The Doors - The Doors Elektra Gold Label Pressing LP VINYL ****MONO*****

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The Doors - The Doors Elektra Gold Label Pressing LP VINYL. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Media Mail.

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Label:  Elektra ‎– EKS-74007

Released: 1967

Rock Psychedelic Rock

The Door’s self titled first album came out at a strange time in America, sandwiched between established [and Establishment] AM Radio, who played the three minute or so radio version of the song, and the fledgling [and Anti Establishment] FM Radio, which usually came on at night, from 8 PM until 12 or 2 AM, playing the album length version of the song “Light My Fire.”

This record was a breath of really fresh air, if not hazy blue smoke, in a variety of ways ... the first being that it was an American band, and they were challenging the British Invasion, more aptly, The Beatles, with darker more prophetic lyrics that reflected the underside of the Flower Power movement, and in many respects, is probably responsible for its demise.

I’m sure you’ve all seen the movie, but to have been there when this record hit the streets was an event like no other. If you were lucky enough to have gotten the album instead of the 45 rpm, then you were in for a real treat, because once you got past the hit, the music was like opening a long lost and forbidden book of truth, passion, horror, and total abandonment ... all set to a new blues / rock beat, with psychedelic overtones.

Sometimes the album's going to seem disjointed, perhaps fragmented, and travel off in way too many directions, just listen to "I Looked At You," and tell me you don't hear hints of the chart-topping Dave Clark 5, but Jim and the boys were walking on uncharted water here ... with their next album Strange Days, finding more unification, though like this release, later outings all had their own special issues. I realize this sounds like I’m speaking of a weakness, but that’s hardly the truth. It’s just that The Doors had so much to say, both lyrically and musically, that it was nearly impossible to scoop all that was flowing out of them and create a concise release ... and for me, I like it just the way it was, they just kept opening door after door after door, and I wandered down every hallway totally bathed in the harmonies and luster that have made this band one of the most magical groups of all time.

*** The Fun Facts: In the song "The End", Morrison sings about a blue bus, now the "Blue Bus" was the street name of a powerful painkiller (Oxymorphone) back in the 60'. So this could have been one reference. But Alam Graham (Jim's ex brother in Law), in his book "I remember Jim Morrison", mentions that this is a reference to Santa Monica's "Big Blue Bus" system which serves the area of Western Los Angeles, including Jim Morrison's haunt Venice Beach.

As to "The Crystal Ship": The title is taken from the 12th century Irish Lebor na hUidre (Book of the Dun Cow) manuscript which compiles a series of Celtic legends. While the opening verse resembles a conventional love song, the later verses are less clear in intention and contain more open and challenging imagery. Morrison's lyrics are often deliberately vague, and this, coupled with the song's dreamlike atmosphere, has led to a great deal of speculation by critics and fans as to the meaning of "The Crystal Ship". According to Greil Marcus, the opening lines "Before you slip into unconsciousness, I'd like to have another kiss" could be about "sleep, it could be an overdose, inflicted by the singer or the person he's addressing; it could be murder suicide, or a suicide pact." Critic James Perone noted that the song's title is open to wide interpretations, and that the crystal ship "could just as easily represent sleep as a drug trip". He conceded that "in 1967 the latter would probably have been the more common interpretation".

A January 1990 letter to the Los Angeles Times claimed that the song was about crystal methamphetamine, with the ship representing a hypodermic needle, and the kiss the act of drug injection. Densmore responded although Jim was aware that 'crystal' was slang for methedrine, though he actually wrote 'The Crystal Ship' for Mary Werbelow, a girlfriend with whom he was breaking up. The song was a goodbye love song."

Jim Morrison is THE REAL DEAL... a music legend even though his career only lasted about six studio albums, this first one being the best. Although the other albums from The Doors had some good, classic songs sprinkled among them this one is the best overall song for song. One song that has pretty much been overlooked is "Twentieth Century Fox" as it rarely appears on any compilation albums of the group.