Waiting For The Sun – THE DOORS*****

Hello I Love You/Love Street/Not To Touch The Earth/Summer’s Almost Gone/Wintertime Love/The Unknown Soldier/Spanish Caravan/My Wild Love/We Could Be So Good Together/Yes The River Knows/Five To One

Another classic album from The Doors, Waiting For The Sun includes the US chart topping hit single Hello I Love You, and comprises hard rockers together with softer ballads. (US:1 UK:16)

"It's a great Doors classic that sees the band masterfully walking the tightrope between the hard rockers and the softer ballads. For their third album, they decided to go for an earthier, softer sound on some of the tracks, which lends this Doors album an extra kind of beauty."

"Opening with the No. 1 smash Hello I Love You, the strength of the album lies in the more obscure tracks. Ballads like Love Street and Summer's Almost Gone are proof the band could do the mellow stuff. There's still some intense psychedelia present though; look at the flat out creepy Not To Touch The Earth and the powerful closer Five To One. Spanish Caravan opens with some wonderful flamenco guitar play, the pseudo waltz of Wintertime Love is an interesting listen, as is the war protest song The Unknown Soldier. A more light hearted affair, Waiting For The Sun makes for a great listen. Try this Doors album out, there's quite a few great tracks to be found."

"Overall, this album saw the band entering a softer direction but it still has the darker material of their first two albums. Tracks like Love Street, Summer's Almost Gone and Yes The River Knows all have beautiful melodies and feature some of Jim Morrison's most passionate vocals. Another great album. Highly recommended."

"Waiting For The Sun is a lot more crowd-pleasing than the previous one: it's softer, gentler, a lot of the dark mood is lost, and there are tender ballads which are not dark at all - just plain sad and melancholic."

"For the most part the album is filled with more pop hits than one would expect from The Doors, but if you’re patient, there’s also a tenderness found here, a dichotomy, and juxtaposition between rock and jazz that’s perfectly balanced."

"The genius of The Doors was in the contrast of upbeat, poppier fare with their darker, more nihilistic stuff. And their pop songs are still pretty unique."