Waiting For The Sun
by The Doors

From Decurso TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/04/2014 12:44 | #121164 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

If nothing else, this is an incredibly diverse album. There's pop, hard rock, waltzes, elements of world music, blues, folk, psychedelia and so on. Very difficult to classify, but it's just "out there" enough to catch people's ear, yet not so indulgent as to scare off listeners who prefer more conventional sounding music. (Edited)

Pretty good album but not as good as the last two. Still great tracks like Hello, I Love You, Love Street, Not To Touch The Earth, Five to One and The Unknown Soldier (Edited)

Waiting for the sun, is my least favourite Doors album. It lacks the focus and edge that their first two records had. Hello, I love you, is an okay song, but nothing special, although, love street, is nice. I've never been a fan of, the unknown solider, I think it's awful, one of the band's worst songs. Elsewhere, my wild love, is alright, as is, Spanish caravan, but almost everything here would have been nothing more than filler in their previous releases. Only, not to touch the earth, and, five to one, are the only tracks good enough for those earlier records. Disappointing.

From Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/18/2021 03:54 | #276392 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Recording for this album began in 1967 before it eventually came out around the middle of 1968 and despite mixed critical appraisal would become the bands only number one album as well as giving them a second number one single with “Hello, I Love You”

‘Waiting For The Sun’ has always been a Doors catalogue favourite of mine with a bevy of iconic tracks form top to bottom with the afore mentioned “Hello, I Love You”, “Not to Touch the Earth" which was originally a 17 minute epic that would fill side two but eventually scrapped and closes with Morrisons iconic maxim, "I am the Lizard King/ I can do anything”. Then you have the superb “Summer’s Almost Gone” directly followed by the whimsical “Wintertime Love” (get it ?) which has always been one of my personal Doors deep cuts favourite. Then closing out Side one is the powerful and angry anti Vietnam war track “The Unknown Soldier” (do yourself a favour and jump on YouTube and look up The Doors Unknown Soldier 16mm film and get a load of their movie to support the track, its pretty intense for 1968 and includes Jim Morrison being tied up and shot and vomiting blood , and considering Jimbo’s alcohol consumption by this point who knows it might have been real blood). That’s a nearly perfect Side one with points deducted for the underwhelming “Love Street”

Side two opens with “Spanish Caravan” where Robbie shows off his excellent guitar chops in all their technical wonder. From here things dip with “My Wild Love” and “Yes the River Knows” bookending “We Could Be So Good Together”. If the album had finished here it would have been a major bummer, instead The Doors do it again for the third consecutive album by saving the best track to be the album closer following ‘The Doors’ (1967) & “The End” and ‘Strange Days’ (1967) & “When the Musics Over” by giving us the incredible “Five to One”

‘Waiting For The Sun’ is far from perfect but sits comfortably as one of The Doors best studio albums

From xMUSICSNOBx 06/16/2016 06:10 | #168881 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This album is like a really good pancake. Crispy on both ends, soggy and weak in the middle.

Unfortunately, pancake logic does not apply to music albums.
Still a super consistent and enjoyable record though. Super high highs. Really passionate.
Best song: Not To Touch The Earth.