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Doors The Doors (1967)
The Doors (West German ''Target'' Pressing)\n\nOriginally Released January 1967\nCD Edition Released \nRemastered CD Edition Released May 1988\nDCC Gold CD Edition Released July 6, 1992\nPart of''Complete Studio Recordings'' Cube Compilation Released November9, 1999\n96K Remastered CD Edition Released July 2000\nPart of ''Complete Studio Recordings'' longbox Compilation Released September 9, 2003\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: A tremendous debut album, and indeed one of the best first-time outings in rock history, introducing the band's fusion of rock, blues, classical, jazz, and poetry with a knockout punch. The lean, spidery guitar and organ riffsinterwove with a hypnotic menace, providing a seductive backdropfor Jim Morrison's captivating vocals and probing prose. "LightMy Fire" was the cut that would top the charts and establish thegroup as stars, but most of the rest of the album is just as impressive, including some of their best songs: the propulsive "BreakOn Through" (their first single), the beguiling Oriental mysteryof "The Crystal Ship," the mysterious "End of the Night," "TakeIt As It Comes" (one of several tunes besides "Light My Fire" that also had hit potential), and the stomping rock of "Soul Kitchen" and "Twentieth Century Fox." The eleven-minute Oedipal drama "The End" was the group at their most daring and, some would contend, overambitious. It was nonetheless a haunting cap to an album whose nonstop melodicism and dynamic tension would never be equaled by the group again, let alone bettered. -- Richie Unterberger\n\nCD NOW: The debut album by The Doors was greeted with criticalraves for the Los Angeles band: both for Jim Morrison's powerfulvocal style and the band's psychedelic-blues sound. EXTD=n\nTHE DOORS were named after Aldous Huxley's book about mescaline, "TheDoors Of Perception." Signed to Elektra Records after months of gigs at L.A.'s Whiskey A-Go-Go, they were an underground phenomenon with an aura of danger. The album mixed blues-rock (the pounding "Soul Kitchen," and Howlin' Wolf's "Back Door Man") with psychedelic textures. An edited version of "Light My Fire" became a number-1 hit, while Morrison's Oedipal lyrics caused controversy onthe extended arrangement of "The End." \n\nAmazon.com essential recording\nOn their 1967 debut album, the Doors more than fulfilled the promise of their infamously challenging gigs around Los Angeles throughout the previous year. Whether belting out a standardlike "Back Door Man" or talk-singing such originals as "The Crystal Ship" and "I Looked at You," leather-clad vocalist Jim Morrison exuded both sensuality and menace. The mixture, on the outsizealbum finale, "The End," helped rewrite the rules on rock song composition. None of this would have worked, though, were it not for the highly visual instrumental work of keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robbie Krieger, and drummer John Densmore, whose work on tracks such as "Take It As It Comes" and the lengthy hit "Light My Fire" virtually defined the rock-blues-jazz-classical amalgam that was acid-rock. --Billy Altman \n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: Paul A. Rothchild \n\nAlbum Notes\nThe Doors: Jim Morrison(vocals); Robby Krieger (guitar); Ray Manzarek (keyboards); JohnDensmore (drums).\n\nAdditional personnel: Larry Knechtel (bass).\n\nRecorded at Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California.\n\nThe 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 unveiledon their debut album. In Jim Morrison they posessed one of rock'sauthoritative 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 betwee
This rock cd contains 11 tracks and runs 44min 31sec.
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1. Doors - Break on Through (To the Other Side) (02:29)
2. Doors - Soul Kitchen (03:34)
3. Doors - The Crystal Ship (02:34)
4. Doors - Twentieth Century Fox (02:33)
5. Doors - Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) (03:20)
6. Doors - Light My Fire (07:08)
7. Doors - Back Door Man (03:34)
8. Doors - I Looked at You (02:22)
9. Doors - End of the Night (02:52)
10. Doors - Take it as it Comes (02:17)
11. Doors - The End (11:41)