The Doors / Essential Rarities – CD (Used)

Description

Author: THE DOORS

Features:

• Essential Rarities by Doors (2000-06-26)

Format: Best of

Release Date: 20-06-2000

Details: Amazon.ca 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 Product description Brand New

UPC: 771104898724

EAN: 0075596253024

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood