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Stone first heard the Doors in 1967, when he was a 21-year-old soldier in Vietnam. [10] Before filming started, Stone and his producers had to negotiate with the three surviving band members and their label, Elektra Records , as well as the parents of both Morrison and his girlfriend Pamela Courson.
In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Doors 41st on their list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. [15] Also in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time included two of their songs: "Light My Fire" at number 35 and "The End" at number 328. [177] In 2007, the Doors received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement. [178]
The use of the Doors song "The End", from their debut album, in the popular Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now in 1979 and the release of the first compilation album in seven years, Greatest Hits, released in the fall of 1980, created a resurgence in the Doors. Due to those two events, an entirely new audience, too young to have known of the band ...
The Doors has been numerously cited as the group's finest record. [2] [75] [95] In 2000, the album was voted number 46 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. [96] The Doors was ranked No. 42 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [97] When the list was revised in 2020, the album was repositioned at No. 86. [98]
The Doors of Stone is unreleased as of 2025, [15] a point of contention online. [16] Rothfuss has said that the book would "conclude Kvothe's story", closing off the current arc, [17] but that further stories in the world of Temerant would be forthcoming. [18] He also said that the book presented challenges different from The Wise Man's Fear ...
The Doors: Original Soundtrack Recording is the soundtrack to Oliver Stone's 1991 film The Doors.It contains several studio recordings by the Doors, as well as the Velvet Underground's "Heroin" and the introduction to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.
Apart from its lower commercial performance compared to The Doors, contemporary reviews for Strange Days were generally positive. Rolling Stone opined that the album "has all the power and energy of the first LP, but is more subtle, more intricate and much more effective" and argued that the "whole album, individual songs and especially the ...
The Doors FAQ author Richie Weidman, declared "Hyacinth House" as "one of the strangest Doors' songs ever recorded." [5] Critic Ryan Leas of Stereogum, who ranked L.A. Woman the second best Doors album, praised "Hyacinth House" as "secretly one of the Doors' finest songs" and that it "still fits into the universe of L.A. Woman."