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From their beginnings during the summer of 1965 at Venice Beach, California, The Doors were truly aband, a remarkable fusion of creative energies, a lot of attention has been focused on Jim Morrison which his looks and talents clearly justify. However, Jim was well aware that the magic of The Doors could never havehappened without the fortunate forging of John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison into a single creative whole. It is no mystery why Jim Morrison never went solo; so sympathetic were the three other musicians to Jim's mission that such a consideration was out of the question. Robby Krieger, or example, was able to write lyrics and music that sounded more like Morrison than Morrison himself-- among them "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Ti More... (Submit New The Doors Lyrics) (Submit New The Doors Lyrics) Review about The Doors Dumb | Reviewer: GINS ------ About the song Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) performed by The Doors I agree Jim Morrison is a lyrical genius but the band and the music is what made the song what it is. Morrison or The Doors didn't even write the song! Overall it does show their diversity as musicians, it's a fun song. A Pint Of Gold | Reviewer: Euan Sinclair ------ About the song L'America performed by The Doors This is one of my favourite Doors songs, and is in fact the song that got me hooked on them - when I listened to L.A. Woman at the age of... umm... sixteen maybe? It represents everything that I love about them: that dark, mysterious edge they had over other bands of their time; Manzarek's eerie keyboard intro; the sudden changes in tone and pace; and of course Morrison's imagery. Sheer brilliance. The true creators of this song | Reviewer: Dennis Weiser ------ About the song Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) performed by The Doors Berthold Brecht (lyrics) and Kurt Weil (music) are the actual creators of this song; it is from "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny." Not Jim Morrison and The Doors (although I like their rendition). morrisons epitaph | Reviewer: jim ------ About the song Blue Sunday performed by The Doors Truly the most gifted man able to put that poetry to music, a very hard thing to do and make it all sound right. Im standing where his grandparents house was in clearwater,fla. Theres a spiriy here on the swing on the side of the house. Study people, study. | Reviewer: Eli ------ About the song Horse Latitudes performed by The Doors When stuck the water for days, people imagine seeing all kinds of things. Cloud shapes, movements in the water, and night time images in the sky. Sailors made claims that they saw distant monsters in these areas in any of the aforementioned scenes. The 'tiny monsters' refers to the belief that freakish monsters living there would inhale all the breeze rendering the air to be still. So still that ships did not move in the water and would 'sit' in the latitudes for days with no signs of a stiff breeze. Ancient maps showed monster heads in the area of the ocean. (Google this and look at it.) Sailors imagined sea serpents and air monsters in the slight movement of the ocean. Because these areas were strange, they were thought to be places where the monsters dwelled and would halt sailing ships to render their bounty. These ships often carried livestock from Spain to transport them to the West Indies. Theories range from sacrificing animals to throwing them overboard to feed the the monsters who would then exhale and allow the ship to sail in the breeze once again. Other theories were that to toss the livestock out would 'lighten' the ship making it easier to move in slight breezes. Major theory is that the animals would die as food and water storage depleted so tossing them overboard eliminated them as a maintenance problem, especially if they died on board. It was also theorized that anything that died on board a sailing ship was bad luck. Fear of this caused all sorts of logic and beliefs, as well as songs and poems. Their 'stiff green gallop' refers to the mighty effort of muscles thrashing wildly when an animal is thrown into the water. All their bodily muscles are used as they try to survive. From the point of view of the horse, Morrison described what it must have been like. 'Green' meaning alive and active no longer atrophied as it must be used by involuntary action to try to survive. You'll notice he says 'furiously pumping' which is an excellent description of what panic an animal would experience. Morrison studied the horse latitudes and wrote a piece on the experience of the sailors and of the horses. No drug meaning in there, no metaphors for struggle in life, just a historical account of what it must have been like to watch an animal drown. It is a piece of drama, based on truth, nothing more. It's probably the best song the Doors never released! | Reviewer: keepitreal ------ About the song Texas Radio And The Big Beat performed by The Doors It's got great poetry, a lot of truth interspliced into the metaphors. I love the big beat drums, of course, and the rhythmic keyboards by Manzeric. Jim's voice is very clear and strong. It's kind of a pre-'70's prog-rock tune. To me, it's a classic! If you're a Doors fan and have never heard this song, don't deprive yourself, give it a listen. while in high school | Reviewer: jwhall ------ About the song Horse Latitudes performed by The Doors I first heard this in high school.on the surface I was alittle withdrawn.Under it all,was tumoil and a strong desire for a "normal" life.Some what like when simone an garfunke sang I am a rock,I took it to mean a way of keeping the monsters in my head at bay.I always thought this poem was a reference to not being able to feel normal when faced with internal demons. the real deal | Reviewer: peter goesinya ------ About the song The End performed by The Doors In 1961 or maybe 62 Jim and I were in my VW bus going to a festival in Zepherhills, FL durring a break from school. We scored some heavy hitting tabs that put us way of course. I believe we ended up in sarasota. Durring the ride we stoped at a fill station to fuel up and Jim had to use the toilet. He got back in my VW and said he had just droped a "snake" that was "7 miles" long. He was sure that "the end" was near for him because he felt it was impossible to have a BM that large without dying from it. He was tripping his ass off and the only way I could chill him out was this blue rock candy I had in the glove box from the fill station. This is where the "blue rock" lyric came from. The king's high way part is because as we traveled down what turned out to be 75 south, we were the only ones on it for almost 2 hours and it made him feel like a king. He could do anything he wanted on it. Since we had no idea where we were at, Jim named it "the kings highway" anyway, we hung together for another year or so and parted ways. I hope this clears it up for you guys and gals. I miss him dearly. Peter Suggested by a love | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song The End performed by The Doors I'd never heard of this song before, but my then ex-boyfriend suggested that I listen to it and I fell in love with it. Like he said, it is extremely poetic and the words are hitting me in such a way that no song ever has. I wish you could find songs like this now a days. I'm really touched by this. "This is the end you gentle friend <- yeah, how 'bout "beautiful friend" This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I’ll never look into your eyes Again" And to my love...I hope that this is not true for us. Tiny Monsters | Reviewer: stevo1 ------ About the song Horse Latitudes performed by The Doors ...sayruh wrote on 9/4/07: "i dont know what the tiny monsters are, but keeping this in mind, the rest of the song makes sense." Due to the near currentless and windless area of the Horse Latitudes, this area is also known to produce prolific algae and plankton blooms...hence the "tiny monsters." This also references the "stiff green gallop" line with the horses thrashing about in the algae/plankton rich sea green water trying to swim. As someone mentioned before, this piece is much more literal than people make it out. It's really a lot more simple than we imagine, it just sounds so profound...but, then again...that's Jim for ya. He could make the most mundane things seem awesome! Celebration Of the Lizard | Reviewer: L.A woman ------ About the song Celebration Of The Lizard performed by The Doors This song is truely magnificent. Poeticly genius and musicly awesome. If any human mind should say other words or disrespect Jim Morrison then they deserve to spend an eternity listening to Shakespeare so they can better appreciate these lyrics. Good | Reviewer: Rudy ------ About the song Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) performed by The Doors The Doors in this song show their bodily need for alcohol, to be specific Whiskey is their choice of spirit. They show that they need it but they don’t really know why. And they say without it they will die. Then they get to the whiskey and their feelings come out. They cry out to the Alabama night, they drink in sorrow because their mother has died and they are drinking away their pains of their dead mother Blue Sunday | Reviewer: bob ------ About the song Blue Sunday performed by The Doors Some people misunderstand the song. Jim sings "I found my own true loves WAS on a blue Sunday", not on a blue Sunday. I believe that a blue sunday was a pill or drug of some sort. Great that it comes right after Peace Frog which is one of their best songs musically and lyrically. Ghost Song | Reviewer: JDM ------ About the song Awake performed by The Doors Hate to say it, but this is The Ghost Song, not awake. Awake was the track before this when Jim during a concert is saying "Is everybody in? Is everybody in?" And asleep, just go back to listening to the Backstreet Boys fag, if you can't understand what he was saying then you shouldn't even bother because it seems you don't even have a grade 1 education you moron. ElectricPoet memories | Reviewer: mark ------ About artist/band The Doors Read slowly. Kind of slow heavy feeling even about writing this. Roundhouse London 1968. 2 all night concerts. Doors are Open DVD is brilliant but does not do justice to the greatest musical night ever. Never surpassed. never will be. Now I live in LA and Jim still lives here sitting on wall in Laurel Canyon and in Venice on the murals and on the T shirts. 41 years later the music still rings true and pure, his poetry part of my life, still, breath under water till the end. Horse Latitudes. | Reviewer: Will ------ About the song Horse Latitudes performed by The Doors I don't know what it's about. But I think we can't interpret a poem. It's a matter of feelings, more than a matter of thoughts. Maybe Jim was the only one that could really know the meaning of it. I wanted to ask him... but his on the other side. =\ A rich meaningful song | Reviewer: DS ------ About the song Shaman's Blues performed by The Doors 'There will never be another one like you'... The song is rich in thought and relates a subtle perspective, there is pain, a desire to be fullfilled again, as the two lovers are not now together, perhaps seperated by time, by space. "Do you remember, we were together?" The upbeat music and forceful rythmn generates hope and joy, supporting the strong memories conjoined with the individual's present expression of hope and longing. This is just my humble read of it. A favorite and a classic. I do not understand how the words at the end relate to the song though, as they are disjointed, abstract - I like to think they relate to something close and personal with the song writer. I am strange | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song People Are Strange performed by The Doors I kind of resent the song; cause I am strange. And once someone sang it to me; because of that. However; as a song I think it is pretty good and the arrangement is good. It does not get old to hear it more than once. Much better than the worst song ever written - "Sittin on the Dock of De Bay" which gets older every time it is played. the doors for ever and be jawn | Reviewer: donld hatings ------ About artist/band The Doors first things first mr morrison was born on the 8th of december 1943 and death came to him on the sad morning of 3rd july 1971 if your going to write any thing about the great man him self please read about him first and get your facts right and don,t make things up please xx stupid | Reviewer: anonymous two ------ About the song Awake performed by The Doors Show some respect, bitch. It's the freakin' Doors! If you're going to have the audacity to criticize something as awesome as Jim Morrison's poetry, you should at least have the "sense" to spell "sense" correctly, and know that "incoherent" is one word. You should also know that "dribble" is what babies do, and "drivel" is what your review was. 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