The Doors - The Doors
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Jim Morrison (vocals), Ray Manzarek (keyboards), John Densmore (drums), Robby Krieger (guitar)
Written by The Doors
1LP, gatefold jacket
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12"
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Optimal
Label : Rhino High Fidelity
Original Label : Elektra
Mastered by Doug Sax, overseen by Bruce Botnick, The Doors producer/engineer.
Debut studio album originally released January 4, 1967
Reissued in December 2025
Tracks
Side A :
- Break On Through (To The Other Side)
- Soul Kitchen
- The Crystal Ship
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
- Light My Fire
Side B :
- Back Door Man
- I Looked At You
- End Of The Night
- Take It As It Comes
- The End
Awards:
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Ranked 86/500
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - "The End" - Ranked 336/500
Reviews :
« 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 interweave with a hypnotic menace, providing a seductive backdrop for Jim Morrison's captivating vocals and probing prose. "Light My Fire" was the cut that topped the charts and established 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 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 11-minute Oedipal drama "The End" was the group at its 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. » AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger
Ratings :
AllMusic : 5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,87 / 5