Editing Waiting for the Sun (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Unterberger">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/waiting-for-the-sun-mw0000193597 |title=The Doors: ''Waiting for the Sun''|website=AllMusic |last=Unterberger |first=Richie |author-link=Richie Unterberger |access-date=December 21, 2014}}</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[American Songwriter]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{efn|Although ''[[American Songwriter]]'' critic Hal Horowitz rated the original album with four stars overall, he gave the 2018 reissue two stars out of five.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Hal |last=Horowitz |title=The Doors: ''Waiting for the Sun'' — 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition |date=September 17, 2018 |url=https://americansongwriter.com/doors-waiting-sun-50th-anniversary-deluxe-edition/ |magazine=[[American Songwriter]] |access-date=April 10, 2023}}</ref>}}
| rev3      = ''[[Classic Rock]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Bell">{{cite web 
|first=Max |last=Bell |date=September 13, 2018
|url=https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/the-doors-waiting-for-the-sun-50th-anniversary-deluxe-edition-album-review |title=The Doors - ''Waiting for the Sun'' (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Album Review |publisher=Louder |work=[[Classic Rock]] |accessdate=February 15, 2021}}</ref>
| rev4      = ''[[MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev4score = 3.5/5<ref>{{cite book|last1=Graff|first1=Gary|last2=Durchholz|first2=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=1-57859-061-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/358 358]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/358}}</ref>
| rev5      = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev5score = (mixed)<ref name="Miller" />
| rev6      = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-doors/albumguide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106033635/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-doors/albumguide |title=The Doors: Album Guide |magazine=[[Rolling Stone|rollingstone.com]] |archive-date=January 6, 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=August 31, 2015}}</ref>
| rev7      = ''[[Slant Magazine]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Cinquemani">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/the-doors-waiting-for-the-sun |title=The Doors: ''Waiting for the Sun'' <nowiki>| Album Review |</nowiki> Slant Magazine |last=Cinquemani |first=Sal |date=April 18, 2007 |magazine=[[Slant Magazine]] |access-date=December 21, 2014}}</ref>
| rev8      = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev8Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&pg=PA763 |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |first=Colin |last=Larkin |author-link=Colin Larkin |date=May 27, 2011 |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |isbn=978-0857125958 |page=763}}</ref>
}}

Despite its commercial success, ''Waiting for the Sun'' divided critics and many derided it as pretentious and over-arranged.{{sfn|Schinder|Schwartz|2008|p=263}} Journalist [[Mikal Gilmore]] noted that many criticisms were centered to the "transparent commercial appeal" of the album's opener "Hello, I Love You",{{sfn|Gilmore|2008|p=260}} with ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'' dismissing it as a "jagged [[Kinks]] ripoff on which Morrison comes out like a rapist".{{efn|Praising though other songs such as "Five to One", "My Wild Love", "Spanish Caravan", and "Summer's Almost Gone".{{sfn|Brackett|Hoard|2008|p=255}}}} Jim Miller of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' wrote, "After a year and a half of Jim Morrison's posturing, one might logically hope for some sort of musical growth and if the new record isn't really terrible, it isn't particularly exciting either."<ref name="Miller">{{cite magazine |last=Miller |first=Jim |date=September 28, 1968 |title=''Waiting for the Sun'' – Review |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/waiting-for-the-sun-19680928 |access-date=December 21, 2014}}</ref> Pete Johnson reviewing the record for ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', wrote a positive review, remarking that ''Waiting for the Sun'' contains "the smallest amount self-indulgent" songs compared to the Doors previous albums.{{sfn|Weidman|2011|p=156}} The ''[[New Musical Express]]'' declared "The Unknown Soldier" as the standout of side one and "all on side two are gems, notably 'My Wild Love' and the long finale 'Five to One'."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.thedoors.com/news/doors-waiting-for-the-sun-review |title=''Waiting for the Sun''{{snd}}Album Review |date=July 13, 1968 |magazine=[[New Musical Express]] |via=TheDoors.com |access-date=May 13, 2021}}</ref>

In his retrospective review, [[Richie Unterberger]] of [[AllMusic]] wrote, "The Doors' 1967 albums had raised expectations so high that their third effort was greeted as a major disappointment. With a few exceptions, the material was much mellower and while this yielded some fine melodic ballad rock{{nbsp}}... there was no denying that the songwriting was not as impressive as it had been on the first two records." Nevertheless, he concluded that "time's been fairly kind to the record, which is quite enjoyable and diverse, just not as powerful a full-length statement as the group's best albums."<ref name="Unterberger" /> In his review of the 2007 reissue, Sal Cinquemani of ''[[Slant Magazine|Slant]]'' praised the album, writing that "Despite the fact that Morrison was becoming a self-destructing mess, Krieger, Manzarek and Densmore were never more lucid{{snd}}perhaps to compensate. This was a band at its most dexterous, creative and musically diverse."<ref name="Cinquemani" />

''[[Classic Rock]]'' critic Max Bell overviewing the 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, gave ''Waiting for the Sun'' a positive rating of four out of five stars.<ref name="Bell"/> ''[[Stereogum]]'' ranked it the third best Doors album behind ''[[L.A. Woman]]'' and ''[[The Doors (album)|The Doors]]'', concluding: "This is the Doors at their strangest, their most exploratory, their most stylistically expansive. ''Waiting for the Sun'' has examples of everything the Doors did well, and it has them doing it at, occasionally, their highest level."<ref>{{cite magazine |last2=Leas |first2=Ryan |first1=Michael |last1=Nelson |date=July 29, 2015 |url=http://www.stereogum.com/1819986/the-doors-albums-from-worst-to-best/franchises/counting-down/attachment/ |title=The Doors Albums From Worst To Best |magazine=[[Stereogum]] |access-date=July 8, 2022}}</ref>