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Found on more albums:

Dance on Fire [Video]
Greatest Hits [#1]
The Doors Box Set
The Complete Studio Recordings
L.A. Woman
The Best of the Doors [2-CD]
Greatest Hits [Japan]
The Very Best of the Doors [2001]
Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine
Box Set, Pt. 2
Legacy: The Absolute Best
Morrison Hotel/L.A. Woman
L.A. Woman Live
L.A. Woman/Morrison Hotel/The Doors
The Best of the Doors [2000]
L.A. Woman [Bonus Tracks]
The Very Best of the Doors [2007]
The Very Best of the Doors [2007 2-CD]
The Future Starts Here: The Essential Doors Hits
Greatest Golden Hits
The Best of the Doors [1973]
Waiting for the Sun/L.A.Woman
The Greatest Hits [LP]
Perception [2008 Reissue]
Greatest Hits [#2]
Love Death Travel
Strange Days/L.A. Woman
When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors
Riders on the Storm
Riders on the Storm
A Collection
The Very Best Of
Mr. Mojo Risin': The Story of L.A. Woman
L.A. Woman [40th Anniversary Edition]
Doors Vinyl Box

Robby Krieger said, that this song was inspired by the song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" by Stan Jones. Jim Morrison mentioned once in an interview that Billy Cook murders were inspiration for the song's lyrics. Cook killed six people while hitchhiking to California. Morrison even wrote a screenplay "The Hitchhiker (An American Pastoral)" about a hitchhiker who goes on a murder spree.

The echo effect on this song was created by Jim Morrison who recorded his main vocals and then whispered the lyrics over them. The effect of rain was created by Ray Manzarek playing the Fender Rhodes electric piano. Manzarek told Uncut magazine in September 2011 about the whispered voice, "If you listen closely, a whispered overdub that Jim adds beneath his vocal. That's the last thing he ever did. An ephemeral, whispered overdub."

This was the last song Jim Morrison recorded. The single was released shortly before his death.

The lyrics "Into this world we're thrown" was inspired by the book "Sein und Zeit" ("Being and Time" in English) by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger who created the concept of "thrownness".

Disc jockey Alison Steele always played this song on rainy Monday nights while she worked at New York City's WNEW-FM radio in the 1970s.

"Riders on the Storm" is the title of the book by the band's drummer John Densmore, where the story of his life and his time with the group portrayed in detail.

album: "L.A. Woman" (1971)

Lyrics riders on the storm the doors

Neil Young - "Heart Of Gold" I want to live I want to give I've been a miner for a heart of gold It's these expressions I never give That keep me searching for a heart of gold And I'm getting old Keep me searching for a heart...

John Lennon - "Imagine" Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today... Aha-ah... Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to...

David Bowie - "The Man Who Sold The World" We passed upon the stair We spoke of was and when Although I wasn't there He said I was his friend Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes, "I thought you died alone A long long time ago"...

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Bad Moon Rising" I see the bad moon a-rising I see trouble on the way I see earthquakes and lightning I see bad times today Don't go around tonight Well, it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise...

Led Zeppelin - "Kashmir" Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face With stars to fill my dreams I am a traveler of both time and space To be where I have been Sit with elders of the gentle race This world has seldom seen Talk...

What is the meaning of Riders on the Storm?

"Riders on the storm" are people who just can't fit into the society that surrounds them, so they just try to hang on and ride out the storm. Jim Morrison was a rider on the storm (who was thrown into this world) if there ever was one.

Is Riders on the Storm based on a true story?

As the band have all since agreed, Morrison was heavily involved in the creation of Riders On The Storm, with at least a portion of his brooding lyric being inspired by the actions of Billy Cook, the notorious US spree-killer who murdered six people, including a young family, while hitchhiking from Missouri to ...

What does come on baby light my fire mean?

And generally speaking, the way this element is used within the context of the song points to the idea of the singer wanting to engage in something extremely exciting, or perhaps we can say excitable. But that being said, “Light My Fire” has been widely interpreted as being romantic/sexual in nature.

Who originally sang Riders on the Storm?

"Riders on the Storm" is a song by American rock band the Doors. It was released in June 1971, as the second single from L.A. Woman, their sixth studio album and the last with lead singer Jim Morrison.