Track Listing

1. Riders in the storm
2. Light my fire
3. Love me two times
4. Roadhouse blues-live version
5. Strange days
6. Break on through (to the other side)
7. Five to one
8. Moonnight drive
9. Alabama song (whiskey bar)
10. Love her madly
11. People are strange
12. Touch me
13. Back door man
14. The unknown soldier
15. L A woman
16. Hello I love you
17. The end

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21064 in Music
• Released on: 2000-09-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Original recording remastered

CD Description
A collection of the most popular material by the organ-fuelled rock act who formed in 1965. 'The Best Of The Doors' features tracks taken from each of their first five studio albums. The hit singles 'Hello I Love You', 'Light My Fire' and 'Riders On The Storm' are included.

Customer Reviews

Buy this only if you are really skint
Cards on the table....I'm not a great fan of 'Best Of..." albums. Complilations are all well and good for pop bands, girl groups, stars of Nashville and...well, Elvis. Because these are much more singles-oriented acts, and naturally you want all the hits. But the Doors, like most rock groups, are really very album-oriented. I always scratch my head when I see someone has a 'Greatest Hits' of...I dunno, Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin or something.

Besides which, the Doors only produced six albums (ignoring those ill-advised releases that came after Jim Morrison had died!). Each has its own flavour, and you'd be much better off buying one of them (even most people's least favourite - 'The Soft Parade'), than this mish-mash of what some record executive has decided is their "Best Of". The Doors are rather over represented by compilations and live albums anyway.

So start with the band's first album, "The Doors", which, as I type, Amazon sell for a mere £5.97, and is even cheaper through the Amazon marketplace traders. If you like it, check out the second album, 'Strange Days'. And so on. You can probably pick up all six albums for under 30 quid. So, like my review title says, only really consider buying this if you want only the better known (which doesn't necessarily equal the 'Best') tracks, and are feeling particularly poor right now!

Oh, and I forgot to mention...The Doors were brilliant. Ah, but you knew that already, didn't you?

A great introduction to the Doors
Another 'best of' this is the third of it's kind and like the others it contains a similar selection of tracks, with classics such as 'Light My Fire' , 'Riders On The Storm' and 'Break On Through' , again the epic oedipal final song 'The End' is included in it's entirity as an uncut version. I was pleased to see 'Moonlight Drive' included which was the very song that got the ball rolling back in 1965. Like the other 'Best of 's' This gives a great introduction to the controversial band, If you already own one of these I would recommend an album such as 'The Doors' or 'L.A Woman' or alternatively a live album such as 'Absolutly Live'.

If you do not own any Doors material buy this and you will not be dissapointed, but for the more initiated Doors fan this is just another in a long line.

Not the Best 'Best Of', But....
There have been 4 Best of the Doors: the original 1973 version (never released on CD); the 1985 one with the Young Lion photo on the front; this 2000 one and the 2003 Legacy: The Very Best.

In addition, there have also been various compilations: 13 (actually quite a good selection, and the only one to be released during Jim's lifetime); Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine; the ill-named Greatest Hits; Classics and one or two others I can't recall.

Of the Best Ofs, I would say the 1985 version is still the best. However, completists may be interested to know what this 2000 version has the word 'high' reinstated into Break on Through (cut from the original first album version and previously only availble on the box set, AFAIK), and it also remixes The End, to bring Jim's mantra during the instrumental section towards the song's conclusion to the fore (i.e. as heard in Apocalypse Now). Like the word 'high', it was deemed back in 1966 that you simply can't have someone saying what Jim says in this mix of The End, which I can't repeat here. (Let's just say one of the words rhymes with 'truck'...)

So, if the inclusion of these three extra words (the other being 'kill', also from The End) in these two songs appeals, then get this CD. If you'd rather have the traditional versions of the songs, go for the original albums, or the 1985 Best Of.