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The final album with Jim Morrison in the lineup is by far their most blues-oriented, and the singer's poetic ardor is undiminished, though his voice sounds increasingly worn and craggy on some numbers. Actually, some of the straight blues items sound kind of turgid, but that's more than made up for by several cuts that rate among their finest and most disturbing work…

For the first 17 years of their history, the only official live Doors album was Absolutely Live, which had its virtues – especially as it captured elements of their harder, more ambitious repertoire – but also left more casual fans rather cold, owing to the absence of any of their biggest hits. Alive, She Cried helped solve that problem, including as it did a concert version of "Light My Fire" and also adding a legendary concert piece – their rendition of Van Morrison's mid-'60s Them-era classic "Gloria" – to the Doors' official Elektra Records discography…

This essential four disc collection contains nearly four and a half hours of music, with three hours of previously unreleased material, including demos, live track and one brand new song with vocals recorded by Jim Morrison in 1970…

Despite the bald-faced references to bootlegs in the title, this is a totally legit four-CD box set release of live 1967-1970 Doors from numerous shows, all of it previously unissued…

The Doors - The Doors (Classic Albums) (2008)
DVD5 | 4.08 GB | Video codec: MPEG2 | Audio Codec: AC3 | Video: MPEG2 Video 720x480 (16:9) 29.97fps 9800Kbps | Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 192Kbps

Via interviews with surviving members of The Doors, archival clips and insider insights, this video retrospective looks at the creation of the group's self-titled debut album, a masterwork featuring megahits such as "Light My Fire" and "The End." Adding incisive commentary are record executives Billy James and Jac Holzman, musician Henry Rollins and recording engineer Bruce Botnick, who details how the band's mesmerizing sound was captured.

In Concert is the successor CD set to the individual releases of Absolutely Live (which remains in print as a single CD), Alive, She Cried, and Live at the Hollywood Bowl – as none of them presented more than a single angle or two of the group's sound and each confined itself to only a portion of the group's repertoire, the three-in-one release makes perfect sense and is a decent bargain…