Doors - Greatest Hits (CD)
ORIGINAL 1996 ELEKTRA
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Jewel Case has normal wear.
A great singles band that often got a little unraveled on its album-only
epics, the Doors are predictably remembered as Deeper Artists than some
of their (especially Jim Morrison's) pretensions merit. But those 45s
really were great. They dominate this disc, with "Light My Fire" (the
album version) and "Hello I Love You" banging by to complement the
moodier "Riders on the Storm" (also at LP length) and a live "Roadhouse
Blues" rescued from An
American Prayer. Predictably, the record closes with a few other
non-AM tracks, including "The End." But most of the real meat is in the
stuff that made it to the jukeboxes.
Track
listing
1. Hello, I Love You
2. Light
My Fire
3. People Are Strange
4. Love Me
Two Times
5. Riders on the Storm
6. Break on
Through (To the Other Side)
7. Roadhouse Blues - (live)
8. Touch Me
9. L.A. Woman
10. Love
Her Madly
11. Ghost Song, The
12. End, The -
(from "Apocalypse Now")
Product Details
- Audio CD (October 15, 1996)
- Original Release Date: October 15, 1996
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Enhanced
- Label: Elektra / Wea
The Doors Biography
Film students Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek opened The Doors in 1965.
With Morrison on vocals and Manzarek on keyboards, they were joined by
drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger to create one of the
most controversial bands of the time. Taking their name from Aldous
Huxley's psychedelic treatise The Doors of Perception, the band
came from California's hippy scene but with a drive and intensity not
found in their musical contemporaries.
In 1967 their first album, The
Doors, captured the rawness and energy of their stage shows. While
former film students Morrison and Manzarek had some innovative ideas
for the promotional video for the first single "Break on Through",
America seemingly wasn't ready for them and the single failed to break
the Top 100. The second single, "Light My Fire", was much more warmly
received and got to No.1 in the US.
After notorious appearances on
the Ed Sullivan Show and in Florida, the band had attracted the
attention of police and local authorities. Concern about 'corruption of
the youth' made promoters nervous, and venues that would stage the band
became harder to find. The band still managed some live performances and
during the European tour to promote the third album, Waiting For
The Sun, the London shows were filmed and later released as The
Doors Are Open. In 1970 they played the Isle of Wight Festival
along with Jimi Hendrix and The Who.
The LA Woman album
released in 1971 included "Riders on the Storm" which, although not
their most commercially successful track, is their most remixed and
covered. Shortly after the release of the album, Jim Morrison was found
dead in a bathtub in his Paris flat. It is believed he died from an
accidental heroin overdose, though the cause of death was never
definitively established.
Krieger and Manzarek took over lead
vocals on Other Voices/Full Circle, but it failed to match the
sales of the Morrison-fronted output, and in 1972 The Doors closed.
New
audiences were introduced to the music of the band in the cinema when
Francis Ford Coppola chose to use "The End" in his 1979 Vietnam epic Apocalypse
Now to capture the drama and the chaos of the times. In 1991
Oliver Stone directed the film The Doors, a highly successful
biopic of Jim Morrison.
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