Saturday, July 18, 2015

The Best Rock Albums of 1967

Today's post in 50 Years of Music, a section of my blog devoted to the best rock albums of the past fifty years, will include the best albums of 2007. I have covered 1965 and 1966 in other posts, which can be found by typing the year into the search bar at the top of my blog. Each post in 50 Years of Music is updated frequently, with new albums recommended by readers added to the posts. What's your favorite?
  • The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced
  • Cream- Disraeli Gears
  • The Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Axis: Bold as Love
The Doors- The Doors (1967)
The Doors is the debut studio album by the American psychedelic rock group The Doors released on January 4, 1967. In 2012, The Doors was voted 42nd in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." The album has been certified 5x Platinum (5,000,000 unit sales) in the United States, 4x Platinum in Canada, and 2x Platinum in the United Kingdom. The album peaked at #2 on the Pop Albums Chart in 1967, only to be topped by The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

The Doors produced 2 singles- "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" and "Light My Fire." The singles charted at #126 and #1 on the Pop Singles Chart, respectively. Other notable songs on the album include: "Soul Kitchen," "The Crystal Ship," and "The End."

Notable of the album is that The Doors did not actually have a bass guitar player. Instead, keyboardist Ray Manzarek would often play keyboard parts with one hand and play keyboard bass with the other. Also, the lyrics "She gets high" were censored to "She gets" in a section of the song of "Break On Through (To the Other Side) and not many I know have heard the original. I am sure it can easily be accessed via YouTube.

The Doors released a 2nd album in 1967 as well, titled Strange Days. The album included the popular Doors tunes "People Are Strange" and "Love Me Two Times" among others.

Alexander Schwartz - JPageFan71
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