MORRISON HOTEL

Most listeners of psychedelic rock legends The Doors prefer the first two albums, but I could never have guessed that from my own listening experience. To me 'Morrison Hotel' represents The Doors at a total song-writing winning streak, with only the comedic 'Land Ho!' being a bit of a lesser song. The band rocks out with great melodic blues rock songs and enchants with gothic blues songs like 'Blue Sunday' and 'Indian Summer'. Jim Morrison sings soulful and tasteful throughout and I find it shocking to hear how much his voice deteriorated a year later with 'L.A. Woman'. The song 'Waiting For The Sun' is a psychedelic highlight of the band. The band offers a few up-tempo rock songs like 'You Make me Real', 'Peace Frog' and 'Queen of the Highway', all highly enjoyable songs - though not of great interest to psychedelic fanatics. For me this is simply one of the better albums from the sixties (though released in 1970) and I think a lot of music fans should shake of frequented opinions and re-evaluate this fine record.