The Best of The Doors (2000 album) The Best of The Doors (2000 album) The Best of The Doors is a compilation album by The Doors released in 2000, and is different from the albums of the same name released in 1973 and 1985. All three albums feature a slightly different track listing and a different photograph of the band's late singer Jim Morrison as cover art. Unlike its eponymous predecessors, the 2000 release includes both "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" and "The End" in their uncensored form. All songs written by The Doors (John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and Jim Morrison), except where
The Doors always invited him. On May 20, 2013, Ray Manzarek died of complications related to bile duct cancer. Beginning in the late 1970s, there was a sustained revival of interest in the Doors which created a new generation of fans. The origin of the revival is traced to the release of the album "An American Prayer" in late 1978 which contained a live version of "Roadhouse Blues" that received considerable airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations. In 1979 the song "The End" was featured in dramatic fashion in the film "Apocalypse Now" and the following year a best-selling biography of Morrison,