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List Price: $79.98 | | Label: Rhino Records
Salesrank: 4638
Released: October 21, 2008 |
| Our Price: $57.98 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Perception Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Break on Through (To the Other Side)
2. Soul Kitchen
3. Crystal Ship
4. Twentieth Century Fox
5. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
6. Light My Fire
7. Back Door Man
8. I Looked at You
9. End of the Night
10. Take It as It Comes
11. End
12. Moonlight Drive [Version 1][*]
13. Moonlight Drive [Version 2][#][*]
14. Indian Summer [8/19/66 Vocal][#][*]
Disc 2:
1. Break on Through (To the Other Side) [5.1 Surround Sound]
2. Soul Kitchen [5.1 Surround Sound]
3. Crystal Ship [5.1 Surround Sound]
4. Twentieth Century Fox [5.1 Surround Sound]
5. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) [5.1 Surround Sound]
6. Light My Fire [5.1 Surround Sound]
7. Back Door Man [5.1 Surround Sound]
8. I Looked at You [5.1 Surround Sound]
9. End of the Night [5.1 Surround Sound]
10. Take It as It Comes [5.1 Surround Sound]
11. End [5.1 Surround Sound]
12. Moonlight Drive [5.1 Surround Sound][*][Version]
13. Moonlight Drive [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Version]
14. Indian Summer [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Version]
15. Break on Through (To the Other Side) [5.1 Surround
16. End [5.1 Surround Sound]
17. [Bonus Material] [*] [DVD]
Disc 3:
1. Strange Days
2. You're Lost Little Girl
3. Love Me Two Times
4. Unhappy Girl
5. Horse Latitudes
6. Moonlight Drive
7. People Are Strange
8. My Eyes Have Seen You
9. I Can't See Your Face in My Mind
10. When the Music's Over
11. People Are Strange (False Starts & Studio Dialogue) [#][*]
12. Love Me Two Times [Take 3][#][*]
Disc 4:
1. Strange Days [5.1 Surround Sound]
2. You're Lost Little Girl [5.1 Surround Sound]
3. Love Me Two Times [5.1 Surround Sound]
4. Unhappy Girl [5.1 Surround Sound]
5. Horse Latitudes [5.1 Surround Sound]
6. Moonlight Drive [5.1 Surround Sound]
7. People Are Strange [5.1 Surround Sound]
8. My Eyes Have Seen You [5.1 Surround Sound]
9. I Can't See Your Face in My Mind [5.1 Surround Sound]
10. When the Music's Over [5.1 Surround Sound]
11. People Are Strange (False Starts & Studio Dialogue) [5.1 Surr
12. Love Me Two Times [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Take]
13. Love Me Two Times [5.1 Surround Sound][Live]
14. When the Music's Over [5.1 Surround Sound][Live]
15. [Bonus Material] [*] [DVD]
Disc 5:
1. Hello, I Love You
2. Love Street
3. Not to Touch the Earth
4. Summer's Almost Gone
5. Wintertime Love
6. Unknown Soldier
7. Spanish Caravan
8. My Wild Love
9. We Could Be So Good Together
10. Yes, The River Knows
11. Five to One
12. Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor [*]
13. Not to Touch the Earth (Dialogue) [#][*]
14. Not to Touch the Earth [Take 1][#][*]
15. Not to Touch the Earth [Take 2][#][*]
16. Celebration of the Lizard [An Experiment/Work in Progress][*]
Disc 6:
1. Hello, I Love You [5.1 Surround Sound]
2. Love Street [5.1 Surround Sound]
3. Not to Touch the Earth [5.1 Surround Sound]
4. Summer's Almost Gone [5.1 Surround Sound]
5. Wintertime Love [5.1 Surround Sound]
6. Unknown Soldier [5.1 Surround Sound]
7. Spanish Caravan [5.1 Surround Sound]
8. My Wild Love [5.1 Surround Sound]
9. We Could Be So Good Together [5.1 Surround Sound]
10. Yes, The River Knows [5.1 Surround Sound]
11. Five to One [5.1 Surround Sound]
12. Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor [5.1 Surround Sound][*]
13. Not to Touch the Earth [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*]
14. Not to Touch the Earth [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Take]
15. Not to Touch the Earth [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Take]
16. Celebration of the Lizard[5[5
17. Spanish Caravan [5.1 Surround Sound][Live]
18. Unknown Soldier [5.1 Surround Sound][Live]
19. [Bonus Material] [*] [DVD]
Disc 7:
1. Tell All the People
2. Touch Me
3. Shaman's Blues
4. Do It
5. Easy Ride
6. Wild Child
7. Runnin' Blue
8. Wishful Sinful
9. Soft Parade
10. Who Scared You [*]
11. Whiskey, Mystics and Men [Version 1][*]
12. Whiskey, Mystics and Men [Version 2][#][*]
13. Push Push [#][*]
14. Touch Me (Dialogue) [#][*]
15. Touch Me [Take 3][#][*]
Disc 8:
1. Tell All the People [5.1 Surround Sound]
2. Touch Me [5.1 Surround Sound]
3. Shaman's Blues [5.1 Surround Sound]
4. Do It [5.1 Surround Sound]
5. Easy Ride [5.1 Surround Sound]
6. Wild Child [5.1 Surround Sound]
7. Runnin' Blues [5.1 Surround Sound]
8. Wishful Sinful [5.1 Surround Sound]
9. Soft Parade [5.1 Surround Sound]
10. Who Scared You [5.1 Surround Sound][*]
11. Whiskey, Mystics and Men [5.1 Surround Sound][*][Version]
12. Whiskey, Mystics and Men [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Version]
13. Push Push [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*]
14. Touch Me (Dialogue) [#][*]
15. Touch Me [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Take]
16. Soft Parade [5.1 Surround Sound][Live]
17. Tell All the People [5.1 Surround Sound][Live]
18. [Bonus Material] [*] [DVD]
Disc 9:
1. Roadhouse Blues
2. Waiting for the Sun
3. You Make Me Real
4. Peace Frog
5. Blue Sunday
6. Ship of Fools
7. Land Ho!
8. Spy
9. Queen of the Highway
10. Indian Summer
11. Maggie M'Gill
12. Talking Blues [#][*]
13. Roadhouse Blues [Takes 1-3][#][*]
14. Roadhouse Blues [Take 6][#][*]
15. Carol [#][*]
16. Roadhouse Blues [Take 1][#][*]
17. Money Beats Soul [#][*]
18. Roadhouse Blues [Takes 13-15][#][*]
19. Peace Frog [False Starts & Dialogue][#][*]
20. Spy [Version 2][#][*]
21. Queen of the Highway [Jazz Version][*]
Disc 10:
1. Roadhouse Blues [5.1 Surround Sound]
2. Waiting for the Sun [5.1 Surround Sound]
3. You Make Me Real [5.1 Surround Sound]
4. Peace Frog [5.1 Surround Sound]
5. Blue Sunday [5.1 Surround Sound]
6. Ship of Fools [5.1 Surround Sound]
7. Land Ho! [5.1 Surround Sound]
8. Spy [5.1 Surround Sound]
9. Queen of the Highway [5.1 Surround Sound]
10. Indian Summer [5.1 Surround Sound]
11. Maggie M'Gill [5.1 Surround Sound]
12. Talking Blues [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*]
13. Roadhouse Blues [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Take]
14. Roadhouse Blues [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Take]
15. Carol [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*]
16. Roadhouse Blues [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Take]
17. Money Beats Soul [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*]
18. Roadhouse Blues [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Take]
19. Peace Frogs [# [5.1 Surround Sound][#]
20. Spy [5.1 Surround Sound][#][*][Version]
21. Queen of the Highway [5.1 Surround Sound][*][Version]
22. Roadhouse Blues [5.1 Surround Sound]
23. Wild Child [5.1 Surround Sound]
24. [Bonus Material] [*] [DVD]
Disc 11:
1. Changeling
2. Love Her Madly
3. Been Down So Long
4. Cars Hiss by My Window
5. L.A. Woman
6. America
7. Hyacinth House
8. Crawling King Snake
9. Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
10. Riders on the Storm
11. Orange County Suite [*]
12. (You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further [*]
Editorial Review:
6CD/6DVD Boxed set celebrating the 40th anniversary of this legendary band: All their Jim Morrison-Era studio albums reissued in deluxe 2-disc editions with rare & previously unreleased bonus material, 5.1 mixes, bonus video content, and more!
Description of Perception:
For years, the recording industry has asked fans to purchase the same music from the 1960s and '70s over and over again, via remasterings, repackagings, and, of course, reformattings. The Doors' box Perception (get it?), cleverly packaged as... a door, does hold some astonishing music, but the thing itself is a weird hybrid beast with multiple formats for every release. Each of the group's six albums has not only been re-remastered (this time by the remaining band members plus original engineer Bruce Botnick as the "40th anniversary mix"), but loaded up with a bevy of previously unreleased bonus tracks. But that's not it--for each album, there's a companion DVD, which includes a whole new 5.1 surround sound mix with more tracks, as well as the usual DVD extras, i.e., photo galleries, lyrics, and videos. That makes 12 discs, much of it essentially redundant. If you're cool with that, you're in for a treat. From the spookier, unissued version of "Indian Summer" to the entirely new tune "Push Push" and some super-rad footage of the band rehearsing L.A. Woman, it's easy to fall in love with this swirling, highly sexualized, and often brilliant band all over again. --Mike McGonigal
Perception Reviews:
Love The Doors 
2009-12-15 - I can't get enough of the Doors even after all these years. The Perception boxset if just awesome.
WARNING: "If something seems too good to be true......" 
2009-12-05 - This review is concerning the recent price drop only. Today I received my set, and guess what? The box has been changed, no more "keyhole", or "doorknob", etc., just a plain ole square box with lame photo reproductions of the previous (and now destined to be a "collectors item") deluxe and unique packaging. It's not that I don't understand the reasoning (price deduction vs. manufacturing costs), but the fact that the order/product page still refers to the "clever packaging"......BUYER BEWARE!!!
the DVD's of 5.1 sound is GREAT! Some new mixes lack.... 
2009-09-03 - One gripe about the package is they sell you the BOX set, it easily couda been whittled down, all the DVD's (one DVD fopr each Doors album) all would fit on one single DVD, just a waste to jack up the price.....BUT....the 5.1 mixes are great!
The first album in 5.1 is sorta lame, almost as if it was the first one they remixed in 5.1 and then got better as they progressed.
All the songs have NEW stereo re-mixes, most have elxcellent sound separation but some of the tracks sound as if they were recorded in a shack, who knows, maybe they were.
Some new mixes notables on the Bad side.....
1. "Break on Through" for years and years we heard the verse "she gets...she gets...she gets whaoa...."
Now the "hidden" vocals are brought up and its sung "....she gets high...she gets high...she gets whaoa..."
I think the first mix has a better balance of rythem and beat to it.
2. The End.....near the end of the song at the musical climax, the old mix we hear the band building to the climax and explodes to a creshendo with Robbies feedback guitar work...excellent!
*The new mix brings up Jims vocals and hes just mubbling gibberish like "yah..yah...boop..yah...blah...we---oh...."
Makes it sound like trash..totaly ruins the muisical instrumentation climax.....maybe thats the way the band originally wanted it, but for 40 years we all enjoyed the first mix, now its gone.
Over all, great sound....agian....in this day of mp3's.....all couda fit onto 2 CD's and 1 DVD.....oh well.
Surviving the test of time
2009-09-02 - The Doors' first 6 albums comprise this package, which features all the attributes--and flaws--of arguably one of the most important rock 'n' roll bands of all time. Though productive for only about three years, the Doors' sound survives the test of time. Ray Manzarek's organ, Robbie Kreiger's versatile guitar and John Densmore's articulate percussion sound as fresh today as they did 40 years ago. But the real reason to buy this package is because it is haunted--chillingly so. The ghost of Jim Morroson is alive and well, packing more power than any other rock and roll front man since his death at 27 back in 1971. Although Manzarek and Krieger penned many of the lyrics, one can't help but conclude Morrison's poetic aptitude pumped up the repertoire larger than life. If you're over 50, do yourself a favor and add this to your collection. It'll make you proud to be a part of the generation that challenged the American status-quo before buying back into the same so eagerly. You can smell the ten dollar lids, see the black light and flourescent posters. The Summer of Love has not yet faded into history.
Doors in 5.1? Umm Hmm.
2009-06-10 - This is a review of the 5.1 Surround versions of the albums.
A couple of other reviewers have made some negative comments about the 5.1 mixes. I have to say, I think they are pretty darn good.
To my non-engineering ears, 5.1 mixes come in two types. There are the kinds of mixes that were done for a lot of the old Quadrophonic mixes (I still have my quad amp). They simply mixed some ambience in the rear speakers. In other words, the rear speakers contained things you would be expected to hear in a concert hall behind you. The main band parts still were in the front speakers, some echo or crowd noise behind you from the rear speakers. I have some 5.1 CD's that kind of do this, minimal participation from the rear 'surround' speakers. BOC's "Agents of Fortune" is an example. Some guitar tracks, maybe a bit of percussion is all that you get from the rear.
There were some quad mixes that put different instruments in each track. A good example is Deep Purple's Machine Head. This is what most 5.1 mixes do, a separate sound track in each channel, with the voice usually from the center channel, and the bass drum and guitar from the subwoofer. This is what the Doors 5.1 mixes do. I really like them. I think most of us will agree, most Doors albums did not feature a huge number of overdubs. So, there is not that much to stick in each channel, it gets kind of stark. But, no matter, I LIKE the feeling of being in the MIDDLE of the band, not in front of it.
Point here is that the 5.1 mixes are, to my ear, just fine, and what I paid my money for. Along with the 5.1 DVD's are great stereo mixes on CD's, so there really is no down side.
