Track Listing

1. Break on Through (To the Other Side) - Stone Temple Pilots
2. Riders on the Storm - Creed
3. Light My Fire - Train
4. Peace Frog - Smash Mouth
5. L.A. Woman - Days of the New
6. Love Me Two Times - Aerosmith
7. Under Waterfall - The Doors
8. Wild Child - The Cult
9. Roadhouse Rap - Jim Morrison
10. Rock House Blues - John Lee Hooker, Jim Morrison
11. Is Everybody In? - William S. Burroughs
12. Hello I Love You - Oleander
13. Touch Me - Ian Astbury, The Cult
14. Children of Night - Exene Cervenka, Perry Farrell
15. Love Her Madly - Bo Diddley
16. Cosmic Movie - The Doors
17. End - Days of the New
18. [CD-ROM Track] [Multimedia Track]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106268 in Music
• Released on: 1999-11-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

CD Description
STONED IMMACULATE is much better than the average tribute album. Not only is it more cleverly conceived; along with thecontemporary and classic bands performing in homage to the Doors, there are works by artists who influenced the seminalMorrison-led group.
There's nary a dud track here (although Cult frontman Ian Astbury's version of "Touch Me" at times verges on Wayne Newton territory) and at least one--Creed's "Riders on the Storm", which reinterprets the song's chorus brilliantly--actually improves on the original. Other highlights include Aerosmith's letter-perfect Xerox of "Love MeTwo Times" (a song they were born to play), William S. Burrough's appropriately sepulchral recitation of "Is Everybody In?" and Stone Temple Pilots' nicely metallic take on "Breakon Through".

Customer Reviews

More than just a tribute album
It is hard to call this a tribute album, when it features collaborations with the surviving Doors. Apart from a couple of lack-lustre, reconstructed "new" Doors songs, and a couple other dodgy covers, this album is a great tribute to the band - somehow conveying their special brand of theatre, poetry and sound. You might think that Doors songs are not to be touched, and could not be done justice by other artists. Most of the tracks do away with this theory very quickly.

The album starts out strongly with two of the best covers here, by STP and Creed. It comes as no surprise that STP can belt out an amazing cover of "Break On Through", but many people were caught off guard by how good Creed's cover of "Riders on the Storm" was! In fact this is probably the best song Creed never wrote, and no wonder it was the track most played on the radio to promote this album.

Unfortunately, the third and fourth tracks, a god-awful version of "Light My Fire" and a not wonderful "Peace Frog", shows the patchy nature of this album. I've heard (though I don't know that it is wholly true) that the reason for this came from the Doors' involvement in the project. Thus songs which were recorded for the album, such as Marilyn Manson's "Five to One" were ommitted in favour of pap such as this. If you do want to hear Manson's cover, you can find it on the single for "Disposable Teens" (along with another excellent cover, of "Working Class Hero").

Days of the New get things back on track with "LA Woman", one of two great covers they offer on this release. Aerosmith's "Love Me Two Times" is, for some reason, often lauded as the best cover on this album. I don't really know why, as it does nothing for me. It's not bad, but neither is it great. It adds nothing to the original (which really, a cover needs to do - or what's the point?), and I've heard far better covers of this song before.

In contrast, reviewers often quote the contributions of the Cult and Ian Astbury as the worst of the album. I'm guessing this must be a personal dislike of his voice as the Cult's version of "Wild Child" is very good, and in a completely different light, so is Ian Astbury's take on "Touch Me".

Though I don't particularly care for the "new" Doors' songs ("Under the Waterfall" and "The Cosmic Movie"), the reworking of "Roadhouse Blues", and William S. Burrough's "Is Everybody In?" both work well.

Oleander turn in a reasonable, and quite listenable, "Hello I Love You" but it somehow seems lacking something. I'm not sure what, and perhaps I'm being harsh - because it is definitely better than other tracks on this cd!

Perry Farrell's contribution was the biggest disappointment to me. I was expecting more. I would have quite happily accepted just one DotN track ("The End") in favour of Perry taking on "LA Woman" again. We know he can do it, because it appears on Jane's Addiction's "Live and Rare".

I've seen it said that the album suffers from the lack of artists like Jane's Addiction and the RHCP. To be fair, Jane's Addiction weren't really an option at this time, but I see the point. There is a certain edge missing here, and a lack of unity between tracks that does not exist on other, better, tribute albums (cf "Working Class Hero", the Lennon tribute which DOES feature the RHCP).

Skipping now to the last track, appropriately "The End", I have to say that this is my favourite Doors track (as it is, I'm sure, the favourite of many Doors fans). This is also my favourite Doors cover on this CD, or (for that matter) off it. DotN often get bad press (in fact, I don't recall them ever getting any good press!), but Travis pulls off a coup here. He takes "The End", transforms it, and creates something which transcends the rest of this cd. I would say to buy the album for this song alone!

However, because of its patchy nature be aware of what you're buying. You may want to buy from the Amazon marketplace, or shop around, because it might not be worth it to you to pay full price. It was to me, because the songs that are good are that good. I leave it up to you, but if you like the Doors then you really should give this a try...

This is the daddy!!!!
I am the biggest Doors fan on the planet and it goes without saying that this Tribute cd won't ever create the same magic that the Doors created through the voice and soul of Mr Mojo Risen and the Doors. It does however provide a serious Doors fan the opportunity to listen to those musicians that the Doors influenced. I also highlight that a band called Days of the New cover L.A Woman and The End, and they do a very good job. I would recommend you check this band out as well. The lead singer has a voice that echoes Morrisons influence. I hope you will give it a go, it certainly won't disappoint you. RIP MR MOJO RISEN...