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| Artist: The Doors
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $5.74
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 2132
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 101184
UPC: 081227999834
EAN: 0081227999834
ASIN: B000MCIBE8
Release Date: March 27, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Break On Through (To The Other Side) | | • | Soul Kitchen | | • | The Crystal Ship | | • | Twentieth Century Fox | | • | Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) | | • | Light My Fire | | • | Back Door Man | | • | I Looked At You | | • | End Of The Night | | • | Take It As It Comes | | • | The End | | • | Moonlight Drive (Version 1) (Bonus) | | • | Moonlight Drive (Version 2) (Bonus) | | • | Indian Summer (8/19/66 Vocal) (Bonus) |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
On their 1967 debut album, the Doors more than fulfilled the promise of their infamously challenging gigs around Los Angeles throughout the previous year. Whether belting out a standard like "Back Door Man" or talk-singing such originals as "The Crystal Ship" and "I Looked at You," leather-clad vocalist Jim Morrison exuded both sensuality and menace. The mixture, on the outsize album finale, "The End," helped rewrite the rules on rock song composition. None of this would have worked, though, were it not for the highly visual instrumental work of keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robbie Krieger, and drummer John Densmore, whose work on tracks such as "Take It As It Comes" and the lengthy hit "Light My Fire" virtually defined the rock-blues-jazz-classical amalgam that was acid-rock. --Billy Altman
Album Description
THE DOORS, first released in January 1967, is one of rock music's most famous debuts. It hit #2 in Billboard , and delivered the #1 signature smash "Light My Fire" plus "Break On Through," "The Crystal Ship," and "The End." In-depth essay by Ben Fong-Torres (a principal Rolling Stone writer during the Doors heyday). Three bonus tracks include alternate takes of "Moonlight Drive" and a previously unissued version of "Indian Summer."
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| Customer Reviews:
good collection November 10, 2008
Joe Savino (CT USA)
this cd gets away from the tired fm airplay and into some of the longer and more interesting songs
 Absolutely fantastic October 20, 2008
Anthony Marino (Charlotte, NC USA)
Although this is the doors' first album, it might as well be a greatest hits. Every song is a well known classic from the genius of morrison and manzarek. This cd is every music lover's dream!
The Doors October 9, 2008
Bjorn Viberg (European Union)
The Doors being the doors 1967 release and their debut album. On this record we get many gems. For instance it starts out with a bang with the amazing track Break on through, and then later Light my fire and the strange track the end. Elektra has produced a very sparse but ok book-let. No lyrics inside. Some very 60's looking photos that look very similair to what other artists did at the same time. The lyrics are sometimes very strange. 5/5!
 why? October 8, 2008
The Queen Mum (New York)
i'm not giving the Doors less than five stars, obviously... I thought I was going crazy, having memories of the original recording being WAY different than this... I thought the "she gets high" repeated could have been an alternate take which they put on this album, but another reviewer says they actually dubbed the vocals and CHANGED THEM....WHY? WHY? WHY? ...will they overdub Hendrix guitar solos next?
They totally CUT UP "the end"...again, WHY? ... I am horrified. ALL the monstous glory of THE END has been swallowed up and disappeared... where did it go? God has left the building...
The Doors get 1,000 stars... whoever made the decision to edit this classic work should have all their toes broken with a hammer, once a year for a thousand years...
 Remix? August 1, 2008
J. Caudill (Colorado)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When I went to the music store and bought this cd, i was excited to hear the sound that everybody was in love with for 40 years. I threw it in my cd player and liked it but thought it sounded a little poppy and not really like the other psychedelic rock bands i had heard. As always i opened up the cd case and pulled out the artwork and the first words i read were "This is not the cd that has been around for 40 years." I kinda freaked out because automatically i labeled the cd i had just bought as junk. So I read a little bit more and realized that this is how the doors were "Supposed to sound." I mean it did sound alright, but if everyone fell in love with a different sound, maybe its not how "the doors" were supposed to sound. Being that it was my first doors cd i went online and listened to the original and noticed it sounded alot more soulful and psychedelic. I mean why would you remix something that was a masterpiece. It may have been to make money, who knows.
Mainly i believe that the people who remixed the doors' wonderful debut album should have at least put something on the cover of the album that stated that this was just a remix, not the original. next time i buy a doors cd ill be sure to inspect it carefully before i make the purchase.
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