Strange Days

tony chicarello (April 22, 2008)

On their second album, the recording quality greatly improved. Apart from having eight tracks instead of four in the studio, the overall producion quality is much better than "The Doors". "Love Me Two Times"
is one of their best ever songs, as is "People Are Strange". "When the Music's Over is Robby Kreigers' favorite solo, and one of mine as well. A fantastic record, with the band approaching their peak.

mark (June 17, 2007)

A timeless masterpiece. The Doors? second album consisted pretty much from the tracks they had played in Sunset Strip year earlier. But in no way it?s a collection of leftovers! The title track which includes Moog-syntetiziser played By Paul Weawer, is appropiate, weird and dark opening for a weird and dark album, even darker than their eponymous deput.
Strange Days was released within ten months from The Doors in october 1967 and it was the first time that the band had a 8-track recorder instead of 4-track. This made possibble for them to experiment in the studio. For instance, John Densmore recorded his symbals backward for Unhappy Girl and Robbie Krieger had a two-guitar duet in When the Music?s Over. His guitar parts sounded like ascending aeroplanes. With Strange Days, The Doors went to somewhere beyond time and space. I don?t think they never really went that far again. Nevertheless, this is an album so ahead of its time that it will never become dated.

ed perry/tightrope (April 28, 2004)

creative and imaginative