Essential Rarities
Essential Rarities is a compilation album by the Doors, originally released as part of the boxed set "The Complete Studio Recordings" in 1999, but reissued in 2000 as a single CD, containing studio cuts, live cuts and demos taken from the 1997 "". Releases. All the tracks on the album had been officially released on the 1997 box set, with the exception of the bonus track "Woman Is a Devil," which was edited from the 1969 "Rock Is Dead" sessions from Elektra Records's Elektra Sound Recorders, and was not included in the box set version of the album . Some songs appear in more complete form than their "Box Set" versions: "Roadhouse Blues" has a 35-second section that was cut from the bridge of the song, and "Who Scared You" has an extra verse. Track listing. All songs written by the Doors (John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison), except where noted. Personnel. The Doors Technical