More Studio Bonus Tracks
The End… Of Consumer Exploitation
Here are the rest of The Doors’ studio bonus tracks we could dig up, with the assistance of 3410, who was kind enough to share some additional scattered files. These come primarily from the albums Essential Rarities and The Doors Box Set, but we’ve also got a couple of iTunes exclusives, originally designed to help sell digital downloads of the Perception box (and piss off all the faithful hard disc buyers) and some unreleased outtakes from The Soft Parade sessions. Oddities include the complete, 1965 World Pacific Studios demos, a 16-1/2 minute “Rock Is Dead” and the Jim-less, “Tightrope Ride.” Along with the Perception Bonus Tracks (HERE) – this rounds up most, if not all, of the official studio bonus tracks (we think… maybe).
Moonlight Drive (Demo-World Pacific Studios, 1965) Essential Rarities
Hello, I Love You (Demo-World Pacific Studios, 1965) Essential Rarities
End Of The Night (Demo-World Pacific Studios, 1965) The Doors Box Set
My Eyes Have Seen You (Demo-World Pacific Studios, 1965) The Doors Box Set
Summer’s Almost Gone (Demo-World Pacific Studios, 1965) The Doors Box Set
Go Insane (Demo-World Pacific Studios, 1965) The Doors Box Set
Light My Fire (Mono Single Edit, 1967)
Wintertime Love (Rough Mix/Alternate Vocals, 1968)
Woman Is A Devil (Elektra Studios, 1969) Essential Rarities
Love Me Tender (Elektra Studios, 1969) Unreleased Soft Parade Outtake
Queen Of The Magazines (Elektra Studios, 1969) Soft Parade Outtake
Pipeline (Elektra Studios, 1969) Unreleased Soft Parade Outtake
Queen Of The Highway (Instrumental, 1969) Perception/iTunes Exclusive
Blues For Lonnie (Instrumental, 1969) Perception/iTunes Exclusive
Hyacinth House (Demo, 1969) Essential Rarities
Rock Is Dead (1969) The Doors Box Set
Tightrope Ride (1971) The Doors Box Set
11 Comments
Many Many Thanks for the whole "End Of Consumer Exploitation" opus. Really, when is too much, is too much! (Despite our endless love devotion surrender to The Doors…)
Thanks for commenting guys.
Thank you so much for this ! Excited to hear the demos, can't wait.
I love this one. This is the way these tracks should be offered without having to buy the same songs over and over just to get a couple bonus tracks here & there.
I love you. Thanks. I love the Doors, and will spend my money on them, but there are a few rare track that require much unnecessary double purchasing. Thank you for letting me avoid that!
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Thanks Willard.
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Most of this fell into the “glad I got to hear that once” category for me, but the whole ’65 session will definitely join the permanent iPod canon. Krieger is barely there on those cuts, though, compared to the eventuals a year later – had he just joined or something?
Colin H, Cambridge, Canada
That was their earliest studio session, so it was before the personalities and roles were fully in place.
It’s pretty clearly Ray’s band at this stage, music-wise. It really gives the songs a different feel that makes this session much more interesting and repeat-listenable than alot of bands “same arrangements more crudely recorded” pre-debut demos. I also enjoy this early Jim, the way I dig the early Stones albums before Mick realized he was Mick and went with that. Not that that’s bad (always), but it’s different. Like the early seasons of a sit com before the stars realize they’re stars and start pausing in the doorway when they enter for the obligatory applause before speaking.
Colin
Exactly.