0451. The Doors
The Doors

Another eponymous debut, The Doors' first is shrouded in legend and a bit of controversy. Being censored right from the start ("Hey Jim, it's not groovy to say 'high' on an album, and 'fuck' gets right the fuck out of here. It's nineteen-sixty-seven, damnit, not the seventies!" ...is how I imagine the lecture went down) it's probably one of the first instances of an album coming out in a clean and a dirty version (the mono release kept the hush-words while the stereo-version got a bit made over).

Okay, so some would argue that Light My Fire is the best track on this album, but I'd say it's Break On Through (To The Other Side) - which I, by the way, always expect to be longer for some reason, but it always clocks in at approximately two and a half minutes. Instead it's the album closer The End that takes that cake, at nearly twelve minutes of run-time.

This album has the same pseudo-problem as The Jimi Hendrix Experience had on Are You Experienced: a couple of huge songs has obscured other good songs. Like the relatively unknown Take It As It Comes, which is (in my clearly expert opinion) is better than their by far better known version of Back Door Man.

Definitely an album you must hear at least thrice before the end.