July 21, 2000

MACCA


Album Review: The Doors

ESSENTIAL RARITIES
By DARRYL STERDAN



ESSENTIAL RARITIES
The Doors
(Elektra / Warner)

If you consider fairly standard live versions of Break on Through and Roadhouse Blues -- not to mention a minute-long snippet of Jim Morrison listing the names of U.S. cities -- to be essential Doors rarities, well, you're a bigger fan than we are. And if you are, you probably have this stuff already, given that this disc was included in The Complete Studio Recordings box set last year (many of the tracks also were in the 1997 Doors Box Set). Sure, some tunes live up to their billing as critical listening -- 1965 demos of Hello, I Love You and Moonlight Drive and a home-recorded Hyacinth House, for instance, are weiredly poppy, while late-period tracks such as Whiskey, Mystics and Men find Morrison in full-blown Brechtian Lizard King persona. But let's be honest -- at this point, these tracks are as rare as naked pictures of Madonna.

Track Listing 1.Hello To The Cities (Live)
  02.Break On Through (Live)
  03.Roadhouse Blues (Live)
  04.Hyacinth House
  05.Who Scared You
  06.Whiskey, Mystics And Men
  07.I Will Never Be Untrue (Live)
  08.Moonlight Drive
  09.Queen Of The Highway (Alternate Version)
  10.Someday Soon (Live)
  11.Hello, I Love You
  12.Orange County Suite
  13.The Soft Parade (Live)
  14.The End (Live)
  15.Woman Is A Devil
 


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