This is very, very close to being The Very Best of the Doors, and it does indeed contain most of the group's biggest hits and best-known songs, but this 2001 compilation...
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Truth be told, most casual Doors fans only need a well-assembled single-disc collection, containing all the hits and radio staples. Since that doesn't exist -- Rhino's 2001...
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Single-disc overviews are notoriously difficult to assemble if one is trying to be truly representative of a band's best -- and usually most popular -- work. Temptation...
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The final album with Jim Morrison in the lineup is by far their most blues-oriented, and the singer's poetic ardor is undiminished, though his voice sounds increasingly worn...
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In 1980, Warner Books released No One Gets out of Here Alive, the Jerry Hopkins/Daniel Sugerman biography of Jim Morrison that re-introduced the enigmatic singer to the...
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Originally released as part of the box set The Complete Studio Recordings, The Essential Rarities essentially gathers a bunch of odds and ends, not just previously...
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A tremendous debut album, and indeed one of the best first-time outings in rock history, introducing the band's fusion of rock, blues, classical, jazz, and poetry with a...
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Elektra reissued two of the Doors' most popular albums, The Doors and Waiting for the Sun, as a single cassette in the early '80s. For casual listeners, this may not be a...
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Many of the songs on Strange Days had been written around the same time as the ones that appeared on The Doors, and with hindsight one has the sense that the best of the...
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Elektra reissued two of the Doors' most popular albums, Strange Days and L.A. Woman, as a single cassette in the early '80s. For casual listeners, this may not be a bad way...
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Their most lighthearted album, this flows nicely from some of the band's slightest material ("Love Street," "Summer's Almost Gone") to their most vicious ("The Unknown...
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The Doors' 1967 albums had raised expectations so high that their third effort was greeted as a major disappointment. With a few exceptions, the material was much mellower,...
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Their most interesting release, but also their least rewarding. "Tell All The People" and "Touch Me" are worth burning, while guitarist Robbie Krieger's attempt at singing...
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The most uneven studio album recorded with Jim Morrison in the group, partially because their experiments with brass and strings on about half the tracks weren't entirely...
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The Doors returned to crunching, straightforward hard rock on Morrison Hotel, an album that, despite yielding no major hit singles, returned them to critical favor with hip...
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For the first 17 years of their history, the only official live Doors album was Absolutely Live, which had its virtues -- especially as it captured elements of their harder,...
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Live at the Hollywood Bowl was one of a brace of official live Doors recordings that began circulating around in the 1980s, and had the distinction of being captured on film...
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A well-chosen, 19-track compilation balancing the radio hits with the longer, more complex song poems. It's a good sampler (and contains enough of the good tracks from...
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It's hard to say what the rationale was for this compilation of miscellaneous, previously released Doors tracks, except of course that the group was very hot in the mid-'80s...
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In Concert is the successor CD set to the individual releases of Absolutely Live (which remains in print as a single CD), Alive, She Cried, and Live at the Hollywood Bowl --...
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For those under 17 or for those whose knowledge or impressions of the Doors were formed by AM radio play of the band's singles, early hits compilations (especially 13), or...
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While this double disc (later combined with Alive, She Cried and Live at the Hollywood Bowl for CD release under the title In Concert) is valuable in that it contains...
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Moody and mesmerizing, An American Prayer is an interesting album of Jim Morrison reading his poetry over the Doors' music. An American Prayer was finished by the remaining...
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Simply mentioning the Doors triggers some powerful images. No matter whether your perspective is pleasant nostalgia, a period of rebellion, or, for younger fans, the fertile...
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As the title says, The Complete Studio Recordings contains all of the Doors' studio recordings in one convenient box set. All six of the band's studio albums have been given...
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This single-disc live compilation has also been issued as The Bright Midnight Records Sampler. However, both titles contain the exact same music. In their attempts to quash...
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