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  | 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: Elektra / Wea Catalog: Music Release date: 2000-12-19 Media: DVD Audio discs number: 1 Format: Enhanced Ean: 0075596261296 Upc: 075596261296  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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| Album tracks: (10) |
 Changeling Love Her Madly Been Down So Long Cars Hiss by My Window | L.A. Woman 'America Hyacinth House Crawling King Snake | WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) Riders on the Storm |
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 Written on December 26, 2007 Summary: Great Remix Of A Great Album. After the first few minutes you still know that "L.A. Woman" is a monster of an album, a huge, roaring blast of blues and rock n' roll with all the force of a seasoned band that has come full circle. It was the last Doors album with legendary frontman Jim Morrison, and it is a dirty, mean, ghostly work. This is also the final release of the 40th anniversary remixes where sound engineer Bruce Botnick has taken every Doors album and remixed them from their original sources. The results have been impressive and "L.A. Woman" is no exception. The songs now race along with a sharper, cleaner sound, with their rhythms and elements brought back to new life. "The Changeling" kicks things off with a hard funk beat that here has a much clearer sound and rocking bass, "Love Her Madly" has sharper drums and Morrison's vocals come across more clearly and with powerful force, the same as in the song "L.A. Woman" which has a smoother drum beat and guitars, Ray Manzarek's keyboards also shine better here. You can also pick up sounds that were originally lost here, effects and background instrumentals which had been lost to the rotting effects of tape hiss and age. Purists have been huffing and puffing over these remixes, claiming they are different albums, which they are not. Botnick has simply taken the original tracks and remixed them, he's bringing up to the surface what we couldn't hear before. Now the music of The Doors sounds better than it ever has, and new generations of fans will be delighted to discover them this way, without the aging limitations of other artists' releases. As an album this is still a masterful blues work as The Doors produce a potent combination of blues and rock, giving us a beautiful, edgy hybrid, just listen to the menacing "Crawling King Snake" and rough "Been Down So Long." And yet they never lose their haunting, dark poetic quality that made them famous, "Riders On The Storm" is still a ghostly recitation framed by a thunder shower. What comes across so well in this re-release is the stunning detail and quality of what The Doors created with this album. This was their first project without their long-time producer Paul Rothchild, who was simply burned out from working with a frontman who's wild antics and stage attitude preceeded Iggy Pop and Marilyn Manson. Independent and producing themselves, the band recorded an album that sounds and feels completely free and unrestrained with amazing lyrical and musical creativity. "L.A. Woman" is a masterpiece, and now it sounds better and louder, a must for Doors fans and a must for any rock n' roll library. Written on November 29, 2007 Summary: The Last Doors Album The music of The Doors as hippe counter culture icons is best showcased on their first and last albums which respectively got the most radio play song for song. The albums in between take a back seat to Morrison's alcohol and drug abuse which the band, especially Robby Kreggar had a hard time putting up with past their first few gigs in the LA area. The Doors lve shows were intimate spectacles of hippie anabaptist excess- a joke they are not. The Doors were like the Marilyn Manson back then before the makeup and geeky outfits got in the way of the music and the band performing together as a unit. This 2007 reissue is the closest to the original 1972 or so it will look and sound like. I got this at Wal Mart for 10 bucks and they got rid of any humor. The 90s version saw a drunk and stoned plus hung over Morrison while the rest of the band on the cover photo were old men and didn't care if the were popular any more. The last Doors album with Morrison represented a point when The Doors were physically old men and didn't care if they were popular any more. Latter Doors album with Ray Manzarik singing were unfocused affairs that failed to even get a cult following or even sell. This went gold upon its release and later went platinum with a renewed interest in Morrison era Doors following the 90s movie, continuous radio play and the atrocous sales of Manzarek led Doors. Jim Orrison faked his death of a heroin over dose shortly after the last few gigs of the LA Woman tour. He has lost any humor and is still burnt out. The Doors used a session bass player only on this album LA Woman to flesh out their sound that they needed here in the heavier bass parts. Written on November 23, 2007 Summary: (4.5 stars) MR. MOJO RISING ! (L.A. Woman is fantastic in places, weary in others) The Doors' L.A. Woman (1971) is Jim Morrison's swan song. After the sessions, he moved to Paris, France and mysteriously died on July 3, 1971. The music on L.A Woman ranges from the best of The Doors to tired and indifferent. L.A. Woman, Riders On The Storm, The Changeling, and Love Her Madly are as good as it gets, and as good as anything The Doors ever recorded. Been Down So long, Cars Hiss By My Window, and Crawling King Snake are also good, but would have been better had long-time producer and so-called "fifth Door", Paul Rothchild, stayed with the project. Hyacinth House and The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) start out great, but sort of lose their way without Rothchild's professional guidance. As everybody knows, Jim Morrison was The Doors' creative and spiritual trailblazer, and by this time in his short, intense and highly intoxicated life, he was just about worn out. Staying drunk, rarely bathing, and showing up at the studio randomly by this time, The Doors and their music had become more of an obligation than a passion for him. And it shows in some parts of the album. L.A. Woman is a very good album on the strength of some really great songs, but it also sounds sadly fatigued and poorly produced in places. Being that it's Jim Morrison's last work makes it a worthwhile listen, and I especially like to hear the very last recording ever made of his voice. He whispers the lyrics of Riders On The Storm over his vocal track. It's seductively eerie, and a perfect way for the Lizard King to make his exit... Written on November 11, 2007 Summary: Their Best and Their Last Album Has Gotten Even Better! This mini-lp replica sleeve (mlps) version of The Doors' last and most cohesive album and certainly my favourite is a treat for fans. The mlps design is very good and is very well put together. Included is a 20-page booklet with an essay by the original producer and this 40th Anniversary version remixer, Bruce Botnick, and all the lyrics in both English and Japanese. Bruce describes how this mix is the best one and the one that was intended all those years ago if only they had had the right equipment as the do now. So who am I to criticise a mix done by the original producer with the surviving members of the band itself! Although volume levels are lower than on previous versions, after a few listens, I have to admit that this is indeed the better mix with many subtle sounds surfacing that were not evident on previous mixes. The remastering is well done and so the sound quality is really very good. There are also two bonus tracks: "Orange County Suite" and "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further" which are very good tracks and hence do not detract from the main material which tends to happen with bonus tracks on albums in general. This is my favourite Doors album because overall you can hear the maturity in terms of the level of composition as well as in the musicianship and of course because it includes my favourite Doors track, "Riders On the Storm". Few things in life compare with putting that track on the car stereo while driving at night. While there are a couple of weaker tracks such as "L'America" and "Hyacinth House", the rest of the album is filled with brilliant work. The album starts out with the brilliant "Changeling" followed by the equally brilliant "Love Her Madly". The Doors' work strikes me as truly unique as although there have been and probably will always be admirers of their work, I cannot say that I've ever heard any imitators that come close to their sound. They are so unique and good at what they did that you could almost put them into a sub-genre all by themselves. Very few acts in the history of rock music can lay claim to that. Bob Dylan, the later Beatles work and Steely Dan immediately come to mind but The Doors surely ranks among them as genre standard-bearers. Good sound and good packaging makes this version of the great album highly recommended. Written on October 28, 2007 Summary: The Best Of The Doors' Remixes Listening to the other Doors remixes, I felt like the surviving band members and engineer/producer Bruce Botnick were trying to retrofit the older, more psychedelic albums to sound like the blues-rock punch of "L.A. Woman." It didn't work so well for something like "Waiting For The Sun," but it does provide a welcome sonic update for "L.A. Woman" itself. The original album sounded just a touch piecemeal as a few of the tracks were from older sessions in the case of "L'America" or in the Doors' older style as in "Love Her Madly." I always felt that this stood in contrast with the live-in-the-studio tracks recorded for the album itself. The wide-open, percussion heavy mixes here make the whole thing sound more of a complete sonic picture. "The Changeling" and the title track have a little more bite, which I dig. In fact, the only track here I prefer from the original are "Riders On The Storm," which is a little less dreamy and delicate sounding here, and "Love Her Madly." As I said, the new mix fits on the album better, but I'd consider the original a damn fine single mix. If you want to get a positive taste of the new mixes of the Doors albums, I'd head for this one first as it does offer what may actually be an improvement over the original. |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 2000-12-19 | 2007-03-27 | 2007-03-27 | 2007-03-27 | 2007-03-27 | 2007-03-27 |
| Media | DVD Audio | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Format | Enhanced | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ean | 0075596261296 | 0081227999834 | 0081227999858 | 0081227999841 | 0081227999803 | 0081227999810 |
| Upc | 075596261296 | 081227999834 | 081227999858 | 081227999841 | 081227999803 | 812279998106 |
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