Oggi farò una piccolissima recensione sul terzo album dei The Doors: "Waiting for The Sun"!
"Waiting for the Sun" è il terzo album in studio della band rock americana "The Doors". Uscito nel Luglio del 1968, fu l'unico album dei Doors piazzatosi primo in classifica. I critici bocciarono l'album, anche se i fan erano di diverso parere. L'album contiene canzoni con testi molto forti, tipo The Unknown Soldier, però rispetto ai primi due più è "soft" per questo venne criticato. Il primo singolo fu "Hello, I Love You/Love Street" che scalò la classifica fino ad arrivare alla prima posizione. Il secondo singolo, "The Unknown Soldier/We Could Be So Good Together" arrivò solo alla posizione numero 39. Il disco ricevette 1 disco di platino e 2 dischi d'oro ed è considerato l'album più "commerciale" della band. La canzone "Celebration of The Lizard", un lungo poema Morrisoniano doveva occupare tutto un lato del LP, ma la band non riuscì mai a comporre una versione convincente. Il brano fu spezzettato e messo in piccola parte in "Not To Touch To Heart".
Il disco contiene 11 tracce: "Hello, I Love You", "Love Street", "Not To Touch To Heart", "Summer's Almost Gone", "Wintertime Love", "The Unknown Soldier", "Spanish Caravan", "My Wild Love", "We Could Be So Good Together", "Yes, The River Knows" e "Five To One". Per il 40° anniversario sono state aggiunte cinque tracce: una reinterpretazione di Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor; due takes di Not To Touch The Heart (take 1 e take 2); una prova in studio, sempre di Not To Touch To Heart; e una versione completa Work In Progress di Celebration of The Lizard.
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01 Hello, I Love You (02:16)
Hello,
I love you
Won't you tell me your name
Hello
I love you
Let me jump in your game
She's walkin' down the street
Blind to every eye she meets
Do you think you'll be the guy
To make the queen of the angels sigh
She holds her head so high
Like a statue in the sky
Her arms are wicked and her legs are long
When she moves my brain screams out this song
Sidewalk crouches at her feet
Like a dog that begs for somethin' sweet
Do you hope to make her see, you fool
Do you hope to pluck this dusky jewel
06 The Unknown Soldier (03:23)
Wait until the war is over
And we're both a little older.
The unknown soldier.
Breakfast where the news is read.
Television children fed.
Unborn living. Living dead.
Bullet strikes the helmet's head
And it's all over
For the unknown soldier.
It's all over
For the unknown soldier.
hup
hup
hup ho he hup
hup
hup
hup ho he hup
comp'nee.... halt!
present arms!
Make a grave for the unknown soldier
Nestled in your hollow shoulder.
The unknown soldier.
Breakfast where the news is read.
Television children fed.
Bullet strikes the helmet's head
And, it's all over.
The war is over.
It's all over.
The war is over.
Well, all over, baby.
All over, baby.
Oh, over, yeah.
All over, baby..
07 Spanish Caravan (02:59)
Carry me, caravan.
Take me away.
Take me to Portugal.
Take me to Spain.
Andalucia
With fields full of grain,
I have to see you
Again and again.
Take me, Spanish caravan.
Yes, I know you can.
Trade winds find Galleons
Lost in the sea.
I know where treasure
Is waiting for me.
Silver and gold
In the mountains of Spain,
I have to see you
Again and again.
Take me, Spanish caravan.
Yes, I know you can.
09 We Could Be So Good Together (02:09)
We could be so good together
Ya, so good together
We could be so good together
Ya, we could, I know we could
Tell you lies
I tell you wicked lies
Tell you lies
Tell you wicked lies
Tell you 'bout the world that we'll invent
Wanton world without lament
Enterprise, expedition
Invitation and invention
Ya, so good together
Ah, so good together
We could be so good together
Ya, we could, know we could
Alright!
Do da do do do do do bup bup de day
We could be so good together
Ya, so good together
We could be so good together
Ya, we could, know we could
Tell you lies
Tell you wicked lies
Tell you lies
Tell you wicked lies
The time you wait subtracts the joy
Beheads the angels you destroy
Angels fight, angels cry
Angels dance and angels die
Ya, so good together
Ah, but so good together
We could be so good together Ya, we could, know we could
10 Yes, the River Knows (02:38)
Please believe me
The river told me
Very softly
Want you to hold me, oooh.
Free fall flow, river flow
On and on it goes
Breath under water 'till the end;
Free fall flow, river flow
On and on it goes
Breath under water 'till the end
Yes, teh river knows.
Please believe me
If you don't need me
I'm going, but i need a little time
I promised I would drown myself
in mysticated wine.
Please believe me
The river told me
Very softly
Want you to hold me. oooh.
I'm going, but i need a little time
I promised I would drown myself
in mysticated wine.
Free fall flow, river flow
On and on it goes
Breath under water 'till the end;
Free fall flow, river flow
On and on it goes
Breath under water 'till the end.
11 Five to One (04:25)
Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive
Now, you get yours, baby
I'll get mine
Gonna make it baby if we try
The old get old, baby
And the young get stronger
May take a week and it may take longer
They got the guns but, we got the numbers
Gonna win yeah, we're takin' over!
Come on
Your ballroom days are over, baby
Night is drawin' near
Shadows of the evenings
Crawl across the years
You walk across the floor
With a flower in your hand
Tryin' to tell me no one understands
Trade in your hours for a handful of dimes
Gonna make it baby in our prime
Come together one more time
Come together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
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Altre recensioni
Di joe strummer
"Waiting For The Sun è un disco strano, i brani sono inferiori come qualità rispetto ai primi due lavori e il più eterogeneo e dissonante del gruppo."
"'Five To One' è a mio parere il pezzo migliore, il più rock nonché il più potente e sferzante."
Di rupertsciamenna
Loro malgrado i Doors si sono ritrovati nella loro discografia questo prodotto controverso, in ogni caso non brutto.
La title track venne poi recuperata in 'Morrison Hotel' del ’70, simbolo di un progetto originario mai compiuto.
