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Track listing 1. Break On Through (To The Other Side) 2. Soul Kitchen 3. Crystal Ship, The 4. Twentieth Century Fox 5. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) 6. Light My Fire 7. Back Door Man 8. I Looked At You 9. End Of The Night 10. Take It As It Comes 11. End, The Details Producer: Paul A. Rothchild Distributor: WEA Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo SPAR Code: AAD Album notes The Doors: Jim Morrison (vocals); Robby Krieger (guitar); Ray Manzarek (keyboards); John Densmore (drums). Additional personnel: Larry Knechtel (bass). Recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California. The first Doors album was an important development in the evolution of rock, representing the dark underbelly of the '60s counterculture, the Jekyll to the Beatles/Beach Boys' Hyde. The Doors were the antithesis of windblown Californian pop. Dark, brooding and alienated, every element of the quartet's metier was unveiled on their debut album. In Jim Morrison they posessed one of rock's authoritative voices, while the group's dense instrumental prowess reflected his lyrical mystery. Highly literate, they wedded Oedipian tragedy with counter-culture nihlism and, in "Light My Fire", expressed exotic images previously unheard in pop. Howlin' Wolf, Brecht and Weill are acknowledged as musical reference points, a conflict between the physical and cerebral that give THE DOORS its undiluted tension. Or you can just enjoy it as a brilliant album that sucks you in as it breathes out the '60's.Read full review
What do I like about the album? That it has held up after all these years as great rock and roll music. The Doors had their own sound and at least tried to have meaningful lyrics most of the time. True, tehy were young, anti establishment and against the war in Vietnam. How many bands from the sixties or any other era sustain their relavence for 40 years and counting? Of course it's not all "genious" but then I don't think it was ever meant to be. They played fun rock that reached rock fans but also the mainstream audience. Songs like Light My Fire and (on their second album) When the Music's Over changed radio. Two new things happened. Songs longer than 2 and a half minutes got airplay, and FM radio got a foothold and started what would replace AM radio. These things transformed the music industry, and although the Door were not alone, they were a major factor in the expansion of the songs that got airplay. The Doors first album is still great to listen to becuase it's great rock, and also the culture of an anti-war movement may not exist as it did back in the 60's, but it is still relevent today. Much of society, rock fans or not, is opposed to the War in Iraq, and any war that can't reasonably be justified. That way of thinking wasn't the case prior to the anti-war movement of the sixties. The Doors don't you over the head with a lecture. Jim Morrison was by nature poetic and their first album demonstrates his gift for words, and the groups gift for making great rock and roll. I make no apology for being a Doors fan despite their being from the 60's. Time may have dated when they were popular, but their music is not dated as long as people enjoy rock and roll. Few things have held up as well as this album for so long.Read full review
The Doors are Jim Morrison (vocals) (buried in France). Robby Krieger (guitar). Ray Manzarek (keyboards). John Densmore (drums). It was Morrison's unique deep dark voice with a baby face the drew so many of us into this first album of theirs in the 60's: Track listing 1. Break On Through (To The Other Side) 2. Soul Kitchen 3. The Crystal Ship 4. Twentieth Century Fox 5. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) 6. Light My Fire 7. Back Door Man 8. I Looked At You 9. End Of The Night 10.Take It As It Comes 11.The End While rock n rollers were bubbly, girl-crazy & up beat in came The Doors with their antithesis to bee-bop pop. The themes of social alienation, the heaviness of war, counter-culture nihilism & blatant erotica roused The Doors' new fans. Finally, something deep that expressed our depressive, more socially bitter, moods. After surviving the "Leave it to Beaver" 50's of faux reality in a black & white box, The Doors ushered in the kind of unnamable tension younger people were experiencing in masses. So this CD is the one that defines a new generation of heavy rock that dealt with the darker sides of being human & a young adult. Interestingly, one of my middle-20's sons made the trek to France to be at Morrison's grave. So his popularity among the same age people today, forty years later, is quite similar.Read full review
Must have. A new genre of music started with the Doors. I believe that the grooves were worn out on the LP that I purchased in the late 60's when it came out, playing it over and over again on my old turntable (I think my EX has it somewhere.) I thought that Vinyl was Final, but then 8-Track, then Cassette and finally CD arrived as technology advanced. Got them all from this Group. Too bad Jim is not around to continue living his success. Even sons of Navy Admirals can find dark paths to follow.
this album, and Strange Days put a spell on everyone who listened to them...not only because of the magnetic quality of Jims looks, voice, and lyrics, but also the mysterious soundtrack provided by the remaining three..the genious of their sound truely carried the music of that time to a different level...It was a magical, restless effect from some guys who had their mojo working..and not only was it powerful music..but beautiful, etherial, and seductive...it was a highway to the edge of the night. This album captures the Doors when they in their groove, and the slick southern California productions on these songs has surely stood the test of time.
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