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The Doors’ 50th anniversary celebration, which kicked off with an expansion of their debut album earlier this year, continues with a new compilation that, astoundingly, does something none of their previous collections have done: compile every original single side from their entire career.

The Singles compiles all 20 of the band’s singles from The Doors’ official discography. This not only includes every A and B-side from their best-known studio albums from The Doors (1967) to L.A. Woman (1971) but several albums recorded and released after the passing of frontman Jim Morrison, including Other Voices (1971) and Full Circle (1972) plus An American Prayer (the divisive 1978 album which put Morrison’s poetry recordings to music) and the 1983 live set Alive, She Cried. All tracks are sourced from the original analog single masters and remastered by the band’s engineer Bruce Botnick. That means all the original, unique and rare single mixes and edits will appear in this set, many for the first time on CD. The pot is sweetened even further with the presence of mono radio versions of “Hello, I Love You,” “Touch Me,” “Wishful Sinful” and “Tell All the People,” entirely unreleased since their appearance on promotional singles.

Two further deluxe editions will also be available. One adds to the 2CD set a Blu-ray Audio disc of The Best of The Doors. This 1973 album was specifically mixed in four-channel quadraphonic sound and makes its Blu-ray Audio debut here (it was released on SACD by Audio Fidelity in 2015). And a vinyl version, limited to 10,000 copies and available through the band’s official web store, features all 20 45RPM singles in replicas of their original sleeves (with an enclosed poster featuring all those sleeves as well).

The Singles is out September 15. We’ll be adding more pre-order links as they come in.

The Singles (Elektra/Rhino, 2017)

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Disc 1

1. Break On Through (to the Other Side)
2. End of the Night
3. Light My Fire
4. The Crystal Ship
5. People Are Strange
6. Unhappy Girl
7. Love Me Two Times
8. Moonlight Drive
9. The Unknown Soldier
10. We Could Be So Good Together
11. Hello, I Love You
12. Love Street
13. Touch Me
14. Wild Child
15. Wishful Sinful
16. Who Scared You
17. Tell All the People
18. Easy Ride
19. Runnin’ Blue
20. Do It
21. You Make Me Real
22. Roadhouse Blues
23. Love Her Madly
24. (You Need Meat) Don’t Go No Further
25. Riders On the Storm
26. Changeling

Disc 2

1. Tightrope Ride
2. Variety is the Spice of Life
3. Ships W/ Sails
4. In the Eye of the Sun
5. Get Up and Dance
6. Treetrunk
7. The Mosquito
8. It Slipped My Mind
9. The Piano Bird
10. Good Rockin’
11. Roadhouse Blues (Live)
12. Albinoni: Adagio
13. Gloria (Live)
14. Moonlight Drive (Live)
15. Hello, I Love You (Mono Radio Version)
16. Touch Me (Mono Radio Version)
17. Wishful Sinful (Mono Radio Version)
18. Tell All the People (Mono Radio Version)

Blu-ray: The Best of The Doors (Quadrophonic Mix) (released as Elektra EQ-5035, 1973)

1. Who Do You Love?
2. Soul Kitchen
3. Hello, I Love You
4. People Are Strange
5. Riders On the Storm
6. Touch Me
7. Love Her Madly
8. Love Me Two Times
9. Take It As It Comes
10. Moonlight Drive
11. Light My Fire

Disc 1, Tracks 1-4 from The Doors (Elektra, 1967)

• Tracks 1-2 released as Elektra single EK-45611, 1967
• Tracks 3-4 released as Elektra single EK-45615, 1967

Disc 1, Tracks 5-8 from Strange Days (Elektra, 1967)

• Tracks 5-6 released as Elektra single EK-45621, 1967
• Tracks 7-8 released as Elektra single EK-45624, 1967

Disc 1, Tracks 9-12 from Waiting for the Sun (Elektra, 1968)

• Tracks 9-10 from Elektra single EK-45628, 1968
• Tracks 11-12 from Elektra single EK-45635, 1968

Disc 1, Tracks 13-15 and 17-20 from The Soft Parade (Elektra, 1969)

• Tracks 13-14 from Elektra single EK-45646, 1969
• Tracks 15-16 from Elektra single EK-45656, 1969
• Tracks 17-18 from Elektra single EK-45663, 1969
• Tracks 19-20 from Elektra single EKS-45675, 1969

Disc 1, Tracks 21-22 from Morrison Hotel (Elektra, 1970)

• Tracks 21-22 from Elektra single EKM-45685, 1970

Disc 1, Tracks 23 and 25-26 from L.A. Woman (Elektra, 1971)

• Tracks 23-24 from Elektra single EKS-45726, 1971
• Tracks 25-26 from Elektra single EKS-45738, 1971

Disc 2, Tracks 1-4 from Other Voices (Elektra, 1971)

• Tracks 1-2 from Elektra single EKS-45757, 1971
• Tracks 3-4 from Elektra single EK-45768, 1972

Disc 2, Tracks 5 and 7-10 from Full Circle (Elektra, 1972)

• Tracks 5-6 from Elektra single EK-45793, 1972
• Tracks 7-8 from Elektra single EK-45807, 1972
• Tracks 9-10 from Elektra single EK-45825, 1972

Disc 2, Tracks 11-12 from An American Prayer (Elektra, 1978) and Elektra single E-46005, 1978
Disc 2, Tracks 13-14 from Alive, She Cried (Elektra, 1973) and Elektra single 7-69770, 1983
Disc 2, Track 15 from Elektra promo single EKM-45635, 1968
Disc 2, Track 16 from Elektra promo single EKM-45646, 1969
Disc 2, Track 17 from Elektra promo single EKM-45656, 1969
Disc 2, Track 18 from Elektra promo single EKM-45663, 1969