Strange Days

Rare! High quality Australian pressing in excellent condition. Pristine vinyl, very nice clean cover.

Strange Days is the second studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released in September 1967. It was a commercial success, initially earning a gold record and reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The album also yielded two top 30 hit singles, "People Are Strange" and "Love Me Two Times", and eventually a platinum certification.

Strange Days was recorded between May and August 1967 at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, the same studio as their first LP, only this time using a professional 8-track recording machine. Unlike on their debut, which had been recorded in six days, the extra time allowed the band to experiment in the studio, often augmenting their already otherworldly sound with unusual instrumentation and sonic manipulation. According to Jerry Hopkins' Morrison biography No One Here Gets Out Alive, the title track was one of the earliest uses of a Moog synthesizer in rock, while on the Morrison poem "Horse Latitudes" engineer Bruce Botnick took the white noise of a tape recorder, varied the speed by hand-winding it, and got something that sounded like wind, with the four band members all playing musical instruments in unusual ways - plucking the strings of a piano, for instance - and the organic sounds were tampered with electronically to create different times and effects.