50 Greatest ROLLING STONE Albums Of All Time – No 43 Debut Album THE DOORS

Today No 43…

20 September 2020

Band: The Doors
Album: The Doors – debut LP
Released: 4 January 1967

SIDE ONE
1. Break On Through (To the Other Side)
3. The Crystal Ship
4. Twentieth Century Fox
5. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)

SIDE TWO
1 Back Door Man
2. I Looked at You
3. End of the Night
4. Take It as It Comes
5. The End

Rolling Stone: “After blowing minds as the house band at L.A.’s Whisky-a-Go-Go, where
they got fired for playing the Oedipal drama “The End,” the Doors were ready to unleash
their organ-driven rock on the world. “On each song we had tried every possible arrangement,” drummer John Densmore said, “so we felt the whole album was tight.” The Blakean pop art on their debut was beyond Top 40 attention spans. But they hit pay dirt by editing down one of their jams: “Light My Fire,” written by guitarist Robbie Krieger when Jim Morrison told everybody in the band to write a song with universal imagery.”

Jim Morrison: “I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”

Key tracks: Light My Fire / The End / Break On Through (To the Other Side)

– LIGHT MY FIRE –