This is a completely overlooked masterpiece. In it's own way, as eternal as Stairway to Heaven. You cannot find lyrics anywhere else that match the intellectual genius of Morrison, and the way the music was crafted to go through all the different stages of this song is awesome. Thanks for checking it out. I hope a lot of the younger generation will discover the crafted quality that was put into the music of the 60s and 70s.
"You cannot find lyrics anywhere else that match the intellectual genius of Morrison" LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I fucking LOVE THIS SONG!! Particularly when they drop into that final funk groove at 5:03 "Proud to be part of this number...." Then the bass and keys just turn into pure machines of groove!
I still could not believe how "so called professional music critics" put Soft Parade song down and said it was "horrible and weak"! I mean seriously??? If they think that, then they don't know and never knew or understood Jim Morrison or the doors period! Soft Parade is a masterpiece one of my all time favorites!
Dude!!!! Jim Morrison used his voice like an instrument If you compare his voice from a song like Crystal Ship and Peace Frog you might think it’s two different singers And you should really react to both of these song’s Thanks for your Doors reactions
One of several of the Doors TOALLY EPIC songs. This song is so unique. The transitions, the phases... this song is an EPIC JOURNEY. Like many of the Doors songs.
Love the part about leaving for interpretation. When I was younger it was impossible for me to try and figure out was Jim was saying. But as you keep listening and listening you gain little hints to what he was saying. Rip Jim.
September 1971. I was 11 years old when I bought my first Doors-Single RIDERS ON TH STORM (4:30 Minutes). I didn't know that Morrison was dead in paris. With lions in the night - outside.
As far as the interpretations of the lyrics go, I often wish I could be there when they finally realize that The Doors' lyrics aren't meant to be a painting. The music/lyrics are there as a backdrop, paint & brushes. You paint your own picture.
the soft parade is one of my favorite doors albums if you really listen to jim’s voice you can tell the drugs and alcohol are really starting to grab a hold of him.. the wheels are starting to fall off .. ✌🏻🐸
I enjoy hanging out with you, listening to the Doors (my favorite band). I'm an old guy, ex-60s hippie, and it's really cool to see young dudes like you grooving to this...
Thanks, enjoyed your reaction. The Soft Parade is not as instantly likeable as The End or Break On Through, though it is a masterpiece in its own right. When The Music's Over is my fav of Doors epics. Gonna watch your previous Doors reaction videos, just found your channel.
I know Jim’s dad was a sailor in the navy and I wonder if the parts about the tropics and the equator are about his dads time in the pacific during ww2 ?
New visitor here…Soft parade caught my curiosity! Then your wearing My Fav band T shirt! Ok -I’ll stop and watch your reaction to one of my Other Fav bands cool albums!!! This album came out Later on in the Doors career. They stepped away from there “hits” here. Jim is a poet…his lyrics inspire thought and reflection …as to how to interpret them? The music rocks! Sometimes lyrics mean different things to you at different times in your life.
There are bands that represent geographical regions of America and there are bands that represent subcultures of America and there are bands that represent a particular era of America. I feel most comfortable speaking of bands with which I grew up. The Doors are one of these bands; they represent, to me, the dark side of the 60s. Other bands of the era that are representative of something larger--whether it be time, place or genre--include Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Allman Brothers, the Grateful Dead, MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, Bruce Springsteen, early J. Geils Band, the Velvet Underground/Lou Reed. There are others, as I'm sure other posters will note their favorites. Later on, R.E.M. can be considered a representative American band. Certainly Nirvana was a game-changing band.
JIM MORRISON was a pure rebel. You'll understand that after listening to more of their songs. He was actually arrested DURING a concert, and got beat by cops in front of audience more than once!
@sean Kelly that’s not exactly truth. He was never beat in front of the audience . However he incited riots and was arrested on stage for it . He was maced in new haven prior to the concert . Miami was a shitshow cause he spoke nothing but the truth to the herd.
I like this song I felt it could have been a masterpiece but they just didn’t get it perfect, it was the album they had the most trouble and struggles with. Love the start and end of the song. The Doors are my favourite band, the most unique band of all time
Love this song. Thanks for the reaction! 9:50 it's always crazy to me when we listen to older music, and much of what they sang about still applies to today :/. Would love to see a reaction to When the Music's Over
The Soft Parade album is a concept album about rejecting God and landing in hell. The song The Soft Parade demonstrates the rejection of salvation from the Lord, the pursuit of worldly goods and pleasure, and the realization that ungodly pursuits leads to hell, although before or at his death, he thought hell would be fun. He guessed wrong.
@@theincorruptedeye8226 "its getting harder to describe sailors to the underfed" means that as time goes on those who lack true freedom are unable to recognize a "sailor" who can be interpreted as a free spirit, the epitome of freedom. from here on the repetition and the seemingly nonsense lyrics represent corruption (animals in the yard, and crossroads were believed to be a place where people met with the devil). the last couple lines represent the cruel desire to force everything possible out of something that has almost nothing left to offer. so yeah, its an entire song criticizing the futility and corruption of modern life.
"When I was back there in Seminary School, there was a person there who put forth the Proposition that you can petiton the Lord with Prayer. YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a joke. He was never interested in the priesthood. He's responding to Mustang Ford by T-Rex in which a lunatic repeats the lyrics over and over, and insults his lifestyle, partying and womanizing.
@@theincorruptedeye8226 Jim Morrison was a poetic genius and this song is most definitely a criticism of modern life. even from the first lines it demonstrates his dissatisfaction with the lazy belief that god will give you whatever you want as long as you pray.
@@zunbake3 Poetic genius's write in an ambiguous fashion, in the words of Jim "Words dissemble". I would not disagree with someones point, if I was not sure. In this case, I'm positive, the entire song is Jim's response to the song Mustang Ford by T-Rex. The lord is not a religious reference, the lord is the master, and Jim is the master over Marc Bolan in regards to poetry. Listen to the song by T-Rex, a couple of times, if you can, then tell me what you think Jim would've thought about it. Perhaps you are unaware of Jim's Mustang, if you don't know how he acquired it or it's history, Google it. If you don't know about the war of words between the two, you can never understand the lyrics.
@@zunbake3 I don't know how to forward a link., but just go on RU-vid, the Mustang is an interesting and well covered story. In a nutshell, the record company gave Jim the car for the success of the first album. A 1967 Ford Mustang GT500 Cobra. A unique car in many ways, which vanished with Jim at the same time that the movie Vanishing Point was released in which is the song Road house Blues. See the music video - The Doors - Music Video - LA Woman 1971 HQ. The next year, 1968, T-Rex released their first album on which is the song Mustang Ford, insulting both Jim and his lifestyle, partying and womanizing.
dude, here's a few suggestions, THE SPY, MAGGIE M'GILL, THE HYACINTH HOUSE, L'MERICA, LOVE STREET, SUMMER'S ALMOST GONE, the intro & first 6 songs on The Door's Absolutely Live album.
your picking up on the vibe well.... they were singularly brave. its helped them in the long run. they really stand out as unique in many ways from their era. theyve aged better then the vast majority of their peers..... check out, not to touch the earth. powerful delivery and imagery.... I know you like floyd, morrison was a fan of the band too. I would really like to know if syd barret and morrison ever crossed paths... I do think roger waters was influenced by this band for sure.
Always remember, Jim's lyrics are philosophical. He uses words like sweat and save for a shallow grave. He obviously doesn't mean sweating at hard work to provide for yourself and family is a bad thing. Why sweat and save for things, that in the end, do nothing to enrich YOUR soul. Quit trying to keep up with the Jones', in short.
For a real life example, look no further than the Amish. At a certain age [18-20 somewhere in there], kids are allowed to go out in to our world, break every sin imaginable, so they can experience it all. All so they can choose which life they want to live, the vast majority return to their Amish life. What does that tell you? Simplicity is EVERYTHING.
Pretty good decoding. Can't say I disagree with any of it. Let me do a little supplementing. "The monk bought lunch . . . Yeah he bought a little . . . This is the best part of the trip, the best part." These are drug references. Now let's look at those lines: "All our lives we sweat and save / Building for a shallow grave." What do you say to that? "Must be something else to say / somehow to defend this place: // 'Everything must be this way / Everything must be this way.'" We become resigned to the inevitability of our demise. I mean, "You cannot petition the Lord in prayer." It's irritating when people insist that petitioning the Lord in prayer will make any difference. In the meantime, we do our best to soft-parade our way on by. We find whatever "meaning" there might be through experiences of bodies and mixtures of bodies. The soft parade is none other than the celebration of soft human bodies, but the parade itself is not soft at all. "You'd better bring your guns / We're gonna have some fun . . . And when all else fails, we can whip the horse's eyes and make him sleep and cry." As for the meeting at the crossroads, that's a reference to the Oedipus story, just like the "killer awoke before dawn" passage in "The End." Oedipus, abandoned as a baby and never knowing his parents, met by chance his father at the crossroads. Of course, they didn't recognize each other. They got into a fight, and Oedipus killed his father. He later married his own mother, neither knowing they were actually mother and son. When they found out the truth of who they were, the mother/wife killed herself, and Oedipus blinded himself using the broaches that held the straps of his mother's dress together on her shoulders. So what do you think? Anything we missed? Were the women carrying babies to the river to bathe them or to throw them into the river like stones? Is it a reference to Moses, whose mother saved him by putting him in a pitched basket for the Pharaoh's daughter to find. Another story of an "abandoned" baby. Just a thought. A guess. What do you think? Liked. Subscribed. Notifications. Done. Now I'll tell you another story. When Oedipus was a young man, he encountered the dreaded sphynx. She would ask men riddles that no one could answer, and when they failed, she would kill them. She asked Oedipus, "What walks on four legs, then on two, then on three?" He answered, "A person. He crawls on all fours as a baby, he walks on two legs as an adult, and he walks with a staff when he is old." The sphynx was enraged and threw herself off a cliff. Here we see Oedipus himself abandoned as a baby, killing his father and and marrying his mother as an adult, and walking blind with a staff as an old man. I don't think the story of Oedipus and the Sphynx shows up in The Doors' songs, but it's a fun story anyway. Have fun, and good luck with the channel.
@construct3. Wow! Awesome reply. I’m so happy to hear such a perfect description into a doors song . I’ve always understood without being able to explain all the reasons why. Thanks for putting into words ! Nice work!
@@remi_newhouse "I'll tell you this. No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn." -- from The Doors -- "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) -- song based on Jim Morrisson --"Stoned Immaculate." The former is a regular song, ready to play on the radio. The latter is a much shorter spoken-word piece with a story that's not included in the song.
Six feet isn't "shallow." Annnnnd while I "grew up" listening to [the] The Doors - and loving their music (yet still ☺️) - Jim Morrison was a poet on drugs ... lots and LOTS of 'em, including the "hard stuff" ... he had a rather "unusual" sense of humor (and he was a bit of a cut-up (clown)), soooo I wouldn't take his lyrics too seriously. Just my opinion, BUT(T) he was [allegedly] found dead in a bath tub in France with a syringe in his arm (unlike accidentally slipping on the soap, and dying from the fall), so please keep his judgment (or lack thereof) in mind. (And the fact that, he's an entertainer whose job it is to "wax wise," and conjure whimsy.) He wrote a lot about death, and bizarre concepts, so, like horror [films, literature, etc.], it should be "taken with a grain of salt," and enjoyed liberally (IMHO).✌️😃
Actually Jim, you can petition the Lord with prayer. In Fact, it's the only way to petition the Lord. Love the Door's music, but in this case Morrison was showing his ignorance.
You're showing yours, because he's speaking to Marc Bolan who sounded like a repetitious lunatic in the song Mustang Ford. In this instance, Jim is the lord, the master poet.
I turned the blasphemer Morrison off at 1:12. You most certainly CAN petition The Lord with prayer! I do all the time and He has helped me many, many times throughout my life!🙏
Take Robbie Krieger out of the band and it goes nowhere. He wrote most of their hits. Morrison was a drugged out mental case hack "poet". And before any of you "he was a genius and a poet" me, explain why such a "genius", in one of the biggest rock bands of the time had to self-publish his book of gibberish, sorry, I mean "poems". Explain how he couldn't get it published by a real publisher. Internationally famous. At the height of the band's popularity. And he can't get a book published. Apparently not a whole lot of people thought he was much of a "poet". People recognized Bob Dylan as a poet immediately. That never happened with Jimbo. Because he was a hack.
