Few debuts arrive this complete: The Doors compresses blues, cabaret and Oedipal theater into a record that made darkness commercially viable in 1967. "Light My Fire" gave the counterculture a number one; "The End" gave it a shadow. Morrison's baritone and Manzarek's carnival organ remain rock's strangest founding partnership.
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