First time hearing | The Doors - LA woman | REACTION

First time hearing | The Doors - LA woman | REACTION

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[jpmnewyork]

53 years later, and I still enjoy listening to this as if it's the first time. It never gets old.

[edwardcapobianco]

Great band with a jazz drummer, jazz and classically trained keyboard player, flamenco guitarist and a crazy but brilliant poet/vocalist who heard songs and melodies in his head but didn't know a thing about singing and couldn't play a note of music. This is the Doors! Such a unique sounding band whose first album is in the library of congress! Yes and Morrison could sing and actually had a pretty damn good voice! One hell of a band. Carlos Santana to this day still picks the Doors as his favorite band!

[tonym]

The best American rock band. They had a lot of songs that you had to play driving down the highway. I could cruise all night listening to The Doors & we often did.

[OscarMartinez-pzrg]

Love this song and album, Morrison wrote this in tribute to Los Angeles, using alott of metaphors in clever ways, ..to me l.a woman is an absolute masterpiece

[chrisjenkins]

The Doors released LA Woman in April of 1971. Jim Morrison, the singer, died in Paris, France 3 months later in July 1971.
🎼☮️💟

[mgjkoehler]

Dang, you dance better sitting down than I do standing up!

[bigunone]

It's fun to watch you react to songs I listened to when I was a teenager

[caturaebenton]

That is what i call a reaction!🤩
Absolute joy. Thanks for that, Sarah!👍

[Brandi]

The doors were an incredible band. People will listen to their vibe, a hundred years from now🤘❤️

[bluesrocker]

The story behind the lyrics is quite interesting. By this point in their career, Jim Morrison's rock star lifestyle and the general edginess of The Doors music and live concerts had made him a target for the establishment of the time, particularly in the southern states of the US. In September 1970 he was convicted (posthumously pardoned) of indecent exposure at a concert in Florida, in what was effectively an establishment witch hunt, and was facing 6 months in prison.

So by the time they came to record this album, he and his girlfriend had decided to basically leave it all behind and move to France. In this song, Jim is basically saying goodbye to his adopted home city of L.A, by personifying it as a woman whom he loves but cannot stay with. It's a brilliant piece of songwriting.

The following year, Jim died suddenly in Paris. The circumstances of his death are still subject to debate even today, and there have long been rumours and theories that he might have staged it. Fuelled in part by the fact the L.A Woman album is littered with references to running away, adopting a new identity and starting a new life.

[Dan-mihn]

Nice, I love the Doors, live in France old cottage, 8 doors to the garden, haha.
Jim is with me in Paris, bless him

[AlexTaylor-io]

😢I lived in Los Angeles from 1979 until 1984 and every time I hear the opening bars of this song I'm back on the Santa Monica freeway, radio blasting

[dadmateryn]

The song is a love letter written to the city of Los Angeles

[Joestaxi]

Tragic story. Jim Morrison, wrote some amazing stuff. There are some who say he was one of America’s great poets.

His biography, No One Here Gets Out Alive, is an excellent read.

Mr. Mojo Risin’, that’s an anagram of Jim Morrison.

[dantallman]

This takes one on quite the carpet ride…call response, rhythm, tempo changes….love it.

[paulfillingham]

Love this song and many more by The Doors. The only rock band without a bass player.

[shemanic]

Love your moves Sarah. There are some great tunes on that album & their other albums. Please try "Break On Through (To The Other Side)" or "Changeling" .

[danevans]

Floating as you do along the LA streets with this classic song is enjoyable for me.Only thing I can say for the thousand Time is " They don't make em like they used to anymore"

[JB-qqxz]

Your body literally flows with the song!

Great intuition!

Hard to believe it’s your first listen..😅

[chemdah]

One of my favourite songs of all time. Glad you liked it.