The organ player is Ray Manzarek, sometimes the band would bring a real bass with a session musician but usually Ray would play the bassline with his left hand and the organ chords in his right. Real impressive stuff
Agreed! Maybe my favourite thing is that he still reacts to a wide variety of interesting music. So many chill channels that started out like this just switched to mostly reacting to popular hiphop / rap music, because that's what brings in the views - I listen to quite a lot of hiphop / rap myself, but there is an oversaturation of reactions to it, so I really appreciate Smags for what he does.
A girl I liked was really into The Doors, so I dove into their music to see what they were about. Years later and that girl is a distant memory, but I still have the music of The Doors to enjoy.
"Little girl" is just another word for woman. That was the accepted translation back then. There's a 38 Special song called "Caught Up In You" and everyone always thinks he's talking about his child and thinks it's sweet because he keeps calling her little girl. If you watch the music video it's just some dude chasing a grown ass woman at a bar the whole time. And that was released in 1982.
Also, the lyrics are based off a German poem about prostitutes who are addicted to alcohol, and in it, they say they want to go to the next little boy, so Morrison switched it.
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs 🔥 He's an incredible artist with a diverse, one of a kind sound. There's decades of music to explore as well! Don't forget about this one, my duu. 😄
Back in the old day. A back doorman is someone who left through the backdoor literally. When the lady's husband came back from work or whatever. For the clarification
Oh yeah this gonna be good!! The Doors deffenintly one of my favorite bands of all time, i can't spell rn. I was just listening to them lastnight so perfect timing smags.
This is the first time I've heard the restored lyrics. The edited version, which is the one I've always heard, deletes the F bombs and kills on The End, and "she gets high" on Break on Through.
Alabama Song a version of the German poem written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny.
Some context surrounding this era. This album should be appreciated because it is a reflection of the time period that killed the hippies. The hippies before the late 60s were preaching love, unity, peace and did their psychedelics but the Doors offered a much darker, moodier, and chaotic atmosphere to this psychedelic era. They represented an era where in the public eye the hippie movement was looking less and less like the Grateful Dead tie dye and more like the Manson Family. You can see this change with the bands coming after the Doors being Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple etc
Great reaction, very honest & insightful commentary. The Kinks - Village Green, The Band - The Band The Beatles - Revolver The Who - Tommy Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
😂 calling grown-ass women “little girl” or even “child” was very common for artists from that era, especially because they were likely to be influenced by older black blues artists, and that was very much a part of their vocabulary.
It's the same thing as calling someone "baby". I mean, they still use the word 'baby' nowadays, don't they? I don't know, I don't listen much to new music anymore, because it mostly sucks.
@@mondegreen9709 oh, yeah. I don’t know why people that seem to have a problem with “little girl” or “child” wouldn’t have a problem with “baby.” In fact, today’s female artists use “boy” at times, which carries essentially the same diss-like quality of “little girl” or “child.”
This song Screams 'Psyedelics' They were strange wonderful times!! But the dream, life and stuff, we forget our youth and possibly the hopes we had?!!!...
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon And Garfunkel is an amazing 60s classic. Beautiful folk songs and probably the only instance of a live audience clapping in tune with the music..
"Jim was a bit of an odd duck" is an understatement. Dude was wild-ass weird. Read the biography "No One Here Gets Out Alive." Definitely 60s psychedelia, and Jim had some issues, delved into deeply in the bio. But they did make some awesome music together.
Another fire pick from the Smags man!! Please do Funhouse by The Stooges! Another classic and game changing rock album from around that time that still sounds incredible!
Unfortunately I have them on my mind today because of the lead singer Damo Suzuki's passing, but you should definitely check out Future Days and/or Tago Mago by CAN.
Wow. I didn't realize Damo was first diagnosed with cancer at 33. He lived so much longer than he could've considering his dad died of the same thing when he was only 5.
also, back when the album was written, "backdoor man" was a reference to a married housewife having an affair. the husband goes out the front door and off to work, and the secret other suitor comes in the backdoor to try to hide from the nosey neighbors.
Two classics in a row, nice I don't think i've seen much jazz on this channel so i really recommend listening to either The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus or Karma by Pharoah Sanders, both masterpieces from the 60s!
My favourite 60s albums I would recommend The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire Love - Forever Changes Ultimate Spinach - Behold & See Frank Zappa - Hot Rats The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
You get a million recommendations but Santana’s debut self titled record is well worth it. They blended the 60s psychedelic sound with latin music like mambo and salsa. The result is unique and fucking insane. Theres a reason Carlos Santana is one of the greatest guitarists of all time and their Woodstock performance is legendary
Sup Smags, actually wanted to come on and thank you for your Elliott Smith self titled review you did. I commented on that video saying I had never listened to him and that I’d check him out, now that album is one of only two (the other being silent alarm, obviously) that I regard as 10/10’s. So yeah, thanks for getting me hooked on that record. Don’t have an album recommendation but I wanted to recommend that you check out the song “Skeleton” by Bloc Party, I think you’d enjoy it!
One of the greatest albums ever made and you need to hit Strange Days and L.A. Woman. The Doors are an excellent band probably one of the first early gothic rock type band
If you lived through this era it probably makes a whole lot more sense, cuz it's a whole vibe, but at least you appreciate the art of the ride. Thanks for the trip.
Love the competence with which you edit your vids. I just discovered you bc of LZ I that just dropped and seen a few others since, but yeah: you capture it seems the essence of the diff. parts of a song. SOme who do this kind of editing just end up making it look choppy, missing key transitions, etc. Anyhow, great job. AND you have a great "Radio Voice" or whatever, lol! OH yeah -- glad u liked the Doors, lol! Like Zeppelin, they are one of the best late 60's - 70's bands!
Rough, raw, psychedelic, blues, jazz. You nailed your guess on Break on Through, Manzarek said its about taking a trip to the other side, not of living or dying, bt to another dimension
Love The Doors hah. I'm probably annoying you with the Violent Femmes recommendations (but I reaaaaally want it, you know hah), so here's another one: The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers. Such a great album. Richey put his soul into this album, some of the most intelligent and soul crushing lyrics you'll ever read Shortly after the release, Richey was reported missing, yes, missing, and to this day we don't know if he's alive or not
Love the Doors! Great review man You should listen to Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane. If there’s an album that perfectly represents 1967, it’s this one IMO.
Yeah brother, thats what i'm talking about. One of dylans 60s albums would be fun because then you would be seeing just about every espect of the 60s. Rock, folk, and pop
The End is definitely one of my favourite songs of all time. Hearing it for the first time at the end of the movie Apocalypse Now was an incredible experience. You should check out Heavy Rocks (2002) by Boris - less drone and more noise rock - my personal favourite from them!
8:42 Of all The Doors songs and all of Morrison's antics "Alabama Song," should have been the most controversial to release on a debut album. It was a song written by Bertolt Brecht and composed by Kurt Weill in the interwar period of WWI and WWII. Don't want to write more (because my comment will be deleted) but the original song is about a desire and act that most people even now find abhorrent.
Yooooo this one’s a classic Would LOVE a reaction to Bocanada by Gustavo Cerati, former singer of Argentinian rock band Soda Stereo. Super cool and vibey 90s rock with tons of eclectic influences from hip-hop, reggae, folk and electronic, plus he’s a ridiculously good singer
Bro, every time I look at this album cover I always think about how fucking hot Jim Morrison is. Looks like he’s mewing lowk, looksmaxxing 60 years before it was a trend
Day 2 of Asking for a Grateful Dead reaction. Recommendations: Albums: -Wake of the Flood -Workingman's Dead -American Beauty -Aoxomoxoa Live(Way better but too long to review a full 3 hour show) -Cornel '77: Scarlet Begonias and Fire in the Mountain -Anything from Europe '72(Its only an hour 50 so maybe you could review the whole thing).
The organ player is Ray Manzarek, sometimes the band would bring a real bass with a session musician but usually Ray would play the bassline with his left hand and the organ chords in his right. Real impressive stuff
This channel is honestly a hidden gem, been watching for a while and your probably my favorite reaction channel on yt. Keep it up and much love.
I like that it's a dude on a coach in a hoodie with a blind behind him. All the other TRY SO HARD. Too hard.
yeah definitely deserves more subs 😅
Agreed! Maybe my favourite thing is that he still reacts to a wide variety of interesting music. So many chill channels that started out like this just switched to mostly reacting to popular hiphop / rap music, because that's what brings in the views - I listen to quite a lot of hiphop / rap myself, but there is an oversaturation of reactions to it, so I really appreciate Smags for what he does.
True dat!!!
Frrr
A girl I liked was really into The Doors, so I dove into their music to see what they were about. Years later and that girl is a distant memory, but I still have the music of The Doors to enjoy.
"The End" is most famous for its use in the climax of "Apocalypse Now", which is a film you really should watch if you've never seen it.
"Little girl" is just another word for woman. That was the accepted translation back then. There's a 38 Special song called "Caught Up In You" and everyone always thinks he's talking about his child and thinks it's sweet because he keeps calling her little girl. If you watch the music video it's just some dude chasing a grown ass woman at a bar the whole time. And that was released in 1982.
Dude, u saved me a post. You are right on. Little girl, Beatles,Stones,Led Zeppelin, Doors on and on.
Still sounds a bit predatory but apparently the little girls understand 🤔
Also, the lyrics are based off a German poem about prostitutes who are addicted to alcohol, and in it, they say they want to go to the next little boy, so Morrison switched it.
The End is one of the greatest songs of all time imo, glad you checked this out.
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs 🔥
He's an incredible artist with a diverse, one of a kind sound. There's decades of music to explore as well! Don't forget about this one, my duu. 😄
One of the greatest bands ever. glad you’re stoked on this!
White light/white heat by The Velvet Underground next, plz keep the 60s classics going 🙏🙏🙏
Such an incredibly influential album. Noise rock long before the term even existed
i second with this!
I wanna see his reaction to THE song
@@sgt.boneface7467Sister Ray
Back in the old day. A back doorman is someone who left through the backdoor literally. When the lady's husband came back from work or whatever.
For the clarification
"The little girls understand," refers to the mother telling her children "He's just here to fix the air conditioner."
Actually incorrect. Research Pamela Courson and her realtionship with Jim 😮🙏 😅
One of my all time favourites! Such an inimitable atmosphere. Feel like following this up with some Tom Waits would be perfect
I am SOOOO depressed that I listen to Tom Waits to cheer me up. lol
Oh yeah this gonna be good!! The Doors deffenintly one of my favorite bands of all time, i can't spell rn. I was just listening to them lastnight so perfect timing smags.
This is the first time I've heard the restored lyrics. The edited version, which is the one I've always heard, deletes the F bombs and kills on The End, and "she gets high" on Break on Through.
She get high!! She get high!!
Are you Buechele from Fullerton?
@@douga91965 Nope
@@MikeBuechele OK, no problem. I played some ball w/ the Buechele boys from there. Semi- famous dudes.
Alabama Song a version of the German poem written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny.
2 classics in a row??? Let's gooo 🌀🔥🫧💤🫂🪥🤝
Many psychedelics taken to this album lol
great reaction bro I always loved their organ inclusion in their music. Great band and album.
Some context surrounding this era. This album should be appreciated because it is a reflection of the time period that killed the hippies. The hippies before the late 60s were preaching love, unity, peace and did their psychedelics but the Doors offered a much darker, moodier, and chaotic atmosphere to this psychedelic era. They represented an era where in the public eye the hippie movement was looking less and less like the Grateful Dead tie dye and more like the Manson Family. You can see this change with the bands coming after the Doors being Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple etc
Ive never loved this album as a whole but Light My Fire is such an all time banger its crazy
A Back Door Man is a common blues theme. He's the other man, the man the woman is having an affair with: sneaks in and out of the back door.
Great reaction, very honest & insightful commentary.
The Kinks - Village Green,
The Band - The Band
The Beatles - Revolver
The Who - Tommy
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
😂 calling grown-ass women “little girl” or even “child” was very common for artists from that era, especially because they were likely to be influenced by older black blues artists, and that was very much a part of their vocabulary.
It's the same thing as calling someone "baby". I mean, they still use the word 'baby' nowadays, don't they? I don't know, I don't listen much to new music anymore, because it mostly sucks.
@@mondegreen9709 oh, yeah. I don’t know why people that seem to have a problem with “little girl” or “child” wouldn’t have a problem with “baby.”
In fact, today’s female artists use “boy” at times, which carries essentially the same diss-like quality of “little girl” or “child.”
also the fact the original song was written back in the 1930s
This song Screams 'Psyedelics'
They were strange wonderful times!!
But the dream, life and stuff, we forget our youth and possibly the hopes we had?!!!...
"I like chicken and beans" HAHAHAHAHAHHAHHA!
This is one of my favorite albums ever I never thought you would review it
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon And Garfunkel is an amazing 60s classic. Beautiful folk songs and probably the only instance of a live audience clapping in tune with the music..
Still a great album. I'd suggest Forever Changes by Love as an essential 60s listen.
'Love ' possibly my greatest ever favourite!
Have tickets to see Johnny Echols with his band in London this summer!
It's gonna be a Vibe!!!....
"Jim was a bit of an odd duck" is an understatement. Dude was wild-ass weird. Read the biography "No One Here Gets Out Alive."
Definitely 60s psychedelia, and Jim had some issues, delved into deeply in the bio. But they did make some awesome music together.
I'm loving all these recent reviews man, I appreciate your efforts! My rec is Bee Thousand by Guided by Voices, one of my all time faves
fugazi- repeater reaction!!!!!!
Hell yes!! I second this
bro i’ve been watching your stuff latley and i’ve been obsessed. def my fav reactor 🙏 keep it up
Another fire pick from the Smags man!! Please do Funhouse by The Stooges! Another classic and game changing rock album from around that time that still sounds incredible!
I think you’ll really like The Doors song, Riders on the Storm. Very chill, atmospheric tune. Thanks for posting!
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Unfortunately I have them on my mind today because of the lead singer Damo Suzuki's passing, but you should definitely check out Future Days and/or Tago Mago by CAN.
Wow. I didn't realize Damo was first diagnosed with cancer at 33. He lived so much longer than he could've considering his dad died of the same thing when he was only 5.
white light white heat velvet underground
Alabama Song was a cover of some old timey song from the 1920s. Originally in German, i think.
also, back when the album was written, "backdoor man" was a reference to a married housewife having an affair.
the husband goes out the front door and off to work, and the secret other suitor comes in the backdoor to try to hide from the nosey neighbors.
Two classics in a row, nice
I don't think i've seen much jazz on this channel so i really recommend listening to either The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus or Karma by Pharoah Sanders, both masterpieces from the 60s!
Thank you for bringing all these art albums
More of the Doors !
Little girl was slang for females(usually in blues music) like shorty or little momma is modern slang for females.
My favourite 60s albums I would recommend
The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
Love - Forever Changes
Ultimate Spinach - Behold & See
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
You get a million recommendations but Santana’s debut self titled record is well worth it. They blended the 60s psychedelic sound with latin music like mambo and salsa. The result is unique and fucking insane. Theres a reason Carlos Santana is one of the greatest guitarists of all time and their Woodstock performance is legendary
GOATED. LOVING U REVIEWING THE OLD CLASSICS. DO SOME BEATLES BRO
The End partly based on Oedipus Rex.
And the blue busses in California…
1000% listen to the kinks next, one of the best 60s/70s bands ever
Continue with classicsssss you should do Funhouse by The Stooges, so raw and an obvious precursor to punk music
Bet you’d LOVE their song Riders on the Storm
I would give up my liver to u for Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness By Smashing Pumpkins. MY WHOLE LIVER WILL BE YOURS.
omg yess, been waiting for that one, great video keep it up!! Would love to see you reaction to Revolver by The Beatles
Please, when you get a chance listen to Marvin Gaye’s "Whats Going On”. It’s an essential album.
The Doors are out here basically inventing proto- dream pop with The Crystal Ship!
Sup Smags, actually wanted to come on and thank you for your Elliott Smith self titled review you did. I commented on that video saying I had never listened to him and that I’d check him out, now that album is one of only two (the other being silent alarm, obviously) that I regard as 10/10’s. So yeah, thanks for getting me hooked on that record. Don’t have an album recommendation but I wanted to recommend that you check out the song “Skeleton” by Bloc Party, I think you’d enjoy it!
Please bro react to their album LA Woman next. You’ll fall in love fr. Morrison is one of the most poetic lyricists of all time
One of the greatest albums ever made and you need to hit Strange Days and L.A. Woman. The Doors are an excellent band probably one of the first early gothic rock type band
10:26 Brecht wasn't looking for "little girls."
Fire psychedelic rock album
If you lived through this era it probably makes a whole lot more sense, cuz it's a whole vibe, but at least you appreciate the art of the ride. Thanks for the trip.
Love the competence with which you edit your vids. I just discovered you bc of LZ I that just dropped and seen a few others since, but yeah: you capture it seems the essence of the diff. parts of a song. SOme who do this kind of editing just end up making it look choppy, missing key transitions, etc. Anyhow, great job. AND you have a great "Radio Voice" or whatever, lol! OH yeah -- glad u liked the Doors, lol! Like Zeppelin, they are one of the best late 60's - 70's bands!
HELL YEAH , one of my favorite albums ever! thank you!
10:37 It's German Cabaret.
Another 60’s classic I think you might like would be The Stooges’ debut album, it’s so raw and gritty, I love it :)
Blackstar, Bowie 2016
Rough, raw, psychedelic, blues, jazz. You nailed your guess on Break on Through, Manzarek said its about taking a trip to the other side, not of living or dying, bt to another dimension
this is epic but LA Woman is the sexiest thing
please check out This is Happening by lcd soundsystem and Ys by joanna newsom
do white light white heat by velvet underground ,utter batshit followup to their debut
Love The Doors hah. I'm probably annoying you with the Violent Femmes recommendations (but I reaaaaally want it, you know hah), so here's another one:
The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers. Such a great album. Richey put his soul into this album, some of the most intelligent and soul crushing lyrics you'll ever read
Shortly after the release, Richey was reported missing, yes, missing, and to this day we don't know if he's alive or not
My mom loves the doors, so this will forever be "mom's album" to me lol
I love this album, but Strange Days is my all time favorite.
L.A. Woman is a must at some point! Keep the classics coming
Love the Doors! Great review man
You should listen to Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane. If there’s an album that perfectly represents 1967, it’s this one IMO.
Yeah brother, thats what i'm talking about. One of dylans 60s albums would be fun because then you would be seeing just about every espect of the 60s. Rock, folk, and pop
Jim btw
Some of my friends would skip school, get high in their treehouse, and listen to this LP. Rinse and repeat. 🤩😵💫🤤
React to T.Rex - Electric Warrior
The End is definitely one of my favourite songs of all time. Hearing it for the first time at the end of the movie Apocalypse Now was an incredible experience. You should check out Heavy Rocks (2002) by Boris - less drone and more noise rock - my personal favourite from them!
some recommendations
The Stranger - Billy Joel
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
The Glowing Man - Swans
The Seer - Swans
Blackstar - David Bowie
I suggest Freak Out by the Mothers of Invention
YES AGAIN‼️
yes i love this album!
you should listen to substance by new order -- they're the band that formed after joy division!
Bothe the HIGH part in Break on Trough and the FUCKS in The End are not the original releases.
Love your stuff and the genuine interest you show in your reactions dude. Would love to see your thoughts m83- hurry up we’re dreaming
This album is a masterpiece
I would love for you to do more 60s album
8:42 Of all The Doors songs and all of Morrison's antics "Alabama Song," should have been the most controversial to release on a debut album. It was a song written by Bertolt Brecht and composed by Kurt Weill in the interwar period of WWI and WWII. Don't want to write more (because my comment will be deleted) but the original song is about a desire and act that most people even now find abhorrent.
Listen to their song, "LA Woman."
Love the Doors! Another great listen by the Doors is L.A. Woman.
Yooooo this one’s a classic
Would LOVE a reaction to Bocanada by Gustavo Cerati, former singer of Argentinian rock band Soda Stereo. Super cool and vibey 90s rock with tons of eclectic influences from hip-hop, reggae, folk and electronic, plus he’s a ridiculously good singer
Band on the run and Ram by Paul Mccartney
I don't see how this comment wasn't liked yet. Those are classic albums 🔥
Yo Smags, if you are going thru a classics era, you’ve gotta check out Aja by Steely Dan
Bro, every time I look at this album cover I always think about how fucking hot Jim Morrison is.
Looks like he’s mewing lowk, looksmaxxing 60 years before it was a trend
that organ on Light My Fire goddamnit
OHHH HELL YEAH. FINALLY DUDE AFAYAVSGSBWDBDB, LOVE YOU MAN, THANKS FOR YOUR REACTION TO MY FAVOURITE BAND EVER BRO
HYPE AS FUCK FOR THIS ONE‼️‼️‼️
Joni Mitchell Blue? 😳😳😳😳💙💙💙💙😭😭😭😭😭😭
Day 38 of asking Smags to listen to:
Portishead - Third
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
Day 2 of Asking for a Grateful Dead reaction.
Recommendations:
Albums:
-Wake of the Flood
-Workingman's Dead
-American Beauty
-Aoxomoxoa
Live(Way better but too long to review a full 3 hour show)
-Cornel '77: Scarlet Begonias and Fire in the Mountain
-Anything from Europe '72(Its only an hour 50 so maybe you could review the whole thing).
9:42 don't ask why.
Keeping with the theme, Deep Purple’s self titled album is my favorite of this genre
Sorry I'm 9 hours late. Really long day. By the way their second album"strange days" is probably one of my top 10 albums from the 60s
take those ears and listen to brian eno ambient 1: music for airports.
If you're doing classics could we please get Abbey Road by The Beatles? :3
Thanks for being the most consistent in the game STILL