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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.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
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The Doors, Writer, MainArtist
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 2007 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
Jim Morrison, Composer - The Doors, Composer, Writer, MainArtist - Robert Krieger, Composer - John Paul Densmore, Composer - Raymond Manzarek, Composer
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 2007 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
The Doors, Writer, MainArtist
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 2007 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
The Doors, Writer, MainArtist
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 2007 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
Kurt Weill, Writer - Brecht, Writer - Weill, Writer - Berthold Brecht, Writer - The Doors, Writer, MainArtist - Bertolt Brecht, Writer - B. Brecht, Writer - K. Weill, Writer
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 2007 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
JOHN DENSMORE, Writer - Jim Morrison, Composer, Writer - Ray Manzarek, Writer - The Doors, Composer, Writer, MainArtist - Robby Krieger, Writer - Robert Krieger, Composer - John Paul Densmore, Composer - Raymond Manzarek, Composer - Kreiger, Writer
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 2007 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
W. Dixon, Writer - CHESTER BURNETT, Writer - Dixon, Writer - The Doors, Writer, Performance, MainArtist - WILLIE DIXON, Composer, Writer - Robert Johnson, Writer - C. Burnett, Writer
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 2007 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
The Doors, Writer, MainArtist
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 2007 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
The Doors, Writer, MainArtist
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 2007 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
The Doors, Writer, MainArtist
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 2007 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
Raymond D. Manzarek, Composer - Jim Morrison, Composer - The Doors, Writer, MainArtist - John Paul Densmore, Composer - Robert A Krieger, Composer
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 2007 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Album 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 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.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:44:04
- Main artists: The Doors
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rhino - Elektra
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
1967 Elektra Entertainment. 1967 Elektra Entertainment. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
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