When You're Strange: Music from the Motion Picture

When You're Strange: Music from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by The Doors
Released	April 6, 2010 (2010-04-06)
Recorded	1966 - 1971
Genre	Psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues rock, hard rock, spoken word, poetry
Length	76:17
Label	Rhino
The Doors chronology
The Platinum Collection (2008) When You're Strange: Music from the Motion Picture (2010) A Collection (2011)

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When You're Strange: Music from the Motion Picture is the studio album and the soundtrack to the 2010 documentary film, narrated by Johnny Depp, about The Doors and their music. The soundtrack features 14 songs from The Doors’ six studio albums, with studio versions mixed with live versions, including performances from The Ed Sullivan Show, Television-Byen in Gladsaxe, Felt Forum in New York and The Isle of Wight Festival.^[2]

Track listing

All songs are performed by The Doors and written by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore, except where noted. All spoken tracks are poetry read by Johnny Depp and written by Jim Morrison, except where noted.

1. "Poem: Cinema" – 0:25
2. "Poem: The Spirit of Music" – 0:22
3. "Moonlight Drive" (Jim Morrison) – 3:01
4. "Poem: The Doors of Perception" (William Blake) – 0:08
5. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (Morrison) – 4:59 [stereo]
   • Live from the Isle of Wight, August 29, 1970
6. "Poem: A Visitation of Energy" – 0:05
7. "Light My Fire" (Robby Krieger) – 3:05 [mono]
   • Live from the Ed Sullivan Show, September 17, 1967
8. "Interview: To really be a superstar" (Jim Morrison) – 0:14
9. "Five to One" (Morrison) – 4:27
10. "Poem: Wasting the Dawn" – 0:25
11. "When the Music's Over" – 12:27 [mono]
    • Live from Television-Byen, Gladsaxe, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 18, 1968
12. "Interview: The Doors" – 0:29
    • "The four of us are musicians" (Jim Morrison)
    • "I'd like them to listen" (Ray Manzarek)
    • "Rock & roll and jazz" (John Densmore)
    • "Our music is symbolic" (Krieger)
13. "Hello, I Love You" (Morrison) – 2:39
14. "Interview: Dead serious" (Morrison) – 0:08
15. "People Are Strange" (Morrison, Krieger) – 2:10
16. "Poem: Inside the Dream" – 0:14
17. "Soul Kitchen" (Morrison) – 3:32
18. "Poem: We Have Been Metamorphosized" – 0:15
19. "Poem: Touch Scares" – 0:08
20. "Touch Me" (Krieger) – 3:28
21. "Poem: Naked We Come" – 0:09
22. "Poem: O Great Creator of Being" – 0:08
23. "The End" – 11:29
24. "Poem: The Girl of the Ghetto" – 0:26
25. "L.A. Woman" (Morrison) – 7:57
26. "Poem: Crossroads" – 0:10
27. "Roadhouse Blues" (Morrison) – 4:07 [stereo]
    • Live from the Felt Forum, New York, January 17, 1970
28. "Poem: Ensenada" – 0:14
29. "Riders on the Storm – 7:16
30. "Poem: As I Look Back" – 0:11
31. "The Crystal Ship" (Morrison) – 2:32
32. "Poem: Goodbye America" – 0:24

Bonus tracks

"Love Her Madly" (Krieger) (Available from the Amazon MP3 store)^[3] [note that this is the normal version from L.A. Woman]

Personnel

The Doors:

• Jim Morrison – vocals
• Robby Krieger – guitar
• Ray Manzarek – organ, keyboard bass
• John Densmore – drums

Other personnel:

• Johnny Depp – narration
• Larry Knechtel (uncredited) – bass guitar on track 17
• Douglass Lubahn – bass guitar on tracks 3, 13, & 15
• Kerry Magness – bass guitar on track 6
• Leroy Vinnegar – acoustic bass on track 7
• Curtis Amy – saxophone solo on track 20
• George Bohanan – trombone on track 20
• Harvey Brooks – bass guitar on track 20
• Jesse McReynolds – mandolin on track 20
• Paul Harris – orchestral arrangements on track 20
• Jerry Scheff – bass guitar on tracks 25 & 29
• Marc Benno – additional guitar on track 25

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