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The Doors (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Doors is the debut studio album by The Doors, released in 1967. A landmark Psychedelic Rock album, it is also their most successful, influential and notable album. Hits include "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", "Soul Kitchen", "Light My Fire" and "The End". An episode about the creative process behind this album was featured in the documentary TV series Classic Albums. It was added to the National Recording Registry in 2014 for being "culturally, historically and aesthetically important". | |
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Descent into Darkness Song | |
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Descent into Darkness Song: "The End" famously starts off as a ponderous musing about the nature of finality. However, eventually the imagery shifts into describing a masked killer grappling with the desire to kill, and then killing, his parents. Afterwards, the tempo builds to create a mesmerizing climax; that makes it the perfect song to be used to bookend Apocalypse Now — a descent into the evil lurking in the human heart. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: Morrison's face, pictured in close-up, while Densmore, Manzarek and Krieger are shown in the distance. | |
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Longest Song Goes Last | |
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Longest Song Goes Last: The album closes with "The End" (11:41). | |
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The Unintelligible | |
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The Unintelligible: Jim's screaming during the line "mother... I want to... rape you!" in "The End" is so garbled that it is impossible to make out what he is shouting, therefore it sounds more like "mother... I want to... murder you!". | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: According to "The End" there is no after: | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: During "The End". This was heavily buried in the original mix, but when Francis Ford Coppola was making Apocalypse Now, he requested the use of the song, and the studio accidentally sent his sound designer Walter Murch the original masters, which enabled him to hear the unmixed version of the song. Murch subsequently created a very trippy new mix for the film that brought the Cluster F-Bomb to the forefront. Some subsequent mixes of the original album now have the Cluster F-Bomb uncensored as well. | |
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Time Marches On | |
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Time Marches On: Back in 1967, it must have been rather complimentary to be called a "20th Century Fox". Nowadays, in a different century, it almost sounds like an insult. | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: "20th Century Fox", where a girl is described as being one, namely that she is a sexy girl living in the 20th century. Consequently, the song is a very obvious Incredibly Lame Pun on 20th Century Fox, and now rather outdated, considering we are no longer in the 20th century and the aforementioned company was renamed as 20th Century Studios in 2020. | |
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Album Closure | |
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Album Closure: The final track, appropriately called "The End," discusses endings of all sorts. They frequently used it to close their live concerts as well. | |
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Drunken Song | |
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Drunken Song: "Alabama Song". | |
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Call to Adventure | |
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Call to Adventure: "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", a message to break out of your shell and change your life to a more exciting one. | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out: "I Looked at You" seems to come to a close, but then goes a bit longer. | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: Paul Rothchild. | |
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Parental Incest | |
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Parental Incest: The protagonist in "The End" wants to rape his mother. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: "The Crystal Ship", "Light My Fire", "I Looked at You" are all love songs. | |
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The Cover Changes the Gender | |
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The Cover Changes the Gender: "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" was sung by female sex workers in the original version by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, and they sung "the next little boy". The Doors' studio version changes this to "the next little girl", though Morrison occasionally left the line intact in live performances. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: "Light My Fire" and especially "The End". | |
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Murder Ballad | |
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Murder Ballad: "The killer awoke before dawn" section of "The End". | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: "Break On Through (to the Other Side)", which is about trying to break out of your monotone life to a more exciting one. | |
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The Something Song | |
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The Something Song: "Alabama Song". | |
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Lyrical Cold Open | |
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Lyrical Cold Open: "The Crystal Ship" does this; Jim sings the first two words by himself before everyone else enters. | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
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Careful with That Axe: "Light My Fire" "The End" | |
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One-Man Song | |
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One-Man Song: "Back Door Man". | |
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Oedipus Complex | |
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Oedipus Complex: "The End", where Morrison sings he wants to kill his father and rape his mother. | |
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Heavy Metal | |
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Heavy Metal: Usually not cited as an influence, but "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" was probably the darkest, heaviest song in 1960s pop music; its climax includes an almost subliminal "doomy thunder" sound that Black Sabbath and Judas Priest would make famous. And with "TRY TO SET THE NIGHT ON... FIRRRRE!" at the end of "Light My Fire", Jim may have birthed the Metal Scream. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: In addition to the Cluster F-Bomb above, some live performances of "The End" feature one earlier in the song. The album version replaces it with an unintelligible scream, but given the Freudian imagery throughout the song, the expletive is about as heavily implied as it could be without being spoken outright. | |
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Remaster | |
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Remaster: The 2006 40th anniversary edition was not only remastered, but featured "Light My Fire" at its correct speed for the first time since its original 45 RPM single release. The speed discrepancy (being about 3.5% slow) was brought to Bruce Botnick's attention by BYU music professor Michael Hicks, who noted that all video and audio live performances of the Doors performing the song, the sheet music, and statements of band members show that the song is in a key almost a half step higher (A) than the stereo LP release (A♭/G♯). One result of the speed adjustment is the song's running time changing from 7:06 to 6:51. | |
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Last Note Nightmare | |
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Last Note Nightmare: That haunting moan that ends "The End" | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Tons, discounting The Doors film, of course. "The End" was used prominently in the film Apocalypse Now, as well as several episodes of The Simpsons. Frank Zappa had a concert parody of the song in which the protagonist tells his father he wants to kill him, but his dad happens to be masturbating on the toilet with a magazine on his knees and tells him: "Err, no not now son!" It never got an official release due to copyright reasons, but one instrumental track by Zappa was indeed released as "No Not Now". "The Crystal Ship" was the name of a band that DJ Tommy 'Nightmare' Smith (Voiced by Axl Rose) was formerly in; from the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" appears on The Simpsons episode I Love Lisa. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" and "Soul Kitchen" appears in Forrest Gump. "People Are Strange", "Hello, I Love You" and "Love Her Madly" are all also used in the film. "Light My Fire" was covered in the most bizarre way possible on The Third Reich 'n Roll by The Residents. "Light My Fire" was also sampled in "Superstar" from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill. Flemish cult poet Jotie T' Hooft committed suicide in 1976 by overdosing on heroin. When people found him, he had already died and had put the groove of his record player needle on repeat so that The Doors' "The End" played in a continuous loop. | |
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Self-Titled Album | |
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Self-Titled Album: Duh. | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)", lifted from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, and the Howlin' Wolf cover "Back Door Man". | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
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The End of the World as We Know It: "The End", in which the band sings about the end of everything. | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You: "Back Door Man" has been interpreted as being about someone who likes to take (or be taken?) from behind. It's certainly had those implications in the earliest blues songs that inspired the song. Of course, it is a cover of the song by Willie Dixon and Howlin' Wolf. In that version "back door man" meant an illicit relationship, such as with a married woman - he would sneak out through the back door when the husband came home through the front door. | |
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Ode to Sobriety | |
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Ode to Sobriety: "Alabama Song", see Drunken Song. | |
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Consummate Professional | |
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Consummate Professional: The subject of "20th Century Fox": | |
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