Essential Rarities Explained

Essential Rarities
Type:compilation
Artist:the Doors
Cover:Essential Rarities album cover.jpg
Released:2000
Recorded:1965–1977
Genre:
Length:71:01
Label:Elektra
Producer:
Prev Title:The Complete Studio Recordings
Prev Year:1999
Next Title:The Best of The Doors
Next Year:2000

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 .[1] [2]

Releases

All the tracks on the album had been officially released on the 1997 box set, with the exception of the bonus track "Woman Is a Devil," which was edited from the 1969 "Rock Is Dead" sessions from Elektra Records' Elektra Sound Recorders, and was not included in the box set version of the album. 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.

Track listing

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

Personnel

The Doors

Technical

Notes and References

  1. Web site: THE DOORS ARE OPEN AGAIN | NME. November 23, 1999.
  2. Book: Weidman, Rich. The Doors FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Kings of Acid Rock. October 1, 2011. Rowman & Littlefield. 9781617131141. Google Books.
  3. Web site: Jordan . Runtagh. Doors' L.A. Woman: 10 Things You Didn't Know . . August 20, 2020.