The Doors: Vinyl Box Set

The Doors: Vinyl Box Set is the seventh box set for American rock band the Doors. It is a seven-record set of the original six studio albums, remastered in stereo from the original analogue tapes and pressed on 180-gram HQ vinyl, and a mono version of the debut album. Artwork, packaging (the outer box featured faux lizard skin), and inner sleeves are replicas of the original LPs issued between 1967 and 1971. The albums were remastered from 192k/24 bit digital copies and pressed at Record Technology (RTI). An insert booklet includes notes from Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra Records and Bruce Botnick the Doors' longtime sound engineer/co-producer on all the original studio albums.

The Doors: Vinyl Box Set
Box set by the Doors
Released	April 22, 2008
Genre	Psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues rock, hard rock
Label	Elektra
Producer	Paul A. Rothchild, Bruce Botnick, The Doors
The Doors chronology
Perception (2006) The Doors: Vinyl Box Set (2008) Live in New York (2009)

Although originally planned for release in October 2007, the box set was finally released on April 22, 2008. The delay was due to an issue with the vinyl, as well as other problems in the production of the box set. Further delays included faulty test pressings, inferiority of the L.A. Woman artwork, and poor compounds in the initial vinyl run, which caused a search for a new source of virgin vinyl.[1]

The box set was released via Rhino Records and limited to 12,500 copies.

Disc 1 (stereo): The Doors

All songs written by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore, except where noted. (NOTE: This goes for all the albums in the box set.)

1. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (Jim Morrison) – 2:30
2. "Soul Kitchen" (Morrison) – 3:35
3. "The Crystal Ship" (Morrison) – 2:34
4. "Twentieth Century Fox" (Morrison) – 2:33
5. "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:20
6. "Light My Fire" (Robby Krieger) – 7:08
7. "Back Door Man" (Willie Dixon, Chester Burnett) – 3:34
8. "I Looked at You" (Morrison) – 2:22
9. "End of the Night" (Morrison) – 2:52
10. "Take It as It Comes" (Morrison) – 2:18
11. "The End" – 11:44

Disc 2: Strange Days

1. "Strange Days" (Morrison) – 3:11
2. "You're Lost Little Girl" (Krieger)– 3:03
3. "Love Me Two Times" (Krieger)– 3:18
4. "Unhappy Girl" (Morrison) – 2:02
5. "Horse Latitudes" (Morrison) – 1:37
6. "Moonlight Drive" (Morrison) – 3:05
7. "People Are Strange" (Morrison, Krieger) – 2:13
8. "My Eyes Have Seen You" (Morrison) – 2:32
9. "I Can't See Your Face in My Mind" (Morrison) – 3:26
10. "When the Music's Over" – 11:00

Disc 3: Waiting for the Sun

1. "Hello, I Love You" (Morrison) – 2:16
2. "Love Street" (Morrison)– 2:53
3. "Not to Touch the Earth" (Morrison)– 3:56
4. "Summer's Almost Gone" (Morrison) – 3:22
5. "Wintertime Love" (Morrison) – 1:54
6. "The Unknown Soldier" – 3:25
7. "Spanish Caravan" – 3:03
8. "My Wild Love" (Morrison) – 3:01
9. "We Could Be So Good Together" (Morrison) – 2:26
10. "Yes, the River Knows" (Krieger) – 2:36
11. "Five to One" (Morrison) – 4:26

Disc 4: The Soft Parade

1. "Tell All the People" (Krieger) – 3:23
2. "Touch Me" (Krieger) – 3:12
3. "Shaman's Blues" (Morrison) – 4:49
4. "Do It" (Morrison, Krieger) – 3:08
5. "Easy Ride" (Morrison) – 2:41
6. "Wild Child" (Morrison) – 2:38
7. "Runnin' Blue" (Krieger) – 2:33
8. "Wishful Sinful" (Krieger) – 3:02
9. "The Soft Parade" (Morrison) – 8:37

Disc 5: Morrison Hotel

1. "Roadhouse Blues" (Morrison, the doors) – 4:04
2. "Waiting for the Sun" (Morrison) – 3:59
   • Begun during The Doors' sessions for Waiting for the Sun in 1968.
3. "You Make Me Real" (Morrison) – 2:53
4. "Peace Frog" (Morrison, Krieger) – 2:54
5. "Blue Sunday" (Morrison) – 2:13
6. "Ship of Fools" (Morrison, Krieger) – 3:08
7. "Land Ho!" (Morrison, Krieger) – 4:10
8. "The Spy" (Morrison) – 4:17
9. "Queen of the Highway" (Morrison, Krieger) – 2:47
10. "Indian Summer" (Morrison, Krieger) – 2:36
    • Outtake from The Doors' debut album sessions, recorded in August 1966.
11. "Maggie M'Gill" (Morrison, the doors) – 4:23

Disc 6: L.A. Woman

1. "The Changeling" (Morrison) – 4:21
2. "Love Her Madly" (Krieger) – 3:20
3. "Been Down So Long" (Morrison) – 4:41
4. "Cars Hiss By My Window" (Morrison) – 4:12
5. "L.A. Woman" (Morrison) – 7:57
6. "L'America" (Morrison) – 4:37
7. "Hyacinth House" (Ray Manzarek, Morrison) – 3:11
8. "Crawling King Snake" (Anon, arr. by John Lee Hooker) – 5:00
9. "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" (Morrison) – 4:16
10. "Riders on the Storm" (the doors) – 7:09

Disc 7 (mono): The Doors

1. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (Morrison) – 2:30
2. "Soul Kitchen" (Morrison) – 3:35
3. "The Crystal Ship" (Morrison) – 2:34
4. "Twentieth Century Fox" (Morrison) – 2:33
5. "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Brecht, Weill) – 3:20
6. "Light My Fire" (Krieger) – 7:08
7. "Back Door Man" (Dixon, Burnett) – 3:34
8. "I Looked at You" (Morrison) – 2:22
9. "End of the Night" (Morrison) – 2:52
10. "Take It as It Comes" (Morrison) – 2:18
11. "The End" – 11:44

External links

• Vinyl Box Set on the Doors web page (Active Site)
• Delay on box set release
• The Doors Music Co. music shop
• Rhino Records

References

1. "Official Discussion Board".