Editing The Doors (album) (section)

===Early reception===
In a contemporary review for ''[[Crawdaddy!]]'' magazine, founder and critic [[Paul Williams (Crawdaddy)|Paul Williams]] hailed ''The Doors'' as "an album of magnitude" and described the band as creators of "modern music", with which "contemporary 'jazz' and 'classical' composers must try to measure up". Williams added: "The birth of the group is in this album, and it's as good as anything in rock. The awesome fact about the Doors is that they will improve."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedoors.com/news/doors-review-crawdaddy-1184 |last=Williams |first=Paul |date=May 5, 1967 |title=The Doors Review – Crawdaddy! |via=thedoors.com |access-date=August 31, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910111602/https://www.thedoors.com/news/doors-review-crawdaddy-1184 |archive-date=September 10, 2015 }}</ref> ''[[Record Mirror]]'' was similarly positive to the record: "[''The Doors''] for Elektra is wild, rough and although it's subtle in places, the overall sound is torrid. They're blues-based and get quite an effective sound."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=''The Doors'' – Review |magazine=[[Record Mirror]] |orig-year=1967 |date=April 22, 2020 |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Svi4VHyJd/ |via=Instagram}}</ref> According to Densmore, [[the Beatles]] had reportedly bought ten copies of the album,{{sfn|Densmore|1990|p=128}} and [[Paul McCartney]] has claimed that following the album's release, he wanted his band to capture the Doors' musical style as one of the "alter egos" of the group for their upcoming [[concept album]] ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''.{{refn|group=nb|Paul McCartney didn't refer specifically to the eponymous-debut album,{{sfn|Greene|2016|p=19}} but only ''The Doors'' was officially released during the period of ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''{{'}}s making.<ref>{{cite web |first=Ed |last=Masley |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2014/08/13/interview-john-densmore-doors-unhinged/13976781/ |title=''Sgt. Pepper'' and Beyond: A Look Back at 20 Great Albums Released in 1967 |date=May 30, 2017 |website=Azcentral |access-date=May 13, 2021}}</ref>}}

[[Robert Christgau]] was less enthusiastic in his column for ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', recommending the album but with reservations; he approved of Manzarek's organ playing and Morrison's "flexible though sometimes faint" singing while highlighting the presence of a "great original hard rock" in "[[Break On Through (To the Other Side)|Break on Through]]" and clever songs such as "Twentieth Century Fox", but was critical of more "esoteric" material such as the "long, obscure dirge" "[[The End (The Doors song)|The End]]".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Christgau|first=Robert|date=June 1967|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/columns.php|title=Columns|magazine=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|access-date=April 23, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428110900/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/columns.php|archive-date=April 28, 2016}}</ref> He also found Morrison's lyrics often self-indulgent, particularly lines like "our love becomes a funeral pyre", which he said spoiled "[[Light My Fire]]", and "the nebulousness that passes for depth among so many lovers of rock poetry" on "The End".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Cheetah|date=December 1967|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/lyrics-che.php|title=Rock Lyrics Are Poetry (Maybe)|last=Christgau|first=Robert|access-date=April 23, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412032721/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/lyrics-che.php|archive-date=April 12, 2016}}</ref>