Waiting For The Sun (45rpm, 200g-edition) - Plak

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"Waiting For The Sun", The Doors’ third album and its first chart-topper, delivered the No. 1 signature smash “Hello, I Love You” and the Top 40 hit “The Unknown Soldier”.<br /><br /> Slant Magazine proclaims that "Waiting For The Sun" contains some of The Doors’ prettiest, most genial lilts: “Love Street,” a fictionalized sketch of the Bohemian street where Morrison lived with his wife, Pamela Courson; the wistful “Summer's Almost Gone”, which includes the lovely refrain, »Morning found us calmly unaware/Noon burned gold into our hair«; and the placid piano ballad “Yes, The River Knows”. More and more, says Slant, Morrison was starting to emulate one of his idols, Frank Sinatra — »after all, they had an insatiable taste for women and alcohol in common”.<br /><br /> "Waiting For The Sun" was also some of The Doors' most combative, political work. "The Unknown Soldier" was a barefaced antiwar attack, a reaction to the Vietnam-era hostilities brewing on the home front.