Doors - Legacy: the Absolute Best of the Doors
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Artist: DoorsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2003-10-13
Music Label: Wea/Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Break On Through (To The Other Side)
- Back Door Man
- Light My Fire
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Crystal Ship
- Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
- Riders On The Storm (Pnau Club Mix)
- End
- Love Me Two Times
- People Are Strange
- When The Music's Over
- My Eyes Have Seen You
- Moonlight Drive
- Strange Days
- Hello I Love You
- Unknown Soldier
- Spanish Caravan
- Five To One
- Not To Touch The Earth
- Touch Me
- Wild Child
- Tell All The People
- Wishful Sinful
- Roadhouse Blues
- Waiting For The Sun
- You Make Me Real
- Peace Frog
- Love Her Madly
- L.A. Woman
- Riders On The Storm
- Wasp (& The Texas Radio)
- Changeling
- Gloria (Live Version)
- Celebration Of The Lizard (Previously Unreleased)
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Music Review: absolutely brilliant
Rating: 2 Stars
Let's be real, every compilation has his shortcomings, sometimes your favorite songs are missing, this is no exception. Even "The Doors Complete Studio Recordings" are far from complete. But this one comes close to what a musicfan has to have (Doors' fans own most of it already). Elektra issued in 2000 the also 2 CD "The Best of The Doors" with 37 songs and one wonders what a new compilation short thereafter has more or otherwise on offer. "Best of" has both the "Soft Parade"-album outtakes "Whiskey, Mystics and Men" and "Who Scared You" and a track from the second and final sans Morrison album "Full Circle" (i.e. "No Me Moleste Mosquito", otherwise hardly on any CD available). They are not presented here. Instead there is a unique recording of "Celebration of the Lizard", normally only on live-albums ("Absolutely Live" and "Live in New York", on the "The Doors Boxset"). The first album is almost complete, with 8 of the 11 songs. From the other 5 albums is a selection made of 4 or 5 songs each. Plus "Gloria" from "In Concert".
I think this will do for most of a part. If you're still not satisfied and want more (I can imagine that) you can broaden your view with any of the regular albums, or optain the now "Perception"-box [which strangely ommits the scarce "Woman is a Devil"]. Still this doesn't answer my question, why a new compilation and so soon. Well, it's the SOUND! That is big, huge and fat. Loud and Clear. Especially the bass is overwhelming, terrific. Also the drums have far more depth than on any other Doors CD I know. But what's more, I always thought that the Doors' musical landmark was, apart from the baritone vocals of Morisson, the shrill, high-pitched but overall somewhat uniform organ sound of Manzarek. Wrong! I am terrible mistaken. It is remarkable how he sounds in every song complete different with the use of a Vox Continental or some time later a Gibson Kalamazoo, with the occasional help of the Fender Bass Piano and also use of a Fender Rhodes Piano or a "normal" piano. He has an astounding and dazzling array of keyboardsounds, long before the synthesizer-era with the coming of the modular Moog and the giant Yamaha GX1. It is really amazing and astonishing what many different sounds he can create with those early instruments and the recordingtechniques in the mid sixties. Listen for instance to "Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)" with melodic bellrings. Kind of ringmodulator, I guess. On "The Changeling" and "The Wasp {Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", both on "L.A. Woman"-album, you can clearly hear the warm sound of a Hammond organ but before that he played solely on those earlier mentioned instruments and they have a sound of their own, not one but many. Incredible. Even Keith Emerson from The Nice and E.L.P. with his extensive use of the Moog, and around 1976 a GX1, had not so many sounds on offer and he was experimenting a lot. Many people say that he was his time far ahead but you can easly say the same of Ray Manzarek with his comparable primitive keyboards. Anyway, it is a delight to listen to this double-album which has 34 songs and they are a treat. Honestly recommended, more words fail short.
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This 34 track, 2CD set features a previously unrelased version of "Celebration Of The Lizard" and a brand new remix of "Riders On The Storm" from Australian outfit Pnau. This remix replaces the track "Soul Kitchen" on the international version of the album.Classic Rock CDs
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