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Studio album by the Doors
Released January 4, 1967
Recorded August 1966
Studio Sunset Sound (Hollywood)
Genre
Psychedelic rock[1]art rock[2]psychedelia[3]
Length 43:25
Label Elektra
Producer Paul A. Rothchild
The Doors chronology
The Doors
(1967) Strange Days
(1967)

The Doors is the debut studio album by American rock band the Doors, released on January 4, 1967, by Elektra Records. It was recorded in August 1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California, under the production of Paul A. Rothchild. The album features the extended version of the breakthrough single `Light My Fire` and the lengthy closer `The End` with its Oedipal spoken word section.[4] Publications including BBC and Rolling Stone have considered it one of the greatest and most unique debut albums in recorded history.[5][6]

The Doors were working the material of their debut album throughout the year of 1966 at various stages such as the Whisky a Go Go. The album`s recording started after their dismissal from the venue, under the maintenance of Elektra Records. The recording of The Doors established the band`s wide range of musical influences, such as jazz, classical, blues, pop, R&B and rock music.[7] It has been largely viewed as an essential part of the psychedelic rock evolution, while also being acknowledged as a source of inspiration to other works.

The Doors and `Light My Fire` have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2015 the Library of Congress selected The Doors for inclusion in the National Recording Registry based on its cultural, artistic or historical significance.[8] The Doors remains the band`s best-selling studio album,[9] with sales of over 13 million copies, as of 2015.[10]
Reception and legacy
Retrospective reviews
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [75]
American Songwriter [76]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music [77]
The Great Rock Discography 9/10[78]
MusicHound Rock 4/5[79]
Rolling Stone [80]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide [81]
Slant Magazine [82]
Sputnikmusic 5/5[83]
The Village Voice B−[84]
In a contemporary review for Crawdaddy! magazine, founder and critic Paul Williams hailed The Doors as `an album of magnitude` while likening the band to Brian Wilson and the Rolling Stones as creators of `modern music`, with which `contemporary `jazz` and `classical` composers must try to measure up`. Williams added: `The birth of the group is in this album, and it`s as good as anything in rock. The awesome fact about the Doors is that they will improve.`[85] Record Mirror was similarly positive to the record: `[The Doors] for Elektra is wild, rough and although it`s subtle in places, the overall sound is torrid. They`re blues-based and get quite an effective sound.`[86] According to Densmore, the Beatles had reportedly bought ten copies of the album,[87] and Paul McCartney has claimed that following the album`s release, he wanted his band to capture the Doors` musical style as one of the `alter egos` of the group for their upcoming concept album Sgt. Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band.[nb 3]

Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic in his column for Esquire, recommending the album but with reservations; he approved of Manzarek`s organ playing and Morrison`s `flexible though sometimes faint` singing while highlighting the presence of a `great hard rock original` in `Break on Through` and clever songs such as `Twentieth Century Fox`, but was critical of more `esoteric` material such as the `long, obscure dirge` `The End`.[90] He also found Morrison`s lyrics often self-indulgent, particularly lines like `our love becomes a funeral pyre`, which he said spoiled `Light My Fire`, and `the nebulousness that passes for depth among so many lovers of rock poetry` on `The End`.[91]

The Doors has since been frequently ranked by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time; according to Acclaimed Music, it is the 36th most ranked record on all-time lists.[92] In 1993, New Musical Express writers cited The Doors the 25th greatest album of all time,[93] while in 1998, it was named the 70th in a `Music of the Millennium` poll conducted in the UK by HMV Group, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM.[94] In 2003, Parke Puterbaugh of Rolling Stone called the record `the L.A. foursome`s most successful marriage of rock poetics with classically tempered hard rock – a stoned, immaculate classic.`[80] Sean Egan of BBC Music opines, `The eponymous debut of the Doors took popular music into areas previously thought impossible: the incitement to expand one`s consciousness of opener `Break on Through` was just the beginning of its incendiary agenda.`[95] AllMusic critic Richie Unterberger, lauded The Doors as a `tremendous debut album, and indeed one of the best first-time outings in rock history`, concluding in his review that `The End` was `a haunting cap to an album whose nonstop melodicism and dynamic tension would never be equaled by the group again, let alone bettered.`[75]

The Doors has been numerously cited as the group`s finest record.[2][75][96] In 2000, the album was voted number 46 in Colin Larkin`s All Time Top 1000 Albums.[97] The Doors was ranked No. 42 on Rolling Stone`s list of `The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time`.[98] When the list was revised in 2020, the album was repositioned at No. 86.[99] Two of the album`s songs, `Light My Fire` and `The End`, were also among on Rolling Stone`s 2004 list `The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time`.[100] Q magazine readers ranked the album at No. 75 on its list of the `100 Greatest Albums Ever`,[101] while NME magazine at No. 226 on their respective list `500 Greatest Albums of All Time`.[102] In 2007, Rolling Stone included it on their list of The 40 Essential Albums of 1967.[103] More recently in 2020, online media magazine Loudwire placed The Doors one of the `25 Legendary Rock Albums With No Weak Songs`.[104] In a list published the next year in February, Ultimate Classic Rock cited it as the fourth-top psychedelic rock album of all time.[7]

Original album
All tracks are written by the Doors (Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore), except where noted. Details are taken from the 1967 U.S. Elektra release; other releases may show different information.[28]

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Break On Through (To the Other Side)` 2:25
2. `Soul Kitchen` 3:30
3. `The Crystal Ship` 2:30
4. `Twentieth Century Fox` 2:30
5. `Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)`
Bertolt BrechtKurt Weill
3:15
6. `Light My Fire` 6:50
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Back Door Man`
Willie Dixon
3:30
2. `I Looked at You` 2:18
3. `End of the Night` 2:49
4. `Take It as It Comes` 2:13
5. `The End` 11:35
Total length: 43:25

Personnel
Personnel adapted from the 50th Anniversary edition album liner notes:[74]

The Doors

Jim Morrison – vocals
Ray Manzarek – organ, piano, bass; backing vocals[105] and marxophone on `Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)`[29]
Robby Krieger – guitar; bass guitar on `Soul Kitchen`[nb 4] and `Back Door Man`;[36][107] backing vocals on `Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)`[105]
John Densmore – drums, backing vocals on `Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)`[105]
Additional musicians

Larry Knechtel – bass guitar on `Soul Kitchen`, `Twentieth Century Fox`,[108][109] `Light My Fire`,[33] `I Looked at You` and `Take It as It Comes`[110]
Production

Paul A. Rothchild – production; backing vocals on `Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)`[nb 5]
Bruce Botnick – engineering
Joel Brodsky – back cover photography
Guy Webster – front cover photography
William S. Harvey – art direction and design