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The Doors
Label
Elektra · EKS-74079 / R-123248
Released
1970
Format
stereo
Pressing
club edition
Genre
Rock

Not the ordinary 1970 Elektra first release but an identifiable RCA Music Service club edition with its own mastering and matrix lineage; the A/B combination is documented. Third Specialty pressing of the evening, after the two Waits.

Club editions are usually treated as lesser, and often are — separate lacquers cut for a mail-order run, sometimes from a dub. Worth listening for whether this one differs from the Elektra you’d expect, since you know the material well. A compilation rather than an album.