The Doors – Strange Days 1967: A Work In Progress

My copy plays clean and clear.

This is an incredible album. As a long time fan of this album, I’m absolutely amazed by the vibrant, psychedelic, and authentic energy bursting from each of these songs. To my ears (and mind), these versions all seem a bit more mellow as compared to their original final album counterparts.

For fans of the original album, this release is an absolute sonic treat.

Both sides have so much distortion it's unlistenable. I haven't tried to clean the record yet though...

Picked this up on RSD, havent stopped spinning it since. Sounds absolutely gorgeous and haunting. If you know the songs well you will notice some differences but nothing insane. Personally I find this rendering to be more stirring than the regular one, and I'm obsessed.

OK, I wasn't going to get this but I heard someone's rip of it and had to get my own copy. This is a really stellar sounding release. Even though the title track is missing the Moog, it sounds incredible. In my humble opinion, it's better and more immersive than even the 5.1 from Perception. The mixes aren't all massively different but the tracks all sound great. This won't replace your best copy of the original LP, but it's worth your time if you really like this album.

Received copy 00602 today. Definite difference than the original. Sounds great to me.
Robbie Krieger's guitar licks are standing out.Horae latitude sounds more psychedelic.Still listening, and enjoying the subtleties.

Alright, file this under "Doors Completionist". Having only heard Strange Days 100 times, I struggled to pinpoint what was actually different here other than playing with some levels and knobs with the final mix. Doors Raw or Doors Stripped Down or Doors Demos this aint. They didn't have a random alt mix of Strange Days somewhere to flesh this out?

I still love you (two times) Doors Camp. That RSD Detroit was STELLLLLLLAR. But this is a whiff.

very pleased with the audio quality , nice colour for the disk and Lacquer Cut By Bernie Grundman deserves 5 stars in my modest opinion

I'm a bit disappointed about this release. Great colour of record, nice artwork, but there are not spectacular differences on the record itself. It alll sounds good, but i expected work in progress... not slightly different mixes.

This release looks great, the cover art is really well done as is the inner sleeve. The blue vinyl also looks great but more importantly sounds really good. However these mixes only have very subtle differences and don’t sound dramatically different from the original versions. It’s sort of interesting but for £38 I’m not really feeling this was good value.

Alright, tbh it's not like every song is different from the original mix, some are more different some are less different, overall the mastering is excellent, really balanced and clear. Now the songs:

Strange Days: Guitar is on the left over the organ, guitar (overdub?) is on the right which is on the organ on the original mix, Jim doesn't have any effects on his voice/after his voice just clear vocals, the organ plays kinda on both sides on the instrumental parts.

You're Lost Little Girl: Bass is in the middle, the guitar sounds more natural and direct, organ can be heard throughout the song instead of the original mix where some little parts are cut out

Love Me Two Times: Guitar also sounds more direct and clearer, bass is in the middle, there is something different but I don't know if it's the mix/mastering or something else I can't quite tell

Horse Latitudes: instruments/sounds rearranged, no screaming in the background and no voices in the background, only Jim's voice/vocals

We Could Be So Good Together: Bass is stronger and in the middle, drums use one more instrument (idk the name) like from the Atmos mix, but without the "pop", the "do da dododo" is very silent and only on the left

I Can't See Your Face In My Mind: Bass is in the middle, drums don't get cut out, not much of a difference just more balanced

When The Music's Over: Bass stronger and in the middle, "yeah" is more panned to the left, guitar has no overdub, "NOW!" sounds a bit different more natural, guitar is always present throughout not like the original mix with cutout bits.

If I missed something I'm sorry, but that's what I noticed, I only heard it once but songs multiple times.