WAITING FOR THE SUN

When you are fan of any band, you always want to support them and recommend them in order to be more recognized band and also to explore all the limits that a band could have, we shouldn`t have to listen to their most well known songs (aka hits), but to all the music to comprehend all the changes and different stages that a band had (or have). In other words, after their first two releases which i absolutely adore and probably are the only albums that so many people know about this band, The Doors didn`t waste time, and in the follower year (1968) the gave light to their third baby, which was named "Waiting for the Sun".

As i said in the other reviews, what i less want is to make a hostile debate about if they are prog or not, if they were a main influence to the development of the scene, i only want to review their albums because i love the band, that`s all, and this is the first time that happens to me , this kind of "fever" when a beloved band was recently added, and then you want to review everything, i hope not to bore you, but i simply HAVE to review them, is something very personal, though.

In this album we can notice the likes of Jim towards "shamans" and those things that made him with a unique behaviour, some of his personal influences, besides the fact of a bit more mature sound in their songs, i mean i think after their first two powerful records, they tried to calm down a bit.

With 11 songs, "Waiting for the Sun" has another face of The Doors, this time we wont find long tracks, nor proggy songs, but anyway good psych rock. "Hello, i love you" is the one which starts, this song for me was made completely to sing, great keyboard work. "Love Street" is my favorite song here, a very soft song, not rockish at all, but with good guitar arrangements and the beautiful voice of Jim. "Not to Touch the Earth" returns to their classic psychedelic sound, this song may have been written with lots of mushrooms or LSD, it`s a great one, though. "Summer`s Almost Gone" and "Wintertime Love" are small pieces, maybe a weak point in this album, i like them all i think, but these are not excellent songs at all. "Unknown Soldier", well this is a classic song, in here we can also notice their influences and some of their inner feelings that they wanted to share, "Spanish Caravan" is a masterpiece, here as you can imagine because of the title, Robby Krieger shows us his talent and his fast fingers, the guitar is excellent here, besides the texture of the song and the keys. "My Wild Love" is a weird, weird but beautiful song ,it`s strangely known but definilety a great one. "We Could be so Good Together" and "Yes, the River Knows" are the other couple of weak moments, both songs are lack of determination to create something better, nothing new and good, and finishing the album another classic track "Five to One", this song is also memorable because of the letter, the intro and the last part when Jim keeps on saying that words, along with a kind of "chorus" as a background vocals.

Well, after all i like it a lot, but is not as good as the first ones, so my grade will be 3 stars, good but non-essential.

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