The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
Elektra / Asylum Records  (1968)
Classic Rock

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CD    11 tracks  (32:49) 
   01   Hello, I Love You             02:22
   02   Love Street             03:06
   03   Not To Touch The Earth             03:54
   04   Summer's Almost Gone             03:20
   05   Wintertime Love             01:52
   06   The Unknown Soldier             03:10
   07   Spanish Caravan             02:58
   08   My Wild Love             02:50
   09   We Could Be So Good Together             02:20
   10   Yes, The River Knows             02:35
   11   Five To One             04:22
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Purchase Date 19.10.1989
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EKS-74024 The Doors' 1967 albums had raised expectations so high that their third effort was greeted as a major disappointment. With a few exceptions, the material was much mellower, and while this yielded some fine melodic ballad-rock in "Love Street," "Wintertime Love," "Summer's Almost Gone," and "Yes the River Knows," there was no denying that the songwriting was not as impressive as it had been on the first two records. On the other hand, there were first-rate tunes such as the spooky "The Unknown Soldier," with anti-war lyrics as uncompromisingly forceful as anything the band did, and the compulsively riff-driven "Hello, I Love You," which nonetheless bore an uncomfortably close resemblance to the Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night." The flamenco guitar of "Spanish Caravan," the all-out weirdness of "Not to Touch the Earth" (which was a snippet of a legendary abandoned opus, "The Celebration of the Lizard"), and the menacing closer "Five to One" were also interesting. In fact, time's been fairly kind to the record, which is quite enjoyable and diverse, just not as powerful a full-length statement as the group's best albums