The Doors (1967)
The Doors is a 1967 acid rock album by The Doors.
Recorded across a few August nights in 1966 at Sunset Sound, the Doors' debut arrived fully formed and slightly dangerous. Jim Morrison's baritone slides from crooner to preacher to something wilder, while Ray Manzarek's organ, Robby Krieger's flamenco-tinged guitar, and John Densmore's jazz-schooled drums build a sound with no bass player and no obvious precedent. Light My Fire turned an art-rock band into radio stars, and the closing track The End stretches into a long Oedipal reverie that still unsettles. Released on Elektra in January 1967, it captured Los Angeles psychedelia at its darkest and most seductive.
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What is The Doors about?
Recorded across a few August nights in 1966 at Sunset Sound, the Doors' debut arrived fully formed and slightly dangerous. Jim Morrison's baritone slides from crooner to preacher to something wilder, while Ray Manzarek's organ, Robby Krieger's flamenco-tinged guitar, and John Densmore's jazz-schooled drums build a sound with no bass player and no obvious precedent. Light My Fire turned an art-rock band into radio stars, and the closing track The End stretches into a long Oedipal reverie that still unsettles. Released on Elektra in January 1967, it captured Los Angeles psychedelia at its darkest and most seductive.
When was The Doors released?
The Doors was released in 1967.
Who made The Doors?
The Doors is by The Doors.
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A few thoughts on The Doors
The album's shadowy theatricality carries into other media. Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now built its opening around The End, fusing Morrison's dread with the Vietnam jungle. Oliver Stone's film The Doors dramatizes the band's rise and Morrison's unraveling. For a kindred literary trip, Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception gave the group its name and its appetite for altered vision.
Psychedelic rock trips to put on next
The Doors arrived fully formed in 1967, all organ swells, flamenco-tinged guitar, and Jim Morrison sliding from crooner to preacher. These records carry the same acid-rock charge, stretching Los Angeles psychedelia and its heavier cousins into long, hypnotic journeys built for late-night listening.