The Doors

The Doors

  • MOG Editorial Review

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    From the forceful “Break on Through (To the Other Side)” to the organ-driven intro of “Soul Kitchen,” The Doors’ taste for rock and blues fused together to create what’s considered one of the best rock ‘n’ roll albums ever made. The captivating vocals and lyrics by Jim Morrison are especially distinct on the classical piano-driven “The Crystal Ship,” one of the album’s slower ballads, in which Morrison’s voice possesses hypnotizing qualities to create an eerily sensual effect. “Light My Fire” was the hit that would cement their place in rock history, but tracks like the lengthy, spaced-out “The End,” and their blues cover of Willie Dixon's “Back Door Man” gained them the reputation of redefining rock's basic song structures while hinting at the direction The Doors’ music would take in later albums.
  • AMG Review of Doors

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    Richie Unterberger
    All Music Guide

    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.

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