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Essential Rarities

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Released
  
June 20, 1999

Length
  
71:01

Release date
  
20 June 1999

Label
  
Elektra Records

Recorded
  
1965–1970

Artist
  
The Doors

Producer
  
Bruce Botnick

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Essential Rarities (2000)
  
The Best of The Doors (2000)

Genres
  
Rock music, Psychedelic rock, Blues rock, Acid rock

Similar
  
The Doors albums, Rock music albums

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Essential Rarities is a compilation album by The Doors, originally released as part of the boxed set The Complete Studio Recordings in 1999, but reissued in 2000 as a single CD, containing studio cuts, live cuts and demos taken from the 1997 The Doors: Box Set.

Contents

All the tracks on this album have been officially released on the 1997 box set, with the exception of the bonus track "Woman Is a Devil", that was edited from the 1969 Elektra Sound Recorders Studios, 962 La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90069, "Rock Is Dead" sessions, and was not included in the box set version of the album.

Also, some songs appear in more complete form than their Box Set versions: "Roadhouse Blues" has a 35-second section that was cut from the bridge of the song, and "Who Scared You" has an extra verse.

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Track listing

All songs written by The Doors (John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and Jim Morrison), except where noted.

  1. "Hello to the Cities" (Live on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1967 and at Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, 1970) – 0:57
  2. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (Jim Morrison) (Recorded live at the Isle of Wight Festival, England, UK, 1970) – 4:44
  3. "Roadhouse Blues" (Morrison) (Recorded live at Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, 1970) – 4:31
  4. "Hyacinth House" (Ray Manzarek, Morrison) (Demo recorded at Robby Krieger's home studio, 1969) – 2:38
  5. "Who Scared You" (Recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders Studios, 962 La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90069, 1969) – 3:55
  6. "Whiskey, Mystics and Men" (Recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders Studios, 962 La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90069, 1970, though it was actually recorded the previous year with overdubs put in by the surviving members in 1977) – 2:23
  7. "I Will Never Be Untrue" (Morrison) (Recorded live at the Aquarius Theater, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, 1969) – 3:58
  8. "Moonlight Drive" (Morrison) (Demo recorded at World Pacific Studios, 1965) – 2:31
  9. "Queen of the Highway" (Morrison, Krieger) (Alternate version recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders Studios, 962 La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90069, 1969) – 3:35
  10. "Someday Soon" (Recorded live at the Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington, 1970) – 3:49
  11. "Hello, I Love You" (Morrison) (Demo recorded at World Pacific Studios, 1965) – 2:31
  12. "Orange County Suite" (Morrison) (Recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders Studios, 962 La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90069, 1970) – 5:44
  13. "The Soft Parade" (Morrison) (Recorded live on PBS Television, New York, 1969) – 10:09
  14. "The End" (Recorded live at Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, 1970) – 17:46
  15. "Woman Is a Devil" (Morrison) (Recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders Studios, 962 La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90069, 1969) – 4:10

Personnel

  • Robby Krieger – guitar
  • Jim Morrison – vocals, piano on "Orange County Suite"
  • Ray Manzarek – organ, piano, keyboards & bass
  • John Densmore – drums
  • Paul A. Rothchild – original producer
  • Bruce Botnick – producer
  • Danny Sugerman – management
  • Richard Evans – art direction and design
  • Todd Gray – photo archivist

    • Songs

    1Hello To The Cities0:57
    2Break on Through (To the Other Side) (live)4:44
    3Roadhouse Blues (live)4:33

    References

    Essential Rarities Wikipedia
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