
Magic is the only word.
Now here’s an album that gets it. Wall to wall bangers, I’m talking classics I mean CLASSICS. Great album. Also it’s 44 minutes wheeeey
Classic rock
Classic album, every song is great.
Great!
This was a 5 going in. Grew up with it and at one point this was probably my favorite album. I remember how pumped I was that Break on Through was on Tony Hawk Underground 2 as a kid. Love this song just amps you up. The father to Break Stuff. Crystal Ship is beautiful. That is all. Alabama Song is so silly but I love it. Like a dark carnival song. Light my Fire epic jam makes me want to go watch a live video of it. Back Door Man and I looked at you go hard. Then we delve into some psychedelicness with End of the Night. The End is one of my favorite songs of all time. So dark and powerful and psychedelic with a few different genres sprinkled in. Its use in Apocalypse Now was masterful. The Doors really know how to close out an album. When I was in Paris I made my gf at the time bring me to Jim Morrison's gravesite and it's still visited by so many people. Legend.
I like doors They can open and close I really like The Doors They make great music
Love this album.
Own on Vinyl
This is basically almost every Doors song I'd hear on the classic rock stations growing up. Great work and great music.
One of my favorite albums by The Doors. "The End" is awesome, as well as "Light my fire" and "Break on through". It still amazes me how well ahead of their time they were!
I have listened to this on many road trips but a while ago, very cool to re-discover this. My favorite song is Light My Fire. Alabama song is funny!
A monumental album, 'Light My Fire,' 'Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)' and 'Break on Through (To the Other Side)' are superb tracks
Fantastic. 3 super musicians in their most creative moment, and then with Jim Morrison adding the x-factor
Classic songs from top to bottom. Great musical talent and great lyrics. Never disappoints.
father? yes son? i want to kill you! AAAAAAAAAH Favorite Tracks: 1-6 4.5-5/5
Break On Through (To The Other Side) known from Forrest Gump. Most eye-catching song: Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) for its folklore-like beat. All in all, a masterpiece that is easy to listen to despite its occasional craziness.
A lifelong Doors fan, I regrettably realized I've paid relatively little attention to this album. Listening to it again with a critical ear was very surprising. This is one of the Doors strongest collections.
Listened to this already on vinyl. Great album
Excellent like all Doors albums!
5+
62 of 1001 The Doors - The Doors Favorite Track : Break on Through Rating : 4.5 / 5 Always puts a smile on my face when I see something so good pop up as the album of the day. Have already listened once as I went through playlist, but happy to do it again. Awesome debut album. They had put in the work as a live band and it shows. Easy to rate this one. On a related note, my tinnitus does not approve of any of this.
Absolute classic, huge fan of this album
Already one of my favorites
Amazing album - 4.5/5! Really enjoyed it
I'll give it a low 5. I'm not really a fan of "The End," but the rest is great.
One of the all time great debuts. A dark fully realized and original album.
Pregnant with atmosphere and a kind of roiling doom, this album was an absolute treat after a fairly bleak run of picks. Even stuff I didn't really know, like 'Crystal Ship' and 'End of the Night' hit the mark, a woozy, druggy hypnotic heavy psych. There are a couple of moments that made me laugh - 'Alabama Song', with its jaunty dulcimer, made me think of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band; and whilst 'The End' is a mighty piece, 'Father I want to kill you / Mother I want to RAWWRAWWRARRR' gets me every time. I haven't even mentioned 'Break On Through' nor 'Light My Fire'. Ah, but isn't this sprinkled with just a dusting of magic?
La carta de presentacion de letras poeticas completamente voladas, una guitarra rockera con tintes dominantes, una bateria suave que sabe como acompañar el desorden y ruido que se puede llegar a percibir de la banda y un organo que funciona como un multiuso de gran destaque, cambia el sonido de la epoca y cambia el sentido en el que se toman vueltas mainstream. Un discazo con una de las mejores intros de la hisotria, repleta de hits y de miradas diversas, simplemente arte 9/10.
it’s tough because it’s so good and yet it’s also the portal through which so much evil entered the culture, still i don’t think you can blame the doors for all of that
What can I say? This was their debut album and yet it contained such amazing and groundbreaking songs, such as "Break On Through", "light My Fire", and "the End", not too mention ""The Crystal Ship", and "Alabama Song".
I like this album, not sure if me, or influenced by my dad when I was a kid.
This is fantastic, and I’d never heard 20th Century Fox before.
Love to revisit! Easy 5/5.
One of the greatest debuts ever, not a single bad song, despite the lack of a bassist
The Doors debut album. From L.A., CA Genre: Psychedelic rock, hard rock, art rock, psychedelia Singles: Break on Through (#64 UK. #146 USA) Light My Fire (#1 USA, #7 UK) Notable Songs: Light My Fire, Break of Through, The End, Back Door Man, The Crystal Ship, Alabama Song, Twentieth Century Fox, Soul Kitchen. Third Listen: Previous two: 5/5 and 5/5. One of the best albums ever. Rating: 5/5
classic! love the doors
A real classic. ‘Break on Through (To the Other Side)’ is an amazing opener, ‘Light my Fire’ is simply a classic, and ‘The Crystal Ship’ is a slow, somber song, but the real highlight is ‘The End’. 11 minutes of insanity from the intro to the weird next part (what is the ‘blue bus’ supposed to be) to the Oedipal freak out. No way I couldn’t give it 5 stars.
no on heikkoja leknkkejö albiumin ensimämisellä puoliskolla mutta onhan tämä nyt aivana saatanan hyvä, monta legenda biisä ei yhtään etukäteen muodostettua mielipidettä varsinkaan viimeinen biisi ei ole mielestäni top10 koskaan ja ei ollut mother i want to fuck you lainia albumilla (freudian slip perhaps? was that maybe there by accident perhaps? vahinggossako?sigmund septimus signus? kriekkalainen kirjallisuus EI OK. jos SUOMALAINEN KERTOMUS.. ,niin käy.) the end
break on through is so fun the singing on the crystal ship is fucking amazing god 20th century fox got this thing in the background sounds like shoes i really like it keeps me going light my fire has a really good instrumental backdoors 😜😜😨😨😨 doors predicted backrooms i eat more chicken than any man ever seen i cant believe the band "the doors" looked at me guys we are about to fight the ender dragon we are in the end the end is pretty good i love the singing
WHAT A GREAT DEBUT ALBUM WHAT AN ALL TIME GREAT. So many classic hits There’s no filler here This album is absolutely on the desert island playlist
So many classics. An amazing album
Yes
10/10 oh man, this is so cool it’s so hard to choose a favorite song! maybe Alabama Song, or End Of The Night I don’t know, the whole album is amazing!
Beautiful friend
I mean its The Doors
One of my all time favorite albums every song is amazing and most of these songs will go down in music history.
One of those rare psychedelic records to still hold up as a full album. Incredibly sequenced and thoroughly exciting all the way through. Also, it has Light My Fire on it. An essential record. A
Jazz,blues,rock and folk, greek mythology swirled together with a heavy dose of acid and voilà we have the Doors. Album was groundbreaking and I just love this album.
Excellent album, great sounds (organ is amazing.) Another amazing debut album on this list.
this is just such a perfect album. banger after banger until the end. which is probably the best close of all time
A great psycadelic rock album
14-18 year old may have gotten a bit obsessed by the Doors. Hard not to as they are a teenage nerd's wet dream of rebellion and cool. The bad poetry, the swagger, how hard was it to resist. I laugh at it now and many people scoff at the pompous nature of the music but I don't think I would have the wide music taste I have today without this band. They got me passionate about music and hunting for more. They were a gateway into punk and hip hop and anything underground. Even though they were a commercial band they never felt safe like the Beatles or the Stones and lay open the darkness that was possible in music
5/5. Classic. Standouts: Light My Fire, The End, Break on Through.
I've exhausted any latent Doors nostalgia already. There was a Boy Scout leader who would (hopefully joking) quip light my fire at helpful mothers; Fuck that. Apart from mentioned electric violin interpretations, I didn't ever spend time with the Doors as a young man. I enjoy it now, perhaps, as an immature one. But the debut is immaculate in all the obvious flawed ways. Take it as a dose, not a personality; Revisit, occasionally, until you can no longer.
Classic masterpiece.
Excellent debut.
The hits and every other song that could have been.
I'm a big fan of Jim Morrison. His voice is full of depth and is very captivating. The first time I ever heard The Doors, I kind of thought the instrumentals were a little too mellow in comparison. Over time, it all started to mesh very nicely in my ears. This album doesn't have my favorite Doors song, but it does have some absolute hits. 'Break On Through' has the kind of aggression I enjoy, and a welcome shift between verse and chorus. I very much enjoy Alabama Song with it's oom-pah sounds. Honestly, never realized (or maybe forgot) Light My Fire was 7 minutes long, because it really doesn't drag on in my ears. Gotta get down to the synth throughout the album. A true highlight. I have not spent much time with The Doors in recent years, but I think it's time for a change. A side note, my mom loves Jim Morrison and The Doors. My dad used to make fun of some of the other bands my mom loved from her youth that she'd play at home. Some of those bands were good, some not as good. But I always thought it was really cool my mom listened to The Doors.
Easy 5 for me. Though not a perfect album, I find strange, twisted beauty in The Doors’ imperfections. And its strengths are stellar enough to rise the whole project to an iconic, mystical stature. Especially for a debut. And especially for 1967. The sound achieved by the Doors continues to be one of the most unique I have come across on any record. From Densmore’s jazz background, to Krieger’s flamenco-guitar stylings; and from Manzarek’s simultaneous piano bass/organ work, to Morrison’s one-of-a-kind, larger-than-life persona and poetry. Tie this all together with a UCLA film studies program and a chance encounter between all 4 future Doors members at a meditation retreat and yeah. It’s hard to explain how the stars align sometimes. But for this band, and this album—even if all too briefly—they surely did. The extended solo in “Light My Fire” and especially the part that returns from the jam back into the verse with little more than a shrug makes me smile. “Break On Through” is a barn-burning opener, a song I could play endlessly and did as a kid while playing Tony Hawk’s Underground 2. (Funny enough I remember playing a racing game with my brother too that featured “Riders On The Storm” heavily, and I remember too several of my middle-school classmates having songs by The Doors on their Myspace pages, and then there was the movie; it seemed like The Doors were everywhere I looked as a kid.) “Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)” a cover and re-working of a song by German post-modern playwright, Bertolt Brecht, shows off half the band’s film studies background while experimenting with carnival music, ska, and psychadelia. With those highlights and an excellent supporting cache of tracks showcasing the band’s unique brand of baroque and blues rock, The Doors is a strange and classic record.
It’s just brilliant, iconic and every track is a banger easy 5/5
wow
As Matt Berry says, "I know it’s kind of fashionable to think the Doors are naff, but I don’t give a fuck about that." The Doors have a very distinct sound: a sort of dark and moody psychedelia, with organ as their melodic centerpiece. The guitar and drums give the perfect amounts of accent and space to frame everything up and complete the atmosphere. Finally, they have one of the most captivating lyricists and performers of the era as the frontman. And that's where many people probably take issue. I get the feeling that Jim Morrison is often perceived as some kind of pretentious egomaniacal dilettante for some reason. But if you watch interviews with him, he always comes across surprisingly down to earth to me. I think it's just a matter of separating the stage persona from the person. Outside of things like "The End," which kind of hints at where they are going to go next, and a couple genre excursions like "The Alabama Song" and "Back Door Man," this is largely a pop record. I find it quite impressive that they were always able to balance these different modes of operation on their albums. I suppose that is what made this era immediately after the Beatles/Dylan songwriting revolution so special; that bands were still expected to create these catchy hooky singles, but to also push boundaries while they were at it. Best of both worlds in my opinion. I think The Doors were one of the most original and talented bands of their all too brief era, and like Matt Berry, I don't give a fuck if you think otherwise.
What a fuckin' debut. So many hits and staying power of an album. They coulda stopped here and been legendary as-is.
Fucking amazing no doubt about it
A unique album. Broke new ground in 1967. Timeless
The original intrigue has long since worn off but this album is undeniably one of the greats. It’s a signature album of 60s psychedelic rock. Jim’s erratic energy goes so well with the constant flitting keyboard. There’s an emotional uneasiness that comes with this album, that crescendos throughout, and it shouldn’t be any other way. Every song is perfect or near to it. Necessary and without substitute.
One of the greatest debut albums of all time. Just for the song The End this is a five star album - such an incredible song, nothing like it before or since. But not only that, Break on Through is a classic, as are The Crystal Ship and Light My Fire. The Doors went on to make more great music, but I'm not sure they ever topped this (with the possible exception of Morrison Hotel). 5 stars.
Rarely find myself reaching for Doors records, but when i do i always enjoy. The whole thing has a vibe that fits a mood, have to find my way there more occasionally.
Tremendous
Now this classic right here earns the Doors their clout.
Un poquito más de musiquita de la infancia, y sonidos que siento que reconozco. Diver
The doors have been a real surprise hit for me while doing this. Really enjoyed this had some songs I had no idea where them
Love it
I love this album.
Another belter, long live the streak! I used to play this on repeat when I was about 18, and it still feels new today. Love it.
Very good
Light My Firen lisäksi tällä albumilla oli ehkä yksi tai kaksi ennestään hyvin tuttua kappaletta, mutta tykkäsin koko albumista ihan tosi paljon! Rakastan etenkin noita sähköurkuja. Suosikit: Break on Through (To the Other Side), Alabama Song (Whisky Bar), Light My Fire, Take It as It Comes
A minor miracle of pop music, absolutely cool and substantive and rich. There are a few all-time cuts and not a single dog. "Light My Fire" is a top-10 essential rock-and-roll song, transcending time and genre, a perfect balance of hook and ambition and seriousness. It truly makes one listen. Amazingly, this has not been made worse by its popularity or hipster affectations or the presence of the utterly insufferable Manzarek or the fact that one over-loved it as a kid (by which one means took it too seriously). It's not even diminished by the fact that "20th-Century Fox" reminds one of one's ex-wife. The playing is great throughout. A true landmark and milestone which feels almost forgotten today.
Great album
Rock psicodélico de The Doors. Varios megahits. Vinilo.
The End, Light My Fire.
Lähes täydellinen.
Dang, this was like Fleetwood Mac levels of not realizing how much I recognized the songs on here. Also The Doors are surprising me with how much psych/prog they have going on, I had always thought of them as just kind of a rock band
This album is excellent. It genuinely covers the spirit of the latter 60s, and contains so many great songs, e.g. Break on Through, Alabama Song, Light My Fire and The End. Every single one can stand on its own. The music is fantastic, the organ solo in Light My Fire is simply sublime, and Jim Morrison's vocals and lyrics shine in every one of them. I never was a Doors fan, but this made me intersted in their music. 5/5
A fantastic band and album. Quite unique and way ahead of their time.
Enough said
Perfect
4 stars minimum
bomba
Classic
The Doors is all I need.
Some songs feel like 60’s pop with a dark psychedelic edge, others are hard blues rock. There are some absolute classics — “Light My Fire” is probably a top 100 rock song and “Break on Through (To the Other Side)” and “The End” are both amazing — plus a lot of really good album cuts too. I really enjoyed “I Looked at You” and “Take It as It Comes.” Man, I guess I haven’t heard “The End” in a while. It gets really wild around the 9-minute mark.
"Break on Through (To the Other Side)" and "Light My Fire" are bona fide rock hall of fame masterpieces. A lot of the other songs I have heard but didn't know the names. "Soul Kitchen" is fantastic and driven by yet another catchy organ riff, "Back Door Man" has such a cool chugging pushing ahead train track guitar, and "The End" is a stunning and sonically beautiful piece of music. Definite 5 out of 5 for me. The Doors are amazing. Is this their best album? I have to do some more digging on them. I did read that Paul McCartney wanted this sound to be like an "alter ego" for the Beatles and that it inspired Sgt. Peppers. That's amazing!!
Every time I put one of their albums on I come away thinking that I should have spent more time with this band over the years. Just incredible. Best track: Light My Fire
Excellent album.
A genuine classic that demonstrates the range of the Doors from Alabama Song through to The End via the well known Light My Fire and Break on Through. They, of course, are not going to be everyone's cup of tea. For me an album that has not lost any of it's impact over the 55 years since it was released.
5.0 + One of the easiest 5 star ratings I've given. I can remember the exact moment I first heard this album back in high school. I was immediately floored - the poetry, the voice, the organ sounds, the overall vibe. Rarely do I prefer the deep cuts of an album but "Crystal Ship" and "Alabama Song" may be my favorite tracks. And who can deny the jammy vibes of "Light My Fire"? The story behind how they recorded "The End" is the stuff of rock 'n' roll legend. I bet 99% of bands would be happy to have an album of this caliber stand as their greatest hits. It blows my mind that this record was only their beginning.
This one took music somewhere else, especially with the energy and poetry of Morrison. Love it.
Cool
Amazing
Incredible rock songs mixed with some psychedelic songs and all good. The electric organ is my favorite.
This is a classic, stacked with songs that have become radio standards. There aren't any weak tracks on this one, though some songs break through (no pun intended) into legendary status. Even the Beatles wanted to capture the same energy of this record on Sgt. Pepper's.
In opposition to the free love, utopian psychedelic scene that permeated rock culture at the time, the Doors' eponymous debut album shows us the dark, seedy, and dangerous undertones of the culture. Jim Morrison is almost shamanic, his commanding voice gives life to the sexual, menacing, and transgressive themes throughout this album. This album is full of hits and seems like a victory lap taken at the onset of their career. The music can be grounded bar band blues rock or straight psychedelic tracks featuring the keyboards of the incomparable Ray Manzarek. It is really the last track, 'The End,' that makes the statement of who the Doors are. It is a meandering pulsing track that weaves through Oedipal mythology and ends with death. Whether it is the death of ego or something more sinister, is left up to us to decide.
Geeze. What a great album. Even with the weirdness that is "The End", it's just non-stop bangers and vibe. Ray Manzarek is a beast of a player and really pulled out all the stops (literally, because he's the organ player) on this debut album. Not that anybody dialed it in. Every player was on their game and Jim Morrison's performances were stellar. There's just so much energy here. Had to listen to it twice. Easy 5 stars.
This album is a huge trip. From the rock 'n' roll inspired "Break on Through (To the other side)" to the psychedelic 12-minute trip of "The End", this is probably one of the best debut albums in history. This album is the reason why even more than 50 years after Jim Morrison's death we still miss him. Just imagine what things he could do if he got to old age!
pretty cool
5 stars
I never listened to the entire album in one go, and it blew me away. I can imagine it knocked people off their feet when it was first released in the 60s. The Doors will always remain one of my favorite bands. Incredible album.
4.5/5
One of those sixties albums that is still really good
Wow, best debut album ever. One of my absolute favorite rock albums.
Fully formed, well integrated and crisp and perfectly pitched to its moment, this as good a debut album as has ever been. Unique too. “Break on Thru” and “Light My Fire” are classics for a reason but every cut has a good bit to offer and there’s not a single throwaway in the whole lot. The playing — tight and polished with smooth and strong overlaps and transitions between the players — is a perfect foundation for Morisson’s vocals and attitude. Quite original-seeming as a whole despite the obvious influences of the parts. One tries to overlook the sexist bits.
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5/5 Great music, unlike anything else. Morrisons voice is great. Decent production on the album. Every track is solid with no filler.
My favorite album by one of my favorite bands, led by the famous Jim Morrison, and a landmark in the psychedelic movement. The music is mysterious with hard, mesmerizing, and iconic instrumentation. Just look at the crazy album cover! It's no wonder Morrison was such a counterculture role model. The vocalist Jim Morrison displays his talents alternating between multiple personas, from calm and dreamy to a chaotic psychopath. This album is one of my most enjoyable experiences while on psychedelics, as there's so much imagery and strange moments, and it takes the cake on Sgt Pepper by being more consistent. In fact, you can hear this album as a major influence on Sgt Pepper, notably in their famous track "Lucy in the Sky". Every song is fantastic. On first listen, you will be blown away by the epic solo on "Light My Fire" and the eery unsettling mood of "The End." But on repeated listens, you will fall for so many things on each of the other tracks. In fact, many of these songs are still being played on classic rock radio, so it's already an accessible album for most people to get into. Not a single weak song. Some may say it dips after "Light my Fire", but I say those losers are just biased cause they're not standard radio plays. "End of the Night" is one of the first dream pop songs. My only wish is that "Take It As It Comes" should be at a better position, but it does serve to help the dramatic transition into "The End" compared to "End of the Night." Even after dozens of listen, I still notice something new on each song, most notably "The End." I'd advise psychedelics or very sleep deprivation to spot them more easily. Yes, I got like 7 hours of sleep over a span of 78 hours by the time I listened to this album last night following (including an extended DMT trip a day prior), so my ears were already heavily hallucinating and was prepared to go further than what 2 tabs could tell me. Gives me plenty of time to process each mysterious scene pictured.
One of the best debut albums ever. After LA Woman and Morrison Hotel, the third Doors album so far.. all 5*
Heel tof om weer effe te draaien!
Classic! Een van de beste bands uit de secties die ik ken.
Freaking amazing
Dosta godina mi je L. A. Woman bio najbolji njihov album, međutim - ovaj album i Strange Days su ipak bolji za dosta.
first 5/5 in my list. Instant classic, not one bad song and my favorite Doors song 'The End'
ya, 5 stars. Done. When you're a Doors fan, you're a doors fan for life - Bruce McCullouch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROJjDWQPSw4
This album is a darkly poetic masterpiece, definitely one of the best debut albums ever. There really isn't another band who ever sounded like the Doors, but their influence is massive on countless bands who came after them. It's brooding, artful, sexy and deeply cool. Despite these songs' ubiquity in our culture over the last 50+ years, musically the album still comes off as quite adventurous, with slow burning, strange progressions and loose arrangements. Both lyrically and sonically, these songs were always about exploration and opening your mind ("breaking through," as it were) to possibilities of the mind and body, the possibilities of music. The band also is broadly appealing and just so much fun to listen to. It's music that makes you think that also happens to totally rock. Yeah, "Alabama Song" is a weird outlier that probably didn't need to go on here, but it's also kind of fun. Happy to give this a 5. Fave Songs (All songs, from most to least favorite): Soul Kitchen, Break on Through (To the Other Side), The Crystal Ship, The End, Light My Fire, Twentieth Century Fox, Take It as It Comes, End of the Night, I Looked at You, Back Door Man, Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
The 60s wrapped up in Jim Morrison lyrics
Jim Morrison might be the coolest guy that ever lived
Groovy love songs
So many good ones. Great work music.
An all time classic. A true album to listen to before you die.
Here we have another band that played some of my all-time favorite songs, and yet I never listened to a whole album of theirs before. I was happy to start with their first and was never disappointed. "Light My Fire" is one of those favorites, as well as "The End." That one will always be associated with "Apocalypse Now" for me because it made the movie perfect. I was surprised and pleased to hear some different styles from those two epic pieces on this album. "Soul Kitchen" and "Twentieth Century Fox" are delightful. "Alabama Song" (the Marxophone!) and "Back Door Man" were really interesting takes on very different classics.
I started listening to The Doors in junior high to fit in with some kids that I wanted to like me. Glad I did! Fan of The Doors. Fan of this album. The intro of every track has me going “oh yeah, this one…I like this one…”
The Doors have such a great and unique sound and this album has some of their best songs.
This is one of those albums that seem to be a raison d’etre for this list. It’s every bit as good now as it has ever been for me. One of those albums that make me want to join its magical universe. The organ-heavy arrangements enchant me. The dark hooks draw me into its shadowy world. The great harmonies seduce me. Timeless perfection. "Light My Fire" is one of the best songs ever created and would earn this album a 5. But I think "Break on Through" and "The End" could as well. It was also good to hear the whole album again, because it has been a while since I have done that. If anything I think I love it more now than ever.
What a debut album by The Doors! An absolute instant classic masterpiece that helped usher in the era of psychedelic rock and was even touted as inspiration for The Beatles Sgt. Pepper album. In true psychedelic style, the drug references are numerous as are the sexual innuendos whilst we delve into the altered mind of Morrisey. Best: Break On Through (To The Other Side) Worst: N/A
The Lizard King (Was he ahead of David Icke on this one?) and his band at their subversive best, proper Pyschodelia here. A Great debut that must have got the fans and rock journalists in a frenzy with "The Next Big Thing" headlines. Love this album and some really good tunes on this one but My Favourites are "Soul Kitchen" "Alabama Song" "Light My Fire" and "The End" Suitable for this list I think.
Rock psicodélico de The Doors. Varios megahits. Vinilo.
Legendaarisen bändin debyytti joka on kyl vaan se kaikista samettisin julkaisu tältä orkesterilta. Uskallan antaa tälle febosen sen takii että oon kuunnellut tän varmaan jotain 4 kertaa vuodessa ainakin viimisen neljän vuoden ajan ilman että tää käy sapettaa. 5/5
White boy bussing it down sexual style
My first favourite band when I was a teenager, but it was only after I'd fallen out of love with them before rediscovering them about 20 years later that I *really* understood just how odd they were even for that period. Having heard a lot more late-60s music in the interim gave me a bit more perspective on that. And the instrumental section of "Light My Fire" is a trip you don't get from much other music. One of those mid-60s recordings that's really better heard in mono, too.
It is pretty incredible for a debut. Hard to imagine a world where no one had heard these sounds before. Such a great atmosphere, timeless, an easy 5 stars. Faves: The End, Alabama Song
Sehr geil. Warum habe ich das sooo lange nicht mehr gehört?
Every song is perfectly executed, remembered and recognized decades later. Iconic
Amazing debut. I really enjoyed this album. It's got to be my favourite album from the band.
I like the instrumental. The Alabama song is my favorite, I love the rythm !
Discazo
Love it. I was obsessed with Jim for a long time, so 5* is the only reasonable rating.
Still my favourite Doors album, with my favourite Doors song....The End. But the rest of the album is damn good as well; Break on Through, Light My Fire, The Crystal Ship, Back Door Man. Allmusic.com calls it one of the greatest debut albums of all time and I tend to agree. 5 stars
Last year I finally got around to reading 'No One Gets Out Of Here Alive' and Jim Morrison was even worse that you might have thought. A truly terrible person, even when he was a kid (army family brat) Some people passionately loathe the Doors. I love them. They were such a gateway band into music and literature. They're the band that every teenager needs at that time in their life. The singer might be a total dick but his songwriting and singing is great. And the band and their songs are really interesting thanks to those jazz (Densmore and Manzerek) and blues (Krieger) backgrounds plus Morrison's poetry. They still sound like no one else.
very good album
Great
Starring with "Break in through to the otherside"... Closing with "the end" ... Inbetween... The Doors. And now remember that this was only the debut... What more is there to say? 5/5
The End - one of the best tracks of all time. Brillint album all told.
I absolutely loved it, it was a shroomy exp.
Always a classic
God I wish I could experience this album for the first time again...
Love this album. Absolute classic.
Absolutely storming from start to finish. I've not been an enormous fan of The Doors but this really nailed it. Well crafted, passionate, tuneful... absolute classic.
The Doors always had this air of mystique about them for me, though I never got round to listening to any of their music until now. Such an unassuming name, now makes sense knowing it comes from the Aldous Huxley novel "The Doors of Perception". Definitely has that 60s psychedelic/hippy tones in there but they come across as much darker compared to others I have listened to in this era. Some of it is almost harrowing when connected to the lyrics. I expected to like this more. Truth is, I hated the first two songs (Break On Through/Soul Kitchen) but "The Crystal Ship" was a real highlight that broke the album into something more digestible. "Light My Fire" was the first tune I recognised, researching I found that this is probably because of the cover by Will Young. Unsure how I feel about this. "The End" couldn't be a more perfect end to this album.
Topplaat!
Come on baby light my fire!
Immediate hit. Loses some steam with Alabama Song, but picks right back up.
Excellent all around. Quintessential Doors sound.
Amazing album! This has got to be in the top 20 records released by an American group. They had rehearsed the album front to back at live shows, that it took a few hours to record when they got in the studio.
Wonderful! Full of hits, that B-sides bop. Strong front to back.
The Doors' debut and self-titled album is avant-garde rock, yet feels as if the album is staple among rock listeners. The 1967-style stereo image works in the album's favor rather than against it, giving it a retro feel that fits the psychedelic artistic direction. The sonic qualities of the album makes it timeless to psychedelic rock followers.
Really good album
Deri miško, 5
Easy 5
The most classic Doors album. May as well be a greatest hits.
Almost played like a greatest hits album. Incredible that all of these songs came out on one album. It is truly incredible how many great songs they put out in such a short amount of time.
Big fan of The Doors & this album! I eat more chicken than any man ever seen!
Soy fan de The Doors por culpa de la película de Oliver Stone y en parte por Coppola. Había oído antes el Morrisson Hotel, pero me faltaba contexto. La peli más sus discos y algún documental que luego hubo hicieron la magia. Este disco de debut empieza y termina por todo lo alto: Break on through y The end. En medio tenemos maravillas como Soul kitchen, The crystal ship, Alabama song y la también ultra famosa Light my fire.
a bit underwhelming in all honesty with the mythos around jim morrison, but still a damn good album.
Absolutely love thinking about what it was like hearing that for the first time. It’s fun and dark and weird in all the right ways.
Hell of a freshman outing from The Doors. This album is still on frequent rotation for me. Morrison's lyrics with Manzeric's organ fills and Densmore's drumming are groundbreaking. Wish they would've lasted longer to see what else they could've contributed to RNR.
Cool album, some cool differing song influences on the sound
There is no denying this is a classic!
Just solid from cover to cover...generation altering lyrics + great, pulsating, engaging musical accompaniment
Wow. I was expecting something more beatles like. Loved it, especially the last track.
Pretty sure I'd be giving this a five star review even without the nostalgia bump. Have loved this album since teenagerhood - pretty sure the inclusion of "The End" in "Apocalypse Now" is what switched me on to it. Fave track - still "The End", but "Break on Through" and "Light My Fire" are both awesome, and the rest of the tracks serve their purpose...
Super band, ate this up as a teenager
A classic. Love this album.
This earns a rare 5 stars from me. Did either of you watch "Val", the new Amazon documentary about Val Kilmer? If you haven't, let me save you 1 hour, 49 minutes of your lives with a succinct recap: "I played Doc Holliday and Jim Morrison, everyone should give me all the best parts in all the best movies and it's UNFAIR that I don't get what I want and now I have cancer." What I'm trying to say is don't watch "Val", just listen to this album, twice.
Jim Morrison has one of the best voices of all time.
The best debut album ever? Probably. All killer, even "Light My Fire" which I forgave when I became a Doors fan.
Psychedelic music at it's best! Has this kind of hypnotic energy to it's sound. It makes your mind drift off to a different world
Sublime
While personally, never loved "Light My Fire," and I prefer more blues-infused songs from the Doors, each song on this album is amazing. Legendary debut album.
Out there, but great stuff.
Haunting. Eye opening. Unnerving.
Break On Through To The Other Side!! I like how visceral these songs feel. That organ is used like a cannon! Wild and licentious.
My friend Beth gave me a cassette tape of this album in high school. I listened to it on the bus ride many times, and fell in love with it. There are a few "weaker" or less memorable songs ("I Looked at You," "Take it as it Comes"), but generally I can listen start to finish and still be in awe. Favorite song: Break on Through
I guess my last review telegraphed that I'd be heading upstairs with my rating for this one. Who knew we would get it the next day. It's a solid album top to bottom. imo The End is The Doors' best song. The lyrics show Morrison as a cross between a literary intellectual and a Rock and Roll brat. An interesting perspective is that this was released before Sgt Pepps. Lennon's Tomorrow Never Knows and She Said She Said were released around a year earlier. The End is in the same neighbourhood as those two songs. I can't say that about many other songs. Also of interest is that the song was 11 1/2 min. which is long by any standard. Many long songs from back in the day now sound too long. The End has aged wonderfully and when it ends I wish it would keep going.
A terrific debut album. I can imagine buying it and dropping the needle to Break on Through. What a start! I like the way Ray and Robbie lay down the foundation for Jim’s rants. There are some real classics here and the supporting tracks like End of the Night and Crystal ship are great ballads. And it’s something that they covered Kurt Weill and Willie Dixon songs on the same album! I’m not a fan of 20th Century Fox and the keyboard solo in Light My Fire goes on a bit...
A classic. Solid album.
Classic. Untouchable.
Great album!
The Doors by The Doors czyli kolejne doorsy do kolekcji listowej, debiutancki material, bandy ktora w ciagu 4 lat dzialalnosci wydala 6 albumow, przy czym kazdy teraz ma status klasyka, a dzisiejszy pik zawedrowal nawet do biblioteki kongresu, dobrze ze akurat taka kolejnosc albumikow, najpierw ostatni gdzie morrison jest juz mocno zmeczony na wokalu i sklania sie bardziej w stronie bluesa, a pierwszy ktory ma calkowicie inna energie jesli chodzi o wokal, kontent liryczny nie jest az tak mroczny jak na L.A woman, dominuja tutaj love songi w charakterystycznym dla doorsow zabarwieniu psychodelicznym, pan morrison jako teksciarz kreuje siebie na symbol seksu, co takze bedzie charakterystyczna cecha doorsowych materialow, bo jesli the doors, to od razu rzuca sie na mysl pan morrison, juz widac to nawet z samej oklaki i proporcji jakie czlonkowie zesplu na niej otrzymali w porownaniu z frontmanem, a moze backdoormanem, jak jest na traku o tejze nazwie, ale jak dla mnie brzmienie doorsow to nie tylko sam wokal, bo roznorodnosc gatunkow ktora potrafili stworzyc na jeden krazek i ich egzekucja to jest to czego sie szuka w ich materialach, nie moge sie doszukac kto pisac muzyke, ale z tego co pamietam to najbardziej maczal w tym palce pan Krieger, o klawiszach i drumach co napisac mialem juz napisac na l.a womance, chociaz tutaj brzmia troche bardziej surowo jesli chodzi o mastering, chociaz ta sama osoba odpowiada za cala dyskografie zespolu, czyli pan rothchild, to jednak dzwiek doorsow sie zmienia z plyty na plyte i zrzuca swoja surowosc, ale pomimo tego to chyba z tej plyty znam najwiecej trakow, pewnie ma to cos z tym wspolnego z tym, ze z 11 trakow 6 juz mam na plejce, wiec nie bede jeszcze bardziej doorsowal plejlisty, a wrzuce cala plyte na szelfa spotifajowego
I think I'm getting too generous with the 5-stars, but this album is so good. "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" is my favorite track followed closely by "The End". Then you have the hits, of course.
Siguen los clásicos. Aquí se empieza el camino oscuro para la música.
5/5 solo por existir. Me encanta el sonido de este disco. Mood: come on, baby, light me fire
Wahnsinns-Album
Unfassbares debut. Die weitern fand ich nicht ganz so gut
5/5 stars. Absolute classic. Every song. Standouts: The End, Break on Through, The Crystal Ship, Light My Fire, Back Door Man, Alabama Song, Soul Kitchen, Twentieth Century Fox, End of the Night
Great flow overall, fantastic album from start to finish.
5/5 - again, The Doors are not my vibe, but it's a good album; coherent
Very good
A genuine classic, and old enough to sound fresh.
Great album. Classic.
A true classic
Break on through opener, Light my Fire anthem, The end closer. Great albumn
I AM THE LIZARD KING
gggggggreat
Still an absolute banger. No skips. NONE.
absolute classic, great songs top to bottom.
I think I've listened to this album dozens of times dating back to my college years. Despite my more-diminished opinion of Jim's poetry these days, it still holds up and remains as unique and captivating as I remember. Even the worst songs (e.g., "End of the Night") have their charm. Look at the Ramones' cover of the largely-forgotten "Take it as it Comes"!
O album As Portas pela banda As Portas eh tao bom quanto As Janelas
A great album
Easy 5. An epic album
Classic
is it's own genre by itself really
10/10
All time classic. All killers, no fillers!!
This is an absolute classic. I noticed that I didn't listen to it for some time, but it is still one of my favorite albums of all time.
I will always love this album so much.
The End, Light My Fire
Interesante.
Un album incroyable qui me rappelle tellement de souvenir. 5*
Unique sound and lyrics... one of my favorite bands of all time. Wish the ride could've lasted longer with Morrison.
Timeless classic.
Classic album. My favorite Doors album. 9-10/10 1. Light My Fire 2. Soul Kitchen 3. The End
Classic
It’s a testament to how transformative this album was that every time I hear The Doors, I think “1960s”.
I really groove in the mix of personality between Ray the classically trained brain and Jim the lizard king.
El Mejor de las puertas
Album muito bom, principalmente The end.
Ouvi várias vezes o dia todo, mto bom
Love twentieth century Fox. Love the sound of the end. The crystal ship reminded me of Jordan. I think the beginning of one of the songs is the same as a sum 41 song
Doors on itselleni aina ollut eräs aikakautensa suosikeista, ja varsinkin tämä levy on aika virheetön suoritus. Pitkähkön tauon jälkeen tämä levy kuulosti vielä paremmalta kuin muistelinkaan. Vitosen arvoinen nauhoitus!
Very good stuff.
Phenomenal, Light my Fire is one of my all time favourite songs. Album as a whole is great, love the keyboards
This was the first actually great front-to-back listening in this journey.
Jim är otrolig
Come on, Doors hei… timanttista ja kestää aikaa. Ei vaihtoehtoja.
Fantastic album.
gran album aprobadisimo muy 70s con toda la onda los beatles tienen que callar y respetar a estos grandes puntos mas altos: Break on Through (To the Other Side) - Light My Fire - Back Door Man - I Looked at You - The End
A truly deserving album to be in the list - despite the Hammond organ overkill! 'L.A. Woman' is the best Doors album for me, mainly as it contains one of my all-time favourite singles "Riders on the Storm". This is still a great listen however even if I do always stop before "The End" (too long and too much of an anti-climax after the rest of the upbeat stuff).
Aside from one of the worst songs I’ve heard in the while, this album is a classic and will always be enjoyable
“The end” is a bit long but other then that it’s good!
8/10 - Finally a good 60s album
Eines der wohl wichtigsten Alben seiner Zeit. Viele Jamer aber es gibt 1-2 Songs die für mich skipps sin.
Show me the way to the next little girl??
All the songs I know, more synth than I remember
groovy stuff here
This list has made me rethink the Doors. Prior to this list I thought that they were overrated and were not an important band. Now I think every band should have an organist and a movie by Oliver Stone.
A classic.
If anyone can make an organ cool, it's these guys.
This is not my era, but the album does hold up extremely well.
Pretty good. 4.
Great album. This is the end, my only friend.
One of the best debut albums of all time. Great stuff!
Topper, net geen 5 sterren
Dit varieert echt van legendarisch (Light My Fire) tot strontvervelend (Alabama Song). Gemiddelde ligt gelukkig ver boven acceptabel.
I actually did like the really long songs that are in here for some reason (Light my Fire, The End), I found them a bit Wasteland-ish, at least The End was. Light my Fire just kept going but it had a cool guitar bit so it's fine.
I wonder what their fave door is
Some great songs on here. 3.5/5. Raising to 4.
Bangers
Does he know about the D-O-R-E?
To lose one talented rock star to the entirely foreseeable effects of drugs and alcohol at the age of 27 or 28 is a misfortune, to lose dozens of them is starting to look like carelessness. As with Tim Buckley, Jim Morrison had a reputation of being some sort of mythical shaman poet. However, for all of his allusions to philosophy and classical Greek mythology he was still just a horndog reeling from one whisky bar to the next looking for another “little girl”. It shouldn’t have been a surprise that less than five years after this debut album he would have piled on the pounds, had a voice that sounded like a retired coal miner and be dead in a bathtub. What a waste. That being said, this album was one of the defining sounds of the late 60s, along with Sgt Peppers and Pet Sounds. Morrison had a great singing voice that was perfectly backed by Manzarak’s hypnotic keyboards, Densmore’s jazzy drums and Krieger’s solid guitar riffs. Lyrically, well, we’ve already covered that, but they had their moments. The End will always now evoke that scene in Apocalypse Now, and Break On Through and Light My Fire are still thrilling numbers. Aldous-Huxley-tastic!
4.25. This is a great debut album.
Another album where I was expecting to love it, but it just turns out ok. Light My Fire was definitely a highlight though.
I like this more than I thought I would. Part familiarity, however it just really like the sound. I'm between a 3 and 4. I knew more songs than I thought I would...
genuine horror-movie music! i am shaken by Jim Morrison and his full-throated embrace of hard drugs and forcible sex, kept on edge by the rinky-dink carnival organ, drawn into a kind of minimalist darkness not entirely unlike the one conjured by Miles' fusion band, who are probably the best group of players ever to share a room. call me gullible, puritanical, whatever but i am kind of repulsed by some of these songs and pretty delighted to feel that way. i'd always heard Morrison treated as a bit of a joke, but being a Nick Cave fan i'm very willing to follow him through quite a few boneheaded lyrics, and the band behind him - lithe, skeletal, sinuous - is always satisfying, even when he's not. overall thrilled to come to this band and find them this good, this potent, this tangible, something i can't say i was at all expecting. no wonder people thought this shit was evil! it kind of is!
fav songs: break on through soul kitchen twentieth century fox light my fire the end atmospheric, psychedelic, swaggy 70/100
Iconic and a great debut. Some really big tunes on here. Even if they are a little overrated I rate this and a strong 4.5/5.
Great songs 5/5. -1 for the truly awful keyboard solos
I have gone through periods where I have really loved the Doors and other times I just don’t enjoy their music at all, but what is completely undeniable is the fact that they are singular - no one else sounds anything like them, and that is a pretty phenomenal feat. This particular album is a strong collection f songs, with very simple but effective musicianship and, of course, the presence/vocals/lyrics of Jim Morrison.
So I was actually expecting a meh when pulling this. However, Morrison is just so hypnotic. The psych vocals with the bluesy sound is definitely unique. Enthralling though.
An album I liked as a teen, but have not listened to since. The first side is pretty good, nice variety in songs, side 2 a bit duller but the End is great. 3.5 rounded up Heard before? Yes Owned: Yes. 80/313 (25%) Will I get: Already have
today i'm learning that several songs i've heard but didn't know the name of are actually by the doors, yeah this album's pretty good but like. it sure is psych rock! and given the composition of this list it's no wonder im already starting to run out of things to say about the genre. i can say that this is definitely one of the better examples of it we've had so far though. if nothing else, "alabama song (whisky bar)" is the best "psych rock album token carnival music ass song" that i've heard on my way through the list. they've all had one and i wish i knew why. other than that obviously "break on through (to the other side)" and "light my fire" are both great but my favourite is "end of the night". i think the psych rock "timbre" can really work well with these more cut down and somber compositions, especially the guitar swimming in effects gives it a dark, wet moodiness that i totally fuck with. i liked "the end" quite a bit too for the same reason, although it's overall much closer to the usual psych rock sound. i do love the chaotic breakdown just before it ends though. that's a move that always lands. i'm torn between a 3 and a 4 here again but im gonna lean on the higher side this time. i could see myself putting this on again and mostly locking in for it, aside from a couple tracks i care less about. maybe this is the first "ascended 3" rating for me....
My older brother had this on vinyl. I remember being 3-4 years old in his bedroom singing along to Light My Fire with him, though to my kid ears I was sure the words were 'come on baby like my fire'. After all, why would someone ask a baby to purposely start a fire? Some of my favorite non-Beatles songs from the 60s are by the Doors, though none of them appear on this album. I think it's Ray Manzarek's keyboards that give the Doors their unique sound, along with the swagger of Jim Morrison's voice. Though I wasn't around when they were making music, I have to imagine they were able to make quite an impact with the six albums they released in four short years. I remember the Oliver Stone movie in the early 90s ushering in a Doors renaissance. Light My Fire and Break on Through are definitely the strongest songs on the album. Alabama Song is just fun, being one of the very few pop songs I know to use a Marxophone. And I love the chill vibe of End of the Night.
So much cool, weird stuff on here. One of my favorite 60’s projects yet. I can definitely see why this is such a loved classic. I’ll have to come back to this a few more times soon; I expect my appreciation to only grow the more I return. 1 listen Favorite Track: Light My Fire