The Doors by The Doors

Pros: Everything, from the words to the musical arrangements
Cons: None at all!

Based out of Southern California, the Doors were one of America’s gifts to the era of the 1960’s. Led by eccentric lead singer Jim Morrison, the Doors were known for their deep lyrics, mystical music, and shocking antics both on and off stage. And the ...

Pros: Ground-breaking music. Interesting sound. Haunting melodies.
Cons: A wee bit on the pretentious side.

= Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have another kiss Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss The days are bright and filled with pain Enclose me in your gentle rain The time you ran was ...

Pros: Wow factor. These are eleven truly amazing and whole songs.
Cons: none

Rewind. It’s the year 1967. Music lies somewhere between the hip-happenin’ Beatles and total desolation. The scene is ripe for something new. That new something was the poetic genius of Jim Morrison and The Doors.

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Pros: One of the greatest sixties albums, with the Doors' unique sound and lyrical poetry
Cons: Jim Morrison's early death in 1971 brought premature closure to this great band

At the beginning of the summer of 1967, I transferred five magnificent newly released rock albums onto a reel-to-reel tape to provide roughly four hours of listening pleasure that entertained about a dozen young people at my wife's family compound in the ...

Pros: Landmark release for Rock N'Roll and 60s in special. Ultimate fusion of Poetry and Music
Cons: Hum...Just 43 minutes. It made follow-ups increasingly erratic in comparison.

THE DOORS, arguably the greatest band to emerge from “Acid America” of the 60s, was among the very few acts able to be simultaneously great experimentalists and million-sellers. Their astonishing body of work represented the pinnacle of ...

Pros: Many different styles, lyrical imagery, outstanding playing
Cons: One or two throwaway tracks

With the release of their first album in 1967, the Doors burst upon the American music scene with a sound that was unique and unlike anything the world had heard before. This sound was the product of the various musical influences on the individual...

Pros: Redo that is better than the original containing all the favorites.
Cons: Moral content questionable and not for young children.

The original Doors album is over 40 years old, but that did not stop Elektra from remastering this magical classic for die-hard fans from the hippie era.  The remix brings back the original speeds, correct pitch and questionable original ...

Pros: Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison.
Cons: Filler, and some of these tracks have been overused.

The Doors were such an enigma in so many ways that it's difficult to see exactly what exactly their influences were in making this debut album. It was January of 1967. The Rolling Stones were still making albums filled out by cheap covers, and The...

Pros: Great poetic lyrics, well-played music.
Cons: One so-so song.

The Doors. One of the most well known bands in music and one of the most misunderstood. In the late 1960s they released some wonderful music, music that stood out from the psychedelic spirit of the times and held up a mirror to a darker side of the...

Pros: Outstanding album, 'the sound of the late 60s'
Cons: Their career was too short

When I first heard the Doors' self-titled debut album a few years ago I was totally blown away by the power and energy that they put into their music. I had listened to their work on and off for years, but had never 'experienced' "The...

Pros: Many good songs on this album
Cons: Not for the softies of the world

The Doors

Is everybody in? O.K. so who doesn’t idolize Jim Morrison? I sure as heck do. He was a great writer ( See American Poet). I wrote a review earlier in my epinions career about a different album by a different band and titled it...

Pros: every track except Alabama Song, historical importance
Cons: Alabama Song

The Doors' self-titled debut album, released in 1967, was and still is a milestone in the history of rock and roll. Anthems such as Light My Fire, Break On Through and Twentieth Century Fox provided much-needed drive to the American rock scene. The...

Pros: Amazing breakthrough album. It provided new ideas, sounds and direction for popular music.
Cons: The never made an album as complete as this one again!

In Southern California 1966 the breeding ground for the summer of love was fomenting. Yet into this naive cornucopia of good vibrations a band was coming together. This band was the antithesis of hippie feeling and they were called "The Doors." No one...

Pros: It might change your life
Cons: It may be too deep or disturbing for some

Often considered the best album in the Doors discography, The Doors' first self-titled album continues to influence musicians and non-musicians even today. This was The Doors' most powerful body of work, it is full of existential currents of tension,...

Pros: Every song a winner
Cons: None

"There is the known, and there is the unknown, and in between there are the doors." From this quote, came a band so unlike any other that it virtually ripped the lid off of the old style of rock and roll and started a new one. The darkness...