This album has to probaly be the best doors hits cd you can find(besides the legacy CD) anyways this 2 disc set has all the great doors songs, light my fire, break on through, when the musics over ETC... the only song missing is soul kitchen but besides that this album is great! Everything about it is just perfect all the songs are good just a great great album, buy this and like a few other doors albums and your set!
5/5 stars
THE DOORS RULE!

A friend of mine told me about this band and how good there music was. So, I went out and bought this 2 disc cd, and boy was I amazed at the music. I can't seem to stop playing it.

This product is the same greatest hits collection that has been available for a decade, but now packaged in a slimline case rather than the old bulky double-CD case. The tracklist is identical, and I don't notice much audio quality difference between the two.

The tracklist is as good now as it was 1o+ years ago. Sure, there's a little fluff in here. "Touch Me" has never sounded at home in this tracklist. I've never really liked "Roadhouse Blues" or "LA Woman", but they were hits and I guess it's nearly obligatory that they be included. Still, the rest of the tracklist is outstanding. In the iTunes-era, we aren't really bound by a pre-selected "greatest hits" lineup anyways. For the current price of $10 for this product you'll get 19 great tracks, and you can then supplement it with a few singles here and there from iTunes or Zune marketplace to build the essential Doors collection. This product contains the two long tracks, "The End" and my favorite "When the Music's Over", that cannot be purchased as single mp3's because of their length, so this collection is probably the best way to get those songs.

When you're building a collection of psychedelic rock, you have to include these songs. What Donovan was to psychedelic folk, what the Zombies were to psychedelic pop, so the Doors are to psychedelic blues. This is a great value for a great record.

I felt just 19 songs could have fit on 1 CD, didn't need 2. I've seen 20 and more songs fit on 1 CD in other "Best Of" collections. I'd rather have "The Very Best Of The Doors", because it has 29 songs for less money.

This is one of the finest compilations from one of the greatest rock bands of all time,although i would recommend the very best of the Doors which is a better compilation instead.

You know most people try to write a reiview and tell how much they love the doors and this album. Well I'll tell you what I'm not going to this is one of those albums that speaks for yourself, seriously get this and you'll know what I mean

you wanna hear sex, drugs, liquor, homicide, and demon refrences stop right here jim morrison was a shaman pocessed by the devil if anybody was on la woman I love how he summons up the devil and riders of the storm is my personal favorite gangster rap before its time don't mess with jim he'll kill you you know him and his wife had a witchews ceremony the end was crazy the lyrics are crazy behold the oedipus syndrome you know kill the father rape the mother kinbd of thing you can't go wrong here break on through was jim getting ready to depart this world you know drugs is the gateway to the spirit world after all rest in peasce jim you devil.

I grew up in the Midwest in the 1970s and '80s and I heard a lot of this junk growing up, both from musical mentors and on "classic rock" radio and I am SO HEARTILY SICK OF JIM MORRISON AND THE DOORS. The guy was such a total weenie. Since when is getting so drunk that you fall of the stage a great moral virtue? And what a preening, self-centered gasbag!

Of all the great hippie-era 'Sixties bands, the Doors are perhaps the least deserving of their legendary status... They had a couple of volcanic, primal early hits but the Doors catalog as a whole is so boring and bloated. Skip ahead to 1976 and crank up the Ramones: now *that's* real rock rebellion! (Axton)

WOW! THE DOORS ARE ONE OF THE WORST BANDS OF ALL TIME EVER AFTER THE STONES, U2 BLACK SABBATH AND QUEEN AND THEY ARE NO COMPARISON TO METALLICA, VAN HALEN AND GEORGE THOROGOOD WHO ARE A BILLION TIMES BETTER. SO DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND AVOID THIS LOUSY DOORS CD. ONE MORE THING IS IM GLAD MORRISONS DEAD.

I am relly impressed with this product. Can't be happier. This is a product that I would recommend for any Doors fan!

This is the best overview of the Doors (see tracklist) I could find on Amazon. Sadly, it includes the "She get..., She get..." edit of "Break on Through," and if I could add one song, it would be "Peace Frog," perhaps.
I would encourage buyers to add to their collection some of the less-mainstream songs by the Doors. A more complete "best of" is "Legacy," which includes maybe 20+ songs, but seems to be unavailible. (the tracklist may be online)

This 2 CD set is a great way to sample some the best music that The Doors had to offer!!! Includes all the BIGGIES like Light My Fire,Break On Through,LA Woman,People Are Strange,Riders on the Storm,Touch Me,and Love Her Madly!!! Also inclued great choice album cuts such as Alabama Song,When The Music's Over and The End!!! A truly great Doors package!!! Classic stuff all the way!!! WOW!!! Long live The Doors!!! Five stars!!! A+

It's great to pop the CD into the car and sing with all the favorites that you've forgotten you knew the words to!

By far, the greatest Rock and Roll band of all time. Technically, you shouldn't buy this greatest hits CD as you will be missing out on too many great songs. What you should do is go and buy all 6 studio CDs with Morrison on vocals, then buy the Russian Import of the 2 Doors CDs post Morrison as they are excellent as well.

i cant say more then that im speechless

This is an awesome Doors compilation, must have for any fan. The Doors music was unique: funky synethiser sound, maybe the first major band to make heavy use of it; they used it well. The Doors' lyrics are weird and fantastic, but in a cool way, not at all stupid. All the hits are on this 2-disc collection. Definitely a good value. You'll see why the Doors are a lasting piece of 60s culture.

I have to say The Doors "Greatest Hits" album is the best one yet! No fan can live without this amazing collection of songs. It included all of the most famous hits like "Break On Through", "Touch Me", and "Hello, I Love You". These are just few of the sixteen tracks put together on one CD. You have to buy this, its so amazing, just trust me. I love this album with a passion and I'm sure you'll be just as attached to it as I am. You won't regret it, and its even great as a gift!

This album is wonderful. With a great price and mind blowing songs how can you pass this up? The music all fits together, almost magically, and this creates a world of escape in this age of rushing around and hurrying. The lyrics are pure genius. The songwriting is genius as well. The only bad thing about this band is the tragic end they had to face and the music they never got to make. Before buying this I was only familiar with the songs one would generally hear on the radio. I saw this and had to buy it. The songs that aren't regulars on the radio are just as good, if not better, than the ones that many know and love. Any fan of any branch of rock music will always go back to bands like The Doors because they helped pave the way into the rock music that is here today. This band will go down in the history of music just like your Bach, Mozart, etc. This is totally worth it, so buy it now!!!

Many "Best of..." albums and sets are lacking or down right suck. This set is great. The songs you want to hear the way you expect to hear them.

this is a great set for people just starting to get into the doors ya get all the classics here, light my fire, the end etc. this is my favirote doors album out of my whole collection i say this because its just so good all the tracks go into another good track this is and essential cd for any rock fans,
R.I.P. Jim Morrison

THE 2-CD BEST OF THE DOORS has it all: the best remastering, the best songs, the best program lineup--and, best of all, Jim Morrison's voice & persona comes through strong, seductive & clear.

It just couldn't be better.

Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
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The best the Doors album is a really good album.
With plenty of good songs. If people buy this cd and they really don't like this music, then they will get to like them. The Doors was not the perfect band, they were known for doing drugs and drinking alcohol. They were also a big hit back in the early 60's all-the-way to the early 70's. Overall. If you people are big fans of hendrix, zeppelin, and even Yes union, you people will love the doors.

I would give this more stars if I could, the Doors are the best, has their classic hits.

I got into The Doors kind of late into my long musical appreciation life. It may have something to do with the fact that, while in college, I was next-door to a guy who was Morrison-nuts...the kind of guy that insisted that Jim Morrison had faked his death and was just waiting for the right moment to come out of hiding. As such, he blasted The Doors' albums incessantly for the school year 1981, and I was over the whole thing pretty much by the time I'd graduated.

However, time has unburdened me of this irrational Doors-disgust. Which means that I was really happy to see this CD reissued as a precursor to the massive Doors campaign of 2007. A new box set, all the individual albums remastered, etc. But as a casual fan, "The Best of The Doors" is all I really need. It covers all the obvious radio hits along with some choice album tracks. (And just as obviously, ignores the postmortem Morrison records, 1971's Other Voices and 1972's Full Circle.) It also re-established Morrison's shamanistic personality. There was a deep, deep charisma about the man and it comes through on all the songs here. The other 3/4 of The Doors were just as unique.

Jim Morrison's ghost and the subsequent collapse of the band after his death - not to forget the incessant squabbling since - tends to cloud the surviving members' contributions. Ray Manzarek's keyboards are one of the reasons The Doors never needed a bass player. Those psychedelic swirls and heavy foundations provided The Doors with their pulse. Guitarist Robbie Krieger added classical fills next to Manzarek's keyboards and also wrote many of The Doors' biggest hits (including "Light My Fire"). John Densmore was a jazz drummer who brought that influence to the band, and he remains the member most opposed to the "reunion" projects. The Doors were always greater than the sum of their parts, and once the cloaking charisma of Morrison was gone, the atoms just blew apart.

The band, as members to a whole, mixed all those influences up. From the pop sense of "Light My Fire" to the Oedipal weirdness that fueled "The End," they were totally fearless about following their collective muse. They responded to accusations of pop-sellout by going to the deep blues of "LA Woman" and by nailing a cabaret number like Brecht/Weill's "The Alabama Song." They even managed one of the most paranoid mellow songs ever in "Riders On The Storm."

That is what makes "The Best Of The Doors" worth it. You may find yourself tempted to get some of the singular CD's later (I'd suggest the debut and "LA Woman"), but for a load into the MP3 player, this double CD set fills the gap. Jim Morrison remains a mystery, a loaded question that exited the world before the answers had time to form. (Or he got old enough to be boring.)

Obligatory "Wish it was on this set" songs: "The WASP," "Running Blue" "20th Century Fox."

The doors continue to be a band I have new experiences with. It is a great tribute that presents the mystical sounds and strange songwriting that is only capped off by the voice and presence of Jim Morrison. This two CD package is an integral part of my music collection, but more importantly it is because it is a truly great collection of their music. Even if you are a younger person who is new to the Doors, this is a great place to start if you so choose!

I had the original set and later retired it to acquire the Digitally Remastered version shown here on Amazon. All the classic door songs are here, which on the first CD include songs like "Break on through", "Love me two times", and the dark and dreamy "Spanish Caravan". CD Number 2 is no less important with songs that range from "L.A. Woman", "Riders on the storm" to one of my favorites called "The Unknown Soldier". Overall it is an amazing collection of hits when you just take a step back and look at what you get if you purchase this.

I'm not pleased with the sound of the Cd,it sounds fuzzy the Cd is fine just the recording of it I guess.

If "The Best Of The Doors" doesn't mean or say something to you, I'll never reach you in this review. But go see if someone older than you has some Doors music around and just listen, it will work for you or it won't.

Great art transcends all. Do I really care if artists like Beethoven or Picasso were decent people in their times? It helps but not really (ok, to be sure neither committed any heinous acts of the human flesh kind). Two hundred years from now no one, except perhaps a few musicologists, will be concerned about Jim Morrison "the man". The music will (I hope) prevail and continue to speak loudly, although know-all sites like Wikipedia may spell the death of a person's actual life story through rumor and gossip run amok (inarguably fodder for future discussions.). In spite of, or perhaps because of (?) his tortured life and difficult personality, Jim Morrison the vocalist (backed by equally talented and magical keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Rob Krieger. and drummer John Densmore) did their own thing; and whether they knew it or not they blazed a trail that is outlasting their generation. The anthemic JM "voice" has moved on through other acts (some great in their own right) such as Ian McCulloch (Echo & The Bunnymen), Chris Cornell (Soundgarden), Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam). If you are familiar with and enjoy these more recent performers but are new to The Doors do yourself a favor: get with the program and buy this excellent album.

You get exactly what you pay for with this set: 2 CD's of the most popular Doors songs. While some "purists" might call it "beginner Doors", it does well to captivate a taste of who The Doors were and a glimpse into the enigma that was Jim Morrison. It's a good starting point for someone who is discovering this notorious group for the first time, for someone who simply wants the songs they know, or someone who wants to round out a collection of music from this compelling era in American culture and history. I wouldn't go so far as to call it the definitive compilation, but certainly the closest you can get in one jewel case.

I much prefer The Doors live, but I wanted to have "La Woman" and so I bought this one from Amazon because it has a lot of songs for not much money.
It is good it has the best songs of the Doors and I would recommended it.
Sorry for my bad english

Was in high school at the time of the Doors. Was never a huge fan, but liked most of their stuff. Found Jim Morrison to be a pretentious jerk, but this cd is great. They were really a great band.
For a non-fan, this set is about perfect. Just the good stuff, and it was much better than I realized at the time.
So just buy it, you can't really go wrong.

Morrison, Densmore, Krieger, & Manzarek fit & balanced each other like a sprawling jigsaw puzzle. They are the best American band to date. Yes, the Doors, not Nirvana! Here the 1960's aesthetics hit one of their musical highs. Sarcastic instincts & reason clash in the lyrics & the droning guitar riffs & are made new. This compilation captures the brooding dark mystique that the band wore like a cape. The long majestic "Light My Fire" has stood as a sensual anthem for over forty years. The raucous "Break On Through," a true modern rapture. The Medieval "The End, & the "Crystal Ship," are my favorites. In the latter they delicately explore intimacy. That is something you would not expect from this band.

This is one of my favorite CD's. I can sing along joyously to every song.
I've been VERY happy with my purchase.

It is nice to have so much good music on two disks. I have most of the single disks but with this much music on just two it makes it easier to pour a drink and kick back to listen to how good music really can be.

I am not enough of an audio expert to know if they have been remastered or are any different from the old vinyl cuts and I doubt if I could detect the difference in a side by side comparison but this purchase was well worth the investment to have this much good music on two disks.

I was a kid when Morrisn died... and now, after 40 I listen to this great cd, good collague, sounds dated, but there is music there!! that I have to tell you, great concepts were explored, you get the deep ones and the not-so-deep, yet the combined effect makes it a good collection.