Perception |  | Artist: The Doors
Label: Rhino Records
Category: Music
List Price: $79.98
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 6,306
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 12
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.2 x 3.5
UPC: 081227995980
EAN: 0081227995980
ASIN: B000WCN8SC
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Break on Through (To the Other Side) | | • | Soul Kitchen | | • | The Crystal Ship | | • | Twentieth Century Fox | | • | Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) - The Doors, Weill-Brecht | | • | Light My Fire | | • | Back Door Man - The Doors, Burnett, C. | | • | I Looked at You | | • | End of the Night | | • | Take It as It Comes | | • | The End | | • | Moonlight Drive [Version 1][*] | | • | Moonlight Drive [Version 2][#][*] | | • | Indian Summer [8/19/66 Vocal][#][*] |
Disc 2
| • | Break on Through (To the Other Side) [DVD] | | • | Soul Kitchen [DVD] | | • | The Crystal Ship [DVD] | | • | Twentieth Century Fox [DVD] | | • | Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) [DVD] - The Doors, Weill-Brecht | | • | Light My Fire [DVD] | | • | Back Door Man [DVD] - The Doors, Burnett, C. | | • | I Looked at You [DVD] | | • | End of the Night [DVD] | | • | Take It as It Comes [DVD] | | • | The End [DVD] | | • | Moonlight Drive [DVD][*][Version] |
Disc 3
| • | Strange Days - The Doors, The Doors | | • | You're Lost Little Girl | | • | Love Me Two Times | | • | Unhappy Girl | | • | Horse Latitudes | | • | Moonlight Drive | | • | People Are Strange | | • | My Eyes Have Seen You | | • | I Can't See Your Face in My Mind | | • | When the Music's Over | | • | People Are Strange (False Starts & Studio Dialogue) [#][*] | | • | Love Me Two Times [Take 3][#][*] |
Disc 4
| • | Strange Days [DVD] - The Doors, The Doors | | • | You're Lost Little Girl [DVD] | | • | Love Me Two Times [DVD] | | • | Unhappy Girl [DVD] | | • | Horse Latitudes [DVD] | | • | Moonlight Drive [DVD] | | • | People Are Strange [DVD] | | • | My Eyes Have Seen You [DVD] | | • | I Can't See Your Face in My Mind [DVD] | | • | When the Music's Over [DVD] | | • | People Are Strange (False Starts & Studio Dialogue) [5.1 Surr | | • | Love Me Two Times [DVD][#][*][Take] | | • | Love Me Two Times [DVD][Live] | | • | When the Music's Over [DVD][Live] | | • | [Bonus Material] [*] [DVD] - The Doors, |
Disc 5
| • | Hello, I Love You | | • | Love Street | | • | Not to Touch the Earth | | • | Summer's Almost Gone | | • | Wintertime Love | | • | The Unknown Soldier | | • | Spanish Caravan | | • | My Wild Love | | • | We Could Be So Good Together | | • | Yes, The River Knows | | • | Five to One | | • | Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor [*] - The Doors, Albinoni, Tommaso | | • | Not to Touch the Earth (Dialogue) [#][*] | | • | Not to Touch the Earth [Take 1][#][*] | | • | Not to Touch the Earth [Take 2][#][*] | | • | Celebration of the Lizard [An Experiment/Work in Progress][*] |
Disc 6
| • | Hello, I Love You [DVD] | | • | Love Street [DVD] | | • | Not to Touch the Earth [DVD] | | • | Summer's Almost Gone [DVD] | | • | Wintertime Love [DVD] | | • | The Unknown Soldier [DVD] | | • | Spanish Caravan [DVD] | | • | My Wild Love [DVD] | | • | We Could Be So Good Together [DVD] | | • | Yes, The River Knows [DVD] | | • | Five to One [DVD] | | • | Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor [DVD][*] - The Doors, Albinoni, Tommaso |
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Amazon.com
For years, the recording industry has asked fans to purchase the same music from the 1960s and '70s over and over again, via remasterings, repackagings, and, of course, reformattings. The Doors' box Perception (get it?), cleverly packaged as... a door, does hold some astonishing music, but the thing itself is a weird hybrid beast with multiple formats for every release. Each of the group's six albums has not only been re-remastered (this time by the remaining band members plus original engineer Bruce Botnick as the "40th anniversary mix"), but loaded up with a bevy of previously unreleased bonus tracks. But that's not it--for each album, there's a companion DVD, which includes a whole new 5.1 surround sound mix with more tracks, as well as the usual DVD extras, i.e., photo galleries, lyrics, and videos. That makes 12 discs, much of it essentially redundant. If you're cool with that, you're in for a treat. From the spookier, unissued version of "Indian Summer" to the entirely new tune "Push Push" and some super-rad footage of the band rehearsing L.A. Woman, it's easy to fall in love with this swirling, highly sexualized, and often brilliant band all over again. --Mike McGonigal
Album Description
6CD/6DVD Boxed set celebrating the 40th anniversary of this legendary band: All their Jim Morrison-Era studio albums reissued in deluxe 2-disc editions with rare & previously unreleased bonus material, 5.1 mixes, bonus video content, and more!
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 Follow me down... May 15, 2007
J. G. Burtch (Halifax, NS, Canada)
35 out of 37 found this review helpful
Quite simply, outstanding!
I'll be the first to admit, at 28, I'm a young Doors fan. I grew up with kids in the late 80's and early 90's who worshipped the Doors, especially Jim, as their messiah, and I never got it. I've known their hits, enjoyed them, and that's kinda where it stopped. I didn't even own a Doors record (The Doors) until I was in college in '99... that's when I started to understand what was so great. However, I never investigated further.
This past year, at the end of '06, the Perceptions box set came out and I made it my mission to save and buy it, 'cause my old copy the The Doors sounded horrible. Well, before I knew it, it was gone, but thank you Warner for atleast re-issuing it ASAP in a slimmed down, frill-less box.
I now own the best box I've ever owned. I've read all the reviews for the LTD version, from people saying it's a waste of money compared to previous Doors boxes (fools!), to the the 5.1 mixes being poor (fools again!), to everything being redundant (yeah, but between 2 formats, not on the same disc or anything). Here's my opinion... this is AWESOME! Seriously. I haven't even touched the CD's yet. The 5.1 high-res audio mixes are blowing my mind, not to mention, for me, the exposure to a whole slew of songs I've never heard before. Sure, The Doors doesn't benefit much from 5.1, but the high-resolution is what makes it better than any other mix you've ever heard previously. Starting at Strange Days you can start to hear clever use 5.1. Never anything to be distracting, but maybe just some good ambience, or background vocals actually being in the back. The real fun starts at Waiting For The Sun and Soft Parade. Those two, in 5.1 high-res are leaving me breathless. I carry on rediculously to my girlfriend about the clarity of the mixes and little nuances to the point where she's just ignoring me!
If you can't tell yet, I'm a huge fan of DVD-A's and high-res sound (SACD as well). I've heard some people complain about 5.1 mixes, from saying that it ruins an original recording (too fancy, sounds swirling around), to there's nothing but abmience and it's nothing special (nothing fancy, no sounds swirling around). I think it's obvious when listenin gto this what the band and engineers intentions were. To place you in the studio, or in the case of some songs, sort of... transport you into the heart of the music. I got sucked in. I heard someone say it wasn't as good as Beatles' Love. Well, Love is all studio trickery my friend, based on original Beatles songs. That is not, in any way, how the Beatles intended for those songs to be heard. These are easily as good as DVD-A's for Eagles' Hotel California and Queen's Night At The Opera.
Anyway... enough rambling. Go to a high-end stereo shop, ask if they have it as a demo to hear it properly. Don't use MP3's as a basis for this. Borrow it from a friend, or better yet, trust a strangers opinion and buy this for an amazing listen. If you're already a Doors fan and you think you've heard this stuff before and this won't be a reason for you to dig out your collection any more often, you're wrong. Sell your old stuff (even your LP's, they're re-releasing those in August '07!) and get this. You'll never be happier.
DVDs have DVD-Audio 5.1 96/24 March 19, 2008
Ipsyaera (Berkeley, CA United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
The DVDs do have DVD-Audio (MLP) 24bit 96khz 5.1 tracks for every song.
I couldn't find this info before ordering (Amazon is not very good at properly describing hi-res audio products).
Exceptional Perception in 5.1 December 13, 2006
J. Thomas (Out on the Lost Highway)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Remastering and reissuing back catalog in a box set is all the rage now. Queen, Talking Heads, the Beatles, etc. The Queen box sounds pretty good. Talking Heads even better in 5.1 dual disc format. DD will not play reliably in some machines. The stereo redbook sides of some of my TH box skip or will not play but the 5.1 DVD/DVDA sides play fine in my Marantz universal disc players. The Doors Music Company went all out. They did both. You get cd's and dvd/dvda's of each of the 6 studio albums, remasterd stereo cd's and remastered 2ch, 5.1 and 5.1DTS on the DVD's. Listen to the first disc without reading any of the enclosed booklet. Does it sound a little different, funny, better, worse? I won't give it away. You have to listen and then read. I found the vocal 's buried in the mix on the first disc using the dvd dts layer. I punched up the center channel 2 to 4 db and got the vocals even with the front channels. Not much going on in the rears on the first disc for some reason but by the time you get to the 3rd and 4th discs, there is plenty going on in the rear speakers.
Overall the sound, excepting the first disc for some reason and really only on Break on Thru, the first track, is exceptional. The SS mixes are very nicely done again except for the first disc for some reason. I love the remastered box sets. I am a lazy music collector/lover at heart and the record companies are making it so easy for me to buy their back catalog all over again and again, about every ten years and it just keeps getting better. 5 stars overall, 4 for the content (some of this stuff to me is just drivel while the rest is pure genius, the outakes and videos really do nothing for me but some folks will go ga ga over it and buy just for that, cool but there is a reason these things were outakes), 5 stars for sonics. Well done Bruce and Paul.
perception December 24, 2006
T. HARRIS
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
It goes like this...if you like the Doors and wish to have an upgraded version of the albums that were released in 1999 as the "Complete Studio Recordings" this is the product to buy. Not to mention that it is assembled way better than that collection. The discs in this box are better protected in digipack cases instead of cardboard cutouts which kind of felt cheap the first time around. Then there's the sound on these records. I don't know what they did, but it has a warmer sound and better use of digital remastering technology. It was just the right touches without too much. This is by far a far more attractive looking item, and the looking glass is way cool. So, yeah I had to own it again!
Doors in 5.1? Umm Hmm. June 10, 2009
Snorts
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a review of the 5.1 Surround versions of the albums.
A couple of other reviewers have made some negative comments about the 5.1 mixes. I have to say, I think they are pretty darn good.
To my non-engineering ears, 5.1 mixes come in two types. There are the kinds of mixes that were done for a lot of the old Quadrophonic mixes (I still have my quad amp). They simply mixed some ambience in the rear speakers. In other words, the rear speakers contained things you would be expected to hear in a concert hall behind you. The main band parts still were in the front speakers, some echo or crowd noise behind you from the rear speakers. I have some 5.1 CD's that kind of do this, minimal participation from the rear 'surround' speakers. BOC's "Agents of Fortune" is an example. Some guitar tracks, maybe a bit of percussion is all that you get from the rear.
There were some quad mixes that put different instruments in each track. A good example is Deep Purple's Machine Head. This is what most 5.1 mixes do, a separate sound track in each channel, with the voice usually from the center channel, and the bass drum and guitar from the subwoofer. This is what the Doors 5.1 mixes do. I really like them. I think most of us will agree, most Doors albums did not feature a huge number of overdubs. So, there is not that much to stick in each channel, it gets kind of stark. But, no matter, I LIKE the feeling of being in the MIDDLE of the band, not in front of it.
Point here is that the 5.1 mixes are, to my ear, just fine, and what I paid my money for. Along with the 5.1 DVD's are great stereo mixes on CD's, so there really is no down side.
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