For the first 17 years of their history, the only official live Doors album was Absolutely Live, which had its virtues -- especially as it captured elements of their harder, more ambitious repertoire -- but also left more casual fans rather cold, owing to the absence of any of their biggest hits.
Alive, She Cried helped solve that problem, including as it did a concert version of "Light My Fire" and also adding a legendary concert piece -- their rendition of Van Morrison's mid-'60s Them-era classic "Gloria" -- to the Doors' official Elektra Records discography.
The release was extremely popular but it also revealed the reason why "Light My Fire" had not made it onto the prior live album, which was principally a matter of Jim Morrison's boredom with a song not his own that he'd performed too many times by 1970, and also owing to the fact that the band had done about 90 percent of everything they were going to do with the song in its original album version; Morrison is at his most inspired and involved on the "Graveyard Poem" that he interjects during the break, and everything else is an elaboration of the extended jam originally heard on the studio recording.
[Alive, She Cried was later combined with Live at the Hollywood Bowl and Absolutely Live in the In Concert two-CD set.].
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GloriaVan Morrison | The Doors | Play | 06:18 | 14 MB | 39 MB |
| 2 | Light My FireJohn Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison | The Doors | Play | 09:49 | 22 MB | 62 MB |
| 3 | You Make Me RealJohn Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison | The Doors | Play | 03:04 | 7 MB | 19 MB |
| 4 | Love Me Two TimesJohn Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison | The Doors | Play | 03:17 | 7 MB | 18 MB |
| 5 | Little Red RoosterWillie Dixon | The Doors | Play | 07:05 | 16 MB | 40 MB |
| 6 | Moonlight DriveJohn Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison | The Doors | Play | 05:32 | 12 MB | 33 MB |
| 7 | Soul Kitchen | The Doors | Play | 07:11 | 16 MB | 44 MB |
| 8 | Texas Radio & The Big Beat | The Doors | Play | 01:52 | 4 MB | 9 MB |
| 44 mins | 101 MB | |||||
| 44 mins | 268 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Curtis Amy | Saxophone |
| 2 | Marc Benno | Guitar |
| 3 | Harvey Brooks | Bass |
| 4 | John Densmore | Composer, Drums |
| 5 | Willie Dixon | Composer |
| 6 | The Doors | Primary Artist |
| 7 | Robby Krieger | Composer, Guitar |
| 8 | Doug Lubahn | Bass |
| 9 | Lonnie Mack | Bass |
| 10 | Ray Manzarek | Composer, Keyboards, Vocals |
| 11 | Jim Morrison | Composer, Vocals |
| 12 | Van Morrison | Composer |
| 13 | Paul Rothchild | Producer |
| 14 | Jerry Scheff | Bass |
| 15 | John Sebastian | Harmonica |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |