The Doors: Cool Music For (Un)Cool People｜Vinyl Monday

The time to hesitate is through, no time to wallow in the mire.
Welcome to part 2 of the Vinyl Monday Spooky Series! This is the second week of my favorite albums for playing in the dark. My thoughts on The Doors self-titled album (released 1967.) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday and vintage fashion!
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Timestamps:
intro - 0:00
The Doors - 1:25
track listing/release - 14:57
my thoughts - 18:18
thanks for watching! - 30:20
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[@abigaildevoe]

what’s your favorite doors song? comment below!

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

LA woman

[@alanclayton9277]

Really like the riff and tinkly keys on The Spy.

[@BillAdams-fb3jm]

I don't have one, I have several (I've been a Doors fan for a long time), but "Five To One" used to make it onto a lot of the mixtapes I made for people, when I was a kid.

[@chrisvarosky]

When The Music's Over

[@tungtobak]

Most often I say Not to Touch the Earth, but it varies over time.

[@josemaria8177]

Say what you want about Jim Morrison, but he made the catchiest rendition of the Oedipus Complex in rock music

[@richardelliott8352]

I remember an interview with a band member recalling a time where the cops were stacked up , waiting to bust the band for profanity, with the band playing the music's over and hoping nothing would happen, but then , when Jim got to his mothers room part of the song, he said, "the Word" and things just went crazy

[@antlerbraum2881]

Somebody had to do it lol

[@simonagree4070]

There's always "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" by The Mothers.

[@tmead07]

Not rock, but ragtime: Tom Lehrer’ s contribution kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5fJaqZ7jt2rg68si=oRthn-MOV-0FyPNH

[@alejandrogiraldoorozco4075]

"He'd literally take a nap" that one got me 😂😂😂

[@drummmmerfish]

this is a master piece of a album. to have a dark song like "the end" in 1967 is pretty monumental by itself. no one sounded like the doors. all 4 members were meant to be in a band together, they had that perfect synergy every band hopes to achieve.

[@gary6514]

The fact Jim Morrison was "difficult" makes the superb music the Doors created even more astounding. Light My Fire is a sublime masterpiece. Perhaps better albums were to follow but this debut album was a sign of what was to be created during their career. Great video. Regards from England.

[@abigaildevoe]

he wasn’t just difficult, he was UNHINGED. any level of efficiency from this lineup was a miracle

[@flannigan7956]

Do wonder where his bust is! That the crooks maybe gave, sold or just let their kids inherit it. For that matter did the fella just bring a hacksaw and saw off the bolt I guess? At his grave there was the bolts remnants where you could tell it was, on the top. Eventually in zomer hands heh heh

[@DeAndresTellez]

As Densmore said in his biography and Krieger recently said in an interview: The most important thing is Jim Morrison's natural talent for composing melodies in his head. Jim used to say he wrote lyrics just to remember the melodies, but the people is obsessed with seeing him as a poet and a singer when really the difference is his melodies. Even Krieger admitted that Jim changed the melody of Light My Fire to improve it: you can hear Krieger's original melody in the rehearsal scene in the Oliver Stone movie because Krieger played it that way for the actor.

[@abigaildevoe]

interesting! i never gave that element much thought. i always thought jim's strength was his presence and delivery: even if the lyrics weren't the best, he made you believe them

[@DeAndresTellez]

Yes of course. But The Beatles are The Beatles because of their melodies and The Doors are The Doors because of their melodies (mostly arising from Jim's unconscious). By the way, I love your channel: You are totally on my wavelength, and I love your sense of humor. A loud applause.@@abigaildevoe

[@FlyJohnny100]

Manzarek’s playing was a huge contribution and the jazz reference is dead on. The Doors came from a time and place heavily influenced by Latin music; Getz/Gilberto, Sergio Mendes, Tijuana Brass and others were big then (though more so with our parents), and Mexican garage rock was also pervasive here in SoCal. Manzarek lent these influences and killer left-hand bass lines to Doors material. Densmore was also amazing…his airy, jazzy beats often made Morrison’s poetic hallucinations more profound.

[@michaelcooley4553]

No one mentions the Tijuana Brass anymore but I remember as a child they were HUGE in the Sixties and on the radio constantly. It's really amazing how few Rock acts or songs were even nominated for Grammys in the 60s

[@mathstar4176]

Hi Abbey you are doing a great thing for classic rock n roll and introducing the youth to great Iconic music

[@starshiptrooper7670]

I agree 100%. Thx Abby, you Rock!

[@thepagecollective]

Yes. Love this channel. Really makes me think about the music I love and the music I don't love.

[@BlueSky...]

One of the best "late night" albums ever made by one of the best ever groups. Jim seemed to have everything---intelligence, charisma, sex appeal, and vision. . . . and he was unhinged. That last part is what made the Doors exceptional---Jim could channel that crazed element of his personality and put it into the songs, supercharging them with it.

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

Indeed. This album is definitely a nighttime album. ESPECIALLY a chilly fall night. I can't get into listening to Crystal Ship, End Of The Night or The End outside on a bright sunny warm afternoon day. Just doesn't work.

[@johnthursfield3056]

Not just Densmore but Ian Paice, John Bonham, Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell even Bill Ward were all taught by jazz drummers and had jazz chops, I think swing is an important part of all their playing

[@abigaildevoe]

that’s a good chunk of my list of favorite drummers right there!

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

Indeed, as jazz is the hardest type of music to play! If you can play jazz, you can play anything. Sometimes jazz is more "rock" than rock music. Haha!

[@9999bigb]

Alex Van Halen, too. His dad was a jazz musician. Oh and he also had this little brother who could play a mean trumpet, and then some guitar.

[@luke9947]

Don’t forget about Jimmy Chamberlin

[@ThiagodMoraes]

Bonzo never took a drum lesson on his life. He was self taught but surely influenced by Jazz too!!

[@philuribe7863]

That Doors 1967 album is still, to my mind, the greatest debut album of all time (and their best). Great music - and timeless; as good today as then.

[@flannigan7956]

Well and anything 1966 that was that fresh, dark and plain rockin' is bad as hell

[@jimfiscus1248]

I think it would be a improvement to have a bass player playing rather than Ray's bass keyboard.

[@blib3786]

@@jimfiscus1248 Almost all of the songs on this album (and all the other Doors albums) have a bass guitar track, either played by a session bassist or overdubbed by Robbie.

[@davidlauter1622]

When the musics over is a total masterpiece ! The End is really kind of a jam.

[@joshuadavies9275]

I really appreciate what you’re doing with this site. The Production value, your personality, and the delivery - as well as the extensive Research, honesty, and genuine love of the music. And the schtick is wonderful!

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Growing up my mom had an old hippie friend that lived in Haight-Ashbury in the mid to late 60’s, she had stories galore, the Lizard King was often featured in them. As a teenager in the early 80’s I was amazed at that period and loved every discussion with her, most involved some “substance” to start the conversation.

[@JaceDanielFilms]

The way you talk about this album is so regal, it makes it feel like you're taking us on a tour through an art gallery of sound. Nobody talks about modern music like this, treating each track as a piece of history. Although there's probably a reason for that.

[@ratbones620]

I really love this album. As much as I love all of The Door’s discography, this album has always stuck out to me. It has such an almost supernatural quality to it that it’s really impossible to focus on anything else but the album itself.

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

I've listened to this album for so many years ingrained into my soul since junior high in the late early 90s, that it's weird to me when people say it's flawed. That's like claiming the Mona Lisa is flawed.

[@georgemathie8123]

The door's debut is a timeless classic and what an introduction for this legendary band to kick off an amazing discography

[@tedgegi155]

You got gorgeous eyes. Oh yeah, and The Doors were great too.

[@scootinand]

"Break on Through" was in a Tony Hawk's game which is how I fell in love with it. Years later I borrowed a compilation from my nephew's father, and it had the uncensored version on it with the full "she get HIGH!" line intact. My dad loves singing The Doors at karaoke or on open mic nights. This album in particular was one I fell in love with when I really started taking vinyl seriously

[@postmortemjunkie]

I feel like I could listen to you talk about The Doors forever.

[@walterfechter8080]

I bought The Doors' debut LP when it hit the record store shelves. As with albums by The Beatles, Cream, Love, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Pink Floyd, I never left it behind in the 1960s. Even my Ma and Grandma loved "Light My Fire."

[@bongodave13]

The Doors remain in my top 5 bands of all time. After 50+ years, they still sound fresh and different from anything else. When you hear them, you immediately know it's them, and even their weakest numbers are still better than a lot of bands' best.

[@marknovak6498]

Light My Fire was the first "Song of the Summer" I know that became a thing later but that was a time when music was just bigger in everyone's life. Even parents knew every word of the song they hated.

[@bobburroughs6241]

Forever Changes and now The Doors! Two favourites. You can't underestimate the weight and force of the breakthrough of this album. I bought this on release on holiday and 4 of us lay around listening to it on a sunny afternoon in a Jersey guest house, the stunned landlady walking in as The End played! The guitar break in Light My Fire still sends a tingle down the spine. A great 6 album ride ending with the superb Riders On the Storm. Another great review Abigail.

[@iamadwarf]

"The End" never fails to entrance me, literally. It's a spiritual experience for me.

[@KevinMooretoons]

Growing up as a kid in the '70s, the Doors were the favored band among the blue collar teens I knew, the guys who wore a lot of denim, leather and bandanas and the girls in tight jeans and tube tops. They seemed to dig whatever head trip the music and lyrics -- "the poetry" -- the band offered, and Jim Morrison was at that point a legend, a poster on your wall above the incense and drum cigarettes and wine bottle candle. When I finally got into the band as a teen in the 80's, I read No One Here Gets Out Alive, and listened to this album incessantly. I think my Doors fixation lasted until Oliver Stone killed it when his ridiculous biopic came out in my freshman year in college. At some point in the 90s it was not cool to like The Doors, but I always insisted their counter cultural message was proto-punk.

[@kelvinkloud]

when it became uncool I was even more motivated to embrace the band..... frequently mischaracterized but never forgotten.... theyve outlived nearly all their peers in the industry. morrison was a inconsistent wreckless indiv. But his genius & talents w were truly rarified.

[@richierugs6544]

Break on Thru is one of the best opening tracks of all time---saw them at Absolutely Live at the Garden--absolutely transcendent !

[@konowd]

Absolutely great track to open the album

[@steve-zk5zm]

This was another delight from you. While LA WOMAN is my personal favorite, your video essay here, makes me want to go back and compare all of them again. Your work is quite rewatchable. There’s so much there. I often feel like I need to take notes. Thank you for all the great work you do.

[@James-hd4ms]

Clicked new to you and you came up. So for that I’ll say Hello, I Love you.

[@danielhudson5186]

My favorite band! Love everything about them! The sound, the vibe, the kind of dark sense of foreboding that seemed to come to the band so effortlessly. Strange Days is their best, but the debut is undeniable.

[@danielfuentes3226]

The Doors debut album is a great classic,one of the greatest albums of all time and one of my favorite bands.Great review.

[@ronnywilson2112]

One of my favorite bands, and first musical influences. I love this album in particular, you know 1967 was a wonderful year for music. The first songs I heard and saw on video from them were the two obvious ones "Light My Fire", and "Break On Through (To The Other Side)" and a live version of "The End". The wonderful thing about this band was that at the time, along with The Velvet Underground (another of my favorites from the 1960's), they were the only two bands that spoke outside the box of the Hippie movement, that spoke about the darkest aspects of the mind, and human behavior, and about the misery of humanity itself. The first album I heard from them was the compilation "The Best Of The Doors" (1985) on vinyl, thanks to my parents' record collection, then I got it for myself on that classic Double Fat Box CD, also one of my first 10 CDs in life. I still have it and keep it as a nice memory of when music began to be my favorite hobby, and when I became a musician. I have always thought that the popularity of Jim Morrison's image and person overshadows the talent of the other three guys. John Densmore is a very good drummer with his Jazz, R&B and Blues touch. Robby Krieger makes some very interesting licks and riffs, direct and appropriate for the songs. Ray Manzarek for me was the genius behind the band's music, he was the musical director, the visionary, his sound and style gave the unique atmosphere that the band had.

[@ApolloSuns]

Former fat kid here. Totally get it. Dropped 55lbs and now don't recognize myself lol

[@zorromaskedman8220]

70's FM Radio...the only way I learned of the Doors. Late to the party for sure, Summer of '71 Jim passed away. I still did not really appreciate the Doors until 1977. And did not know ALL their past albums until cd box set 1998. They set a high mark for Studio sounding perfect. The band members and Jim seemed to have very DIFFERENT goals in mind. The Doors were a Power House! 50th Anniversary Albums now too!

[@mperezmcfinn2511]

The beauty of "Take It As It Comes" is that it's a perfect slice of '66 era go-go pop (worthy of a Nuggets compilation). It has all the authenticity of a regional garage hit, except written and recorded by the Doors. It could have been a less ambitious band's one hit.

[@janemilozi]

One of the best vinyl Monday ever!!!! I looooove the debut Doors album.... So unique and all the songs are amazing, one and one... Nice work Abby!!!!

[@Juan-wo7zu]

This has to be my favourite doors album. They really nailed it on the first try although all their albums with Jim Morrison are great. Also I love the appreciation for Alabama song, one of my favourites on the album. That song always sounded pretty Halloween-ish to me. (Second edit) I disagree about take it as it comes. Obviously a very sexual song but I love the energy and the keyboard solo is among the best on the album, not forgettable to me. This is a personal 10/10 album

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

I might be the only one who loves and appreciates the way "Alabama Song" was used in the Oliver Stone movie. 👍🏽

[@mperezmcfinn2511]

@@sugadelicsavagesoul8623 Not the only one.

[@stevecowder4774]

Of course, one of the finest debut albums ever but “ The End “ for me will always be the ultimate Doors song, thanks to its appropriate use in Apocalypse Now. From one masterpiece to another. And you hit the nail on the head with Ray. He was more valuable to the success of the Doors than most people ever gave him credit for.

[@flannigan7956]

What did you think of Muad'dib playing Ray in the Oliver stone, I still don't knoe how to feel about

[@Ross1966]

The End is the Doors masterwork!

[@flannigan7956]

@@Ross1966 feel like you just volunteered to turn out the light

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

​@@flannigan7956lmao!!!! I had to re-read your comment twice before I caught your reference! Muad'dib! 😂

[@flannigan7956]

@@sugadelicsavagesoul8623 "just a bigger picture"

[@DoctorInsomnia-qw7us]

Being born in 1999 definitely qualifies you to be a 20th Century Fox, if you think it's too late, I implore you to reconsider, maybe nature was saving her best for last....

[@flannigan7956]

Cruin shame she hasta worry about various time deadlines lol

[@soulhealer20]

I have to say I grew up with The Doors. I got to see them in 69 when Soft Parade was the new thing. It's not as high on the general Doors fave list but I like Touch Me. But Light My Fire and Love Me Two Times are my favorites.

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

Soft Parade is probably my favorite! 👍🏽

[@PhilipRawbon-rk8uv]

Your a riot sweety..i came from that time an still live in it..nothing but the best!!😎

[@jameschavez6400]

I like the waiting for the sun album a lot &much more than the soft parade

[@MikeB12800]

I will die on the Strange Days hill with you!!!!

[@bumperu]

When the doors of perception are cleansed, things will appear as they truly are, infinite. Aldous Huxley.

[@dsgp7835]

Having been in my prime teenage years when this album was released, I can tell you the Doors and this album was so new and fresh sounding in a time when so many bands had their own fresh sound. When I hear this album I hear the soundtrack to my life an the world around me.

[@Ross1966]

When did the Doors become uncool? They were the coolest band when I discovered them in the early 80s. They still sounded so contemporary at the time!

[@MrMultichris234]

I don't think it's the "If you listen to the Doors you're uncool" but more of a "if you're uncool listen to the Doors". In a way they made music for introverts, rejected, lonely, those types of people. Similarly how decades later The Smiths were music for uncool of the 80s

[@jimfiscus1248]

Don't forget Devo. They were "through being cool" and proud of it.

[@abigaildevoe]

exactly!

[@konowd]

The Doors were somewhat uncool in the seventies then they finally had a big revival with Apocalypse Now and the book No One Here Gets Out Alive.

[@flannigan7956]

Between 60s comeback of the 80s and the one of the 90s at least how I remember. Hippie stuff sucked and everybody would be like "the 60s are over!" then got big again for stoner kids, The Doots with the other top 60s legends, teens at 90s Grateful Dead shows, you could sometimes get bell bottoms new at the store before that quit bein a big deal etc. I purposely embraced 60s/70s for blatant social subversion but then very soon after a buncha the high school kids thought I was one of em

[@ryangunwitch-black]

It’s absolutely wild and wonderful that they already had “The End” by the first album. I mean come on. That’s a a progressively killer song.

[@konowd]

Jim taking a nap reminds me of Jimmy Page driving to the hotel and back while Bonham was playing Moby Dick forever in concert

[@abigaildevoe]

LOL that sounds about right! i love zeppelin but their solos in concert could get looooooong

[@konowd]

I knew a photographer who shot Zeppelin a bit, he kept running into Robert Plant in the food tent backstage during Bonham’s solos and one night they broke out laughing that they were always there while Bonham went on and on

[@flannigan7956]

Wakeman topo g raphic straight up vindaloo

[@robinwitting2023]

One of my favourite albums; like many classic albums it has a rush and a spontaneity to it. The End is loaded and powerful and pre- empts Manson and Altamont; the dark side of the sixties. Robin Witting England

[@danmayberry1185]

Bravo! Loved it (age 5) when new, and live, 35 yrs later (Manzarek, Kreiger, Astbury). This album was an agent of change.

[@shelleylyme6402]

"Age 5". Are you sure about that?? My fave tune when I was five years old was "Nellie the Elephant". You must have been very advanced for your age. I feel so inadequate by comparison 😞

[@danmayberry1185]

@@shelleylyme6402 .. and yet I know nothing of Nellie. My parents were in a west coast band in the 60s, so my soundtrack was questionable for children. I was reportedly singing Light My Fire along with the car radio, they asked me what it was about, and I let them know a guy was inviting a girl over for a BBQ. Rather than correct me, they nodded.

[@ApolloSuns]

MORRISON HOTEL is the best Doors Album. I said it and stand by it

[@mykeadelic]

the doors are one of my all time favorite bands. doors fans though… an odd breed lol

[@ronaldriis1023]

Oh my god, you are amazing, young lady! I am blown away by your knowledge! The Doors are the archetype of the band of the sinister and the seekers.The truth may be found in the Beatles and Dylan, but the unconventional discoveries will be made with the Doors.

[@kelvinkloud]

actually morrison picked up the rock & revealed a dark deep truth most americans werent willing to face. he played the pouty troubled rockstar. but when he was dialed in & was playing for keeps, he had diamond eyes in re to the power stratification of our culture & what made it tick. he rivaled dylan in that regards & both had no peers in that regards.

[@BeckyLStoutWriter]

"That piano flickers like candlelight." Yeah, so I might have to weave that into one of my lyrics someday. If you don't mind. I'll be happy to thank you in the liner notes of my album. Whenever that thing manages to get done. And if it makes any money (🤞), you are so getting something in your KZbin tip jar! 😃

[@TheAgeOfAnalog]

Morrison Hotel will always be my favorite Doors record, the others are probably all a tie for me. That said, I’ve loved everything they ever did (with Jim) since forever.

[@demikr8115]

Just found your channel and I really love how in depth you go into these records and how you feel about the tracks/artist(s). Getting into The Doors lately and so far self titled might be my fav album (I am a Crystal Ship fan)

[@roschel5832]

One of my absolute favorite albums! Thank you abby

[@nickjones9650]

Thanks for covering one of my faves. You are the coolest!

[@Danielallanz]

I think of Jim as the psychedelic Frank Sinatra..his voice was really beautiful..

[@allancorfield8164]

I've been revisiting albums from your reviews that i haven't listened to for years. I've currently got Twentieth Century Fox running round my head. Keep up the good work

[@cbond1c113]

The first door album is by favorite my favorite Doors lp. Sometimes I have problems with the whole deification of there output, and Jim Morrison in general, but this album definitely puts them in the canon. It's got to be the greatest debut album of all time!

[@SteveJones379]

YES! Love the "Lizard King" and the Doors!!! "I am the lizard king, I can do anything!" 🤘☮ Thanks for this deep dive.

[@abigaildevoe]

i can't believe i forgot to edit in the lisa simpson I AM THE LIZARD QUEEN clip!!

[@northsongs]

I'm an old fella now, but this is still one of the greatest albums of all time, IMHO. Thanks Abs!

[@mickjaegermeister]

Another banger video! One of my fav albums of all time fasho

[@abigaildevoe]

thanks! you have one hell of a username there and i'm mad i didn't come up with it

[@lucaspeixesanto5105]

Strange Days IS their best album!!

[@abigaildevoe]

the correct opinion

[@DQ-su6qf]

It was interesting growing up in Los Angeles in the 60’s..saw the doors & love all over town..

[@jimfiscus1248]

Guy Websters father was lyricist Paul Webster. He wrote the Spider-Man cartoon themes lyrics back in 67.

[@keithwilson8235]

None of them were. Until they were together. Awesome channel AD.

[@lightningroy]

Bags & Trane? Be still my beating heart.

[@WhiteNucklin]

My favorite reason to wake up on mondays!

[@saml302]

i love Alabama Song and Waiting for the Sun

[@GoDrex]

First album I bought myself (on cassette) and I still love it. I think it's fashionable to hate on the Doors but I love them.

[@BrunaHera]

Such an amazing record, I love this one so much and what a great video, so glad I subscribed

[@donnicholson3200]

Such a fun, funny, informative review of that great album. Blast from the past for me - I need to see if I still have my original copy.

[@mathstar4176]

Soul Kitchen a masterpiece

[@Pablo668]

Love the Doors. This content you make is brilliant btw.

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

So now I'm curious --what is your favorite jazz album/drummer that you referred to?? So many questions! Haha! But back to the album.....I absolutely love how you described it. Nailed it perfectly. This is definitely NOT a sunny by the pool album. This is a nighttime, candles, lava lamp incense kind of album! (Which, btw I love your dancing transition interlude featuring incense. I can only wonder what type it was) But for me, "The Crystal Ship" is hands down the best song on here. And you nailed it with that flickering description. Perfect explanation. Can't wait to hear you review future Doors albums. (Hopefully)

[@abigaildevoe]

my favorite jazz drummer (besides elvin jones he’s everyone’s) is sheridan riley. wildly, unreasonably talented. i was geeking out over the new wayne horvitz album “in absentia”

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

@@abigaildevoe Guilty!🙋 Elvin Jones is one of mine. Along with Billy Cobham.

[@dennislillie8047]

Right On Abby ! Everything you said. :)

[@Binx.mp3]

Take It as It Comes will always be my favorite Doors song. Close second is End of the Night

[@dennismason3740]

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht composed Alabama song for the German stage in the late 1920s before they had to escape N**i persecution. In 1967 my friend Steve Hansen called me and said "get up here, now!" and I mounted my Schwinn Stingray (coolest bicycle on earth) and rode up the hill to see what my rich-kid friend was so excited about. We were 13 and 14. I wouldn't smoke weed for another two years however when the album played I was changed. It was like music from a dangerous planet full of poets and killers. I couldn't speak, I couldn't move. Light My Fire, the "radio version" (chopped down to three minutes) was climbing the charts in L.A. and brave DJs were playing the full seven minute version and we lost our shite when the long version (with all of the solos) came on. Now I had just experienced the whole album. I felt comatose. Our schoolbus driver, Mister O' Minor, had taped a transistor radio to his PA microphone and clicked on a local rock station. The timing was perfect. The rimshot and organ intro blasted throughout the bus speakers and Light My Fire came on. Most of the kids on the bus hadn't heard the album version with solos. As the yellow bus drifted around the banked curves of Sunset Boulevard we had entered another reality that I can't even begin to describe. The bus arrived at Paul Revere Junior High School (public) in Brentwood and many of the kids from the bus were changed forever. Magic School Bus, indeed. I saw Cream that year but oddly enough I never saw the Doors.

[@DannerPlace]

Great review, enjoyed.

[@vpagsx]

Thank you for doing Jim and the band some justice, brought me to tears. Xo Soul Sister

[@WhiteNucklin]

Best enjoyed like a seance… perfect

[@alisha_1972]

watching this after the mc5 video came out and seeing all the little hints was so fun! didn't think this video could get any better :)

[@Ridersonthestorm8899]

Great to hear a mention of William S Harvey, his beautiful record cover designs for Elektra are amazing. No wonder the british 80s band Felt did a tribute, Song For William S Harvey on their 1986 album Let The Snakes Crinkle Their Heads To Death.

[@9999bigb]

Huge love for the shout out to Eve Babitz! What a fantastic book, and a document to a time and a place.

[@garyolshan4177]

Doors' Morrison Hotel is one of the greatest rock albums in history. Period! From that flawless record, Peace Frog and You Make Me Real are gems

[@johnlorinc2081]

I can't remember what rock critic wrote this about the Doors first album, but it's perfect: "The Beatles and the Stones are for destroying your minds, the Doors are for afterward." The Doors debut is an obvious classic....and it lives up to its legend......but it's not my fave. That would go to the follow-up Strange Days......although for a while it was Morrison Hotel/Hard Rock Cafe. Light My Fire and The End are still epic.....and there are soooooooo many great deep cuts like Take it As it Comes, Soul Kitchen and especially Twentieth Century Fox. That cover of Back Door Man is also spine-tingling. Great video once again!

[@christophermoebs5514]

This is the first LP record I bought as a 15 year old and I still love it. Also dug Paul butterfield band

[@zephead64]

Yet another 'get out of my head!' experience watching/listening to this fantastic essay. A++. You nailed discussing the 3 musicians & their talents & depth. I used to play a fairly beat up 45rpm single of Light My Fire as a child a lot.. the B-side was The Crystal Ship... holy hell did that track mesmerize me. I literally LOL'd when you yelled out the "and walked on down the hall" bit 😂. You're doing 'God's' work & she would be proud.

[@ScarlettFire341]

Excellent Delivery & Content ! L A Women LP is Amazing ! My Fav Live Gloria Hits the SPOT !

[@glrose3787]

gosh we really are in spooky season... i have never seen the eye in the letter d at 3:25. My favourite doors song is 'When The Music's Over'. Love your videos, Layla!!!

[@ryangunwitch-black]

My mom liked the Doors a lot when she was a teenager and I stole her records when I was younger. My mom is an absolute nerd. And so am I. ❤

[@Mattsdmf]

This was one of the first albums I ever got and it’s stuck with me since I started listening to The Doors back in elementary school in the mid 90s. I love listening to it at night. I’m also happy that I’m not the only one who loves Twentieth Century Fox! The Doors has always been a top 10 favorite band of mine. I also agree with album preference with Abby! 1. Strange Days 2. LA Women 3. Self Titled

[@WhisperinWinds67]

great video! One of my favorite bands!

[@stefano.b65stef77]

Hi Abigail, it's so difficult to choose just one song, let's say Riders on the Storm, this is a monumental album, one of the best first albums ever

[@Emet.V]

Favorite performance of “the end” is the doors 🚪 live 68 at the Hollywood bowl . It is amazing!! 27:55

[@paullynn473]

Electra was called Love Land, but then became Doors Land. It helps to know that Jim and Ray were film students and knew the publicity game. 13th Floor Elevaters need a do over ❤ Great show

[@mperezmcfinn2511]

Were the 13th Floor Elevators on Electra?

[@reginaldobittencourt878]

Love when you play the "Intermission" excerpt

[@abigaildevoe]

thanks it’s the elevator music in my brain

[@pasteye1671]

For the first time, Lovely Lady, our favourite tracks align! Although people say The Beatles personified the 60s, to m the decade is best remembered for the Doors and Jimi. Loved the background info, as geeky usual. Your workload must be massive to turn these out weekly. So thanks.

[@abigaildevoe]

the first time?? your constant dissent until now is impressive! re: the workload: dude you have no idea