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1 Break on Through (To the Other Side) Doors 2:27
2 Light My Fire Doors 6:59
3 Love Me Two Times Doors 3:16
4 Hello, I Love You Doors 2:41
5 People Are Strange Doors 2:12
6 Strange Days The Doors 3:09
7 Riders on the Storm Doors 7:09
8 L.A. Woman Doors 8:00
9 Touch Me Krieger 3:12
10 Roadhouse Blues Doors 4:08
11 Peace Frog Morrison/Krieger 2:58
12 Love Street Doors 2:57
13 The Crystal Ship Doors 2:35
14 Soul Kitchen Doors 3:33
15 Love Her Madly Doors 3:40
16 Back Door Man Burnett/Dixon 3:33
17 Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) Weill/Brecht 3:17
18 Moonlight Drive Doors 3:05
19 The Unknown Soldier Doors 3:26
20 The End [Edit Version][Version] Doors 6:28
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The Future Starts Here: The Essential Doors Hits

Audio Compact Disc

Label: Elektra/Rhino

Style: Rock & Roll

The Future Starts Here: The Essential Doors Hits

UPC: 081227994860

Release Date: 01/29/2008

Original Release Date: 01/29/2008

Number of Discs: 1

Tracks: [Break on Through (To the Other Side), Light My Fire, Love Me Two Times, Hello, I Love You, People Are Strange, Strange Days, Riders on the Storm, L.A. Woman, Touch Me, Roadhouse Blues, Peace Frog, Love Street, The Crystal Ship, Soul Kitchen, Love Her Madly, Back Door Man, Alabama Song (Whisky Bar), Moonlight Drive, The Unknown Soldier, The End [Edit Version][Version]]
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Steve Leggett

Although the Doors were really only together for four years, releasing six albums between 1967 and 1971, their impact and legacy is as lasting as any in the history of rock, and no band before or since has really sounded anything like them. Driven by Jim Morrison's frequently bombastic and sophomoric but always utterly fascinating take on the colliding orbits of sex and death, the Doors managed to sound big, dangerous, and edgy while still retaining a commercial viability, placing singles high on the pop charts through every stylistic phase of the group's existence. This concise set hits all the absolute essentials, and each of these 20 tracks is a classic, from the early mission statement "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" to the unambiguous stomp of "L.A. Woman" (for the record, the chant of "Mr. Mojo Risin'" was intended as a deliberate anagram of the name Jim Morrison). What sometimes gets lost in the larger-than-life myth of Morrison was his still refreshing directness with love songs, and "Love Me Two Times," "Hello, I Love You," "Touch Me," and "Don't You Love Her Madly" all retain a surprisingly tender strength and honesty even some 40 years after they were recorded. Then, of course, there's "The End," still one of the most harrowing moments in the history of rock (the mix included here is the edit version from the film Apocalypse Now), and the song that best illustrates Morrison's over-the-top but somehow appropriately balanced sense of how theater, drama, psychology, sex, death, pop poetry, and rock all merge into a single unavoidable spectacle. No band has ever done it better, or had the courage to even try. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi

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