The Doors : Waiting For The Sun vs Morrison Hotel

micky wrote: The doors are sort of funny group in that how I see their albums..  if ranking them..  first all the way to last are exactly how they fall out in terms of how good they were.   giving the edge to the 3rd album over the 4th album. Unknown Soldier tips the scale for WFtS. Even if dated.. still a immensely powerful song.

The doors are sort of funny group in that how I see their albums..  if ranking them..  first all the way to last are exactly how they fall out in terms of how good they were.

It's an interesting comparison, this, between Waiting for the Sun and Morrison Hotel. Because the first is seen as the album that has b*****dized the sound of the Doors, after the two initial masterpieces, while Morrison Hotel is the album that, after the unsuccessful Soft Parade (with horns in a commercial soul style: Touch Me), it wanted to go back to the blues, a return to the origins. Blues lovers will choose Morrison Hotel, psychedelia lovers will choose Sun. I? They are very similar, in terms of quality, in my opinion. The first side of Morrison Hotel exceeds that of Waiting for the Sun, while the second one is much smaller than that of Waiting for the Sun. Overall, vote for Waiting for the Sun.

The Doors had about 4 albums of music in their heads when they were signed up by Elektra to record their first studio album. By the time they got to record Morrison Hotel the third one, WFTS, had been mutilated by the Studio bosses by excluding the Lizard Suite and the title track, while their fourth, Soft Parade, was essentially destroyed by adding brass and horns. Which left Morrison Hotel as a few mainly Blues standards to fill an otherwise mediocre album and leaving Jim Morrison no where to go as an artist, in my humble opinion.

it would have been awesome if there was a studio version of Celebration of the Lizard,rejected at the time and only Not to Touch the Earth was kept. The Lizard suite was a live favorite for a while though, check it out on Absolutely Live. 

Edited by Cristi - January 12 2019 at 16:38

Easily Waiting for the Sun for me as well. Up there with their two first albums imo... Morrison Hotel has a handful of gems as well but also some real awful blues rawk/pub rock-stompers which is probably to the worst musicgenre in the universe. Roadhouse Blues is on my top ten hate songs along with Money... and Money For Nothing (aand Walk of Life)


Edited by Saperlipopette! - January 12 2019 at 14:23

Waiting.  The earlier the Doors album, the better for me 

I am bucking the (early) trend and going for Waiting for the Sun...Kind of flips back and forth from more produced "hit," sorts of songs to psychedelia and commentary, that terrific line in The Unknown Soldier, "Breakfast where the news is fed, television children fed..." (I remember when they broadcast clips from Vietnam); the beautiful Spanish Caravan, where Krieger shows some of his roots; and ending with "Five to One," with another killer line (pun intended) "No one here gets out alive."

Went with Hotel.......but they are both very good imho.