Editing The Doors (album) (section)

===Retrospective reception===
''The Doors'' has since been ranked by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. In 1993, ''[[New Musical Express]]'' writers cited ''The Doors'' the 25th greatest album of all time,<ref name="NME1">{{cite web |date=October 2, 1993 |title=New Musical Express Writers Top 100 Albums |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nme_writers.htm#100_93 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228100140/https://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nme_writers.htm |archive-date=February 28, 2009 |access-date=April 23, 2023 |work=[[New Musical Express]]}}</ref> while in 1998, it was named the 70th in a "Music of the Millennium" poll conducted in the UK by [[HMV]], [[Channel 4]], ''[[The Guardian]]'' and [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/50266.stm |title=The Music of the Millennium |date=January 24, 1998 |newspaper=[[BBC]] |access-date=August 6, 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617212743/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/50266.stm |archive-date=June 17, 2012}}</ref> In 2003, Parke Puterbaugh of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' called the record "the L.A. foursome's most successful marriage of rock poetics with classically tempered hard rock{{snd}}a stoned, immaculate classic."<ref name="Puterbaugh">{{cite magazine|last=Puterbaugh |first=Parke |date=April 8, 2003 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-doors-20030408 |title=The Doors by the Doors |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |location=New York City|access-date=April 23, 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807113218/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-doors-20030408 |archive-date=August 7, 2011 }}</ref> Sean Egan of [[BBC Music]] opines, "The eponymous debut of the Doors took popular music into areas previously thought impossible: the incitement to expand one's consciousness of opener 'Break on Through' was just the beginning of its incendiary agenda."<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/xnwx BBC Music review] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321151340/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/xnwx |date=March 21, 2016}}</ref> [[AllMusic]] critic [[Richie Unterberger]], lauded ''The Doors'' as a "tremendous debut album, and indeed one of the best first-time outings in rock history", concluding in his review that "The End" was "a haunting cap to an album whose nonstop melodicism and dynamic tension would never be equaled by the group again, let alone bettered."<ref name="Unterberger"/>

''The Doors'' has been numerously cited as the group's finest record.<ref name="Gallucci/Michael"/><ref name="Unterberger"/><ref>{{cite magazine |first=Michael |last=Nelson |date=July 29, 2015 |url=http://www.stereogum.com/1819986/the-doors-albums-from-worst-to-best/franchises/counting-down/attachment/thedoors/ |title=The Doors Albums From Worst To Best |magazine=[[Stereogum]] |access-date=June 15, 2022}}</ref> In 2000, the album was voted number 46 in [[Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]''.<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]|author=Colin Larkin|author-link=Colin Larkin|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2000|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=56}}</ref> ''The Doors'' was ranked No. 42 on ''Rolling Stone'''s list of "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]".<ref>{{cite magazine
|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time: The Doors – ''The Doors'' |magazine=Rolling Stone
|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-doors-the-doors-167011
|url-status=dead
|access-date=December 24, 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716162758/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-doors-the-doors-167011/
|archive-date=July 16, 2019
}}</ref> When the list was revised in 2020, the album was repositioned at No. 86.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time- |title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=September 22, 2020 |access-date=September 24, 2020}}</ref> Two of the album's songs, "Light My Fire" and "The End", were also present on ''Rolling Stone''{{'}}s 2004 list "[[The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]".<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407 |title=The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=December 9, 2004 |access-date=August 10, 2022}}</ref> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' magazine readers ranked the album at No. 75 on its list of the "100 Greatest Albums Ever",<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.listsofbests.com/list/13644-q-readers-best-albums-ever-2006-readers-poll |year=2006 |title=Q Magazine's Q Readers Best Albums Ever (2006 Readers Poll) Archived by Lists of Bests |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |access-date=July 24, 2022}}</ref> while [[NME (magazine)|''NME'' magazine]] at No. 226 on their respective list [[NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|"500 Greatest Albums of All Time"]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|url=https://www.nme.com/photos/the-500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-300-201/324403|website=NME.com|date=October 24, 2013 |access-date=February 7, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208000758/http://www.nme.com/photos/the-500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-300-201/324403|archive-date=February 8, 2015}}</ref> In 2007, ''Rolling Stone'' included it on their list of The 40 Essential Albums of 1967.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/15327933/the_40_essential_albums_of_1967/photo/1/large |title=The 40 Essential Albums of 1967|year=2007 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708233604/http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/15327933/the_40_essential_albums_of_1967/photo/1/large |archive-date=July 8, 2007 |url-status=dead |access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref> More recently in 2020, online media magazine ''[[Loudwire]]'' placed ''The Doors'' one of the "25 Legendary Rock Albums With No Weak Songs".<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Loudewire Staff |date=May 11, 2020 |title=25 Legendary Rock Albums |url=https://loudwire.com/legendary-rock-albums-no-weak-songs/ |magazine=[[Loudwire]] |access-date=August 20, 2022}}</ref> In a list published the next year in February, ''[[Ultimate Classic Rock]]'' cited it as the fourth-top [[psychedelic rock]] album of all time.<ref name="Gallucci">{{cite web |first=Michael |last=Gallucci |date=February 23, 2021 |title=Top 25 Psychedelic Rock Albums |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/psychedelic-rock-albums/ |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>