Break On Through (To the Other Side)
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| “Break On Through (To the Other Side)” | |||||
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| Single by The Doors from the album The Doors |
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| Released | January 1, 1967 | ||||
| Format | Vinyl | ||||
| Recorded | August 1966 | ||||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, Acid Rock, Hard Rock | ||||
| Length | 2:26 | ||||
| Label | Elektra Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Jim Morrison | ||||
| Producer | Paul A. Rothchild | ||||
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"Break On Through (To the Other Side)" is a song by The Doors from their debut album, The Doors. It was the first single released by the band and was relatively unsuccessful compared to later hits, reaching only #106 in the United States.
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[edit] Overview
The band played this song amongst five others in a demo for Aura Records in 1965. The song also appears on track one of the bands first album. Elektra Records censors objected to the use of the word "high" in the middle section of the song (after "everybody loves my baby") due to its drug connotations. The original album version has the line "she gets" repeated before a grunt at the end. Live versions and later releases of the song have the uncensored version with "high" restored.
[edit] Musical structure
The song is in 4/4 time and quite fast paced, the tune being similar to that of blues guitarist Elmore James' Stranger Blues. The piece begins with a disjointed quirky solo on the organ quite similar to introduction of Ray Charles' What I'd Say, which has a few intentional misplaced notes in it, while the bass-line, similar to a typical bass line used in salsa music, continues almost unhindered all of the way through the song.
[edit] Other performances
Stone Temple Pilots covered the song for The Doors tribute album Stoned Immaculate. The song was also covered by Mark Wilburn. Mexican hard rock band La Cuca has done a cover as a hidden track in their album La Racha. In 2008, the song appeared in Buddha Bar Volume 10, as a remix by DJ Disse.
When the Doors were featured on an episode of VHI Storytellers, various guest singers filled in for Jim Morrison. Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots filled in and sang Break on Through, along with the song he said inspired him to rock, Five to One.
[edit] Appearances in Media
- The song was used in the Miami Vice episode "Back in the World."
- Appears in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2.
- Featured in the trailer for the 2008 film 21.
- The song is heard briefly in the Gulf War film, Jarhead while the U.S. Marines are digging foxholes under an a shower of oil fires lit by the retreating Iraqi Army. It is played on a helicopter radio. Upon hearing it Swafford says, "That's Vietnam music, man. Can't we get our own fuckin' music?"
- It is also heard breifly in the Vietnam War film, Forrest Gump
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