Anyone buying next week's Doors box set?

[Steve Savicki]

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7301532&cart=428293289&BAB=G

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[SilvioDante]

The Doors are quite possibly the most overrated band in the history of rock and roll whose hype is only surpassed by Nirvana's dribble.

Get semi-famous, die in a moronic manner, become a rock god.

[Mr Badguy]

So it`s just like their six studio albums with bonus tracks and six DVDs of stuff that`s probably mostly previously unreleased?

$150?

For fanatics only.

Is the "Celebration of the Lizard" bonus track the full song cycle or just the name of another song?

[Mr Badguy]

Originally posted by SilvioDante
The Doors are quite possibly the most overrated band in the history of rock and roll whose hype is only surpassed by Nirvana's dribble.

Get semi-famous, die in a moronic manner, become a rock god.

I don`t think that`s fair.

They had a pretty unique sound, when you hear one of their songs you know who it is, and that is something only true originals master.

I think you overestimate their legend.

Apart from the big popularity surge they had around fifteen years ago (circa "The Doors" movie), their back catologue doesn`t shift anywhere near the number of copies that, for example, Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd`s do.

Also their musical influence doesn`t over-exert itself in rock either, due to the fact that they weren`t a straight rock group.

Only in the numerous Morrison clones (Ian Astbury, Michael Hutchence etc.) does their influence really appear.

You could argue also that they are the most underrated band ever.

[Steve Savicki]

They were diverse like Floyd and Zep. Not like Boston with the same old arrangements.

[Terry]

Was huge on the Doors from about 1987 to 1991; probably the band that got the most time in my cassette player.

But, nah. Not gonna get this thing. Last thing I did Doors-wise was finally upgrade all 6 studio albums to cd a year or so ago. Between all the Doors posters, Jimbo poetry books, VHS tapes and dvds I've shelled out for, I figure Ray, Robbie, John and Jim's estate have gotten enough of my money over the years...

Plus, the Doors have been repackaged for greatest hits and box sets so many times that it's kinda getting silly at this point.

About the only thing I'd pay for at this point are copies of Feast Of Friends and HWY.

[Steve Savicki]

Originally posted by Terry Plus, the Doors have been repackaged for greatest hits and box sets so many times that it's kinda getting silly at this point.

So this is just Rhino's way of raking in buck after buck year after year?

[SilvioDante]

Originally posted by Mr Badguy

You could argue also that they are the most underrated band ever.

I don't think that you could concider them underrated seeing as they are in the Rock and Roll HOF and Van Halen isn't.

Look, I believe they had some good songs. "Light My Fire" is one of the best songs in RnR history, and I once lobbied the band I was in to do "Roadhouse Blues", but if I see one more poster of Morrison in a Christ pose, I am gonna be sick.

[Mr Badguy]

Originally posted by SilvioDante
I don't think that you could concider them underrated seeing as they are in the Rock and Roll HOF and Van Halen isn't.

Look, I believe they had some good songs. "Light My Fire" is one of the best songs in RnR history, and I once lobbied the band I was in to do "Roadhouse Blues", but if I see one more poster of Morrison in a Christ pose, I am gonna be sick.

Fair enough.

The music was pretty innovative, though.

[DLRdelight!]

im a huge doors fan and i just finished getting the all the studio albums not too long ago. not to mention that i lready have the other box set that had four cd's. i am tempted to buy this though but not right now. the old box set of the complete studio albums was better because the cd cases were made to look exactly as the record cases and they even came in sleeves

[Hardrock69]

I dig L.A. Woman, and Riders On The Storm.

COOL fucking music.

They may not have been "heavy" or some kind of virtuoso band (and I hate that goddamned organ sound Ray has on "Light My Fire"...), but they did have a unique sound, and their musical compositions were pretty different from the normal "rock" of that time period.

In the 50s, rock was a little kid. It grew up as a teenager in the 60s, etc.

By the late 60s, bands were finally beginning to have a sound that is still relevant almost 40 years later.

Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple all got their start in the period 1966-1968, not to mention the newly-created position of "God Of Electric Guitar" originally held by Clapton, but superceded by Hendrix.

The Doors had an emphasis on keyboards. I mean, they had no permanent bassist. Robby Krieger is more of a jazz-rock stylist. Not a true balls-out rock guitarist in my opinion. Not bad, but I expect more intensity in my guitar when I am listening to rock music.

That said, I still like some of their stuff.

Every time I see something lying by the side of the road, be it cardboard, an old tire, a torn up deer, or whatever, I will paraphrase a line from a Morrison tune (The End I think....or could be Horse Latitudes or something)

"Dead indian by the side of the road......"

Except in my case it will be "Dead cardboard by the side of the road....." or "Dead beercan by the side of the road....."

I mean come on....if you are discarded by the side of the road, doesn't matter if you are human, animal, or inanimate object, you are pretty much dead.
So there is a certain black humour about it.

I am rambling.

Is it soup yet?

[Hardrock69]

But no....I am not buying the box set. The Door's Greatest Hits is enough for me.

[Terry]

Originally posted by Steve Savicki
So this is just Rhino's way of raking in buck after buck year after year?

Well, whoever has the rights to release the music would be foolish not to, as there is obviously a buck to be made...I suppose that's why they are called record COMPANIES...

I dunno. Best post-1971 release I ever got my hands on was a two-tape cassette title called Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine. Every other greatest hits release paled beside that one, IMO.

I've got the 6 original albums put out on Elektra, An American Prayer, couple of boots from 1970, pretty much everything out on video that's been officially released...the only one I lost track of is Absolutely Live, but I can't be bothered to see if it even came out on cd and get a new copy...just plain don't need the new box set. Ain't gonna be anything on it I don't already have...the vaults of the Doors have been raped so many times, and I doubt anything we haven't heard before is gonna be on this.

[Steve Savicki]

Originally posted by DLRdelight!
im a huge doors fan and i just finished getting the all the studio albums not too long ago. not to mention that i lready have the other box set that had four cd's. i am tempted to buy this though but not right now. the old box set of the complete studio albums was better because the cd cases were made to look exactly as the record cases and they even came in sleeves

Which is why I don't need this one... bought that the week it came out.
This was in '99 if my memory serves correctly.

[Mr Badguy]

Originally posted by Terry
the only one I lost track of is Absolutely Live, but I can't be bothered to see if it even came out on cd and get a new copy...

It`s now called "The Doors In Concert" and is a 2CD compilation of the three live albums "Absolutely live", "Alive, she cried" and "Live at the Hollywood bowl".

Definetly worth getting hold of, if only for "The celebration of the lizard".