“The Soft Parade” by The Doors

"The Soft Parade" closes the Doors' fourth album, also called The Soft Parade, from 1969, and it's the band throwing everything they've got into one sprawling, shape-shifting song, counted among the most musically varied things they ever recorded. The credit went to Jim Morrison alone, though the whole group composed it.

Morrison sings, Robby Krieger plays guitar, Ray Manzarek keyboards and John Densmore drums, with Harvey Brooks on bass and Reinol Andino on congas. Paul A. Rothchild produced and Bruce Botnick engineered. The 40th anniversary remaster restored an intro in which Morrison confesses that a stranger's eyes have left him deeply troubled, and that fragment later surfaced by itself as the bonus track "I Am Troubled" on the 50th anniversary edition.

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