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Don't buy it for the interview

Jason Tharp | Wolverine, MI United States | 09/13/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I admit to being a rabid enough Doors fan that I would buy a collection like this just for the interview with Ray Manzarek (& I don't even like him that much). Word of warning to others like me: There Is No Interview! The cardboard sleeve surrounding the cd case says there is, but without that this European version is the same as the Canadian one - "Roadhouse Blues" footage but no interview. Other than that & the usual complaints about not including "Wild Child", or putting in "Mosquito" instead of "Tight Rope", this is about the best 2cd comp out there. "Legacy" has "Wild Child" but it wastes time on "The Celebration of the Lizard", which only people like me would really want. Eventually we'll be able to make our own custom comps in the store (if they still have music stores), or on the internet like the Beastie Boys Anthology, but until then, not everybody will be happy. The 4 star review is cause they keep releasing these things for no other reason than to make money, & I'm still mad about the interview. The music is all 5 stars of course."

Uncensored Doors Album

Goofball | Grayslake, Illinois United States | 09/17/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is an amazing album. Like others have said all the studio albums are covered. Peace Frog, which on another Doors compilation album is not included is on this import. The obscure songs you don't hear on radio are easy to find on here. The best feature on this album (I think it is pretty cool) is that on "Break on Through" You can hear Jim say 'high'. It sounds like he is saying "she gets high". On ALL radio versions of this song 'high' is omitted. I am not sure why. There are a lot worse things in music!?!?"

There Are things Known And There Are Things Unknown...

John P. Morgan | Beautiful San Dimas, CA | 04/06/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"...and in between them, are the doors.



I was in a drivers training car the first time I really heard Light My Fire. Oh, I heard it before, but for some reason, its "magic" worked on me that Spring morning. My foot just stayed on the accelerator pedal and my drivers ed teacher, himself a big, aging hippie, said rather casually from the backseat, "Whoa, bro...come back to earth..."



But there was no way I could return to this world the same way. Jim Morrison and the Doors had me and it was a good thing, a magical thing, a time in my life that will never ever be repeated again. I stayed up late listening to all their albums. This was in 1981 so CDs were still a few years away. I had my Realistic Radio Shack headphones on listening to my Fisher Stereo. Nag Champa incense was burning in the background and a dozen or so candles were lit strewn throughout my small room. My eyes were closed and the music took me to places/to spaces I never knew existed.



The Doors touched my "shadow side". Our shadow side is not something to be avoided or pushed down. In fact, the more it gets pushed down, the larger it becomes and it is the unexpressed shadow that becomes a negative force, but when it is faced and when it is embraced you begin to realize that all the monsters you're afraid of, all the demons you ever ran away from are in fact, your creations. And even though Jim Morrison was able to help me deal with my inner demons, Morrison succumbed to his own. Sad thing, really.



I eventually sold all my vinyl albums. Why? I dunno. Maybe I was going through a retarded period. I eventually did get them again but on CD. Like I said, that was a time that I could never return to. There was just something magical...something tangible about vinyl.



I got this CD because I am a Doors fan and I will always be, but it's different now. It's not something I really can listen to while just sitting there. Well, I guess it's because those days are over. There usually is something to tend to and maybe that's the biggest demon we have; forgetting what made us, US.



I haven't forgotten totally. I still listen to a few of my most favorite cuts while walking the dog or driving to the beach and sometimes that 15 year old kid will tap me on the shoulder and remind me of those things I used to love to do; paint, write poetry by candlelight, just allowing the unseen and the seen to merge and dance and creating something new and weird and beautiful.



This CD is full of "once upon a time" memories. Some painful and sad, some joyful and exhilirating but still never things to run away from, but run to, to be faced and embraced once again but in a different way.



Peace & Blessings,

john, "the Light Coach"

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