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.
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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".
Track Listing
- "Tell All the People" (Krieger) – 3:21
- "Touch Me" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison) – 3:12
- "Shaman's Blues" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison) – 4:48
- "Do It" (Krieger, Morrison) – 3:09
- "Easy Ride" (Morrison) – 2:43
- "Wild Child" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison) – 2:36
- "Runnin' Blue" (Krieger) – 2:27
- "Wishful Sinful" (Krieger) – 2:58
- "The Soft Parade" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison) – 8:36
Personnel
- Jim Morrison: vocals
- Ray Manzarek: keyboards
- Robby Krieger: guitar, vocals on "Runnin' Blue"
- John Densmore: drums
- 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
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See also: The Electric Soft Parade, who used this briefly as their name.