Doors - Soft Parade
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Artist: DoorsBrand: WARNER
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Music Label: Rhino
Product features:
- The Doors - The Soft Parade Brazil Import
- Tell All The People
- Touch Me
- Shaman's Blues
- Do It
- Easy Ride
- Wild Child
- Runnin' Blue
- Wishful Sinful
- The Soft Parade
- Who Scared You (Bonus)
- Whiskey, Mystics And Men (Version 1) (Bonus)
- Whiskey, Mystics And Men (Version 2) (Bonus)
- Push Push (Bonus)
- Touch Me (Dialogue) (Bonus)
- Touch Me (Take 3) (Bonus)
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Music Review: The Soft Parade (****1/2)
Rating: 5 Stars
The Doors-The Soft Parade ****1/2
The Doors did very little wrong in my eyes. Waiting for the Sun is concidered one of their weakest albums, while it is one of my most loved and cherished of the groups albums. The Soft Parade is widely agreed to be the bands weakest album, I love it as well. No it isn't as revolutionary as the debut, or as darkly beautiful as Strange Days, or even as solid as L.A. Woman but The Soft Parade is The Doors. Well what people define The Doors as anyways. They are always labeled a psychedelic bluesy rock band. Okay well that is what you have here. Isn't the point of being a psychedelic band to be as far out and adventurous as possible? That is what the Doors are all about and The Soft Parade embodies that more than any other album in the bands canon. While not as varied in sound as Waiting for the Sun or a pigeon holed in one sound as Morrison Hotel, The Soft Parade finds solid ground taking a little bit of each Doors album and creating one crazy trip.
While most of the album is dominated by Robbie Krieger songs that does not mean it is bad, that only explains why it is unlike any other Doors album. 'Tell All The People' is classic shamanistic Morrison as read through Kriegers lyrics. 'Touch Me' became a large hit and radio classic while it is the second weakest track on the album. 'Shamans Blues' finds a broken spirited Morrison rapping over a wailing organ from Manzarek. 'Do It' is a classic Indian chant by way of Krieger's guitar and Morrison's poetic prose in the same vein as 'My Wild Love.' 'Easy Ride' is slow and sexy while 'Wild Child' is angry and passive in the same breath. 'Runnin' Blue' plays like a hippie freak out near Haight & Ashbury in San Francisco. 'Wishful Sinful' is really the only weak track and it isn't even that bad.' Keeping true to the epic closing tradition, 'The Soft Parade' serves as one hell of a title track. One part blues vamp, one part lament, another part religious experince/revalation, and all part amazing. I've heard people say this album and this track in perticular are self-indulgent. Well...duh, that is the point. That is why everyone loves Jim Morrison. I know for me personally I wouldn't hold rock musicians to half the standards I do if it weren't for Jim Morrison being the self-indulgent, idiotic genius that he is.
The Soft Parade is not a bad album by any means. Yes when you compare it to Strange Days it seems weak, but almost every other album seems weak when you compare it to something so amazing as Strange Days. When you look at The Soft Parade for what it is, the most blatant example of excess and psychedelia than you have a near masterpiece.
Description of Soft Parade
THE SOFT PARADE, first released in 1969, climbed to #6 and featured the #3 hit "Touch Me," "Shaman's Blues," "Wild Child," and more. Boasts in-depth liner notes by Rolling Stone writer David Fricke. Six bonus tracks include a previously unissued version of "Touch Me," the previously unheard "Push, Push," and two unreleased takes of "Whiskey, Mystics And Men."Alternative Rock CDs
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