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The Doors: Original Soundtrack Recording is the soundtrack to Oliver Stone's 1991 film The Doors. It contains several studio recordings by the Doors , as well as the Velvet Underground 's " Heroin " and the introduction to Carl Orff 's Carmina Burana .
In 2011, the Doors received a Grammy Award in Best Long Form Music Video for the film When You're Strange, directed by Tom DiCillo. [ 180 ] In 2012, Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included three of their studio albums; the self-titled album at number 42, L.A. Woman at number 362, and Strange Days at number 407.
"Break On Through (To the Other Side)" is a song by the American rock band the Doors. It is the opening track of their debut album, The Doors (1967). Elektra Records issued the song as the group's first single, which reached number 126 [3] in the United States. Despite the single's failure to impact the record sales charts, the song became a ...
Essential Rarities is a compilation album by the Doors, originally released as part of the boxed set The Complete Studio Recordings in 1999, but reissued in 2000 as a single CD, containing studio cuts, live cuts and demos taken from the 1997 The Doors: Box Set. [1] [2]
"Riders on the Storm" has been classified as a psychedelic rock, [8] jazz rock, [9] [10] art rock song, [11] and a precursor of gothic music. [12] [13] According to guitarist Robby Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek, it was inspired by the country song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend", written by Stan Jones and popularized by Vaughn Monroe. [14]
"The Soft Parade" is a song composed by the American rock group the Doors, though credited to lead singer Jim Morrison only. [4] It was recorded for their fourth studio album, also titled The Soft Parade (1969), appearing as the closing track.
The lyrics also reference Redding's song "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay."[7] Music critic Bart Testa found it ironic that this Doors song was extolling "The Dock of the Bay", which for Redding was a place of defeat and "where he wasted time having found the struggle for life useless", when earlier Doors songs such as "The End" and "When the Music's Over" call vehemently for revolution. [7]
In the book A to X of Alternative Music, "Touch Me" was described as a "solid gold soul classic". [1] Writing for AllMusic, critic Jason Elias wrote that the song has "the style of pop and pure lounge." [13] Some critics suggested the track blends pop [14] with psychedelic rock; a combination which was unique at the time. [9]