Live in Europe
For Doors completists only, this shapeless gathering of rare film clips  of the band performing in Europe is hampered by the same old, frustrating   problems with attempting to convey, through lousy camera work, the band's power  as a live act. The packaging tells us the Doors swept through London,   Stockholm, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam during a 1968 tour documented here, but   there's no way to appreciate that save for a random clip or two of Jim Morrison  milling about outside concert venues, talking with fans. Otherwise, we see the  same sort of obfuscating on-stage close-ups of Morrison you can see in any  footage of a Doors gig, stumbling around, crooning, and reciting poetry to  minimalist accompaniment by Ray Manzarek on keyboards, John Densmore on drums,  and Robby Krieger on guitar. Unless one can see, in the mind's eye, what the  band is up to from the point of view of a kid in the 30th row, there's no way to  really get the hypnotic, Dionysian effect for which the Doors were justifiably  famous. Thus, for anyone who can imagine such a thing, or take it on faith,  there's good reason to enjoy performances of "Spanish Caravan," "Five to One,"  and two versions of "Light My Fire." There's even a relic of pre-MTV, pop  promotion: a silly-looking performance of "Hello, I Love You" shot before a  baffled crowd on a London street.--Tom  Keogh