Legacy: the Absolute Best of the Doors [Import]

Track Listings

1. Break On Through (To The Other Side)

2. Back Door Man

3. Light My Fire

4. Twentieth Century Fox

5. Crystal Ship

6. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)

7. Riders On The Storm (Pnau Club Mix)

8. End

9. Love Me Two Times

10. People Are Strange

11. When The Music's Over

12. My Eyes Have Seen You

13. Moonlight Drive

14. Strange Days

15. Hello I Love You

16. Unknown Soldier

17. Spanish Caravan

18. Five To One

19. Not To Touch The Earth

20. Touch Me

See all 34 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
This 34 Track, Double CD Set features a Previously Unrelased Version of "Celebration of the Lizard" and a Brand New Remix of "Riders on the Storm" from Australian Outfit Pnau. This Remix Replaces the Track "Soul Kitchen" on the International Version of the Album.

Tracks:

Break On Through (To The Other Side)
Back Door Man
Light My Fire
Twentieth Century Fox
The Crystal Ship
Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
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

Tracks:

Touch Me
Wild Child
Tell All The People
Wishful Sinful
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
Celebration Of The Lizard

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.

Customer Reviews:

uneven cd--when great, fabulous; when not so great--mediocre.......2007-06-26

the doors have a great keyboardist in manzarek and a pretty great guitarist in krieger but it is morrisons lyrics and driving wild beat that makes it flow and makes it great. the early doors are the best; really tight. unfortunately, in later years morrison went a little overboard into excess and wildness and uncommunicativeness. but the doors are one of the great rock bands of their era.

great value for the money.......2007-03-24

if you like the doors, this is the one album to get. it contains ALL the great ones without breaking the pocketbook or having to listen to all their "filler" stuff.

Excellent album.......2007-03-19

This is the best compilation album put out by the Doors. Period. If you are a fan of the Doors who wants every album, or just wants the hits, this is the album for you. Legacy captures almost every hit put out by the Doors. Each song is crisp, clear, complete, and they are also in chronological order, which is cool too. Definitely a fantastic album to get. I recommended it to any fan of the Doors, or of classic rock in general.

Excellent collection and sound.......2007-02-17

This is the absolute best set to get. The song selection is awesome and the remasters job sounds excellent. Very crisp and clean.

Also, "Gloria" is a definite plus.

Hello, I Love This!.......2007-02-08

Great compilation. I love it that they are all full length studio versions. Also it's great having them in chronological order with great liner notes and info about each song. I wish they would have left off the 17 minute long "Celebration of the Lizard" -- this is a real dog. They could have replaced this with the nearly 9 minute title song from "The Soft Parade" which has an incredible funky middle section. Also could have included "Take It As It Comes" from their first album - a very overlooked song.

This is a band that had about 90-100 minutes of classic stuff - the best of rock, really - but the rest of their material was pretty marginal if not downright bad. So, all their best can't fit on one CD, yet 2 CD's can't help but contain a little filler. I'd rather have that than just 1 CD. But it would have been nice to have a remastered version of "The Soft Parade"

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Great selection, AMAZING master quality!
absolutely brilliant

Legacy: the Absolute Best of the Doors
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Manufacturer: Wea/Rhino
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2003-10-13

Tracks:

Break On Through (To The Other Side)
Back Door Man
Light My Fire
Twentieth Century Fox
Crystal Ship
Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
Riders On The Storm (Pnau Club Mix)
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
Unknown Soldier
Spanish Caravan
Five To One
Not To Touch The Earth
Touch Me
Wild Child
Tell All The People
Wishful Sinful
Roadhouse Blues
Waiting For The Sun
You Make Me Real
Peace Frog
Love Her Madly
L.A. Woman
Riders On The Storm
Wasp (& The Texas Radio)
Changeling
Gloria (Live Version)
Celebration Of The Lizard (Previously Unreleased)

Album Details

This 34 Track, Double CD Set features a Previously Unrelased Version of "Celebration of the Lizard" and a Brand New Remix of "Riders on the Storm" from Australian Outfit Pnau. This Remix Replaces the Track "Soul Kitchen" on the International Version of the Album.

Customer Reviews:

Great selection, AMAZING master quality!.......2007-07-17

This is one of those albums that is a real find. The sound quality is stunning. Usually anything post mid 90's has a flat, consistently loud and obnoxious sound. Most reissues suffer too, good musical works from earlier years that have been recently released to the new "musical sound" of the late 90's and on. This is a real find, the sound quality is pristine, 3d, deep, and musical from front to back.

For song selection, I haven't had the chance to get in to The Doors album by album yet. I do have a few "Best Of's" by them (5 to be precise), and this one DESTROYS the rest. Honestly, this is a must have if you don't want to buy their individual albums.

Again, the sound quality is stellar, I never would have expected this sound quality from such a new release (youtube "loudness war" if you're curious to what I'm going on about)

absolutely brilliant.......2007-01-11

Let's be real, every compilation has his shortcomings, sometimes your favorite songs are missing, this is no exception. Even "The Doors Complete Studio Recordings" are far from complete. But this one comes close to what a musicfan has to have (Doors' fans own most of it already). Elektra issued in 2000 the also 2 CD "The Best of The Doors" with 37 songs and one wonders what a new compilation short thereafter has more or otherwise on offer. "Best of" has both the "Soft Parade"-album outtakes "Whiskey, Mystics and Men" and "Who Scared You" and a track from the second and final sans Morrison album "Full Circle" (i.e. "No Me Moleste Mosquito", otherwise hardly on any CD available). They are not presented here. Instead there is a unique recording of "Celebration of the Lizard", normally only on live-albums ("Absolutely Live" and "Live in New York", on the "The Doors Boxset"). The first album is almost complete, with 8 of the 11 songs. From the other 5 albums is a selection made of 4 or 5 songs each. Plus "Gloria" from "In Concert".
I think this will do for most of a part. If you're still not satisfied and want more (I can imagine that) you can broaden your view with any of the regular albums, or optain the now "Perception"-box [which strangely ommits the scarce "Woman is a Devil"]. Still this doesn't answer my question, why a new compilation and so soon. Well, it's the SOUND! That is big, huge and fat. Loud and Clear. Especially the bass is overwhelming, terrific. Also the drums have far more depth than on any other Doors CD I know. But what's more, I always thought that the Doors' musical landmark was, apart from the baritone vocals of Morisson, the shrill, high-pitched but overall somewhat uniform organ sound of Manzarek. Wrong! I am terrible mistaken. It is remarkable how he sounds in every song complete different with the use of a Vox Continental or some time later a Gibson Kalamazoo, with the occasional help of the Fender Bass Piano and also use of a Fender Rhodes Piano or a "normal" piano. He has an astounding and dazzling array of keyboardsounds, long before the synthesizer-era with the coming of the modular Moog and the giant Yamaha GX1. It is really amazing and astonishing what many different sounds he can create with those early instruments and the recordingtechniques in the mid sixties. Listen for instance to "Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)" with melodic bellrings. Kind of ringmodulator, I guess. On "The Changeling" and "The Wasp {Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", both on "L.A. Woman"-album, you can clearly hear the warm sound of a Hammond organ but before that he played solely on those earlier mentioned instruments and they have a sound of their own, not one but many. Incredible. Even Keith Emerson from The Nice and E.L.P. with his extensive use of the Moog, and around 1976 a GX1, had not so many sounds on offer and he was experimenting a lot. Many people say that he was his time far ahead but you can easly say the same of Ray Manzarek with his comparable primitive keyboards. Anyway, it is a delight to listen to this double-album which has 34 songs and they are a treat. Honestly recommended, more words fail short.

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Legacy:the Absolute Best of the Doors
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Manufacturer: Msi Music Corp
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002B8T32
Release Date: 2003-10-06

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1. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
2. Back Door Man
3. Light My Fire
4. Twentieth Century Fox
5. Crystal Ship
6. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
7. Riders On The Storm (Pnau Club Mix)
8. End
9. Love Me Two Times
10. People Are Strange
11. When The Music's Over
12. My Eyes Have Seen You
13. Moonlight Drive
14. Strange Days
15. Hello I Love You
16. Unknown Soldier
17. Spanish Caravan
18. Five To One
19. Not To Touch The Earth
20. Touch Me