The Doors
Morrison Hotel

THE REVIEW

1970
MORRISON HOTEL

I haven't put on this album in a while. I thought: "I need to review an album that I don't like (much)".
Here it is. I should mention that this was my first Doors album that I bought, original, with a cardboard cover, a kind of mini-vinyl. It was my birthday, I had to choose, I still remember, between THE DOORS, WAITING FOR THE SUN, this one, L.A. WOMAN, and various collections. 1) let's exclude the collections, I hate them, they don't have their own life. 2) "Waiting for the sun" has a nice cover. 3) I don't know what to choose. 4) I know little, only that the Doors are unique, magical, they have extraordinary power at concerts, they are the dark side of psychedelia, the decadent one, not just Peace and Love, mind you, but Death and Beyond (damn!). 5) I let the seller advise me, who knows. Homer Simpson would say “D'OH”, because at first listen it didn’t make a really good impression on me. Except for the famous ROADHOUSE BLUES, the other tracks seemed particularly old, bland. These would be the Doors? Meh! It’s a blues I wasn’t used to listening to. Damn seller! Anyway, after a while I managed to like it (money was spent… such a cheapskate!), mainly because it was one of my first rock records. It wasn't the best and I realized that, but it managed to pump me up, with the already mentioned track, WAITING FOR THE SUN, YOU MAKE ME REAL, MAGGIE M’GILL. Even the “slow ones” INDIAN SUMMER (it resembles THE END) and THE SPY attracted me, but they lacked something.

Now I listen to it again well aware that it's not a masterpiece, but a "resurgence" that would lead our guys to the "blues" swan song, L.A. WOMAN. Some consider it a masterpiece (CRAZY!), some, disparaging it, call it a commercial, disappointing album (a bit). It’s a transitional album, neither bad nor good.