This web-page has detailed descriptions and background information on The DOORS with Jim Morrison and a selection of their best vinyl records of this band
Label & Catalogno | Band/Performers - Album Title | Year | Country |
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Elektra 42 062 (EKS 74 079)
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This the first compilation album by The Doors. The album, along with the band's second compilation from 1972, "Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine," has never been issued on Compact Disc. The first in a long series, this is the only compilation released before singer Morrison's death. |
1970 | |
Red Label Elektra 2EKS-9002
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DOORS - Absolutely Live 2LP Gatefold This album "DOORS - Absolutely Live" is the first live album released by American rock band The Doors in July 1970. Many shows were recorded during the 1970 tour to create the "Absolutely Live" album. |
1970 |
Canada
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Elektra 62 005
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DOORS - Absolutely Live Gatefold This album "DOORS - Absolutely Live" is the first live album released by American rock band The Doors in July 1970. Many shows were recorded during the 1970 tour to create the "Absolutely Live" album. |
1970 | Germany |
Elektra 96-0269![]() |
The title of this album is taken from a line in the song "When the Music's Over". The recordings are from various concerts during the period 1968–1970; they include "Gloria", originally a hit for Them, and an extended version of The Doors' best known song "Light My Fire". |
1983 | Germany |
Elektra Asylum SE-502
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DOORS - An American Prayer Jim Morrison Gatefold is the ninth and final studio album by The Doors. In 1978, seven years after lead singer Jim Morrison died and five years after the remaining members of the band broke up, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore reunited and recorded backing tracks over Morrison's poetry (originally recorded in 1969 and 1970). |
1978 |
USA
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ELK 42 143
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Doors - The Best of the Doors, Elektra, 1976, Made in Germany | 1976 | |
Elektra ELK 42 012
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The Doors - The Doors S/T self-titled . "The Doors" is the self-titled debut album by the band The Doors, recorded in 1966 and released in 1967. It features the breakthrough single "Light My Fire", extended with a substantial instrumental section omitted on the single release, and the lengthy song "The End" with its Oedipal spoken-word section. |
1973 | Germany |
Orange Elektra 1113 3773 / E 6909![]() |
The Doors - Greatest Hits Czech Czechoslovakia | 1985 | czechoslovakia |
Elektra 42090
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DOORS - LA L.A. Woman France Rare semi-transparent rounded corners | 1971 | France |
Elektra EKS 75011![]() |
"L.A. Woman" was the last Doors album released with Jim Morrison before his death in July 1971. The album's style is arguably the most hard rock blues-like of the band's catalogue |
1971 | EEC |
Red Label Elektra 75007 |
DOORS - Morrison Hotel Red Label Canada is released in 1970. After their experimental work "The Soft Parade" was not as well-received as anticipated, the group went back to basics and back to their roots. On this album, there is a slight steer toward blues, which would be fully explored by the band on their next album, L.A. Woman. |
1970 | Canada |
Elektra 42 080 / EKS 75 007 |
DOORS - Morrison Hotel Hard Rock Cafe This album "DOORS - Morrison Hotel Hard Rock Cafe " was released in 1970. After their experimental work "The Soft Parade" was not as well-received as anticipated, the group went back to basics and back to their roots. On this album, there is a slight steer toward blues, which would be fully explored by the band on their next album, L.A. Woman. |
1970 | Germany |
Elektra 42 079 twen EKS 75 005
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This is the fourth studio album by The Doors, released in 1969. The album met with some controversy among fans and critics due to its inclusion of brass and string instrument arrangements, as opposed to the more stripped. |
1969 | Germany |
Elektra – ELK 62 009, Elektra – 8 E-6001 |
New Entry DOORS - Weird Scenes inside the Gold Mine This album "THE DOORS - Weird Scenes inside the Gold Mine" is the German release with Orange Elektra label Gatefold (FOC) cover design with artwork / photos on the inside cover pages
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1979 |
Germany |
Elektra – ELK 52 111 |
Jim Morrison Music By The Doors – An American Prayer |