Full Circle (The Doors album)

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Friday, 06 May 2011
  • Released: August 1972
  • Recorded: Spring 1972
  • Genre: Blues-rock, Hard rock, jazz fusion
  • Length: 40:05
  • Label: Elektra
  • Producer: The Doors

Full Circle is the second album released by The Doors after Jim Morrison's death, and also their last album together before they broke up. The album includes "The Mosquito", the last hit single by the band. Keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger took Morrison's place as lead singer. Also, unlike their earlier work, bassists were collaboratively used on every track.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Get Up and Dance" (Krieger, Manzarek) – 2:26
  2. "4 Billion Souls" (Krieger) – 3:18
  3. "Verdilac" (Krieger, Manzarek) – 5:40
  4. "Hardwood Floor" (Krieger) – 3:38
  5. "Good Rockin" (Roy Brown) – 4:22

Side two

  1. "The Mosquito" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek) – 5:16
  2. "The Piano Bird" (Conrad, Densmore) – 5:50
  3. "It Slipped My Mind" (Krieger) – 3:11
  4. "The Peking King and the New York Queen" (Manzarek) – 6:25

B-Side

In 1972, The Doors released "Get Up and Dance" as a single in the UK; the B-Side was the non-album "Tree Trunk", one of only three non-album studio tracks released by the band.

According to Robby Krieger, the track was left off the album because "it sounded too commercial." This is the song's only official release.

CD releases

The Doors have largely disregarded the two post-Morrison albums, with no official American CD releases of the albums. Full Circle was released on CD October 23, 2006 by the Timeless Holland label, along with the previous (post-Morrison) Doors album Other Voices.

It is relatively easy to find unofficial CD copies of Full Circle and Other Voices on the Internet, but these vinyl-to-CD transfers do not contain the single-only "Tree Trunk".

The Doors management has stated they are not in possession of the master tapes to the two post-Morrison albums, but remastered tracks from both of the post-Morrison albums can nevertheless be found on later official releases. The only track from Full Circle the Doors have re-issued is "The Mosquito". The track was released in 2000 as "No Me Moleste Mosquito" on the double-disc version of The Best of the Doors.

Chart information

Album

Billboard (North America)

YearChartPosition
1972 Pop Albums 68

Singles

YearSingleChartPosition
1972 "The Mosquito"
B-side: "It Slipped My Mind"
Pop Singles 85
1972 "Get Up and Dance"
B-side: "Tree Trunk"
Pop Singles

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