Great review RMR and the Doors debut is without doubt one of the best, if not the best debut album ever recorded. Its just a timeless classic that always sounds great as the band pushed musical boundaries. The comparison with Sgt.Pepper is not a great one though but I can see why you did it, as they are probably the two best albums of 1967 along with the Hendrix debut. The Doors album is one of those debut landmark releases that seems to come around once or twice every decade, whereas Sgt.Peppers is an album where a band has reached its creative height and brilliance and fully evolved their sound.
As for your list on the best albums of 1967 I agree with 75% of them BUT NO Country Joe and the Fish? The two albums put out by them that year are two of the finest psychedelic releases ever, also the Byrds album Younger Than Yesterday needs to be on that list.
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