The Doors (Remastered - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) The Doors

• 1 Break On Through (To The Other Side) (Remastered) 02:29
• 2 Soul Kitchen (Remastered) 03:35
• 3 The Crystal Ship (Remastered) 02:34
• 4 Twentieth Century Fox (Remastered) 02:34
• 5 Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) (Remastered) 03:20
• 6 Light My Fire (Remastered) 07:10
• 7 Back Door Man (Remastered) 03:34
• 8 I Looked At You (Remastered) 02:21
• 9 End Of The Night (Remastered) 02:52
• 10 Take It As It Comes (Remastered) 03:20
• 11 The End (Remastered) 11:50
• 12 Break On Through (To The Other Side) (Mono Remastered) 02:28
• 13 Soul Kitchen (Mono Remastered) 03:34
• 14 The Crystal Ship (Mono Remastered) 02:34
• 15 Twentieth Century Fox (Mono Remastered) 02:33
• 16 Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) (Mono Remastered) 03:21
• 17 Light My Fire (Mono Remastered) 07:00
• 18 Back Door Man (Mono Remastered) 03:34
• 19 I Looked At You (Mono Remastered) 02:23
• 20 End Of The Night (Mono Remastered) 02:54
• 21 Take It As It Comes (Mono Remastered) 02:17
• 22 The End (Mono Remastered) 11:46
• 23 Break On Through (To The Other Side) (Live at Matrix, 3/7/1967) 03:35
• 24 Soul Kitchen (Live at Matrix, 3/7/1967) 04:05
• 25 The Crystal Ship (Live at Matrix, 3/7/1967) 03:07
• 26 Twentieth Century Fox (Live at Matrix, 3/7/1967) 02:54
• 27 Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) (Live at Matrix, 3/7/1967) 04:03
• 28 Light My Fire (Live at Matrix, 3/7/1967) 08:51
• 29 Back Door Man (Live at Matrix, 3/7/1967) 05:44
• 30 The End (Live at Matrix, 3/7/1967) 14:14
• Total Runtime 02:16:36

Info zu The Doors (Remastered - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Vor 50 Jahren, am 4. Januar 1967, veröffentlichten The Doors mit ihrem Debüt-Album „The Doors“ auf Elektra Records zum ersten Mal zur anderen Seite durch! The Doors wurde dank unsterblicher Hits wie „Light My Fire”, „Break On Through (To The Other Side)” und anderen Songs mit Millionen verkaufter Alben zu einem Klassiker und machte John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek und Jim Morrison zu Stars. Das zeitlose Album gilt heute als eines der besten Debütalben im Rock’n‘Roll!

The Doors: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition enthält den Original-Stereomix des Albums, der nach über 10 Jahren damit zum ersten Mal wieder auf HighResAudio erhältlich sein wird und nach fast 30 Jahren erstmalig neu remastert wurde. Auch der Original-Monomix wurde für die Anniversary Edition remastert und erscheint damit zum ersten Mal überhaupt auf HighResAudio. Zusätzlich erhalten sind Mitschnitte einer Live-Performance aus dem Club The Matrix in San Francisco, der nur wenige Wochen nach der Veröffentlichung von The Doors entstand.

The Doors: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition eröffnet eine selten gegebene Gelegenheit, die Band auf der Schwelle zum Superstar-Status zu hören. Die Aufnahmen aus dem Matrix entstanden am 7. März 1967 und stammen aus den jüngst entdeckten Originalbändern, die lange als verschollen galten. Die bereits 2008 veröffentlichten Aufnahmen kamen von Quellen, die bereits drei Kopiervorgänge hinter sich hatten. Dementsprechend ist die Soundqualität dieser neuen Version, die nun zu hören ist, nicht mit der alten Version vergleichbar.

Jim Morrison, Gesang
Ray Manzarek, Keyboards
Robby Krieger, Gitarre
John Densmore, Schlagzeug

Digitally remastered

With an intoxicating, genre-blending sound, provocative and uncompromising songs, and the mesmerizing power of singer Jim Morrison's poetry and presence, The Doors had a transformative impact not only on popular music but on popular culture.

The Doors' arrival on the rock scene in 1967 marked not only the start of a string of hit singles and albums that would become stone classics, but also of something much bigger - a new and deeper relationship between creators and audience. Refusing to be mere entertainers, the Los Angeles quartet relentlessly challenged, confronted and inspired their fans, leaping headfirst into the heart of darkness while other bands warbled about peace and love. Though they've had scores of imitators, there's never been another band quite like them. And 40 years after their debut album, The Doors' music and legacy are more influential than ever before.

Morrison's mystical command of the frontman role may be the iconic heart of The Doors, but the group's extraordinary power would hardly have been possible without the virtuosic keyboard tapestries of Ray Manzarek, the gritty, expressive fretwork of guitarist Robby Krieger and the supple, dynamically rich grooves of drummer John Densmore. From baroque art-rock to jazz-infused pop to gutbucket blues, the band's instrumental triad could navigate any musical territory with aplomb - and all three contributed mightily as songwriters.

The group was born when Morrison and Manzarek - who'd met at UCLA's film school - met again, unexpectedly, on the beach in Venice, CA, during the summer of 1965. Though he'd never intended to be a singer, Morrison was invited to join Manzarek's group Rick and the Ravens on the strength of his poetry. Krieger and Densmore, who’d played together in the band Psychedelic Rangers, were recruited soon thereafter; though several bassists auditioned of the new collective, none could furnish the bottom end as effectively as Manzarek's left hand. Taking their name from Aldous Huxley's psychotropic monograph The Doors of Perception, the band signed to Elektra Records following a now-legendary gig at the Whisky-a-Go-Go on the Sunset Strip.

Their eponymous first album, released in January 1967, kicked off with "Break on Through (to the Other Side)" and also featured the chart smash "Light My Fire", the scorching "Back Door Man" and the visionary masterpiece "The End". The Doors arrived fully formed, capable of rocking the pop charts and the avant-garde with one staggering disc. Before '67 was over, they'd issued the ambitious follow-up Strange Days, with such gems as "Love Me Two Times", "People Are Strange" and "When the Music's Over".

Next came 1968's Waiting for the Sun, boasting "Hello, I Love You", "Love Street" and "Five to One". Over the next few years they minded over new territory on such albums as 1969's The Soft Parade (featuring "Touch Me" and "Tell All the People"), 1970's Morrison Hotel (which includes "Roadhouse Blues", "Peace Frog" and "Queen of the Highway") and 1971's L.A. Woman (boasting "Rider's on the Storm", "Love Her Madly" and the title track).

They released six studio albums in all, as well as a live album and a compilation, before Morrison's death in 1971. their electrifying achievements in the studio and onstage were unmatched in the annals of rock; and though Morrison's death meant the end of an era, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore collaborated on two more original Doors albums, Other Voices and Full Circle, and a set of tracks they composed to accompany Morrison's 1969 recording of his poetry, released in 1978 as An American Prayer. They also pursued individual music projects, books, theatrical productions and other enterprises - and remain restlessly creative to this day.

In the decades since the Doors' heyday, the foursome has loomed ever larger in the pantheon of rock - and they remain a touchstone of insurrectionary culture for writers, activists, visual artists and other creative communities. Their songs, featured in an ever-increasing number of films, TV shows, video games and remixes, always sound uncannily contemporary. No matter how the musical and cultural tides turn, The Doors will always be ready to help a new wave of listeners break on through to the other side. (Source: jam inc.)

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