''Alive, She Cried'' is the second official live album by the American

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, released in October 1983 by Elektra. It was the second live album release following 1970's '' Absolutely Live'' and produced by Paul A. Rothchild. The album's title was taken from a line in the song " When the Music's Over".

Background

Following a resurgence in the band's popularity due to the 1979 film, ''

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", and the 1980 release of the first Doors compilation album in seven years, ''Greatest Hits'', the push was on to release more Doors' music. The recordings are from various concerts during the period of 1968 to 1970 including shows in Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, Boston and Copenhagen. Songs include " Gloria", originally a hit for Them, and an extended version of the Doors' best known song "

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joined the band on stage to play harmonica on Willie Dixon's "

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". The album was discontinued following the 1991 release of '' In Concert'', a double-album which included all of the songs from ''Alive, She Cried'' and '' Absolutely Live'', as well as a few other additional live tracks.

Reception

In a contemporary review for ''

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'', music critic Robert Christgau wrote that the tapes are "of some quality" and Morrison is effective when he focuses on singing, but the album is marred by moments "when he emits his poetry" and "narcissistic" come-ons. ''

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s Parke Puterbaugh rated it four out of five stars, explaining that it "brings... the Doors' impossibly strange and wonderful music, Morrison's drunken loutishness and his stabbingly sober poetics, and the brilliant, vivid sparking of a machine too mercurial to last." He concluded by stating that "'Light My Fire'... flares upward into an intensifying bolt of passion that crescendos with... a scream signifying the communal orgasm of a generation and a decade and a band that would flame out and fall silent all too quickly." In a retrospective review,

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's Bruce Eder said that ''Alive, She Cried'' "helped solve 'Absolutely Live's''problem f leavingmore casual fans rather cold, owing to the absence of any of their biggest hits". However, he pointed out that "it also revealed the reason why 'Light My Fire' had not made it onto the prior live album".

Track listing

All songs written by the Doors, except where noted. Songwriters and track lengths are taken from the 1983 Elektra Records album and may differ from other sources.

Personnel

Per liner notes: The Doors *

Jim Morrison James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, poet and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors. Due to his wild personality, poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, unpredictable and err ...

– vocals *

Robby Krieger Robert Alan Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American guitarist and founding member of the rock band the Doors. Krieger wrote or co-wrote many of the Doors' songs, including the hits " Light My Fire", " Love Me Two Times", " Touch Me", and ...

– guitar * Ray Manzarek – organ,

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– drums Additional musicians *

Charts

Certifications

References

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