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“The Doors.” Elektra. There is so much fascination with Jim Morrison’s tortured-poet-as-artist persona and the Doors’ role as an experimental underground band that it’s easy to overlook the fact that the group made some terrific, highly accessible tracks, including “Break on Through” and “Soul Kitchen” from this 1967 debut collection. Only one of this album’s songs was actually a national Top-40 hit (“Light My Fire”), but all of them (save the unwieldy, though signature “The End”) are compact, passionate selections that still assert a fresh and invigorating rock pulse. 1/2