The Best Of The Doors Tracks
1. Break on Through (To the Other Side)
2. Light My Fire
3. Crystal Ship
4. People Are Strange
5. Strange Days
6. Love Me Two Times
7. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
8. Five to One
9. Waiting for the Sun
10. Spanish Caravan
11. When the Music's Over
12. The End
13. Hello, I Love You
14. Roadhouse Blues
15. L.A. Woman
16. Riders on the Storm
17. Touch Me
18. Love Her Madly
19. Unknown Soldier
20. End
The Best Of The Doors Review
The Best of The Doors delivers exactly what it promises. Rather than relying solely on the hits, this collection also mines the darker, and often richer, recesses of The Doors material resulting in a fairly representative statement. The hits are here: "Light My Fire" with Ray Manzarek's keyboards on a dizzy, psychedelic spree; "People Are Strange," with Morrison's tortured psyche barely being held in check; "L.A. Woman," with its bluesy sexuality. More important, favorites of fans are here, like the controversially (at the time) explicit "The End," which was one of the first of Morrison's forays into narrative poetry. In hits like "Break on Through," "Hello I Love You," "Roadhouse Blues," and others, The Doors melded psychedelia, blues, hard-edged rock, and poetry from the edge like no other band before. The Best of The Doors is a trip in every sense of the word. --Steve Gdula
This band is great. It's too bad the guy kept putting crap in his body and crapped out in the tub. They were really on their way to becoming as functional as a band as they were in their earlier days. Jim was doing better and cranking out his poetry like he was before he got into the whole booze mess around '69. We can only wonder what it would have been like if he had lived....
Anyway, Elektra has been especially greedy, releasing, what, like 4 "Greatest Hits" or "The Best of..." or "The Very Best of..." albums by The Doors. Just pick the one that fits your tastes. They have great stuff on their regular studio albums but right now I'm too tired to really judge how good a compilation album this is to their other ones released by the ever greedy Elektra.
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