The Doors (studio album) by The Doors
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 86 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 05/16/2025 20:55 | kk58 | | 74/100 |
35/100 | 05/13/2025 14:39 |  II | | 59/100 |
80/100 | 05/12/2025 09:57 | CharonBri | | 75/100 |
40/100 | 05/10/2025 23:37 | cherrylamp | | 54/100 |
85/100 | 05/09/2025 21:23 | tyleraepps | | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 86.9/100, a mean average of 86.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.3.
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What a smash debut record, arguably the best debut of any band of artist period. At worst, every song is great. Songs like Break on Through, Light My Fire, and The End just makes me wonder just how they were able to make an album like this when they were only starting out.
I fell in love with this album since I was a little boy hearing Soul Kitchen during Forrest Gump. A top tier album and quintessential psychedelic rock. No one did it better than the Doors.
A unique record that is full of experimentation and interesting instrumentation. This leads to 3 or 4 colossal songs that are amongst some of the best to come out of the 60's. The 3 that always leave a lasting impact on me is The End, Light My Fire and Break On Through (To The Other Side). All 3 are classic Door's songs and they showcase the fantastic vocal of Jim Morrison as well as the special instrumentation from the rest of the group. The key member for me is Ray Manzarek whose piano and organ playing makes this release stand out during a time period where everyone was making music similar to this. His work on Light My Fire is crucial to the success of the song in my opinion with that instrumental middle section being one of my favourite moments on the whole album. Despite this, there is a surprising amount of filler on here. Songs like Twentieth Century Fox and I Looked At You feel so insignificant and could be removed from the release and it would make this a better record. Overall, the outstanding songs on here lift this record up to a very high level but the filler drags it back down a little which results in a solid album.
Very decent, the album has a unique atmosphere about it that I really like. However the two most iconic songs on the album (The End and Light My Fire) are far too long. My favourites are the first two tracks, especially Break On Through.
Break On Through - 88
Soul Kitchen - 87
The Crystal Ship - 89
Twentieth Century Fox - 82
Alabama Song - 84
Light My Fire - 98
Back Door Man - 85
I Looked At You - 81
End Of The Night - 82
Take It as It Comes - 82
The End - 90
Overall - 86.18
Great album
An awesome album full of bluesy tunes.
pedro1976 05/02/2022 05:50
Album of the year. 1967.
Unreal album of sexy, silky rock and roll with the best use of keyboard within a rock context of all time.
Amazing debut.
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