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Today I will write a very short review on the third album by The Doors: "Waiting for The Sun"!
"Waiting for the Sun" is the third studio album by the American rock band "The Doors". Released in July 1968, it was the only Doors album to reach number one on the charts. Critics panned the album, although fans had a different opinion. The album contains songs with very strong lyrics, like The Unknown Soldier, but compared to the first two it is more "soft", which is why it was criticized. The first single was "Hello, I Love You/Love Street" which climbed the charts to reach the top position. The second single, "The Unknown Soldier/We Could Be So Good Together" only reached number 39. The album received 1 platinum record and 2 gold records and is considered the band's most "commercial" album. The song "Celebration of The Lizard", a long Morrisonian poem, was supposed to occupy an entire side of the LP, but the band never managed to compose a convincing version. The piece was broken up and partly included in "Not To Touch The Heart".
The album contains 11 tracks: "Hello, I Love You", "Love Street", "Not To Touch The Heart", "Summer's Almost Gone", "Wintertime Love", "The Unknown Soldier", "Spanish Caravan", "My Wild Love", "We Could Be So Good Together", "Yes, The River Knows" and "Five To One". For the 40th anniversary, five tracks were added: a reinterpretation of Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor; two takes of Not To Touch The Heart (take 1 and take 2); a studio rehearsal, also of Not To Touch The Heart; and a complete Work In Progress version of Celebration of The Lizard.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Hello, I Love You (02:16)
Hello,
I love you
Won't you tell me your name
Hello
I love you
Let me jump in your game
She's walkin' down the street
Blind to every eye she meets
Do you think you'll be the guy
To make the queen of the angels sigh
She holds her head so high
Like a statue in the sky
Her arms are wicked and her legs are long
When she moves my brain screams out this song
Sidewalk crouches at her feet
Like a dog that begs for somethin' sweet
Do you hope to make her see, you fool
Do you hope to pluck this dusky jewel
06 The Unknown Soldier (03:23)
Wait until the war is over
And we're both a little older.
The unknown soldier.
Breakfast where the news is read.
Television children fed.
Unborn living. Living dead.
Bullet strikes the helmet's head
And it's all over
For the unknown soldier.
It's all over
For the unknown soldier.
hup
hup
hup ho he hup
hup
hup
hup ho he hup
comp'nee.... halt!
present arms!
Make a grave for the unknown soldier
Nestled in your hollow shoulder.
The unknown soldier.
Breakfast where the news is read.
Television children fed.
Bullet strikes the helmet's head
And, it's all over.
The war is over.
It's all over.
The war is over.
Well, all over, baby.
All over, baby.
Oh, over, yeah.
All over, baby..
07 Spanish Caravan (02:59)
Carry me, caravan.
Take me away.
Take me to Portugal.
Take me to Spain.
Andalucia
With fields full of grain,
I have to see you
Again and again.
Take me, Spanish caravan.
Yes, I know you can.
Trade winds find Galleons
Lost in the sea.
I know where treasure
Is waiting for me.
Silver and gold
In the mountains of Spain,
I have to see you
Again and again.
Take me, Spanish caravan.
Yes, I know you can.
09 We Could Be So Good Together (02:09)
We could be so good together
Ya, so good together
We could be so good together
Ya, we could, I know we could
Tell you lies
I tell you wicked lies
Tell you lies
Tell you wicked lies
Tell you 'bout the world that we'll invent
Wanton world without lament
Enterprise, expedition
Invitation and invention
Ya, so good together
Ah, so good together
We could be so good together
Ya, we could, know we could
Alright!
Do da do do do do do bup bup de day
We could be so good together
Ya, so good together
We could be so good together
Ya, we could, know we could
Tell you lies
Tell you wicked lies
Tell you lies
Tell you wicked lies
The time you wait subtracts the joy
Beheads the angels you destroy
Angels fight, angels cry
Angels dance and angels die
Ya, so good together
Ah, but so good together
We could be so good together Ya, we could, know we could
10 Yes, the River Knows (02:38)
Please believe me
The river told me
Very softly
Want you to hold me, oooh.
Free fall flow, river flow
On and on it goes
Breath under water 'till the end;
Free fall flow, river flow
On and on it goes
Breath under water 'till the end
Yes, teh river knows.
Please believe me
If you don't need me
I'm going, but i need a little time
I promised I would drown myself
in mysticated wine.
Please believe me
The river told me
Very softly
Want you to hold me. oooh.
I'm going, but i need a little time
I promised I would drown myself
in mysticated wine.
Free fall flow, river flow
On and on it goes
Breath under water 'till the end;
Free fall flow, river flow
On and on it goes
Breath under water 'till the end.
11 Five to One (04:25)
Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive
Now, you get yours, baby
I'll get mine
Gonna make it baby if we try
The old get old, baby
And the young get stronger
May take a week and it may take longer
They got the guns but, we got the numbers
Gonna win yeah, we're takin' over!
Come on
Your ballroom days are over, baby
Night is drawin' near
Shadows of the evenings
Crawl across the years
You walk across the floor
With a flower in your hand
Tryin' to tell me no one understands
Trade in your hours for a handful of dimes
Gonna make it baby in our prime
Come together one more time
Come together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
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By joe strummer
The psychedelic runs through the entire album, even though it is not the principal genre of the album, it influences the group in many songs.
Ultimately, Waiting For The Sun is an excellent album, not a masterpiece and certainly inferior to the first two.
By rupertsciamenna
The third album by The Doors is an entirely different record than what it was originally supposed to be.
To show that The Doors were still alive and aware of what was happening in the world, there's 'The Unknown Soldier,' which due to its anti-war themes was strongly boycotted by American radio stations.
