Vinyl Album - The Doors - Waiting For The Sun - Elektra

Vinyl Album

Artist:	The Doors
Title:	Waiting For The Sun
Label:	Elektra
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	EKL 4024
Date:	Sep 1968
Format:	Mono LP (also Stereo LP)
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own, 3 Want
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Doors	Hello, I Love You	The Doors	Rate
A2	The Doors	Love Street	The Doors	Rate
A3	The Doors	Not To Touch The Earth	The Doors	Rate
A4	The Doors	Summer's Almost Gone	The Doors	Rate
A5	The Doors	Wintertime Love	The Doors	Rate
A6	The Doors	The Unknown Soldier	The Doors	Rate
B1	The Doors	Spanish Caravan	The Doors	Rate
B2	The Doors	My Wild Love	The Doors	Rate
B3	The Doors	We Could Be So Good Together	The Doors	Rate
B4	The Doors	Yes, The River Knows	The Doors	Rate
B5	The Doors	Five To One	The Doors	Rate

Notes

Gatefold Sleeve

(Single thickness front and back, with record envelope clued to inside back cover by flaps - top, bottom, and gatefold hinge)

Orange labels have a smooth feel around the edges, but are slightly rougher inside, due to the underlying vinyl texture change.

Produced by: Paul A. Rothchild

Engineer - Brice Botnick

Production Supervisor: Jac Holzman

Douglas Lubahn Plays Occasional Bass
Kerry Magness Plays Bass On The Unknown Soldier

Spanish Caravan: Leroy Vinegar Plays Acoustic Bass and Douglas Lubahn Plays Electric Bass

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Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 11th Dec 2015		Review Wow, I can't tell you how much better The Doors sound in mono! While their debut album sounds great in either stereo or mono, I think their collective genius in finding a new musical space (Breaking On Through etc.?) never reached those heights again, and in all honesty, I've found that other than the odd isolated moments on other albums, they ranged from pretty tedious and bland, to working too hard to "be The Doors", and ending up like a bad parody of themselves. And it is the albums after the debut, beginning with this (Oops, forgot Strange Days... easily done!) , that this seems to my ears to be the case... as Jim Morrison just sounds like a pretentious ham, like a bad Shakespearian actor trying to live up to his own icon. Not to mention that the "Other Doors" (Whats-his-face, hoojamaflip, and erm... doo-dah) sound tight as a unit, even though their jazzy stylings follow their own paths independently (difficult to keep track of in stereo, but remedied here). And having had this on a couple of CDs before, and now having heard this mono version, I have to say (oddly) it's the stereo that creates this impression, as with stereo, you can tune in to each component individually, and Mr Morrison just sounds like someone spontaneously treating you to his transcendent poetry unbidden at a party or something (eurgghhh!). But push it altogether in mono, and it really does make sense. The mono gives it a more "classic" sound appropriate for it's age, that seems to have been to overblown and washed out by later stereo versions (don't in all honesty, know if the original Stereo Vinyl is mixed this way though). (I also have Touch Me/Wild Child original single, which is mono too, and sounds much better too, the first song sounding like the drunken ramblings of a fading cocktail lounge singer in stereo.... even this sounds better in mono!) The only other Doors album that sounds truly great to me in either stereo or mono is L.A Woman, but for the rest, I'd say go for the monos every time, or if you can't afford that, or are not lucky enough to find them cheap (like me... except for this one!), just opt for a "best of". 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Magic Marmalade 8th Jul 2015		Remaining scans added.



Magic Marmalade 5th Jul 2015		Added essential scans: Back cover and labels (Will do inside gatefold in the week). Could someone link the mono and stereo? Ta.



Magic Marmalade 5th Jul 2015		This is what gets me up in the morning for the boot fairs and charity shops... ... the remote possibility that you might come across something like this! 50p!!!!! Pretty good nick too... and when I saw it was Mono I nearly pissed my pants. It didn't matter what I got at the fair after this... one very happy bin digger today! So it just shows you, the majority of the time you're going to be disappointed, but now and then... just occasionally...