The Doors
The Doors
℗ 1967 Elektra Records EKS 74007
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 knockout punch. The lean, spidery guitar and organ riffs interwove with a hypnotic menace, providing a seductive backdrop for Jim Morrison's captivating vocals and probing prose. "Light My Fire" was the cut that would top the charts and establish 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 eleven-minute Oedipal drama "The End" was the group at their 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. — Richie Unterberger. |
- 1. Break on Through (To the Other Side) (Densmore — Krieger — Manzarek — Morrison) [02:26]
- 2. Soul Kitchen [03:32]
- 3. The Crystal Ship [02:31]
- 4. Twentieth Century Fox [02:30]
- 5. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) (Brecht — Weill) [03:16]
- 6. Light My Fire [07:04]
- 7. Back Door Man (Burnett — Dixon) [03:31]
- 8. I Looked at You [02:19]
- 9. End of the Night [02:50]
- 10. Take it as it Comes [02:14]
- 11. The End [11:42]
Участие в альбоме:
- John Densmore: drums
- Robby Krieger: guitar, backing vocals
- Ray Manzarek: vox continentalorgan, piano, keyboards, keyboard bass, backing vocals
- Jim Morrison: vocals
- Larry Knechtel: bass
Тексты:
Break on Through (To the Other Side)
(Densmore — Krieger — Manzarek — Morrison)
You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Tried to run Tried to hide Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side We chased our pleasures here Dug our treasures there But can you still recall The time we cried Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Everybody loves my baby Everybody loves my baby She gets, she gets She gets, she gets I found an island in your arms A country in your eyes Arms that chain us Eyes that lied Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Made the scene from week to week Day to day, hour to hour The gate is straight Deep and wide Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Break on through, break on through Break on through, break on through Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah,…