The Complete Studio Recordings (The Doors album)

The Complete Studio Recordings
Box set by The Doors
Released November 9, 1999
Recorded 1965–1971
Genre Psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock, hard rock
Length 303:24
Label Elektra
Producer Paul Rothchild, Bruce Botnick, The Doors
The Doors chronology
The Doors: Box Set
(1997)
The Complete Studio Recordings
(1999)
No One Here Gets Out Alive
(2001)
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The Complete Studio Recordings is a seven compact disc box set by American rock group The Doors, released by Elektra on November 9, 1999. It contains six of the original eight Doors albums, digitally remastered with 24 bit, with the inclusion of stray previously unreleased tracks that had surfaced on the The Doors: Box Set series, on disc seven.

The albums are placed in chronological order.

Contents

Misleading title

While the title of the box set suggests this is a collection of all the studio recordings by the band, there are some notable exceptions. The set does not include the three post-Morrison albums Other Voices, Full Circle and An American Prayer, nor their respective singles. The non-album B-sides to "Get Up and Dance", the rare Tree Trunk, and to "Love Her Madly", "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further", a Willie Dixon song sung by Manzarek, are also missing.

Track listing

All songs were written by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore except where noted.

Disc one: The Doors

  1. "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" – 2:30
  2. "Soul Kitchen" – 3:35
  3. "The Crystal Ship" – 2:34
  4. "Twentieth Century Fox" – 2:33
  5. "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:20
  6. "Light My Fire" – 7:08
  7. "Back Door Man" (Willie Dixon) – 3:34
  8. "I Looked at You" – 2:22
  9. "End of the Night" – 2:52
  10. "Take It as It Comes" – 2:17
  11. "The End" – 11:43

Disc two: Strange Days

  1. "Strange Days" – 3:10
  2. "You're Lost Little Girl" – 3:03
  3. "Love Me Two Times" – 3:17
  4. "Unhappy Girl" – 2:00
  5. "Horse Latitudes" – 1:35
  6. "Moonlight Drive" – 3:04
  7. "People Are Strange" – 2:12
  8. "My Eyes Have Seen You" – 2:29
  9. "I Can't See Your Face in My Mind" – 3:26
  10. "When the Music's Over" – 11:00

Disc three: Waiting for the Sun

  1. "Hello, I Love You" – 2:16
  2. "Love Street" – 2:51
  3. "Not to Touch the Earth" – 3:55
  4. "Summer's Almost Gone" – 3:22
  5. "Wintertime Love" – 1:54
  6. "The Unknown Soldier" – 3:25
  7. "Spanish Caravan" – 3:00
  8. "My Wild Love" – 3:01
  9. "We Could Be So Good Together" – 2:24
  10. "Yes, The River Knows" – 2:36
  11. "Five to One" – 4:24

Disc four: The Soft Parade

  1. "Tell All the People" (Robby Krieger) – 3:21
  2. "Touch Me" (Robby Krieger) – 3:12
  3. "Shaman's Blues" (Jim Morrison) – 4:48
  4. "Do It" (Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger) – 3:08
  5. "Easy Ride" (Jim Morrison) – 2:41
  6. "Wild Child" (Jim Morrison) – 2:38
  7. "Runnin' Blue" (Robby Krieger) – 2:30
  8. "Wishful Sinful" (Robby Krieger) – 3:00
  9. "The Soft Parade" (Jim Morrison) – 8:34

Disc five: Morrison Hotel

  1. "Roadhouse Blues" – 4:04
  2. "Waiting for the Sun" – 3:59
  3. "You Make Me Real" – 2:53
  4. "Peace Frog" – 2:54
  5. "Blue Sunday" – 2:13
  6. "Ship of Fools" – 3:08
  7. "Land Ho!" (Morrison, Krieger) – 4:10
  8. "The Spy" – 4:17
  9. "Queen of the Highway" – 2:47
  10. "Indian Summer" (Morrison, Krieger) – 2:36
  11. "Maggie M'Gill" – 4:23

Disc six: L.A. Woman

  1. "The Changeling" – 4:21
  2. "Love Her Madly" – 3:20
  3. "Been Down So Long" – 4:41
  4. "Cars Hiss by My Window" – 4:12
  5. "L.A. Woman" – 7:55
  6. "L'America" – 4:37
  7. "Hyacinth House" – 3:11
  8. "Crawlin' King Snake" (John Lee Hooker) – 5:00
  9. "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" – 4:16
  10. "Riders on the Storm" – 7:09

Disc seven: Essential Rarities

  1. "Hello to the Cities" (Live) – 0:56
  2. "Break on Through" – (Live) 4:32
  3. "Roadhouse Blues" – (Live) 4:19
  4. "Hyacinth House" (Demo) – 2:40
  5. "Who Scared You" – 3:16
  6. "Whiskey, Mystics & Men" – 2:19
  7. "I Will Never Be Untrue" – 3:56
  8. "Moonlight Drive" (Demo) – 2:31
  9. "Queen of the Highway" (Alternate Version) – 3:32
  10. "Someday Soon" (Live) – 3:41
  11. "Hello, I Love You" (Demo) – 2:28
  12. "Orange County Suite" – 5:27
  13. "The Soft Parade" (Live) – 10:03
  14. "The End" – (Live) 18:01
  15. "Woman Is a Devil" (bonus track) – 4:08