A Collection - CD, Box Set

The Doors: A Collection versie op 6CD/Doos in remastered editie. Deze specifieke uitgave werd uitgebracht in Europa bij uitgeverij Elektra in samenwerking met Rhino Records (2) en Doors Music Company op 19. juli 2011.

He was a poet, a sex symbol, a charismatic artist and a terror to the guardians of morality. Jim Morrison embodied the dark and mystical side of the flower power era. Along with Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robbie Krieger, he formed the legendary Doors, a band that even today no music fan or musician can get around. July 3 marks the fortieth anniversary of his death, and in memory of this icon of rock poetry, The Doors - A Collection is being released, featuring all six studio albums in paper sleeves, plus the latest 40th Anniversary Mix. A treat for collectors, an indispensable must for music fans as it traces the band's musical history in all its glory. The Doors got together in 1965 and named themselves after Aldous Huxley's groundbreaking analysis of drugs, "The Doors of Perception". All four members of the band were film, art or music students and due to a lack of a suitable bass player, keyboardist Manzarek took over the bass lines on his Rhodes piano. The Doors' distinctive one-train sound was born. The first eponymous album brought a breakthrough in January 1967 with the song "Light My Fire", which made the band a cult band from the start. The album also features the Oedipal epic "The End", chosen by Francis Ford Coppola as the key song for the anti-war film drama "Apocalypse Now". In the autumn of the same year, the second album Strange Days was released, which many fans consider to be the band's most mystical album. In 1968, they confronted hippie-mania with the album Waiting For The Sun. The Soft Parade (1969) was long underrated as their weakest album due to its slightly degenerate arrangements with strings and horns, and its true greatness only became apparent in retrospect. Morrison Hotel, released in February 1970, was written by Jim Morrison himself and became one of his most successful albums. In 1971, L.A. Woman, the last album of the full line-up, was released, one of the strongest works of the early 1970s. In 1971, Jim Morrison went to Paris to gain some distance from the scandals for which he was often not responsible. He wanted to reorganise his life and devote himself to literature. Unfortunately, this did not happen. He died in unexplained circumstances, but probably of a heart attack, and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, which has been visited by thousands of fans every year since as a place of pilgrimage. Review , "Even from today's perspective, what the Doors have delivered in such a short time in the form of strong albums is more than impressive." (Good Times, August/September 2011) , "Sparse delivery, rich musical content: 'The Collection' reduces The Doors to what matters most - their music." (Stereo Play, September 2011) "The Doors play with pressure, airy cymbals circling around tonally balanced chords of organ, bass and guitar. Morrison's voice, often inextricably laced with the obligatory reverb effect caused by the recording technology of the day, is now much more easily placed in the fragile sonic universe." (audio, September 2011)

Album valt binnen het genre Rock, Psychedelic rock, Blues-Rock en Acid Rock.