Ideally one would avoid compilations of the doors work except perhaps for the hit singles and moments when one wanted very light listening.
Best of the doors album cover.
The best of the doors is a compilation album by american rock group the doors released in 1985 the double lp set contains 18 songs from their first six albums with lead singer jim morrison including charting singles and selected album cuts.
This was a band that took itself very seriously almost to the point of self parody at times and their music ought to be discovered in the setting and context in which it was intended but assuming that one needs a doors anthology this 18 track.
Danny sugerman contributed a short essay which discussed the band s origins influences and morrison s personality and was printed inside the gatefold.
The band members are jim morrison on lead vocals ray manzarek on keyboards robby krieger on lead guitars and john densmore on drums.
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.
Unlike its eponymous predecessors the 2000 release includes both break on through to the other side.
Album covers for albums by the doors found by onemusicapi.
It features the same cover art as the best of the doors album released in 2000 and a similar tracklisting to the single cd version of that album.