Product Description
Brand New ~ Sealed! The Original 1967 Stereo Mixes! Remastered On HQ-180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl. Includes Inner Sleeve.
The laquers were cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, CA under the direct supervision of original Doors producer/engineer Bruce Botnick & Electra Records founder Jac Holzman.
Released in January 1967, The Doors’ revolutionary debut recording instantly won over fans & critics alike, heralding the arrival of one of rock’s all-time most original bands. It delivered the signature smash “Light My Fire”, plus classic tracks such as “Break On Through”, “The Crystal Ship” & “The End”.
Side 1:
Break On Through (To The Other Side)
Soul Kitchen
The Crystal Ship
Twentieth Century Fox
Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
Light My Fire
Side 2:
Back Door Man
I Looked At You
End Of The Night
Take It As It Comes
The End
AMG –
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. 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.