In 2012, "Strange Days" was listed at No. 409 on "Rolling Stone magazine's" list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2007, "Rolling Stone" included it on their list "The 40 Essential Albums of 1967". In 2007, on the occasion of the release of the 40th anniversary edition of the album, Sal Cinquemani of "Slant Magazine" argued that "while "The Doors" had more frequent, obvious peaks, the quirky "Strange Days" is a more ambitious, unified work. There are fewer filler tracks and each song carries as much weight as the one before and after it" and called it "a document of a sometimes beautiful, sometimes scary, and often twisted era of fear and idealism."