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The Doors - Debut Album 180g - MONO Mixes

The Doors - Debut Album 180g - MONO Mixes

$ 39.99

Artist: The Doors  | Label: Elektra  | Format: LP |  Genre: Rock | Vinyl Condition: Mint | Cover Condition: Sealed


This is a BRAND NEW 180g issue from Rhino / Elektra. 
featuring the Original MONO mixes! 

The first Doors album was an important development in the evolution of rock, representing the dark underbelly of the '60s counterculture, the Jekyll to the Beatles/Beach Boys' Hyde. The Doors were the antithesis of windblown Californian pop. Dark, brooding and alienated, every element of the quartet's metier was unveiled on their debut album. In Jim Morrison they possessed one of rock's authoritative voices, while the group's dense instrumental prowess reflected his lyrical mystery. Highly literate, they wedded Oedipian tragedy with counter-culture nihilism i and, in "Light My Fire", expressed exotic images previously unheard in pop. Howlin' Wolf, Brecht and Weill are acknowledged as musical reference points, a conflict between the physical and cerebral that give THE DOORS its undiluted tension. Or you can just enjoy it as a brilliant album that sucks you in as it breathes out the '60's.
In 1965, University of California student Ray Manzarek invited a fellow student, singer/songwriter Jim Morrison, to join his and his two brothers' R&B band, Rick And The Ravens. Manzarek then recruited drummer John Densmore. His brothers then dropped out of the group, replaced by guitarist Robbie Krieger. The group, now named the Doors, became popular on the Los Angeles club scene. Elektra recording artists Love recommended the group to their label, which signed them in 1966. THE DOORS, ...
It is SEALED. 
Contains the tracks; 

Break On Through
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

NEW SEALED 180g LP - rare MONO mix - Manufactured in the EU


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