The Soft Parade - 40th Anniversary Mixes CD

remastered with new advanced resolution stereo mixes, of the original album, plus six extra tracks and new liner notes by rolling stone's david fricke. after considerably broadening their sound on 'waiting for the sun', the doors decided to continue pushing the envelope with their next release. incorporating brass, strings, and even a full orchestra, the soft parade from 1969 is easily the most challenging album in the doors' catalogue - if not the most accomplished. the highlights are the huge hit 'touch me"'(their most successful integration of orchestration), the vicious hard rock riffs of 'wild child,' the overlooked 'shaman's blues,' and the lengthy title track, a multi-part suite that was one of the band's best attempts to mix rock with poetry.