The Very Best of The Doors (2007 album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Very Best of the Doors (2007 album)
Type = compilation
Artist = The Doors


Released = March 25, 2007
Recorded = 1966–1971
Genre = Psychedelic rock, blues-rock, hard rock
Length =
Label = Elektra/Rhino Records
Producer = Paul Rothchild, Bruce Botnick, The Doors
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:c690s36ba3bg~T1 link]
*Amazon.com Rating|5|5 [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000NDES9S link]
Last album = ""
(2003)
This album = "The Very Best of the Doors"
(2007)
Next album =

"The Very Best of the Doors" is the ninth compilation album by the rock group The Doors. It was released on September 25, 2007 to commemorate the band's 40th anniversary. The masters were drawn from the same remixes/remasters used for the 2006 "Perception" box set and 2007 Doors reissues. Three versions of the album were released. First conceived in the UK, the single CD version of this compilation is only available in the UK. There are minor differences between the US and UK versions of the double CD version.

Album history

Originally slated to be released on March 26, 2007, the release date was delayed to September 25 2007. [ [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NDES9S Date Changed]

There was confusion as to the album's title prior to an official announcement. The Doors already have an album called "The Very Best of The Doors" that was released in 2001, that caused confusion among fans and critics. Several sources, including fan sites, claimed "Jim Morrison's The Doors" would be the album's title. The album was also put up for pre-sale on some online music merchants' sites under the "Jim Morrison's The Doors" title.

On June 18, 2007, a message was posted on The Doors' official MySpace page confirming that the title of the album would be "The Very Best of The Doors 2007". A spokesperson for Elektra Records has said that the title and theme of The Doors’ ninth compilation album is about "a new beginning and their 40th anniversary."Fact|date=December 2007

On September 25, 2007, U.S. retailer Wal-Mart released a special edition of "The Very Best of The Doors" with an exclusive concert filmed during their world tour in London; it also contains a special book with the lyrics of each song. [ [http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7749399 Wal-Mart Special Collection] ]

Promotion

The album was well promoted on the Internet and on music channels. There were many commercials on the website YouTube and many other sites; one commercial was shown during the week of September 20 on VH1 and MTV.Fact|date=December 2007

Critical reception

The album has received positive reviews. "Allmusic" titled its review "Amazing" and called the album "an amazing greatest hits". [ [http://wm03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kzfixzl5ld0e he Very Best of The Doors | Music Review |All Music Guide] ] Amazon.com gave the album a five out of five rating and praised the album as "a perfectly serviceable rock album abundant in the kind of bouncy electro elements that buttressed their hottest hits." [ [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000NDES9S The Doors| Music Review |Amazon.com] ] .

Track listing

All songs composed by The Doors (John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison) unless otherwise indicated.

ingle CD version

#"Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (Jim Morrison)
#"Light My Fire" (Robby Krieger)
#"Love Me Two Times" (Robby Krieger)
#"Hello, I Love You" (Jim Morrison)
#"People Are Strange" (Jim Morrison; Robby Krieger)
#"Strange Days"
#"Riders on the Storm"
#"L.A. Woman" (Jim Morrison)
#"Touch Me" (Robby Krieger)
#"Roadhouse Blues" (Jim Morrison; The Doors)
#"Peace Frog" (Jim Morrison; Robby Krieger)
#"Love Street" (Jim Morrison)
#"The Crystal Ship" (Jim Morrison)
#"Soul Kitchen"
#"Love Her Madly" (Robby Krieger)
#"Back Door Man" (Willie Dixon; Chester Burnett)
#"Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)" (Kurt Weill; Bertolt Brecht)
#"Moonlight Drive" (Jim Morrison)
#"The Unknown Soldier"
#"The End" [edited version from Apocalypse Now]

Double CD version (UK version)

Disc 1
#"Break On Through (To the Other Side)"
#"Strange Days"
#"Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)"
#"Love Me Two Times"
#"Light My Fire"
#"Spanish Caravan"
#"Crystal Ship"
#"The Unknown Soldier"
#"The End"
#"People Are Strange"
#"Back Door Man"
#"Moonlight Drive"
#"End of the Night"
#"Five to One"
#"When the Music's Over"

Disc 2
#"Bird of Prey"
#"Love Her Madly"
#"Riders on the Storm"
#"Orange County Suite"
#"Runnin' Blue"
#"Hello, I Love You"
#"The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)"
#"Stoned Immaculate"
#"Soul Kitchen"
#"Peace Frog"
#"L.A. Woman"
#"Waiting for the Sun"
#"Touch Me"
#"The Changeling"
#"Wishful Sinful"
#"Love Street"
#"The Ghost Song" [Greatest Hits Version @ 4:10 found on the original An American Prayer]
#"Whiskey, Mystics and Men"
#"Roadhouse Blues"

Double CD version (US version)

Disc 1
#"Break On Through (To the Other Side)"
#"Strange Days"
#"Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)"
#"Love Me Two Times"
#"Light My Fire"
#"Spanish Caravan"
#"Crystal Ship"
#"The Unknown Soldier"
#"The End"
#"People Are Strange"
#"Back Door Man"
#"Moonlight Drive"
#"End of the Night"
#"Five to One"
#"When the Music's Over"

Disc 2
#"Twentieth Century Fox"
#"Love Her Madly"
#"Riders on the Storm"
#"My Eyes Have Seen You"
#"Tell All The People"
#"Hello, I Love You"
#"The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)"
#"Not to Touch the Earth"
#"Soul Kitchen"
#"Peace Frog"
#"L.A. Woman"
#"Waiting for the Sun"
#"Touch Me"
#"The Changeling"
#"Wishful Sinful"
#"Love Street"
#"The Ghost Song" (Shorter Version found as track 2 on the remastered release of An American Prayer @ 2:50)
#"Gloria" (Van Morrison) (Also found on Alive, She Cried)
#"Roadhouse Blues"

The Wal-Mart Exclusive

This 2 CD 1 DVD Set contains the U.K. Tracklisting (Even if bought in the U.S.). The DVD Highlights 4 Live performances from Live In Europe 1968. On the DVD "Hello, I Love You" is not live but rather the studio version played over footage.

Performances Include: "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times", "Spanish Caravan", and "Unknown Soldier"

The package itself is a rectangle. Marketed as a soft/paper book with an overlapping inlay for both CD's. The book features photos, an essay, and lyrics to each song found on the release. The DVD is in back.

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