Morrison Hotel (studio album)
by The Doors

Morrison Hotel by The Doors
Year: 1970
Overall rank: 559th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 874 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1970 (19th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (127th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (559th)

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Morrison Hotel is ranked 4th best out of 48 albums by The Doors on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Doors is The Doors which is ranked number 29 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 27,116.

The Doors album bestography « Higher ranked (230th)
Strange Days
This album (559th)
Morrison Hotel
Lower ranked (615th) »
Waiting For The Sun

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79/100 (from 874 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.5/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.3.

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95/100
From 05/01/2025 22:37
An album of absolute supremeness. Fantastic from start to finish. My favorite of all Doors albums
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From 02/11/2025 01:31
A knock out Doors album from head to toe. Got away from the brass and strings from their previous release, A tour de force. Morrison at his most stoned and fearless. Opens with the bluesy "Road House Blues". Every song unique. "Peace Frog" might be the best song on the album. Horrifying Rock & Roll. My only question is why didn't they put "Waiting for the Sun" on it's namesake release?
#307543 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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70/100
From 03/21/2023 13:04
This album meant a lot to me in my high school and college days. The band clearly had a lot of fun making it, particularly on Peace Frog and Roadhouse Blues, and that goes a long way. In my forties, though, it's hard to slog through the repetitive thump of Waiting for the Sun and the self-indulgent crooning of Blue Sunday and The Spy.

I'm not ready to admit this is a bad album, but I'm afraid it might be.
#295262 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | -1 votes (0 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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85/100
From 12/19/2022 06:09
Solid album all the way through; lots of blues-rock goodness with Morrison's iconic vocals and lyrics. Roadhouse Blues, Waiting for the Sun, and Peace Frog are the highlights, but I also quite like You Make Me Real. Everything else is enjoyable.
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80/100
From 10/02/2022 13:51
This album is very different to their first three or four, underrated in my opinion as some reviews would suggest it's not worthy of purchase. I prefer the first side (vinyl), the first two tracks in particular. The distinctive Vox Continental sound is less prevalent and for me that was part of The Doors distictive sound but it's made up for in other ways.
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From 01/10/2022 05:59
3rd best album by The Doors. Very underrated in my opinion.
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From 01/26/2021 19:29
Almost a perfect album, but the final song just ruins it for me. A great departure from their original sound, but a great album nonetheless.
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From 11/06/2020 15:53
They best album
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From 07/10/2020 18:52
Solid Doors collection. Love the Peace Frog! Rating (79.55)
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Best Albums of 1970
1. Paranoid by Black Sabbath
2. After The Gold Rush by Neil Young
3. All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
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