By: The Doors Average Rating: Binding: Audio CD Format: Original recording remastered Label: Rhino / Wea Number of Discs: 2 Release Date: August 08, 2006
Amazon.com: The Best of The Doors delivers exactly what it promises. Rather than relying solely on the hits, this collection also mines the darker, and often richer, recesses of The Doors material resulting in a fairly representative statement. The hits are here: "Light My Fire" with Ray Manzarek's keyboards on a dizzy, psychedelic spree; "People Are Strange," with Morrison's tortured psyche barely being held in check; "L.A. Woman," with its bluesy sexuality. More important, favorites of fans are here, like the controversially (at the time) explicit "The End," which was one of the first of Morrison's forays into narrative poetry. In hits like "Break on Through," "Hello I Love You," "Roadhouse Blues," and others, The Doors melded psychedelia, blues, hard-edged rock, and poetry from the edge like no other band before. The Best of The Doors is a trip in every sense of the word. --Steve Gdula
Flawless classic rock art It's difficult for me to speculate how many hundreds of times I've played this double CD set but I'll just say "often, for many years". "The Best of The Doors" represents the very essence of Classic Rock music of the turbulent 60s.
The Doors generated a unique, incredibly palatable sound, apart from all others. While this caveat probably exuded from "theater" as much as it did from musical innovation, the band's keyboard player, Ray Manzarek, was clearly as responsible for the brilliance of these compositions as was Jim Morrison himself.
Here's the lineup of these great old rock tunes:
CD No. 1 Break on Through Light My Fire (7:05 version) The Crystal Ship People Are Strange Strange Days Love Me Two Times Alabama Song (bonus track -- CD only) Five to One Waiting for the Sun Spanish Caravan When the Music's Over
CD No. 2 Hello, I Love You Roadhouse Blues L.A. Woman Riders on the Storm Touch Me Love Her Madly The Unknown Soldier The End
For those who savor such information, this CD is from Elektra, No. 9 60345-2. This "best of" album lives up to its assertion. If you want to hear all the Morrison greats, seize on this one, my friends.
Oozing The Morrison I live just down the street from the Whiskey and I swear when you walk in that place you still feel Jim's presence, I also take everyone who ever comes to visit to Venice Beach where there is a giant mural of Jim painted on the side of an apartment building and I drink Strongbow's at Barney's Beanery where Jim planted his hot bootie night after night - to me Jim and the Doors represent a very interesting part of LA history, but for some reason this is the first time I've actually owned a Doors CD - and I can't not even fathom what I was thinking.
The strangest part is I owe it to Wal Mart(sorry Amazon) who had this double disc remastered version for only $9.72 I picked it up immediately and can't stop listening to it. 2 full discs of ballsiness, organs, long guitar interludes and oozing sexuality. This disc has it all - the full 6 minute "Light My Fire," "Break On Through", "Hello I Love You", "Love Me Two Times", "LA Woman", the oozy appeal of "Riders On The Storm," "Touch Me" - all of it. One of the best $10 spots I ever spent. If there's a used version buy it - buy it now.
The Best Of The Doors right here! This album has to probaly be the best doors hits cd you can find(besides the legacy CD) anyways this 2 disc set has all the great doors songs, light my fire, break on through, when the musics over ETC... the only song missing is soul kitchen but besides that this album is great! Everything about it is just perfect all the songs are good just a great great album, buy this and like a few other doors albums and your set! 5/5 stars THE DOORS RULE!
The Doors still ROCK! A friend of mine told me about this band and how good there music was. So, I went out and bought this 2 disc cd, and boy was I amazed at the music. I can't seem to stop playing it.
A classic collection This product is the same greatest hits collection that has been available for a decade, but now packaged in a slimline case rather than the old bulky double-CD case. The tracklist is identical, and I don't notice much audio quality difference between the two.
The tracklist is as good now as it was 1o+ years ago. Sure, there's a little fluff in here. "Touch Me" has never sounded at home in this tracklist. I've never really liked "Roadhouse Blues" or "LA Woman", but they were hits and I guess it's nearly obligatory that they be included. Still, the rest of the tracklist is outstanding. In the iTunes-era, we aren't really bound by a pre-selected "greatest hits" lineup anyways. For the current price of $10 for this product you'll get 19 great tracks, and you can then supplement it with a few singles here and there from iTunes or Zune marketplace to build the essential Doors collection. This product contains the two long tracks, "The End" and my favorite "When the Music's Over", that cannot be purchased as single mp3's because of their length, so this collection is probably the best way to get those songs.
When you're building a collection of psychedelic rock, you have to include these songs. What Donovan was to psychedelic folk, what the Zombies were to psychedelic pop, so the Doors are to psychedelic blues. This is a great value for a great record.
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