THE DOORS

Release Year: 2007
Artist Origin: USA
Style: fundamental epic trippy psychedelic rock

no more just an underground icon, the third album [1968] helped this legendary band in transition to the chart success: Hello, I Love You immediately became a massive worldwide hit to coincide with the flower power movement of late sixties, pushing them firmly into the rock mainstream, while ten more tracks nonetheless set Morrison's poetic and often bizarre lyrical imagery against the spiraling keyboards of Manzarek and Krieger's bluesy guitar, with soft-shoe la la's, waltz-time rhythmics, flamenco-infused exoticism and chain-gang vocals; recent 40th anniversary of the band edition comes with a fully remixed and remastered sound, extensive liner notes and heaps of vintage photos in the booklet, as well as five bonus outtakes