The Doors
Waiting for the Sun
Waiting for the Sun: The Doors' number-one album dismissed by critics
Released in the US on 3 July 1968. A contemporary hostile review, alongside chart results in the US, UK and France with their dates.
The verdict at the time
Jim Miller reviewed Waiting for the Sun for Rolling Stone on 28 September 1968. He allowed that 'Spanish Caravan', 'Not to Touch the Earth' and 'Summer's Almost Gone' had their moments, but found the songs vacillating 'between the trivial and the neo-Freudian', criticised Morrison's singing and subtlety, and called the album 'a respectable, if unimpressive, third album' and 'great rock it isn't'.
Chart peaks
European positions are listed by country. Later chart entries are labelled separately.
Sources & context
One critic's opinion, summarised from Jim Miller's original Rolling Stone review of 28 September 1968, reproduced on the Doors' official site. Initially derided, the album is now discussed as part of the psychedelic-rock canon; it reached number one in the US and France and number 16 in the UK.
