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Description:
Strange Days is the second album released by American
rock band The Doors. The album was a huge commercial success, earning a
gold record and reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 200. Despite this,
its producer, Paul Rothchild, considered it a commercial failure, even
if it was an artistic triumph: "We all thought it was the best album.
Significantly, it was also the one with the weakest sales. We were
confident it was going to be bigger than anything The Beatles had done.
But, there was no single. The record died on us." Nonetheless, the
album managed two Top 30 hits, a Top 3 placing on the US charts, and a
platinum certification. Furthermore, the album certainly did nothing to
derail the overall success of the Doors, as demonstrated the next year
by their chart-topping follow-up Waiting for the Sun.
"Strange Days"
partially consists of songs that did not make it onto their debut
album, such as "Moonlight Drive", which was one of the first songs
written by Jim Morrison for The Doors. The song was recorded in 1965
(demo) and 1966 (intended for their first album). In 1967 a final
version was recorded and released on this album. Strange Days contains
some of The Doors' most psychedelic songs. It includes songs such as
"Strange Days", "People Are Strange", "Love Me Two Times" and "When the
Music's Over". The latter is an epic poem that is comparable to the
famous "The End".
The album was #3 in the US in 1967, and is #407 on
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. "People Are Strange"
shot to #12 on the US chart, and "Love Me Two Times" followed it, going
to #25, thus proving The Doors' staying power after the runaway success
of their debut. In the UK the band had yet to score a big hit single
and "Strange days" became one of two Doors studio albums not to chart,
despite subsequent strong sales.
SIDE 1:
1. Strange Days
2.
You're Lost Little Girl
3. Love Me Two Times
4. Unhappy
Girl
5. Horse Latitudes
6. Moonlight Drive
SIDE 2:
1.
People Are Strange
2. My Eyes have Seen You
3. I Can't See Your
Face In My Mind
4. When the Music's Over
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