The Doors: The Doors (Japanese ''Target'' Pressing) CD Track Listing
The Doors
The Doors (Japanese ''Target'' Pressing) (1967)
The Doors (Japanese ''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 November 9, 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 riffs interwove with a hypnotic menace, providing a seductive backdrop for Jim Morrison's captivating vocals and probing prose. "Light My Fire" was the cut that would top the charts and establish the group as stars, but most of the rest of the album is just as impressive, including some of their best songs: the propulsive "Break On Through" (their first single), the beguiling Oriental mystery of "The Crystal Ship," the mysterious "End of the Night," "Take It 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 critical raves for the Los Angeles band: both for Jim Morrison's powerful vocal style and the band's psychedelic-blues sound. \n\nTHE DOORS were named after Aldous Huxley's book about mescaline, "The Doors 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 on the 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 standard like "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 outsize album 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); John Densmore (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 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.\n\nIndustry Reviews\nIncluded in Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums Ever\nQ (01/01/2003)\n\nRanked #25 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'\nNME (10/02/1993)\n\n5 stars out of 5 - Included in The Rolling Stone Hall Of Fame - ...A stoned, immaculate classic...\nRolling Stone (05/01/2003)
This rock cd contains 11 tracks and runs 44min 27sec.
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- The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side) (02:28)
- The Doors - Soul Kitchen (03:35)
- The Doors - The Crystal Ship (02:33)
- The Doors - Twentieth Century Fox (02:32)
- The Doors - Alabama Song (03:19)
- The Doors - Light My Fire (07:07)
- The Doors - Back Door Man (03:33)
- The Doors - I Looked At You (02:22)
- The Doors - End Of The Night (02:53)
- The Doors - Take It As It Comes (02:15)
- The Doors - The End (11:43)
