My favorite was when he was high as shit, in an interview, describing the elevator at the hotel. "It was like a... Victorian rocketship...". Lol, Jim certainly had a way with words...
mmmmmmmm.... yes, "killer on the road, his brain is squirming like a toad" it takes a true poet to pull that one out the ether of ones LSD soaked mind. But yes I like the man.
Yes. 'Neon groves refers to the endless rows of street lighting, which back then was neon lamps, and for all I know probably still is today. Nothing to with drug taking as Lex too often jumps to that conclusion. And JM's drug was alcohol, which killed him in the end (no pun intended). I don' t know about acid.
1967 Brad & Lex. Jim wrote the lyrics as a tribute to a soul food restaurant Olivia's in Venice Beach CA that he loved. Because he often stayed too late, the staff would have to kick him out, thus the lines "let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen". But as you said with poetry & metaphors, interpretation can be up to the listener.
Yes I ate there too ....cheap food and big servings. Great for the bohemian poor and artsy hippie underclass, rubbin' elbows with the semi-homeless...stumbling out stoned into the neon rain...1967..
Inspired by Olivia's, a soul food diner that was in Venice Beach and frequented by Morrison and the other Doors. During the period when Morrison write his first songs, he was temporarily homeless and lived on the roof of an apartment building in Venice, tripping frequently on LSD. The "neon grove" is the neon signs of LA -most buildings and businesses used neon lights at that time. As time goes on, some of The Doors' songs age a bit lyrically as they reveal the time in which they were written. Another example is the line "Gazing on the city under television skies" from My Eyes Have Seen You. When Morrison lived on the rooftop, he could see lots of buildings and houses with TV antennas sticking out on top, which was how people got their TV signal in those pre-cable days.
From this song, "Your fingers weave quick menarets (steeples) Speaking secret alphabets..." This song is about a place he really knows. The owner, or somebody, is deaf, speaks in sign.
The doors catalog is very vintage very nostalgic. Lex said it best, she said their lyrics are trippy. But their singer jim Morrison is consider one of the finest poets of the 20th century according to mag reviews. You should do riders on the storm by the doors. I'm sure you've heard snippets of that song
all of the doors albums hit the top 5. door tribute bands are great to see and cheap in price Just to hear a guitarist imitate Robbie K is an amazing night
You might find Doors song "Not To Touch The Earth" interesting. It is a mega psychedelic song , lively heavy, and with Morrison intensely singing lyrics for part of it. A change from some of the more laid back Doors tunes.
I think it just means company, or presence. not like actual body parts lol. Taking everything too figuratively, and literally in this channel, lol. Not everything has double meanings.
Brad, let the music take you on a journey. Less focus and more feeling. Also, not every song is about, or influenced by drugs, just very creative people painting pictures with lyrics and sound. Lex listens to music the way it should be listened to....she lets it take her away! Some if the places she goes are quite trippy and I don't believe she's on anything. I always look forward to her wacky thoughts....so cool
Funny how “square” (old terminology) Brad is. He looks at everything so fundamentally (2+2=4. Algebra what’s that?) and sometimes he’s got it right as he did on this. It was s kitchen (Olivia’s in Venice)
The Doors have such an unusual sound, no band has ever really sounded like them since. Lot of the time its the lack of a traditional Bass Guitar sound. The "Bass" is often provided by the Organ on their tracks. Specially true if you ever listen to a live performance, where there is nobody playing Bass at all (in the Studio they would sometimes bring in a Bass player for the recordings)
If you ever wondered what it was like to be young and homeless in mid-1960s Los Angeles, this song gives the vibe. Morrison lived either couch-surfing with a few pals or on a rooftop of an apartment building in Venice Beach, his diet mostly consisting of cans of Van de Kamp beans and LSD. He wrote almost all of his most famous songs - including this one - on that rooftop.
Fun fact. The band "X" plays a cover of this song on their first album Los Angeles. (At about twice the tempo) Doors keyboardist Ray Manczarek also produced the first 4 X albums.
Neon groves are the lights of the city. Jim was a Raving Alcoholic Sociopath. By the time this song came out he was way beyond hallucinogenics. He was a poet lost in an alcoholic daze.
This song is about a soul food restaurant in Santa Monica, CA close to where Jim Morrison lived. He would go there often and would want to stay too late and they would have to kick him out so that they could close up.
The neon grove is a euphemism for the strip. The street in town where the nightlife is. Back in the day there was a lot of neon signs on the bars, clubs, etc.... hence the term.
Love The Doors. Great choice. I was listening to X's sonic cover of Soul Kitchen yesterday on my way to Thanksgiving dinner with extended family. Ray Manzarek (keyboardist of The Doors) loved X. He played his keyboard with X to this song (youtube has footage) and he produced three of their albums.
JIm Morrison and The Doors were a psychedelic/Rock/Blues Band. No other Band of "The Classic Rock" era (1964-about 1979) sounded like thewm. This was 1967, "The summer of Love"" Hippies, the drug scene, Flower Children. Those crazy 60s. Best music though.
Used to work in a pizza/sub/taco joint as a cook many eons ago... this whole album was played often as we were closing up for the night. Get a bit high, close the doors, throw on some music and finish off the night, usually after 5am listening to the classics. Bars here close at 4am - and the after hours bar crowd looking for that late night food fix kept us busy in that final hour of the night.
First time I noticed the opening riff resembles the one for "When the Music's Over", which I *need* you two to do. (Preferably the NYC version from "Absolutely Live". Maybe there's a lyric video just for Brad's sake, lol.)
I wasn't gonna click the Like button 'cause the song didn't do it for me, then Brad & Lex started talking about kitchens and embodiment and they got that Like! Keep up the honest entertaining reactions, you crazy kids! : )
I can’t remember the name of the soul food kitchen in Venice which this song was a reference to. It was a usual hotspot for friends before heading along to the whiskey
Soul kitchen is and still is my favorite Doors song in their large collection you guys should do Land Ho. When you listen to this song it actually feels like your on the ocean 😂🌊
I love when any time young people hear instruments in a song they go "it sounds very old school." lmao. Yes artists used to play actual instruments in their music before computers started making all the sounds you hear.
your lounge could be part of the neon groves . like hollywood blvd. trippin' or not , the neon signs were everywhere back then , almost a testiment to good business .
Funny my bedroom was a kitchen or used to be one. Had a sink in my room. My friends came over we drank smoked listen to the Doors the Who Zeppelin Van Halen in my soul kitchen. They called my room soul kitchen
What’s not to love about James Douglas Morrison? A lyrical genius. If you haven’t done so yet, watch the movie The Doors, Val Kilmer plays the part of Jim Morrison very well.
You guys slay me. Play every song on this album you’ll be doin alright. These are some of the first versus jim wrote. He was sort of a Salvador Dali of words. He painted pictures with words.
"Break on Through" is another great song by Jim M, awesome lyrics ("I found a island in your arms, a country in your eyes. But arms are chains, and eyes are lies..") He was a great poet/writer. Of course his "Light My Fire" is awesome, and i love the drums/drummer.
Jim Morrison...a poet and a beautiful man.... A lot of lyrics have 2 meanings or even more so you just take from it what it means to you. You can take it literally or more mystically. The Doors were a fantastic 60's band. R.I.P. Jim xx
The Doors recorded 6 albums with their label, Elektra. Before they can record 7th album, Jim Morrison died in 1971 in Paris. With short span of time, The Doors has influenced others. In 1993, The Doors were inducted into Rock Hall of Fame.
Moonlight Drive has a nice groove to it, Soft Parade is all over the place but it's a cool song, Riders On The Storm has some great sound effects and is one of those songs you close your eyes and mellow out to. The Doors are a deep rabbit hole!
This was The Doors nod to James Brown. If you listen to Robbie Krieger's guitar parts he's actually mimicking a James Brown horn section riff on guitar. Definitely one of their most underrated songs.
The organ playing of Ray Manzarek is what stands out as a more unusual instrument - they had no bass player so he covered it with the organ. Very mid 1960s sound. Yes, there is a lot of sexual inuendo in many Doors lyrics.
You really should listen to Riders on the storm .. it was the last song he recorded before he died and probably one of the best if not the best produced song The doors ever made...
Neon Groves = poetic way of saying city lights - which he was wandering after leaving the soul kitchen restaurant. Morrison was a poet - a real poet.
My favorite was when he was high as shit, in an interview, describing the elevator at the hotel. "It was like a... Victorian rocketship...". Lol, Jim certainly had a way with words...
Neon signs
mmmmmmmm.... yes, "killer on the road, his brain is squirming like a toad" it takes a true poet to pull that one out the ether of ones LSD soaked mind. But yes I like the man.
Yes. 'Neon groves refers to the endless rows of street lighting, which back then was neon lamps, and for all I know probably still is today. Nothing to with drug taking as Lex too often jumps to that conclusion. And JM's drug was alcohol, which killed him in the end (no pun intended). I don' t know about acid.
wow loved your analysis. learn every day
1967 Brad & Lex. Jim wrote the lyrics as a tribute to a soul food restaurant Olivia's in Venice Beach CA that he loved. Because he often stayed too late, the staff would have to kick him out, thus the lines "let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen". But as you said with poetry & metaphors, interpretation can be up to the listener.
Never knew this. So cool 😃
Thanks for the education..love learning these stories...66 and still learning..love it
Yes I ate there too ....cheap food and big servings. Great for the bohemian poor and artsy hippie underclass, rubbin' elbows with the semi-homeless...stumbling out stoned into the neon rain...1967..
Heroin and good food? I don’t blame him
Inspired by Olivia's, a soul food diner that was in Venice Beach and frequented by Morrison and the other Doors. During the period when Morrison write his first songs, he was temporarily homeless and lived on the roof of an apartment building in Venice, tripping frequently on LSD. The "neon grove" is the neon signs of LA -most buildings and businesses used neon lights at that time. As time goes on, some of The Doors' songs age a bit lyrically as they reveal the time in which they were written. Another example is the line "Gazing on the city under television skies" from My Eyes Have Seen You. When Morrison lived on the rooftop, he could see lots of buildings and houses with TV antennas sticking out on top, which was how people got their TV signal in those pre-cable days.
nice post
From this song,
"Your fingers weave quick menarets (steeples)
Speaking secret alphabets..."
This song is about a place he really knows. The owner, or somebody, is deaf, speaks in sign.
I still get my TV by antenna. Screw cable.
Make sure ya'll also check out The Doors songs: "Hello, I Love You", "Break On Through (To The Other Side)" and "Back Door Man"
Probably my favorite Doors tune, along with "Twentieth Century Fox" and "Hello I Love You"
The Doors first 2 albums are great albums in general, not really a bad song on either IMO
I feel like Love me Two Times was meant for the first album just from the distinction of the two albums.
The first 2 albums are top tier absolutely top tier, in music in general
Roadhouse Blues by the Doors is a must reaction.
✌😎
Quite a classic, it is!
I third that, do Roadhouse Blues as your next Doors reaction. Lex will love it
‘Learn to forget’. Jim Morrison was a poet. the Doors have a huge catalog and f great music. A unique sound like no other. good reaction, as always!!
The doors catalog is very vintage very nostalgic. Lex said it best, she said their lyrics are trippy. But their singer jim Morrison is consider one of the finest poets of the 20th century according to mag reviews. You should do riders on the storm by the doors. I'm sure you've heard snippets of that song
i think that was the first doors song they reacted to
Neon grove is wandering in the city where there are a lot of neon signs, hence the neon grove. Course, knowing Morrison, he could have been tripping,.
Like the sign behind her head.
You guys should keep going with the doors. Peace frog, the changeling, Your lost little girl, touch me, love street, are all great songs.
My lost little girl? hope she's fine
Also Five to one, Spanish caravan, Love her madly, Unknown soldier, The end, I could keep going.
When the musics over
all of the doors albums hit the top 5.
door tribute bands are great to see and cheap in price
Just to hear a guitarist imitate Robbie K is an amazing night
You might find Doors song "Not To Touch The Earth" interesting. It is a mega psychedelic song , lively heavy, and with Morrison intensely singing lyrics for part of it. A change from some of the more laid back Doors tunes.
Jim Morrison was a great singer and probably the coolest rockstar ever.
You guys should react to…
The Doors - Five to One
🎸🤘
My favorite…next to “Peace Frog”💜💫
Five to One, baby
One in Five
No one here gets
Out alive, now
Yes please 🙏 😍
@@frequentsee3815 - Amen and Amen 💯
You need to listen to "THE END", just to see Brads reaction! Another good one is "MOONLIGHT DRIVE ".
"In her kitchen". LOL. Lex nails it again. Her kitchen is where soul's grow!
I think it just means company, or presence. not like actual body parts lol. Taking everything too figuratively, and literally in this channel, lol. Not everything has double meanings.
@@danw3735 Jim actually told the band, when writing, to give everything a double meaning.
lol "eh... I figured he was singing about being warm in a literal kitchen"
@@danw3735apparently you don’t know much about the doors
Jim was a great poet. He could paint pictures with his words. If you are one of the lucky people, you would see the pictures.
The "neon groves" are the lights at night of all the businesses in the LA area. At least, that's how I interpret it.
Please do soft parade next u get 20 songs in one song and everything is perfect...plus it would make brads logical brain melt!!!!
Oregon and guitar in one ear, drums in the other ear and Jim's voice in both ears. Thumbs up, thanks.
It's got that Beatnik flavor to it.
Obviously mr. Morrison was reading Aldous Huxley because the doors of perception is where he got the name from and that's a book by Aldous Huxley
Brad, let the music take you on a journey. Less focus and more feeling. Also, not every song is about, or influenced by drugs, just very creative people painting pictures with lyrics and sound. Lex listens to music the way it should be listened to....she lets it take her away! Some if the places she goes are quite trippy and I don't believe she's on anything. I always look forward to her wacky thoughts....so cool
As a Doors fan for 30+ years...let's be honest...
Jim has a better than average chance of being influenced by drugs in his lyrics.
I join many commenters on giving that advice... So true, and so difficult to impose on someone like Brad.
@@jdm1066 just as much chance of him being influenced by alcohol ,he was always a boozer and part time head.
Funny how “square” (old terminology) Brad is. He looks at everything so fundamentally (2+2=4. Algebra what’s that?) and sometimes he’s got it right as he did on this. It was s kitchen (Olivia’s in Venice)
The Doors have such an unusual sound, no band has ever really sounded like them since. Lot of the time its the lack of a traditional Bass Guitar sound. The "Bass" is often provided by the Organ on their tracks. Specially true if you ever listen to a live performance, where there is nobody playing Bass at all (in the Studio they would sometimes bring in a Bass player for the recordings)
Jim Morrison was a poet, you have to understand the lyrics to understand his poetry! The music was a pleasant bonus!!!
If you ever wondered what it was like to be young and homeless in mid-1960s Los Angeles, this song gives the vibe. Morrison lived either couch-surfing with a few pals or on a rooftop of an apartment building in Venice Beach, his diet mostly consisting of cans of Van de Kamp beans and LSD. He wrote almost all of his most famous songs - including this one - on that rooftop.
Fun fact. The band "X" plays a cover of this song on their first album Los Angeles. (At about twice the tempo) Doors keyboardist Ray Manczarek also produced the first 4 X albums.
Neon groves are the lights of the city. Jim was a Raving Alcoholic Sociopath. By the time this song came out he was way beyond hallucinogenics. He was a poet lost in an alcoholic daze.
This song is about a soul food restaurant in Santa Monica, CA close to where Jim Morrison lived. He would go there often and would want to stay too late and they would have to kick him out so that they could close up.
Groovy Baby! This song sounded vintage back in the eighties too, like a very fine vintage as if wine could sing.
I was 14 when this was released those were the days! Music never dies.. ever.!
I have always thought the Door's "Crystal Ship" was very underrated.
The piano on that song is so great.
The neon grove is a euphemism for the strip. The street in town where the nightlife is. Back in the day there was a lot of neon signs on the bars, clubs, etc.... hence the term.
Drums, keys, bass, drums, we hear them all the time today
Love The Doors. Great choice. I was listening to X's sonic cover of Soul Kitchen yesterday on my way to Thanksgiving dinner with extended family. Ray Manzarek (keyboardist of The Doors) loved X. He played his keyboard with X to this song (youtube has footage) and he produced three of their albums.
The X version is fantastic. Did not immediately recognize it as The Doors classic. Too fast! Too rockabilly! Too good.
JIm Morrison and The Doors were a psychedelic/Rock/Blues Band. No other Band of "The Classic Rock" era (1964-about 1979) sounded like thewm. This was 1967, "The summer of Love"" Hippies, the drug scene, Flower Children. Those crazy 60s. Best music though.
Back in the day when these songs first came out I never tried to make sense out of them; I just went with the flow
15 year old when this came out - my favorite song!
Love the funky groove of this Doors song...and Robby Krieger does a great job with the solos! thx for sharing Brad & Lex :)
My favorite Doors song..glad you guys got to enjoy it!
The “neon groves” are the lighted streets of Los Angeles, which used to be all orange groves way back in the day.
The End, Break On Through, Not to Touch the Earth, When the Musics Over
You gotta do BACK DOOR MAN & BREAK ON THROUGH next. Same album. Then you should be ready for their epic masterpiece THE END. 🔥🔥🔥
Hey thanks guys for doing this one with the lyrics.....I've only suffered for 50 years with misheard lyrics....lol.
Used to work in a pizza/sub/taco joint as a cook many eons ago... this whole album was played often as we were closing up for the night. Get a bit high, close the doors, throw on some music and finish off the night, usually after 5am listening to the classics. Bars here close at 4am - and the after hours bar crowd looking for that late night food fix kept us busy in that final hour of the night.
First time I noticed the opening riff resembles the one for "When the Music's Over", which I *need* you two to do. (Preferably the NYC version from "Absolutely Live". Maybe there's a lyric video just for Brad's sake, lol.)
This is off their first album. Check out "the Alabama song(Whiskey bar)". Jim Morrison was a poet, so yes his lyrics get deep.
that was some poetry - cool. Try Break on Through. short but iconic.
"In her Kitchen..." Lex.. you had me howling with laughter! ROFL.. Brad.. Sometimes a Soul Kitchen is just a Kitchen!? LOL
"The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes" - LOVE that line
I love the Doors....what you guys are missing is their best song..."Riders on the Storm"!!!!
That's not even the best song on the LA Woman album
Roadhouse blues
Moonlight Drive
@@pulsarlights2825 I respectfully disagree!
Crystal ship
on the thanksgiving live stream, I typed this song about 20 times.
I wasn't gonna click the Like button 'cause the song didn't do it for me, then Brad & Lex started talking about kitchens and embodiment and they got that Like! Keep up the honest entertaining reactions, you crazy kids! : )
Such a lyrical genius
The Door's were a unique band !!!
Very 60s LA sound. Ray Manzaerek on the organ and plays the bass line as well. Neon definitely a trippy reference.
I can’t remember the name of the soul food kitchen in Venice which this song was a reference to. It was a usual hotspot for friends before heading along to the whiskey
The "neon groves" would be the neon lights and signs of 1960's L.A.
Morrison was a true poet and Los Angeles was his muse.
He gave the name Soul Kitchen to a restaurant the owner use to let him stay after hours for awhile.
The doors just oozes originality
Soul kitchen is and still is my favorite Doors song in their large collection you guys should do Land Ho. When you listen to this song it actually feels like your on the ocean 😂🌊
....it's right up there for me, too. And 'Take it as it comes'
The greatness is when a song can have multiple meanings or create a variety of thoughtfulness for the listener to ponder ....
That keyboard riff was meant to sound like James Brown that's why they called it soul kitchen according to Ray Manzerek
The neon groves are all the bars and pool halls and such. You know where the neon lights are
I love when any time young people hear instruments in a song they go "it sounds very old school." lmao. Yes artists used to play actual instruments in their music before computers started making all the sounds you hear.
The end
your lounge could be part of the neon groves . like hollywood blvd. trippin' or not , the neon signs were everywhere back then , almost a testiment to good business .
Funny my bedroom was a kitchen or used to be one. Had a sink in my room.
My friends came over we drank smoked listen to the Doors the Who Zeppelin Van Halen in my soul kitchen.
They called my room soul kitchen
The 'soul kitchen'...where souls are born...to be set out upon this world...to live and wander...
The Soul Kitchen was an actual place they hung at in LA..
What’s not to love about James Douglas Morrison?
A lyrical genius.
If you haven’t done so yet, watch the movie The Doors, Val Kilmer plays the part of Jim Morrison very well.
You guys slay me. Play every song on this album you’ll be doin alright. These are some of the first versus jim wrote. He was sort of a Salvador Dali of words. He painted pictures with words.
"Break on Through" is another great song by Jim M, awesome lyrics ("I found a island in your arms, a country in your eyes. But arms are chains, and eyes are lies..") He was a great poet/writer. Of course his "Light My Fire" is awesome, and i love the drums/drummer.
I love how y'all get right into it at the start of the video. Love the channel!
Jim Morrison...a poet and a beautiful man.... A lot of lyrics have 2 meanings or even more so you just take from it what it means to you. You can take it literally or more mystically. The Doors were a fantastic 60's band. R.I.P. Jim xx
20th Century Fox is one of my favorite songs. I got the record the actual record from my mom.
The Doors recorded 6 albums with their label, Elektra. Before they can record 7th album, Jim Morrison died in 1971 in Paris. With short span of time, The Doors has influenced others. In 1993, The Doors were inducted into Rock Hall of Fame.
More the Doors,
light my fire, when the music over, im a spy, the end, riders oh the storm
Ray Manzarek's keyboard playing had a very distinct sound. You can always tell his style.
The neon groves are probably the streets. Peace frog off the same album is a upbeat song you will enjoy
Peace Frog, the most infectious groove by Robby
The Great American Poet, Jim Morrison.
not to touch the earth by the doors, epic!
Moonlight Drive has a nice groove to it, Soft Parade is all over the place but it's a cool song, Riders On The Storm has some great sound effects and is one of those songs you close your eyes and mellow out to. The Doors are a deep rabbit hole!
I saw them do this album live... I was 16 at the time. RIP Jim.
This was The Doors nod to James Brown. If you listen to Robbie Krieger's guitar parts he's actually mimicking a James Brown horn section riff on guitar. Definitely one of their most underrated songs.
He probably was tripping. He often was. However, in the '60s there was neon lights everywhere, in the cities..
Neon groves = neon-lit streets of L.A. late at night
No you guys gotta check out I BEEN DOWN SO LONG by The Doors.
Late 60s soulful groovienss.
The organ playing of Ray Manzarek is what stands out as a more unusual instrument - they had no bass player so he covered it with the organ. Very mid 1960s sound. Yes, there is a lot of sexual inuendo in many Doors lyrics.
Jim was a old soul.But he was connected.
You really should listen to Riders on the storm .. it was the last song he recorded before he died and probably one of the best if not the best produced song The doors ever made...
Old skool but good skool
I think The Doors shall always be ultra cool.
Hahaha! Remember L.A. Woman? That's a neon town.
This is my favorite Doors song. The live version is particularly good.
Stumbling in the NEON groves. (Hint: NEON!!!). Cheers.
The soul food restaurant was Olivia's Place .... song inspired by James Brown music style style