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Morrison Hotel [Expanded] [40th Anniversary Mixes]

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With an intoxicating, genre-blending sound, provocative and uncompromising songs, and the mesmerizing power of singer Jim Morrison's poetry and presence, the Doors had a transformative impact not only on popular music but on popular culture.

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  • Audio CD (26 Mar 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Rhino
  • ASIN: B000MG1ZG0
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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1. Roadhouse Blues
2. Waiting For The Sun
3. You Make Me Real
4. Peace Frog
5. Blue Sunday
6. Ship Of Fools
7. Land Ho!
8. The Spy
9. Queen Of The Highway
10. Indian Summer
11. Maggie M'Gill
12. Roadhouse Talking Blues
13. Roadhouse Talking Blues
14. Roadhouse Talking Blues
15. Carol
16. Roadhouse Talking Blues
17. Money Beats Soul
18. Roadhouse Talking Blues
19. Peace Frog
20. The Spy
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Audio Fidelity's 24K+ series will bring you classic music in delux packaging with see through slip cases, using original graphics, all beautifully reproduced. Only the original masters tapes are used which is played back on a specially constructed vintage tube playback deck. Here's where the plus(+) comes in: The analog masters are put through a new Kensei Audio Transformer which adds true 'breath of life' to the music, making the new 24K+ Gold CD series the best sounding music you can buy!

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40th anniversary issue-21 tracks

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer 7 Feb 2004
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Amazingly, Morrison Hotel marked a return to form for the Doors - and what a return to form! Gone the brass of the Soft Parade and the psychedelia of Strange Days, replaced by a ballsy, raw, bluesy sound. And Morrison's voice had gained depth and soul - the upside of heavy smoking?. There isn't a duff song here. Roadhouse Blues is the textbook road song - and full of classic quotes. Ship of Fools, Land Ho, Maggie M'Gill all plough a similar bluesy furrow. But other songs conjure other moods, take Blue Sunday and Indian Summer for example. These are soft, atmospheric songs. Indian Summer sounds different too because it was recorded four years earlier in 1966 during the recording sessions for the first album. Notice the difference in Morrison's voice!
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After a couple of albums that were more noted for hit singles that smacked too much of pop music for their fans, namely 1968's "Waiting for the Sun" with "Hello, I Love You" and 1969's "The Soft Parade" with "Touch Me," the Doors got back to their roots with "Morrison Hotel." This is clear from the opening track on this 1970 album, the rock 'n' booze anthem "Roadhouse Blues," which blasts this album into the stratosphere. Robbie Krieger's opening riff sets the tone and Ray Manzarek pounds away on the piano to establish the mood, with the whole thing capped off by Jim Morrison's vocalized howls. You can hear live versions of "Roadhouse Blues," but unfortunately none of them were ever performed in the perfect locale, which would have been a bar. But you can imagine how great it would sound to hear this one blasting the top off of some juke joint.

There are not any hit singles on the group's fifth studio album, which is undoubtedly why it went over better with the fans of the Doors, even if it only made it to #4 on the Billboard album charts. To help validate the blues the Doors brought in the great sessions jazz guitarist Ray Neopolitan, albeit as a bass player (the Doors never really bothered with one). The requisite touch of the exotic can be found in songs like "Waiting for the Sun," "Queen of the Highway," and "Indian Summer." Morrison, who was noticeably disengaged in terms of both his lyrics and his singing on previous albums, is back to waxing poetic big time, as evidenced by "Ship of Fools," which mixes nihilistic imagery with prospects for hope. Again, Morrison is found commenting on the counterculture, singing about how "Everyone was hanging out/Hanging up and hanging down/Hanging in and holding fast." Musically the instrumental break is where the group gets to indulge in some showmanship where the emphasis is decidedly on jazz and no longer on pop.

The other great track is "Peace Frog," which comments on the "Blood in the streets," but is more notable for Morrison's musings on an episode from his childhood in some of his most searing imagery (e.g., "Indians scattered on dawn's highway, bleeding to death") and poetic (e.g., "Blood is the rose of mysterious union"). Again, Krieger and Manzarek provide the appropriate musical accompaniment to the verbal images of cultural unrest as the end of the turbulent Sixties being thrown out by Morrison. The Doors often commented on what was happening in the streets without ever offering a solution, and this song is one of their best efforts in that regard. One final track of note remains, and that would be the slow blues tune "The Spy," simply because its music, if not its lyrics (e.g., "I know the word that you long to hear/I know your deepest, secret fear"), anticipates the last great Doors song to come on their final album, "L.A. Woman."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best band ever? 19 Mar 2011
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The Doors are one of the best bands ever, if not THE best. And they themselves wrote almost all the songs on their 6 studio albums.
But one word of warning - if you want the original authentic recordings DO NOT BUY the "remastered" cds released in 2007 as these are actually remixes. Buy the remastered series of cds released around 1989, of which this is one.
Incidentally I saw the Doors at the 1970 Isle of Wight Pop Festival and they were fantastic - the best act there.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Doors Album
I loved The Doors music during my teenage years, but didn't think of them as being one of the GREAT bands. Then they released Morrison Hotel. Read more
Published 1 month ago by John Nicholls
4.0 out of 5 stars It's different
This CD is very different from the usual music from the Doors. It has much more of a "blues" theme. I like it because of this. Read more
Published 1 month ago by jonaswhale
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic album
Bought this with some vouchers but it was on at a cheap price anyways. Classic album that you should own
Published 2 months ago by Paul
4.0 out of 5 stars The Doors playing the blues
An eye-opener with bluesy and soulful music. The Doors at their most raw and laidback. Very different to the psychadelic frist album and a good bridger to the LA Woman masterpiece.
Published 3 months ago by Mr Daniel Morris
5.0 out of 5 stars Another brilliant Doors CD
I would definatley reccomend, it's very cheap for the content you receive, there's some good tunes in the extras as well. Read more
Published 3 months ago by CharlieD
5.0 out of 5 stars Album
Excellent, but a replacement - why do we have to write so many words before we can send this review?
Published 3 months ago by Ms L Slough
5.0 out of 5 stars Check in for a timeless classic!
This is the 5th album from The Doors and one of their best. Released in 1970, it kicks off with the incendiary classic 'Roadhouse Blues' - a song of raw power, a good-time blues... Read more
Published 5 months ago by David Lusher
3.0 out of 5 stars Great music, but doesn't have that true Doors atmosphere, June 11,...
MORRISON HOTEL, The Doors' fifth lp, strips away the psychedelic pretensions of their first two albums, the mediocrity of their third album, and the (largely failed) progressive... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mike London
3.0 out of 5 stars This is the worst of the six studio records by The Doors, September 1,...
[NOTE: I am reissuing my Amazon.com reviews on Amazon.co.uk. This review was originally released September 1, 1998]

You want a bad record, this is the one to buy. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mike London
3.0 out of 5 stars When the music's over, rerelease, reshuffle, repackage, remix, and...
How many times should I pay for the same music? is a question which many fans of classic rock must have pondered from time to time. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Michael
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