The Doors The End Reaction!!
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Starting your Doors journey with the end is kinda like going from basic math straight to calculus but great job guys.
Great analysis
Lol
Hahaha definitely
Well it was the last song on their first album. But they still could have gone with Light My Fire.
Best luck next trip! Sorry , next time!!!!
Not to be insulting or anything, but I can't even fathom the idea of not knowing the Doors.
Sara Palma I thought the same things. The doors are legendary
True. Unbelievable. It's like saying you've never heard the Stones.
I felt the same way when they didn't know Pink Floyd.
Sara Palma I thought exactly the same!
Never heard of them until now
Another cool fact about this song. The producer has said that when they recorded it in the studio, they played in the dark..with a single candle lit by Jim Morrison. I can’t imagine what that was like. Absolutely incredible.
And then later on someone supposedly broke in at night and set the console on fire
@@EricAndrewDodson "Come on baby light my fire...." Seems someone took that line literally.
Listening to the doors and Jim's poems are almost like a spiritual trip. It's so bizarre and calm.
Miché _ they were HIS trips
An American Prayer is a great album.
I cannot hear this song without seeing APOCALYPSE NOW in my mind's eye.
FulciLives lol same. What a beautiful scene
same lol
The song was "made" for the movie, so to speak. What's even more interesting is that JIm's own dad was a Rear Admiral in the Navy during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which was the event that gave our government the "excuse" to start the Vietnam war. Really interesting when you realize that.
Can't hear this song without smelling napalm in the morning.
Same. even though I heard the song before seeing the movie
girl: this is pretty 3:36
jim: this is the end.
I noticed that same observation...the intro sounds beautiful but when you hear Jim speak about his subject of choice, it's immediately powerful and undeniably intense.
here in Brasil we call this : comprando gato por lebre. "buying a cat for a lepper?"
The look on Vin and Sori face listening to this is priceless to me. Their usually great at analyzing lyrics but ole Jimmy has them tripping(not literally tripping lol)
These peeps are FAR from critics if they’ve never heard this before. LOL!
During the song, Vin looks like he's asking himself why he's wasting 12 minutes of his life on this song.
They can't articulate psychedelia or the type of music in that scene back then.
This is the deepest song in rock history. The use of the faux sitar tuning the absolute perfect playing of Densmore carrying the groove . Just the whole ambience is stunning.
When they played this live, Morrison said " mother I want to fuck you( in the screaming part) while he mimicked it. He was arrested for that performance. This tune has been studied believe me. Morrison really was a great poet.
He was not arrested for that performance. They were fired at the whiskey but not arrested.
the opening montage to Apocalypse Now may be the single greatest opening scene in the history of cinema
Johnny Oldfield and everything after the title shot is amazing. Most people don't realize that the title shot is about twenty minutes before the end of the movie.
Classic movie
They aren't classified as metal of course but most metalheads love The Doors, you should do more by them. And Jim Morrison was a genius.
metalmaniac 101 robbie Krieger and ray manzarek
Hell yeah bro, you are absolutely right. The Doors and Morrison were one of the first bands to explore the true dark side of rock. (and the psychedelic side of it)
The story of Oedipus (very abridged):
Oedipus' parents were rulers of a city state. When his mother was pregnant the oracle made a prophecy than he would one day kill the king (his father) and take the queen (his mother) as his wife. When Oedipus was born his parents abandoned him in the wilderness where he was found and raised by another family. When he grew up he decided to go visit the oracle and the oracle told him he would kill his father and take his mother as his wife. Oedipus loved his (adoptive) parents so in order to avoid that prophecy he left and when on a journey. During his travels he came across a noble entourage that tried to force him out of their way, so he just killed them all, including the noble. Later he got to a city that was being sieged by a chimera and he killed it. As thanks the population made him their king and he took the old king's wife as his own with whom he had many many children. Later he found out that the noble he had killed was his biological father and his wife was his biological mother.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
It’s 27 guys, the 27 club!
There you go, lol. Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain all died at 27. There are a few more, but these are the most notable.
Tom Rocks ... Amy Winehouse...
Robert Johnson.
Tom Rocks Pete hem also 27 ..one of my fav band badfinger
Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin has outlived them all! and i have met him in my work place car park! shook his right old hand too.!
I am the Lizard king I can do anything.
I love the Lizard King.
Tomorrow I enter the own of my birth, I wan't to be ready.
F’N RIGHT!!!
for tomorrow all is ok??
are you sure for tomorrow
Starting The Doors with The End is like starting drugs with Heroin!
hahahah true
As many people do. Lol 😆
27 alot died at 27.
Its named the 27 club.
the last member of the 27 club is Amy Winehouse
Fingers crossed for J.B.
Omkar Mokashi 😂😂😂
@@bouletravail4262 this is the right answer 👆 its definitely the forever 27 club.
Robbie Krieger's guitar in the beginning is hypnotic...
RIP Mr Mojo Risin (THE LIZARD KING)
LA Woman. now that's an image.
Mr. Mojo rising++++ Jim Morrison
I found out where they got the mr mojo risin from. When i was watching a doors documentary
Now that's when drums sounded as they was supposed to
Jim Morrison was a poet. He was very different and was just himself. Rest in peace Lizard King. Play Roadhouse Blues.
Sori's face was so hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
By the way, I love The Doors.
Thank you so much!
Lol time stamp it! -Sori 🤟🏻
That smile when enjoying it at 8:37 and that cringe at 12:12
Absolute masterpiece .
one of the most importent songs ever....
This was in the movie APOCALYPSE NOW
Actually, The Doors are a somewhat unrecognized forerunner to metal, in that, they were arguably the first popular rock band that had dark sounding music and lyrics, which is epitomized in this song. This album was unlike the others of the time, and it got mainstream exposure mainly because of Light My Fire. Mostly everyone was about peace and love at that time, but Jim and The Doors were on a different page to say the least...
Morrison wanted to scare the shit out of those hippies with reality. Plus he thought the hippie culture was nothing more than a middle class phenomenon.
@@justinscrivner5457 Yes I agree. He wanted to "break on through" the barriers of society and the mind, and he was very intelligent IMO.
A very interesting fact for those who don't know is that his dad was involved in the highly questionable Gulf of Tonkin incident as commander of US Naval forces (according to wikipedia and some online research I did), an event whose consequences brought us into the Vietnam war and changed America in it's own unique way forever afterward. Kind of an interesting coincidence considering Jim's standpoint and societal position at that time.
@@yearginclarkeyes, I do find it strange about Morrison's attitude was sharp juxtaposition to his father's upstanding career. At that time, the youth culture was starting to be aware of itself along with new ideologys that went against the traditional American values compared to the previous young generations really had no voice. It was just in a limbo state..
Oh STFU and stop creating categories young one
@@jesusflores2324 How bout you go fuck yourself dumb shit
The Doors are among my favourite bands of all time. They had a completely unique style of jazz/blues/psychedelic/rock/poetry which has never been surpassed or imitated. This particular song (although very different from most of their songs) is a masterpiece and one of the oddes ones they ever did. A very bold choice for a first listen of the Doors, I love it!
The End (written by Morrison) started as simple breakup song for his girlfriend at the time. In 1966 The Doors were hired to play as the house band at the Whiskey a Go Go -club and there, this song went through a transformation to an experimental rock song with spoken word poetry and cabaret. The beginning and the ending are still the original the breakup song but throughout the performances the band expanded the middle part and Jim Morrison added his own poetry to the mix. The haunting organ of Ray Manzarek, flamenco guitar of Robby Krieger and jazzy drums of John Densmore fill in the rest of the song perfectly and give it easy-to-improvise-on and beautiful, but at the same time haunting, sound.
One night (21st of August 1966?) Jim was late for the gig and the rest of the band members went to his house to get him. They found him completely tripped out on acid but they still somehow got him to perform that night, Jim actually went along voluntarily. Morrison wanted to do "The End" and he improvised the middle part then and there. The rest of the band, having played with Jim for a long time, were familiar with this and they kept playing along, almost fueling Morrison, and let him do his thing. That night he sang the Oedipus part. In this studio recording it's "cencored" but that night he sang "Father - Yes, son - I want to kill you - Mother, I want to - Fuck you all night long!" (or something along those lines). They were instantly fired. Luckily they had gotten a record deal a couple of days before for Electra and they released their acclaimed debut album next year! Only two takes were done for this song during the recordings.
Morrison was very intelligent, very well read and an emotional artist. Towards the end of 60's he grew tired of the fame, "rock n roll" lifestyle and live shows. He felt that people were coming to see him do something controversial on stage and not really caring about the music. The last straw was an obscenity charge he got from a gig in Miami in 1969 and a conviction based on those charges in 1970. This affected Morrison deeply, he just "wanted to be a blues singer" and a poet. In 1971 he decided to move to Paris with his girlfriend to focus on his poetry and get away from the music scene. He was found dead in his apartment just a couple of months after moving at the age of 27. His death is a bit of a mystery since no autopsy was performed and the funeral was held quickly after the death with very few attendants. The official cause of death is heart failure.
Awesome stuff! I hope you do more Doors soon!
Y'all picked the longest, deepest Doors song. Lol!
Drop some old school acid and it'll all be clear to you.
There's a difference between "hearing the Doors" and "listening to the Doors."
I second dat😘!!
Back in 67 in Los Angeles it wasn’t mandatory to take acid to understand The Doors, who we’d see all over town..Drugs were everywhere & many people I knew died or were negatively affected in any number of ways from overdosing, being shot, hanged, suicide, institutionalized ect..It certainly wasn’t peace in love but at the time it was very interesting..In retrospective I’d definitely advise against drugs, mainly the Psychedelics...
"There's a difference between 'hearing the Doors' and 'listening to the Doors.' " That's true, acid or not.
I think these the had the same problem with Pink Floyd. I'm starting to think the grandparents are wayyy cooler!!
Mad Max he’s taking about concepts that are not part of you such as family and friends or any other other that detaches you from innocence should be alienated...figuratively killed off your interpretation of reality...
I met Jim Morrison at a sidewalk cafe in Paris in the spring of 2014 . Said he missed L.A.
Tell me more about your journey and meeting
Where did you get your acid from?.. it sounds like it was good shit.
Oddly enough it surprises people that the doors is my favorite band.
RevelationNone Same here, I’m pretty much the only doors fan I know.. not including internet folk
Same i love you guys
I just love love The Doors.
very interesting watching people try to decipher Morrison's lyrics
Sori at the beginning: "I like it. Its pretty" Little did she know what was to come...
"Riders on the storm" is their best song I've ever heard.
Did anyone else notice the knocking on the "door" while listening to the "Doors" at 5:59? Right when it said all the children are insane. And I assume it was the kids knocking at that moment lmao
Mind blown!!!!
Yeup!!! 🧐🧐🧐
Heard it too lol.
Yup. Psyched me out. I was looking for one of Vin & Sori's kids to come in and say "the house is on fire!" (reference to children frying food)
I did too!
Aaron A. Foster lmfao!!!
Omg I would never have expected you guys to do this song! Excellent excellent choice!! . . Hardly an Underground group tho!
Definitely in the top 10 greatest bands of all time
mattdaddyful Jesus Christ. Haha
i would call them underground. bc their music isn't commercially used - moves, tv, commercials... maybe 2 movies have their music...
Red Racer I don't see any of Korn's music being featured in such things, but they're on the Mainstage. Do you really think more people have heard "Blind" than "Light My Fire"?
They were kinda underground in the 60's
I love seeing the confusion on ones face when they try to understand Jim’s lyrics....thats the poetic genius that is Mr. Mojo Risin
Jim used certain cues during his singing that would evoke a very primal response from the audience. To awake the subconscious state of mind. The “animalistic side.”
Definitely makes you think of that animalistic side.
This is a band that will take multiple songs to get it. Nothing underground about them. They were one of the biggest and most influential bands of the 60s, and they remain extremely popular in rock today.
The doors of perception are wide open baby ......love it thanks guys 😎
jim's dad started a war.... don't be so sure you knew who he really was. you dont get famous unless you're into satanism and have family on the inside. jim loved death, that's why he was all about it. death = devil, the devil = death aka satanism.
TruthGatherer,
Childish nonsense. Morrison was not a Satanist he was a superb songwriter who was mourning the loss of girlfriend and was being harassed by police for bullshit obscenity charges. Your Christian interpretation is amusing if weren't so childishly silly. Go take a science class will you?
He was obsessed with death worship. Stop being stupid "child" as you say. I dont hate you, so stop trying to offend me. I'm not christian, I'm an occultist (I agree with the teachings of Jesus (even though the letter J didn't exist until what 300yrs ago or so? #gospel of thomas) , therefore I know these things. If you say "oh just because you're an occultist you know things?" fuck yes. that's how it works. study it. the worship of death which he was insanely into, is satanism. What is death? think. most things that you learn about, see or hear is about death, not life. Whether it's something as ridiculus to many as a video game or a cartoon. to put it down to that level. it's still has it's effects. and it support harm/death. death = devil. the devil = death. about the police. the police is not agood. look into Mark Passio's presentation on "occult mockery of the police and military personal"
you're talking to me now, not an idiot.
death is ofc the death of the "self"
hehe, well barack obama speaks of love to. but doesn't make him a saint.that's just pure deception. evil coming under the name of love.
dont get me wrong. I like the songs but he was into the dark occult.
hehe.I see. mr fancy pants ey.
Im just bored or the ignorance of this world and come to the point, where i wonder. "is it worth it?" but I keep saying "yes."
no, the most high is the sun as 12pm...
the reptilian genetics is an interesting one, that controls this world. see we're slaves, and the annunaki left them behind with the reptile gene. perfect rulers, no emotions. therefore satanism.
noo wrong again. obama isn't responsible for anything...those who CARRIED OUT the word are those in the "WRONG".
well . I can tell even if you did study aleister crowly really well. and became someone who knew the path and didn't follow it aka gray magician, you didn't get it.
pizza gate is awful ofc.
I was waiting for the looks of shock🤣🤣🤣
Great reaction! I laughed soo hard @ Vin's face.. I cried. Y'all sure did pick a wam doozle of a Doors song to start the journey with. 😁🤗😍 Love & blessings to you both!!!
Jim died at 27. It's the 27 Club that took our heroes, like Keith Moon, Jimi, Janis, and Jim.
theengagedfew kurt cobain died at 27, Jimi hendrix died at 27 I could name all but it'll take me long time
Yep
theengagedfew You forgot to mention Kurt Cobain.
Kurt Cobain
Adam Gilmore Oops my bad, I fixed it lol.
Anybody trying to make sense of Jim Morrison’s lyrics is jumping down a rabbit hole. You have been warned
Snatcher Claus No. Not even close. Hehehe
Lester Nester Amen Amen. Amen...
And it goes deep as deep as your own self.
In my case just toe deep
And even that little experience was too much. Lol
Lesster love the warning...
Andy Clifft I’d love to hear what Jim said to you while the two of you were discussing the complexities of his lyrics, and how he chose you to be his voice.
Andy Clifft Learn how to spell “Lose”, loser.
That was Jim he would sing the most brilliant lyrics and next he would say a nonsense phrase that at times would make sense hehe ...DOORS FOREVER!!!
Jim Morrison was a great lyricist, poet, songwriter, and singer. Watch "Apocalypse Now", a great movie, and listen to the soundtrack. Also, try "The Doors", another very good flick. Very anti-war bands in the times(?).
Val Kilmer was unreal. Sounded amazing, and got so into the character that he had to go to therapy after.
I just had an orange sunshine flashback from a hit i took in 1969 watching these guys listening to one of the greatest groups ever.
I think i've heard live recording somewhere where Jim clearly sings "Mother... I want to... f**k y*u!". So yea, Vin is right on oedipus. But for obvious reasons no such lyrics could be put on commercial lp's back then.
Wikipedia: "In 1969, Morrison stated:
Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. I really don't know what I was trying to say. It just started out as a simple goodbye song...Probably just to a girl, but I could see how it could be goodbye to a kind of childhood. I really don't know. I think it's sufficiently complex and universal in its imagery that it could be almost anything you want it to be"
Jim was always fascinated by death.
Yea, in the movie too :) But i actually heard a real live recording somewhere also.
He was arrested for that line when he performed it live, then of course later he supposedly exposed himself in a live concert, but it was not as the cops said. it was his finger....Morrison was bold.
I'm afraid you are wrong about that one. I had to go and check so i won't sound like a dick because i was thinking "hmm.. i don't think that was the reason for his arrest" :D. I knew he got arrested but the song wasnt a part of it.
"Jim Morrison’s Sunshine State homecoming was even less welcoming than his first arrest at Florida State. It was the start of the Doors’ tour, and as the band launched into "Touch Me" from the soon-to-be released album The Soft Parade, Morrison stopped the band and started on a long rant about love and hate. After someone from the audience poured champagne on him, Morrison took his shirt off, held it over his crotch and simulated masturbation. Morrison was also accused of exposing himself on stage. Concert promoter Ken Collier ended the show after things got too chaotic with audience members on the stage and Morrison repeatedly shouting for revolution. A warrant was issued for his arrest, and Morrison turned himself in a month later. He was found guilty on charges of public exposure and profanity, but not lewd behavior or public drunkenness. Morrison died, however, before his appeal could be heard. Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist later pardoned Morrison, citing doubt as to what happened at the concert."
Pretty accurate. Vin & Sori should see the Johnny Depp narrated documentary on Netflix. Morrison hated his parents so much he put on the liner notes of one of their albums that his parents were deceased. His father was an actively serving Naval Admiral.
that's what the era was about breaking the barriers
This is probably as much psychedelic as psychedelic rock gets!
Utku Hasan nah white rabbit tho even tho this song it amazing
The way I interpret this song is it’s kind of a dream. Fuzzy or cloudy jumping from one situation to the next. Strange or perverted thoughts allowed to manifest.
thats a great way of thinking abt it, i totally agree
But I must say I am a 47-year-old Australian musicians singer-songwriter. And I am so happy to see channels like this where the younger generation are listening to the music that I grew up with. At least you’re taking the time to listen and not just listen to the spoonfed crap that is called music today. Great job two thumbs up
Don't forget guys, these boys were influenced by some HEAVY psychedelics when they made this tune. Their name "The Doors" is a reference to a book called "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley. Basically opening your mind through the use of psychedelic drugs. By the way, do I hear someone knocking on YOUR door while you were recording this?
You’ve never heard the doors?!?! Whoa...just listen to the 96 cd titled greatest hits...you will be surprised to learn you have heard a few of their songs and won’t be disappointed with the tracks...this is a really bizarre one to begin with, it’s the final track on the cd...the end for a reason!
I was thinking that this is probably an odd introduction-to-the-Doors song. I'm pretty sure that this was a alternate take to what made the studio album, as I believe the chanted "fuck" part is nonexistent on their eponymous debut album. At least, not on the version I have, and not on the aforementioned "Best of" collection. Seems it appears on a 40th anniversary version of the album, though. I would have gone with Break on Through or 5 To 1 or some such. Anything off the LA Woman album is almost straight up blues rock.
The End was made in two takes. Only because the producer would not accept perfection.. according to the CD cover in the 40th anniversary album edition. :)
Greatest hits are for housewives and little girls haha jk kk
trying to make sense of anything jim wrote?... lol good luck
That's exactly what my wife says what the hell is he talking about
He was "nietzchenian", thats why a lot of lyrics seems like they dont make sense. But actually they do
Wesley Bradshaw I can’t understand his poetry either.
@Wesley Bradshaw Wrong it is very complex.
Wesley Bradshaw Yes it is.
a great quote i heard before " at a time when music began to blow away minds, the Doors were for after, when the mind was already blown".... that sounds about right. Kinda like going to a cool party, but all the real action is at the killer after party.
LOL!! Their reaction at 10:19 is classic! Watching Sori remove her earbuds at the end of the song was epic...love these reactions vids.
Please please please listen to Peace Frog by The Doors. I Can guarantee you will instantly love it. It's not slow and mysterious like The End.
My mom introduced me to the doors as a kid. They are quite amazing!
"The Blue Bus" is a reference to the Santa Monica bus system "Big Blue Bus"
The buses used by the government to transport draftee's from the selective service building to basic training before going to Vietnam. They were all blue.
This song showcases the genius of Jim Morrison. Jim was a brilliant improvisational poet. He was influenced by the poets of the Beat Generation of the 1950's who would improvise poetry to Jazz rhythms. Jim did something similar in this song (among others)
Hahaha This is an awesome song! But yeah from your reaction, all I got to say is... This is The Doors
10:18 Synchronized Eyebrow Raise
loving how you just stood still and listened. you guys listen. your faces just were frozen. so good!
Yes It's Me Again!! OMG!! Just started watching this video and can't believe you're going down this alley!! LOVE the fact that you are. Again!! I'm almost 57 year old. My Mother had this Album and played it so much that at the age of 6, I could sing every song on this Album!! THIS SONG as a Child kinda scared me, especially when he talks about killing his parents. This song gave me nightmares!! Still can't believe you're covering this!! Such a Blast from my Childhood!!
About the part where "The killer awoke before dawn". None of that is supposed to be take literally. The whole idea of killing the father and "embracing" the mother comes from the idea that the father represents your "place in society" which you are expected to fill (given the idea that a son should follow in his father's footsteps). The mother represents everything that is you. Your true nature and desires. Basically the "killer" is looking inside of himself and becoming who he feels he truly is.
As for the meaning behind the whole song, Jim himself said that the meaning would change slightly every time he heard it or sang it. However the idea I like the best is that "The End" is a simple description of "the end" itself; Death, and what he believed it was like to come face to face with it. Death itself is the "beautiful friend" referenced in the first and last parts of the song. When he sings "Can you picture what will be? So limitless and free", he's essentially saying that the idea of the unknown afterlife fills him with wonder and a sense of freedom. The reference to Oedipus ties in with the idea that one only knows their true nature when they come face to face with The End.
Although having said this, The End started out as a simple goodbye song; maybe to a lover or a friend. The original was a short 2-3 minute song consisting of only the first verse and the last. All the other verses and parts in the middle were added from various live improvisations that Jim would perform and eventually become known for. At any rate, it is clear that The End describes how an "End" can also be a new beginning, despite one not necessarily knowing what comes next - whether this means a chapter in your life is closing to lead on to another, or life itself is coming to an end.
In the classic Greek tragic story, Oedipus unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. When he found out he blinded himself. The story gave rise to the concept of the Oedipus complex in Freudian psychology - the idea that a man loves his mother and sees his father as a rival. The opposite, for women, is the Electra complex, based on another Greek story.
I can see what you're saying here. Of all the times I've listened to this song I never thought of it that way. "Killing" the societal norms and embracing ones natural self makes perfect sense!
Blackbird, absolutely. I'm 58 and remember Jim and Janis. Their songs are meant to be "felt" at a primal level; not to be analyzed in this way. I wasn't entertained by these two.
Excellent interpretation
Killing of father figure is overcoming the authority image of father figures in your life, like your teachers, your boss, your president, your priest, or your actual father, and realizing that societal hierarchy is not this rigid predefined thing, and that you are free to define your own place in society, by getting rid of these artificial father figures that need to be "killed".
What is so great about the lyrics is how many different takes people make of it.
And very wide and open discussions it opens up.
" Its freud so you have take it with a grain of salt" did I just hear that?
He's not the absolute thruth
I like this channel because they really focus on and give all their attention to what they're reacting to. I like that they don't talk during, letting the music go untalked over, and saying it all in their facial expressions. Keep doing what you're doing!
Hey guys joined the family a few weeks ago and I absolutely love and respect what you guys are doing I come from a very very broken home I have been through everything from homelessness to watching my dad kill himself on April fool's day and after everything I have been through I still believe that we as people need to be more open to each other and learn how to love I would love to talk to you guys and just say hi anyway you guys are bringing people together through music and that is amazing and keep it up I am with you guys all the way
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Morrison is such a fantastic person. He knew things and told us. Things we will never understand. Call it drugs.... call it whatever, but to be able to be as fucked up as he was on drugs and still produce his inner most thoughts in a perfect voice..... theres a lot more to him than anyone will ever understand.
Now you two need to see 'Apocalypse Now' (1979)...where 'The End' plays over the napalm bombing of a (supposed) North Vietnam village...EXTRAORDINARILY powerful and HIGHLY recommended.
Yes! A reaction to The Doors!
If you want something by The Doors that sounds similar to this song, "When the Music's Over" is another epic piece they made. For a more traditional rock/blues song, "L.A. Woman" is a great song.
Wikipedia has a quote by John Densmore (the drummer) about the Oedipal Complex bit:
"At one point Jim said to me during the recording session, and he was tearful, and he shouted in the studio, 'Does anybody understand me?' And I said yes, I do, and right then and there we got into a long discussion and Jim just kept saying over and over kill the father, fuck the mother, and essentially boils down to this, kill all those things in yourself which are instilled in you and are not of yourself, they are alien concepts which are not yours, they must die. Fuck the mother is very basic, and it means get back to essence, what is reality, what is, fuck the mother is very basically mother, mother-birth, real, you can touch it, it's nature, it can't lie to you. So what Jim says at the end of the Oedipus section, which is essentially the same thing that the classic says, kill the alien concepts, get back reality, the end of alien concepts, the beginning of personal concepts."
About the term "toxic masculinity", it's turning into a broad-brushed term (similar to that "mansplaining" bull-shit) that people are using to write off every valid argument. It originated as people being sick of the super-macho male characters in media (which I think are fine, because there are guys like that... and it's not wrong for them to be like that), and now it's just escalated to the extremes.
"When the Music's Over" is an amazing tune. I actually like it more than this song.
My question with the masculinity being pushed in movies and such is how much of a factor does it have on men... you said it’s okay because some men are like that. But are they like that because the movies taught them how to act if they identify with male. Also it probably stems from the child watching the father to see how to act. But also that father could have been subject to masculine movies when they were young. It’s hard to say but interesting to think about
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Are women always putting on make-up because they see it in the movies, they see their mothers doing it, or companies are constantly telling them they need to cover their face in order to be beautiful? Now women have severe self-esteem issues when they don't have make-up on. Do we need to start a movement to remove toxic femininity from the media to avoid self-destructive behaviors that women exhibit?
Kinch I have no clue what we should or should not do... but if enough people are aware of its existence, then it should work itself out
Kinch oh Yeah!
Morrison pushed the barriers. He explored the depths of the human psyche. Unknown how much he personally identified with it. Some think he was a nihilist and others think he was putting on a personae for artistic purposes. However you slice it, he was certainly interesting and talented.
The band had been slowley getting the song together for a couple of months 66. Yhe album was released in spring of 67. Light my fire put them on national chart. Imagine in fall of 67. Parents are taking their 12. 13. 14 yr old daughters to see the pop star Morrison. Then the doors singing Gloria. Some blues tunes. Break on through. Soul Kitchen. Then pull out this song. Mother i want to ? Was said. I remember reading a critic saying that the teenage girls and Boys left the show crying cause the songs took them to a place that made them think . Parents didnt cry foul. They were aware of what happened. Elvis got into trouble for dancing like a black guy. Morrison took a path of we are all capable of getting to your primal feelings. Satisfaction? Animals? Them? This is way beyond music. Sgt. Pepper was take compared to this.
I'll take a moment to comment for my favourite musician Ray manzarek...👌👌🙏
It was a deep conversation, Vin and Sori. Thank you, both.
REACT to Break on through...or L.A. WOMAN...great tones....
Yeah I think they dove in the deep end...
Riders...people are strange
Great choice, everyone loves that one!!!
The Doors - Break On Through. It's a much more lively song ;)
The Doors were the first American band to accumulate eight consecutive gold LP's. According to the RIAA, they have sold 33 million records in the US and over 100 million records worldwide making them one of the best-selling bands of all time.
He put his boots on....
did you know Jim’s dad was a military man? Jim was against the war. His parents tried to meet him backstage at a show in DC back in like 1968, but he never met with them. They were kept away and he slipped out of there. His mom was very upset about that.
The song started out as a simple break up song to a girl Jim knew. It morphed into this version as they played it in clubs night after night. The oedipus part actually was born at the whiskey-a-gogo in California. After they performed it there, they were thrown out and banned from the club. The club is still there today and is still open.
It's good to see you reacting to something other than metal. :) I enjoyed the Pink Floyd reaction too. The 70s was when rock music reached it's creative peak... The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Free, Black Sabbath, Yes, Queen, David Bowie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Clapton etc. etc. All were at their creative peak. It's called classic rock for a reason. :)
You don't need acid or mushrooms or any of that stuff to go on a trip. Just music.. just music
much better when u combine them tho
If you combine drugs with this song overdose is 100% guaranteed
This song really is like a trip ! It depends on the listener if it s good or bad ! ...It s pure genius
This type of music was made to amplify acid trips which is why some people who arent high cant get into it. It's not made for them.
Supreme yeah I can’t imagine listening to this on shrooms lmao. Especially a lot of other doors songs this one has spooky vibes, would be great for a Michael Myers trailer lol
I love these two dissecting the lyrics. You guys rock giving thought to all the intracicies
Sori says "it's pretty"
Just wait for it..
Joshua Manson i laughed when she said it,lol
"Ooh is she in for a ride" were my thoughts lol
I also let out a shriek of laughter when she said that. "Just wait..." I thought. 8~)
Joshua Manson I know. 🤣
Joshua Manson the look on her face for the Mother I want to... ha ha ha lol
This song was the final track on the Doors debut album released in early 1967. This version you sampled is an uncensored version not released on the original LP. The Doors music was a favorite of the US Soldiers fighting in Vietnam and later this song was featured prominently in “Apocalypse Now”.
You should watch "Apocalypse Now Redux" the song takes another perspective with the images of the film.
I highly suggest Apocalypse Now (original) instead of the Redux (later) version. Redux jams in extra scenes that bloat and meander, and ultimately lose the tone and momentum. Original is tight, focused, and a powerful wonderland journey into the boundaries of barbarous (like its spiritual source Heart of Darkness).
@@kittensmakingcandles I agree bro, the original is where it's at. In any case that film used this song VERY effectively for the intro to a movie, a true classic to say the least.
*Excellent* reaction, but geez, starting with The End!!! There's a baptism of fire. Best wishes.
Your reactions are hilarious on this one. May be psychedelic is not your cup of tea.
There is no spoon.
Agree, use some creative license and imagine more with these lyrics. They're way too literal.
Why these comments getting offended because two people don’t like psychedelic music. It doesn’t make them “stupid”, it’s just not their type of music...
@@cobrax2439 maybe the spoon..... Has been us all along
@@GamingOneOnOne but all must note there is more then psychedelic to them too. One of the most versatile bands EVER!
WOOOOO!! 2nd favorite band of ALL TIME!! And such an Epic song! Awesome. Cannot Wait. R.I.P. Jim Morrison.
Very good analysis for people not familiar with Morrison or the Doors. The Blue Bus is a drug reference. The song came about after a break up Morrison had. What you need to realize that Morrison would insert parts of poems he wrote into various songs. He was a fascinating man, a true intellectual. Another note Morrison's dad was a Navy admiral and he was kind of giving an F you to his parents, who at one point he claimed were dead while very much alive. If you want to read a good book about Morrison and his life look for No One Here Gets Out Alive by Danny Sugarman.
Steve Vaughn it’s not a drug reference, the blue bus refers to the bus soldiers would take when being drafted or when they were enlisting during the Vietnam War.
TY .. as your expressions deepen... and more nervously so....I become elated.... for this is a true dive off the deep end song
ACTUALLY he was 27 (hey, I did the thing :D)
Lol!
it's called the 27 club.
janis joplin, jimi hendrix, kurt cobain, jim morrison ofc, amy whinehouse and the list goes on. 2+7 = 9. 9 = the number of the ego. 9 is a satanic number. hinting at satanism/satanic ritual sacrifice.
you don't believe me? anton lavey the HEAD of the church of satan, said it himself. so there is "hard proof" available, for those with the eyes to see and ears to hear.
TruthGatherer2013 what exactly did LaVey say? That 9 is a satanic number? Or that 2+7=9?
TruthGatherer,
Superstitious nonsense! We're still hearing this kind of stone aged nonsense even in the 21st century, I say again that this Satan stuff is just primitive nonsense. Morrison was just a kid with too much fame at too young an age. The temptations of psychedelics during the sixties were quite commonplace and did not kill off the entire generation who also used them, no amount of prudish Christianity explains the deaths that you mention. Numerology has been blown away by science, Satan worship is a Christian myth promulgated by ignorant fundamentalists who choose science denial and ignorance and those deaths are nothing more than coincidence.
A lot of people die of drug overdoses at 27 because of how long it often takes a person who gets into drugs to end up dying from them. It is a little more than a decade after the mid teens.
Jim Morrison: "Lizard King" You can't get any more metal than that!
What a very deep reaction in response to a very deep song. Exceptional you two.
It was at the Whisky in 1966 that The Doors entered the pantheon of myth and legend, at least in the re-telling. They were in the middle of their set, playing a series of songs, mostly classics by other groups like “Louie, Louie” and “Gloria,” plus a few that would later be their early hits. Crowds were beginning to come see them, especially horny young girls enchanted by Morrison in leather pants.
The Whisky featured go-go dancers, faux strippers in high heels, mini-skirts and bare midriffs, writhing around, throwing their big hair around in sexy poses. Then The Doors began to play a song they had not played before. It was a song written by Morrison about faded, unrequited love, but his experience walking around the cave in the desert on acid resonated in him and found its way into the song.
The music started. It was not the usual peppy rock ‘n’ roll songs they were known for, which had the dancers flailing away, the dance floor filled. It began slowly, Morrison approaching the microphone in dark chino pants and a T-shirt, hair curling to his collarbone, “an unshaven Botticelli face, he lurked around the kinetic flash and shadow of the Whisky a Go Go dance floor,” wrote Hopkins and Sugarman.
Morrison stopped to look at the dancers in their glass cages. Manzarek’s organ was mournful, full of churchy soul. Morrison hung on the microphone, head tilted back. He planted a boot on the base of the mic stand and began a recitation. “This is the end, beautiful friend,” he began. The song includes mournful evocations of “the end,” which originally stood for the end of a love affair, but quickly expand into something deeper, the end of “elaborate plans,” and then the question, “Can you picture what will be, so limitless and free?” The song is not about Vietnam, but nevertheless its imagery of a “stranger’s hand” in a “desperate land” indeed does conjure the thought of U.S. troops in Southeast Asia at that very time.
The music was hypnotic, Morrison’s voice “plaintive, threatening,” wrote Hopkins/Sugarman. The organ was skipping “heartbeats,” mixed with a “sudden ejaculation” from Densmore’s drums, and Krieger’s guitar sounded like a sitar. Morrison sings of being lost in a “Roman wilderness of pain,” in which all the “children are insane . . .” Morrison moved through the song using words with precision, like bullets. Anticipation began to build in the crowd as he intones of “danger” on the “King’s highway,” of “weird scenes” inside the gold mine emanating from his acid experience in the desert, now vagely Dante-esque. The lyrics reflect Morrison’s visions from the desert cave. The “highway west” could symbolize his personal journey to California, the edge of a continent, the New Rome. Much of this verbiage was added from its origin in the Venice studio, turning it into a song about much more than lost love, but something far deeper . . . and darker. All the other band members had not heard it in its entirety and were as stunned as was the crowd.
The dance floor stopped moving, people swaying shoulder to shoulder. Bartenders stopped taking drinks, and nobody was ordering. There was silence outside of the singing and the hypnotic music. The waitresses stood staring in awe. The dancers came to a halt in their glass cages as Moirrison described a snake at an “ancient lake.” The “blue bus” has been said to refer to LSD. The snake is Morrison’s ancient version of humanity, the duality of good and evil, our reaction to it - fear or ecstasy - the test of ones’ soul. Morrison looked out, convinced he had the audience right where he wanted them. The haunting music continued as backdrop. His eyes now opened, he entered pop mythology, Morrison describing a “killer” who takes a “face from the ancient gallery,” girds for his mission, and advances to a room where he announmces his intent to have sex with his mother and kill his father. The crowd gasped. These lyrics were both personal and philosophical, as well as obscene to the point of sacrilegious. There seems little doubt by those who knew of Morrison’s deep resentment of his father and lack of respect for a mother who bowed down before him that they were not merely Freudian fantasy, but real desires. He sings of his brother and sister, who he apparently spares, then of the “door” that he always wanted to be and inspired the band’s name.
The audience slowly recovered from the shocking display, the song concluded, and then . . . all hell broke loose. Phil Tanzini, the Whisky’s owner, possibly connected to the mob, called Morrison a “foul-mouthed son of a bitch” and fired the band.
Morrison later explained that the song referred to Nietzsche’s The Birth of a Tragedy, with roots in Greek poetry, with Oedipus “the most sorrowful figure . . . the type of noble man who despite his wisdom is fatal to error and misery, but who nevertheless, through his extraordinary sufferings, ultimately exerts a magical, healing effect on all around him, which continues even after his death.”
The song may have gotten them temporarily fired from the Whisky a Go Go, but it would garner them attention that would lead to a major record deal, which in turn would lead to fame and fortune. But the Greek and Nietzchean metaphors and overtones of “The End” would be heard from a fellow UCLA film school alum, who would hear in it an explanation of sorts for why the United States was fighting in Vietnam, already raging heavily at that very time, and how it could help explain a mad man who thought he had the answer the nation sought in its quest for victory. Francis Ford Coppola filed “The End” away in his fertile mind, to be pulled out and used when appropriate.
Favorite band and favorite artist ! Thank you so much for this !
Watch Apocalypse Now Redux.
Love this song in that context of that part of the movie. As just a song, I would have rather seem them react to strange days or when the music is over.
100% agree Anthony!
Agree, this song is out there just like the movie! I love the smell of napalm in the morning! One of my all time favorite movie lines!
Yes!
Agreed but I prefer the the original theatrical cut.
When Francis Ford Coppola released " Apocalypse Now" the intro featuring " The End" while the visual of Napalm being dropped accentuated the lyrics both positive & negative,such as it is for any War during any Era,but it was a Revival of Doors Music
21:37 makes me so happy. That half-laugh reminds me of so many personal moments with their records. The amount of depth in their sound will never stop amazing me.
As a Doors fan, I love how this band sparks discussion in this way, regardless of what people feel about it's being 'good' or not. I would argue that a lot of the darkness they were exploring in this was explored consciously (to an extent). This song was released at the height of 'Flower Power', so they were quite dissenting to be exposing the dark energies of the cultural revolution. They were intelligent guys, and Jim Morrison certainly had a destructive element, but he was also a sensitive artist, who was tortured by the violence and rage inside of him, and he channeled that into his art. I guess what i am trying to say is that this song might be a lot more ambivalent about dark sexual urges, than being an all out celebration. There's also a song called 'Peace Frog' which supposedly was inspired by one of Morrison's lovers having an abortion. I think the point about lost innocence is brilliant, I hadn't thought of this song in that way before and I think it is right.
I love the Doors... I love that whole genre of music I think I was born in the wrong time keep on rocking on
"Right place, wrong time"... -jack white
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VinAnd Sori - I enjoyed your interpretation. Thank you. Amazing song
fun fact on the Doors. they had no bassist. their keyboardist had two keyboards, one for the piano and one for the bass. he played both same time
I so love this song! Psychedelic perfection! Morrison was genius!