First time hearing The Doors "People Are Strange" Reaction | Asia and BJ

[@HorrorGenreLady]

Every time I hear this song I think of the lost boys. And my dad, he told me this story. He worked at a hotel they were staying at my dad didn't have a way home one night and he noticed a guy smoking a cigarette looking at him, they start talking and my dad explained how he ended his shift and had no way home so the guy offers to let my dad stay with him and his friends for the night. Dad reluctantly agreed and the guy introduced him to everyone and when he met Jim he said he was stunned speechless because he didn't know that guy he just met was a member of the Doors they all laughed at his reaction but dad said that they were nice to him and treated him like he was part of the group. Their paths never crossed again after that, but my dad said he never forgot their kindness towards him.

[@franciscoramirez4179]

No way!😳 that's AWESOME man😊👍👍👍 I can only imagine 🥰

[@rian202003]

Brilliant

[@dimitriodee]

Great story , thanks for sharing

[@cyber6sapien]

That is an awesome fcking story!!

[@Primus-ue4th]

Lost boys was the shit. Greatest vampire movie in my opinion. And the shirtless sax player in the beginning….

[@Day0One]

Song is about feeling alienated. Jim realized he was depressed because "if you're strange, people are strange."

[@stevemak8620]

Right on.

[@mohammedjamil2277]

@@stevemak8620 yes perfect analysis from Dave 💯

[@NondescriptMammal]

@@mohammedjamil2277 Doesn't seem like it really needs analysis, it's not like the lyrics are cryptic, the message is pretty straightforward.

[@HalSchirmer]

The song was recorded in 1967. Jim Morrison had that insight and voice at 24 years old. And only had 4 more years to use them.

[@CalixYukon]

This song fit the psychedelic mood of this era perfectly. I feel like we need to hear the stories you guys were holding back tho! =D

[@vellaropedart9190]

I always thought they had a sort of wicked,surreal carnival type of sound.

[@willblood7082]

Great song! If you’re a Doors fan you know this song very well. If not, you’d probably call this a deep cut… nice reaction 👍🏻

[@daniellysohirka5079]

I wouldn't say so, it's an album track title.

[@julies5515]

I listened to The Doors. I have a wide taste in music. I might listen to The Doors one minute and Reba the next lol.

[@NondescriptMammal]

Not really a deep cut, considering it was the first single released from their second album, and reached #12 on the Billboard charts. But it was overshadowed a bit by Light My Fire from their debut album released just a few months earlier.

[@ghostlee6434]

He said women seem wicked not are.also he was basically a poet he didn't write lyrics the way songwriters normally do.he used to improvise spoken word poetry passages while the band played live.

[@barrycohen311]

Yes, it is about a weirdo who was rejected by woman because of his strangeness, so then began to think of them as "Wicked." Perhaps Jim was predicting the Incel and MGTOW movements.

[@sahandro]

A song that got me into The Doors, and eventually rock music. Awesome!

[@trish.b]

I love, love, love the Doors and It’s cool to see young people finding and enjoying their music. When Jim wrote this, he was feeling very depressed and alone after fighting again with his love Pamela Courson. He wrote this song in his head in one night. The Doors are amazing and Jim’s lyrics and his poetry are greatness…

[@brokenmummy232]

Asia your face and smile and eyes seem to reveal how true this song is. What were you thinking, feeling and processing during this masterpiece? Come On Now lets get real here in DFW 🤠

[@patrickseidel8625]

He wasn't saying women are wicked. He was saying that a man who can't get a woman says they are wicked as an excuse.

[@bryanmack4054]

All he said was they “seem wicked” anything else, is just what you are trying to read into it which likely isn’t anything Morrison was thinking. The other band members talked about how Morrison wrote this while he was depressed

[@PhilAlumb]

​@@bryanmack4054👍🏻💯

[@bryanmack4054]

@@PhilAlumb it’s just that…comments like that annoy me sometimes…just because he mentions women , doesn’t mean he’s talking about stereotypical woman hating Incel. Social alienation is a very real thing , whether it involves men or women

[@fairydust-weepthewildwinds]

Robby is one of the best guitars around…. Grew up THE DOORS, 🤷🏻‍♀️ we’re both born December 8th😍. Too many great SONGs. VAL VILMER plays an awesome Jim Morrison on the movie THE DOORS. Almost was an extra in the movie…. Almost 🤷🏻‍♀️ was working at the time.🧚🏽‍♂️. Love you guys💙

[@jeremyfagner6808]

Yes I agree Robby is one of the GREATEST!

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Fun reaction. I've always liked this one. Another one kind of in this direction only more whimsical and even more melodic I would say, is called, Don't You Love Her Madly. It really is a work of art.

[@savsmiles3042]

Love Street❤️

[@nim4464]

the song is called Love Her Madly

[@surlechapeau]

Asia & BJ, for your 6th/7th Doors song I'd recommend "Break On Through" and "Touch Me"!!!

[@cajunsushi]

Also Crystal Ship.

[@osirispluto8782]

@@cajunsushi Yes!

[@mohammedjamil2277]

@@osirispluto8782 Strange Days and Wild Child....oh and The Changeling!

[@mohammedjamil2277]

@@cajunsushi The Changeling and Wild Child!

[@bostonvair]

I always saw the meaning of this song to be about how you feel when you're in a strange place more than a general treatise on people being strange (or describing a sense of alienation in general). When we're in a strange place where we don't know anyone, this song describes that feeling with great imagery. Listen to the lyrics again on that light. People are strange When you're a stranger Faces look ugly When you're alone... etc.

[@jmoreno44]

The line is "Women SEEM wicked, WHEN you're unwanted." The weirdo who cannot get a date or keep a relationship will blame women when truly it's just their strangeness.

[@dracopticon7788]

That goes bothways.

[@jonathancadorin9714]

I think it also speaks to the fact that non conventional people (strange) ones that don’t fit the mold. Get ignored and to a point get chastised or belittled for attempting to approach a conventional person in that way.

[@dagmar.6954]

The Doors were among the most controversial & influential rock acts of the 1960s, mostly due to Jim Morrison's lyrics & voice. They had a lot of hits including "The End", "Light My Fire", "Break On Through (To The Other Side)", "Love Me Two Times", "L.A. Woman", "Hello, I Love You", "Touch Me", "The Unknown Soldier", "Roadhouse Blues", "Love Her Madly", "Riders On The Storm". Sadly Jim Morrison died in 1971 at the age of only 27 but left a great legacy of music.

[@recoil53]

For the short time he was around, he left quite the song list. I know all those songs, but I never counted up how many great songs he had.

[@kevincaulder96]

Time for you to enjoy the elegant slide of Robby Kreiger's guitar as the Doors invite you on a MOONLIGHT DRIVE. The scene of two people on a night that ends in horror has never been so seductively portrayed. The magic of the Doors is in the wedding of both the music and words describing the weird scenes they paint with their music. Next up, LOVE HER MADLY.

[@johncurran6031]

When the sings, "When you're strange, faces come out of the rain..." he is talking about being on LSD. The song is memory of being on acid and trying to do normal things.

[@stewartferguson6843]

Such an iconic song featured on soundtrack for the lost boys film classic

[@Wrangzilla]

That was Echo and the Bunnymen’s version. Very good cover…

[@John-ci8yk]

A normal hit of acid is 350 to 400 mg of LSD, he once dropped 10,000 mg at one time. If I witness accounts are accurate. Ray Manzarek mentioned it on an interview on WMMR in the early 1980s and it was in the book "no one here gets out alive". I don't know how strange people are on acid because every time I seen somebody on acid I was also on acid with them. Thank you and thumbs up.

[@trep8387]

Jimbo Morrison was a real poet in life.. my guy also known back in the day as the lizard 🦎 king great rock tee shirt back in 70's

[@daymonevans]

Think you missed it altogether. He is not talking about others being strange, He is saying, "when your strange". They dont remember YOUR name, when YOUR ARE strange. I think he is talking about how you are seen by others when you are high (strange). I think it is a reference to getting high or a bad trip. Hey, let's get strange. Dont hear that anymore, but did sure did in the 60s. Yes, I was there and that is how most saw this song. When you are strange, faces do come out of the rain. Like any of Morrissons poetry,..I mean songs, however you want to interpret the meaning is right for you. The basis of his genius. Still.sounds great over 50 years later.

[@sarablack2547]

UK 80's emo band echo and the bunnymen's version was used in vampire movie the lost boys.it has a fab soundtrack.

[@NDE239]

The Doors: * The Soft Parade * Not to Touch the Earth * Blue Sunday * Universal Mind * Whiskey, Mystics and Men

[@kenhoyer8601]

The strange one in this song is more like in 1st person. It's his outlook on life.

[@jimoneill7657]

Faces look evil when your alienated, Riders is my favorite song has been for 35 years people are strange is my ringtone

[@snakeinthegrass7443]

"When you're strange, faces come out of the rain". Sounds like a bad acid trip to me. I believe the words "being strange" was another way of saying being high. Maybe there's some 60s folks out there to confirm my thoughts. I'm a 70s kid so I'm not sure about that.

[@EllisD17]

He never said men weren't wicked, just pointed to the fact that women seem to be when you're alone.

[@kathyyore309]

This song is sn awesome,and catchy! You will be humming this for days,and it will pop in your head at the funniest times. Love this show! 💖

[@Ritaholden1]

Can't hear this song without thinking of Lost Boys. Great movie.

[@marvwatkins7029]

At least these 2 are willing to listen.

[@keithwilson6060]

It seems like Jim adopted a hint of a British accent in this song. Very fitting.

[@hectordelacruz5222]

THE DOORS One of my fav bands

[@WayneReeves-eq1kf]

Back in the day, being strange was a term used for being under the influence of LSD. So i was told 😊

[@sherrybirchall8677]

Maybe. If so, it's a term I never heard, and I am, you guessed it, old.

[@robertnahum5823]

Greetings! Just wanted to clarify Jim's phrase of "Wicked women". The lyrics are as follows "women seem wicked, when your unwanted." He is showing the misconception on the part of the man in seeing the woman as "wicked" for not being interested in him. I don't think he was calling women wicked, as you noted men can be too!✌🏾

[@kevanbodsworth9868]

People often seem starnge because they are a fair bit more intelegent or creative than most ,then feel isolated, Morrison was very creative and intelegent ,,

[@jenniferjacobs228]

This is on the soundtrack of the vampyre movie The Lost Boys, 1980's...love it..

[@Wrangzilla]

That was Echo and the Bunnymen’s cover of this. Very good cover!!!!

[@lloyderc]

They where really great band

[@cindyv1401]

Jim Morrison was right 🙄 People ARE Strange !!!

[@alrivers2297]

Beyond strange!

[@jutwilton2805]

The doors "five to one " it's a gem of a song :)

[@billking1751]

Song would have been really cool in the first Trinity movie (spaghetti western). That was a missed opportunity right there. But Taratino is still around to take advantage of it.

[@scottvanhille5688]

The Doors! Rapture Riders is a mashup of Rapture by Blondie and Riders on the Storm by The Doors, unfortunately you can't react to it on here for obvious reasons but please check out Winger--Headin For A Heartbreak. Thanks yall!

[@gregstivers8959]

Light my fire on the Ed Sullivan show WOW

[@cyber6sapien]

The Lost Boys - 1987. RIP Corey Haim 🙏

[@Uriahjw]

This was my song all through high-school. Lol.

[@alrivers2297]

The Doors are my favorite American band of all time

[@TheOmegaRain]

Every Doors Album was Different and Unique unto itself !

[@brianfisher6165]

"Strange" in my mind was Jim referring to tripping on acid!!!👍👍👌👌✌✌😁😁

[@keithbruce82]

The best doors song is "the Alabama Song". You all should check it out.

[@tresianyfb5865]

Ole boys were on lots of stuff Most days. N they knew folks knew what was up n still did there thing n had some amusing / amazing times

[@jasonfreeman9147]

He said “Van Morrison said it best” 😂😂

[@gwen-bleiz8141]

You opened The Doors of a Legend

[@robertjones6971]

The Doors, "the end" full version.😜🤘🔥

[@JaneDoe396Hz]

My daughter had her 20th birthday yesterday and we watched the Oliver Stone movie, The Doors (her choice), are you guys reading my mind? Thanks for posting! xoxo

[@JaneDoe396Hz]

She asked if people were really like that back then and I said, well, Jim Morrison was. (In The Movie)

[@barrycohen311]

It's a good movie, I've seen it 3-4 times. I thought Val Kilmer did a great job. However the movie did get some critique by people who knew Jim well, including the remaining band members. The main beef seems to be they only portrayed one side of Jim- The debased, drug fueled, Rock Star. The other side of Jim was super quiet, reflective, very polite, thoughtful and respectful. A complex genius, for sure.

[@bassage13]

I love the movie, but it is notoriously inaccurate in many ways. Everyone who knew Jim, even his bandmates, said it was BS. He was nothing like that. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy the movie, but don't go in thinking it's a documentary.

[@scottfeuerhammer3595]

Watch, "Peace Frog" or "Soul Kitchen"! That's some Doors jams!

[@ramkraken8242]

Song remind me of growth and during different periods of time and recognizing the people you need to stay away from lol

[@ronaldcrawford9310]

The show was always Morrison actually. Arguably one of the best front men ever. Yes, I know Jagger and DLR

[@michaelquinn2845]

Perhaps...He was describing his own drug abuse! When we get "strange", we tend to perceive the world and people just like he pointed out in the lyrics. I'm just an old fact that understands his poetry!

[@steveullrich7737]

According to Doors’ Drummer John Densmore’s autobiography Jim was often very very strange not just when he was on drugs so could have been his self reflection too.

[@michaelquinn2845]

@@steveullrich7737 I completely agree, I'm quite strange myself!

[@johnfaram4684]

"touch me" brilliant doors track

[@justingutube]

The Doors are on the Mt. Rushmore of Rock bands with The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd. Nuff said.

[@alrivers2297]

I have no problem with that. But I feel we need to make some space up there for Black Sabbath too.

[@justingutube]

@@alrivers2297 Absolutely, along with The Rolling Stones, Cream, CCR, The Who and a few others.

[@mader348]

They definitely would be the George Washington of rock

[@sherrybirchall8677]

I've always felt an atmosphere in this song like somebody going down the street like in a Fellini film. Strange, grotesque faces popping up from nowhere to leer at a person who is, by their own assessment, also strange.

[@jangle4246]

I was in my 20s when this song was released. Always liked the woman in the doorway on the back of the Strange Days album cover.

[@PUNKinDRUBLIC72]

My favourite Doors song that isn't on the first album, c'mon we've all been f**king teenagers?????!

[@gunship4720]

This always makes me think of The Lost Boys

[@Triggerhippie70]

Love this damn song!

[@troilusand]

The man thinks that the woman is wicked, because she doesn't want him. Perception is everything.

[@MrModel--CAPTURED-ON-FILM]

I worked in NYC during the 80s, for The Muppets, and others. At that time "Punk" was taking hold, "Blondie" & Madonna ruled the radio. Jim Morrison had been dead for quite some time. But for some reason there was a renaissance toward him. People found him "hot", sexy, desirable. It got so 'out of hand' that people (New Yorkers) began wearing t-shirts, which, over a photo of Morrison, read, "He's Hot! He's Sexy! And he's Dead!" - so weird......

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Yes, the 80s had a 60s revival...The Monkees, too. It was great, a fun time

[@MrModel--CAPTURED-ON-FILM]

@@llw1066 Yes, it was from a Rolling Stone cover, because of the revised fan base from a new younger gen. Thank you for the reminder. I recall this cover being then transferred to NYer's t-shirts and seeing girls walking around wearing this. Having been myself a really big Doors fan I was amazed, and impressed.

[@carriemichelle322]

This song always remind me of the movie The Lost Boys!

[@neohuber45]

Im not a native (english) speaker but it feels like you understand the meaning of the word "strange" in an completly other way than I do. It sounds like you interprate "strange" as some kind of "odd" or "weird". But I think this is meant literally. So I think this guy is new in this group. He is the stranger (like a foreigner). Everyone else knows eachother but he is the only new guy. So nobody remebers his name and he feels uncomfortable.

[@calybo6481]

This was my fave band as a teen. Still love them, then this song was in The Lost Boys, which was my fave movie in my 20s.

[@curiousman1672]

Yep. Lotta truth there. Everybody is a little strange.........some are really strange.

[@dannycasson1551]

The “carnival” keyboards in this give it a creepy atmosphere in my opinion. Browning’s “Freaks” comes to mind. Carnivals have the reputation of a seedy side underneath all the clowns and cotton candy.

[@kylesage-clontz]

The album cover for Strange Days, the album this is on, is a group of carnival performers looking creepy.

[@zimjun7]

Todd Browning's Freaks was disturbing. VERY creepy. June

[@dannycasson1551]

@@zimjun7 especially the revenge scene at the end of the movie!

[@dannycasson1551]

@@kylesage-clontz that’s right! I totally forgot. Been a long time since I’ve seen it.

[@zimjun7]

@@dannycasson1551 Yes...their premiere to shine, I guess.

[@richardfilanderer]

Please please please PLEASE react to Roadrunner by the Modern Lovers. One of the greatest songs ever written and I can’t find a single reaction video about it. YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED!!

[@terryleicht6008]

My favorite song from my favorite band!

[@papercup2517]

It's not saying that people ARE strange, or that women ARE wicked. It's about feeling alienated and/or depressed and how the world can seem like a cold, uncaring place, people seem strange and inexplicable, and (for a man, cos it's a man singing it) that women you might otherwise desire seem like they might be wicked/have some evil agenda. In other words, you just see the worst in everyone, and everything. Even the streets seem uneven, when you're down. It's about distorted perception.

[@marthaz]

Pretty much says it all. 👍🤣

[@vamuz1972]

I love Doors! Don't forget it's 50 years old music, sure seems a little naive today, but this guy had amazing voice...even when singing high or drunk :)

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

Go Warriors B.J.!

[@bobschenkel7921]

Jim Morrison speaking from experience. Mr. Mojo Rising telling you what life is like when you are out there alone. It is strange sometimes.

[@kevinfitzpatrick8532]

Any Doors song is a good pick, speaking from someone who was privileged enough to see them preform live once, try the song Soft Parade i think will enjoy it.👍🙂

[@gordowg1wg145]

As a teen i thought it was a bit messed up - people always seemed to know my name... 😉

[@markstanton2362]

They could have injected this song into the haunted mansion at Disneyland.

[@joshlobel8111]

Great reaction! Jim said women are wicked when YOU'RE unwanted...it's more of a slight towards men if anything.

[@Andy2481]

When ever I hear this song I think of the movie Lost Boys 1987.

[@nestoraugustoalderetegainz2058]

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[@Darkcydesreign]

The end pls🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@mikecaetano]

Groovy! Check out "Strange Days" maybe next, or "Love Her Madly", perhaps "I Can't See Your Face in My Mind" instead...

[@John__Dough]

He’s speaking from the perspective of a person that’s socially awkward, that feels alone and rejected by society.

[@abelyerikaguerra1540]

Last days......strange days have found us.....🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@johnharkness7114]

we are all strange

[@handsomestik]

"you're a goddamn Vampire Micheal"

[@kerryknight228]

My husband says it’s about walking the streets on acid.. he should know! ✌️

[@rubbersole79]

Life is that way. Sometimes you're all that, and more often......your just..........strange.

[@Markrealguy51]

People are definitely strange…And that’s all we’ve got

[@samson9535]

Jim Morrison was a genius with an IQ of 149.

[@zunbake3]

Songs that must be examined to understand the depth of the Morrison/Kreiger Beat/Hippie Poetry: The End, When The Music is Over, The Soft Parade, Texas Radio and The Big Beat, Horse Latitudes, Peace Frog and so many more.

[@riskyseeds423]

Try the Doors Soft Parade

[@ruprecht3360]

The doors black train song 👍

[@shaneptc23]

You need to watch the movie The Doors with Val Kilmer and Meg Ryan. Val was epic in