Horse Latitudes (The Doors song)
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| “Horse Latitudes” | |||||
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| Song by The Doors | |||||
| Album | Strange Days | ||||
| Released | October 7, 1967 | ||||
| Recorded | 1967 | ||||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, experimental rock, spoken word | ||||
| Length | 1:35 | ||||
| Label | Elektra | ||||
| Writer | Jim Morrison Ray Manzarek Robbie Krieger John Densmore |
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| Producer | Paul A. Rothchild | ||||
| Strange Days track listing | |||||
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"Horse Latitudes" is the fifth song from The Doors second album, Strange Days. The song is basically a spoken word piece by Jim Morrison with the band providing frightening noises similar to a Satanic ritual as a backdrop. Morrison screams the lyrics, telling of a ship at sea forced to jetison the onboard horses to lighten their load. The words are taken from one of the first poems Jim Morrison ever wrote, inspired by a book cover he saw at a local bookstore as a child[1].
Several of the references in this set of lyrics seem to be metaphors for ejaculation and the spurt of semen as they are "jettisoned", i.e "Currents breed tiny monsters", "...Awkward instant...and the first animal is jettisoned,legs furiously pumping..."
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek mentions in his book Light My Fire he never believed Morrison wrote "Horse Latitudes" at such a young age, claiming the words were "too mature".
This song often segued into Moonlight Drive, or vice versa, which follows it on the album.
[edit] References
- ^ Danny Sugerman, No One Here Gets Out Alive, 1980, ISBN 0-7607-0618-2
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