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The other carrot that's supposed to attract you silly wabbits to this latest round of Doors reissues is the presence of bonus tracks.

Which in the case of Morrison Hotel consists in part of about 20 minutes worth of alternate takes of Roadhouse Blues.

Wherein we discover that Jim was pretty taken with the idea of prefacing the track with some spoken word crap, a la The Soft Parade (“When I was back there in seminary school...”).

This time around it boils down to “Money beats soul, every time” plus whatever stream of folderol pops into Jim's head.

There's also this bit of dialogue, from a Peace Frog outtake: “Boy, you guys sound like a drunken cripple walking up a flight of stairs, man.”

Charming.

The one passable extra is a “jazz” version of Queen of the Highway-- John gets to brush his drums, and Jim gets to indulge his Sinatra jones. Like, cool, man.

So, the five-word review of the bonus tracks goes something like this: Money beats soul, every time...