By the time Waiting for the Sun <\/i>rolled around, the Doors had used up their original stash of material and were coping with stardom and Jim Morrison’s increasingly odd behavior. While that would derail a lesser band, Waiting for the Sun <\/i>is one of the group’s stronger efforts, far better than Strange Days<\/i> or the experimental The Soft Parade <\/i>that followed one year later.<\/p>\n
Sure, “Hello, I Love You” is a little annoying, but still fairly catchy. “Love Street” is decent but features the usual Morrison oddball lyrics (“She has robes and she has monkeys \/ Lazy diamond studded flunkies”). “Not to Touch the Earth” is a bit warped but still accessible; it is actually one part of the 20-minute “Celebration of the Lizard,” which would show up in its finished form on the Legacy <\/i>hits collection. This is the song where Morrison claims his title of Lizard King — the point where the listener\u00a0realizes this is no longer the shy kid singing with his back to the crowd. <\/p>\n
“Summer’s Almost Gone” and “Wintertime Love” are just average, as is “Yes, the River Knows.” They are redeemed by “Spanish Caravan,” an incredible display of Robbie Kreiger’s guitar skills, a flamenco piece that switches to electric guitar\u00a0and keyboards halfway through, repeating the opening theme with psychedelic flourishes. It’s a bizarre mix but it works well at creating a mood, and it comprises the approachable weirdness so unique to this band.<\/p>\n
“The Unknown Soldier” is another semi-lost classic,\u00a0starting with a creepy opening keyboard and adding on some fractured guitar\/organ work under anti-war lyrics. The\u00a0song breaks in the middle for a war scene, then\u00a0reprises the opening minute and closes with increasingly loud repetitions of church bells and a jaunty guitar riff.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finally, the album closer “Five To One” features Morrison snarling over a ridiculously easy drum beat (his request to John Densmore); it is as close to garage rock as the band ever got and is the birthplace of the famous “No one here gets out alive” lyric. <\/p>\n
While a few boring Doors-by-number tracks keep this from being a classic, it still is one of the better Doors albums of the original six and is worth seeking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":27146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5647],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-38489","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-doors","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38489"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=38489"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=38489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}