Masterly debut album

There are indeed in the history of popular music is not a lot of bands who have written with their debut album history. The Doors, who were always more than just Jim Morrison and his accompanying musicians (although the cover, like so many photos of the band, this conveys) succeeded in 1967 with their debut such a masterpiece.

Where do you start? Individual Songs Of particular note is ruled out because the album has no weak points. Even from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's opera "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" borrowed "Alabama Song" seems to have been written as for this band. Special effects unfold the pieces when embarking on the close contact with Jim Morrison's unique poetry. This requires a little study of the English language and various spiritual background, but definitely worth it. Alone the almost twelve-minute "The End", probably one of the most magnificent songs ever written, is full of images, stories and drama, that a seemingly rips the heart.

Musically the album is extremely wide-ranging, heavy earthy blues ("Back Door Man") is paired with psychedelic ("Light My Fire") and rock ("Break On Through") elements and a "The End Of The Night" would with his sluggish depression still fit perfectly into any David Lynch movie.

I have only very late discovered the band in the 1990s for me and perhaps this explains the timeless quality of their music. Or is it simply the fact that on the one hand, I share the birthday with Jim Morrison and the other came in the year to the world when he died with only 27 years in Paris. Who knows what crazy way to go musical preferences? So "The Crystal Ship" loaded and traveling again on Soul Journey Behind the doors of perception ...