Every Doors studio album was carefully crafted and this is no exception. More polular cuts include "Waiting for the sun," "Ship of Fools," and "Land Ho!"

During the 1970s and 80s, much was made of the practice of issuing Jimi Hendrix's unfinished recordings with newly added backing tracks. While this abhorrent practice eventually ended, it seems as if the surviving Doors have willingly chosen to go down this road. Ray Manzarek writes about wanting the fans to hear what was on the "actual multitrack recordings" as well as bringing forth the "original conceptions". This is all nice and dandy, but what they've done is add in instrumental and vocal asides that do nothing more than subtract from the songs' original impact. "Roadhouse Blues" is a great example of this: What was once an extremely tight rocker now becomes bloated with "background vocals by Jim Morrison, piano parts of mine (Manzarek) that weren't used, and guitar stingers and solos by Robby Krieger that NEVER MADE THE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS (emphasis mine)." To put it bluntly, this is NOT the album Morrison Hotel as it was issued by the Doors. It is instead a different album constructed from the earlier work by the surviving Doors and their engineer which, truthfully, has little of the economical greatness of the original album. I'm so, so sorry that I spent twelve bucks on this reissue; I only wish that I could get a refund in an honest manner. I have not heard the other reissues, so I cannot form any critical opinion concerning them. However, forewared is forearmed in respect to this version of Morrison Hotel. Manzarek and the others involved in perpetrating this charade upon the public should live in shame, although I'm sure this won't keep them from cashing their royalty checks.

This is a good album. The songs on here are great its just a classic album and the doors are just a great band. Its defently a switch from strange days, this album has more blues in it than other doors albums do(not saying its a bad thing doors first album best doors album) anyways its a great album. Some of the key tracks on here are, Roadhouse Blues, Peace Frog, Indian Summer, You Make Me Real, Land Ho!, and Waiting For The Sun, etc. These are all great songs, highly recomended for any doors fan of any age. I have the old 1990 version so i dont know how all the demos are like and i dont know how the new remastered doors cds sound yet. All in all a great album and is a must have
5/5 stars

I love the Doors and I think Morrison Hotel is their best album. I'm glad my son and wife bought me this CD for Veterans Day. The remixes are good, but they tried to fix something thay wasn't broken. I have difficulty hearing certain frequencies, so most of the time when a song is remixed I don't notice much difference. However, I did notice the harmonica at the begining of Roadhouse Blues. I could have done without it. The original version where the harmonica is not so prevalent is better. That is the only bad thing I have to say about this CD. The reason I wanted this CD is because of the bonus tracks. Listen to them and you will see why they chose that version of Roadhouse Blues they put on the original album. Over all, the CD is well worth the money. Unless you are interested in owning all of The Doors products available, I would suggest spending a little less money and getting the CD without the bonus tracks.

wow the doors come back cd after they did soft parde ppl said the doors died then then the miamia show then they did die but jim and the band decided what a good tine to make a new album and out came this this might be one of there better albums its has a lot of good songs like roadhouse blues maggi mcgille shoip of folls and like a 10 bouns tracks dont just think that thers new stuff on here it wont be the same as the claasic vinyl take my word and pick up this album oo happy 40th birthday to the doors also check out the other cds to hey each have a couple extra tracks on it