| The Door | |
| Cover: | The Door Silverchair.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Silverchair |
| Album: | Freak Show |
| Released: | October 1997 |
| Genre: | Grunge |
| Length: | 3:40 |
| Label: | Murmur |
| Producer: | Nick Launay |
| Prev Title: | Cemetery |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | Anthem for the Year 2000 |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
"The Door" is a song by the Australian rock band Silverchair, released as the last single from their second album, Freak Show. The band's vocalist and guitarist Daniel Johns said "It's influenced a lot by Led Zeppelin and anything from that era really. Before the album, when I actually wrote it and showed Ben and Chris, Ben and Chris liked it and they wanted to continue working on it and write a bit more, and I didn't really like the song. And they were like, 'oh, come on, we'll just use it' and so I said, 'yeah all right,' just to see how it would turn out. And it ended up changed a little bit and now I'm really happy with it."[1]
In April 2022, The Guardian ranked "The Door" at #5 on their "The 25 best Silverchair songs - sorted" list.[2]
Australian CD single (MATTCD062); Cassette (MATTC062)
Limited Australian 7" (MATTV062)
The three live songs were recorded in Chicago's Aragon Ballroom on 20 April 1997. Jeremy Chatelain from the band Handsome sings on "Minor Threat".