Essential Rarities

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Essential Rarities
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Artist: Doors
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2000-06-20
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Hello to the Cities [Live]
  2. Roadhouse Blues [Live]
  3. Hyacinth House [Demo Version]
  4. Who Scared You? [Demo Version]
  5. Whiskey, Mystics and Men [Live][Demo Version]
  6. I Will Never Be Untrue [Live]
  7. Moonlight Drive [Demo Version]
  8. Queen of the Highway [Alternative Version][Alternate Take]
  9. Someday Soon [Live]
  10. Hello, I Love You [Demo Version]
  11. Orange County Suite [Demo Version]
  12. The Soft Parade [Live]
  13. The End [Live]
  14. Woman Is a Devil [outtake][*]

Free Music Notes for Essential Rarities

Free Music Review: Essential Rarities=Essential Listening
Hit: 5 Stars

My friends, this is a great compilation of rare and often candid Doors songs.

For those of you familiar with The Doors, you may find that some of the stuff found here can be found on bootlegs, but the sound quality here is much, MUCH better. Believe me, I've got the uncut Rock Is Dead bootleg, and ``the woman is a devil" is barely audible on THAT. Here it is all skillfully re-mastered, in all it's 24 bit glory, by original Doors tech Bruce Botnick. So buy this before leaping into the realm of bad bootlegs. This will whet your appetite.

For those who are mildly acquainted with the Doors, i.e. you saw the movie, i.e. you like ``Light my Fire", i.e. there's a movie! This here is a good album to cut your teeth on. It has many popular Doors songs such as a fantastic rendition of Break on Through from the Isle of Wight Concert('70), a rockin'-er version of Hello, I Love You and the oft-claimed best version of The End ever caught on tape!

Other tracks, including Hyacinth House, Queen of the Highway, I Will Never Be Untrue,et cetera..showcase The Doors very eclectic musical tastes, ranging from alternative-rock(yes thats John Densmore on the bongos!) to jazz inflected grooves to mellow blues, respectively. This is true music! It's freedom music, music for the road! Dig the words and let the music transport you....but always... keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel!

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German issue of the odds and sods disc from the 1999 box-set, 'The Complete Studio Recordings'. Packaged in a miniatureLP sleeve.
This collection, originally available only as a bonus disc in The Doors: The Complete Studio Recordings box set (fleshed out here with another outtake track, "Woman Is a Devil," from that set) is split just about evenly between a sometimes motley collection of outtakes and demos and a better slate of live material. It also argues that while most rock bands cut their teeth on blues and other roots music, then develop a distinct sound (or sell out to pop fashion trends), the Doors seemed to evolve ass-backwards, the band's, and particularly Jim Morrison's, college poet-nihilist pretensions slowly giving way to more blues-based influences. Indeed, after a few legendary years of late-1960s success and excess, Morrison had more than enough reasons to sing the blues. The studio leftovers here underscore why they're called "outtakes" (1965 demos of "Hello, I Love You" and "Moonlight Drive" are historically interesting, if a bit bubblegummy) though there are some highlights. "Whiskey, Mystics and Men" showcases another side of the band's tastefully odd Kurt Weill fetish; a '69 alternate of "Queen of the Highway" is almost lounge hipster chic; and "Orange County Suite" is a dirge from '70. Live cuts (all from '69 and '70) range from a baroque, affected PBS telecast of "The Soft Parade" to an apocalyptic, overwrought "The End." --Jerry McCulley

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