The Doors – Light My Fire
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Elektra – EK-45615 |
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Rock |
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Psychedelic Rock |
Tracklist
| A | Light My Fire | 2:52 | |
| B | The Crystal Ship | 2:30 |
Companies, etc.
- Mastered At – Bell Sound Studios
- Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute
Credits
- Engineer – Bruce Botnick
- Producer – Paul A. Rothchild
- Words By, Music By – The Doors
Notes
First Terre Haute pressing on the yellow and black Elektra label.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Pressing Plant ID (Etched in runouts): T
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, A side runout, etched): EK-45-615-A TII
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, B side runout, etched): EK-45-615-B TII
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, A side runout, etched): EK45615A TI
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, B side runout, etched): EK45615B TI
Other Versions (5 of 57)
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Light My Fire (7", 45 RPM, Single) | Disques Vogue | HV 2097 | Netherlands | 1967 | ||
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Light My Fire (7", Single, 45 RPM, Specialty Pressing) | Elektra | EK-45615 | US | 1967 | ||
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Light My Fire / The Crystal Ship (7", Single, 45 RPM) | Elektra | EK 45615 | Canada | 1967 | ||
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Light My Fire (7", Single, 45 RPM) | Elektra | EK.45615 | New Zealand | 1967 | ||
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Light My Fire (7", Single, 45 RPM, Repress) | Elektra | EKSN 45014 | UK | 1967 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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I like the edit version of "Light My Fire". They didn't just cut the middle out and leave the two ends, it's pretty clever actually. Of course I prefer the full version, but if you need to hear it in a hurry. there you go!
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My sister went to San Francisco summer of love ‘67 and she said they were playing a 7 minute version of it there. Maybe the same, or a year later, I heard “break on through” and it was electrifying. -
While at my college radio station we found this tune in a box of promo 45's. We played it on the air months before it was popular nationwide. Don't know if it was true but it was said Electra didn't do well promoting rock recordings. I first heard the Doors at a concert at the Eastman Theater in Rochester, NY. A second time in Boston a bit later. -
A journalist named Joan Didion (if that name means anything to you) once wrote of the Doors 'their music insists love is sex and sex is death and therein lives salvation', for me this theory is proved right in Light my fire due to the second verse, written by Jim Morrison.
the time to hesitate is through
no time to wallow in the mire
try now we can only lose
and our love becomes a funeral pyre
I suppose the only way I can some these ideas up as if I remind myself of a quote from the film Apocalypse now which is 'you either love someone or you hate them' and the fact that if you think about it, sex actually dies at the point of orgasm.
It's a truly great love song without the cheesiness and pretensions of top-forty tripe, it was actually written by the Doors guitarist Robby Krieger which is portrayed in the Oliver Stone film 'The Doors' at Krieger's insistence.
Light my fire is the Doors signature song.
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