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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Rhino / Wea
Salesrank: 5376
Released: March 27, 2007 |
| Our Price: $6.47 |
| Used Price: $6.57 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Doors 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
12. Moonlight Drive (Version 1) (Bonus)
13. Moonlight Drive (Version 2) (Bonus)
14. Indian Summer (8/19/66 Vocal) (Bonus)
Editorial Review:
THE DOORS, first released in January 1967, is one of rock music's most famous debuts. It hit #2 in Billboard®, and delivered the #1 signature smash "Light My Fire" plus "Break On Through," "The Crystal Ship," and "The End." In-depth essay by Ben Fong-Torres (a principal Rolling Stone writer during the Doors heyday). Three bonus tracks include alternate takes of "Moonlight Drive" and a previously unissued version of "Indian Summer."
Description of The Doors:
On 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
The Doors Reviews:
The First Doors record remastered on CD. 
2009-10-24 - This was a brillant debut record for the band and one of their best, as well. Which now, sounds better than ever, remastered.
A Meat Cleaver To The Forehead Of The Flower Children!!
2009-09-09 - Right smack in the middle of the fabled "Summer Of Love" came the L.A. band that
brought a whole new more edgier and realistic side to all of the wide-eyed idealism
that was sweeping the youth culture of that time. THE DOORS, the band and the album,
were a whole other animal from what was standard pop/rock fare of the time.
Jim Morrison's cryptic poetry and symbolism fit perfectly with the band's rough,
rawkus and slightly odd hodge-podge of rock, jazz chords and general weirdness!
They were all made for each other and this album made a huge impact right from the beginning.
To me, this self-titled album, "Strange Days", "L.A. Woman", "Waiting For The Sun", "The Soft Parade"
and "Morrison Hotel" are so unique that they all qualify as mini classic rock operas which
captured the grit, the pathos, the confusion, the mercurialness and yes, the apathy
of the late 60's / early 70's! It was a revolutionary, scarey & magical time all at once,
and THE DOORS had their finger right on the pulse of the times!
This album has been an inspiration to so many aspiring artists, musicians, poets
and philosophers from every race, socio-economic background and corner of life!
The Lizard King was way out there and so far ahead of his time
(yet of it's time!) that it's ridiculous!
But his poetry would've been nothing if not for being perfectly framed
by the astute musicianship of the band he fronted.
There is a reason that this paradigm-shifting album was voted on the list
of the top 200 most definitive albums on rock history!--So Buy It! (-:
the doors 1967 dark classic debut!!
2009-09-04 - this album is one of my favorite albums of all time!!the doors music was and is so visionary.this album was so perfect for 1967 and the psychedelic scene. even though this album was released in 1967 it still sounds brilliant to this day the only song on it i can do without is alabama whiskey song.the rest is amazing.so take the highway to the end of the night and grab this album!!
The debut album rocks
2009-08-05 - Before The Doors released their debut album in 1967, rock and roll at that time was starting to sound more and more the same and just "typical" or run-of-the-mill. In other words, pioneers and trailblazers were in short supply. The Doors shook things up when they emerged on the scene playing at clubs in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1966. They were pioneers or "radicals" because of their unique sound. A bottleneck guitar player (Robbie Krieger) who used his fingernails instead of a pick, a jazz drummer (John Densmore), an organ player (Ray Manzarek) who played both the organ and organ bass at the same time, and an out-of-control singer (Jim Morrison) who was a poet and wrote poetic lyrics and was a student of film and was college educated, as Ray Manzarek was, also.
A unique lineup of musicians formed one of the greatest rock bands of all time, The Doors.
The Doors had no regular bass player, so Ray Manzarek played keyboard bass on this debut album, and also in concert. On later albums, session bass players were used in the studio, but during concerts the bass was provided by Manzarek's organ bass. The debut album was recorded almost all live - the band would play and Morrison would sing at the same time, so virtually every song was a one-shot recording, if you will. This album contains some classic songs such as Break On Through (To The Other Side), Soul Kitchen, The Crystal Ship, Twentieth Century Fox, Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar), Light My Fire, Back Door Man, I Looked At You, End Of The Night, Take It As It Comes, and the 11 minute epic, The End. I named the whole album!
The revolutionary sound of The Doors is what made them trailblazers. An eerie organ, keyboard bass, bottleneck guitar playing, jazz drumming, and the unique vocals and poetic lyrics of Jim Morrison. What's not to like? If you like bands that are different and think outside the box and don't fall into the same category as everyone else, give The Doors and their debut album a listen. They have remained my favorite band since I was first introduced to them at age 12. They might become your favorite as well, or one of your favorites if you haven't heard them before.
Light My Fire is the raido version? 
2009-07-17 - I bought this album thinking it had the original long version of "Light My Fire" which it says it has. The real original version, remixed or not, is much longer than 3 minutes. That's maybe the version given to AM radio stations back in the 60's because the album version was too long for airplay? I had to buy the version off the box set which also says it's the "album version" but is over 7 minutes long. So, there are two "original" album versions of the song so be careful you buy what you expect.
