The Doors - Essential Rarities
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Artist: The DoorsEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2000-06-20
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Hello to the Cities
- Roadhouse Blues
- Hyacinth House
- Who Scared You?
- Whiskey, Mystics and Men
- I Will Never Be Untrue
- Moonlight Drive
- Queen of the Highway
- Someday Soon
- Hello, I Love You
- Orange County Suite
- The Soft Parade
- The End
- Woman Is a Devil
Music reviews of Essential Rarities
Music Review: Hello, I Love You
Rating: 5 Stars
I started listening to this band in 1998 and I've been hooked ever since. My feading frenzy reached a crescendo in 2003 when I finally owned all their studio albums and a few live ones. One additional item I was very pleased to discover is this release - Essential Rarities.
This collection is filled with live, demo, and alternate versions. I particularly enjoyed the demos of Hyacinth House, Moonlight Drive, and Hello I love you. Whether the demos sound as good as the originals is of course debatable. It is nonetheless refreshing to get to hear a different version of a familiar classic.
I always love concert/stage versions of Doors music and in this CD you get the live versions of Break on Through, Roadhouse Blues, The Soft Parade, Someday Soon, and The End.
Any Doors' fans who need a break from the studio classics should give Essential Rarities a try for a nice alternate refreshment.
Description of Essential Rarities
This collection, originally available only as a bonus disc in The Doors: The Complete Studio Recordings box set (fleshed out here with another outtake track, "Woman Is a Devil," from that set) is split just about evenly between a sometimes motley collection of outtakes and demos and a better slate of live material. It also argues that while most rock bands cut their teeth on blues and other roots music, then develop a distinct sound (or sell out to pop fashion trends), the Doors seemed to evolve ass-backwards, the band's, and particularly Jim Morrison's, college poet-nihilist pretensions slowly giving way to more blues-based influences. Indeed, after a few legendary years of late-1960s success and excess, Morrison had more than enough reasons to sing the blues. The studio leftovers here underscore why they're called "outtakes" (1965 demos of "Hello, I Love You" and "Moonlight Drive" are historically interesting, if a bit bubblegummy) though there are some highlights. "Whiskey, Mystics and Men" showcases another side of the band's tastefully odd Kurt Weill fetish; a '69 alternate of "Queen of the Highway" is almost lounge hipster chic; and "Orange County Suite" is a dirge from '70. Live cuts (all from '69 and '70) range from a baroque, affected PBS telecast of "The Soft Parade" to an apocalyptic, overwrought "The End." --Jerry McCulleyProto Punk CDs
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