Released: 1967
Tracks: Break on Through (to the Other Side); Soul Kitchen; The Crystal Ship; Twentieth Century Fox; Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar); Light My Fire; Back Door Man; I Looked at You; End of the Night; Take it as it Comes; The End
Best track: hard to choose, either Break on Through, Light My Fire or The End
Tracks to skip: 20th Century Fox, Alabama Song, Back Door Man, I Looked at You, End of the Night, Take it…
It’s interesting going back to these albums and reassessing their quality. I never really was too big on this album. I think the Doors wrote a bunch of good songs, but they never really made a solid Album. Strange Days is the closest they came, and there are still some clunkers on that one. This one, their 1967 debut, has a lot of skipable songs. OK, most of these can be skipped. I still enjoy the popular ones, but the ones you’ve never heard of (like 20th Century Fox, Take it as it Comes, etc.) are not good.
I think where the best of the Doors comes through are in the extended songs, like Light My Fire and The End. Break on Through is still very good as well, and there are a couple of average songs, but the rest are throwaways. It’s the truth. I mean, how horrible is I Looked at You? Ugh, it’s so awful. If you’re interested in the Doors, you’re better off skipping this one and getting a best-of set that has Break, Fire, and The End. The rest really aren’t that important.
Rating: 72
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