Rating:
Genre:
Rock
Release Date: 08/14/2007
The Doors returned to crunching, straightforward
hard rock on
Morrison Hotel, an album that, despite yielding no major hit singles, returned them to critical favor with hip listeners. An increasingly bluesy flavor began to color the songwriting and arrangements, especially on the party'n'booze anthem
"Roadhouse Blues." Airy mysticism was still present on
"Waiting for the Sun," "Queen of the Highway," and
"Indian Summer";
"Ship of Fools" and
"Land Ho!" struck effective balances between the
hard rock arrangements and the narrative reach of the lyrics.
"Peace Frog" was the most political and controversial track, documenting the domestic unrest of late-'60s America before unexpectedly segueing into the restful
ballad "Blue Sunday." "The Spy," by contrast, was a slow
blues that pointed to the direction that would fully blossom on
L.A. Woman. [The 2007
WEA edition included bonus tracks.]
~Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
;)
