It's kind of the ultimate Doors song EVERYTHING in it, all their tropes and all their nuances plus all the bits in between. I still can't figure out how it all works together but it does. I'd never introduce someone to the Doors with this song but I'd make sure they got to it.
They played this live on a PBS show at the time, and it sounds great too. I played this album for a whole semester of college. It was the perfect length for the drive there.
@Brad After Dark Sunday & The Doors always reminds me of my Mom 💜 She would wake me every Sunday (after very late nighs) blasting music, mainly The Doors! Twas her favorite & she knew & worked with them too. Great memories! & One of the mos Amazing bands of all time! So progressive & still ahead of their time. No one still like them! & Jim was/still is one of the greatest poets/lyricists & vocalist of all time! Hard to get a lot if it. Not all so confusing. & Not all was drug fueled. All of the were artists in their own rights. & no denying Jim had/has such a rare strong voice! With all forevermore 🙏 j Ps Oliver Stone did a movie called The Doors. Very close to his heart! Val kilmer plays Jim Morrison like no other good. He put so much into it. Also close to his heart. Hope you can see it🤘
10:04 All the comment we need! 😄. Wikipedia "The Soft Parade" itself was an expression coined by Morrison to indicate the bizarre and varied humanity that populated Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles daily. His lyrics express need and pursuit for sanctuary, escape, and pleasure from his point of view."
THE DOORS are one of my favorite bands since many years. Jim Morrison's voice is so great and fits the music from THE DOORS like only a few singers in other bands could. Best wishes @all from hamburg (germany)
As I have said before , played this album to the groove back in the day, it was not highly rated by the critics & also rated as the worse Doors album by many. To each their own, it kept me company many hours..lol.. Having not visted them in a long time, it was great to get another reaction from you Brad ,from this iconic rock band.
🌸🌸🌸✨✨✨ the doors can do no wrong.. fabulous band 🙌🙌🙌 love the wacky breakdown 😂👏 I caught a contact off that . 👏🙌✨✨🌸🌸🌸 Peppermint candy 🍭🎶🎶🎶 the lyrics tho 😂👏🌈🌈🌈💞❤️💞❤️🎶🎶✨🌸🌸🌸🌸awesome 😎🙌✨🎶🌸🌸🍭🌈🌈🌈
This may be my favorite Doors song because taken as a whole it is lyrically indecipherable. Overtime I realized each section to be a poetic snippet, almost like 6 or 7 really short songs cobbled together. And it works! Possibly their most creative piece.
At the end of the song, Jim Morrison sings: "When all else fails we can whip the horse's eyes and make them sleep and cry." It is considered a homage to Fiedrich Nietzche, a German philosopher, who got crazy when he went to hold a horse that was being whipped by a driver of a chariot.
This is the downside of caring about and being interested in lyrics. Every once in a while a song like this comes along and turns your brain into a pretzel.
It doesn’t coalesce as well as the end or when the WTMO, but it nevertheless has interesting view and movement. He also drops some great lines in here about the culture and mankind’s role in it at that time. The soft parade is the surface assumptions and placid yet rigid rules that construct norms of the culture. He seems to be pointing out it puts people in a trance of control and obligations wh/ shield truth and/or self realization and vibrant life force… the most prescient stanza was: catacombs, nursery bones. Winter women growing stones. Carrying babies to the river…. If you think what he’s saying about modern society he’s showing how under this placid suburb is direct control. Woman becoming like men in locking kids into more control and rigid order. Stealing their freedom (carrying babies to the river). Saying that mainstream culture then was suffocating freedom as a trade off for control. Pretty prescient and visionary considering where we are 50 years later.
Trippy song, probably best to just go with the vibe. Otherwise you might end up doing the Beautiful Mind thing, webbing together pictures and notations on bits of paper using stick pins and yarn.🤪
Definitely the weakest, but I think there are some good tracks. It's got Wild Child, Wishful Sinful, The Soft Parade, and Touch Me. That's more great songs than a lot of bands ever have on the same album. The other songs... easily "take or leave" tracks. More likely leave for most people. They needed someone to be able to put their foot down and squash some of the bad ideas on this album. Even the lesser songs probably could have been good with a different approach to the music. And to never ever let Robbie Kreiger sing lead on a song again... LOL
Is this the song I heard about where Jim was supposed to be getting $ex while recording? Like when he says he's proud to be a part of this number? Or when he is singing "and it's getting harder?"
All that I can say Brad is that in the days when the sunshine was orange, the lyrics made sense! Peace
8 ways to Sunday.
It's kind of the ultimate Doors song EVERYTHING in it, all their tropes and all their nuances plus all the bits in between. I still can't figure out how it all works together but it does.
I'd never introduce someone to the Doors with this song but I'd make sure they got to it.
The Doors are still my favorite band of all time 🙂👍
Oasis, The Doors and the Stone Roses are my 3 favourite of all time✌️🏴
The Doors, led Zeppelin and pink floyd, the rocknroll trinity
They played this live on a PBS show at the time, and it sounds great too.
I played this album for a whole semester of college. It was the perfect length for the drive there.
@Brad After Dark Sunday & The Doors always reminds me of my Mom 💜 She would wake me every Sunday (after very late nighs) blasting music, mainly The Doors! Twas her favorite & she knew & worked with them too. Great memories!
& One of the mos Amazing bands of all time! So progressive & still ahead of their time. No one still like them! & Jim was/still is one of the greatest poets/lyricists & vocalist of all time! Hard to get a lot if it. Not all so confusing. & Not all was drug fueled. All of the were artists in their own rights. & no denying Jim had/has such a rare strong voice! With all forevermore 🙏 j
Ps Oliver Stone did a movie called The Doors. Very close to his heart! Val kilmer plays Jim Morrison like no other good. He put so much into it. Also close to his heart. Hope you can see it🤘
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
10:04 All the comment we need! 😄. Wikipedia "The Soft Parade" itself was an expression coined by Morrison to indicate the bizarre and varied humanity that populated Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles daily. His lyrics express need and pursuit for sanctuary, escape, and pleasure from his point of view."
My friends mom gave me this cassette and I listened to this song the most!! Thanks Brad! Thanks EZ rolling ❤🎶🔥
So good!
THE DOORS are one of my favorite bands since many years. Jim Morrison's voice is so great and fits the music from THE DOORS like only a few singers in other bands could. Best wishes @all from hamburg (germany)
As I have said before , played this album to the groove back in the day, it was not highly rated by the critics & also rated as the worse Doors album by many. To each their own, it kept me company many hours..lol.. Having not visted them in a long time, it was great to get another reaction from you Brad ,from this iconic rock band.
When I was back in seminary School, we said indeed EZ
Rated by me bro
Love all of Brads reactions!
🌸🌸🌸✨✨✨ the doors can do no wrong.. fabulous band 🙌🙌🙌 love the wacky breakdown 😂👏 I caught a contact off that . 👏🙌✨✨🌸🌸🌸 Peppermint candy 🍭🎶🎶🎶 the lyrics tho 😂👏🌈🌈🌈💞❤️💞❤️🎶🎶✨🌸🌸🌸🌸awesome 😎🙌✨🎶🌸🌸🍭🌈🌈🌈
Have always loved this one. Definitely seems like Jim was trying to transcribe an ayahuasca trip.
This is the best part of the trip, the best part, I really like!!!!
This may be my favorite Doors song because taken as a whole it is lyrically indecipherable. Overtime I realized each section to be a poetic snippet, almost like 6 or 7 really short songs cobbled together. And it works! Possibly their most creative piece.
At the end of the song, Jim Morrison sings: "When all else fails we can whip the horse's eyes and make them sleep and cry." It is considered a homage to Fiedrich Nietzche, a German philosopher, who got crazy when he went to hold a horse that was being whipped by a driver of a chariot.
Love Doors
Love Jim
Absolutely genius 🐐
Jim Morrison reciting a bunch of his poetry on this one.
This is the downside of caring about and being interested in lyrics. Every once in a while a song like this comes along and turns your brain into a pretzel.
Doors at their best AND a public service announcement about the importance of staying in touch with yourself.
Poetry often uses double entendres, and twists words to keep you guessing.
This song is like 10/10 difficulty in terms of reaction content.
He was either the greatest lyricist or just a wino
Both.
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It doesn’t coalesce as well as the end or when the WTMO, but it nevertheless has interesting view and movement. He also drops some great lines in here about the culture and mankind’s role in it at that time. The soft parade is the surface assumptions and placid yet rigid rules that construct norms of the culture. He seems to be pointing out it puts people in a trance of control and obligations wh/ shield truth and/or self realization and vibrant life force… the most prescient stanza was: catacombs, nursery bones. Winter women growing stones. Carrying babies to the river…. If you think what he’s saying about modern society he’s showing how under this placid suburb is direct control. Woman becoming like men in locking kids into more control and rigid order. Stealing their freedom (carrying babies to the river). Saying that mainstream culture then was suffocating freedom as a trade off for control. Pretty prescient and visionary considering where we are 50 years later.
OMG Brad u tslik!!!!!!!!!!!! I watched b4 this, you with ur girl. There u say nada.....
Trippy song, probably best to just go with the vibe. Otherwise you might end up doing the Beautiful Mind thing, webbing together pictures and notations on bits of paper using stick pins and yarn.🤪
The most amazing thing about the Doors and their ability to Groove is they had no bass player
They used session bass players in the studio. For concerts they hired bassists as well rhythm guitarists.
Nice. Nobody ever reacts to this track.
This is the best song on what I consider as their weakest album.
Definitely the weakest, but I think there are some good tracks. It's got Wild Child, Wishful Sinful, The Soft Parade, and Touch Me. That's more great songs than a lot of bands ever have on the same album. The other songs... easily "take or leave" tracks. More likely leave for most people. They needed someone to be able to put their foot down and squash some of the bad ideas on this album. Even the lesser songs probably could have been good with a different approach to the music. And to never ever let Robbie Kreiger sing lead on a song again... LOL
Is this the song I heard about where Jim was supposed to be getting $ex while recording? Like when he says he's proud to be a part of this number? Or when he is singing "and it's getting harder?"