“Strange Days” by The Doors

"Strange Days" is the title track and opening cut of the Doors' 1967 album, out on Elektra that September, and it leans on something rock and roll had barely heard yet: the Moog synthesizer, new on the market that very year, in one of its earliest rock outings. The song itself was older than the session; the band had it long before they recorded it, and a live take from May 1966 finally surfaced on London Fog 1966 in 2016.

All four Doors, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore, share the writing credit, and Paul A. Rothchild produced. The words came after a Doors trip to New York City, and AllMusic's Tom Maginnis hears Morrison mulling over the hippie youth culture then taking shape and how straight society saw it; writer Stephen Davis heard an emotionally raw streak in the lyrics.

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