In just half an hour a plentiful season this record redeploy a whole universe of sensations, impressions, thoughts and linguistic images. Jim Morrison's lyrics, more poetry because vile rock lyrics, invite you to get up close to immerse themselves in a really strange world.
With swirling organ sounds of the title track opens the album, followed by a deep mournful "You're Lost Little Girl". The Doors were the great blues man, proves once more "Love Me Two Times", this song simply invites you to rhythmic toe-tapping. The so typical for 1967 psychedelic elements are unpacked in "Unhappy Girl" before the most dramatic highlight of the album is approaching the Uncanny "Horse Latitudes", a boxed of bizarre sounds declaimed nightmare with fantastic text.
"Moonlight Drive" starts rather quiet before Morrison increases in increasingly demanding request and the band put aside the intensity lever. The then following just two minute "People Are Strange" is one of my favorite songs of the Doors. The playful strumming Ray Manzareks background feigns a certain innocence, which is canceled out by the bitter words Morrisons about loneliness and rejection.
"My Eyes Have Seen You" rocks and stomps ahead and is in stark contrast to "I Can not See Your Face" which converts back to psychedelic dream paths.
As already on the debut album, where the ingenious "The End" decided the plate, there are still a mile-long chunks at the end - "When The Music's Over", just under 11 minutes. There gathered again everything this band made so unique. , Lived Championship on the instruments partly in improvisation-like passages and above perched a true monolith Morrison'schen Dichtguts. "Cancel My Subscription To The Resurrection, Send My Credentials To The House Of Detention". Madness!
Anything less than full marks prohibitive.
