Doors, The - Morrison Hotel (Édition Studio Masters) '1970/2012

Tracks list

Tracklist
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01. Roadhouse Blues
02. Waiting for the Sun
03. You Make Me Real
04. Peace Frog
05. Blue Sunday
06. Ship of Fools
07. Land Ho!
08. The Spy
09. Queen of the Highway
10. Indian Summer
11. Maggie MGill


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 partynbooze 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.

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