If you aren't listening to this on a good pair of closed ear headphones you will never comprehend the genius of this song.

The Doors didn't have a bassist, but there is a keyboard bass here played by the organist Ray Manzarek so that might explain only 3 notes that you heard during one of the quiet sections of the song. Jim Morrison wanted the song to be recorded live in the studio, but he didn't show up that day so he had to record his vocals later on top of the original take. And regarding that harsh, noisy, dissonant part, guitarist Robby Krieger said: "That solo was really a challenge because the harmony is static. I had to play 56 bars over the same riff."

The Doors is one of the best and most original bands in history... Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore, extraordinary musicians who perfectly accompanied a genius, Jim Morrison.

Yes more drugs Bryan 😅😅😅 You did the song The End yrs back and yes that's a special song that is very serpentine and ellusive The guitar solo in this song was inspired by Jimi Hendrix said Robby Kreiger John Densmore is a jazz cat thus those rim shot flurries and subtle tom work in the middle section The band has explained in interviews about the "space" they leave in their songs bc silence can be heavy as hell It's been a while since hearing this and you're analysis is solid and well done Thx 🤘😎✌️🧐

To me in this song, The Music = your life, dance on fire is to live it bright, then there tangents that allude to other songs/poems and random stuff. The doors inspire a lot of alternative bands, the were very popular in their day for their pop hits but the deeper cuts are what inspired a lot of bands similar to David Bowie contributions to modern music. Mid to late sixties there was a lot of musical experimenting go on that lead into seventies mainstream rock, but some of it inspired the later seventies and eighties alternative music's. And blues was a major inspiration for most of this music, got filtered out by the eighties.

Great reaction! I agree with your comment about listening to this with speakers, it was meant to be listened with others, to be shared and discovered in a group of people. The whole record kinda has that intention, of constructing the voice of those marginalized, the ones that are "getting tired of hanging around", watching as the world is collapsing with the twentieth century's wars. It's an amazing concept album and it put a mark on what counter culture could do, musically and spiritually. This track is my personal favorite by them, alongside "The End". I really recommend you to check out their latter songs, like Soft Parade, Blue Sunday or Riders on the Storm. But! I also wanted to recommend you a song from another band, Talking Heads, that have almost nothing in common with the Doors, except probably the youthful and playful spirit. The song is "Girlfriend is Better", from their 1983 album Speaking in Tongues. Cheers :)

This was the first band I really fell in love with. They were both very popular and ahead of their time, depending on the track because they were pretty diverse and adventurous in their styles and writing (guitarist Robbie famously wrote some big songs including the lyrics which were usually more pop). They liked to improvise a lot and this is one of their longest songs which probably got extended over time in parts live on stage similar to how they composed The End. Like the quiet part where the drummer really just started doing his own thing while Jim did spoken word. That definitely happened many times live while Jim was high on who knows what and would just divert from the song being played. It was kind of the perfect time for adventurous music because so many people were also experimenting with psychedelics and especially lsd which was brand new at the time, but still depending on where they played some of the crowds were not so receptive to their crazier tracks or improvisations and they'd often yell out to play their hit Light My Fire. When it comes to the screaming yeah he was one of the earlier pioneers especially with how famous they were compared to The Sonics or 13th Floor Elevators. John Lennon had some early scream moments too with The Beatles.

I think this is their best song off of their best album. LOVE< LOVE

I do think it had vibes of the blues and jazz as well. Great video.

Another Doors song that shows me that Robert Fripp didn't invent sustain on the guitar.

I do want to say. You talk about this song being speaker music. There is a live version in Europe, that leaves me to believe the song is about passion. I just felt the need to say that.

This album and song came out 10 months after the song Light My Fire blew up in 1967 The Summer of Love was happening and at this point The Doors were huge and new and Jim Morrison was a sex simble on the covers of all the Teen Magazines that that era

I love your reactions!!

When it comes to The Doors, drugs are almost a prerequisite =)

very interesting take on it

Wonderful track & band. Anyway, you made me curious, which was your formation/knowledge in music before starting the channel?

jan van im pe other long songs of the Doors : - the soft parade - celebration of the lizard (very chaotic with different parts en spoken poetry) -riders on the storm

10:50 Lots of cool things you want to talk about, but not until This Music is Over. Mwa-haha! Don't need drugs here. Just be short on sleep, stay up until 3am, then blast it on an old school 9 speaker stereo with soft lighting. Fill the room, not headphones. Maybe perform an interpretive dance. Would a noise canceling microphone (like some hands free cellphone have) be worth a try? Also, try listening to beatnik poets in the decade before The Doors.

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Interesting reaction to the song. I find it interesting that you say you are missing the cultural context, do you need that to really like something or to just understand it better? I love this live performance of the song from 1970 - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gJiggtKiqeCpmGw.html

I love The Doors, but this is not one of my favorite tracks, though it's good, just there's so much other stuff you can start with.