We Could Be So Good Together
| "We Could Be So Good Together" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by the Doors | ||||
| from the album Waiting for the Sun | ||||
| A-side | "The Unknown Soldier" | |||
| Released | March 1968 | |||
| Recorded | February–August 1967 | |||
| Length | 2:20 | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Paul A. Rothchild | |||
| the Doors singles chronology | ||||
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"We Could Be So Good Together" is a song by American rock band the Doors, appearing as the ninth song on their 1968 album, Waiting for the Sun, but was initially released as the B-side of the single "The Unknown Soldier" which peaked at number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[1] The song was recorded during the sessions for Strange Days, and appears on an early track listing for the album.
The single version contains a musical quote at 1:21 when the organ plays the opening theme from Thelonious Monk's "Straight, No Chaser."[2]
Lyrics
The song has been described (for example in No One Here Gets Out Alive) as lead singer Jim Morrison's way of telling his audience what kind of world they would be able to create if they simply tried.[3] Author Rich Weldman noted that the song "may have been about one of Morrision's girlfriends prior to Pamela Courson" and that "the song contains darker imagery than the other songs".[4]
A review in Slant Magazine described the song as "categorically pre-fame Morrison" ("The time you wait subtracts from joy" is the kind of hippie idealism he'd long given up on), thus implying that this is one of the songs that The Doors had written long before the recording sessions for their third album, and that it is among those pieces, which had not already been used on The Doors or Strange Days.[5]
References
- ↑ "The Hot 100 - May 18, 1968". Billboard. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
- ↑ Weldman, Rich (2011). The Doors FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Kings of Acid Rock. ISBN 978-1617131141. Search this book on
- ↑ Danny Sugerman; Jerry Hopkins (1980). No One Here Gets Out Alive. ISBN 0-7607-0618-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Weldman, Rich (2011). The Doors FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Kings of Acid Rock. ISBN 978-1617131141. Search this book on
- ↑ "Music Review: The Doors: Waiting For The Sun". Slant Magazine. October 18, 2008. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
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