Essential Rarities

The Doors - Essential Rarities

Essential Rarities
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Artist: The Doors
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2000-06-20
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Hello to the Cities [Live]
  2. Break on Through (To the Other Side) [Live]
  3. Roadhouse Blues [Live]
  4. Hyacinth House [Demo Version]
  5. Who Scared You?
  6. Whiskey, Mystics and Men [Live]
  7. I Will Never Be Untrue [Live]
  8. Moonlight Drive [Demo Version]
  9. Queen of the Highway [Alternative Version][Alternate Take]
  10. Someday Soon [Live]
  11. Hello, I Love You [Demo Version]
  12. Orange County Suite
  13. Soft Parade [Live]
  14. End [Live]
  15. Woman Is a Devil [*]

Music reviews of Essential Rarities

Music Review: The Doors Essential Rarities
Rating: 5 Stars

This is an excellent CD by the Doors to have in your Collection,it sounds great and all the songs are really cool also.

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 McCulley

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