Ipod Shuffle 25: The Doors 02 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Shaman's Blues

"Shaman's Blues" does not feature all the additional instrumentation that made "The Soft Parade" such a departure from The Doors's other studio work. According to the book "No One Gets Out Alive", Morrison wanted "Easy Ride" to be pulled as an A-Side single, although this did not happen.

Answer: Love Me Two Times

Krieger wrote "Love Me Two Times" from the perspective of a solider or sailor going to war, possibly Vietnam. In 1990, Aerosmith covered the song, dedicating their version to Jim Morrison. In 2001, Aerosmith released their cover on a greatest hits compilation. During the 1972 tour after Morrison's death, Manzarek sang lead vocals on this song.

Answer: Zabriskie Point

Michelangelo Antonioni directed the 1970 picture "Zabriskie Point". Morrison wrote "L'America" specifically for the film, but for unknown reasons Antonioni rejected the song.

The soundtrack is notable for having several otherwise unreleased Pink Floyd song as well as Jerry Garcia tracks.

The other three possible answers are all soundtracks that Pink Floyd contributed too. "More" and "Obscured by Clouds" are full albums by Pink Floyd.

Answer: Waiting for the Sun

The Doors faced a large problem with the 1968 album "Waiting on the Sun". They had primarily used the majority of their material for "The Doors" and "Strange Days". The central epic track for "Waiting for the Sun" was to be "Celebration of the Lizard".

However, the band could not get what they felt to be a definitive recording of that song, so they used only a portion of the track for the final album and had to write several more tracks. Strangely enough, they did not include "Waiting for the Sun", which in light of the "Celebration of the Lizard" does appear to be rather puzzling. Both "Queen of the Highway" and "Indian Summer" are older tracks as well.

Answer: Wishful Sinful

"Who Scared You" was one of only three Doors B-sides that did not appear on the original configuration of their studio albums. The other two are "You Need Meat (Don't Go No Further)", re-released on the 40th Anniversary Remaster of "L. A. Woman", and the still unreleased on CD B-side "Tree Trunk", from their last album "Full Circle".

Answer: Cars Hiss By My Window

The original edit of "Cars Hiss By My Window" is around the 4:12 mark. In 2007, the band included a previously excised verse which bumped the running time to 4:58, almost five minutes long. The band also included previously unheard Morrison dialogue at the intro to "The Soft Parade", although there was no additional instrumental sections with this addition.

Answer: Cream

"Hello I Love You" was one of The Doors' older songs, and was one of six songs recorded for a demo in 1965 before Robbie Krieger joined the band. The band resurrected both "Hello I Love You" and "Summer's Almost Gone" for the 1968 album "Waiting for the Sun" after they had to abandon "Celebration of the Lizard". "Hello I Love You" proved to be The Doors' big break in the UK, peaking at Number 15 on the UK chart.

"Sunshine of Your Love" is from Cream's album "Disraeli Gears". It was Cream's first substantial American hit.

Answer: Auguries of Innocence

These lines from "End of the Night" are taken directly from Blake's poem: "some are borne to sweet delight, some are borne to sweet delight, some are borne to the endless night". Contemporary scholarship dates the from from 1803, but the text was not published until 1863. The text is from "The Pickering Manuscript", a collection of ten poems. These are the poems making up the manuscript:

"The Smile"
"The Golden Net"
"The Mental Traveller"
"The Land of Dreams"
"The Crystal Cabinet"
"The Grey Monk"
"Auguries of Innocence"
"Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell"
"William Bond"

Answer: Two

Elektra imposed censorship on two different recordings from their debut album: "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" and "The End". On "Break On Through" they edited out the phrase "She get high". On "The End", Jim Morrison says profanities over and over toward the end of the track. Rather than remove these profanities completely, they buried them in the mix. Unlike the profanity in The Beatles' "Hey Jude", The Doors' profanities are hard to distinguish what Morrison is saying.

In the 1978 mix commissioned for Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece "Apocalypse Now", the profane section is fully audible

Answer: Full Circle

The Doors were rather famous for not having a bassist in the band. Manzark primarly played bass on his keyboard during live concerts. While some outside bassists were employed on previous albums, the last album by the band, "Full Circle", features bassists playing on every single song, which had never happened on a Doors album before.