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All rights reserved.Morrison Hotel (Hard Rock Cafe/Morrison Hotel) - Doors (The) (CD 1988)
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Morrison Hotel (Hard Rock Cafe/Morrison Hotel) - The Do
4 of 6 people found this review helpful.
Track listing
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. Spy, The
9. Queen Of The Highway
10. Indian Summer
11. Maggie M'Gill
Details
Playing time: 37 min.
Contributing artists: John Sebastian
Producer: Paul A. Rothchild
Distributor: WEA
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: AAD
Album notes
The Doors: Jim Morrison (vocals); Robby Krieger (guitar); Ray Manzarek (bass instrument); John Densmore (drums).
Additional personnel: John Sebastian (harmonica); Ray Neopolitan (bass instrument); Lonnie Mack.
Feted first as underground heroes, then reviled as teeny-bop stars, the Doors threw off such conundrums with this magnificent release. MORRISON HOTEL reaffirmed their blues roots, stripping away some of the psychedelia of their early releases and the orchestral ambitions that weighted albums like THE SOFT PARADE. The opener, the powerful "Roadhouse Blues," is a case in point. Based on a classic blues riff, structure, and theme ("Let it roll, baby, roll/All night long"), the song is elemental and hard driving.
The album then unfolds through a succession of songs showcasing all the group members' considerable strengths. Distinctively tight instrumental playing underscores memorable material, while Jim Morrison's authoritative vocals range from the demonstrative ("Maggie McGill") to the evocative and melancholic ("The Spy"). Though the band harks back to their tingling '60s sound on "Waiting for the Sun" and "Queen of the Highway," the album's best moments, like the politically minded boogie "Peace Frog," wed edgy rock to the band's highbrow vision. MORRISON HOTEL returned the band to critical favor, and was, overall, their strongest effort since STRANGE DAYS.
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. Spy, The
9. Queen Of The Highway
10. Indian Summer
11. Maggie M'Gill
Details
Playing time: 37 min.
Contributing artists: John Sebastian
Producer: Paul A. Rothchild
Distributor: WEA
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: AAD
Album notes
The Doors: Jim Morrison (vocals); Robby Krieger (guitar); Ray Manzarek (bass instrument); John Densmore (drums).
Additional personnel: John Sebastian (harmonica); Ray Neopolitan (bass instrument); Lonnie Mack.
Feted first as underground heroes, then reviled as teeny-bop stars, the Doors threw off such conundrums with this magnificent release. MORRISON HOTEL reaffirmed their blues roots, stripping away some of the psychedelia of their early releases and the orchestral ambitions that weighted albums like THE SOFT PARADE. The opener, the powerful "Roadhouse Blues," is a case in point. Based on a classic blues riff, structure, and theme ("Let it roll, baby, roll/All night long"), the song is elemental and hard driving.
The album then unfolds through a succession of songs showcasing all the group members' considerable strengths. Distinctively tight instrumental playing underscores memorable material, while Jim Morrison's authoritative vocals range from the demonstrative ("Maggie McGill") to the evocative and melancholic ("The Spy"). Though the band harks back to their tingling '60s sound on "Waiting for the Sun" and "Queen of the Highway," the album's best moments, like the politically minded boogie "Peace Frog," wed edgy rock to the band's highbrow vision. MORRISON HOTEL returned the band to critical favor, and was, overall, their strongest effort since STRANGE DAYS.
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great transactioni lost this cd awhile ago and was pleased to get it back into my collection. this disc arrived quickly and with minimal wear on it. plays perfectly! overall i am very satisfied with this transaction and look forward to making future purchases.
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Morrison HotelReview created: 02/17/08
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Awesome i love everything about this CD great blues and lyrics The Doors at their best my personal fav is peace frog and blue sunday would highly recommend to all doors fans a must have!
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Nice!Review created: 02/12/08
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A really good price on a new cd, which I had been looking for. Thanks, for being a seller on e-bay. I had seen the cd at a local record store and the price was double. Thanks again.
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Well known! Perfect!Review created: 12/26/06
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
Purchased one for my own collection and one for a friends collection. This is a must have for anyone who appreciates great music. The Doors are the Doors, but Morrision is one of a kind. Fabulous!
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Just a solid, blues-based rock albumReview created: 09/21/03
by: HawgWyld -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
As solid a Doors album as you'll find; consistent throughout
As solid a Doors album as you'll find; consistent throughout
Cons:
Kind of short at 37 minutes
Kind of short at 37 minutes
What's a little bit frustrating about the doors, I think, is that there's often more attention paid to lead vocalist Jim Morrison's antics and instability than to the actual music the band recorded. Morrison Hotel, if nothing else, proves one thing -- the band was capable of churning out some compelling, hard-hitting blues-based rock when it concentrated on doing a little studio work. After the Doors' brilliant 1967 debut, the band often sounded distracted on subsequent releases as it strayed farther and farther away from the hard blues arrangements which really anchored the band's sound in...
Review ID: 10000000000217795
The Doors--Check Into The Morrison HotelReview created: 01/04/01
by: sparkospunky -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Varied musical themes with an emphasis on the blues roots of the players
Varied musical themes with an emphasis on the blues roots of the players
Cons:
None to speak of
None to speak of
Morrison Hotel, released in 1970, is actually two albums in one. The first part of the album is titled Hard Rock Cafe, and consists of six tracks, while the second part is called Morrison Hotel, which has five tracks. The entire album revisits the blues roots of this band, and it also demonstrates the band's continued experimentation with musical form. As usual, the keyboards dominate the album, at times in that uniquely Doors carnivalesque fashion, and and at other times with blues, rock and classical influences. The players on this album, and their contributions, are as follows: Jim...
Review ID: 10000000000217806
There's blood in the streets it's up to my ankles...Review created: 10/25/00
by: melanierose -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Everything.
Everything.
Cons:
None at all!
None at all!
Morrison Hotel is a come-back album. The Doors had gone through a 'dry' spell before releasing this, their second last, record. Prior to the release of Morrison Hotel, The Doors were exploring different sounds (the previous Soft Parade featured strings and horns), and Jim Morrison was doing little song writing, leaving it almost completely up to the guitarist, Robby Krieger. Jim had been drinking. A lot. So much so that he couldn't come up with many good lyrics for the songs. He had lost all interest in creating music. This album is in retaliation to that. Jim took his position back as the...
Review ID: 10000000000217804
The real Doors!!Review created: 03/02/00
by: Darth_Player -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
No throwaway tripe, it's like y' know Rockin' Dude!!
No throwaway tripe, it's like y' know Rockin' Dude!!
Cons:
none
none
As a rule the Doors are known for poetic, "psychedelic" epics like "The end" or "when the music's over" or else they are adored by "angst-ridden" teenagers, who view the Oliver Stone movie and consider themselves Doors "fans". Morrison Hotel/Hard rock cafe is an album which gleefully pours cold scorn on the "mystic" or "shaman" image. THe cover and inlay card design alone attracted me to this cd when I bought it at mid price six years ago, aged 15! At the time the Stone movie was still relatively current and I remember groups of Suede/Stone Roses trendies of the time watching the movie and...
Review ID: 10000000000217802
Thrill My SoulReview created: 02/05/00
by: saulsbury -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Classic Jim, plus timeless songs dominated by Krieger
Classic Jim, plus timeless songs dominated by Krieger
Cons:
Jim lost it in the tub not too long after
Jim lost it in the tub not too long after
Ocean City, Maryland, summer of 1981 : I bought the new Doors Greatest Hits album, the one with the red and white and black cover. Rolling Stone ( back when it was worth reading ) had just published their infamous Jim Morrison cover - "He's Hot, He's Sexy . . . And He's Dead" - and introduced a new generation of young fans to The Doors. "Roadhouse Blues" jumped out at me - I was 18 and "I woke up this morning and got myself a be-ya" was about the coolest thing I'd ever heard. Well, enough reminiscing. The great thing about The Doors is, if you are like me, with much of your early music...
Review ID: 10000000000217800
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