Doors open
In 1966, The Doors recorded their first album of the same name. But he went only in 1967 and was met mostly restrained assessment of the critics. The album was presented to the best-known songs from the existence at that time the repertoire of The Doors, including a 11-minute dramatic song The End. The band recorded the album in the studio for a few days in late August - early September, almost alive (Almost all the songs were recorded in a double). Over time, the debut album gained universal acceptance and is now considered one of the best albums in the history of rock music (for example, took 42 on the list of 500 best albums according to the magazine Rolling Stone). Many of the songs from the disc have been hits, and then the group has published in a collection of the best songs, as well as readily performed on the group's concerts. These compositions, as Break on Through (To the Other Side), Soul Kitchen, Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar), Light My Fire (ranked 35 in the list of the best songs Rolling Stone), Back Door Man, and of course , scandalous The End.
Repertoire groups and sufficed for another album, released in October of that year. Album Strange Days was recorded at more equipment, and took third position in the American charts. Unlike the debut disc on it was not somebody else's songs - all of its content (texts and music) have been established independently. Are there elements of innovation, for example, Morrison reading one of his earliest poems «Horse latitudes», imposed on the white noise. Song When the Music's Over performed then have a group at concerts, and Strange Days, and Love me Two Times is widely published in various collections.