Doors - Waiting for the Sun
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Artist: DoorsBrand: WARNER
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Music Label: Rhino
Product features:
- DOORS THE WAITING FOR THE SUN
- Hello, I Love You
- Love Street
- Not To Touch The Earth
- Summer's Almost Gone
- Wintertime Love
- The Unknown Soldier
- Spanish Caravan
- My Wild Love
- We Could Be So Good Together
- Yes, The River Knows
- Five To One
- Albinoni's Adagio In G Minor (Bonus)
- Not To Touch The Earth (Dialogue) (Bonus)
- Not To Touch The Earth (Take 1) (Bonus)
- Not To Touch The Earth (Take 2) (Bonus)
- Celebration Of The Lizard (An Experiment/work In Progress) (Bonus
Music reviews of Waiting for the Sun
Music Review: Doors at Crossroads
Rating: 4 Stars
After "Strange Days," The Doors found themselves occupied with touring and other secular matters. As a result, the songs on "Waiting for the Sun" are not as strong as those on their first two efforts, and the group is given more to repetition of prior musical riffs. There is (mostly) a change in tone to beauty from night-world, but the songs are all over the place, giving the album an incoherent character. Controversy was the name of the game for The Doors, and "Waiting for the Sun" had its contribution to this.
"Hello I Love You," contrary to what many believe, was not a quickly constructed pop song under pressure to achieve a #1 single. It was one of six songs submitted on demo tapes to Columbia records in 1965 that did not lead to a contract. "Hello" has been overly maligned over time, as some amusing lyrics compensate for its poppy structure. Also, guitarist Robby Krieger has stated the inspiration for its riff was Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love," not The Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night." The pretty "Summer's Almost Gone," with nice slide guitar from Robby, is the other entry here from those demos.
"Not to Touch the Earth," the only part of "The Celebration of the Lizard" worth much, is the strongest track. It conveys powerful images as Jim Morrison roams through his visual wilderness supported by hard-driving and menacing music. The group displays its talents in achieving a colorful bleakness: e.g., "rugs silent, mirrors vacant"). The plan had been to include the entire "Celebration," but that was bagged in favor of merely including the lyrics on the vinyl sleeve. Now, the original plan is realized through the bonus tracks (see below).
Morrison wrote two more strong songs. "The Unknown Soldier," another solid theater piece, has artistic antiwar lyrics by Morrison (but its instrumental line sounds like "My Eyes Have Seen You"). "Love Street," biographical of Jim's love Pamila Courson, is a very pretty and evocative ballad, with a musical chorus that seems like a rework of "The Crystal Ship."
Morrison's political "Five to One" lacks musical refinement, but it has some memorable lines like "no one here gets out alive." The a cappella "My Wild Love" takes us nowhere special, and the weak "We Could Be So Good Together" (with traces of "Break on Through") is one of the worst Doors songs ever.
If some of the above sounded "un-Doors-like," Robby Krieger's songs were even more so. Still, the pretty flamenco "Spanish Caravan" was often played in concert. "Yes, the River Knows" is a ballad that is somewhat distended, but it does have pretty guitar lines. The schmaltzy waltz "Wintertime Love," if (certainly) not the group's worst song, is perhaps its most un-Doors-like song as Ray dishes out non-minor-note harpsichord.
Bonus Tracks: Among the reworked CDs of the Doors' six studio albums, "Waiting for the Sun" offers the best bonus tracks. "Albinoni's Adagio" is very pretty, and the "Lizard King" gives us more to Celebrate with. This CD has interesting alternate takes of "Not to Touch the Earth" that do not sound just like the original. Then, there is finally a "studio" version of the Celebration. But it is the "Absolutely Live" version that is the true "studio" version: It is the one we know, structured more plainly and tightly performed. The bonus version is more free-flowing than its predecessor. Its streaming instrumentation meanders more, with more sound variety. The level of originality and adventure, beauty and menace, is increased in this version. The Doors and their reptilian leader cruise to new "cool air heights."
Description of Waiting for the Sun
1968's WAITING FOR THE SUN, the Doors' first chart-topper, delivered the #1 signature smash "Hello, I Love You" and the Top 40 hit "The Unknown Soldier." New liner notes penned by Paul Williams. Five bonus tracks include the 17-minute epic "Celebration Of The Lizard" and three previously unissued versions of "Not To Touch The Earth."Alternative Rock CDs
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