Perception is a fortieth-anniversary edition twelve-disc box set by The Doors

The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...

. The CDs contain the 1999 remastered editions of all the Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...

 albums, while the DVD-Audio

DVD-Audio

DVD-Audio is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio is not intended to be a video delivery format and is not the same as video DVDs containing concert films or music videos....

 discs contain new (2006) "40th Anniversary" surround remixes

Surround sound

Surround sound encompasses a range of techniques such as for enriching the sound reproduction quality of an audio source with audio channels reproduced via additional, discrete speakers. Surround sound is characterized by a listener location or sweet spot where the audio effects work best, and...

 of them as well as visual extras. Each album includes extra tracks consisting of previously unreleased session outtakes. Exclusive to the box set is a DVD with several live performances and other extras.

Track listing

All songs written by Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...

, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek

Ray Manzarek

Raymond Daniel Manzarek, Jr., better known as Ray Manzarek , is an American musician, singer, producer, film director, writer, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, Nite City from 1977–1978 and Manzarek-Krieger since 2001.Manzarek is listed #4 on Digital Dreamdoor's "100...

, and John Densmore

John Densmore

John Paul Densmore is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the drummer of the rock group The Doors.-Early life and The Doors:Born in Los Angeles, Densmore attended Santa Monica City College and Cal...

, except where noted.

Discs One & Two: The Doors

The Doors (album)

The Doors is the debut album by the American rock band The Doors, recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967. It was originally released in significantly different stereo and mono mixes...

1. "Break on Through (To the Other Side)
   Break on Through (To the Other Side)
   "Break on Through " is a song by The Doors from their debut album, The Doors. It was the first single released by the band and was unsuccessful compared to later hits, reaching only #126 in the United States...
   
   " - 2:29
2. "Soul Kitchen" - 3:35
3. "The Crystal Ship" - 2:34
4. "Twentieth Century Fox" - 2:33
5. "Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)" (Bertolt Brecht
   Bertolt Brecht
   Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
   
   , Kurt Weil) - 3:20
6. "Light My Fire
   Light My Fire
   "Light My Fire" is a song by The Doors which was recorded in August 1966 and released the first week of January 1967 on the Doors' debut album. Released as a single in April, it spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and one week on the Cash Box Top 100, nearly a year after...
   
   " - 7:06
7. "Back Door Man
   Back Door Man
   "Back Door Man" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1961. It was released by Chess Records as the B-side to Wolf's "Wang Dang Doodle"...
   
   " (Willie Dixon
   Willie Dixon
   William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
   
   ) - 3:34
8. "I Looked at You" - 2:22
9. "End of the Night" - 2:52
10. "Take It as It Comes" - 2:17
11. "The End
    The End (The Doors song)
    "The End" is a song by The Doors. Originally written by Jim Morrison as a song about breaking up with girlfriend Mary Werbelow, it evolved through months of performances at Los Angeles' Whisky a Go Go into a nearly 12-minute opus on their self-titled album. The band would perform the song to close...
    
    " - 11:41
12. "Moonlight Drive
    Moonlight Drive
    "Moonlight Drive" was one of the seminal tracks on The Doors' second album, Strange Days. Although it was only a B-side , it is a favorite in The Doors canon...
    
    " (Version 1, recorded 1966) - 2:42
13. "Moonlight Drive" (Version 2, recorded 1966) - 2:31
14. "Indian Summer" (Vocal Version, recorded August 19, 1966) - 2:35

Discs Three & Four: Strange Days

Strange Days (album)

Strange Days is the second album released by American rock band The Doors. The album was a commercial success, earning a gold record and reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Despite this, the album's producer, Paul Rothchild, considered it a commercial failure, even if it was an...

1. "Strange Days" - 3:11
2. "You're Lost Little Girl" - 3:03
3. "Love Me Two Times
   Love Me Two Times
   "Love Me Two Times" is a song by The Doors. It was written by the band and first appeared on the 1967 album Strange Days. It was released as the second single from that album, and reached #25 on the charts in the US....
   
   " - 3:18
4. "Unhappy Girl" - 2:02
5. "Horse Latitudes
   Horse latitudes
   Horse Latitudes or Subtropical High are subtropical latitudes between 30 and 35 degrees both north and south. This region, under a ridge of high pressure called the subtropical high, is an area which receives little precipitation and has variable winds mixed with calm.The consistently warm, dry...
   
   " - 1:37
6. "Moonlight Drive
   Moonlight Drive
   "Moonlight Drive" was one of the seminal tracks on The Doors' second album, Strange Days. Although it was only a B-side , it is a favorite in The Doors canon...
   
   " - 3:05
7. "People Are Strange
   People Are Strange
   "People Are Strange" is a single released by The Doors in September 1967 from their second album Strange Days which was also released in September 1967. The single peaked at the #12 position of the U.S. Hot 100 chart and made it to the top ten in the Cash Box charts...
   
   " - 2:13
8. "My Eyes Have Seen You" - 2:32
9. "I Can't See Your Face in My Mind" - 3:26
10. "When the Music's Over
    When the Music's Over
    "When the Music's Over" is a song by American rock band The Doors, featured on their 1967 album Strange Days. The song, at almost eleven minutes long, is their third longest recorded song, behind "The End", at 11:42, and "Celebration of the Lizard", at 17:01...
    
    " - 10:58
11. "People Are Strange" (False Starts & Dialogue) - 1:57
12. "Love Me Two Times" (Take 3) - 3:19

Discs Five & Six: Waiting for the Sun

Waiting for the Sun

Waiting for the Sun is the third studio album by the American rock band The Doors. It was released in 1968 and became the band's first and only number one album and spawned their second US number one single, "Hello, I Love You". It also became the band's first hit album in the UK, where it peaked...

1. "Hello, I Love You
   Hello, I Love You
   "Hello, I Love You" is a song by The Doors from their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun. It was released as a single that same year, reaching number one in the United States and selling over a million copies in the U.S. alone. In Canada, it hit number one as well...
   
   " - 2:14
2. "Love Street
   Love Street
   "Love Street" is a 1968 song by The Doors which appears on their album Waiting For The Sun. The song was originally a poem written by singer Jim Morrison about the street in Laurel Canyon, California, where he lived with his girlfriend Pamela Courson. Their address was 8021 Rothdell Trail...
   
   " - 2:53
3. "Not to Touch the Earth
   Not to Touch the Earth
   "Not to Touch the Earth" is a 1968 song by The Doors from their album Waiting for the Sun. It stems from Jim Morrison's poem, "Celebration of the Lizard". A recording of the complete poem was attempted at the sessions for the album, but only the musical passage Not to Touch the Earth was deemed fit...
   
   " - 3:56
4. "Summer's Almost Gone
   Summer's Almost Gone
   "Summer's Almost Gone" is the fourth track on Waiting for the Sun, the third album by American rock band The Doors. The song was covered by pianist George Winston on his album Night Divides the Day - The Music of the Doors....
   
   " - 3:22
5. "Wintertime Love" - 1:54
6. "The Unknown Soldier
   The Unknown Soldier (song)
   "The Unknown Soldier" was the first single from The Doors' 1968 album Waiting for the Sun, and was also the subject of one of the band's few music videos.-Lyrics:...
   
   " - 3:25
7. "Spanish Caravan
   Spanish Caravan
   "Spanish Caravan" is a song by The Doors from the album Waiting for the Sun released in 1968. Its basic flamenco track is an established form of flamenco music known as Granadinas.The beginning riff was taken from Asturias , a classical piece of music by a Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz...
   
   " - 3:03
8. "My Wild Love" -3:01
9. "We Could Be So Good Together
   We Could Be So Good Together
   "We Could Be So Good Together" is a song by American rock band The Doors, appearing as the ninth song on their 1968 album, Waiting for the Sun, but was initially released as the B-side of the single The Unknown Soldier...
   
   " - 2:26
10. "Yes, the River Knows" - 2:36
11. "Five to One
    Five To One
    "Five to One" is a song by The Doors, from their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun.-Origin:"Five to one" is rumored to be the approximate ratio of whites to blacks, old to young, or non-pot smokers to pot smokers in the US in 1967, depending on whom you ask. A further urban legend has it as the ratio...
    
    " - 4:26
12. "Albinoni's
    Tomaso Albinoni
    Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.-Biography:Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a...
    
     Adagio in G minor
    Adagio in G minor
    The Adagio in G minor for violin, strings and organ continuo, is a neo-Baroque composition popularly attributed to the 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, but composed by the 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto and based on the disputed discovery of a...
    
    " (Remo Giazotto
    Remo Giazotto
    Remo Giazotto was an Italian musicologist, music critic, and composer, mostly known through his systematic catalogue of the works of Tomaso Albinoni...
    
    ) - 4:32
13. "Not to Touch the Earth" (Dialogue) - 0:38
14. "Not to Touch the Earth" (Take 1) - 4:05
15. "Not to Touch the Earth" (Take 2) - 4:18
16. "Celebration of the Lizard
    Celebration of the Lizard
    "Celebration of the Lizard" is an epic performance piece written by Jim Morrison, frontman of The Doors. Composed as a series of poems, they include musical sections, spoken verse, and passages of allegorical storytelling.-Poems:*Lions in the Street...
    
    " (An Experiment/Work in Progress) - 17:09

Discs Seven & Eight: The Soft Parade

The Soft Parade

The Soft Parade is the fourth studio album by The Doors, released in 1969.The album met with some controversy among fans and critics due to its inclusion of brass and string instrument arrangements, as opposed to the more stripped-down sound of their earlier recordings...

1. "Tell All the People
   Tell All the People
   "Tell All the People" was the third single off The Doors' 1969 album The Soft Parade. It is also known by "Follow Me Down" because of the use of the phrase in the song. It was released as an A-side that same year, with "Easy Ride" as its B-side, reaching #57 in the US charts...
   
   " (Krieger) - 3:23
2. "Touch Me
   Touch Me (The Doors song)
   "Touch Me" is a song by The Doors from their album The Soft Parade. Written by Robby Krieger, its riff was influenced by The Four Seasons' "C'mon Marianne." It is notable for its extensive usage of brass and string instruments to accent Jim Morrison's vocals...
   
   " - (Krieger) 3:12
3. "Shaman's Blues
   Shaman's Blues
   "Shaman's Blues" is a song written by Jim Morrison and performed by The Doors on their 1969 album The Soft Parade. The song describes a shaman pleading with his ex-lover to return back to him. He states that he knows the woman's "moods and your mind" but doesn't seem to be able to sway her and...
   
   " (Morrison) - 4:49
4. "Do It" (Morrison, Krieger) - 3:08
5. "Easy Ride
   Easy Ride
   "Easy Ride" is a song by The Doors, from their 1969 album The Soft Parade. It was written by lead singer Jim Morrison, who, apparently hoped it would be released as a single A-side as well. Perhaps surprisingly, given that a grand total of four singles were lifted from the nine-song album, "Easy...
   
   " (Morrison) - 2:41
6. "Wild Child" (Morrison) - 2:38
7. "Runnin' Blue
   Runnin' Blue
   Runnin' Blue is a song by the American rock band The Doors, the seventh track on their album The Soft Parade. In 1969 it peaked at #64 on Billboard magazine's Pop Singles chart....
   
   " (Krieger) - 2:33
8. "Wishful Sinful
   Wishful Sinful
   Wishful Sinful is a song written by Doors guitarist Robby Krieger and performed by The Doors. Released in March 1969 from the band's fourth album, The Soft Parade, "Wishful Sinful" follows the general theme of the album by incorporating elements of classical music. It reached #44 on the Billboard...
   
   " (Krieger) - 3:02
9. "The Soft Parade
   The Soft Parade (song)
   The Soft Parade is the ninth and final track on the fourth studio album of the same name by the rock band The Doors. Many listeners believe that this and Shaman's Blues are reminiscent to the old style of The Doors, as heard in the albums The Doors and Strange Days. This is mainly because the song...
   
   " (Morrison) - 9:41
10. "Who Scared You" - 3:58
11. "Whiskey, Mystics and Men
    Whiskey, Mystics & Men
    "Whiskey, Mystics & Men" is a song by The Doors from the compilation Essential Rarities.-Overview:The song released on the 2000 compilation is mostly a studio creation, the vocal parts of Morrison are the same as the ones in the bootleg Missing Links "Whiskey, Mystics & Men" is a song by The Doors...
    
    " (Version 1) - 2:28
12. "Whiskey, Mystics and Men" (Version 2) - 3:04
13. "Push Push" - 6:05
14. "Touch Me" (Dialogue) - 0:28
15. "Touch Me" (Take 3) - 3:40

Discs Nine & Ten: Morrison Hotel

Morrison Hotel

Morrison Hotel is The Doors' fifth album. It was released in 1970. After their experimental work The Soft Parade was not as well received as anticipated, the group went back to basics and back to their roots...

1. "Roadhouse Blues
   Roadhouse Blues
   "Roadhouse Blues" is a blues-rock song written and recorded by the American rock band The Doors. The song, which appeared on the B-side of "You Make Me Real", was first released as a single from the album Morrison Hotel in March 1970 and peaked at #50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100...
   
   " - 4:04
2. "Waiting for the Sun" (Morrison) - 3:59
3. "You Make Me Real" (Morrison)- 2:53
4. "Peace Frog
   Peace Frog
   "Peace Frog" is a song by The Doors which appears on the album Morrison Hotel. It was released on vinyl in February 1970 by Elektra/Asylum Records and produced by Paul Rothchild...
   
   " (Morrison, Krieger)- 5:04
5. "Blue Sunday" (Morrison) - 2:13
6. "Ship of Fools" (Morrison, Krieger) - 3:08
7. "Land Ho!" (Morrison, Krieger) - 4:10
8. "The Spy" (Morrison) - 4:17
9. "Queen of the Highway
   Queen of the Highway
   'Queen of the Highway is a song by the rock group The Doors, from their 1970 album Morrison Hotel. It is the ninth, and third-to-last track on that album...
   
   " (Morrison, Krieger) - 2:47
10. "Indian Summer" (Morrison, Krieger) - 2:36
11. "Maggie M'Gill" - 4:23
12. "Talking Blues" - 0:59
13. "Roadhouse Blues" (Takes 1-3) - 8:47
14. "Roadhouse Blues" (Take 6) - 9:26
15. "Carol" - 0:56
16. "Roadhouse Blues" (Take 1) - 4:32
17. "Money Beats Soul" - 1:04
18. "Roadhouse Blues" (Takes 13-15) - 6:21
19. "Peace Frog" (False Starts & Dialogue) - 2:00
20. "The Spy" (Version 2) - 3:48
21. "Queen of the Highway" (Jazz Version) - 3:36

Discs Eleven & Twelve: L.A. Woman

L.A. Woman

The band embarked on a tour to promote the album, although it would only comprise two dates. The first was held in Dallas, Texas on December 11 and reportedly went well. The second performance took place at The Warehouse in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 12, 1970, where Morrison apparently had...

1. "The Changeling" - 4:21
2. "Love Her Madly
   Love Her Madly
   "Love Her Madly" is a song by The Doors, which was released in March 1971. Composed by guitarist Robby Krieger, it served as the lead single from L.A. Woman, their final album with frontman Jim Morrison. Session musician and Elvis Presly TCB Band touring member Jerry Scheff, played bass guitar on...
   
   " - 3:20
3. "Been Down So Long" - 4:41
4. "Cars Hiss By My Window
   Cars Hiss By My Window
   Cars Hiss by My Window is a song by American rock band The Doors, from the album L.A. Woman. The song is a standard blues style song and it features guitarist Robby Krieger's bluesy guitar. It depicts a melancholy feel and singer Jim Morrison shows his feelings of life passing him by...
   
   " - 4:58
5. "L.A. Woman
   L.A. Woman (song)
   "L.A. Woman" is a song by American rock band The Doors. The song is the title track on their 1971 album L.A. Woman, the final album with frontman Jim Morrison before his death.In the song's coda, Morrison repeats the phrase Mr...
   
   " - 7:57
6. "L'America" - 4:37
7. "Hyacinth House
   Hyacinth House
   "Hyacinth House" is a 1971 song by The Doors which appears on their final album with frontman Jim Morrison, L.A. Woman. The music was written by Ray Manzarek, while Morrison wrote the lyrics while at guitarist Robby Krieger's beach house; though the song's writing credits are additionally credited...
   
   " - 3:11
8. "Crawlin' King Snake" (John Lee Hooker
   John Lee Hooker
   John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...
   
   ) - 5:00
9. "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
   The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
   "The WASP " is a 1971 song by The Doors, which appears on their final album with frontman Jim Morrison, L.A. Woman. The music was written by Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore. The spoken word lyrics, written by Morrison, come from a poem he wrote in 1968, three years before the music...
   
   " - 4:16
10. "Riders on the Storm
    Riders on the Storm
    "Riders on the Storm" is a song by The Doors from their 1971 album, L.A. Woman. It reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, number 22 on the UK singles charts and number 7 in the Netherlands.-Overview:...
    
    " - 7:09
11. "Orange County Suite" - 5:45
12. "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further" (Willie Dixon
    Willie Dixon
    William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
    
    ) - 3:41

• Discs two, four, six, eight, ten and twelve are DVDs that are exclusive to the box set.

Personnel

• Jim Morrison
  Jim Morrison
  James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...
  
   — lead vocals
• Ray Manzarek
  Ray Manzarek
  Raymond Daniel Manzarek, Jr., better known as Ray Manzarek , is an American musician, singer, producer, film director, writer, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, Nite City from 1977–1978 and Manzarek-Krieger since 2001.Manzarek is listed #4 on Digital Dreamdoor's "100...
  
   — piano, organ, keyboards & bass
• John Densmore
  John Densmore
  John Paul Densmore is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the drummer of the rock group The Doors.-Early life and The Doors:Born in Los Angeles, Densmore attended Santa Monica City College and Cal...
  
   — drums
• Robby Krieger
  Robby Krieger
  Robert Alan "Robby" Krieger is an American rock guitarist and songwriter. He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Times," "Touch Me," and "Love Her Madly."...
  
  — guitar