10 Best Self-Titled Rock Albums Of All Time
2. The Doors (1967)
There isn't any other album that conjures up images of the '60s quite like this: You can see the hippie revolution; you can smell the pot smoke; and you can all but feel the heat of napalm lighting up the Vietnamese jungle.
From the moment Break On Through drops in, you're transported to that era. Even if you were born decades later you can still relate to the anti war/anti capitalist sentiment.
Light My Fire, spoke of the sexual revolution of the '60s and led to one of the most infamous appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. The band had been requested to omit the lyrics "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" for fear that it alluded to drug use, but ever the rebel, Jim Morrison chose to sing the line anyway...
And of course, there's the aptly named, The End, to finish off the album. Morrison claimed he initially wrote the track as a goodbye to an estranged partner. As the song developed, however, it eventually encompassed a whole range of universal meanings:
From the death of childhood, to death of innocence and death itself. But thanks, to Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, it will forever be associated with the psychotic and crazed descent of a deteriorating mind.