The Doors- Break On Through (To the Other Side) & Soul Kitchen (First Listen)

[@derekmeade6350]

Doors were hugely influential and easy to see why. This is a great album but The End is an amazing climax. Used in the climax of the film Apocalypse Now and it fits there beautifully

[@manhattenman6075]

YESSS MANN yes one of the best Debut albums ever Please do the whole thing

[@ronjm945]

The Doors were a one of a kind sixties rock bands whose music held up rather well. I often wondered what they would have created had Jim Morrison had lived???

[@robertlear2735]

This is a tribute to the soul food restaurant Olivia's in Venice Beach, California. Because Jim Morrison often stayed too late, the staff had to kick him out, thus the lines "let me sleep all night, in your soul kitchen".

[@jfergs.3302]

Great band The Doors. And one of a handful out of the 60's worthy of the epithet Iconic. Also, as debut albums go, they don't get much better. Two great tracks here off a classic album. A real ensemble with everyone at the top of their game. Let's not wait too long before we return to this album... I'm a bit of a fan, did you guess :)

[@douga91965]

Ray Manzarek said this song is simply about being on psychedelics, break on through to THIS side. Nothing more.

[@kelvinkloud]

lyrics are succinct and packed in break on thru... and densmore does some of his best drumming ever. sharp. stop on dime. direction. curve... like lemans race car driving... pure octane energy.

[@joelliebler5690]

Iconic songs!👍🏻❤️☮️🎤🎹🎼

[@BaldJean]

John Densmore is an excellent drummer; you can clearly hear he has a jazz background. The whole album is excellent, the first highlight is "Light my Fire". And the big highlight is "The End". "The End" is also very psychedelic. As to bass pedals: There is one name that immediately comes to the mind - Barbara Dennerlein. Once again: Try the title track of her album "Hot Stuff"; it has a bass pedal solo in it. Keep in mind Keith Emerson was a big fan of her!

[@TheVerdilac]

The Doors got much more psychedelic and experimental on their 2nd album, Strange Days (which I highly recommend), but you do hear hints of the direction the band was going in on their debut. Ray Manzarek played left hand bass live and I believe on the entire debut album as well on a Fender Rhodes piano bass. I believe they started incorperating an actual bassist on select tracks from the 2nd album on in the studio but they didn't have a bassist live until after Jim's death. In the studio, the organ he played most is the Vox Continental. Live, he used a Gibson G101 more often than not. By the last couple albums, he switched almost entirely to playing a Hammond.

[@KrisThroughGlass]

I love The Doors. Thank you for this reaction!

[@Lwize]

Break On Through is practically punk rock. It's funny, I grew up on the censored radio single - it's strange to hear "she gets high" when I've heard "she gets _____" for 50+ years. Ray used a Fender Bass keyboard, but they did have studio bass players from time to time.

[@KevinRCarr]

Fifth grade. Used to listening to my dad's country and big band music, and am radio pop. My older brother brought this home, and after listening to it with his friends, left it on the turntable of Dad's stereo system. I sat down in front of the speakers on the living room carpet and listened all the way through both sides. I didn't always understand what the songs were about, but I was entranced with my first exposure to the larger world of music, outside the narrow confines of what I'd always listened to before.

[@mrmojo]

the doors are an intolerable and prolonged pleasure.

[@garyspeed8961]

Doors were big with our surf crowd in the late 60's

[@JeromeDukes]

My experience with The Doors was their music was always on everyone's mixed tape. BBQ, cottaging or any social event, their music was always playing in the background. The Doors were like a comfort blanket when hanging with family and friends.

[@arideronthestorm]

Listen to them in concert! What a band!

[@alanarakelian5021]

FYI: 1967 was, hands down, the best year in popular music. So many gems. New artists (including the Doors) and innovative sounds abounded.

[@zappafan-eu4wp]

Great band. Always loved "Moonlight Drive"

[@maraboo72]

I still have the version where "She gets high" is cut to "She gets". Oh those bad, bad girls - allies of the evil. Morrison was a great singer - one of my favorites btw - but he also was a poet. His poems are worth reading. One of the most charismatic artists of the 20th century.

[@daneng3641]

Yeah, hearing the "high" always sounds wrong to me. I actually like the idea of leaving what she gets to the imagination. She gets...She gets...! What does she get, Jim?

[@brumleyhall]

I grew up with this album, and I had no idea he sang "She Get High" until right now. Crazy!

[@Drummingvulture]

LOVE his (their) 'An American Prayer' album!

[@lukeizabelle2131]

@@daneng3641 I don't know, I still prefer it with the "high" part. It sounds more correct and that's how the Doors originally intended it to sound like and you can clearly hear that it was cut out and censored. I hate all kinds of censorship when it comes to art

[@Thievius333]

@@lukeizabelle2131 I agree that its what The Doors intended, but it still sounds "wrong" to me just because I grew up with the censored version.

[@Azabaxe80]

I discovered The Doors some time around 1981/2. Morrison was on the cover of Rolling Stone. The caption was "Jim Morrison: He's hot, he's sexy, and he's dead". I was sold.

[@edsmith3461-z7m]

Ray is being doubled by Larry Knechtel - bass on "Soul Kitchen" and "Light My Fire"

[@gregcormier2379]

Ray Manzerak was the glue that kept the group together. His keyboard playing filled a lot of space in their music.

[@-davidolivares]

For me the debut and their last true album, L.A. Woman are my preference albums. Both, for the most part are raw blunt objects that knock you on yer blank. So good. Guess I’ll play the Doors of Perception box set today at work. Have to. Of course my door is my favorite one, artwork. It has mellowed out a raging fear, soothed my insecurities, gave me something to focus on, as well as, work. So my door probably has a mural on it. Great choices today, well done sir. Good day... I said Good Day Sir! Peace and other side Music

[@SpaceCattttt]

I've never thought of the Doors as psychedelic. Jim may have had a flower girl (or many) as his partner, but musically, the band always struck me as an intoxicating hybrid of wildly different styles that rarely if ever go together, even today. Jim brought violence, poetry and crooning. Ray and John brought a jazzy groove. And Robby topped it all off with immortal riffs and flamenco!

[@Totenkopfzwerg]

Just to imagine what the people felt who were there to hear these songs played live for the first time. Must have been literally a mind-blowing and life-expanding experience.

[@thomasmcintosh390]

You're in my wheelhouse now! Break on Through was definitely influenced by Ray Charles What'd I Say. I read Susan Adkin's (Manson Family member) biography and she wrote that she was dancing to Break on Through when Manson and her met. She was employed as ago-go dancer at the time and Charlie approached her and began to move her and with her as she danced. I always described Doors music as somewhat like Haunted Circus music. The band was one of my first teenage obsessions incredibly hypnotic.

[@jamesleblanc7437]

“Haunted Circus Music”: it works, man, it works!

[@kelvinkloud]

dark carnival.

[@eximusic]

I was just discussing with my son last night after watching The Doors on HBO, that The Doors were the only real American competition with the British rock bands who really seemed to understand the blues and had the ability to take it harder. Manzarek's might have started sounding a little dated by '69 (musical styles were moving so fast back then, two years seemed more like a decade fashion-wise), but they added a bass player and thickened up their sound by the time LA Woman was recorded.

[@steveosborne3714]

In relation to your 'psychedelia' question, Justin, Jim Morrison was recorded saying that Pink Floyd was his favourite band. Given that he died in 1971, we're talking pre- Dark Side Of The Moon period here, of course. For me, the Doors first album is one of those 'This is as good as it gets' albums.

[@anthonyblakely399]

ok...I wasn't ready for this reaction.....I can't believe it!!! You!!! You doing the Doors???? Oh my....ok....

[@JustJP]

I'm here for the unexpected 😃

[@anthonyblakely399]

@@JustJP Hahaha...and the "Unexpected" You Shall Recieve!!! Hahaha...lol.....hahahaha...Enjoy!!!

[@anthonyblakely399]

Yeah Explode the Doors more....Jimmy writes about sex, injustice, love, politics, & mysteries of Life...he considered himself a shaman so a lot of that, too. I'm EXCITED!!! You are gonna grow so much listening to The Doors & The Beatles.

[@kennethkalls4031]

Progarchives.com refers to The Doors as being "proto-prog", and this album is listed as the #8 proto-prog album, with Strange Days coming in at #11. "The denomination Proto Prog comes from the combination of two words, Proto from the Greek The earliest,. and Prog which as we know is a short term for Progressive Rock, so as it's name clearly indicates, refers to the earliest form of Progressive Rock or Progressive Rock in embryonary state. "These bands normally were formed and released albums before Progressive Rock had completely developed (there are some rare Proto Prog bands from the early 70's, because the genre didn't expanded to all the Continents simultaneously. "The common elements in all these bands is that they developed one or more elements of Prog, and even when not completely defined as part of the genre, they are without any doubt, an important stage in the evolution of Progressive Rock. "Generally, Proto Prog bands are the direct link between Psyche and Prog and for that reason the Psychedelic components are present in the vast majority of them, but being that Progressive Rock was born from the blending of different genres, we have broadened the definition to cover any band that combined some elements of Progressive Rock with other genres prior to 1970. "Some of these bands evolved and turned into 100% Prog, while others simply choose another path, but their importance and contribution in the formative period of Prog can't be denied, for that reason no Prog site can ignore them." www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=37

[@Geezerology]

Wow, dude, every now and then you come with the surprises. Thank you for this. This is where it all started back when this old guy was just a teen-ager. It's a blast to be able to listen to you youngsters hear this stuff for the first time. 😁😁😁

[@markspooner1224]

Great stuff, more Doors please with a little 'Perception'.

[@rogerwaters3165]

Another favorite band and this is my favorite album by them!

[@johnstorton]

"Your fingers weave quick minarets. Speaking secret alphabet." This song is about a place he frequented. Somebody he knew there was deaf, spoke in sign.

[@jerryfinn9251]

Doors were part of the psychedelic genre. Their innovation was that they mixed jazz and blues influences with psychedelic. That's what made them stand out, that and Jim's morose lyrics.

[@jimhardiman3836]

The Doors exploded onto the scene with this song. Hell of a debut and they could really play their asses off!

[@justintime42000]

I’m so glad you finally got to The Doors. I remember talking about them to you in 2019. Yes, they were definitely psychedelic rock, which you’ll hear more of in their longer songs. “Light My Fire” and “The End” are good examples on this album. They infused a lot of styles into their music. Jim Morrison was a passionately wild singer, especially on stage. After you hear “Light My Fire” (which was shortened for an AM radio friendly single version but must be listened to in its nearly 7 minute entirety) and “The End,” you’ll have no doubt that they weaved a psychedelic spell in these longer songs. People were definitely smoking marijuana and taking LSD to Doors music in the 60s and 70s. I was just one of millions. This whole album is great! I hope you’ll do the whole thing. Great job, Justin!

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Very influential band. The rhythm of their song "Peace Frog" in particular lent itself to so many songs (including the entire "Madchester" scene of late 1980s Britain). If you want to hear Jim at his most romantic and poetic, try "The Crystal Ship"... or if you want to hear the band rocking out, go for "L.A. Woman".

[@pauldocmusic2411]

In my top 10 albums ever, and a debut album as already mentioned. Robbie kreiger was doing guitar videos from his home studio during lockdown, worth a watch.

[@martintayler23]

The late Larry Knechtel from the 'Wrecking Crew', a group of fantastic session musicians. Larry was a great musician and had some success with the band called Bread.

[@johncagnettajr344]

On this album session musician Larry Knechtel and guitarist Robby Krieger, played bass on several tracks to enhance the sound of Manzarek's keyboard bass.

[@onemerlin]

Good call on the psychedelic and especially surf influences. They came up in LA, Venice Beach, in the mid-60s; psychedelia and especially surf were everywhere in the environment. It would be more surprising if they had no influence at all. But IIRC at least Ray and John had strong jazz backgrounds, and it really shows on the grooves. And Jim was a unicorn; mystic raging drunken blues poet with an amazing voice and incredible personal magnetism. As far as meaning: they called themselves The Doors based on Aldous Huxley's (I think) Doors of Perception, and Break on Through references things of this world that need to be broken through to reach the other side - perceiving the world anew. Jim was mostly an autodidact, but read widely and had many influences. Soul Kitchen is simpler - bars are closed, can I crash with you tonight? except much more elegantly phrased. :) Jim also had a history as a couch surfer before they were successful.

[@genov9374]

Love the Doors-for a long psychedelic/Jazzy trip catch "The End" and also "Soft Parade" (use lyrics on Parade). Good insight on the love song meaning in Soul Kitchen-but it also is just straightforward. There was a café that Jim would spend time, drink coffee, smoke cigs just to get away from the hustle and bustle, and often they had to "kick" him out so they could close.

[@gaiaeternal5131]

Hello, Justin. Dave from a brightening London (sky's on its Way To Blue). I was fortunate enough to get the vaccine several weeks ago, so that's my door to a bit more freedom. Coincidentally, I was listening to The Best of the Doors last night. Fantastic band, but it's my big brother who is the real fan; he has absolutely everything they did. I know this album and Waiting For The Sun very well from when we both were still living at home. Jim Morrison has quite simply one of the great voices in rock; you get power and intimacy at the same time, and on tracks like The End you seem to be entering into his nightmare. Ray Manzarek adds such musicality to the band.

[@lukeizabelle2131]

The lyrics of Break On Through To The Other Side are actually psychedelic influenced. They are more or less inspired by some famous quotes by William Blake which were then adapted and implemented by psychedelic guru Aldous Huxley into his famous book "The Doors Of Perception" which discusses his experiences from taking psychoactive/psychedelic drugs. Jim Morrison read that book and was heavily influenced and inspired by it. He once quoted William Blake/Aldous Huxley saying "There are things known and things unknown and in between are the Doors" and then he added by himself "I wanna be those doors" and that's probably where they've taken the name for the band, meaning The Doors. There is another quote by William Blake/Aldous Huxley which says "If the doors of perception were cleansed/opened, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite". Opening those doors of perception may be the equivalent to taking LSD and other psychoactive/psychedelic drugs and the experience that you have from taking those drugs may be the equivalent to see things as they are: infinite. So Break On Through To The Other Side may mean to go to the other side of your consciousness from having your perceptions altered by taking psychedelic drugs such as LSD or as Morrison would say by opening the doors of perception. That would also explain why on this song Morrison sings "she gets high"

[@realbser1956]

Wow, The Doors, America, David Bowie and Kenny Rogers all in the last few days. Good job JP. Keep the flame lit. Excellent comments about The Doors.

[@JustJP]

🔥

[@lynnsmith3976]

Oh my Justin, now you are hitting me in my heart. The Doors have been my passion since the beginning - the lyrics and instruments (very few) and well - Jim Morrison. Thank you so much and please more Doors.

[@JustJP]

Ty Lynn!

[@barbarjinx3802]

Jim’s favorite singer was Frank Sinatra, even using the same microphone. They LSD he took probably gives you a psychedelic feel. The movie The Doors directed by Oliver Stone is super cool.

[@827dusty]

I heard that "Soul Kitchen" was a little diner right next to "The Whisky a Go-Go" where The Doors were the Headliner act for a few months at the beginning of they're journey to fame. The story is that Jim Morrison would get completely sloshed drunk, and pass out on the curb outside The Whisky, and next to "Soul Kitchen, and he would pig out on their soul food to recover. Listen to the lyrics of the song Soul Kitchen, now that you have heard this story, and it makes a little more sense. Is it true? It's part of Rock Lore as they say. It sounds like Morrison.

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

Justin, I highly recommend listening to all the songs on the album. One of the greatest debut albums of all time that still sounds as great as it did back then.

[@RGRG3232]

Thanks for the review Justin...The Doors have been one of my favorites for over 30 years. My favorite album is Morrison Hotel as I love the songs "Waiting For The Sun" and "Queen of the Highway" from it. I hope you continue to explore their output. Aside from a few tracks here and there I'd say 95% of their songs are aces.

[@dennispope1355]

I never met a Doors album didn't like. Although the two non-Morrison albums sound like an entirely different band. I have them all. This first one is a masterpiece. It's interesting how enjoyable Jim's voice is. It cracks every so often and sometimes sounds strained, and even off keep a bit, but it all seems to fit perfectly. He's really one of rock's gifts to the world. All six of the the albums with Jim are necessary for any doors fan. Thanks for another cool reaction video. Looking forward to more Doors here.

[@completecharleston7142]

Gotta love em! One of a kind band. If you haven't seen the movie "The Doors", highly suggest watching - Val Kilmer does incredible portrayal of Morrison (and the 3 surviving members helped with the soundtrack). On the original album that I grew up with, the word "high" in Break On Through was edited out, as well as some of the lyrics/sounds in "The End".

[@hotblackdesiato3022]

Very good selections for a Doors double shot; I also appreciated the insight into the bossa nova beat as well. Ray Manzarek's organ is almost carnivalesque at times on "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" yet retains an undercurrent of tension, while "Soul Kitchen" alternates from sleazy to stomping in a great way. FYI Manzarek is playing bass with the pedals of his organ. Definitely a group deserving of more study.

[@JJ8KK]

I always enjoyed Jim Morrison & the Doors. They were like this nightclub/Holiday Inn band that made it big, cuz they had an appetite for rock instrumentation and cuz JM. For what it's worth, my two favorite Doors tunes were *Touch Me* and *Light My Fire.* A fine review, Justin...

[@glenndespres5317]

JP! Reactors are killing it on a Monday! I can hardly keep up but am having sooo much fun! First the Beatles, now the Doors? I may survive this Covid BS after all! Thanks for what you do!

[@JustJP]

Haha definitely Glenn! Ty

[@wendyt7958]

I wore this album out! It's all so good. I would describe Jims voice as a rough crooner

[@justinscrivner5457]

Now that your back on the doors trip, listen to the song "the end". Their darkest masterpiece ever.

[@civilian8697]

Classic 🙂

[@billwilson2025]

A great rock song set to a bossa beat

[@lynnarthur-stillalive2025]

🎶”Oh show me the way to the next Whiskey Bar”🎶 (Alabama Song) Their debut album is exceptional 😵

[@redx1708]

Ray had a smaller keyboard on top of the organ, which he used for the bass. And yes, that's what they did live :) 1968 from Danish Television: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqeQdKt3p5V7m6M

[@samuelmregister]

Pretty heavy stuff from 1967, and one of the great debuts in rock history.

[@izzonj]

A friend who was into Wicca told me that the opening lines "The day destroys the night, night divides the day.." is very much from Wiccan mythology. Statement of natural conflict between day and night that also acknowledges that night defines where day is and vice versa. I don't know enough about that religion to interpret the rest of the song except that the other contradiction fit in - Island in your arms /arms that chained us...

[@JustJP]

Interesting, never thought of it that way

[@chris62tt]

Excellent choice!

[@robertjewell9727]

Speaking of doing things during quarantine I started drawing again. My father's pup passed away so I chose to do from a photograph a drawing of his pup Gus and my pup Dr. Watson on the stair landing at my father's home looking out what else? the front DOOR at the nature in the front garden.

[@-davidolivares]

Beautiful Robert. It’s great use of sitting around time. I was not working for a month initially ( got a lot of work done), then back to work till the power freeze came and stopped everything for a week. Luckily, the power came on intermittent and allowed me to charge some batteries for painting. Doing art has definitely let me walk through to a peaceful environment. Keep it up.

[@JustJP]

Sounds lovely! Good idea

[@johncagnettajr344]

Totally psychedelic , not just vocals but the lead guitar as well. I can picture bodies dancing around the fire. Break on Through is about open up your mind or spiritual awakening.

[@alexgrant3909]

Glad to see some Doors, should do the whole album!

[@christiaanvandenakker901]

When Echo & the Bunnymen would play in LA, they'd play Soul Kitchen in the encore, and Ray Manzarek would join them to play the keys. Always a treat. You might try Echo & the Bunnymen sometime - a really underrated band from the 80's. I recommend My Kingdom as my favorite track, but the whole Ocean Rain album is full of stellar songs.

[@ErikGoosen]

On your road through the apocalyptic Doors discography you’ll meet a lot of Bossanova rhythms, Justin. Enjoy, be amazed and know that your world will never be the same after you have experienced the End: Weird scenes insight the goldmine!

[@alexhamilton4084]

The first Doors album is filled with gems. My favourite is Crystal Ship but they’re all great songs. 👍🏻😃

[@willasacco9898]

Surf vibe - I never heard that before, but you’re right-Remember they were from southern Cal. Definitely, a psychedelic vibe to much of their music.

[@dennisjohnson2772]

6 album collection that is a must have...and i do. Video of Hollywood Bowl is a rare live performance in that Jim was "behaved".

[@spazimdam]

Great songs! I love The Doors. They have feel good music, and they pioneered their sound; psychedelic and bluesy, even jazzy at times. Justin I need to echo FURDOG's comment about you listening to Wasp/Texas Radio and the Big Beat by The Doors. It is an absolutely awesome song. Cheers!

[@jasontharp699]

Yes! I was already loving the channel, now you're starting on The Doors! May as well do the whole album now 😁

[@JustJP]

Haha ty Jason!

[@humboldtharry1289]

First album I bought was Alive She Cried. It changed me a bit at 13 in all the best ways

[@mjm5081]

Love both songs, particularly Break On Through...I love John Densmore and as a drummer myself I always found two things he does on Break On Through interesting...Densmore does a fill two measures before the verse vocals come in, rather than the traditional one measure before...He also goes to the hi hat for the chorus rather than the ride...Interesting choices from an always interesting drummer 😃

[@dvbeattie]

The Doors bravo. One of the best debut albums ever. Also check out Morrison Hotel and LA Woman, two other fantastic albums.

[@bobdelp2023]

LOTSAAAA ANALYSIS CAN BE DONE ON THIS SONG HUH JUSTIN!!! :) BREAK ON THROUGH, AND SUCH A SHORT SWEET KICKASSSSS TUNE, JUST 1 OF MANY FROM THE AMERICAN POET AND THE BAND! BIGGGGG R.I.P. TO JIM :( WAYYYYY AHEAD OF HIS TIME HE WAS. :)

[@ZalMoxis]

All Doors albums are excellent.

[@bjwnashe5589]

Great reaction, JP. All the points you made about these tracks is right on! This will always be one of my favorite albums of all time (but I love all of The Doors' albums). A lot of "psychedelic" bands at the time went big on the peace-and-love hippie flower power stuff. The Doors were unique because they were committed to a darker, heavier vibe. Morrison was the best lyricist of his generation. And the rest of the band were amazing musicians.

[@JustJP]

Ty!

[@bjwnashe5589]

JustJP "When the Music's Over" is a stellar track. Definitely check it out.

[@stephenpesta1550]

The first famous Jim and Pam (not the two from The Office) had a very complex relationship that’s detailed in the Morrison biography “Break On Through” so you may have a great take with the lyrical inference you tossed out there. This album is great and The End, although some offer is “indulgent”, is an amazing finale. Some critics gave The Doors a bad rap but there is some great stuff from debut to LA Woman, their best album IMHO.

[@gregoryweakland3481]

Good catch on the drumming, Densmores drumming is very jazzy, both he and Manzarek are both from jazz backgrounds. I think Densmores is a very under appreciated drummer for what he brought to the band sound. Of course they sound like no one else as a unit, but each members playing is original as well, no one sounds like the Doors.

[@BrianR.]

Loved this, thanks! Try Babe Ruth The Mexican, pretty sure you'll like it and it's off an important piece of work of 70's Rock with an amazing female vocalist.

[@kentclark6420]

I agree that there may have been a hint of psychedelia in these songs, The End is a song I think is more in that direction. A real mind trip. When the Music's Over is also quite psychedelic. As is the whole Strange Days album. Most of this album, not so much. Rock and Roll. I forgot, though. Crystal Ship is one of the most trippy songs of the 60s, and it's on this album.

[@piafounetMarcoPesenti]

The Rhodes Piano Bass is what it's all about. Even if they had various bass players in the studio.

[@toolfankrk]

If you want to see Ray playing both base and organs checkout "when the music over" live at hollywood bowl.

[@gregdavis4978]

This is absolutely psychedelic. They took their name from a treatise on LSD by Aldous Huxley called The Doors Of Perception, which itself was taken from a poem by William Blake. Morrison's is a darker vision and, while the album so far may sound kind of light, it's all leading up to "The End", an epic slice of transgressive, psychosexual psychedelia that is almost seems to presage Charles Mansion. Few debut albums make as strong a statement of purpose as this one, and I think Morrison pretty much said all he had to say here and on the following album. As for Manzarek, you might want to pull up a song by L.A. punk band X, whose first two albums he produced. " The World's A Mess, It's In My Kiss" has what I consider to be the crowning glory of his career, a searing, soaring organ solo that neither Emerson or Wakeman could dream of (it's too simple). Pure rock and roll ecstacy that burns the place down.

[@jimschroeder1176]

OMG, I was listening to Riders on the Storm this weekend, and thinking JP needs to review this song, and The Doors in general. This shocked me. It's like you read my mind. Great songs, great review. I love The Doors. They were so far ahead of their time. Too bad Jim Morrison led such a destructive lifestyle.

[@JustJP]

Love that one!

[@stlmopoet]

Great review. Not as familiar with Soul Kitchen. But I love how you broke down what was going on in each song. The psychedelia is not just in his voice, but in the lyrics too. They bend reality a bit.

[@Yaktahbay]

I love all of The Doors' albums, some even more than this one. Great pick. Although everybody gushes over The End, the highlight for me is The Crystal Ship...at least, for now.

[@jayburdification]

This album was both at the forefront of the psychedelic era and it almost feels like it stands in opposition to it, not unlike Frank Zappa‘s early work. Morrison‘s not doing a pisstake on the genre by any stretch, but he’s not playing by the rules either, if such a thing even exists in psychedelia. Soul Kitchen is the perfect example of this. It’s a psychedelic blues but it sounds like something else because of Jim’s vocals and because of the presence of the Farfiza organ. Wait until you hear Crystal Ship, then you’ll stop wondering if they’re is influenced by psychedelia lol. I believe it’s the very next song on the record.

[@Grib68-]

Check out ‘Celebration of the lizard live’ by the doors, it blew my mind when I first heard it.

[@wallacemarty]

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley. Where they got their name from.

[@krisdoggett483]

Cool album

[@elegantirony78]

Oooh two more really good Doors songs. You should try Wasp (Texas Radio), Running Blues, 5 to 1, Soft Parade & Wishful Sinful

[@thomasmcintosh390]

Weird Al Parody Craigslist has Ray Manzarek playing on it and is brilliant

[@mickcapewell6369]

Not every song they did was a classic but even at their worst, there’s always a memorable lyric hook, or a drum fill, or guitar atmospherics, or a keyboard flourish that lifts things above the level of just ‘filler’. You have to do the complete albums in order 👍 Btw it’s high time you did more Bowie...and i know you started Diamond Dogs but you really must go back to ‘69 and begin the journey with Space Oddity and it’s companion lp, followed by Man Who Sold the World (which is a gigantic classic!), and Hunky Dory 👍

[@paulhansberry8168]

Jim Morrison was something of a poet, and some say, not too shabby at it,