The Doors of perception were kicked wide open with the incendiary blues poetry of this dark and hypnotic debut. Shamanistic singer Jim Morrison got together with fellow UCLA film student and keyboard player Ray Manzarek and eventually connected with drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. They cut their teeth at clubs in Los Angeles like London Fog and took up residency at the Whisky a Go Go. Jac Holzman caught their act and signed them to Elektra. Producer Paul A. Rothchild and engineer Bruce Botnick recorded the album over eight days in August of 1966 at Sunset Sound Recording Studios, capturing the band's dynamic live set on one of the most explosive debut albums ever. Manzarek's electric organ combines with Krieger's meditative guitar explorations to create a dynamic backdrop for Morrison's evocative performance poetry. 'The Doors' hit number four in Norway, three in France, and peaked at number two in the US.
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Light My Fire went to twenty-seven in the Netherlands; sixteen in Australia; seven in New Zealand and the UK; two in Canada; and number one in France and the US.
single version
album version
on The Ed Sullivan Show
The transcendent plea of 'Break On Through' hit number twenty-eight in New Zealand, and peaked at number eight in France. Listen to the full album to hear the unedited version of the song with the line: "She gets high."
"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"
A provocative performance of the Oedipal drama of 'The End' was so profane, it got Morrison kicked out of the Whisky a Go Go.
"This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land"
All songs written and composed by the Doors (Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore), except where noted.
Side A
1. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" 2:29
2. "Soul Kitchen" 3:35
3. "The Crystal Ship" 2:34
4. "Twentieth Century Fox" 2:33
5. "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) 3:20
6. "Light My Fire" 7:06
Side B
7. "Back Door Man" (Willie Dixon, Chester Burnett) 3:34
8. "I Looked at You" 2:22
9. "End of the Night" 2:52
10. "Take It as It Comes" 2:23
11. "The End" 11:41
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