The Doors - The Very Best of the Doors [US 2007 2CD]

There ought to be a warning label on this double-CD set, and not for parents (though with The Doors you never know) but for fans -- thanks to the "40th Anniversary Remixes," almost every song here is so different from the established versions of The Doors' classic repertory, that it is certain to annoy the hell out of longtime fans and will give new listeners a very misleading picture of what the group's hits sounded like and what their music was about sonically. The Doors were already one of the most heavily anthologized bands of the 1960s -- like The Who, they've had more hits collections and best-of compilations issued on them than the number of official albums that they ever released, which is testimony to their continued popularity across the decades, and this double-CD set is certain to double or triple the confusion associated with that mass of compilation albums. Read More