Waiting For the Sun review

The third album from The Doors. Despite the great title, it's generally seen as weaker than the first 2 Doors albums, although to be fair they did set the bar pretty high.

Tracks:

1. Hello, I Love You: 8/10 this one improves as it gets louder after a slow start, and kicks the album off with another unique sounding slice of lunacy from The Doors.

2. Love Street: 8/10 undemanding but sweet, this makes for an enjoyable listen.

3. Not to Touch This Earth: 9/10 this is brilliantly mad poetry from The Doors which is up there with their classics from the first 2 albums. The organ playing has rarely been better.

4. Summer's Almost Gone: 8/10 fairly typical in some ways, but it's peaceful tone and interesting sounds prevent it from being completely generic. 

5. Wintertime Love: 8/10 while less than 2 minutes long this packs a surprising amount of punch.

6. The Unknown Soldier: 6/10 this starts off being pleasant to listen to but unremarkable, then it becomes really unconventional and interesting, then it descends into a lot of shouting. What a shame.

7. Spanish Caravan: 7/10 the instruments blend together well and it's pretty entertaining, although it's hard to be genuinely compelled by a song which seems to be someone talking to an anthropomorphised caravan. 

8. My Wild Love: 7/10 again, the songwriting seems a little weaker, but this is still a good song and it's surprisingly made more effective by using mostly vocals instead of instruments.

9. We Could Be So Good Together: 6/10 it's competently done but not particularly interesting.

10. Yes, the River Knows: 7/10 one again: perfectly well done, but it doesn't really grab you.

11. Five to One: 7/10 ditto. Compared to the epic finales of the last 2 albums, this is a bit of a let-down.

Best song: Not to Touch This Earth
Worst song: The Unknown Soldier

Summary: An enjoyable album for sure. It's very well played and none of the songs are bad. It's a fairly entertaining album to listen to, but the trouble is the music and song-writing isn't as good as it was in the previous 2 albums. With slightly less impressive instrumentals and more repetitive and uninteresting writing, this is a bit weaker as a result. Still, most artists have their weaker albums and this isn't even that weak. It's only a mild decrease of quality.



Final rating: 7/10