General Article name: Doors
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: RHINO Number of tracks: 16 Tracklist LP - 1 1. The Doors - Break On Through (To the Other Side) 2. The Doors - Soul Kitchen 3. The Doors - The Crystal Ship 4. The Doors - Twentieth Century Fox 5. The Doors - Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) 6. The Doors - Light My Fire 7. The Doors - Back Door Man 8. The Doors - I Looked At You 9. The Doors - End of the Night 10. The Doors - Take It As It Comes 11. The Doors - The End   Tracklist - 2 Doors, The - Back door man Doors, The - I looked at you Doors, The - End of the night Doors, The - Take it as it comes Doors, The - The end   Description Description

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 knock-out 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 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 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

Richie Unterberger

Contributors Artist: The Doors Record Label: Rhino