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| Legacy: The Absolute Best | 
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| Artist: The Doors
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 32347
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 081227388928
EAN: 0081227388928
ASIN: B0000AINOJ
Release Date: August 12, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Break on Through (To the Other Side) | | • | Back Door Man - The Doors, Dixon, Willie | | • | Light My Fire | | • | Twentieth Century Fox | | • | The Crystal Ship | | • | Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) - The Doors, Weill, Kurt | | • | Soul Kitchen | | • | The End | | • | Love Me Two Times | | • | People Are Strange | | • | When the Music's Over | | • | My Eyes Have Seen You | | • | Moonlight Drive | | • | Strange Days | | • | Hello, I Love You | | • | The Unknown Soldier | | • | Spanish Caravan | | • | Five to One | | • | Not to Touch the Earth |
Disc 2
| • | Touch Me | | • | Wild Child | | • | Tell All the People - The Doors, Krieger, Robbie | | • | Wishful Sinful - The Doors, Krieger, Robbie | | • | Roadhouse Blues | | • | Waiting for the Sun | | • | You Make Me Real | | • | Peace Frog | | • | Love Her Madly | | • | L.A. Woman | | • | Riders on the Storm | | • | The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) | | • | The Changeling | | • | Gloria - The Doors, Morrison, Van | | • | Celebration of the Lizard |
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Album Description
Packed with over 2 1/2 hours of groundbreaking and career-spanning cuts, all remastered for stellar sound. Features the previously unreleased studio version of 'Celebration Of The Lizard'. Slipcase. Elektra/Rhino. 2003.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 74 more reviews...
 Latest "Best Of" Is Not For Everyone April 12, 2004
57 out of 57 found this review helpful
There's a lot of kvetching going on among my fellow reviewers. Most of the 1- to 3-star reviews complain about yet another repackaging of Doors material, but that shouldn't detract from the contents. The thirty-four tracks [which are all full-length album versions] are presented chronologically from their six studio albums, plus "Gloria" from 1983's ALIVE SHE CRIED and the previously unissued 17-minute studio version of "Celebration of the Lizard." In short, this is a terrific compilation--and finally, a "best of" which features the ENTIRE band on the cover! [Running time: disc one, 79:24; disc two, 76:25] HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
 Definitive? Well, Pretty Inclusive... June 7, 2004
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
I don't know about "definitive", but this is the most comprehensive "unboxed" Doors collection to date. (The original "Doors Box Set", in my opinion, contains much filler and substandard performances, and is for diehards and completists only.) This 2-disc collection contains all their chart hits (seven top 40 singles, including two #1's) and most of their better album tracks, including the two epics, "The End" and "When the Music's Over". Generally, the track choices are on the money, although I would have liked to see the title track of "The Soft Parade" included. Also, I have mixed feelings about "Celebration of the Lizard", a lengthy unreleased work which contains the original version of "Not to Touch the Earth", and has more archival than musical value. If you have no Doors in your CD library yet, however, this is the best collection out there.
Almost Ideal June 1, 2005
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I have no idea how many Doors "greatest hits" collections have been issued over the years, but this is as good as it's likely to get without simply buying all six albums.
The previous "Best of the Doors" was 2-cd set but was a transfer from a two-LP set and didn't take advantage of the longer CD running time, each disc running under 45 mins. This set not only includes all the Doors' most popular songs but puts them in chronological order, and adds the live track "Gloria" and the previously unissued studio version of "The Celebration of the Lizard."
"Lizard" is a curio item that seems to have been tacked on to force people like me (who already own all the Doors albums) to buy this one too. While "Lizard" is a great poem, the line about "a different steeple" being a notable exception, most of the music doesn't work that well, except for "Not to Touch the Earth." The live versions of "Lizard" are equally frustrating, running hot and cold but never having quite the impact the Doors were shooting for. This is clearly still a work in progress; perhaps if the Doors had continued to perform it they would have found a solid groove for it. (Ray Manzarek has said that he was never competely satisfied with live performances of "The End", either; but at least they nailed the studio version.)
IMPORTANT: Both "The End" and "Break on Through" include minor alterations from their original versions. There is some different vocalization by Jim on both songs, some of which you hear on the version of "The End" that was used in the film "Apocalypse Now." There's nothing inherently wrong with offering these alternative mixes but it does detract from the collection's claim to be definitive.
*This compilation has been deleted and replaced by yet another two-disc set, with some different songs.*
The Doors Legacy - The Absolute Best January 14, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have been a Doors fan for many, many years. I love this CD to pieces. I keep hearing people complain 'well they put out a dozen greatest hits cds'. Yes this is true, but when you hear this CD you HEAR it. The sound is almost flawless. Every song was fixed to be heard on even the most powerful stero systems. Sure, this cd does miss out on a few essentials, but if you're like me and own every single cd that has came out then there shouldn't be a problem. This cd is excellent for fans who have just tuned into The Doors. Some of The Doors greatest stuff is on here including Break On Through, Back Door Man, Light My Fire, Alabama Song (on of my personal favorites), The End, Soul Kitchen, Love Me Two Times, People Are Strange, When The Musics Over and Riders On The Storm. A beautiful cd, worthy of the twenty and some odd dollars. If you're a Doors fan, you probably have all their cds, but believe me, this cd just sounds so much more crisp. Take a newly recorded cd and test it with this. I'll tell you this, it's just like that Doors are right here with you! Jim Morrison will not be forgotten, he will be forever remembered for what he did on this earth. He will be forever remembered in our hearts and our prayers."There are things known, and there are things unknown, and in between are The Doors" --- Jim Morrison James Douglas Morrison
1943-1971
 Not exactly the band's "absolute best" July 3, 2004
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Some of the very best Doors songs are missing from this collection: "You're Lost, Little Girl", "Love Street", "The Soft Parade", "Ship of Fools". Instead, seven-or-so minutes is wasted on disc two with "Celebration of the Lizard", an interesting outtake, but hardly among the band's "absolute best". And though "Wishful Sinful", included here, was a minor hit, it was also something of a minor song; "Take It As It Comes", not included here, was both a bigger hit and a better song.This collection does however feature good remastering.
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