The Very Best of the Doors [2001 1 CD] (2001)

About this title: This is very, very close to being The Very Best of the Doors, and it does indeed contain most of the group's biggest hits and best-known songs, but this 2001 compilation does not supplant 1985's double-disc set The Best of the Doors as being the best Doors compilation on the market. It's not because the disc is sequenced non-chronologically, since it does have a momentum of its own (plus it does contain full-length album versions), but because it simply misses too many big songs. "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)," "Peace Frog," and even the group's version of "Back Door Man" may be ... read more

Tracks:

1. Break on Through (To the Other Side) [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
2. Light My Fire [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
3. People Are Strange [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
4. Riders on the Storm [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
5. L.A. Woman [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
6. Love Her Madly [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
7. Back Door Man [Dixon]
8. Touch Me [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
9. Hello, I Love You [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
10. Love Me Two Times [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
11. Twentieth Century Fox [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
12. The Crystal Ship [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
13. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
14. Peace Frog [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
15. The End [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
16. Roadhouse Blues [Live] [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.