it’s kinda too stupid to really get mad at or feel any strong way about. just dumb stoner california rock…same as it ever was. it would probably sound pretty good in the background at a party where everyone was stoned out of their minds and also it was 1971 so maybe we didn’t have that many options. the title track is far and away the worst song on the record i think. fav tracks: cars hiss by my window; hyacinth house
Vinyls getting longer happened at the wrong time because it meant that the Doors could finally make a near-hour record of sludge. He reuses the same melody over and over, the lyrics are stupid, and most obviously he has a horribly unpleasant voice. He somehow drains blues of its signature emotion and rhythm and turns it into a dull slog. Really horrible stuff. I think if one or two of those things from the aforementioned trifecta (bad melodies, bad lyrics, bad voice) were decent then this could be good, so it has potential. I imagine there are probably a lot of great and colorful covers of these songs so the band gets credit for building music with strong bones but unfortunately in its original recorded form, it just sounds like a bunch of guys experimenting with what they thought was really innovative instrumentation but ends up as a cacophony with a drunk guy screaming over it.