The Best Of The Doors (compilation album)
by The Doors

The Best Of The Doors by The Doors
(Compilation album)
Year: 1985
Overall rank: 8,559th   
Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 160 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1985 (109th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,239th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,559th)

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The Doors bestography

The Best Of The Doors is ranked 9th best out of 48 albums by The Doors on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Doors is The Doors which is ranked number 28 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 26,890.

The Doors album bestography « Higher ranked (4,705th)
An American Prayer
This album (8,559th)
The Best Of The Doors
Lower ranked (9,256th) »
Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

Upcoming concerts

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Doors Tribute by Wild Child
The Canyon Santa Clarita, Santa Clarita, United States. United States
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Dec
31
Wed
22:30
Paula West in Concert - Countdown to New Year's Eve! 10:30 show / doors at 9:30
Feinstein's at The Nikko, San Francisco, United States. United States
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Jan
03
Sat
19:30
Wild Child - Doors Tribute
House of Blues Las Vegas , Las Vegas, United States. United States
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The Best Of The Doors track list

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The Best Of The Doors rankings

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Overall rank: 8,559th | 1980s rank: 1,239th | 1985 rank: 109th

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83/100 (from 160 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 83.2/100, a mean average of 82.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.

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From 05/08/2020 21:36 | #251069
Great compilation I played this over and over until it was time to seek out all the studio albums.
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From 02/20/2018 03:05 | #208895
Are there any other bands that have recreated or reinvented this sound? (Like Oasis and the Beatles). I’d like to know. The doors were great and this is a very good collection. Love Me Two Times is my personal favourite but the organ makes their music stand out on many tracks.
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From 02/01/2016 19:35 | #158423
A nice two disc collection containing most of the essential tracks form this seminal group. If you only want one Doors CD this is it.
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