The Doors-Morrison Hotel (1970)
Title: Morrison Hotel
Label: Elektra
Format: LP
Cat #: EKS-75007
Year of Release: 1970
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1976 Gatefold Reissue
Listed Condition: VG/VG
Sell Date: 3/30/21
Sell Price: $14.99
Discogs Last Sold: 2/22/21 VG+/VG+ $19.00
Low: $9.00 VG/G+
Median: $14.24
Average: $15.95
High: $30.00 NM/M
Current low price: $13.98
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 23
Have/Want: 1792/404
Where Sold: Brooklyn, NY
Time it took to sell: 5 years
Where and When Bought: Worcester That's Entettainment early 80's $1.99
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-
Sad To See It Go: No
"I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer!" was Jim Morrison's salvo that opened Morrison Hotel. It was inescapable well beyond Morrison's death a year later. "Roadhouse Blues" rolled and rolled and rolled.
The album is divided into two titled sides. Side One's "Hard Rock Cafe" has all the hits. After Roadhouse you get "Waiting For The Sun" and "You Make Me Feel" right off the bat. Then comes a band standard "Peace Frog." Blood in and on the streets in Chicago, Venice and New Haven. "Blue Sunday is a bit more etherial and less of a hit. "Ship of Fools" closes the side, a jaunty live standard before the end.
The Morrison Hotel side is less jam packed with hits. "Land Ho!" kicks off the side with more seafaring jauntiness. The rest of the side contains some of the least overplayed material of the Morrison catalogue, but "The Spy," "Queen of the Highway" and "Indian Summer" have been elevated in my mind more for the scarcity of half a decade of material rather than being amazing songs. Although the Doors catalog got bloated with endless live albums, posthumous releases and compilations, the 6 main studio album released in Morrison's lifetime are all distinctive and important.
Morrison Hotel closes with a bit of poetic rocking sleaze in "Maggie M'gill." Everyone is getting it on!
Seems Morrison had a little something extra for New Haven.
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