The Doors: The Doors
What the critics said: "Though great albums followed, The Doors stands as the L.A. foursome's most successful marriage of rock poetics with classically tempered hard rock - a stoned, immaculate classic." - Rolling Stone
When the LA band’s debut album appeared in 1967, Jim Morrison was hailed as a poet and a prophet. Four decades on, his self-aggrandising lyrics sound like galeforce gibberish and Ray Manzarek’s organ clearly belonged on the end of Blackpool Pier.
