Track Listing

1. Break On Through
2. Light My Fire
3. Crystal Ship
4. People Are Strange
5. Strange Days
6. Love Me Two Times
7. Five To One
8. Waiting For The Sun
9. Spanish Caravan
10. When The Music's Over
11. Hello I Love You
12. Roadhouse Blues
13. LA Woman
14. Riders On The Storm
15. Touch Me
16. Love Her Madly
17. Unknown Soldier
18. End

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42024 in Music
• Released on: 1986-01-20
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Restored

Amazon.co.uk 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; "LA Woman", with its bluesy sexuality. More important, favourites 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

Customer Reviews

Life changing album
Back when I was 12 the Oliver Stone film of The Doors came out and I heard Light My Fire on the radio. I had never really thought anything of "old" music up to that point - I was listening to modern chart stuff like U2 and Iron Maiden (this was 1991!). I decided to buy this Doors collection and it changed my musical tastes and outlook for ever. Now I am into loads of older music like Dylan, Pink Floyd, Hendrix etc(aswell as modern stuff of course I love techno) but it started with this album. I was too young to know much about being stoned and stuff but this album took me on such a head trip it made me want to find out what other strange music was out there. These songs made me want to explore mysticism and the whole hippy ethos, pretty mind expanding for a 12 year old. I remember being blown away by The End and When The Music's Over, rocking out to LA Woman and Roadhouse Blues, chilling out to The Crystal Ship. I became slightly obsessed with Jim Morrison and his legend, even doing a talk in music class about The Doors and Jim's antics. The Doors helped me break on through into a new type of music, I remember at the time trying to turn my friends over to The Doors when they were listening to C+C Music Factory/other poor early 90's stuff. I succeeded. The joy of "discovering" this music is what spurs me on now to always take risks and try out old obscure bands because it feels great to have a band you love but noone else knows or cares about.
This CD is the ultimate Doors best of and alongside The Doors In Concert is the essential Doors purchase for someone new to this awesome band.

This is required in a collection
Unless you are one of those die hard Jim fans (and I live with one) who even has recordings of his poetry in addition to all Doors albums, then apart from a couple of chunes which should be on this, but are not, this is essential in a CD collection.

Their music is unbeatable
What a fantastic group. Controversially, Jim Morrison was absoloutely fantastic. His lyrics have NEVER been matched ever. Songs like "Light my Fire" and "Break on Through" really give me a buzz. 30 odd years on they remain the greatest group ever to have lived. All of the classics and few extras are cramed into this 2 CD set. It's an absoloute bargain. They are was wonderful today as they were 30 years ago. Long live Jim Morrison.