Strange Days by The Doors

Strange Days, the Doors' second album, hit the racks on Elektra on September 25, 1967, a mere eight months after the debut, and it sounds like the same four men wandering deeper into the dark. Paul A. Rothchild produced it at Sunset Sound, and the band worked through a mix of fresh songs and older ones from their stash. Jim Morrison sings like a man half in a trance, Ray Manzarek's keyboards swirl and carry the bass lines too, Robby Krieger's guitar slithers around the edges and John Densmore's drums keep the whole thing from drifting off entirely.

"People Are Strange" and "Love Me Two Times" were the singles, and "When the Music's Over" broods the way a band dubbed the Kings of Acid Rock was supposed to. It didn't sell like the first record, but one writer argues it was the album the band itself liked best musically, and the journalist Stephen Davis rates it the finest Doors album of them all.

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