The Doors (Album)

The Doors
Studio album by The Doors
Publication (s)	4th January 1967
admission	August 24, 1966 - August 31, 1966
Label (s)	Elektra Records
Format (s)	LP
Genre (s)	Psychedelic rock
Title (number)	11
running time	43:05
occupation	Jim Morrison - vocals Robby Krieger - guitar John Densmore - drums Ray Manzarek - organ , piano , Fender Rhodes piano bass
production	Paul A. Rothchild
Studio (s)	Sunset Sound Recorders, Los Angeles
chronology - The Doors Strange Days (1967)

The Doors is the debut album by the American rock band The Doors and was released on January 4, 1967 by Elektra Records . The album was a huge commercial success and is considered by critics to be one of the most influential albums in rock history .

history

The highest positions in the US charts were number 2 for the album and number 1 for the single Light My Fire .

In contrast to the single, the album version of Light My Fire is the uncut version. The song was too long for the single and radio format common at the time. After the unsatisfactory attempt to re-record it, the instrumental solos in the middle section were simply removed for the single release, whereby the not quite clean cut can even be heard clearly at the end of the shortened instrumental section.

The Alabama Song was originally written by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht for their opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny . Willie Dixon is the author of Back Door Man , which became famous in a version of Howlin 'Wolf . The last track on the album The End was used, among other things, for the soundtrack of the anti-war film Apocalypse Now .

The cover of the record shows Jim Morrison in close-up, the other three members of the band standing against a black background. The photo was taken by the American photographer Guy Webster , who had previously worked for the Rolling Stones .

Track list

With the exception of the marked exceptions, all songs are written by John Densmore , Robby Krieger , Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison .

page 1

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 (Whiskey Bar) ( Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill ) - 3:15

6. Light My Fire - 7:07 am

Page 2

7. Back Door Man ( Willie Dixon ) - 3:30

8. I Looked at You - 2:18

9. End of the Night - 2:49

10. Take It as It Comes - 2:13

11. The End - 11:44

reception

source	rating
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
Laut.de

The music magazine Rolling Stone performs The Doors at number 42 of the 500 best albums of all time , and number 34 of the 100 best debut albums. The New Musical Express voted it # 226 of the 500 best albums of all time. In the selection of the 200 best albums of the 1960s by Pitchfork is The Doors 95th 2002 the album in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2014 and the National Recording Registry added. The album is one of the 1001 albums You Must Hear Before You Die .

The American rock critic Robert Christgau included the album in his list of 40 fundamental albums of 1967, because "no album by a new American band electrified the world like The Doors ".

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Argentina (CAPIF)	gold	30,000
Germany (BVMI)	platinum	500,000
Italy (FIMI)	gold	25,000
Canada (MC)	4 × platinum	400,000
Austria (IFPI)	gold	25,000
Sweden (IFPI)	gold	50,000
Spain (Promusicae)	gold	50,000
United States (RIAA)	4 × platinum	4,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × platinum	600,000
All in all	5 × gold 11 × platinum	5,680,000

Main article: The Doors / Music Sales Awards

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elektra catalog number EKS 74007; compare also: Tilch, KD: Rock LPs 1955-1970. Vol. 1: AE . 3rd ext. Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1990, p. 456
2. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top LPs 1945-1972 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, 1973, p. 45; the LP was in the charts for 104 weeks
3. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 177
4. ↑ Review by Richie Unterberger on Allmusic (accessed on July 16, 2019)
5. ↑ Review by Parke Puterbaugh on Rolling Stone (accessed July 16, 2019)
6. ↑ Review by Ulf Kubanke on Laut.de (accessed on July 16, 2019)
7. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on Rolling Stone (accessed July 16, 2019)
8. ↑ 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time on Rolling Stone (accessed July 16, 2019)
9. ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time on New Musical Express (accessed July 16, 2019)
10. ↑ The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s on Pitchfork (accessed July 16, 2019)
11. ↑ GRAMMY Hall Of Fame on Grammy (accessed July 16, 2019)
12. ↑ Complete National Recording Registry Listing in the Library of Congress (accessed July 16, 2019)
13. ↑ The 40 Essential Albums of 1967

Web links

• Lyrics of the album