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Artist:  THE DOORS

Title:   “THE DOORS”

Label:   ELEKTRA.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is red with black text, with white “E” logo.  Catalog number is EKS-74007.  

Matrix numbers:

Side One:  EKS-74007A-1A

Side Two:  EKS-74007B-2B

Condition:   

DISC:  Vinyl is EXCELLENT with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  Would grade Near Mint, but there is one light mark across “The End” track on Side 2 which causes some light ticks.  Otherwise plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.         

JACKET:  Jacket is NEAR MINT in original factory shrink wrap.  Flawless front and back panels.  Excellent seams and corners.  Light wear on right corner tips and along opening edge.  A beautiful jacket worthy of display. 

Includes original vintage ELEKTRA RECORDS factory inner sleeve. (very clean and nice, with a small split (approximately 2”) split at bottom center, otherwise pristine.)

Track Listing: 

Side One:

Break on Through Soul Kitchen The Crystal Ship Twentieth Century Fox Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) Light My Fire  

Side Two:

Back Door Man I Looked At You End of the Night Take It As It Comes The End

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.”

(courtesy Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com.)

 

 

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Record Label ELEKTRA Style Psychedelic Rock Record Grading Excellent (EX) Record Size 12" Artist THE DOORS UPC Does not apply Country/Region of Manufacture United States Duration LP Sleeve Grading Near Mint (NM or M-) Genre Rock Release Year 1967 Speed 33RPM