DOORS - The Doors (CD) Break on Through - LIGHT MY FIRE
Mint Condition!!! Original 1988 CD Release OUT OF PRINT
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DOORS - The Doors (CD)
ORIGINAL 1988 OUT OF PRINT RELEASE!!!
Used CD in EXCELLENT playing condition!!! No Skips, No Freeze ups!!! No Scratches, No Scuff Marks!!!
CD and all artwork included.
CD in Excellent Like New condition. Jewel Case has normal wear. On their 1967 debut album, the Doors more than fulfilled the promise of
their infamously challenging gigs around Los Angeles throughout the
previous year. Whether belting out a standard like "Back Door Man" or
talk-singing such originals as "The Crystal Ship" and "I Looked at You,"
leather-clad vocalist Jim Morrison exuded both sensuality and menace.
The mixture, on the outsize album finale, "The End," helped rewrite the
rules on rock song composition. None of this would have worked, though,
were it not for the highly visual instrumental work of keyboardist Ray
Manzarek, guitarist Robbie Krieger, and drummer John Densmore, whose
work on tracks such as "Take It As It Comes" and the lengthy hit "Light
My Fire" virtually defined the rock-blues-jazz-classical amalgam that
was acid-rock.
Track
listing 1. Break on Through (To the Other Side) 2. Soul Kitchen 3. Crystal Ship, The 4. Twentieth Century Fox 5. Alabama Song
(Whisky Bar) 6. Light My Fire 7. Back Door
Man 8. I Looked at You 9. End of the Night 10. Take It as It Comes 11. End, The
Product Details
Audio CD (MAY 1988)
Original Release Date: January 1967
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Elektra / Wea
The Doors Biography
The Doors, one of the most influential and controversial rock bands
of the 1960s, were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by UCLA film students
Ray Manzarek, keyboards, and Jim Morrison, vocals; with drummer John
Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. The group never added a bass
player, and their sound was dominated by Manzarek's electric organ work
and Morrison's deep, sonorous voice, with which he sang and intoned his
highly poetic lyrics. The group signed to Elektra Records in 1966 and
released its first album, The Doors, featuring the hit "Light My Fire,"
in 1967.
Like "Light My Fire," the debut album was a massive hit,
and endures as one of the most exciting, groundbreaking recordings of
the psychedelic era. Blending blues, classical, Eastern music, and pop
into sinister but beguiling melodies, the band sounded like no other.
With his rich, chilling vocals and somber poetic visions, Morrison
explored the depths of the darkest and most thrilling aspects of the
psychedelic experience. Their first effort was so stellar, in fact, that
the Doors were hard-pressed to match it, and although their next few
albums contained a wealth of first-rate material, the group also began
running up against the limitations of their recklessly disturbing
visions. By their third album, they had exhausted their initial
reservoir of compositions, and some of the tracks they hurriedly devised
to meet public demand were clearly inferior to, and imitative of, their
best early work.
On The Soft Parade, the group experimented with
brass sections, with mixed results. Accused (without much merit) by much
of the rock underground as pop sellouts, the group charged back hard
with the final two albums they recorded with Morrison, on which they
drew upon stone-cold blues for much of their inspiration, especially on
1971's L.A. Woman.
From the start, the Doors' focus was the
charismatic Morrison, who proved increasingly unstable over the group's
brief career. In 1969, Morrison was arrested for indecent exposure
during a concert in Miami, an incident that nearly derailed the band.
Nevertheless, the Doors managed to turn out a series of successful
albums and singles through 1971, when, upon the completion of L.A.
Woman, Morrison decamped for Paris. He died there, apparently of a drug
overdose. The three surviving Doors tried to carry on without him, but
ultimately disbanded. Yet the Doors' music and Morrison's legend
continued to fascinate succeeding generations of rock fans: In the
mid-'80s, Morrison was as big a star as he'd been in the mid-'60s, and
Elektra has sold numerous quantities of the Doors' original albums plus
reissues and releases of live material over the years, while publishers
have flooded bookstores with Doors and Morrison biographies. In 1991,
director Oliver Stone made The Doors, a feature film about the group
starring Val Kilmer as Morrison.
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