The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
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Free Music Review: Doors masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
The Doors Waiting for the Sun is a really magnificent album that, for some reason or another, faces constant criticism. There's really nothing bad or even average about it to warrant negative ratings all the time! I'm not a huge fan of the Doors, but I know quality songwriting when I hear it, and this album has LOADS of creativity.
Many people hate "Hello, I Love You" for some reason. I think it's a great song that the 90's rock band Smash Mouth ripped off BIG time for their "Walkin' on the Sun" smash hit. Hmmm... that song title sounds awfully close to "Waiting for the Sun" doesn't it???
"Love Street" is a perfect ballad with brilliant piano soloing that gives the song a jazzy edge. "Summer's Almost Gone" is a psychedelic blues song that leads perfectly into the greatest song on the album "Wintertime Love". The next track, "The Unknown Soldier" brings back the distinct spookiness that made the Doors debut album so unforgettable. You don't hear musicians today write songs like that. It's completely unlike anything else out there.
"Spanish Caravan" is simply beautiful, "My Wild Love" is hauntingly creepy, "We Could Be So Good Together" is probably the Doors idea of a pop song, "Yes, the River Knows" again has some spooky piano bits that make the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and "Five to One" is a great jam with fantastic electric guitar playing. Oh yeah, forgot to mention "Not to Touch the Earth". Let's just say, that song is absolutely fantastic and probably the second best song on the album.
Every song I mentioned is really good, and guess what? I mentioned every song on the album!. I love the entire thing. You really need to pick up this wonderful piece of distinct rock music. The Doors sounded like absolutely no one else back in the day, and this is another highlight of their career.
Free Music Review: Excellant but incomplete
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember purchasing this album back in 1968 during the summer it came out..
I got the album home and noticed on the inner liner the lyrics to a song called. "The Celebration of the Lizard. On the liner the lyrics were written. On the album all they had was a small incert of it. Not to Touch the Earth at the time seemed very unique. It was Morrison on his new album doing a song similar to "The End" or "When the Nusics Over"
A few years later the Doors released a new Live album with the Entire version of The Celebration of the Lizard" and I finally got to hear the entire song for the first time.
This album will always been in my mind one of the two or three best albums the Doors have ever done. Jim Morrison was a master poet and in my opinion this album includes some of his finest poetic love songs.
Hello I Love You is a partial rip off of the song by the Kinks, "All of the Day and All of the Night.
Love Street is good but the real meat and potatos is Wintertime Love, The Unknown Soldier and another of my favorites Five to One. Spanish Caravan and Yes, The River Knows are also outstanding............File this under "C" for classic, If you are not familliar with the Doors and are discovering them for the first time, I suggest you get their first album with Light my Fire and this one. Strange Days would be another one to check out These first three albums are the most raw and least commercial. But you can buy anything by the Doors and not go wrong.
Free Music Review: Sun burn
Hit: 3 Stars
WAITING FOR THE SUN might be evidence that Jim Morrison was either a tapped-out lyric writer ("Not To Touch The Earth" and "Summer's Almost Gone") or just totally stoned out of his mind ("The Celebration Of The Lizard" poetry). But then, we see flashes of the sort of brilliance that permeated the DOORS' first two albums-- tracks like "The Unknown Soldier" and "Five To One" stand up against any that this band ever recorded.
Musically, WAITING FOR THE SUN often sounds tremendously dated-- perhaps it was outmoded even in 1968. Fuzz guitar and calliope-like organ are everywhere-- there's waltzes ("Wintertime Love") and schmaltzes ("Love Street") and all sorts of filler. A pattern of inconsistency established here followed the group right through to L.A. WOMAN. The DOORS were a band that the "Best Of" compilation was ideal for. Like THE SOFT PARADE and MORRISON HOTEL, WAITING FOR THE SUN is only for their most devoted fans and perhaps '60s rock completists.
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Free Music Review: So It Might Not Be The Doors Best, But It's Still Good
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't believe that there is a bad Doors album, it's just some albums are better then others. I don't think even that "The Soft Parade" is bad, it's just different.
But now onto this album. "Waiting For The Sun" is a classic Doors album. While it's not the best (that honor would go to either the first album or "LA Woman", maybe even "Morrison Hotel"), it's still very good. It is a little "lighter" then preceding albums or following albums, but there are some hard-rocking numbers here as well.
The album opens up with the driving, poppy "Hello, I Love You", which became a number 1 hit single, and it's not hard to understand why. Then comes "Love Street", which is a light song, but it's very underrated. It is a nice light song. Then we have "Not To Touch The Earth", an excerpt from the epic "Celebration of the Lizard". It's a creepy, rollicking song and one of the best songs on the album. The next song is "Summer's Almost Gone", which is somewhat like "Love Street", but not as good. Then comes "Wintertime Love", which is more upbeat then it's predecessor but is still very poppy. It's also the shortest song on the album. "The Unknown Soldier" comes next, the Doors famous anti-war song, and it's a great song that has appeared on many Greatest Hits compilations. "Spanish Caravan" follows, and, much like the title implies, it has a spanish feel to it. It's a pretty good song, especially towards the end when Robby Kreiger switches from accoustic to electric guitar. Then comes "My Wild Love", which is mostly just vocals, not a bad song, not great. Then comes "We Could Be So Good Together". Much like "Wintertime Love", it is an upbeat, poppy song, but not bad in any way. Then comes "Yes, The River Knows", which is probably the worst song on the album as it is slow and not Doors-like at all. But however much that song takes it away, the next song, "Five To One", repents for it and adds a lot to the album. Probably the best song on the album, "Five to One" is the most Doors-like on the album and is one of my personal favorites.
Overall, this is a really good album that deserves a chance even if it is not THE best Doors albums, it's still really good.
Hello, I Love You - 5/5
Love Street - 5/5
Not To Touch The Earth - 5/5
Summer's Almost Gone - 4/5
Wintertime Love - 3.5/5
The Unknown Soldier - 5/5
Spanish Caravan - 4.5/5
My Wild Love - 3/5
We Could Be So Good Together - 4/5
Yes, The River Knows - 2/5
Five To One 6/5
Free Music Review: Interesting, at least
Hit: 3 Stars
This is a fascinating album in that it contains some of the Doors' most bizarre tracks on the same album as a few of their most banal pop ones. The weird, whacky experimental songs all rule but one, and with a single exception, the banal songs are boring.
First, the single exception to the "banal pop song" rule. Hello, I Love You is sheer, moronic bubblegum, but I don't care - I love every minute of it, even if the riff was stolen from the Kinks. It's a lot like Love Her Madly: Pure, unadultered, unpretentious rock. And if you can't appreciate it for what it is, I'd recommend clinical help. But the question stands: how many times outside of one are you gonna listen to Love Street, Summer's Almost Gone, Wintertime Love, We Could Be So Good Together or Yes, The River Knows?
Then we get to the weird stuff - which, with one odious, glaring exception, is amazing. Not To Touch The Earth is simply demented - and the Celebration of the Lizard (which it's a small part of) is even more so, but I love it. Manzarek's organ sounds like it walked out of a funeral parlour from Hell, and I've got no clue what Jim's talking about but it sure is disturbing. Slightly more accessible is the politicized rant Five to One (or at least it looks political - I've heard that it means nothing because Jim was drunk off his keister when he wrote it), which is pure metal - and probably my favorite song off the album. And speaking of political protests, they pull a hell of an antiwar classic with The Unknown Soldier, which actually works in a real firing squad that, according to legend, shot at Jim in the studio. Cool! The last of my favorites is Spanish Caravan, which I think is one of the Doors' more unjustly unknown efforts. It certainly sounds like nothing else - contrast the two parts (yes, two parts in a three minute song!) and you'll see what I mean. The lone experiment I can't really get into is My Wild Love. What's the chant doing there? I don't know, but it's gotta go. Because that's one awful song.
This is a painfully obvious transition album (with Jim loaded during half the recording sessions - figures), but I think that this could've been something had they managed to get the full Celebration of the Lizard on tape and expanded on the experimental material - while keeping Hello, I Love You, just for contrast's sake. Now it's just an average album.