Legacy: the Absolute Best of the Doors [Import]

The Doors | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 13, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea/Rhino
• ASIN: B0000DBO33
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #196,508 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great selection, AMAZING master quality!, July 16, 2007

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David Squires "PFury67" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Legacy: the Absolute Best of the Doors (Audio CD)

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)

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars absolutely brilliant, January 10, 2007

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J. Talsma (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Legacy: the Absolute Best of the Doors (Audio CD)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Morrison And The Doors "Legacy".., March 29, 2010

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R. Webb "minstrel man" (u.s.a.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Legacy: the Absolute Best of the Doors (Audio CD)

An excellent thirty four track collection of Jim Morrison and The Doors. This is the elite Doors catalog covering all bounderies, from the beginning of "Break On Through" to the end of "Riders On The Storm", Morrison's last recording. The set also includes a live version of the sexy "Gloria" and a studio cut of the insanely, bizarre "Celebration Of The Lizard". My copy is the "Argentina" import version, this Rhino audio is ferocious, and this version does contain "Soul Kitchen", not the remix of "Riders", pertaining to the mention by Amazon's editor.. the sound is so good, it's close in comparison with the Perception set, mighty close. This two disc Argentina version contains a thick booklet, with photographs, liner notes, and no lyrics. The "Legacy" and the "Perception" is the ultimate Doors collection, Legacy is a 2003 release, better find it while it's still available, a great compilation with that distinctive sound of The Doors, listen for the incomparable "Wild Child".