The Doors - Morrison Hotel
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Artist: The DoorsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Roadhouse Blues
- Waiting For The Sun
- You Make Me Real
- Peace Frog
- Blue Sunday
- Ship Of Fools
- Land Ho!
- The Spy
- Queen of the Highway
- Indian Summer
- Maggie M'Gill
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Free Music Review: "WELL, I WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND I GOT MYSELF A BEER !" (The Doors are wide open at Morrison Hotel)
Hit: 4 Stars
The Doors organist Ray Manzerak has said that Morrison Hotel (1970) was his favorite of all of The Doors' albums. Why? "Rock n' Roll!", he said. It's the closest they ever came to a pure rock or blues-rock album. Sure, they had done blues (Back Door Man) before and were always a rock band, but their main focus had always been on theatrics and darkly sensual rock poetics. On Morrison Hotel, Robbie Krieger's electric guitar leads the way while the tinkling avant-garde English organ passages of the past give way to a bluesy Hammond B-3 organ sound. The Lizard King isn't much interested in poetry or theatrics now, he's ready to party and rock n' roll!
Roadhouse Blues opens the album, and right from the start you know you're in for a rocking good time. The song rocks harder than anything The Doors would ever do, and the wildly manic Morrison rips it up good.
Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain and the end is always near.
Let it roll, baby, roll
Let it roll...
All night long
Waiting For The Sun, the unreleased title track from their third album is a classic. A mixture of spacy poetic longing and commanding electric rock, Morrison is melodious and vivid.
At first flash of eden
We race down to the sea
Standing there on freedom's shore
Waiting for the sun
You Make Me Real acknowledges identity validation from a lover.
You make me real
You make me feel what lovers feel
You make me throw away mistaken misery
You make me feel love, make me free
The strong and funky rocking Peace Frog was taken from two separate Jim Morrison poem fragments. The first was originally called "Abortion Stories".
There's blood on the street, it's up to my ankles
There's blood on the streets, it's up to my knee
The second poem in the song is spoken by Morrison, and was originally titled "Ghost Song".
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind
Blue Sunday is a tender love song that's a nice change of pace for the album. Ship Of Fools and Land Ho work in tandem to bring metaphoric images of the sea together with good rock n' roll. I like the slow, bluesy and sensual The Spy, too. Queen Of The Highway and Indian Summer are both rather forgettable, then the album closes with the blues flavored rock of Maggie McGill.
Morrison Hotel was a return to form for The Doors after their somewhat disappointing attempt at a rockestrated epic, The Soft Parade. It doesn't get much better for Doors' fans than some of this stuff, but like every Doors' album, there are some weak spots. So get this one for Roadhouse Blues, Waiting For The Sun, Peace Frog, Ship Of Fools, Land Ho!, The Spy and Maggie McGill.
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The next-to-last Doors album, recorded prior to Jim Morrison's still mystery-shrouded death in a Parisian bathtub, eschewed much of the band's previous penchant for baroque musical, poetic, and philosophical pretensions (this was, after all, the back-to-roots era of the Beatles' Let It Be, the Stones' Let It Bleed, and Dylan's Nashville Skyline). Instead, the Doors circa 1970 wisely seeped themselves in a bluesy, no-frills approach that might have hinted at creative exhaustion in a lesser band. Instead, the Doors of "Roadhouse Blues" and "Peace Frog" reinvented themselves into arguably one of the greatest bar bands ever, with Morrison's well-documented demons frolicking in a welcome new ambience. "Waiting for the Sun" and "Ship of Fools" may hearken back to the band's cabalistic and Kurt Weill leanings, respectively, but framed in an edgier, more effective way. --Jerry McCulleyDigitally remastered pressing of The Doors fifth studio album from 1970, a slightly bluesier affair than their previous albums and a return to a harder sound. The Doors' mixture of Rock, Blues and Jazz combined with vocalist Jim Morrison's poetic lyrics and powerful vocals created a musical Molotov cocktail that could make your senses explode...in a good way! 11 tracks including 'Peace Frog', 'Land Ho!', 'Waiting For The Sun' and 'Roadhouse Blues', which has become a standard for bar bands across the world. Warner.
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