THE DOORS S/T VG++ 1967 Elektra EKS 74007 1ST PRESS JIM MORRISON Light My Fire
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Vinyl: VG++ Play Graded. Sounds Great! There is a light mark that causes a soft tick sound in the background of side 2 song 5, for about 50 seconds. Gold Elektra Labels are Clean and Bright. This is the 1967 Elektra 1ST PRESSING! EKS-74007. This is the audiophile acclaimed Pressing, Pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA!! Monarch pressings are generally known to be punchier sounding: warmer, deeper bass and drums. They have perceptibly better presence. You can sometimes even 'hear' the room they're recorded in, The vocals and highs are typically silkier and smoother, not so tipped up or hard sounding - even when compared against the same lacquer cutting pressed by a different facility.Plus, they have fatter bottom end on the bass and drums. Monarch Pressings are peerless.
One of the Greatest Debuts In Rock/Popular Music History! Not a bummer on here! A wild ride. The beginning of the saga of The Lizard King and his Dionysian revels. Start with Break On Through...and follow through to The End...Instant Psychedelic Party! One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!! allmusic gives it 5 stars!!
See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax: Matrices, etched. Both sides also have the MR glyph ((Pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA)). Complete Dead Wax information cheerfully provided upon request.
Cover: VG+ (see photos) Includes the Elektra Company sleeve. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with some ring and shelf wear. Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with some wear. Initials stamped on corner of rear cover. No splits. No stickers. Spine print is worn.
Goldmine Standards. I play grade every record that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album. I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes. I professionally clean the vinyl. (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a message).
All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box.
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The Doors Review by Richie Unterberger
A tremendous debut album, and indeed one of the best first-time outings in rock history, introducing the band's fusion of rock, blues, classical, jazz, and poetry with a knockout punch. The lean, spidery guitar and organ riffs interweave with a hypnotic menace, providing a seductive backdrop for Jim Morrison's captivating vocals and probing prose. "Light My Fire" was the cut that topped the charts and established the group as stars, but most of the rest of the album is just as impressive, including some of their best songs: the propulsive "Break on Through" (their first single), the beguiling mystery of "The Crystal Ship," the mysterious "End of the Night," "Take It as It Comes" (one of several tunes besides "Light My Fire" that also had hit potential), and the stomping rock of "Soul Kitchen" and "Twentieth Century Fox." The 11-minute Oedipal drama "The End" was the group at its most daring and, some would contend, overambitious. It was nonetheless a haunting cap to an album whose nonstop melodicism and dynamic tension would never be equaled by the group again, let alone bettered.
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