Morrison Hotel

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The next-to-last Doors album, recorded prior to Jim Morrison's still mystery-shrouded death in a Parisian bathtub, eschewed much of the band's previous penchant for baroque musical, poetic, and philosophical pretensions (this was, after all, the back-to-roots era of the Beatles' Let It Be, the Stones' Let It Bleed, and Dylan's Nashville Skyline). Instead, the Doors circa 1970 wisely seeped themselves in a bluesy, no-frills approach that might have hinted at creative exhaustion in a lesser band. Instead, the Doors of "Roadhouse Blues" and "Peace Frog" reinvented themselves into arguably one of the greatest bar bands ever, with Morrison's well-documented demons frolicking in a welcome new ambience. "Waiting for the Sun" and "Ship of Fools" may hearken back to the band's cabalistic and Kurt Weill leanings, respectively, but framed in an edgier, more effective way. --Jerry McCulley

Tracks:

Roadhouse Blues
Waiting For The Sun
You Make Me Real
Peace Frog
Blue Sunday
Ship Of Fools
Land Ho!
The Spy
Queen Of The Highway
Indian Summer
Maggie M'gill
Talking Blues (Bonus)
Roadhouse Blues (11/4/69, Takes 1-3) (Bonus)
Roadhouse Blues (11/4/69, Take 6) (Bonus)
Carol (11/4/69) (Bonus)
Roadhouse Blues (11/5/69, Take 1) (Bonus)
Money Beats Soul (11/5/69) (Bonus)
Roadhouse Blues (11/5/69, Takes 13-15) (Bonus)
Peace Frog (False Starts & Dialogue) (Bonus)
The Spy (Version 2) (Bonus)
Queen Of The Highway (Jazz Version) (Bonus)

Album Description

MORRISON HOTEL, released in 1970 in the wake of Morrison's infamous indecency bust, hit #4 and introduced "Waiting For The Sun," "Roadhouse Blues," and "Ship Of Fools." Insightful liner notes from David Fricke. Ten bonus tracks include eight previously unissued takes of "Roadhouse Blues, a run-through of Chuck Berry's "Carol," a jazz version of "Queen Of The Highway," and the previously unreleased "Money Beats Soul."

Customer Reviews:

I have to disagree with Jerry below...............2007-07-15

I will first say the only DOORS I ever purchased was the vinyl Greatest Hits and the early CD greatest hits. I am not a DOORS affectionado as many others on here are. Actually I wouldn't even consider myself of being a big DOORS fan until I bought the Soft Parade in this new re-mixed and re-mastered form. I thought that the sound was excellent and wondered why so many DOORS fans were not happy with it. I know all the arguments of horns etc... Please take this review of Morrison Hotel from this perspective. As far as sound quality, I immediately compared it too the DOORS first album done in HDCD. There was not much of a loudness issue between formats but there was a sonic and clarity issue. Everything on Morrison Hotel was very clear. The crashing on the symbols, the keyboards, bass lines and guitar sounds were searing. The DOORS HDCD wasn't bad but not comparable in my opinion to this new technology. Also, since I have literally no DOORS on album or earlier CD, the changes in the music themselves doesn't bother me at all. Now when Roadhouse Blues started, you could certainly hear a couple of things that have not been on a standard greatest hits. It didn't bother me one bit. I very much enjoyed Morrison Hotel. I especially like Peace Frog. What a great tune. I also liked the Soft Parade and now am purchasing all these new DOORS CD's in their new technology. I guess for those who have been devout followers all these years that the new sound or masters are a problem. Not to me. Now, if it was another catalog of one of my personal favorites that I know every note sound for sound. Maybe I would have the same problem. In the end, I will purchase the others. The sound is as good as anything I have heard in any technology out now. That includes SACD and DVD-Audio. By the way, I am not part of the young crowd. I am 47.

Not the original Horrible ruined Classic !.......2007-07-14

I needed a new copy of this album due to my cassette tape is worn out,boy I was totally surprised when I heard all the original songs are revamped with new music over Jim Morrisons original vocals it sounds terrible with the new added guitars etc. how can they ruin a original album like this ! I think they wanted to modernize it but for who ? the young crowd today will not know about this if they never heard this album but know this music it is like taking a original muscle car from the 1960s and putting in a modern motor in it,what have they done to this it is shameful do not buy it look for the original soundtrack and album very ,very, disappointing ,now what can I do I suppose they messed up L.A.Woman too I will never sell my older remaining cds of these albums the extras on this cd are fine but they should have left the original tapes intact of the original albums songs and riffs it is a modernized ruin unbelievable I am frustrated about this just awful period.

Morrison Hotel, Brilliant & Uneven.......2007-05-08

This latest release of the remastered tracks in Morrison Hotel and the ten bonus tracks is astounding in some places and dull in others. But one could never expect the near-perfection of their first two albums to be rivalled by the follow-ups. But still, Morrison Hotel, especially this remastering, is a great spiritual victory for Doors fans and for the surviving band members, producers and engineers.

The long liner-notes are a must read for those of us too lazy to read whole books on the doors. Indeed, if one reads the liners to all these re-releases, one will get a tremendous and condenced and poetic sense of the doors and their mission. Just because the Doors were egomaniacs, and just because they were rather primitive musically, does not mean that they were not giants. Critics often make the mistake of believing that skill, professionalism and accurate self-assessments are some profoundly determining factor in art. They are not. Many of the most competent and sane folks on the planet are also the dullest and finally the most discouraging.

Doors believers, of which I am one, having been a real member of the now dormant "Church of The Doors," can truly take solace in this re-release series. The focus on the multiple takes of Roadhouse Blues reveals not only a certain lack of technical talent, but also a wonderful and child-like curiosity and experimentalism, which, finally, is more important that excellent craftsmanship. Sorry, you classical music didacticians and cynical, nihilist rock critics.

One great gift on this album that bears retelling is the simplistic and Wagnerian "Waiting for The Sun." The song was dumped from the album which bears its name, and one can see why, because it's a rather half-complete concept. However, as the graces would have it, many projects in which the gods cut us short are the best ones. This song, had they thought it out too much, would have lost its wondrous simplicity. True, they only put it on this record because they were in a bit of a slump, but, astounding, it's rather fun and has an almost early british invasion meets the Ventures kind of all-wrongness that comes out just magestically.

Another forgotten and underated song is "The Spy," which is really fantastic even though they could only think of one verse and simply repeated it over and over again. But, as one commericial songwriter I know, one who has sold tens of thousands of albums once said, "The problem with certain songs is that they only have one verse, but that often ends up being the whole genius of them."

Indian Summer is another almost Half-Song which, if the Doors had felt like they were on a hot streak, might have never let see the light of day. But, as it is, the song is nearly a nursery rhyme, one that is amazingly powerful in its innocense.

The truth was, Jim Morrison was not really a singer. And, as snobby literary critics love to point out, was not the great poet that he thought he was. But, as Cosmic Fate would have it, had he been a true professional at either, the whole force of Jim Morrison's massive, albeit flawed, character would never have created the half-century stir that they have. Genius is not what great craftsman do with their natural talents, it's what people with big gaps in their talent do to make up for it. (A concept I stole from Vonnegut's Bluebeard.)

Morrison Hotel caught The Doors right in an awkward middle of their career, but even so, this re-release is just a fabulous gift to us all.

Here's an idea.......2007-04-25

I am a Doors nut. The movie came out when I was 13 and I have been addicted from that point on. I digress. I wanted to suggest to those Doors fans who are angry about the music being re-mastered to buy the re-mixes because they are interesting and pretty affordable. You probably already have the 1999 re-masters, (and for that matter records, reel to reel, 8-tracks, cassettes, and the 1990 cd versions), well maybe you're not that much of a Doors nut, anyway I digress again. What I have done when I have bought these re-masters is to listen to the re-mix version first, then listen to the 1999 re-masters immediately afterwords. I have always been interested in music production and engineering and I love the new re-mixes, but I will not get rid of my 1999 re-masters because I want to have both versions of these great albums. I know it sounds crazy, but I would like to have re-masters of "Other Voices" and "Full Circle" too.
Why not, they are not bad albums, just without Jim. I think that if you're going to re-master and re-mix your album catalog, you should complete the task.

I think I know the reason but I cant spell it.......2007-04-17

I've always loved the DOORS, have their albums, their LIVE shows, sheet music, books, poems, DVDs, reunion films, offically licenced products, you name it. But, here comes a remix/remaster of one of their best works, with NEW bonus tracks, outtake photos, and the lyrics. So, more product the Door's fans are going to grab. On one of the outake photos from the photoshoot for the cover, JIM wrote in chalk behind him, "I think I know the reason but I cant spell it." WOW. I'd put the money out just for these outtake photos, cos of the little bits of insight even they reveal. (A picture is worth a thousand words, but i'll limit it to 20-30.) However, let's look at the whole product objectively, if such a thing is possible, after fourty years of books, band reunions, the various films, and modern pop mythology clouding our reaction to changing the sound on songs, that for some of us, are sacrosanct in the canon of rock and roll history. The biggest change in the mix, is that the bass parts are VERY loud, and Jim's yips and yelps during the instrumental parts of the songs, are not edited out. I wonder if Jim would have wanted all that personal yelping in place, or if he might have wanted some of his handclaps, (The Spy), guide vocal bleed thru (Blue Sunday?), or pre-take chatter (Land Ho!) removed? On one take, I think it's Ship of Fools, you hear Paul Rothchild say "16" at the beginning of the song. (meaning take 16 obviously.) Its said over the instrumental vamp that starts the song, and hardly ads anything noteworthy to the song, other than a Cinema veritie vibe. I like to look for the outtakes, and alternate takes, for my Cinema Veritie view of work process. Also, on another song, for some strange reason, the organ and the guitar parts were interchanged between channels. Again, i cant for the life of me figure out WHY that would have been nessacary. I hope, i really do, that this remix wasnt just balanced, leveled, and then allowed to run, without editing out extraneous noise and studio sounds, unconsidered guitar lines, or vocalizations by Jim, which were mixed out when the offical mix was made for valid esthetic reasons. This remixed version, as good as the sound density becomes from the louder bass part, shouldn't replace permenantly the mix made for the album when it was first released. After all, the time, and consideration put into the mix at the time, is just as important, as any other part of the recording process. So, does Jim want his extra vocalizations in the mix? Obviously he is not around to give his imput on this, and personally, I'm tired of hearing Ray tell people what JIM wanted. Only Jim understood Jim, or should ever be expected to speak for him. Think I'm wrong? Dont forget how Jim reacted to the car commercial that the other Door members allowed LIGHT MY FIRE to grace back in the late 60s, and how betrayed Jim felt over that. Jim almost seems to be commenting on the situation, in one of the outtake photos. In it, Jim is in a closet posed over a TV set, that is playing HOLLYWOOD SQUARES. I'm sure that Jim had a lot of conflicts in his life, with "Hollywood Squares".
As for the song alternate takes and outtakes, I can only say that, at least for this edition, they are fantastic. Everyone of them is worth listening to, and definately show the process involved in the band's creative process. As far as I know, no bootlegs have EVER surfaced of the DOORS unused studio outtakes. So this is definately a welcome addition. I do have one last criticism, and it's a big one. With the technology of DUALDISC, I cant understant why the Doors didnt allow the 5.1 DVD mix of these songs, which were included on their third, and latest box set from last year. It would have been nice, to have the 5.1 remix, along with some videos, included with the CD. I have no idea how those 5.1 remixes sounded. Maybe they were not very good, except for those albums recorded on 8 or 16 tracks. I would have gladly paid a couple extra dollars to have that DUALDISC technology involved with this project. Overall, for a true Door's fan, I suppose you are suppost to shell out $200 for the newest BOX SET to get those 5.1 DVD mixes, or live with the 2007 version. Well, fine for the famously rich. So, why did the band release these album remixes, with alternate takes? "I THINK I KNOW THE REASON BUT I CAN'T SPELL IT". ($$$-how do you THAT?)

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A best of the Doors
The Doors Reborn and More Mature Than Ever
(3.5 stars) Better...
The Doors revival starts here!
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Morrison Hotel
The Doors
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000002I2I
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Roadhouse Blues
Waiting For The Sun
You Make Me Real
Peace Frog
Blue Sunday
Ship Of Fools
Land Ho!
The Spy
Queen of the Highway
Indian Summer
Maggie M'Gill

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The next-to-last Doors album, recorded prior to Jim Morrison's still mystery-shrouded death in a Parisian bathtub, eschewed much of the band's previous penchant for baroque musical, poetic, and philosophical pretensions (this was, after all, the back-to-roots era of the Beatles' Let It Be, the Stones' Let It Bleed, and Dylan's Nashville Skyline). Instead, the Doors circa 1970 wisely seeped themselves in a bluesy, no-frills approach that might have hinted at creative exhaustion in a lesser band. Instead, the Doors of "Roadhouse Blues" and "Peace Frog" reinvented themselves into arguably one of the greatest bar bands ever, with Morrison's well-documented demons frolicking in a welcome new ambience. "Waiting for the Sun" and "Ship of Fools" may hearken back to the band's cabalistic and Kurt Weill leanings, respectively, but framed in an edgier, more effective way. --Jerry McCulley

Album Description

Digitally remastered pressing of The Doors fifth studio album from 1970, a slightly bluesier affair than their previous albums and a return to a harder sound. The Doors' mixture of Rock, Blues and Jazz combined with vocalist Jim Morrison's poetic lyrics and powerful vocals created a musical Molotov cocktail that could make your senses explode...in a good way! 11 tracks including 'Peace Frog', 'Land Ho!', 'Waiting For The Sun' and 'Roadhouse Blues', which has become a standard for bar bands across the world. Warner.

Customer Reviews:

A best of the Doors.......2007-05-26

This is my favorite of the Doors' catalog. It is stripped bare of the pretention Jimbo was infamous for, the psychedelic crud, and the poppy banality of their previous releases. Their debut, while one of the best debuts of any rock group, still maintained one of my least favorite songs in their canon, the oft-hailed but unendingly dull and pompous "The End." I'm sure the cursors are furiously searching for the "no" button at the bottom of this review, but I find that "opus" to be sophomoric and indicative of the worst Morrison brought out from his notebook meanderings. Thankfully, Morrison Hotel has none of that. Jim keeps the non-sequitors and "Hey! Listen to me! I studied philosophy!" references in control and writes more straight-forward and purposefully than before. Perhaps he realized that his utopian vision of changing the world had dissipated like the smoke from so many joints in the audience he dared to manipulate and who, in the end, ignored his attempts at social experimentation and instead cried out for "Light My Fire." Whatever the reason, it's to our advantage that Morrison Hotel finds Jimbo focusing on simply being a member of a very good band. To that end, the vastly underrated guitar work of Robbie Krieger is the musical focus of this work, from the galloping intro of Roadhouse Blues to the trebly riff which closes out Maggie McGill, this album is a Krieger showcase. He demonstrates his unique finger-picking style, slide chops, and genre virtuosity throughout this powerful album. The FM staples "Peace Frog" and the aforementioned "Roadhouse Blues" are masterworks for both the guitarist and the band.
In fact, one of the best things about Morrison Hotel is that it is the best recording of the Doors as a band, per se, opposed to a combo backing an erratic poet. Even the inside photo, one of the coolest ever of these guys, is a balanced shot of the foursome, instead of the more common ones with Jim front and center and the other three taking up space in the background. Morrison Hotel is a rocking, bluesy, and bare-bones piece of American rock and roll that stands as the most concise and cohesive highlight in the brief history of this influential band.

The Doors Reborn and More Mature Than Ever.......2007-01-10

After the rather dismal "The Soft Parade," an album that took The Doors in a shamefully disappointing string-and-brass instrument direction, they hurled back in 1970 with "Morrison Hotel," their strongest, most rocking album since their self-titled debut. Jumpstarted with the mid-tempo Roadside Blues, the album moves between subtle mood pieces, and melodic rock outs, all constructed with Jim Morrison's fine lyrical sentiment, and exceptional grasp on hooks, creating some of the most intimate music of its day. Songs like the political, Peace Frog, and the playful Land Ho!, The Spy, and Maggie M'Gill work some elegant mojo into audience's emotions and beliefs; they are also not just some of The Doors best songs, but also some of the best songs of their genre of all time. "Morrison Hotel" is also fortified with the escalating skill of Bobby Krieger, John Densmore, and Ray Manzarek's' masterful rhythm, and instrumental knowledge of blues and rock components; creating a flourishing backdrop to Morrison's words, thus adding additional sentiment to the lyrical themes. Though there is some slight underwhelming moments here, like in Blue Sunday, and (in this critics opinion) Indian Summer, two songs that feature Morrison's great signing, but do not have much to them, both lyrically, and instrumentally, otherwise. Yet, despite some small imperfections, "Morrison Hotel" is still a masterwork by a band of grand artistic envision, skill, and talent.

**** ½ (Out of 5)

(3.5 stars) Better..........2006-11-19

Okay, the Doors roared right out of the gates with the classic debut. They then hit a rut with the awfuul Strange Days; mediocre Waiting for the Sun; and The Soft Parade, which we will never speak of again. This is an improvement, and the closest they came to matching their debut. Strong cuts include Roadhouse Blues; Waiting for the Sun; the funky Peace Frog; and the underrated trilogy Ship of Fools; Land Ho and Maggie Mc'gill (bad lyrics aside, it rocks). The bad? You Make Me Real; stale blueses The Spy and Queen of the Highway; and the formulaic ballad Indian Summer. But along with the debut, this is really the only Doors studio album you need. If you own Legacy: the Absolute Best, that is...

The Doors revival starts here!.......2006-11-18

The general perceived wisdom is that the Doors made two outstanding records at the outset and then it was a story of continual decline except for the odd highlight track until Jim Morrison's death in a bath in Paris. Well, listening at the remastered set of Doors CDs, leaves one feeling that 40 odd years on that initial assessment may be up for challenge.

The reason being that listening now to "Morrison Hotel" one is not left feeling that this was a group in exit mode. Instead it was one that could still lay down a full set of energetic and memorable songs all well sung and played and well recorded and produced by the duo of Paul Rothschild and Bruce Botnick. The three musicians show yet again why LA always had a harder edge than SF in the late 1960s when it came to playing rock and blues. While a number of songs may recycle prior ideas not least due to Morrison's continual plagiarising of book titles to inpsire his song writing, they are none the worse for that.

When it came out this record got panned based largely on critic's memories of those first two recordings and claims of it being just more of the same. However the lack of over inflated workouts ("The End" and "When the music's over") and a better focus on shorter and sharper songs plus a greater energy and sense of rock and roll ("Roadhouse Blues" & "You make me real") make for my ears a much better overall set. Special highlight is Robbie Krieger's guitar playing throughout of short and memorable solos and licks - a continual joy and sadly heard too little of post the Doors demise. It is no surprise that such energy was also on show in the subsequent Live double LP set.

With the final recording "LA Woman" yet to come, "Morrison Hotel" has no sense of decline or despair about it - it is just great music that as a whole is a much more enjoyable listen in 2006 than the now rather thinner sounding first two LPs.

A "REAL" PIECE OF HARD ROCK CAFE HISTORY.......2006-10-30

MORRISON HOTEL kicks off with the hard-driving ROADHOUSE BLUES, which contains Rock music's most incisive and "celebratory" lyric of nihilism: "I WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND I GOT MYSELF A BEER; THE FUTURE'S UNCERTAIN AND THE END IS ALWAYS NEAR." No punk rocker ever said it so well! I no longer think the future's uncertain, even though the end is certainly near, but I could so relate to Jim Morrison's outlook during my dark, angsty late teens and early twenties when I nearly played the grooves off of MORRISON HOTEL by The Doors, and many mornings headed for the refrigerator, Excedrin in hand, hoping to find 12 ounces of the hair of the dog that bit me the night before.

As I was recently telling a friend, in hindsight I can see how the Jazz influenced Rock groups I so favored in my youth inevitably led me to the real Jazz I would come to embrace as my favorite music genre. Groups like The Beach Boys, The Carpenters, Traffic, Supertramp, Chicago, and The Doors all contained notable Jazz stylings that appealed to me even if in my youthful ignorance I was unable to recognize the denominator. I owned the entire Doors catalogue in my twenties, but when I sold all of my licorice pizzas and converted to compact discs at thirty, I repurchased very few of my Rock albums. My tastes had changed by then and my Gothic mind-set (yes, I was Gothic before it had mass appeal among young people or even an identifiable label) had given way to the reality of spiritual Light - also sometimes called "Love." However, talking "The Doors" with my friend the other day, and opening the doors of our memories, I was inspired to pick up a copy of what had always been my favorite of the band's original releases, MORRISON HOTEL. (It was followed closely by L.A. WOMAN.)

The music itself is a collection of rhythmically pronounced, highly energetic road rockers, and beautifully rolling ballads (and then there's the sly THE SPY, which defies categorization). If you're a female attracted to males, yer gonna think Jimbo's voice is megaerotic on these ballads because even I think his voice is megaerotic and I happen to be a man attracted exclusively to women! There's not a bad song on MORRISON HOTEL, though I find WAITING FOR THE SUN and SHIP OF FOOLS to be just "Eh." Yet they are more than compensated for by all the other memorable tunes, of which PEACE FROG is my main man..... er... amphibian. OK, enough about the cool, megaerotic music; now I'm gonna tell ya the little known history behind this classic Rock album:

In 1970, photographer Henry Diltz sought to get a picture of the members of The Doors at the Morrison Hotel for the album's cover. The hotel was located in a seedy section of downtown Los Angeles (1246 South Hope Street) but the owner of the hotel declined to give his permission to shoot there. So shortly afterwards, Diltz had the band run in quickly anyway and when they positioned themselves under the "Morrison Hotel" window lettering, he snapped a picture from the sidewalk outside. And there's your album cover! Collectively, the album was titled MORRISON HOTEL, but whereas side two of the album (tracks 7-11) was originally also called `Morrison Hotel', side one (tracks 1-6) was actually named `Hard Rock Cafe' (the CDs still come labeled this way). The photograph on the album's backside shows several old geezers hanging around outside a neighborhood dive called "Hard Rock Cafe", and the inner gate photo displays Morrison and Company relaxing inside that same dive with the "regulars" and prepared to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to some dying Budweiser bottles.

This little "adult juice joint" located on L.A.'s famous "Skid Row" (a.k.a. The School Of Hard [Rock] Knocks) was the FIRST - the "REAL" - HARD ROCK CAFE! It was located at 300 East 5th Street (the address is visible above the door in the photo). Many years later, when entrepreneurs got the idea to open a fancy Rock `N' Roll themed bar and grill at L.A.'s upscale Beverly Center mall at Beverly and San Vicente, they were required to pay the owner of the decrepit Hard Rock Cafe dive on Skid Row for the use of the name. THE HARD ROCK CAFE has since become a world famous establishment with franchises located in New York, Hawaii, London, Tokyo, and elsewhere. And while the "first" Hard Rock Cafe was indeed founded in The City Of Angels, it was a little east of its present location in an area you wouldn't want to be at night without a gun in your pocket.

(*Incidentally, the above bit of trivia, and much more like it, can be found in Art Fein's fine little book `THE L.A. MUSICAL HISTORY TOUR', recently reviewed on this site by Yours Truly.)

The next time you visit Los Angeles, be sure to crank up MORRISON HOTEL in your car and cruise by the location of the ORIGINAL "Hard Rock Cafe" in downtown - just to say you've been there. And listen, if some grizzled bum on the street asks you for a buck, give it to him; he might be some old friend I used to party with.

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I woke up this morning and I got myself a great Doors album
the doors can rock

Morrison Hotel
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ASIN: B00004U8DU
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Album Description

Remastered reissue of the classic album originally released in 1970. Packaged in a miniature LP sleeve reproduction of the original artwork.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered CD with Original, 1970, Vinyl-Edition Packaging.

Customer Reviews:

I woke up this morning and I got myself a great Doors album.......2005-04-30

After a couple of albums that were more noted for hit singles that smacked too much of pop music for their fans, namely 1968's "Waiting for the Sun" with "Hello, I Love You" and 1969's "The Soft Parade" with "Touch Me," the Doors got back to their roots with "Morrison Hotel." This is clear from the opening track on this 1970 album, the rock 'n' booze anthem "Roadhouse Blues," which blasts this album into the stratosphere. Robbie Krieger's opening riff sets the tone and Ray Manzarek pounds away on the piano to establish the mood, with the whole thing capped off by Jim Morrison's vocalized howls. You can hear live versions of "Roadhouse Blues," but unfortunately none of them were ever performed in the perfect locale, which would have been a bar. But you can imagine how great it would sound to hear this one blasting the top off of some juke joint.

There are not any hit singles on the group's fifth studio album, which is undoubtedly why it went over better with the fans of the Doors, even if it only made it to #4 on the Billboard album charts. To help validate the blues the Doors brought in the great sessions jazz guitarist Ray Neopolitan, albeit as a bass player (the Doors never really bothered with one). The requisite touch of the exotic can be found in songs like "Waiting for the Sun," "Queen of the Highway," and "Indian Summer." Morrison, who was noticeably disengaged in terms of both his lyrics and his singing on previous albums, is back to waxing poetic big time, as evidenced by "Ship of Fools," which mixes nihilistic imagery with prospects for hope. Again, Morrison is found commenting on the counterculture, singing about how "Everyone was hanging out/Hanging up and hanging down/Hanging in and holding fast." Musically the instrumental break is where the group gets to indulge in some showmanship where the emphasis is decidedly on jazz and no longer on pop.

The other great track is "Peace Frog," which comments on the "Blood in the streets," but is more notable for Morrison's musings on an episode from his childhood in some of his most searing imagery (e.g., "Indians scattered on dawn's highway, bleeding to death") and poetic (e.g., "Blood is the rose of mysterious union"). Again, Krieger and Manzarek provide the appropriate musical accompaniment to the verbal images of cultural unrest as the end of the turbulent Sixties being thrown out by Morrison. The Doors often commented on what was happening in the streets without ever offering a solution, and this song is one of their best efforts in that regard. One final track of note remains, and that would be the slow blues tune "The Spy," simply because its music, if not its lyrics (e.g., "I know the word that you long to hear/I know your deepest, secret fear"), anticipates the last great Doors song to come on their final album, "L.A. Woman."

the doors can rock.......2001-01-29

the doors put it all together. great lyrics,great sound, alot of messages in their songs. but they were best at playing good ole rock and roll. a great album to listen to while going down the road. on a blue Sunday, okay sing along, leave your cares far behind, just keep your eyes on the road, still sounds fresh even after thirty years.

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Morrison Hotel/L.A. Woman
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ASIN: B0000C3WBY
Release Date: 2003-11-25

Tracks:

Roadhouse Blues
Waiting for the Sun
You Make Me Real
Peace Frog
Blue Sunday
Ship of Fools
Land Ho!
Spy
Queen of the Highway
Indian Summer
Maggie M'Gill

Tracks:

Changeling
Love Her Madly
Been Down So Long
Car Hiss by My Window
L.A. Woman
America
Hyacinth House
Crawling King Snake
Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
Riders on the Storm

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Limited Edition Australian two CD pressing includes the classic studio albums Morrison Hotel (1970) and L.A. Woman (1971), packaged in standard jewel cases and housed in a slipcase. Features 21 total tracks including 'Love Her Madly', 'Hyacinth House', 'Riders On The Storm', 'Road House Blues', 'Peace Frog', 'Land Ho!', 'Indian Summer' and more. Warner. 2005.

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Two Fantastic Studio Albums, Packaged Together in a Slipcase.

Morrison Hotel [Digitally Remastered] [Australian Inport]

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Morrison Hotel [Digitally Remastered] [Australian Inport]

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ASIN: B000EO73YS

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A best of the Doors
The Doors Reborn and More Mature Than Ever
(3.5 stars) Better...
The Doors revival starts here!
A "REAL" PIECE OF HARD ROCK CAFE HISTORY

Morrison Hotel
The Doors
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The Doors

ASIN: B0000264WI
Release Date: 2006-08-29

Tracks:

Roadhouse Blues
Waiting for the Sun
You Make Me Real - The Doors
Peace Frog
Blue Sunday
Ship of Fools
Land Ho!
Spy
Queen of the Highway
Indian Summer
Maggie McGill

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Customer Reviews:

A best of the Doors.......2007-05-26

The Doors Reborn and More Mature Than Ever.......2007-01-10

(3.5 stars) Better..........2006-11-19

The Doors revival starts here!.......2006-11-18

A "REAL" PIECE OF HARD ROCK CAFE HISTORY.......2006-10-30

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L.A. Woman/Morrison Hotel/The Doors
The Doors
Manufacturer: Waner Music Australia
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000CDEPR
Release Date: 2003-08-19

Tracks:

Changeling
Love Her Madly
Been Down So Long
Cars Hiss by My Window
L.A. Woman
America
Hyacinth House
Crawling King Snake
Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
Riders on the Storm

Tracks:

Roadhouse Blues
Waiting for the Sun
You Make Me Real
Peace Frog
Blue Sunday
Ship of Fools
Land Ho!
Spy
Queen of the Highway
Indian Summer
Maggie M'Gill

Tracks:

Break on Through (To the Other Side)
Soul Kitchen
Crystal Ship
Twentieth Century Fox
Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
Light My Fire
Back Door Man
I Looked at You
End of the Night
Take It as It Comes
End

Album Description

Aussie box-set includes three albums, 'L.A. Woman' (1971), 'Morrisson Hotel' (1970), & 'The Doors' (1967). Three standard jewel cases housed together in a slipcase. 32 tracks. Warner. 2003.

Album Details

Australian Exclusive Box Set Housed in a Cardboard Slipcase. Includes "l.a. Woman", "Morrison Hotel" and "The Doors".

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Morrison Hotel
The Doors
Manufacturer: ELEKTRA RECORDS
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000KC2CC2

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music cd has 11 tracks : 1) Roadhouse Blues 2) Waiting For The Sun 3) You Make Me Real 4) Peace Frog 5) Blue Sunday 6) Ship of Fools 7) Land Ho! 8) The Spy 9) Queen of the Highway 10)Indian Summer 11)Maggie M'Gill The cd is remastered by Elektra

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Morrison Hotel

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ASIN: B0009XE9VE
Release Date: 2005-08-30

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Morrison Hotel
The Doors
Manufacturer: Wea
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000T18002
Release Date: 2007-09-10

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork. Includes the Bonus Tracks Talking Blues, Rhode House Blues (Take 1),rhode House Blues (Take 13), Rhode House Blues (Take 14), Rhode House Blues (Take 15), Money Beats Soul, Peace Flog (False Start and Conversation), Spy (Version 2). 40th Anniversary Edition.

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