Greatest_Hits_(The_Doors_album)

<i>Greatest Hits</i> (The Doors album)

Greatest Hits (The Doors album)

1980 greatest hits album by the Doors

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American rock band the Doors, released in 1980. The album, along with the film Apocalypse Now, released the previous year, created for the band an entirely new audience of the generation that did not grow up with the Doors. The album went on to become one of the highest-selling compilations of all time, with combined CD and vinyl sales of 5,000,000 in the United States alone.[1]

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The album was re-released in October 1996 as an enhanced CD with a different track listing and cover art. The songs "The Ghost Song", "The End" and "Love Her Madly" were added, whereas "Not to Touch the Earth" was omitted.[2]

Critical reception

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Critic Andy Kellman of AllMusic, reviewing the 1996 reissue, rated Greatest Hits with three-and-a-half out of five stars, and praised that it compiled "some of the band's most enduring songs", such as "Light My Fire," "Break on Through", "Touch Me", "Hello, I Love You" and "Riders on the Storm". His only complaints were on "Not to Touch the Earth" and "The Ghost Song" as "poor choices" and that it could "have been replaced with any number of more significant songs in the band's catalog".[2]

Track listing

All songs written by all members of the Doors (Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore), except "Light My Fire" which some sources identify Krieger and Morrison to be the lone songwriters.[3] Details are taken from the 1980 Elektra Records release and may differ from other sources.[4]

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1996 additional CD tracks[2]

  1. "Love Her Madly" (Krieger) – 3:17
  2. "The Ghost Song" (Morrison) – 4:13
  3. "The End" – 6:28 (edited version for George S. Clinton from Apocalypse Now (1979))
  4. "Wintertime Love" (Japanese 1995 CD version only)[5]

Personnel

Per album notes as shown at the Back cover:[4]

The Doors

Additional musicians

Technical

Charts

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Certifications

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References

  1. [1]
    Ruhlmann, William; Unterberger, Richie. "The Doors – Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
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    Kellman, Andy. "The Doors – Greatest Hits [1996]". AllMusic. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
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    "The Doors: Break on Thru - A Celebration of Ray Manzarek". January 16, 2020. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
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    Greatest Hits (Album notes). The Doors. Burbank, California: Elektra Records. 1980. LP labels & Back cover. SE-515.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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    Greatest Hits (Album notes). The Doors. Japan: Elektra Records. 1995. WPCR-537.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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    "The Doors Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
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    "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1981". Billboard. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
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    "Discos de oro y platino" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
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    "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2001 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association.
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    "Canadian album certifications – The Doors – Greatest Hits". Music Canada.
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    "French album certifications – Doors – Greatest Hits" (in French). InfoDisc. Select DOORS and click OK. 
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    "British album certifications – Doors – Greatest Hits". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  13. [13]
    "American album certifications – The Doors – Greatest Hits _1996_". Recording Industry Association of America.
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    "American album certifications – The Doors – Greatest Hits _LP_". Recording Industry Association of America.


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