Though many may disagree, I always thought their best songs were their hits, and this 10 track short collection has pretty much all their highlights.

1. Hello I Love You -- The perfect song to start the collection off with. This short, fun yet hard edged pop/rocker was, I believe, about Jim's vision of a . Helps round out some of the darker tracks.

2. Light My Fire -- Highly psychedelic mid tempo 7 minute rocker with a long organ solo in th middle, which actually makes the song that much better. Everyone has probably heard the "Gonna set the night on fire!" line, too.

3. People Are Strange -- Slightly downtempo and dark yet poppy tune with piano and guitar usage about how different the world appears when you're "strange" (aka depressed it sounds like). Really sounds like a song the band wrote when they were high. It's good though.

4. Love Me Two Times -- Bluesy hard rocker about loving me "before I go away." Given the time frame, I wouldn't be surprised if it was from the viewpoint of soldiers going to Vietnam.

5. Riders On the Storm -- One of the band's lengthy classics. Slow and creepy yet catchy song about driving in the rain and picking up a murder-prone hitchhiker. The piano combined with the rain effects and slow guitar make for the perfect horror movie sound.

6. Break On Through -- Short blues tinged fun hard rocker. Organ drenched and tough sounding, sounds like it was tailored to be a hit single. A damn good one too. Also of note, I recently found out that the line in the bridge was originally "She gets high," instead of "She get-!" that I was used to. However, I prefer the latter, since I grew up listening to it that way.

7. Roadhouse Blues -- A loud blues rocker about drinking beer (well, that part stands out for me). Sounds similr to something Stevie Ray Vaughn might've done 15-20 years later.

8. Not to Touch the Earth -- A hard edged scary rock track that has organ work reminiscent of mid 70's Who, but with lyrics about corpses. If "Riders on the Storm" was a good soundtrack to the quiet part of a horror movie, before anything happened, this is a perfect thing to play when the action takes place. The guitar and organs even sound like Halloween music.

9. Touch Me -- Although quite different than much of their other work, it's no less good. In fact, it's one of my favorite songs of theirs. An uptempo psychedelic, touching love song with a slight ballad sound.

10. L.A. Woman -- Long bluesy organ tinged rocker with hard to decipher lyrics, but that doesn't mean it ain't good! However, the "Mojo rising" line is infamous, even if it's hard not to associate it with Austin Powers now. LOL.

NOTES: It appears there have been a few different pressings of this hits collection. The above is from my circa 1980's casette. I would've said the only missing songs from the old pressing were "Love Her Madly" and "The End," but both appear on Amazon's listing above, along with "Ghost Song."

Also, "Not To Touch the Earth" is NOT on it, and "Roadhouse Blues" is a live version (I'd obviously prefer the studio recording), so it's hard to say which version would be better.

ANYONE THINKING OF BUYING THIS CD READ THIS FIRST
This is the first Doors CD that I bought, and let me tell you, I listened to this and nothing but this CD for at least a week straight when I got it. BUT, after buying In Concert, and then The Doors debut album, I discovered that about 8 MINUTES (!!) of the End is completely edited out. Now, if you have listened to this "version" of the End, you may think "Hey, this is pretty cool" and you will listen to it a couple times and thats it (that's what I did anyway). YOU ARE TOTALLY MISSING OUT on what I believe to be one of the greatest songs ever. Also, on Break On Thru, Jim only says "she get...she get" instead of what he actually says "she gets high, she gets high". Also you are missing out on so many other great songs such as When the Music's Over, Five to One and so on. So, if you absolutely need to get a greatest hits I would suggest the 2 CD best of The Doors instead. But really you should just get the studio albums. (Start with The Doors or L.A. Woman). Well, I hope I helped you.

Does justice for the most part
My favorite tracks are Riders of the Storm, People are Strange and Light my Fire. It's only 12 songs, however, which is kinda suspect. You'd think for such a famous band, there would be more. The design on the cd is awesome, by the way. It's sad that Jim Morrison had to die 12 years before I was born. There aren't many interesting people out there like he was.

Fabulous!!!!!!!
The Doors are the absolute greatest rock band ever. One thing that drawn me to The Doors was drummer John Densmore and organist Ray Manzerik's passion for jazz, as I was a jazz fan. I found this cd in my sisters cd collection. Her friends were getting in to The Doors, and people at school were talking about them. So The Doors aren't completely forgoten them, kids round age 14 and 15 like them. Well, they're great! The Doors are fun and great! their songs are well written and have good hooks. The Doors aren't known as a "jazz" group. Heck, they didn't even play jazz, but they took the basic elements of it, like improvisation and rock and rolled it. Ray and Robby take solos like they were in a quartet headed by Miles Davis or John Coltrane. This cd has great tracks. It's a great sampler, but in order to get the full Doors majic, you'd have to buy every single studio album! This cd is great!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing CD
I love this CD. It's missing a few Doors fundamentals like "Waiting for the Sun," but a great compilation nonetheless. Highly recommended.
A great singles band that often got a little unraveled on its album-only epics, the Doors are predictably remembered as Deeper Artists than some of their (especially Jim Morrison's) pretensions merit. But those 45s really were great. They dominate this disc, with "Light My Fire" (the album version) and "Hello I Love You" banging by to complement the moodier "Riders on the Storm" (also at LP length) and a live "Roadhouse Blues" rescued from An American Prayer. Predictably, the record closes with a few other non-AM tracks, including "The End." But most of the real meat is in the stuff that made it to the jukeboxes. --Rickey Wright