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This 1970 double LP proved to be about as good an approximation of the singular methodology of a Doors concert as was possible in the pre-video era. Alternately short and to the point (like the AM radio hits "Touch Me", "People Are Strange", and "Hello, I Love You", among those featured here) and long and meandering (like such open-ended excursions as "When the Music's Over" and "The Celebration of the Lizard"), Morrison and crew displayed the full slate of their estimable powers as both musicians and motivators--continuing to daringly break through whatever sonic and thematic doors they opened. --Billy Altman
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THE DOORS Absolutely Live (1996 US 21-track PICTURE DISC CD album - digitally remastered onto a single disc complete with picture sleeve with a deletion cut on the spine. This copy is still sealed from new in the original stickered shrink)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The music is The Doors live, but spliced from several shows to give the effect of a single night. Fair enough, and a pretty darn good attempt given that for years, it was the only legit release of how they sounded away from the studio, but the CD edition is insane. What on earth is the House Announcer doing in the middle? Given the aim of the original LP, moving 'Ladies & Gentlemen, from Los Angeles California...The Doors!' & the fire marshall bit to where it is on this CD is nuts...
Want Absolutely Live as it was released on vinyl? Buy 'The Doors In Concert' 2CD set, and get Absolutely Live in the original running order and another live disc to boot. Then buy AL on vinyl, just for the cover pic with Jim's Navajo belt & the inside photo - the Densmore-eye view.
Want Absolutely Live as it was released on vinyl? Buy 'The Doors In Concert' 2CD set, and get Absolutely Live in the original running order and another live disc to boot. Then buy AL on vinyl, just for the cover pic with Jim's Navajo belt & the inside photo - the Densmore-eye view.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Originally released as a double LP in 1970, Absolutely Live is a fantastic testimony of the Doors live experience .
This is not only powerful versions of the band classics (Break On Thru, Five To One, When The Music's Over...), but also 50% (at least ) of original material : the beautiful Universal Mind, the bluesy Build Me A Woman, a killer cover of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love, and, above all, the amazing Celebration Of The Lizard (forget the cut off Doors Box Set version).
The only bad point is the CD cover : for unknown reasons, Elektra didn't reprint the original blue sleeve, but choose a pop star Jim Morrison picture instead. Never mind, it still remains one of the best live album ever.
Absolutely indispensable.
This is not only powerful versions of the band classics (Break On Thru, Five To One, When The Music's Over...), but also 50% (at least ) of original material : the beautiful Universal Mind, the bluesy Build Me A Woman, a killer cover of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love, and, above all, the amazing Celebration Of The Lizard (forget the cut off Doors Box Set version).
The only bad point is the CD cover : for unknown reasons, Elektra didn't reprint the original blue sleeve, but choose a pop star Jim Morrison picture instead. Never mind, it still remains one of the best live album ever.
Absolutely indispensable.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Jimbo exorcises an Eliot(T.S.)-like version, of his own 'Wasteland'. The magnificent 'Celebration of the lizard'promotes the poet in him, to legendary standing. What can I say, other than it being a gift of genius status? Powerful imagery, madness of story, power of voice. This is as good a poem as it gets-and as frontman, Morrison whips it across in a frenzy-ranging from the subtle, murmuring introduction, to the all-consuming spat of infused calamity: "now...run to the mirror in the bathroom. Look! She's coming in here! I can't live through each slow century of her moooving..." Densmore rattles along like a crazy monster, Manzarek screams with his fingers, Krieger whoops in a frenzy. 'Who do you love' introduces us to the sign of things to come. The medley, excellently executed, with 4 classic Doors tracks in there-even if we include Brecht/Weills 'Alabama song'-still better than yours, Mr. Bowie! They 'Build me a woman' in their own way. And then, close to the finest track- the magnificent 'When the musics over'. I could dream in those melodies and chords. Ray, on 'Close to you', is, I think, a little suspect, but-hey, who cares? The beautiful 'Universal mind' and then the crowd stirring 'Petition'. And I love the marriage in the second medley: 'Dead rats, dead cats/Break on through'. Biased, I may be, but no different to any appreciator of an artwork that rips at their soul. If you don't believe me, at least give it a listen.
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This the first doors LP I bought after getting Strange Days free with the Sunday Times. This is an excellent album. Truly brilliant, and captures the essence of the doors live. Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2009 by Ben Faulkner
What a disappointment
As a huge Doors fan, I had to make this album part of my collection, but frankly I have been sorely disappointed. Read more
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beware
this album, and the doors in concert have exactly the same content, excellent as they are
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