The Doors (Album)
Occupation
- Vocals: Jim Morrison
- Guitar: Robby Krieger
- Drums: John Densmore
- Rhodes Piano Bass, Organ: Ray Manzarek
The Doors is the debut album by the American rock band The Doors. The album was released on 4 January 1967. It is run by the music magazine Rolling Stone among the 500 best albums of all time at number 42, and is considered an influential album in rock music.
History
The highest rankings in the U.S. charts were number 2 for the album and # 1 for the single from the album Light My Fire.
The album version of Light My Fire is in contrast to the single unabridged version. The song was too long for the then popular music and radio format. After the result unsatisfactory attempt to re-record it, the instrumental solos were in the middle part unceremoniously removed for the single release, with the clean design of its interface is not quite clearly heard even at the end of the shortened instrumental part.
The Alabama Song was originally written by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht for their opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Willie Dixon is the author of the piece Back Door Man, which became known in a version of Howlin 'Wolf. The last track of the album The End was used among other things for the soundtrack of the anti-war film Apocalypse Now.
The cover of the plate shows Jim Morrison in close-up, the other three members of the band standing in front of a black background. The recording comes from the U.S. American photographer Guy Webster, who had worked for the Rolling Stones.
Criticism
The American rock critic Robert Christgau recorded the album in its list of 40 essential albums of the year 1967, because " no album of a new American band electrified the world as The Doors ." From Rolling Stone Magazine, the album was in the list of " Rolling Stone 200: The Essential Rock Collection" was added.
Title list
The pieces with no further details were written by Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek and Morrison.