In the 1980's the Doors' music was released on CD later than music from other groups. The first release available was this collection from 1985, which also came out on LP (the Doors individual studio albums, of which there were only six, were not issued on CD in 1987). However, with the summer 2003 release of the Doors' "Legacy", this collection is unnecessary and should be out of print. I will say that the song selection on "Very Best Of" is good. But the Doors only recorded 64 studio songs (including 2 non-LP B-sides), and while 19 of them are on "Very Best Of", 34 tracks (including a live track and an unreleased studio track) are on "Legacy", which represents 50 percent of the groups studio output. The sound on "Legacy" is also superior. Finally, my one objection in terms of song selection is that neither "Legacy" nor "Very Best Of" contain the track "The Soft Parade."