The Doors: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes a remastered version of the album’s original stereo mix, available on CD for the first time in a decade and remastered for the first time in nearly 30 years. The album’s original mono mix was also remastered for this set and is making its CD debut. The third disc features live performance from The Matrix in San Francisco on March 7, 1967 – recordings heard on this deluxe edition were sourced from the recently discovered, original tapes, previously thought to be lost.
A tremendous debut album, and indeed one of the best first-time outings in rock history, introducing the band’s fusion of rock, blues, classical, jazz, and poetry with a knockout punch. The lean, spidery guitar and organ riffs interweave with a hypnotic menace, providing a seductive backdrop for Jim Morrison’s captivating vocals and probing prose. “Light My Fire” was the cut that topped the charts and established the group as stars, but most of the rest of the album is just as impressive, including some of their best songs: the propulsive “Break on Through” (their first single), the beguiling mystery of “The Crystal Ship,” the mysterious “End of the Night,” “Take It as It Comes” (one of several tunes besides “Light My Fire” that also had hit potential), and the stomping rock of “Soul Kitchen” and “Twentieth Century Fox.” The 11-minute Oedipal drama “The End” was the group at its most daring and, some would contend, overambitious. It was nonetheless a haunting cap to an album whose nonstop melodicism and dynamic tension would never be equaled by the group again, let alone bettered.
Tracklist
DISC 1 – Stereo Album Remastered:
01 – Break On Through (To The Other Side)
02 – Soul Kitchen
03 – The Crystal Ship
04 – Twentieth Century Fox
05 – Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
06 – Light My Fire
07 – Back Door Man
08 – I Looked At You
09 – End Of The Night
10 – Take It As It Comes
11 – The End
DISC 2: Mono Album Remastered
01 – Break On Through (To The Other Side) [Mono]02 – Soul Kitchen (Mono)
03 – The Crystal Ship (Mono)
04 – Twentieth Century Fox (Mono)
05 – Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) [Mono]06 – Light My Fire (Mono)
07 – Back Door Man (Mono)
08 – I Looked At You (Mono)
09 – End Of The Night (Mono)
10 – Take It As It Comes (Mono)
11 – The End (Mono)
DISC 3: Live at Matrix, San Francisco – March 7, 1967
01 – Break On Through (To The Other Side)
02 – Soul Kitchen
03 – The Crystal Ship
04 – Twentieth Century Fox
05 – Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
06 – Light My Fire
07 – Back Door Man
08 – The End
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