The Doors

A highly influential and controversial group, The Doors were major rock and theatrical innovators in the late 1960s. This Los Angeles based quartet formed in 1965 was fronted by Jim Morrison, a film school dropout who was more interested in being a shaman or a poet than a rock star but somehow succeeded in being the iconic rock star of a generation with his unlikely rise and tragic fall. Musically, the band fused folk, jazz, blues, and various world genres with an expert pop/rock sensibility which brought them immediate popularity and an incredible legacy.

Studio Album Reviews

Over a brief period of barely four years, The Doors released a half dozen diverse and top notch studio albums with Morrison, which document their incredible evolution as a band from psychedelic pop to jazz-fused to jam to pure rock and blues. We have reviewed every one of them:

• The Doors and Strange Days (1967)
• Waiting for the Sun (1968)
• The Soft Parade (1969)
• Morrison Hotel (1970)
• L.A. Woman (1971)

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