For Doors fans, this DVD will be a hard one to walk past. ‘The Doors-30th Anniversary Collection’ is definitely the ultimate collection of archived doors footage available. This one contains it all, footage from their only ever fully recorded concert, a swag of film clips and lots of footage from other live recordings. This is about as comprehensive a set of features that a Doors fan could want and includes an extremely extensive song list that is second to none. Being 30 years since the anniversary of Jim Morrison’s death this disc also includes a remix of ‘The Ghost Song’, a poem written by Morrison, and an updated film clip for ‘Break on Through’, both being more of a tribute to Jim Morrison then anything else.

Shown below is the track listing of all the videos available on this disc. Although you have the ability to play all the movies in one long stream, each film clip or song is split into its own chapter for easy acces. This has been implented perfectly with the animated menus being beautiful to look at and a dream to navigate.

Live at the Hollywood Bowl
1. WhenThe Music's Over
2. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
3. Back Door Man
4. 5 to 1
5. Moonlight Drive
6. Horse Latitudes
7. From The Celebration of the Lizard
8. Spanish Caravan
9. Light My Fire
10. Unknown Soldier
11. The End

Dance on Fire
1. Break On Through
2. People are Strange
3. Light My Fire
4. Wild Child
5. L.A Woman
6. The Unknown Soldier
7. Roadhouse Blues
8. Texas Radio
9. Love me Two Times
10. Touch Me
11. Horse Latitudes
12. Moonlight Drive
13. The End
14. Crystal Ship
15. Adagio
16. Rider on the Storm

The Soft Parade
1. The Changeling
2. Wishful Sinful
3. Wild Child
4. Build Me a Woman
5. The Unknown Soldier
6. The Soft Parade
7. Hello I Love You

Bonus Features
1. Break on Through (Isle of Wight Track)
2. The Ghost Song

The transfer for this disc exceeds all expectations, especially when compared to previously released Doors DVD’s. The quality of the picture varies from clip to clip. The newer ones look rather nice, but as to be expected, the original clips of the band (some dating back well over 30 years) do suffer from film artefacts, poor shadow detail and a generally soft tone to it all. However the transfer itself (considering the source material) is fantastic. Its obvious that a lot of time has been spent on making this disc a fitting tribute.

The audio is also of a similar quality. On some of the live footage the audio sounds a touch rough, but overall, considering the age, it’s an excellent transfer. There are two soundtracks, a Dolby Digital 2.0 track and a linear PCM track. The PCM track might be slightly superior, but not by any huge margin. Audio sync isn’t a problem, except in a few of the film clips, but that’s just how it was filmed. Ultimately is been re-mastered fantastically and is a true credit to the team behind it.

Overall, this is the disc to own if you’re a fan of the doors. Containing the most extensive list of Doors footage that you could really want, and a transfer that considering the source material is outstanding and almost faultless. This one comes highly recommended to all fans and is a great collectors piece for any music buff.