The Soft Parade

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The Soft Parade
The Soft Parade cover
Studio album by The Doors
Released July 1969
Recorded October 1968 - April 1969
Genre Rock
Length 33:59
Label Elektra
Producer(s) Paul Rothchild
Professional reviews
The Doors chronology
Waiting for the Sun
(1968)		 The Soft Parade
(1969)		 Morrison Hotel
(1970)


The Soft Parade is a studio album by the psychedelic rock band The Doors, released in 1969. It was not as successful as their previous records due to its inclusion of brass and string instrument arrangements. Fans also critiqued the songs for being too trite. Fans complained that The Soft Parade followed the formulas of previous albums, thus was not very innovative. It is also different from the Doors' other albums because a number of the song lyrics were written by the band's guitarist, Robby Krieger, partly because Jim Morrison was also working on putting together a pair of self-published poetry books.

After this album, the Doors returned to simpler styles on Morrison Hotel and L.A. Woman, with just the four band members playing.

For the first time, the songs were credited to individual members (only Morrison or Krieger on the album sleeve itself are credited) as Morrison was unhappy with the line about people being told to get their guns in Krieger's "Tell All the People," although the title track had Morrison's line of "Better bring your gun."

[edit] Track Listing

  1. "Tell All the People" (Krieger) – 3:21
  2. "Touch Me" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison) – 3:12
  3. "Shaman's Blues" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison) – 4:48
  4. "Do It" (Krieger, Morrison) – 3:09
  5. "Easy Ride" (Morrison) – 2:43
  6. "Wild Child" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison) – 2:36
  7. "Runnin' Blue" (Krieger) – 2:27
  8. "Wishful Sinful" (Krieger) – 2:58
  9. "The Soft Parade" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison) – 8:36

[edit] Personnel

  • Curtis Amy: saxophone
  • Reinol Andino: conga
  • George Bohanan: trombone
  • Harvey Brooks: bass
  • Jimmy Buchanan: fiddle
  • Doug Lubahn: bass
  • Jesse McReynolds: mandolin
  • Champ Webb: English horn

[edit] External links

See also: The Electric Soft Parade, who used this briefly as their name.

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The Doors
Jim Morrison | Ray Manzarek | Robby Krieger | John Densmore
Discography
Albums : The Doors | Strange Days | Waiting for the Sun | The Soft Parade | Morrison Hotel | L.A. Woman | Other Voices | Full Circle | An American Prayer: Jim Morrison
Live albums: Absolutely Live | Alive, She Cried | In Concert | Live At The Hollywood Bowl | Live in Hollywood
Videos and DVDs: Concerto for Group and Orchestra | Special Edition EP | Live in California 74 | Come Hell Or High Water | Bombay Calling | Live at Montreaux | In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra | Live in Australia: Total Abandon | Perihelion | Live Encounters
Compilation Albums: Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine | 13 | The Best Of The Doors | The Doors Greatest Hits | Legacy: The Absolute Best
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