Light My Fire by The Doors

This Elektra EP from the Doors takes its name from the band's great psychedelic calling card and slips "The Crystal Ship" in alongside it. Robby Krieger did most of the writing on "Light My Fire", though the credit went to all four of them, and the song had already turned heads on the band's self-titled debut in January 1967: a slow-burning trip of organ and guitar, with a come-on in the words and a shape nobody else was trying, that became an anthem for the psychedelic crowd and the whole counterculture. Cut down to single length that April, it sat on top of the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks.

"The Crystal Ship" is the band's other face, Jim Morrison crooning low and dreamy over Ray Manzarek's keyboards, Krieger's guitar and John Densmore's drums, a moonlit comedown after the fever.

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