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The use of the Doors song "The End", from their debut album, in the popular Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now in 1979 and the release of the first compilation album in seven years, Greatest Hits, released in the fall of 1980, created a resurgence in the Doors. Due to those two events, an entirely new audience, too young to have known of the band ...
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 ...
It should only contain pages that are The Doors songs or lists of The Doors songs, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about The Doors songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Doors 41st on their list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. [15] Also in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time included two of their songs: "Light My Fire" at number 35 and "The End" at number 328. [177] In 2007, the Doors received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement. [178]
Music writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave The Very Best of the Doors four and a half out of five stars in an album review for AllMusic.He outlines the differences between the similarly named releases and advises "if you're looking for an introduction or just the hits, take either of the 2001 or 2007 single discs; if you're looking for most of the best, pick the double-disc set, either with or ...
The Best of The Doors is a compilation album by American rock group the Doors. Released in 1985, the double LP set contains 18 songs from their six albums with lead singer Jim Morrison , including charting singles and selected album cuts. [ 1 ]
The cover for the album is of Jim Morrison as portrayed by Val Kilmer. It is a photo of Kilmer looking straight in the camera's lens.His face is in black and white and his hair has the color of burning flames, it is the same effect created on the movie's posters and advertising material.
[15] [35] In his retrospective AllMusic review of the album, Richie Unterberger notes, "Many of the songs on Strange Days had been written around the same time as the ones that appeared on The Doors, and with hindsight one has the sense that the best of the batch had already been cherry picked for the debut album. For that reason, the band's ...