Ma non manca anche il blues-rock incendiario di "Love Me Two Times" o la ballata lunare di "Moonlight Drive", uno dei primi brani composti dalla band californiana. In quei mesi frenetici, il quartetto torna in studio per incidere L. Woman, che sembra far riaffiorare segni di riscossa. Nel marzo del , insieme alla moglie Pamela, il cantante si trasferisce a Parigi, cercando conforto nell'atmosfera culturale della capitale francese, tempio dei suoi poeti prediletti e maledetti : Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine.
Ma poche settimane dopo, la tragica notte del 3 luglio: l'ultimo, fatale, viaggio oltre "le porte della percezione" La loro rivoluzionaria stagione musicale, inaugurata quattro anni prima, era riuscita a espandere il rock oltre i suoi confini, oltre quelle "porte della percezione" descritte dal poeta visionario William Blake.
Tre album in studio della band, The Doors , L. This is an album with strong lyrics but that often has been criticized for have a softer sound. Much of the material on the album had been written around and before the formation of the group, most notably "Not To Touch The Earth", which was taken from the poem of Jim Morrison, "Celebration Of The Lizard".
It was intended that the poem was written for this album and take up an entire album side, but in the end, the band only released it on their debut live album "Absolutely Live", in The first track "Hello I Love You" was a song chosen by the band to be released as a single and was a big commercial success.
Despite be considered one of the most pop songs by The Doors and be frequently criticized, this is, in my humble opinion, a great song, very catchy, and that opens brilliantly this album. The second track "Love Street" was originally a poem written by Jim Morrison about Rothdell Trail, a street in Laurel Canyon, California, where he lived with his girlfriend Pamela Courson and where they would sit on the balcony and watch the people walking.
This is a very nice soft ballad with great piano and guitar arrangements and with a beautiful voice by Jim Morrison. The third track "Not To Touch The Earth" is a fragment taken from Jim Morrison's poem, "Celebration Of The Lizard", that although a recording of the complete poem was attempted at the sessions for the album, only this brief musical passage was deemed fit for this release.
It returns to their classic psychedelic sound and represents one of the heaviest moments on the album. The fourth track "Summer's Almost Gone" is another good, quiet and soft ballad and represents one of the earliest songs composed by them. It's a very mellow, sensitive and sad song with the psychedelic sound so typical on the band in their earlier musical days.
The fifth track "Wintertime Love" is a very unusual song for them. It's a waltz performed in a soft style. This is a very small song that despite represents one of the weakest songs on the album, I really think this is a good song and represents a beautiful musical moment too.
This song reminds me The Stranglers. But it isn't surprising for me, because I always found many similarities between the keyboard style of Ray Manzarek and Dave Greenfield. The song represents Jim Morrison's reaction to the Vietnam War and the way the conflict was depicted in the American's media at that time. It's a classic protest song against the war and where the band shows perfectly their personal feelings about it. The seventh track "Spanish Caravan" is, basically, a flamenco song with the beginning riffs taken from "Asturias Leyenda ", a classical piece of music by the Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz.
This always was one of my favourite songs of The Doors. The texture of the composition and arrangements are absolutely original and astonishing, and, in my humble opinion, we are in presence of a masterpiece.
The eighth track "My Wild Love" is the only song played on the album in a Cappella style. Jim Morrison's vocals are backed up by the band's members vocals, performing different sorts of sounds, with their mouths and clapping hands. It's, in reality, a very weird song, and it isn't, definitely, one of the highlights on the album.
The song was recorded during the recording sessions for "Strange Days", but only appeared on this album. This is another pop rock song, but this time we aren't in presence of a great song.
The tenth track "Yes, The River Knows" is a soft acoustic ballad with nice piano and drum arrangements. However, in my opinion, it lacks to it some flame of creativity and, unfortunately, it represents, without any doubt, one of the weakest moments on the album.
The eleventh track "Five To One" is the heaviest song on the album with Jim Morrison's vocals very energetic and with the distorted guitar sound by Robby Krieger.
It's also a memorable song because of the lyrics. This is a good way to close the album, with one of the most powerful and heaviest songs that The Doors have ever made. Conclusion: After the first two previous strong and intense psychedelic albums, the third studio album of The Doors, appeared softer and full of ballads, and as I wrote before, it has been criticized by many fans and critics due to its softer sound.
However and despite not be as good as "The Doors" and "Strange Days" are, it still remains a great album, very well balanced and that maintain, in a certain way, the same musical formula of the two previous studio albums. Concluding, "Waiting For The Sun" is, in my humble opinion, one the best musical studio works from the band, and it remains as one of my favourite studio albums from them, after "The Doors", "Strange Days" and "L. It's a perfect partner to join with the two first albums of them.
It's especially indicated for people who love their earlier works. It met some controversy among fans and critics due to the inclusion on this album of brass and string instrumental arrangements, as opposed to the more traditional sound of their earlier three previous studio albums.
They also complained that it followed the same lyrical formula of their previous albums, and thus wasn't very innovative, and musically it had a sound too to much soft. Another interesting and curious thing about "The Soft Parade", is that for the first time, all songs were credited to the individual members of the band. However, only Jim Morrison and Robby Krieger are credited on the album's sleeve. It was released as an A side with "Easy Ride" as its B side. It's a soft ballad that sounds very mellow with full of brass arrangements.
This is a good and pleasant song to hear. With this song we can clearly see that a change occurred on their style of music. It became more soft and pop. The second track "Touch Me" written by Robby Krieger was also released as a single. It's another notable song for the extensive use of brass and string instruments and also because the use of a saxophone solo by Curtis Amy.
The orchestral arrangements work perfectly well and, in my humble opinion, they accent Jim Morrison's vocals. The third track "Shaman's Blues" written by Jim Morrison is also a good song, with good riffs and good vocals of Jim Morrison.
It's a song clearly influenced by the blues but, unfortunately, it doesn't bring anything new. Definitely, it represents one of the Achilles' heels on the album. It was released as the B side of their single "Runnin' Blue" and it was also the last of the four singles released from this album. It's a good rock number that sounds nice and pleasant to hear, but like "Shaman's Blues" represents also one of the weakest musical moments on the album.
The fifth track "Easy Ride" written by Jim Morrison was also one of the songs chosen to be released as a single. It's a country and western song full of orchestration. Sincerely, this isn't one of my favourite music genres. This is, in my humble opinion, a very weak track, the weakest track on the all album. The sixth track "Wild Child" written by Jim Morrison was released as the B side of their single "Touch Me", preceding the release of the album in several months.
This is a typical and classic The Doors' songs, a harder guitar driven song that sounds similar to many other great songs of them. It's a song with excellent musical arrangements, particularly on the guitars. This is one of my favourite songs on the album. The seventh track "Runnin' Blue" written by Robby Krieger was also a song chosen to be released as a single. Curiously, on this song Robby Krieger shares the vocal duties with Jim Morrison for the chorus, and this was one of the few songs where that happened, in their entire career.
This is another country style song, with violin and the use of brass and string instruments. However and in my humble opinion, "Runnin' Blue" is fortunately a much better song than "Easy Ride" is. The eighth track "Wishful Sinful" written by Robby Krieger was another song taken from this album to be released as a single. The B side of the single, "Who Scared You?
It's a very good and beautiful ballad, one of the best created by them, with fantastic orchestral arrangements. This song represents, without any doubt, one the highlights on the album. The ninth track is the title track "The Soft Parade". It was written by Jim Morrison. This is, without any doubt, the best and the only true progressive musical moment on the album.
This song followed the good old tradition of the band, to close their albums with great epics, as had happened with "The End" on "The Doors" and "When The Music's Over" on "Strange Days". This song represents what they knew to make better.
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