Without hi-fi specialist - I have only two ears, a heart and a normal stereo - I ask again that: The sound of the new versions is much better. You get the feeling that someone had a layer of dust from the music blown or pulled a cloth drüberlag, or could have been fresh from durchgekärcherte otolaryngologist ear canals.
From sound to matters of content: The new blends do not increase for me the songs, but certainly not reduce them. Her character does not change. The newly added tracks make the music a little rougher, less cared for, if you want even more honest, closer, more direct. I think that is legitimate: The music of the Doors has long historical, excavations in the strip material therefore also have archaeological value, they show more shades in the factory and at the same time they also tell something about the work process itself (see the different versions of "Whiskey, Mystics And Men ").
At the "most correct" it would have been to put the known and the new variant as a double CD together for discussion (like eg Deep Purple have made), but what would be the price looked like ...?
For album itself: It is the most controversial of the Doors, many fans argue that the sound experiments with brass and strings have ruined the song. I do not see that: A good song is not bad by sound enhancements, a worse not better. "Touch Me" with or without Getröte (be heard on the live recordings), a typical, catchy bouncing Robbie Krieger hit. "Tell All The People" has also this charm, but acts compared colors poorer, thinner, more transparent. And that sounds otherwise, one would eliminate the orchestrations.
Conclusion: This is an album of classic, sycophantic Warrior melodies ("Wishful, Sinful"), classical, metaphorical proliferating, musically simple-vigorous, rebellious Morrison blues ("Wild Child", "Shaman's Blues"), comical (" Runnin 'Blue "), interesting (" Easy Ride ") and rather pointless (" Do It ") experiments and a wide proliferating Large cinema track (" The Soft Parade ") in which, lyrically and musically, in principle, all themes the Doors happen.
This can be, when you add up's, find bad. I can not find that. And: You have every artist concede, also to try again astray. The more honest you can then come back again. Without "The Soft Parade" no "Morrison Hotel".
