I like the fact you weren't sure if you had ever heard their music before so you come to this song with no pre concieved notions, and your reactions are basically pure. This is certainly a great song to start with because everyone in the band has a chance to show their chops.
So many good doors songs. Texas radio. Been down so long. Crystal ship. People are strange. The end. When the music's over. Riders on the storm. The Changeling. So many!
As a soldier you might like Unknown Soldier. Jim was counter culture during Vietnam War as his father was a Admiral. The three musicians were Jazz and blues with Robbie a Flamenco guitar trained player.
I've loved The Doors ever since I can remember...I was brought up with this type of music and they are one of my all time faves...I'm so glad you like them...they can get real deep!! The lyrics 'blood in the streets in the town of New Haven" he's talking about a concert they did (or rather tried to do)...the cops got involved and beat Jim Morrison. I dont remember all the facts off the top of my head but thats the gist of it. It was in New Haven, Connecticut at New Haven Coliseum...I was born and raised one town over (West Haven, CT)...I was born in 1970 so I never got a chance to see them but have seen tons of concerts at that coliseum as a tween on up!! Thanx for playing that and keep rockin!!
Jim Morrison who was the lead singer of the Doors was also a poet ahead of his time. Other songs Break on through to the other side, Riders on the Storm, Roadhouse Blues amongst others.
This is my favourite Doors tune. Thanks for reacting to it. The meaning behind it is very deep, there’s a personal connection regarding a horrible accident he witnessed as a child where he saw dead people scattered on the highway.
He made that Indian story up though! Something may have happened, but it was Jim's active imagination. The whole thing about a spirit leaping into his soul is just a fanciful story!
Peace frog is one of the best and I was drawn to it musicaly and also the lyrics also reminded me of an awful crazy event me an my mother witnessed when I was 9 I think I was around 13 when I heard peace frog and automatically took to every word
Loving your reactions, I don't know if you've heard The Doors, "Break On Through" which I think is their best rock song where they really Jam.. They have a live album "The Doors Absolutely Live" you need to listen to that whole album... Abra, if listen to that album you're going to think I'm your best friend bro!! but make sure you got a full bowl to burn.. I wish I could sit next to you with my record collection.. have a great day..
One of my favorite Doors songs. here is some other ones that you might dig- Riders On The Storm ( moody & poetic ), L.A. Woman ( also moody & poetic ), Soul Kitchen, Break On Through, Touch Me & Light My Fire...Jim Morrison was a real poet...
I love the Doors. Jim Morrison was a maniac, he died in 1974,I believe, he was 27. You said poetry during the song and many people refer to Jim as An American Poet. They have tons of great songs, some already mentioned in other comments. One of my favorites is L.A. Woman, you'll love it. Do me a solid and react to it if possible. You rule bro!!!
They chose the name the Doors because they were going to throw open the doors of perception. Jim Morrison, the lead singer, and occasionally harmonica and tambourine, was known as the American Poet. Everything he touches is deep.
Great song off my favorite Doors album Jim's poetry life experience and politics of the day all mixed in with some very underated music. Nice job, brought back memories. Explore more Doors
I remember dancing and boogin all around the house to this song. The rhythm just gets in to you and won't let go. And then there is his voice that voice my god what a voice.
In 1969 Jim Morrison was sick of being a rock star and was falling down drunk more than not. The Doors 4th album took 15 months to record. This song in from the 5th album "Morrison Hotel", Jim was a ghost at the sessions. Paul Rothchild was the producer and the Doors guitar player wrote the music for Peace Frog and recorded it without Jim. Paul had one of Jim's notebooks and thought one of Jim's poems "Abortion Stories" fit the song. Jim had wrote the poem about cities he was arrested in and him paying for a girlfriends abortion.
Aldous Huxley's book...'Doors of Perception' is where the name came from. 'Indians Scattered on Dawns Highway Bleeding' is a childhood memory of Morrison growing up in New Mexico, where his father was in the military, and they came across an accident on the highway and 'Indians'...native Americans...big Navajo reservation there...were messed up...dead and dying on the highway. Jim Morrison was a deep cat. For sure.
Jim Morrison was always an intellectual. He was a poet. He was more than a rock star who took too much peyote or LSD or cocaine. I have all his bios and his poetry books and An American Prayer on CD. Even in his lyrics, Jim was an intellectual. He never wrote "dumb, catchy hooks". He read German Philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Franz Kafka. Jim Morrison is who got ME into reading Nietzsche and Kafka. Jim had a GENIUS IQ of 149. He met Ray Manzarek in UCLA Film School. He was going to be a filmmaker before he told Ray about his poetry lyrics and they formed The Doors. Jim Morrison was amazing. He was definitely more than you see if that falsified movie Oliver Stone put out in 1991 where Stone made up some of Jim's history for "dramatic license". Jim started out with drugs for enlightenment. He'd go out in the desert and just spend the day high as if he were on a spiritual journey. But even after the Miami Indecency Trial. He went to Paris to unwind from it all fully intending to return to the states. He had a phone conversation with either Ray or Robby Krieger talking about how great the L.A. Woman album was coming along and how he couldn't wait to sing the songs live. His death due to a cocaine-induced heart failure just happened to be when he was in a bathtub in Paris. "I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments." -- Jim Morrison "If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel." -- Jim Morrison "Drugs are a bet with your mind." -- Jim Morrison "People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend." ~ Jim Morrison "Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs." -- Jim Morrison
This is one of my favorite songs by The The Doors! For no particular reason other than than the beat and lyrics hit me. I became a Doors fan when I was 15. (I'm a bit older now) I yell at my parents for not having the opportunity to see the greatest rock bands ever when their tour arrived in Chicago.
Dude @ 2:33 seconds, instead of Jim singin, " SHE CAME, which he does on every other verse.......... but this one he sings my name, " DAN REED" I was born 2 months after his passing.........I look like him sing like him and I write poetry and shit... PLEASE listen @ 2:33 Jim sings my name.( Dan Reed)............................ Bruh I am 50 and for 30 years I hear it but only ME?????????????????????
Your interpretation of lyrics is spot on. Songs like this, Sympathy for the Devil, Fortunate Son and others make you think. Many songs are just as relevant today as they were then. Digging your channel. Keep up the great work
Aldous Huxley gave The Doors their name: 'If the doors of perception were cleansed, we would see the world as it truly is: infinite'[quote approximate...I ain't googling]
Definitely one of their best songs - Top 3 for me. I heard this on a Tony Hawk video game and was blown away. Lots of intricate moments, and it’s just so groovy.
Like the inclusion of the White Tomcat in your garden, saw the little Dude laying some smell on your bushes. They do what they do. Keep doing what you do, laying out your audio scent...I'm overdoing my metaphors. Most music before click tracks, autotune and quantisation (Before the 80's) sounds better to my ear because it was entirely human in feel.
They have many good songs. Unknown soldier. Five to One. Touch me ( great sax) .The Changeling. Break on through. Wild Child . Dead cats dead rats / break in through . just to name a few
Doors were playing in New Haven Connecticut and there was some kind trouble. The cops came in and started to smash some heads. That is what this song is about
Just to add to what two others commented about for this song. Yes it has a reference to the Democrat Convention of 1968 and a reference to an accident his family came across while driving through an Indian reservation in New Mexico I believe (Read the bio "No One Here Gets Out Alive). But the other blood in New Haven, LA Venice is a reference to all the riots of 1967-68. Also just a gripe "The End" may have been in the movie "Apocalypse Now" but it is NOT a song about Vietnam...it references Oedipus and murder/suicide really, after being mostly about the end of life in general.
Abracadabra, a great, thoughtful reaction as usual. Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist for The Doors, once stated: "There are things you know about, and things you don't, the known and the unknown, and in between are the doors-that's us."
Cool choice, this song gets kind'a overlooked. More great change-ups that a major league pitcher can throw. There was a lot of 'urban unrest' going on in the day.
They don't have any bad songs as far as I'm concerned!
you know it. There is no Door's song that I have not liked. I think he is going to really dig the Doors. It is timeless music.
Just don't listen to the 2 albums they released after Jim died.
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One or two decent songs on there too
I would qualify "Touch me " as a bad song
@@jdm1066 “im horny, i’m stoned” “ships with sails”
I like the fact you weren't sure if you had ever heard their music before so you come to this song with no pre concieved notions, and your reactions are basically pure. This is certainly a great song to start with because everyone in the band has a chance to show their chops.
So many good doors songs. Texas radio. Been down so long. Crystal ship. People are strange. The end. When the music's over. Riders on the storm. The Changeling. So many!
As a soldier you might like Unknown Soldier. Jim was counter culture during Vietnam War as his father was a Admiral. The three musicians were Jazz and blues with Robbie a Flamenco guitar trained player.
The Doors were funky, punk and explicit before the times
I've loved The Doors ever since I can remember...I was brought up with this type of music and they are one of my all time faves...I'm so glad you like them...they can get real deep!! The lyrics 'blood in the streets in the town of New Haven" he's talking about a concert they did (or rather tried to do)...the cops got involved and beat Jim Morrison. I dont remember all the facts off the top of my head but thats the gist of it. It was in New Haven, Connecticut at New Haven Coliseum...I was born and raised one town over (West Haven, CT)...I was born in 1970 so I never got a chance to see them but have seen tons of concerts at that coliseum as a tween on up!! Thanx for playing that and keep rockin!!
What’s up brother? ✊💪. “Riders Of The Storm” By The Doors is an awesome song! 🤘🎧🔥
Got it
Yes yes yes!! This dude would totally appreciate it too!
Ey Roadhouse Blues is a banger
Agreed I think he’d really appreciate it!! Roadhouse Blues is awesome also!! 😎👍
I do not want to sound redundant but its Riders on the Storm...
Digging the cat in the background stalking something.
Jim Morrison who was the lead singer of the Doors was also a poet ahead of his time. Other songs Break on through to the other side, Riders on the Storm, Roadhouse Blues amongst others.
He was truly ahead of his time. ✌🏼
"I woke up in the morning, got myself a beeer"
Great recommendations
the doors name is from the book by aldous huxley the doors of perception.
You know what , i figured that , i know Aldous Huxley well , especially after reading Brave New World , and his interviews
Love this track “Soul Kitchen” the doors
One of my favourite Doors songs, great choice!
"When the Musics Over" powerful guitar and Keyboard solos. All-time favorite song by The Doors
I like how there's randomly a cat in the background :P
It pops up on some of my vids out of no where lol
@@abracadabra3033 lol
Acting like nobody sees it creeping back there if it just goes slow enough...
@@DocRobert 😂😂😂
@@DocRobert trying to be Drax and shit.
Jim Morrison was an amazing songwriter. L.A. Woman, The End, Crystal Ship, so many great songs.
This is my favourite Doors tune. Thanks for reacting to it. The meaning behind it is very deep, there’s a personal connection regarding a horrible accident he witnessed as a child where he saw dead people scattered on the highway.
Damn ,
He made that Indian story up though! Something may have happened, but it was Jim's active imagination. The whole thing about a spirit leaping into his soul is just a fanciful story!
Peace frog is one of the best and I was drawn to it musicaly and also the lyrics also reminded me of an awful crazy event me an my mother witnessed when I was 9 I think I was around 13 when I heard peace frog and automatically took to every word
The cat heard frog and was like, WHERE?!?
Man, you nailed it on the first listen: Cold, hard truths laid down with some of the funkiest Rock n Roll.
This is The Doors
And Stones
@2:41 you said "poetry". You were right on. Jim Morrison was a poet/singer of the highest order. May he rest in peace.
Loving your reactions, I don't know if you've heard The Doors, "Break On Through" which I think is their best rock song where they really Jam.. They have a live album "The Doors Absolutely Live" you need to listen to that whole album... Abra, if listen to that album you're going to think I'm your best friend bro!! but make sure you got a full bowl to burn.. I wish I could sit next to you with my record collection.. have a great day..
You hit it right on the nail head with your take on it. I enjoyed it..
Robby Krieger, the guitar player of THE DOORS, made a great remix. It's called WAR TOAD. Check it out. You'll hear things that were taken out of song.
Thanks for the tip, I’ll check it out 👍
The Doors of perception, man..
Huxley and Blake
every generation has a Doors surge in popularity, their greatness can not be contained by time.
The Doors! So many great lyrics, great songs. Incredible. The Crystal Ship, Soul Kitchen, People Are Strange, and so many more. Nice cat, by the way.
Yes! One of my fav bands. Gotta do riders on the Storm or the crystal shop next! Great reaction, bro! Many blessings 🙏
Definitely gonna do it
One my favorites nice choice brother. OOOORIGHT ✌☮
That's my favourite Doors song. Thanks for reacting to it 👍
I believe the name comes from a book the doors of perception!
I kinda figured , i studied alot from Aldous Huxley
@@abracadabra3033 the Mind at Large...
The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
One of my favorites by the Doors! Just subscribed. I like your style. Keeping it real!
Thank you
"Waiting for the Sun" would work well...
That's Rappin' brother!👍
Your reaction was priceless.you were almost speechless. When I first heard the doors my jaw hit the deck. I've been dragging my jaw around ever since.
Oh YEAH,...."Peace Frog"!! 👍🏻💕🎶🎵🎵🎸🎶
So many more awesome Doors song's
"Peace Frog" is an adaptation of a poem Jim wrote as a teenager called "abortion stories"
Partly. It also had references to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and New Haven where Jim Morrison got arrested for the first time
Every time I will see a Doors reacton I will subscribe hehehe my favorite band ...Jim Morrison my favorite singer and lyricist ...no one like him!
Spot on, Sir!
Great selection and, great reaction - Made my day! BTW the cat in the background was a surprise!
My favorite as well as “Five to One”
First of all thank you for your service to this country. Your reactions are the best, keep doing what you are doing.
thank you for doing this one!! my fav band
They are Tough
maybe next song could be riders on the storm, the end, unknown soldier, break on through or la woman. all fantastic they have too many to list!
Love the Slick Rick reference!! Rap has never been my thing, but I really liked some of Slick Rick's tracks!!
✌🏾🙏
One of my favorite Doors songs. here is some other ones that you might dig- Riders On The Storm ( moody & poetic ), L.A. Woman ( also moody & poetic ), Soul Kitchen, Break On Through, Touch Me & Light My Fire...Jim Morrison was a real poet...
I love the Doors. Jim Morrison was a maniac, he died in 1974,I believe, he was 27. You said poetry during the song and many people refer to Jim as An American Poet. They have tons of great songs, some already mentioned in other comments. One of my favorites is L.A. Woman, you'll love it. Do me a solid and react to it if possible. You rule bro!!!
The greatest band of all time...with Jim Morrison putting down the most amazing lyrics !!!
The Doors...my favorite group of all time. Thx. For this.
1968 was a bloody year for America. very relevant
Roadhouse Blues
LA Woman
The End.
What do you get when you mix a jazz percussionist, a classically trained, blues keyboardist, a flamenco guitarist and a beat poet? You get The Doors
They chose the name the Doors because they were going to throw open the doors of perception. Jim Morrison, the lead singer, and occasionally harmonica and tambourine, was known as the American Poet. Everything he touches is deep.
From a William Blake poem these are "the Doors of Perception ...."
Abracadabra, you like Vietnam rock songs The Doors did one of the best..."The End". It was in Apocolypse Now with Marlon Brandon and Martin Sheen
Great song off my favorite Doors album Jim's poetry life experience and politics of the day all mixed in with some very underated music. Nice job, brought back memories. Explore more Doors
I remember dancing and boogin all around the house to this song. The rhythm just gets in to you and won't let go. And then there is his voice that voice my god what a voice.
It will make you Bop around , its a vibe for sure
In 1969 Jim Morrison was sick of being a rock star and was falling down drunk more than not. The Doors 4th album took 15 months to record. This song in from the 5th album "Morrison Hotel", Jim was a ghost at the sessions. Paul Rothchild was the producer and the Doors guitar player wrote the music for Peace Frog and recorded it without Jim. Paul had one of Jim's notebooks and thought one of Jim's poems "Abortion Stories" fit the song. Jim had wrote the poem about cities he was arrested in and him paying for a girlfriends abortion.
I'm a huge doors fan , it's like no other ,
Aldous Huxley's book...'Doors of Perception' is where the name came from. 'Indians Scattered on Dawns Highway Bleeding' is a childhood memory of Morrison growing up in New Mexico, where his father was in the military, and they came across an accident on the highway and 'Indians'...native Americans...big Navajo reservation there...were messed up...dead and dying on the highway.
Jim Morrison was a deep cat. For sure.
Poet Rock laureat is a Super Star Classic Rock 'n Roll legend. Plenty to hear from them, fer sure!
Jim Morrison was always an intellectual. He was a poet. He was more than a rock star who took too much peyote or LSD or cocaine. I have all his bios and his poetry books and An American Prayer on CD. Even in his lyrics, Jim was an intellectual. He never wrote "dumb, catchy hooks". He read German Philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Franz Kafka. Jim Morrison is who got ME into reading Nietzsche and Kafka. Jim had a GENIUS IQ of 149. He met Ray Manzarek in UCLA Film School. He was going to be a filmmaker before he told Ray about his poetry lyrics and they formed The Doors. Jim Morrison was amazing. He was definitely more than you see if that falsified movie Oliver Stone put out in 1991 where Stone made up some of Jim's history for "dramatic license". Jim started out with drugs for enlightenment. He'd go out in the desert and just spend the day high as if he were on a spiritual journey. But even after the Miami Indecency Trial. He went to Paris to unwind from it all fully intending to return to the states. He had a phone conversation with either Ray or Robby Krieger talking about how great the L.A. Woman album was coming along and how he couldn't wait to sing the songs live. His death due to a cocaine-induced heart failure just happened to be when he was in a bathtub in Paris.
"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most
important moments." -- Jim Morrison
"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel." -- Jim Morrison
"Drugs are a bet with your mind." -- Jim Morrison
"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend." ~ Jim Morrison
"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs." -- Jim Morrison
The sound is happy go lucky. The words are Thors Hammer. My favorite Doors Tune!
Back in the late 70s I use to hang with my friends at Frosty pops house and listen to nothing butt the Doors and drink beer and smoke lots of pot.
Subbed because of this. No one has done it and it is so darn relevant now.
Cat is making a territory tour through the back yard marking his bushes.
your reaction is stellar.... this is one of the deepest songs written about the undercurrent of the soil & borders we call the usa.
Indeed and Thank You
And about abortion.
The name the Doors came from a book by Audolus Huxley called the doors of perception . It was about Huxley"s mescaline experience
This is one of my favorite songs by The The Doors! For no particular reason other than than the beat and lyrics hit me. I became a Doors fan when I was 15. (I'm a bit older now) I yell at my parents for not having the opportunity to see the greatest rock bands ever when their tour arrived in Chicago.
Dude @ 2:33 seconds, instead of Jim singin, " SHE CAME, which he does on every other verse.......... but this one he sings my name, " DAN REED" I was born 2 months after his passing.........I look like him sing like him and I write poetry and shit... PLEASE listen @ 2:33 Jim sings my name.( Dan Reed)............................ Bruh I am 50 and for 30 years I hear it but only ME?????????????????????
'Strange Days', 'Crystal Ship', 'Waiting for the Sun', 'Cars Hiss by my Window'.
surreal during the first wave of the plaque
Soft Parade, Texas Radio and the big beat.
You’re a cool dude! 💞
5 to1 by the doors and castles made of sand-Jimi Hendrix
Got it and definitely
Yes and yes!
The name "The Doors" comes from the book: "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley
No it doesn’t
Your interpretation of lyrics is spot on. Songs like this, Sympathy for the Devil, Fortunate Son and others make you think. Many songs are just as relevant today as they were then. Digging your channel. Keep up the great work
Thank you very much , definitely appreciated
@@abracadabra3033 Respect back at ya. Just for fun check out Olu Dara (Father of NAS) does a song called Herbman
@@JohnHimselfNJ you know whats crazy , i swear on everything i love , i was really thinking about doing one on his Dad , Olu got skills
Its Peace Frog/Blue Sunday. "Morrison Hotel" '72. On the road they saw the Hotel
Legendary music
good looks from the dude that requested thanks for not picking the usual ones everyone else reacts to
Aldous Huxley gave The Doors their name: 'If the doors of perception were cleansed, we would see the world as it truly is: infinite'[quote approximate...I ain't googling]
Definitely one of their best songs - Top 3 for me. I heard this on a Tony Hawk video game and was blown away. Lots of intricate moments, and it’s just so groovy.
What a great choice to react to. Keep it up bro!
Thank you
Always loved the guitar in this song.
Like the inclusion of the White Tomcat in your garden, saw the little Dude laying some smell on your bushes. They do what they do. Keep doing what you do, laying out your audio scent...I'm overdoing my metaphors. Most music before click tracks, autotune and quantisation (Before the 80's) sounds better to my ear because it was entirely human in feel.
The Doors are amazing ♡
A band ahead of its time
This song and Break on Through are my favorite Doors songs.
Like watching you cause I can tell you're Honest and you tell it like you see it.
They have many good songs. Unknown soldier. Five to One. Touch me ( great sax) .The Changeling. Break on through. Wild Child . Dead cats dead rats / break in through . just to name a few
Doors were playing in New Haven Connecticut and there was some kind trouble. The cops came in and started to smash some heads. That is what this song is about
'An American Prayer' is a good album to check out. Or 'absolutly live'.
Huge Doors fan here since way back, obviously lol
Just to add to what two others commented about for this song. Yes it has a reference to the Democrat Convention of 1968 and a reference to an accident his family came across while driving through an Indian reservation in New Mexico I believe (Read the bio "No One Here Gets Out Alive). But the other blood in New Haven, LA Venice is a reference to all the riots of 1967-68. Also just a gripe "The End" may have been in the movie "Apocalypse Now" but it is NOT a song about Vietnam...it references Oedipus and murder/suicide really, after being mostly about the end of life in general.
Listen to Waiting for the sun. Great track by the Doors
Loving story songs, Riders on the Storm, LA Woman and The End would put you over the top
I’ve set Riders of the Storm for next up
Abracadabra, a great, thoughtful reaction as usual.
Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist for The Doors, once stated:
"There are things you know about, and things you don't, the known and the unknown, and in between are the doors-that's us."
The Doors...from Aldous Huxley's "The Doors of Perception".
Cool choice, this song gets kind'a overlooked. More great change-ups that a major league pitcher can throw. There was a lot of 'urban unrest' going on in the day.
It’s always new music when you’re listening to it for the first time.
Queen of the Highway and Unknown Soldier next please. P.S.:I enjoy it when you really dig something.
Definitely will and Thank You 🙏✌🏾
this will probably be unpopular but this and soft parade are probably my two favorite doors songs. pretty innovative