LA Woman, it's a metaphor , " Lost Angel" "Los Angeles"....... the City is a woman....and he's experiencing that Woman...".Hair is burning, hills are filled with fire,".....freeways, midnight alleys, cops in cars, topless bars, ..Motel madness........and he loves her,.."they say i never loved you, you know they are a liar".......and he never saw a woman so alone"..................that is just my opinion.
My favorite door tunes. Was in a hole in wall bar one night. The bands guitarist broke a string. One of the guys says, we're gonna try a song we've never played before so he can fix his guitar. These dudes broke out into the best cover of LA Woman I've ever heard. The bartender and me were headbanging at the bar together. Sweet memories. Thanks.
@@jerryfalwellsociety Wouldn’t be the same in Texas my friend, you can drive down Sunset Blvd past the Whisky and just imagine what it must have been like. Do it!! You only live once.
The doors named themselves after the aldous Huxley book "The Doors of Perception" Jim morrison was a keen student of this man due to his experimentation of the psychedelics and uncovering the many levels of consciousness. Enough said another legend of that era we lost too soon, but thankfully his genius and spirit live on forever. Truly grateful to be brought up in this great era of music! Thanks again india 😊
Poet Jim Morrison. R.I. P. . . . This group did its own thang, that's for sure! Great Classic Rock 'n Roll . . . 🎵🎹🎧🎷🎸💔 Magnificent talent and tight band.
Her reactions are priceless. I love playing this bass line to the CD. If the doors of perception are cleansed all will appear to man as it is: Infinite.
Yeah, kind of pretentious, right? Not one of my favorites by them. My favorites are: Hello, I Love You, Love Her Madly, Riders On The Storm, Break On Through, Alabama Song, the Unknown Soldier, and of course Light My Fire, I feel, is their greatest achievement of all.
@@TheJinjo75 Because, that's what the word "pretentious" means. To use and re-use an old trick from the book. Fake stuff. A cliche'. Not original. Lazy writing. I like other Doors songs better because he wrote more meaningful lyrics in other songs. Comparing a city to a woman. Ugh. Makes me snore. He wrote some way better songs. And The Doors group wrote better music in other songs. This one's just jamming on one chord through most of it.
@@anonyarena That's not what pretentious means. You might want to check a dictionary. Morrison was super pretentious sometimes. L A Woman is not one of those. This is just a basic metaphor used by many before him and many after him.
One of the most amazing things about the doors was the keyboardist Ray manzarek. He played the bass line and also the piano line at the same time. There was no actual bass guitar player. Truly talented.
Incorrect. For this album they did use a bass guitar player. Think his name was Jerry Scheff. Also played bass for Elvis. And they used another guy to play rhythm guitar to compliment Robbie Krieger's lead.
Always loved this song, such a great groove to it, I've watched a video of the keyboard player Ray Manzaric who said the record producers used to wake Him Morrison up after a few hours of sleep to get his rich vocal tones, True story!
"The hills are filled with fire". The hills surrounding Los Angeles burn pretty much every year in one spot or another. Lots of dry grass, especially if there's a lot of rain in the spring. Recording fun: Morrison recorded the vocals for this sitting on a toilet - he liked the acoustics in the bathroom of the recording studio. :D
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with your interpretation, but I’ve always envisioned the San Gabriel mountains, at dusk, with the setting western sun over the pacific emblazoned on the hills.. Just my opinion..
The picture of the 3 people. Jim Morrison of the doors, Jimmie Hendrick, and Janice Joplin, all dead by the age of 27. It was a sad time for great artist.
Great job on one of my favorite Doors song, not sure if you ever heard Wild Child but thats a great one too ,that most people have forgotten about probably, since its never hear on the radio anymore
People who grew up with and was related to jim said he was actually a nice, calm, quiet, and conservative person but adopted himself a wild crazy radical persona to sell to the kids.
I love your reaction to this song. Jim Morrison is a fantastic poet and one hell of a showman on stage. Great driving music... I put this on when I'm driving, it just makes me wanna roll down the windows and crank up the tunes. I rate " The Changeling." Another song off the L.A.Woman Lp. A close 2nd, right behind L.A.Woman. If you like this one and wanna hear more, give " The Changeling." A listen.
In a previous Teenage Life this was my song before I hit the Town on a Friday night!!.. A Spliff or two and a few lines of Amphetamine Sulphate!! It was many Decades ago and I survived it, I'm a Grandfather now! But still Love this song, brings back so many memories!!!..
Ray Manzarek keyboard play is genius who wrote the music, went on to producer, film director, author. He lived in the greater Seattle area, like Jimi Hendrix.
The city is the woman, the woman is the city. Lots of imagery in the lyrics:"I see your hair is burnin";"midnight alleys roam". Excellent changes of pace, intro, outro. Like 3 songs in one. Overall an outstanding rock n roll recording.
@@tsgosser "Hills are filled with fire" the high points in her hair were brilliant. The key to the album is in the song Cars Hiss By My Window, sonic-boom.
Jim was one of the best at merging slick studio production with the raw energy of a live performance. He goes off!! "YEAH!! WOO!! COME ON!! LETS GO, WOO COME ON!!"
"Mr Mojo Risin" is an anagram of Jim Morrison. Mojo is slang for libido (and its physical manifestation). That portion of the song, with its rhythmic repetition increasing in tempo and ending in a scream is Morrison having sex with his LA woman. And yes, his LA woman is a metaphor for Los Angeles itself.
this album came out in the same year that I graduated...1971. I remember putting in my 8 track player in my car and just driving along the shore drive in Stone Harbor, NJ the week I graduated. It was idyllic...
Haha! I bought this the year I graduated...1988. I remember putting it in my cassette player in my car and driving down Lake Shore Drive in Chicago looking at apartments. Lake Michigan sparkling under the summer sun on one side and the city on the other. Such good times! Funny how our stories are so similar yet almost two decades apart.
Hi India! I'm a huge Doors fan. The Doors are easily one of my top 3 bands of all time. If I may suggest "The Crystal Ship", "Spanish Caravan", "Not To Touch The Earth", just to name a few. I hope your audience agrees. Love this channel ✌🏽
It was actually "from glad to sadness". Someone in a doc said he thought it was about the general change in the mood of L.A.after the Manson murders."Motel murder bit of madness"
☆▪☆▪☆ The Doors ✌😎 ☆▪☆▪☆ Let the Lizard King do the talking 😉🎙 One thing with Jim he was a poet first then a Rockstar ☆ Jim Morrison is Mr. Mojo Risin ( A little word letter play ) The Doors my favorite band ever since the day I was riding with my sister & her boyfriend and Riders On The Storm came on the radio as we were driving through the beautiful mountains of New Hampshire on a rainy Summers day ( A Perfect time & place to hear that amazing song ) Rock-on music lovers !
Loved shooting Pool, to this song was epic. Loved power in Jim Morrison's voice. Instruments were magic and drew you in.... ahead of their time, Absolutely.
Billy Idol did a cover that, by comparison, was just flat. The song is perfection... Robby's guitar, Ray's keys, and Jim. Dear lord, Jim just wailing! It's incomparable. This was a moment in time that can't be approached.
you should react to one of the tracks on "an american prayer", maybe 'ghost song'.. some of those tracks bleed into the following tracks, hard to pick a start point in the middle of it, lol... "an american prayer" by jim morrison & the doors
The lyric "city of night" is a reference to the groundbreaking 1963 LGBTQ novel CITY OF NIGHT by John Rechy, which was written in a stream of consciousness narrative style (of which Morrison was a fan).
Be sure to check out Strange Days -You're Lost Little Girl-,People Are Strange-Ship Of Fools Keep up the good work.There is so much great music out there
DO NOT. I repeat DO NOT get into a car and then put this song on. This has led me, directly, to two speeding tickets, one for 117 in a 65. It should come with a warning label. ⚠️
When I was a kid growing up in the 60s the "old music" really sounded like old music, "Tea for Two" and "Bicycle Built for Two"- corny stuff. Nowadays the "old music" is The Doors rocking out "LA Woman". You kids don't know how lucky you have it - I can't imagine anyone thinking of this stuff as corny lol!
One the the very few examples in the rock era where a group's last album was possibly their best. The only other groups on this list- The Beatles and the Police.
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This is such a f..king incredible song!!!!!!
I very strongly agree wid ya!!!and turned up loud toooo😎
Truly one of the best ever recorded
LA Woman, it's a metaphor , " Lost Angel" "Los Angeles"....... the City is a woman....and he's experiencing that Woman...".Hair is burning, hills are filled with fire,".....freeways, midnight alleys, cops in cars, topless bars, ..Motel madness........and he loves her,.."they say i never loved you, you know they are a liar".......and he never saw a woman so alone"..................that is just my opinion.
Great Analysis
Yes, that's correct. It's a love song to lady LA. Jim wasn't originally from there, he was from the south.
Excellent! Very nice analysis.
Thats about it.Being from that era,walking thru LA at night.Sounds about right.
I like it! 😀
Oh, by the way, here's a little mind-blower.
MR. MOJO RISIN' = JIM MORRISON
It's an anagram, you see. ;)
MANN I THOUGHT SO HAHAHAH
THANK YOU
You're welcome!
Beat me to it 😉
City of Night is a seriously dark book.
Gone at 27
He's singing about the city. This song really captures the character of LA.
Mr. Mojo Risin is an anagram for Jim Morrison, the singer.
My favorite door tunes. Was in a hole in wall bar one night. The bands guitarist broke a string. One of the guys says, we're gonna try a song we've never played before so he can fix his guitar. These dudes broke out into the best cover of LA Woman I've ever heard. The bartender and me were headbanging at the bar together. Sweet memories. Thanks.
Im from the UK and my dream was to drive in LA with this playing and in 2017 I finally did It Yayyy me
I'm also from the UK and had the same dream, I did it in 1998 and your comment evoked some happy memories for me. Thanks for that!
@@benttoy I'm from the UK too and am yet to do it. But I fear the LA I dreamed of is no longer - I hear everyone is leaving for Texas!
@@jerryfalwellsociety Wouldn’t be the same in Texas my friend, you can drive down Sunset Blvd past the Whisky and just imagine what it must have been like. Do it!! You only live once.
@@benttoy yeh, but I meant the overall vibe. I hear LA has changed alot...
Yay you indeed!
This is my "60 mph" song, when it's on can't drive less than 60 lol
Amen to that, somehow makes me think of Hardees breakfast... are your biscuits rising?
i know right! lol!..
i was just thinking imagine listening to this song full blast riding a long roller coaster! how awesome would that be!...
Judge: If your radar was broken how do you know that he was speeding?
Officer: I could hear LA Woman coming from the car.
Judge: Guilty!
John Suerth, Only 60?! Turn it up louder man!
The doors named themselves after the aldous Huxley book "The Doors of Perception" Jim morrison was a keen student of this man due to his experimentation of the psychedelics and uncovering the many levels of consciousness. Enough said another legend of that era we lost too soon, but thankfully his genius and spirit live on forever. Truly grateful to be brought up in this great era of music! Thanks again india 😊
Driviing down the 10 towards Santa Monica Beach, the sun brassy bright and the wind hot and crazy. The Doors embodied L.A.
This is one of my fave songs to listen to when driving.
Love that you keep the volume of the songs high. We like the songs, and like to hear them too while you react. Too many Reactors forget that
Jim Morrison's love letter to Los Angeles.
Poet Jim Morrison. R.I. P. . . . This group did its own thang, that's for sure! Great Classic Rock 'n Roll . . .
🎵🎹🎧🎷🎸💔 Magnificent talent and tight band.
Fabulous guitar throughout by Robbie Kreiger - especially the transition out of the slow interlude into the last verse.
Love how open you are to all music.
YOU GO GIRL!!! Excellent Taste!!!
Her reactions are priceless. I love playing this bass line to the CD. If the doors of perception are cleansed all will appear to man as it is: Infinite.
That was Elvis' Bassist, on this track.
@@calebclunie4001 I never knew that. Thank you.
@@calebclunie4001 - Yep. Jerry Scheff of Elvis' TCB Band. The Doors brought him in to play on the whole album.
"The future is uncertain...
The End is always near ... 🖤 🇺🇸
-----JDM-----
Jim Morrison is referring to Los Angeles as a woman.
Yeah, kind of pretentious, right? Not one of my favorites by them. My favorites are: Hello, I Love You, Love Her Madly, Riders On The Storm, Break On Through, Alabama Song, the Unknown Soldier, and of course Light My Fire, I feel, is their greatest achievement of all.
@@anonyarena Pretentious?
@@anonyarena Why pretentious? Comparing a place to a woman is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
@@TheJinjo75 Because, that's what the word "pretentious" means. To use and re-use an old trick from the book. Fake stuff. A cliche'. Not original. Lazy writing. I like other Doors songs better because he wrote more meaningful lyrics in other songs. Comparing a city to a woman. Ugh. Makes me snore. He wrote some way better songs. And The Doors group wrote better music in other songs. This one's just jamming on one chord through most of it.
@@anonyarena That's not what pretentious means. You might want to check a dictionary. Morrison was super pretentious sometimes. L A Woman is not one of those. This is just a basic metaphor used by many before him and many after him.
One of the most amazing things about the doors was the keyboardist Ray manzarek. He played the bass line and also the piano line at the same time. There was no actual bass guitar player. Truly talented.
Ray did that. Yes, but not on this track. That's actually Elvis' Bassist, straight in from Las Vegas.
RIP IN HEAVEN
Incorrect. For this album they did use a bass guitar player. Think his name was Jerry Scheff. Also played bass for Elvis. And they used another guy to play rhythm guitar to compliment Robbie Krieger's lead.
@@calebclunie4001 used him on other songs as well,like Riders on the Storm. Think he played on the whole album
And they used a bass guitar on Soul Kitchen. Probably some other songs on other albums as well.
One of My All Time favorites... Was Young but hanging out back then... Total experience.
Always loved this song, such a great groove to it, I've watched a video of the keyboard player Ray Manzaric who said the record producers used to wake Him Morrison up after a few hours of sleep to get his rich vocal tones, True story!
The song always sounded like Jim had way too much to drink but I love it
Haven't even watched it yet and I can already say I'm going TO LOVE your reaction to this song. 😁😁😁
Get ready to rock the f out lady. Thanks. This will be good
Billy Idol has a terrific cover of this one, that's how I first heard of this song.
India, you nailed the meaning of this song right away. Nice work!
The Doors are my favorite 60s group.
Great, fantastic super song and hit with the brilliant Lizard King Jim Morrison!!! That`s MUSIC!!!
I love it when people jam to what I've been jamming to for decades.
Whatever Jim wanted he got. Even immortality. I'm not sure he wanted that though.
My favorite - The Doors!
Loved how Jim reworked his name to mr mojorison😂💙 !!
"The hills are filled with fire". The hills surrounding Los Angeles burn pretty much every year in one spot or another. Lots of dry grass, especially if there's a lot of rain in the spring. Recording fun: Morrison recorded the vocals for this sitting on a toilet - he liked the acoustics in the bathroom of the recording studio. :D
Also, the LA riots
Yes and I think the album was recorded live in the studio. Not piece by piece or instrument by instrument.
A few musicians did that same thing.
Also his love Pamela had fire red hair.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with your interpretation, but I’ve always envisioned the San Gabriel mountains, at dusk, with the setting western sun over the pacific emblazoned on the hills..
Just my opinion..
The picture of the 3 people. Jim Morrison of the doors, Jimmie Hendrick, and Janice Joplin, all dead by the age of 27. It was a sad time for great artist.
steven F The 27 Club.Sad indeed
at 27 Brian Jones got there first ...
@@airmark02 A blue musician Robert Johnson 1938 was the first. He was just noticed later.
@@stevenf1953 yes ~
he was at the
Crossroads 😇
Followed by Cobain and Winehouse
Crystal Ship, Riders On The Storm, Waiting For The Sun, The End, Not To Touch The Earth.... These are some of the many great DOORS songs.
City of lights Is Las Vegas !! When Jim Passed away we Lost out Major Time....I Love The Doors...Hes Really Deep...😉❤🎶🎵🎼💚💙💔
The City of Lights is Paris. Pam would not be a lucky little lady, instead another lost angel in LA.
II always considered "People are Strange" as Morrison's self portrait.
His observation of the Sunset Strip/L.A. scene as a whole
Great job on one of my favorite Doors song, not sure if you ever heard Wild Child but thats a great one too ,that most people have forgotten about probably, since its never hear on the radio anymore
Any thing from the doors is worth a listen.
Good on you, India. I love your reactions. You're real. 👍
You are spot on with this song. It takes you for a ride. Especially when he goes riding in the motel !!
Hows it feel witnessing the greatest song of all time
Yes!, LA the city l love and live in💖 I'm a true Angelina at heart, l've lived here all my life and I suppose I'll die here👍🥰
Check out "BACK DOOR MAN" and "GLORIA (dirty version)" by The Doors.
And The End
"Hills are filled with Fire" is literal because California and Los Angeles have yearly summer fires due to droughts.
lately they have been due to weather weapons ,who knows maybe they were just practicing back then too ruclips.net/video/kLQ9y4msiG4/видео.html
Jim was a literary genius. "Mr. Mojo rising", take all those letters it spells jim Morrison
He also had a gift for melody too. He talked of hearing those songs inside of his head before implementing them with the band. What a gift
what a tune.....😀👍 brilliant
Am really happy to have headphones on listening to YOU and this song
Also, your facial expressions are adorable
People who grew up with and was related to jim said he was actually a nice, calm, quiet, and conservative person but adopted himself a wild crazy radical persona to sell to the kids.
You should for real make a playlist with all songs you've reacted to on like Spotify! I'd follow it!
I love your reaction to this song.
Jim Morrison is a fantastic poet and one hell of a showman on stage.
Great driving music... I put this on when I'm driving, it just makes me wanna roll down the windows and crank up the tunes.
I rate " The Changeling." Another song off the L.A.Woman Lp. A close 2nd, right behind L.A.Woman.
If you like this one and wanna hear more,
give " The Changeling." A listen.
Love your reaction....I can tell you got into it.
In a previous Teenage
Life this was my song before I hit the Town on a Friday night!!..
A Spliff or two and a few lines of Amphetamine Sulphate!!
It was many Decades ago and I survived it, I'm a Grandfather now! But still
Love this song, brings back so many memories!!!..
Love The Doors
Hell of a video ma'am love the doors just got my Jim Morrison tattoo
Ray Manzarek keyboard play is genius who wrote the music, went on to producer, film director, author. He lived in the greater Seattle area, like Jimi Hendrix.
Ode to my city. Love this song. Thank you India!
The city is the woman, the woman is the city. Lots of imagery in the lyrics:"I see your hair is burnin";"midnight alleys roam". Excellent changes of pace, intro, outro. Like 3 songs in one. Overall an outstanding rock n roll recording.
He sees her hair is burning. Could he mean the auburn colored hair of his girlfriend Pam?
@@tsgosser "Hills are filled with fire" the high points in her hair were brilliant. The key to the album is in the song Cars Hiss By My Window, sonic-boom.
"Lost souls', "Toxic life", you got it, babe.
Jim was one of the best at merging slick studio production with the raw energy of a live performance. He goes off!! "YEAH!! WOO!! COME ON!! LETS GO, WOO COME ON!!"
Another great choice young lady. I hope you're having a good day today.
"Mr Mojo Risin" is an anagram of Jim Morrison. Mojo is slang for libido (and its physical manifestation). That portion of the song, with its rhythmic repetition increasing in tempo and ending in a scream is Morrison having sex with his LA woman. And yes, his LA woman is a metaphor for Los Angeles itself.
Alexander Walter Exactly what I read about this song!
this album came out in the same year that I graduated...1971. I remember putting in my 8 track player in my car and just driving along the shore drive in Stone Harbor, NJ the week I graduated. It was idyllic...
Haha! I bought this the year I graduated...1988. I remember putting it in my cassette player in my car and driving down Lake Shore Drive in Chicago looking at apartments. Lake Michigan sparkling under the summer sun on one side and the city on the other. Such good times! Funny how our stories are so similar yet almost two decades apart.
Awesome song it never gets old
That be some chair-dancin' music!
Do "Not To Touch The Earth" by The Doors, please. This is the most incredible song I've ever heard
Great 👍 recitation keep up the good work
Buah n esperaba esto.. ❤️
Hi India! I'm a huge Doors fan. The Doors are easily one of my top 3 bands of all time. If I may suggest "The Crystal Ship", "Spanish Caravan", "Not To Touch The Earth", just to name a few. I hope your audience agrees. Love this channel ✌🏽
“ let’s change the mood from sad to gladness- “ Jim Morrison” think about that today in 2020, advice for america
It was actually "from glad to sadness". Someone in a doc said he thought it was about the general change in the mood of L.A.after the Manson murders."Motel murder bit of madness"
Gotta love that Fender Rhodes for the bass lines.
Jim Morrison was a poet. His lyrics was way ahead of his time. RIP mate. Gone but never forgotten.
☆▪☆▪☆ The Doors ✌😎 ☆▪☆▪☆
Let the Lizard King do the talking 😉🎙
One thing with Jim he was a poet first then a Rockstar ☆
Jim Morrison is Mr. Mojo Risin
( A little word letter play )
The Doors my favorite band ever since the day I was riding with my sister & her boyfriend and Riders On The Storm came on the radio as we were driving through the beautiful mountains of New Hampshire on a rainy Summers day ( A Perfect time & place to hear that amazing song )
Rock-on music lovers !
Love the Doors....Check out Crawling Kingsnake..the Crystal Ship..Been Down so Long...Soul Kitchen...The Unknown Soldier...So many songs!!
A classic album for sure
Doors are just so damn good!!
Loved shooting Pool, to this song was epic. Loved power in Jim Morrison's voice. Instruments were magic and drew you in.... ahead of their time, Absolutely.
Really need some live Doors. They don't seem to do much, but the drama is in the sound and the poise. And the poetry.
the picture at 2min 40 seconds is Jim Morrison with Janis Joplin (must do Janis please, Ball and Chain live) if you haven't already, and Jimi Hendrix,
The Lizard King!
Billy Idol did a cover that, by comparison, was just flat. The song is perfection...
Robby's guitar, Ray's keys, and Jim. Dear lord, Jim just wailing! It's incomparable. This was a moment in time that can't be approached.
One of my faves.
Although dark, his lyrics were pretty damn brilliant. He was a great writer and artist.
you should react to one of the tracks on "an american prayer", maybe 'ghost song'.. some of those tracks bleed into the following tracks, hard to pick a start point in the middle of it, lol... "an american prayer" by jim morrison & the doors
I love the Doors music. They have lots more for you to react too. Try Break on Through and Love Her Madly.
Your reaction...so cute !!!
Loved the moment ~7:03 min mark when she finally got it and started to dance like the 60's. Fun
I heard they did this in one take. If true...amazing
Driving, a woman by your side, beer, the Doors music
The lyric "city of night" is a reference to the groundbreaking 1963 LGBTQ novel CITY OF NIGHT by John Rechy, which was written in a stream of consciousness narrative style (of which Morrison was a fan).
The Mosquito song of Full circle is a masterwork forgetted
Be sure to check out Strange Days -You're Lost Little Girl-,People Are Strange-Ship Of Fools
Keep up the good work.There is so much great music out there
After 50 years, I still don't get the lyrics exactly, but, the Doors music never gets old.
Jim is referring to L.A. as a woman.
Good song by them!
DO NOT. I repeat DO NOT get into a car and then put this song on. This has led me, directly, to two speeding tickets, one for 117 in a 65. It should come with a warning label. ⚠️
"MOJO RISING" Every morning between starting the coffee and waiting for it to finish brewing.
🇦🇷🇦🇷❣️❣️i love The Doors!!! Love Morrison ♥️
When I was a kid growing up in the 60s the "old music" really sounded like old music, "Tea for Two" and "Bicycle Built for Two"- corny stuff. Nowadays the "old music" is The Doors rocking out "LA Woman". You kids don't know how lucky you have it - I can't imagine anyone thinking of this stuff as corny lol!
"You know they are a liar!" sound so playground, but so right.
One the the very few examples in the rock era where a group's last album was possibly their best. The only other groups on this list- The Beatles and the Police.