Essential Rarities- The Doors

The Soft Parade - The Doors

This was The Doors fourth album and marks a radical change in the Doors musical direction when compared to the previous three albums. In the three albums before Ray Manzarek’s keyboards make up the dominant sound of the band, in this album a horn section makes up most of the main music. The songs are generally weaker ...

Waiting For The Sun: Remastered & Expanded - Doors

The full libretto of Jim Morrison’s ‘Celebration Of The Lizard King’ was included in the sleevenotes of WAITING FOR THE SUN, imprinting his powerful charisma even deeper onto The Doors and their music, and his presence again dominates every second. With two critically and popularly acclaimed albums behind them, the Doors were embracing west coast American pop to make their most melodic, if also least effective record thus far. WAITING FOR THE SUN opens with ‘Hello, I Love You’, which was a number one single in the States, but now seems deeply derivative of the Kinks. ‘Love Street’ (“There’s a place where the ...

Waiting For The Sun: Remastered & Expanded - Doors

This album was the third produced by The Doors and at the time of production, it was rumoured that they were struggling for material as they were trying to fulfil their contract to their record company. Whether this is true or not, the album is definitely weaker than the first two albums. It is also very short clocking in over just 30 minutess. There are some excellent tracks on the album but there are also some weak ones too. The opening track “Hello I Love You” was a US No.1 and provides a bright and breezy opener to the album. The mood suddenly changes though, with darker songs coming to the forefront. “Not to touch the Earth” is a dark ...