the difficult second Lp

Interestingly, "Second Winter" was not Johnny Winter's second album. The first being "Progressive Blues Experiment" followed by "Johnny Winter", "Second Winter" being his third album.

Speaking of second Winters, Edgar's debut was a stone mash up of jazz, blues, rock. soul and trance, "Entrance". It was followed by the equally strong, though very different sounding "Edgar Winter's White Trash". The subsequent two albums "Roadwork" and "They Only Come Out At Night being almost as strong as the first two.

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ty lindisfarne. to switch to the "greatly improved second album" mode, you'd have to look at "astral weeks" (which i've always regarded as a tad overrated, but still great) and "the bends".

The Doors' follow-up album was at least equal to the debut eponymous album from this group. And Strange Days lacked the perverse lyric found in the first album's last cut; "The end".

Others would say that both "Days" and the debut album are from the same bin of material. It was the 3rd album that seemed to stumble. Then it was the 4th album that fell flat. And finally they found their footing on the Morrison Hotel and LA Woman albums. Then, perhaps mercifully for their front man, it was over.

But that was a long time ago.

-Steve

This hurts me to say this as a committed fan...but Strange Days is vastly inferior to their debut...I think most Doors fans would agree...and true... they faltered even farther after this...and peaked on the sublime LA women...but "love me two times" seems like a bad parody of "light my fire"...and "when the music is over" is bombastic as "the end"...IMHO ofcourse