History Music / TheDoorsAlbum

* PunBasedTitle: "20th Century Fox", where a girl is described as being one, namely that she is a sexy girl living in the 20th century. Consequently, the song is a very obvious IncrediblyLamePun on Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, and now [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece rather outdated,]] considering we are no longer in the 20th century and the aforementioned company was renamed as 20th Century Studios in 2020.

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--> ''Mother... I want to...[ incomprehensible], COME ON, YEAH!...''

*** A notorious incident occurred when the band appeared on ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'' in 1967. The Ed Sullivan people told the Doors to change the lyrics from "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" to "Girl, you really light my fire" days before the show. Neither Morrison nor Krieger wanted to change it, partially because they didn't want to be censored and partially because [[RuleOfFunny they thought it'd be funny to annoy the Ed Sullivan people]]. After the show, Jim claimed he'd forgotten to change the lyrics because he was nervous.

* OedipusComplex: "The End", where Morrison sings he wants to kill his father and rape his mother.

** "Light My Fire" was covered in the most bizarre way possible on ''Music/ThirdReichAndRoll'' by Music/TheResidents.

* {{Remaster}}: The 2006 40th anniversary edition was not only remastered, but featured "Light My Fire" at its correct speed for the first time since its original 45 RPM single release. The speed discrepancy (being about 3.5% slow) was brought to Bruce Botnick's attention by BYU music professor Michael Hicks, who noted that all video and audio live performances of the Doors performing the song, the sheet music, and statements of band members show that the song is in a key almost a half step higher (A) than the stereo LP release (A♭/G♯).

''The Doors'' is the debut studio album by Music/TheDoors, released in 1967. A landmark PsychedelicRock album, it is also [[FirstInstallmentWins their most successful, influential and notable album.]]

Hits and fan favorites include "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", "Soul Kitchen", "Light My Fire" and "The End". An episode about the creative process behind this album was featured in the documentary TV series ''Series/ClassicAlbums''. It was listed at #42 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]. It was added to the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry in 2014 for being "culturally, historically and aesthetically important".

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!! Bonus Tracks (40th Anniversary Edition):

"Mother? I want to... [[spoiler:FUCK YOU]]!"\\

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", which is about trying to break out of your monotone life to a more exciting one.

* PrecisionFStrike: Several during "The End".
--> ''Fuck fuck fuck, c'mon and fuck me baby!''

** Of course, it is a cover of the song by Willie Dixon and Howlin' Wolf. In that version "back door man" meant an illicit relationship, such as with a married woman.

* ConsummateProfessional: The subject of "Twentieth Century Fox":

** Flemish cult poet Jotie T' Hooft committed suicide in 1976 by taking a heroin overdose. When people found him, he had already died and had put the groove of his record player needle on repeat so that The Doors' "The End" played in a continuous loop.

''The Doors'' is the debut studio album by Music/TheDoors, released in 1967. A landmark PsychedelicRock album, it is also [[FirstInstallmentWins their most successful, influential and most notable album.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" makes mention of "she gets high" on the album version, which was cut on the single version and during TV appearances. "Alabama Song" makes mention of "Fuck if we don't find the next whiskey bar"; "Back Door Man" has rather suggestive references to anal sex.

** The lyric "She gets high!" in "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" was clipped on the original vinyl release, and all subsequent releases until the CD remaster in 2003.

** The infamous moment where the protagonist in "The End" tells his father he wants to "kill" him and his mother he wants to rape her was made incomprehensible on both the album and the single by Jim's screaming. Even if you try to make out the word "rape" in his singing, it still sounds more like "murder you". Jim's chants of "fuck, fuck, fuck, c'mon and fuck me, baby" were also omitted from the single version, but are still audible on the album version.

* PunBasedTitle: "20th Century Fox", where a girl is described as being one, namely that she is a sexy girl living in the 20th century. Consequently, the song is a very obvious IncrediblyLamePun on Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, and now [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece rather outdated,]] considering we are no longer in the 20th century and the aforementioned company was renamed in 2020.

* PunBasedTitle: "20th Century Fox", where a girl is described as being one, namely that she is a sexy girl living in the 20th century. Consequently, the song is a very obvious IncrediblyLamePun on Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, and now [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece rather outdated,]] considering the 1900s have comes and gone.

* PunBasedTitle: "20th Century Fox", where a girl is described as being one, namely that she is a sexy girl living in the 20th century. Consequently, the song is a very obvious IncrediblyLamePun on Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox.

* OedipusComplex: "The End", where Morrison sings he wants to rape his mother.

* LyricalColdOpen: "The Crystal Ship" does this; Jim sings the first two words of the song by himself before everyone else enters.

* HeavyMetal: Usually not cited as an influence, but "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" was probably the darkest, heaviest song in 1960s pop music; its climax includes an ''almost'' subliminal "doomy thunder" sound that Music/BlackSabbath and Music/JudasPriest would make famous. And with "TRY TO SET THE NIGHT ON...FIRRRRE!" at the end of "Light My Fire", Jim may have birthed the MetalScream.

* {{Remaster}}: The 2006 40th anniversary edition was not only remastered, but featured "Light My Fire" at its correct speed for the first time since its original 45 RPM single release. The speed discrepancy (being about 3.5% slow) was brought to Bruce Botnick's attention by BYU music professor Michael Hicks, who noted that all video and audio live performances of the Doors performing the song, the sheet music, and statements of band members show the song in a key almost a half step higher (A) than the stereo LP release (A♭/G♯).

* DescentIntoDarknessSong: "The End" famously starts off as a ponderous musing about the nature of finality. However, eventually the imagery shifts into describing a masked killer grappling with the desire to kill, and then killing, his parents. Afterwards, the tempo builds to create a mesmerizing climax. Which, incidentally, makes it the perfect song to be used to bookend ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' -- a descent into the evil lurking in the human heart.

** "The End" was used prominently in the film ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', as well as several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Music/FrankZappa had a concert parody of the song in which the protagonist tells his father he wants to kill him, but his dad happens to be masturbating on the toilet with a magazine on his knees and tells him: "Err, no not now son!" It never got an official release, due to copyright reasons, but one instrumental track by Zappa was indeed released as "No Not Now".