Track Listing

1. Break On Through
2. Soul Kitchen
3. Crystal Ship
4. Twentieth Century Fox
5. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
6. Light My Fire
7. Back Door Man
8. I Looked At You
9. End Of The Night
10. Take It As It Comes
11. End

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11799 in Music
• Released on: 1988-08-26
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
On their 1967 debut album, the Doors more than fulfilled the promise of their infamously challenging gigs around Los Angeles throughout the previous year. Whether belting out a standard like "Back Door Man" or talk-singing such originals as "The Crystal Ship" and "I Looked at You", leather-clad vocalist Jim Morrison exuded both sensuality and menace. The mixture, on the outsize album finale, "The End", helped rewrite the rules on rock song composition. None of this would have worked, though, were it not for the highly visual instrumental work of keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robbie Krieger and drummer John Densmore, whose work on tracks such as "Take It As It Comes" and the lengthy hit "Light My Fire" virtually defined the rock- blues-jazz-classical amalgam that was acid-rock. --Billy Altman

Customer Reviews

No im not going to give a history lesson.
This is a brilliant c.d. by 'The Doors'.Iv been playing it for twenty year's or so,& iv got thought four copies,& I cannot do with out it.'Doors' must be in the top fifty c.d.s of all time.

Turgid and Tiresome
I never got the Doors- to me they always sounded like a bad pub band fronted by an unbelivably pretentious narcissist.

Morrison always struck me as one of those highly annoying individuals who believes they are brilliant at everything- One read of his poetry will show that he is not.

I don't know I'm clearly in a minority but when I brought this album in my mid teens I was expecting to be blown away by visionary brilliance but I just found it incredibly boring and predictable.

Furthermore like the Manic Street Preachers and The Smiths The Doors stir up such blind worship among their fans as to be nothing short of hateful.

I've met people who firmly believe Morrison was their soulmate despite the fact they were born 20 years after he died- It's vomit inducing.

I'm not saying don't buy the album because I'm clearly in the minority, just do so with necessary caution.

awesome debut
If you're new to The Doors and want to try an album to test the water this is the one to go for. A couple of the tracks haven't aged well but overall this is as good as they get in the studio and there are enough classics on here to more than justify the price. Go for it....
If you're a Doors fan already...I won't waste my breath...