180. The Doors | Morrison Hotel (1970)

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Wikipedia Entry

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Tracks

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. The Spy
9. Queen of the Highway
10. Indian Summer
11. Maggie M'Gill

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Morrison Hotel is a melodramatic album. Jim Morrison is the lyrical master of absolutes and superlatives. The music is straightforward blues rock; however, Ray Manzarek's keyboards are playful and enable Morrison's fatalistic theatrics.

This album is really catchy and, despite himself and his lyrics, Jim Morrison is charismatic on each song. However, with the exception of Peace Frog, this album is rather tame and uninspiring.

This album is good, but it isn't groundbreaking, and so it doesn't belong on the 1001 Albums list.

The stand out songs are Roadhouse Blues, Waiting for the Sun, Peace Frog, Ship of Fools and Indian Summer.

★★★★★★★☆☆☆