Yo thanks for reviewing this song, I visited the lead singers grave a few months ago.As a black man it's been kinda hard talking about my music taste with my friends through the years. So the fact that you're doing this, makes me not only feel nostalgic, but also gives me hope, that music taste and genre is not established by race, but by taste, and interest.
Richel Martina Richel Martina you know....there’s a lot of black people out there that listen to other music besides hip hop and rap. My former wife (she died of a medical condition) she liked Metallica..... Being in the military I knew quite a few black folk in the south that listened to heavy metal and grunge metal.... Check out the heavy metal band Suffocation....Mike Smith and Terrance Hobbs... I was in Botswana (Africa) in April visiting my friend and heavy metal is the biggest thing there.... Google Death Metal Cowboys...my friend is a friend of the band. It’s really cool... Plus I’m 40 years old... I’ve been around and seen the whole subculture shift growing up Look at Jimmy Hendrix.... I have to agree with you about the slow intro....I play it on my guitar damn near as it is in the live version UA-cam “The Death Metal Bangers of Botswana”.... You will be surprised how Americans are just small minded. I have been to 56 countries and 48 US States. It’s out there man. Have a good day
@@MountaintravelerEddie You're right, it's just in my area the black population is very very small, so sometimes I deal with the annoying stereotyping, when I tell them that I listen to rock. They start this whole monologue that it's great that black people listen to good music too......yeah...I wanna get outa here.
India Reacts Your instincts and responses are appropriate! It's often a "Vietnam " related tune and that's fine I understand but what this song really represents is something close to home and almost as brutal. Killing your own family and defiling your Mother while killing her. Any thoughts on that? Anyone? Girl you said toxic, yep very. I love The Doors always have. Check out " Riders on the Storm " tell me what you think that's about. Keep doing what you are doing.
I know this Much about this Song here: it came out in the Movie, "Apocalypse Now" AND Also in a Movie called "Who's That Knocking At My Door?" I NEVER saw "Apocalypse Now", But i DID see "Who's That...", IT WAS SO REAL DUMB, the movie was POORLY WRITTEN, And it was AS LSD/PSYCHEDELIC/INSANE AS IT COULD'VE POSSIBLE Have Been, Lmbo! "Who's That..." REALLY IS TOO WEIRD, EVEN FOR ME, Seriously IT WAS ABOUT AS WEIRD AS THIS Song here, ha ha! WHAT do you expect???! IT WAS made IN the 60's (that whole LSD/PSYCHEDELIC/INSANE Era that was Happening back then), Yiiiikes!
I am extremly jealous. Grew up in the 90s listening to The Doors, and many, many, many other bands from that era. I have seen Blue Oyster Cult, U2, The Turtles, and Blood Sweat and Tears live. Must say that U2 put on the best show ever. 75,000 people in attendance. I have seen many other modern rock bands live. But something about the nostolgia of the classics is intoxicating. Keep rocking bro.
tirsah Ingalls U2! Now I’m envious; I consider myself fortunate to have seen many bands from the 60s: Big Brother and the Holding Company (before Janis was famous; they used to give free concerts in Golden Gate Park); saw Zappa with the Mothers of Invention; saw Crosby Stills and Nash, Joanie Mitchell, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and a New York band called The Vanilla Fudge (a one hit wonder that did a cover of “You Keep Me Hanging On”); saw Leo Kottke, Roberta Flack, and The Rolling Stones (in the tour that included the Ike & Tina Turner Soul Revue as the opener); saw Jackson Browne (who opened for Dylan); saw John Fahey (without whom Leo Kottke wouldn’t exist); as a Southern guy, I remember Elvis when he was just a local regional act (“The Hillbilly Cats”) ... ah, memories! Today, I’m into BabyMetal, Morissette, and Dimash ...
@@richardthomas47 Oh man dude. Frank Zappa. And Crosby Stills and Nash. Bob Dylan. You are literally naming all the bands that my parents have introduced to me over the years. My father has a collection of around 3,500 45s(my inheritance lol). Spending hours going through them and listening to the gold buried within. I saw Arlo Guthrie play at Bliss Fest in Northern Michigan (were I hail from). The Romantics played in my home town. My wife and I bought tickets the day they went on sale. Mitch Rider opened for Blue Oyster Cult. Florence And The Machine opened for U2. I saw Skillet, P.O.D, Fly Leaf, and The Devil Wears Prada in a two day festival in detroit. Ohh yeah and Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad is my parents neighbor. He says hi to me whenever i bump into him at the gas station in my home town. He signed a few of my dads albums for him. Pretty chill down to earth backwoodsie dude. I have also seen quite a number of other bands over the years. To many to name. I was at a Pink Floyd show in Detroit when my mother was 8 monthes pregnant with me. Been listening to thosr "golden oldies" since before i was born.
tirsah Ingalls I saw The MC5 in Ann Arbor in ‘67; basically a bunch of dirt bags with instruments 🤪 ... the Stooges (w/ Iggy Pop) were on the same show. Always loved Mitch Ryder!
The part in the center where he tells his father that he wants to kill him and tells his mother that he wants to sleep with her (to put it nicely) is a retelling of the Greek story of Oedipus Rex where the son is kidnapped as an infant and returns not knowing who he is. He ends up killing his father and marrying his mother without knowing who they are. Jim Morrison is retelling the story in dramatic form.
Actually, he wasn't kidnapped. There would be no story, no moral had that been the case. The parents visited an oracle(god/fortune teller) due to uncertain times to see what the future held for their child. The oracle told them he would grow up to kill his father and sleep with his mother. To prevent this, they paid a sheep herder to kill him. But the sheepherder couldn't bring himself to do and gave him to another family. Fast forward Oedipus goes to an oracle as a teen, uncertain about his future. The oracle tells him he will kill his father and marry his mother so thinking his "parents" were actually his parents, and loving them deeply, he runs away to prevent this from happening. Fast forward again and he is challenged by an anonymous warlord on the road and winds up besting him in battle. The queen of that area, not knowing the warlord was in fact her own husband, out of gratitude, marries him. As it turns out, the queen was his real mother, and the warlord his father. It's a treatise on Hubris, the false notion that we are each so powerful as to be able to overcome our destiny.
The son wasn't kidnapped as an infant. He was abandoned on a hillside, with his feet nailed to the ground. Hence his name "Oedipus" means "Swollen foot" And when he killed his dad, he didn't KNOW the guy was his dad. And when he married his mom, he didn't KNOW she was his mom. When he found out, he gouged out his own eyes, and fled the palace.
At 3:04 The young lady says "They have lot of instruments going" Actually. No. This is 1969 no auto tune, sampling, laying, etc. just pure unadulterated talent emanating from just three instruments: Drums, Guitar, and keyboards.
This song’s lyrics has many layers to it, such as the good bye love song intro, a mad society, yearning for something distant, and finally the Oedipus complex towards the end of the song which ends ups shocking most people. Jim Morrison was more of a poet than a singer but damn could he sing.
"the blue bus is calling us" you asked where is it taking me. The blue bus refers to the bus that took young men to boot camp when they were drafted to go to Vietnam. "all the children are insane" This song is about the youth of america in the late 60's going off to war they didn't understand and didn't agree with and coming back insane. It was used in the Vietnam movie Apocalypse Now but was not written for that movie. The movie was made years after this song was written.
I've heard it's also a reference to the blue ambulances used during the war. They picked up injured young men, often to the end, didnt know where they were going.
@@MikeB12800 not sure what drugs you're on right now, but they have you delusional. Ask any of us that were drafted into the war machine what color the buses were that sent us off to a war we didn't believe in. And anyone that can listen to this song and not hear the anguish of Vietnam should stick to listening to Justin Beiber.
I always liked Ray Manzarek’s interpretation that it was a reference to the Egyptian sun god Ra riding the solar boat westward carrying the souls of the dead to the underworld with the color blue being associated with mysticism and spirituality. In the myth of the path the solar boat took when it passed over the horizon, there is a part where the riverbed that is the sky runs dry so the solar boat turns into a giant snake which would explain the “ride the snake” section. Jim Morrison was clearly very well read in mythology and philosophy.
Yeah, but to whom? Jim always changed his story on that, giving a different answer to anyone who asked. He even told different friends of his that the song was about them. He was a trickster, and enjoyed keeping people on edge. :D
It started out as a short good-bye song to Mary Werbelow, but they started improvising stuff, and more and more stuff. The 3 or so minute song morphed into a 10 or 15 minute epic.
EXCELLENT reaction! This song is multiple levels of EPIC! Congratulations you just experienced a journey into a mind spiraling down into the depths of insanity.... It's like a terrifying horror movie, musically expressed... THE DOORS!
I remember hearing this amazing song for the first time in the Vietnam War film, "Apocalypse Now" directed by Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Trilogy and Bram Stoker's Dracula) and starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, and Robert Duvall. I can't think of this song without thinking of Marlon Brando's incredible acting as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. He was so good (and creepy) that it was scary. I never thought that one of the scariest characters I've ever seen in a movie would be in a Vietnam War film. When Kurtz drops Chef's severed head in front of Martin Sheen..it still gives me the creeps ! It looked so real. And this quote by Kurtz later in the film..“I’ve seen horrors… horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that…but you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face…and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies."...WOW ! Chills. And this amazing song fit Apocalypse Now like a glove. It was perfect for the film. EPIC.
I went around telling people that The Doors (who were alive in my time) made this song just for the movie. Before the internet b.s. was easy to spread.
@@rancidcrabtree. Charlie don't surf! Damn I'm having chills from Vietnam. I didn't go, just watched all the movies. Still having flashbacks from the acid I dropped at the movies.
"You smell that? Do you smell that?... Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."
@@rondohunter8966 Oh yeah..Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter, Born On The Fourth Of July, etc....some classic classic classic unforgettable films.
Picture a smaller venue, the air thick with the smell of pot. Some barely conscious people on various hallucinogenics and you better understand the Doors.
Jim Morrison was pretty crazy and your reaction was about as real as it can be for a Doors song. He was a poet and his insanity spilled out in his lyrics
I always loved this one... The guitar, the percussion, Jim’s voice all over your ears... Be careful, my dear. The Doors can be habit forming... -The End
A great companion song is The Unknown Soldier.I knew a woman years ago who met Jim once. She said he had the voice of an angel and the soul of a devil.
I tell ya, driving late in the night alone on a lonley dark highway. Lights flashing past you as you go over 80 mph, jims voice echoing in the background as your mind wonders into deep space. Amazing experience i dont recommened.
I remember doing this and at the climax of the song there was a hurd of deer following me left and right of me. The song ended as I was pulling up to my house. I just sat there in aw of what has just happened
Yes! Spanish Caravan or Crystal Ship.....Indian Summer....?? Any will do. If u want a more main stream Doors song then you'll want Light my Fire, Love Her Madly, Riders on the Storm, People are Strange!
It's artfully made and Val Kilmer was incredible as Morrison but Oliver Stone pulled a lot of that movie out of his ass. For a real look at the band read Riders on the Storm by John Densmore.
When he sings about "taking a face from the ancient gallery" the hair stands up on the back of my neck. The word "disturbed" comes to mind. My husband and i went to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and there was a long table with pieces of his life on it that started with his childhood and went to the end where he was found in his bathtub dead. The first thing you read is his Mother's Day card to his mom, which was sweet and as you read, you can see how little by little he begins to change and at the end, in my opinion, he loses himself. I walked away in tears and so did everyone before me who read this account of his life.
@@InfamousMedia Sorry I didn't answer. If you read from the beginning of his life, his first card is to his mother and is very sweet. As you go along reading you see his estrangement from his father and mother, his career, and his final bout with the drugs that killed him. When I say he loses himself, I mean that the drugs made him forget everything. I would say dying in a bathtub was a loss of himself.
You need to see his performance at the Hollywood Bowl … Jim was the embodiment of his art .. There was a Drummer, Keyboard and Guitar .. And Jim … Check out Celebration of the Lizard ,.. But a live performance where you can see the Shaman in his soul..
3:02 As you read later on this was recorded live in the studio. So three players on the musical instruments. John Densmore is doing a lot with a modest drum kit. Robby Krieger is playing guitar sorta like a sitar. Ray Manzerak is playing organ with his right hand and the bass part on an electric piano with his left.
I disagree. When I was a kid in the mid 50's to the early 60's, I HATED rock & roll. Then at 9, The Beatles came along, and all the bands from the "British invasion." I dug it! Tap my foot, bob my head, sing along, smile, ya know. Then the California sound and heavier rock bands. Wow! That was a whole new dimension! It was great! It was fun! … and "HEAVY"!!! Then The Doors came along. Light My Fire. It was something completely different than anything, and I couldn't get enough of it. My mom bought the album for me. (That was my very first album.) I listened to it, and I didn't really care for it. It was just too... I dunno. I couldn't figure it out er sumthin'. I kept listening to the album, and I was soon swept away by it. It was the first time that I really FELT music. No, I was not taking drugs at the age of 11 or 12. Their music rouses emotions that can't really be described. It riles, then releases your inner tensions. It's therapeutic.
Only nonsense around here is your comment. In Jim's work. Literary references, like reptiles, are abounding...reeeaaad a book, reeeead a book ...open the cover and 5ake a look....not directed to you India, you're cool as a block of ice....
Welcome to the mind of the '60's, dear India. 3 years '71 - '74 on at U-Tapao Royal Thai Naval Airfield, a B-52 base in Thailand , and this song was played A LOT. ps... yt has base vids to watch!
Lot of mythology in this. Ride the snake is Indian shamanistic and the Killer awoke Before Dawn story is the Roman Oedipus myth. Kill the father, fuck the mother. That's also Freud.
He was a genius who rode the cusp of insanity. He and several others died at age 27, There's a conspiracy theory about that. You analyzed the song's mood pretty darn well.
I believe that the blue bus is the earth and we are going through space without a driver and that's what Jim Morrison meant when he asks driver where you taking us
I reeeally discovered them on acid in 95. I heard them a bunch when i was a kid, but didn't really hear them until i was high school. I dont mess with drugs anymore, however, They have been one of my favorites since then. There is no one else like them.
YOU MILLENNIALS HAVE BEEN SO DENIED. BUT, YOU SCREWED UP, YOU'LL E HEARING THIS MACABRE SONG THE REST OF YOUR LIFE KNOWING YOU DIDN'T GROWM UP WITH SUCH GOOD MUSIC.
I'm so glad you played this song. Even though it's before you were born you recognize the greatness, the potential. Just give her a dose of Sandoz-grade acid. Then listen to The Doors.
I find myself Lmbo MANY TIMES at your funny faces that you make AND the noises that you make (like in the end of your video), NOT that i'm poking FUN AT YOU, But rather, i'm Lmbo WITH YOU, ha ha! :-) You know, the weird thing is this... I was still a young girl in the 70's and a "teeny-bopper" in the 80's (THE BEST TIMES of MY LIFE), And sorry to say this Y'all, But this is ALSO MY 1st TIME EVER Listening to this Song by The Doors, i swear I've NEVER heard of this Song until today. Hmmmm, WHERE have i been HIDING AT (so sorry to Y'all out there who are TRUE The Doors FANS)???? :-/
Play this very late at a party for those folks who like to stick around until those after midnight hours. Just play it and see what happens. Things will quiet down and you'll see the music go from being the background sounds to something that nearly everyone will tune into. The only thing you'll see people do might be to refill what they're sippin' on. That's because this song is deeeeep! Everyone plays their part in this one. Each instrument and Morrison's vocals all combine to make this such a powerful, deep, and emotionally raw song. This may be The Doors' very best song; definitely their deepest and darkest. I did not serve in Vietnam (too young) but have been to Afghanistan four times over a seven-year period from 2008 and 2014. This song fits that war too.
Another late great we lost from the hippie era. He had so much sex appeal. Saw Jim live in Montreal. You would have to live through the Vietnam war to fully get it.
Jim Morrison was doing several drugs when he wrote many of his songs..Like Psychedelic trippy drugs..He has tons of amazing songs out of it all..It was just the time period when many were using drugs like this & others..Trippy Hippies...
Could be a sunset, the end. I'm new to your channel, love your reactions and song choices! I don't know if you do Reggae but Playing For Change does a Bob Marley cover I would love to see your reaction to that. The song is War/No More Trouble.
This guy was 27 and he wrote all these songs, accomplish all of that. I'm 31 and I did nothing remarkable. But trust me, I'm going to do it, and do it hard on top of that.
Next level shit? Maybe they should rename the song cuz that says it all... luv your reactions. i first heard this song 1000 times ago but still wont change it if it comes on. long as hell but over before you know it. try celebration of the lizard, a compilation, on the doors-absolutely live.
Great reaction. Everything in like will betray you, turn its back on you, or let you down, at least once. Your family, your body, your youth, your peers, your beliefs, the law, society, your mind, everything is going to fail, except death. Death will always be there, no matter what happens. It will never fail you, you can always count on it to be there. In a sense, it is your only friend, the end.
The Doors are the best band of all time. Jim Morrison became obsessed with what awaits us after death and many of his songs lyrics reflected such. The Doors are the only band that sounded good while on drugs even though (as always) drugs and alcohol took him to an early grave.
I was about six years old at the time this record came out. I shared a bedroom with my two brothers, my oldest brother worked a late night job at a 7 11. When he got off work, would play music. This album was one his favorites. Scared the shit out of me laying in the dark trying to sleep.
This song begins and ends the movie Apocalypse Now. If you find it chilling to listen to it in audio, just wait until you see and hear it combined with the visuals in the movie. The entire film is a gut-wrenching experience. A friend of mine saw the film with her husband, who had been in Vietnam. She asked him if that was really what it was like? His reply was, "Yes, but they left out the bad stuff." This made it even more terrifying to watch. The music seems like it was made for the film.
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Love this SONG. My favorite jam. Such a cool slow intro. Love me some DOORS
Yo thanks for reviewing this song, I visited the lead singers grave a few months ago.As a black man it's been kinda hard talking about my music taste with my friends through the years. So the fact that you're doing this, makes me not only feel nostalgic, but also gives me hope, that music taste and genre is not established by race, but by taste, and interest.
Richel Martina
Richel Martina you know....there’s a lot of black people out there that listen to other music besides hip hop and rap.
My former wife (she died of a medical condition) she liked Metallica.....
Being in the military I knew quite a few black folk in the south that listened to heavy metal and grunge metal....
Check out the heavy metal band Suffocation....Mike Smith and Terrance Hobbs...
I was in Botswana (Africa) in April visiting my friend and heavy metal is the biggest thing there....
Google Death Metal Cowboys...my friend is a friend of the band. It’s really cool...
Plus I’m 40 years old...
I’ve been around and seen the whole subculture shift growing up
Look at Jimmy Hendrix....
I have to agree with you about the slow intro....I play it on my guitar damn near as it is in the live version
UA-cam “The Death Metal Bangers of Botswana”....
You will be surprised how Americans are just small minded. I have been to 56 countries and 48 US States. It’s out there man.
Have a good day
@@MountaintravelerEddie You're right, it's just in my area the black population is very very small, so sometimes I deal with the annoying stereotyping, when I tell them that I listen to rock. They start this whole monologue that it's great that black people listen to good music too......yeah...I wanna get outa here.
India Reacts Your instincts and responses are appropriate! It's often a "Vietnam " related tune and that's fine I understand but what this song really represents is something close to home and almost as brutal. Killing your own family and defiling your Mother while killing her. Any thoughts on that? Anyone? Girl you said toxic, yep very. I love The Doors always have. Check out " Riders on the Storm " tell me what you think that's about. Keep doing what you are doing.
You gotta watch "Apocalypse Now" where this song fits so perfectly on the soundtrack of that movie.
Exactly. I can't hear this song without the movie playing in my head.
@Frederick Spurlin still she predicted massacre although it happened at the end of the movie
Oh yes!
I know this Much about this Song here: it came out in the Movie, "Apocalypse Now" AND Also in a Movie called "Who's That Knocking At My Door?"
I NEVER saw "Apocalypse Now", But i DID see "Who's That...", IT WAS SO REAL DUMB, the movie was POORLY WRITTEN, And it was AS LSD/PSYCHEDELIC/INSANE AS IT COULD'VE POSSIBLE Have Been, Lmbo!
"Who's That..." REALLY IS TOO WEIRD, EVEN FOR ME, Seriously IT WAS ABOUT AS WEIRD AS THIS Song here, ha ha! WHAT do you expect???! IT WAS made IN the 60's (that whole LSD/PSYCHEDELIC/INSANE Era that was Happening back then), Yiiiikes!
@@Military450Veteran do yourself a favor and watch Apocalypse Now. The song fits perfectly
This is the classical Oedipus Complex; I saw the Doors perform this in 1969 (in Phoenix; I’m 72 yrs old) ...
I am extremly jealous. Grew up in the 90s listening to The Doors, and many, many, many other bands from that era. I have seen Blue Oyster Cult, U2, The Turtles, and Blood Sweat and Tears live. Must say that U2 put on the best show ever. 75,000 people in attendance. I have seen many other modern rock bands live. But something about the nostolgia of the classics is intoxicating. Keep rocking bro.
tirsah Ingalls U2! Now I’m envious; I consider myself fortunate to have seen many bands from the 60s: Big Brother and the Holding Company (before Janis was famous; they used to give free concerts in Golden Gate Park); saw Zappa with the Mothers of Invention; saw Crosby Stills and Nash, Joanie Mitchell, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and a New York band called The Vanilla Fudge (a one hit wonder that did a cover of “You Keep Me Hanging On”); saw Leo Kottke, Roberta Flack, and The Rolling Stones (in the tour that included the Ike & Tina Turner Soul Revue as the opener); saw Jackson Browne (who opened for Dylan); saw John Fahey (without whom Leo Kottke wouldn’t exist); as a Southern guy, I remember Elvis when he was just a local regional act (“The Hillbilly Cats”) ... ah, memories! Today, I’m into BabyMetal, Morissette, and Dimash ...
@@richardthomas47 Oh man dude. Frank Zappa. And Crosby Stills and Nash. Bob Dylan. You are literally naming all the bands that my parents have introduced to me over the years. My father has a collection of around 3,500 45s(my inheritance lol). Spending hours going through them and listening to the gold buried within. I saw Arlo Guthrie play at Bliss Fest in Northern Michigan (were I hail from). The Romantics played in my home town. My wife and I bought tickets the day they went on sale. Mitch Rider opened for Blue Oyster Cult. Florence And The Machine opened for U2. I saw Skillet, P.O.D, Fly Leaf, and The Devil Wears Prada in a two day festival in detroit. Ohh yeah and Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad is my parents neighbor. He says hi to me whenever i bump into him at the gas station in my home town. He signed a few of my dads albums for him. Pretty chill down to earth backwoodsie dude. I have also seen quite a number of other bands over the years. To many to name. I was at a Pink Floyd show in Detroit when my mother was 8 monthes pregnant with me. Been listening to thosr "golden oldies" since before i was born.
tirsah Ingalls
I saw The MC5 in Ann Arbor in ‘67; basically a bunch of dirt bags with instruments 🤪 ... the Stooges (w/ Iggy Pop) were on the same show. Always loved Mitch Ryder!
@@richardthomas47 Got to shake Mitch Ryders hand. He complemented me on my Rolling Stones shirt. Pretty funny guy.
It's only three instruments, believe it or not. Guitar, Drums and Keyboards. That's it.
they keyboardist played the bass lines as well
That's cool. They had a great sound...
Yeah, Ray was playing the bass notes with his feet.
I think I heard a tambourine in there too.
@@MusicLover-wo7ig Actually he played the bass part with a good old Fender Rhodes Key Bass Mk1, not with his feet
"This is deeper than I thought..." Petty much sums up The Doors.
The part in the center where he tells his father that he wants to kill him and tells his mother that he wants to sleep with her (to put it nicely) is a retelling of the Greek story of Oedipus Rex where the son is kidnapped as an infant and returns not knowing who he is. He ends up killing his father and marrying his mother without knowing who they are. Jim Morrison is retelling the story in dramatic form.
Freudian Oedipus complex explained in a psychedelic song.
Except the killer KNOWS it's his mother.... BIG difference.
Loved Jim but that truly destubed me ......often the talented struggle
Actually, he wasn't kidnapped. There would be no story, no moral had that been the case. The parents visited an oracle(god/fortune teller) due to uncertain times to see what the future held for their child. The oracle told them he would grow up to kill his father and sleep with his mother. To prevent this, they paid a sheep herder to kill him. But the sheepherder couldn't bring himself to do and gave him to another family. Fast forward Oedipus goes to an oracle as a teen, uncertain about his future. The oracle tells him he will kill his father and marry his mother so thinking his "parents" were actually his parents, and loving them deeply, he runs away to prevent this from happening. Fast forward again and he is challenged by an anonymous warlord on the road and winds up besting him in battle. The queen of that area, not knowing the warlord was in fact her own husband, out of gratitude, marries him. As it turns out, the queen was his real mother, and the warlord his father. It's a treatise on Hubris, the false notion that we are each so powerful as to be able to overcome our destiny.
The son wasn't kidnapped as an infant. He was abandoned on a hillside, with his feet nailed to the ground. Hence his name "Oedipus" means "Swollen foot" And when he killed his dad, he didn't KNOW the guy was his dad. And when he married his mom, he didn't KNOW she was his mom. When he found out, he gouged out his own eyes, and fled the palace.
People are strange,
when you're a stranger,
faces look ugly
when you're alone.
The Doors - People are Strange.
At 3:04 The young lady says "They have lot of instruments going" Actually. No. This is 1969 no auto tune, sampling, laying, etc. just pure unadulterated talent emanating from just three instruments: Drums, Guitar, and keyboards.
And a tiny, basic drumset it was. It's incredible how much sound John Densmore was capable of getting out of it.
Not keyboard, organ and fender rhodes bass on top 😃😍
@Celca Gaming ...and I think when she said that it was just voice, guitar and drums...
4 track! You can see them grow with Strange Days and 16 track
Jim Morrison could go to a very dark place. The movie Apocalypse Now is a must see.
Stephen King once said in an interview that he had Morrison in mind when he created aspects of Randall Flagg, The Walking Dude. Yes, twisted.
This song is genius, and even more genius, at was on their debut album.
Jim Morrison was a genius himself.. He was out there but he was good
This song’s lyrics has many layers to it, such as the good bye love song intro, a mad society, yearning for something distant, and finally the Oedipus complex towards the end of the song which ends ups shocking most people. Jim Morrison was more of a poet than a singer but damn could he sing.
He influenced Robert Plant
And to think he said he can't sing
The House of Unrecognized Talent and he loved his song Mr MoJo Risin, lol
"the blue bus is calling us" you asked where is it taking me. The blue bus refers to the bus that took young men to boot camp when they were drafted to go to Vietnam. "all the children are insane" This song is about the youth of america in the late 60's going off to war they didn't understand and didn't agree with and coming back insane. It was used in the Vietnam movie Apocalypse Now but was not written for that movie. The movie was made years after this song was written.
I've heard it's also a reference to the blue ambulances used during the war. They picked up injured young men, often to the end, didnt know where they were going.
The blue bus is a drug. This song has nothing to do with Vietnam
@@MikeB12800 not sure what drugs you're on right now, but they have you delusional. Ask any of us that were drafted into the war machine what color the buses were that sent us off to a war we didn't believe in. And anyone that can listen to this song and not hear the anguish of Vietnam should stick to listening to Justin Beiber.
I always liked Ray Manzarek’s interpretation that it was a reference to the Egyptian sun god Ra riding the solar boat westward carrying the souls of the dead to the underworld with the color blue being associated with mysticism and spirituality. In the myth of the path the solar boat took when it passed over the horizon, there is a part where the riverbed that is the sky runs dry so the solar boat turns into a giant snake which would explain the “ride the snake” section. Jim Morrison was clearly very well read in mythology and philosophy.
Spanish caravan. When the music’s over. Studio versions please.
check the 'when the music's over live in Copenhagen' version.. even better than the studio's
Hyacinth House
The spy
I want to hear the scream of the butter fla.
It's actually a goodbye love song, hahaha. Jim being Jim made it pretty dark.
I want it played at my funeral.
Yeah, but to whom? Jim always changed his story on that, giving a different answer to anyone who asked. He even told different friends of his that the song was about them. He was a trickster, and enjoyed keeping people on edge. :D
It started out as a short good-bye song to Mary Werbelow, but they started improvising stuff, and more and more stuff. The 3 or so minute song morphed into a 10 or 15 minute epic.
I have always thought it was about being suicidal, and hating your parents.
One of my favourite songs of all time.
The work they put into it is staggering.
Your face described your feelings perfectly lol.
Great review
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EXCELLENT reaction!
This song is multiple levels of EPIC!
Congratulations you just experienced a journey into a mind spiraling down into the depths of insanity....
It's like a terrifying horror movie, musically expressed...
THE DOORS!
I remember hearing this amazing song for the first time in the Vietnam War film, "Apocalypse Now" directed by Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Trilogy and Bram Stoker's Dracula) and starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, and Robert Duvall. I can't think of this song without thinking of Marlon Brando's incredible acting as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. He was so good (and creepy) that it was scary. I never thought that one of the scariest characters I've ever seen in a movie would be in a Vietnam War film. When Kurtz drops Chef's severed head in front of Martin Sheen..it still gives me the creeps ! It looked so real. And this quote by Kurtz later in the film..“I’ve seen horrors… horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that…but you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face…and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies."...WOW ! Chills.
And this amazing song fit Apocalypse Now like a glove. It was perfect for the film. EPIC.
I went around telling people that The Doors (who were alive in my time) made this song just for the movie. Before the internet b.s. was easy to spread.
@@rancidcrabtree. Charlie don't surf! Damn I'm having chills from Vietnam. I didn't go, just watched all the movies. Still having flashbacks from the acid I dropped at the movies.
"You smell that? Do you smell that?... Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."
@@rondohunter8966 Oh yeah..Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter, Born On The Fourth Of July, etc....some classic classic classic unforgettable films.
@@darthtrip7188 Very good! It's just like I'm still there.
“He’s up to something” made me actually laugh out loud
A little Roadhouse Blues, some L.A. Woman, and Riders on the Storm.
and what are they doin' in the Hyacinth House?
I agree on those 3 Bobby.
The Soft Parade - Morrison's brain on acid...
When I was a child riders on the storm was my favorite song
people are strange
Picture a smaller venue, the air thick with the smell of pot. Some barely conscious people on various hallucinogenics and you better understand the Doors.
@truthiness 63 You'd be surprised, some of us are still riding those cosmic waves )))))))))
Probably like 90 degrees too with everyone totally drenched.
My favorite band of all time.
Ouvi the Doors em 2001 e isso me causou impacto, minha banda predileta.
Yes
and for me
Masterpiece ! Never get tired of listening to this !
Oh I love you for this reaction
Jim Morrison was pretty crazy and your reaction was about as real as it can be for a Doors song. He was a poet and his insanity spilled out in his lyrics
because he was high on drugs all the time.
@@yogib37 also was a literal genius , both lyrically and literally due to his sky high iq
I'm not sure Jim was actually insane, unlike Syd Barrett, who was truly certifiable.
I always loved this one...
The guitar, the percussion, Jim’s voice all over your ears...
Be careful, my dear. The Doors can be habit forming...
-The End
A great companion song is The Unknown Soldier.I knew a woman years ago who met Jim once. She said he had the voice of an angel and the soul of a devil.
YiiiiiiiiiiKES! :-O
Lmbo! :-)
i think it's quite the opposite.
NOW you're ready to hear 'Heroin' by The Velvet Underground, recorded in 1966. The group featured Lou Reed and was way ahead of its time.
Sister Ray Says.
Rock n Roll Animal definitely one of my top ten.
"Theres destruction coming" you nailed it lol!
I remember walking home from school sparking up a joint and listening to this song 👌
I love the doors!
I did that just now.
Lords of dog town..
Been there, done that!
L.s.d. ✌
I tell ya, driving late in the night alone on a lonley dark highway. Lights flashing past you as you go over 80 mph, jims voice echoing in the background as your mind wonders into deep space. Amazing experience i dont recommened.
I remember doing this and at the climax of the song there was a hurd of deer following me left and right of me. The song ended as I was pulling up to my house. I just sat there in aw of what has just happened
I love these reaction vids. The beauty of someone with no point of reference. reviewing history/ Superman stuff !
You should react to more doors for sure, you would like them.
We visited Jim Morrison's grave in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France.
You take pictures
@@maxwhite4914 - yes, we did take pictures. There were some guys there smoking something and playing Doors songs on a boom box. This was 25 years ago.
Yes! Spanish Caravan or Crystal Ship.....Indian Summer....?? Any will do. If u want a more main stream Doors song then you'll want Light my Fire, Love Her Madly, Riders on the Storm, People are Strange!
Or "Waiting For The Sun"... or "Soul Kitchen".
stupidcircusclown love them all, but don't forget back door man.
Jim Morrison and the Doors - taking you on a journey through the dark heart of the American Dream.
It's a very exotic, erotic, almost Fellini quality to this song. Dreamy, and edgy, and nightmarish.
I hear this and immediately go to Apocalypse Now and again how Morrison ended up.
You should watch the movie of the doors it will give you the rough idea about jim Morrison life and the group
It's artfully made and Val Kilmer was incredible as Morrison but Oliver Stone pulled a lot of that movie out of his ass. For a real look at the band read Riders on the Storm by John Densmore.
@@88wildcat or watch the documentary When You're Strange
Morisson was famously high every time he performed which gave his performances a super edgy feel.
Every Time I hear this "Apocalypse Now"
Oh you should watch and react to that movie
The voice doesn't match the face! " with out beard" should of watch the live version of this song!
When he sings about "taking a face from the ancient gallery" the hair stands up on the back of my neck. The word "disturbed" comes to mind. My husband and i went to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and there was a long table with pieces of his life on it that started with his childhood and went to the end where he was found in his bathtub dead. The first thing you read is his Mother's Day card to his mom, which was sweet and as you read, you can see how little by little he begins to change and at the end, in my opinion, he loses himself. I walked away in tears and so did everyone before me who read this account of his life.
This is intriguing, i am a huge Jim Morrison fan. Fan of the doors as well. What do you mean “loses himself”? When was the card written?
@@InfamousMedia Sorry I didn't answer. If you read from the beginning of his life, his first card is to his mother and is very sweet. As you go along reading you see his estrangement from his father and mother, his career, and his final bout with the drugs that killed him. When I say he loses himself, I mean that the drugs made him forget everything. I would say dying in a bathtub was a loss of himself.
You need to see his performance at the Hollywood Bowl … Jim was the embodiment of his art .. There was a Drummer, Keyboard and Guitar .. And Jim … Check out Celebration of the Lizard ,.. But a live performance where you can see the Shaman in his soul..
Yes! I totally agree. Another lost GENIUS lost to us😀
3:02 As you read later on this was recorded live in the studio. So three players on the musical instruments. John Densmore is doing a lot with a modest drum kit. Robby Krieger is playing guitar sorta like a sitar. Ray Manzerak is playing organ with his right hand and the bass part on an electric piano with his left.
Deep is an understatement. John Densmore absolutely kicks ass.
His brilliant on this track
You had to be high to appreciate this nonsense...we were.
I disagree. When I was a kid in the mid 50's to the early 60's, I HATED rock & roll. Then at 9, The Beatles came along, and all the bands from the "British invasion." I dug it! Tap my foot, bob my head, sing along, smile, ya know. Then the California sound and heavier rock bands. Wow! That was a whole new dimension! It was great! It was fun! … and "HEAVY"!!!
Then The Doors came along. Light My Fire. It was something completely different than anything, and I couldn't get enough of it. My mom bought the album for me. (That was my very first album.) I listened to it, and I didn't really care for it. It was just too... I dunno. I couldn't figure it out er sumthin'. I kept listening to the album, and I was soon swept away by it. It was the first time that I really FELT music. No, I was not taking drugs at the age of 11 or 12. Their music rouses emotions that can't really be described. It riles, then releases your inner tensions. It's therapeutic.
Only nonsense around here is your comment. In Jim's work. Literary references, like reptiles, are abounding...reeeaaad a book, reeeead a book ...open the cover and 5ake a look....not directed to you India, you're cool as a block of ice....
One of the best song ever! Loved the reaction, and you're gorgeous!
This song has always struck me as Morrison's suicide note.
May he rest in peace.
It was a song about him breaking up with a girl he loved; however, it evolved into something bigger.
lol...love your reaction...great band...R.I.P Jim, you wild man
Welcome to the mind of the '60's, dear India. 3 years '71 - '74 on at U-Tapao Royal Thai Naval Airfield, a B-52 base in Thailand , and this song was played A LOT. ps... yt has base vids to watch!
Lot of mythology in this. Ride the snake is Indian shamanistic and the Killer awoke Before Dawn story is the Roman Oedipus myth. Kill the father, fuck the mother. That's also Freud.
He was a genius who rode the cusp of insanity. He and several others died at age 27, There's a conspiracy theory about that. You analyzed the song's mood pretty darn well.
My favorite band
maximums jackson my too:))
@@darlingsmk7991 touch me babe
I wanted another mission...and for my sins they gave me one.
This is 1 of my ultimate all time favorites
For this, it would be the sun setting.
This had no visual aids in 1967 nor the 70's or 80's.
This song was brought to you by Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD).
The blue bus is taking us down the rabbit hole. 🤪
I never thought of it that way. That's great!
I believe that the blue bus is the earth and we are going through space without a driver and that's what Jim Morrison meant when he asks driver where you taking us
The Blue Bus is Calling Us. To Vietnam that is.
I personally think that the doors are to be listened to when you're stoned..
I reeeally discovered them on acid in 95. I heard them a bunch when i was a kid, but didn't really hear them until i was high school. I dont mess with drugs anymore, however, They have been one of my favorites since then. There is no one else like them.
"It's destruction coming"! You got that right, sweetheart!
Please do more THE DOORS songs
John Densmore with dem drums 😍
"This is deeper than what I thought". Welcome to the music of The Doors.
YOU MILLENNIALS HAVE BEEN SO DENIED. BUT, YOU SCREWED UP, YOU'LL E HEARING THIS MACABRE SONG THE REST OF YOUR LIFE KNOWING YOU DIDN'T GROWM UP WITH SUCH GOOD MUSIC.
I'm so glad you played this song. Even though it's before you were born you recognize the greatness, the potential. Just give her a dose of Sandoz-grade acid. Then listen to The Doors.
Check out the song "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane
I find myself Lmbo MANY TIMES at your funny faces that you make AND the noises that you make (like in the end of your video),
NOT that i'm poking FUN AT YOU, But rather, i'm Lmbo WITH YOU, ha ha! :-)
You know, the weird thing is this... I was still a young girl in the 70's and a "teeny-bopper" in the 80's (THE BEST TIMES of MY LIFE), And sorry to say this Y'all, But this is ALSO MY 1st TIME EVER Listening to this Song by The Doors, i swear I've NEVER heard of this Song until today.
Hmmmm, WHERE have i been HIDING AT (so sorry to Y'all out there who are TRUE The Doors FANS)???? :-/
Play this very late at a party for those folks who like to stick around until those after midnight hours. Just play it and see what happens. Things will quiet down and you'll see the music go from being the background sounds to something that nearly everyone will tune into. The only thing you'll see people do might be to refill what they're sippin' on. That's because this song is deeeeep!
Everyone plays their part in this one. Each instrument and Morrison's vocals all combine to make this such a powerful, deep, and emotionally raw song. This may be The Doors' very best song; definitely their deepest and darkest.
I did not serve in Vietnam (too young) but have been to Afghanistan four times over a seven-year period from 2008 and 2014. This song fits that war too.
Another late great we lost from the hippie era. He had so much sex appeal. Saw Jim live in Montreal. You would have to live through the Vietnam war to fully get it.
The picture is from the opening scenes of the Vietnam War movie "Apocalypse Now"
Jim Morrison was doing several drugs when he wrote many of his songs..Like Psychedelic trippy drugs..He has tons of amazing songs out of it all..It was just the time period when many were using drugs like this & others..Trippy Hippies...
Could be a sunset, the end. I'm new to your channel, love your reactions and song choices! I don't know if you do Reggae but Playing For Change does a Bob Marley cover I would love to see your reaction to that. The song is War/No More Trouble.
This guy was 27 and he wrote all these songs, accomplish all of that. I'm 31 and I did nothing remarkable. But trust me, I'm going to do it, and do it hard on top of that.
The blue bus reference is to a hippie bunch Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Tom Wolfes book "The Electric Coolaid Acid Test" relates their antics.
Next level shit? Maybe they should rename the song cuz that says it all... luv your reactions. i first heard this song 1000 times ago but still wont change it if it comes on. long as hell but over before you know it. try celebration of the lizard, a compilation, on the doors-absolutely live.
When it comes to the doors it's always deeper than you thought enjoy
Nice one, girl👍
Great reaction. Everything in like will betray you, turn its back on you, or let you down, at least once. Your family, your body, your youth, your peers, your beliefs, the law, society, your mind, everything is going to fail, except death. Death will always be there, no matter what happens. It will never fail you, you can always count on it to be there. In a sense, it is your only friend, the end.
The Doors are the best band of all time.
Jim Morrison became obsessed with what awaits us after death and many of his songs lyrics reflected such.
The Doors are the only band that sounded good while on drugs even though (as always) drugs and alcohol took him to an early grave.
How did you miss the oedipal reference ,.. Kill the Father Sleep with the Mother .. It is a mythological reference to Oedipus
Everybody please stop with all the Apocalypse Now references. Yea it was in the movie but this song literally has zero to do with Vietnam or war.
Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection...send my Credentials to the house of Detention I got some friend inside
This song takes me back to the Nam.
Jim Morrison was fascinated with dead. What was after, what was it like leading up to it, how everyone else died. And then, at 27, he died.
yeah. he used the F bomb
Some of the doors songs you need to check out vvvv
-soul kitchen
-Alabama song
-roadhouse blues
-LA woman
The blue bus is the bus taking you off to Vietnam. The blue bus is calling us.
As much as I love this song …..when I watched *Apocalypse Now* it made more sense after I watched that. This is some deeply brilliant music ; )
I was about six years old at the time this record came out. I shared a bedroom with my two brothers, my oldest brother worked a late night job at a 7 11. When he got off work, would play music. This album was one his favorites. Scared the shit out of me laying in the dark trying to sleep.
the kings highway / the snake, the blue bus is the Mekong river.
This song begins and ends the movie Apocalypse Now. If you find it chilling to listen to it in audio, just wait until you see and hear it combined with the visuals in the movie. The entire film is a gut-wrenching experience. A friend of mine saw the film with her husband, who had been in Vietnam. She asked him if that was really what it was like? His reply was, "Yes, but they left out the bad stuff." This made it even more terrifying to watch. The music seems like it was made for the film.
He got arrested for this song in live performance.
The closing instrumental section of Light My Fire never gets old.
Superb. But check out Nico's spine-chilling cover.
Very eclectic group..Try: Roadhouse Blues-Not to Touch the Earth & The. Crystal Ship..
Crystal ship is fantastic
Along w riders and la woman
India you're adorable.
i love watchin folk gettin this for the first time....