First listen to The Doors - The End (REACTION) |Well. That took a turn...|
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John Densmore's drumming on this song is a masterpiece...such an underrated drummer imho.
Jim Morrison was very well read and intelligent. "Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain, and all the children are insane." Personally, I believe he is comparing Marcus Aurelius mired in foreign wars while Roman children were going insane from lead poisoning with our own situation in Vietnam and the young people rejecting norms etc. Lots of possibilities with the imagery in this song.
That's an interesting analysis!
I loved this tune for years before the epic Vietnam war movie "Apocalypse Now" but I'll never be able to hear it again without conjuring up, in my imagination, the opening and closing scenes.
I can hear the helicopters now
@juscurious But it was the perfect "theme song" for the movie. I doubt the directors and producers of the movie could have found a better fitting song...
@@thatoneguyagain2252 "I asked for a mission...for my sins, they gave me one. When it was all over...
I would never ask for another one."
I love how in the movie the helos turn into the fans in the room. Btw the blue bus is what recruits rode in the armed services.
Yep-- As a latecomer to rock&roll, I myself didn't know the song existed *until* I saw the movie. It inspired me to go buy the album-- But I found the album/cut to be a *letdown without* those booming Tomtoms getting synched with the helicopter blades a'beating!!!)
the Keyboarplayer Ray Manzarek:"He was giving voice in a rock ’n’ roll setting to the Oedipus complex, at the time a widely discussed tendency in Freudian psychology. He wasn’t saying he wanted to do that to his own mom and dad. He was re-enacting a bit of Greek drama. It was theatre!” Jim Morrison 1969: “Everytime I hear that song, it means something else to me. It started out as a simple good-bye song… Probably just to a girl, but I see how it could be a 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.”
You are definitely correct about he Oedipus complex. In live concerts he would sing "Mother, I want to fuck you." Not on the record....
This song is about Western Civilization: the highs and lows. The Kings highway was an actual trade route from Mesopotamia to Egypt(East to West). "Weird Scenes inside the Gold mine," may be a reference to Las Médulas.
Im thinking its being sung by Charles Manson and then their gang kills Sharon Tate
I once heard someone call Jim Morrison the Charles Manson of Rock Music...
@@chevken1831 Morrison was a rebel, drunkard, and drug addict poet, but certainly not a criminal like Manson.
“Does he NOT kill the mother?!?” Dude, you’re killing me here LMAO! Oedipus is laughing his backside off 😉
Just don't gouge out your eyes!!! 😂
Jim Morrison wasn't just a songwriter, he was a poet. Some of his lyrics are a bit hard to understand, but you can take them your own way. Please do "Crystal Ship." Thanks, Daniel!
He had great skills as a crooner. Hyacinth House and Indian Summer are great examples of that as well.
Jim was the last consumat American poet.......no logic, no reason but great music........I appreciate your reaction to this classic group, it takes a lot for a person of your generation to sit through and diagnose this song......btw one of my all time favorites
Welcome to the mind of Jim Morrison, it is a very dangerous neighborhood.
This song is a free ride . Pure dark poetry, chaos and beauty wrap in musical mastery. Jim Morrison's voice is so haunting.
That scene in "Apocalypse Now"with Marlon Brando covered in blood was super intense. I don't know what else they could have played in it other than this song. Once you've seen the movie you always remember that scene when you hear this song. I love that deep voice Jim Morrison has.
What would he have been singing now if he hadn't died? He's got an opera quality voice.
The horror!
Jim Morrison really didn't want to be a singer... he was a film student and wanted to write and direct movies. Can you imagine what films he would have created if he was still alive?
I loved your reaction to the madness that is Jim Morrison 😄🤣❤️🤗❤️
These are fake.
@@bigchillphil we live in a matrix everything is fake 😉
Gypsy mode
"such a weird song, wow"... quite an accurate statement, but when it's LOUD and you're stoned - it's an experience
I have never done drugs in all my 44 years, but every time I hear a Doors song I feel like I must have. :)
Oedipus Rex was an ancient Greek play, in which the son, Oedipus gets separated from his parents when he's a child, later he is blinded. As an adult he meets up again with his parents not knowing they're his parents, and they don 't know that he's their son. He kills his father and makes love to his mother. In ancient Greek plays the actors sometimes used a mask, hence the reference to taking a mask from the ancient gallery.
Sigmund Freud, the phsychiatrist proposed a theory that subconsciously all boys wanted to kill their father and make love to their mother.
It became known as the Oedipus complex.
The LSD dripping off this song is palpable. It’s my favorite Doors song. Tomorrow Never Knows is my favorite Beatles song, and favorite song in general. Paint it Black is my favorite Stones song. Janie’s Got a Gun is my favorite Aerosmith song. Smooth Criminal is my favorite Michael Jackson song. Happy 2020 everyone!
"Wow, those weren't in the lyrics over here". That's because that portion of the vocals didn't appear in the original album. Elektra Records censored this song, and also "Break On Through (To The Other Side)". In "Break On Through", the phrase "She get high" was reduced to "She get." Two years later, the version on their 'Absolutely Live' album featured close to a minute of "She get high" repetitions.
The uncensored version of "The End" wasn't heard by the public until 1979, when Francis Ford Coppola used it in his movie 'Apocalypse Now'. Elektra Records unintentionally sent Coppola the original master tapes, which did not have Morrison's vocals mixed down until audible. The full song (as well as the uncensored version of "Break On Through") was later released on a remastered version of the album.
As far as what Doors songs to investigate next, I'll leave that to others. Each person's response is different, as the songs affect everyone differently. You can see them as a pop band writing hit singles (which they were), or a wildly experimental example of early progressive rock (which they also were) or a forerunner of alternative genres from Punk to Emo (which they also were).
And Gloria.
Oedipal song on Elektra records. Can’t make this stuff up.
"........ took a face ..... from the ancient gallery..... and he walked on down the hall....."
The imagery from that is so fucking vivid...... pure genius
As an Air Force brat I can confirm on Naval Air Stations and Air Force Bases blue was the color of the busses, non school. Jim was a Naval brat.
Ahhh...Jim Morrison and The Doors. He was a true poet even though most of his lyrics were fueled by drugs and alcohol, they had pure and beautiful meaning to him. Another great song to check out would have to be " Moonlight Drive."
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Very accurate description. 👍
Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell? The whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end.
Daniel: Trying to figure out the meaning of the lyrics
Me: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
40 years listening to this song, I still have no clue WTF Morrison was talking about.
In order to relate the lyrics to myself, I just think of it as some weird ode to the end of a relationship, but I still have no clue what they're talking about, and there are WAY too many interpretations for me to believe any of them definitively.
When you take several puffs of the magic dragon, you will understand.
@@nitro_001newman2 lol
What that explanation didn't tell you was Morrison's father was the Admiral of an aircraft carrier in the Vietnam war. His father played part of the role in creating the false flag scenario in the Gulf of Tonken incident that illegally pulled the USA into a war with Vietnam. The gulf of Tonken was the accusations the US made against Vietnam claiming a small patrol boat had attacked one of their warships, which was completely false because it was in fact completely fabricated incident using CIA agents disguised as Vietnamese in a stolen boat to foster the excuse to drag the US into a war with the China who was backing Vietnam. Jim Morrison didn't get along with his dad very well knowing he was part of that terrible war.
Yep, right on. Jim and his dad were estranged for the last several years of Jim's life.
Daniel, I recently found your channel and have been very impressed with your reviews/analysis of many songs I played while a underground/free-form radio DJ beginning in 1966. During those 17 years on air I didn’t have the same level of understanding of the lyrics as you do so watching your videos is a real treat for me. Thank you for this great channel!
The Doors are as deep a rabbit hole as Pink Floyd . The journey begins with LIGHT MY FIRE and ends with RIDERS ON THE STORM . Some albums are close to uninteresting . But the best songs are both ambitious and deep .
I told ya, buddy. "The End" is a journey into psychosis. It's epic in its madness.
Psychosis? It’s a journey into psychANALYSIS
Hi. I just recently found your channel, and I'm enjoying watching you discover music I've loved all my life. The Doors is one of my favorites. They released their first album when I was little, and Light My Fire was the first song I learned all the words to.
Okay, so The End. Not a user-friendly tune. Challenging imagery. Lots of psycho-sexual drama. Ritualistic progression of the whole piece, bringing us full circle back to where we started, but having changed along the way. Classic hero's journey structure.
Morrison's lyrics are ambiguous and open to lots of interpretation. I personally think he talked about a lot of ordinary things - beautiful women, romantic encounters, the city he lived in, etc. - but through the prism of deep emotion and with lots of philosophy and classical literary and theatrical references. Understood as being about emotional and psychological states, his lyrics don't need to be taken literally.
I personally think he was also talking about America as a place and culture, especially the desert and west coast. Violence. Psycho killers. Restrictive ideas about family. Layers of Euro and Native cultures. Sexual issues. Driving, being on the road, the bleak, lonely side of car culture. These themes run through so many of his songs. They're kind of site-specific. People in other countries would know or be able to guess they're listening to an American with these words.
So in The End, he takes us on a kind of shamanic journey into the psyche, which gets weird and trippy, and we are confronted with our shadows - repressed anger, sexuality, and violent imagery, all that stuff that runs through our culture but we pretend doesn't. The experience is cathartic.
As for the specific imagery - the snake, the bus, the lake, etc., I wouldn't try to parse that out too much. He throws too many different things together. Some of it is references to Native American shamanic legends. Some might be inside references to stuff in his life or social circle. And some is just the drugs talking. Poets can be real pains that way. Just let the words happen to you, zen-like, or some nonsense like that. You'll figure out a sense for it to make.
Well said. 👏
They would play this at the end of their shows at the LA club "Whiskey-A-Go-Go". When it was over, the crowd just walked out, silent, mesmerized. That's how hypnotic it was..."Oedipus Rex" as Ray Manzarek called it. The way John Densmore and Robbie Krieger describe it, this was about breaking away from your parents and becoming your own person.
This song has and always will be, a mind blower for me...chills...chills and more chills. It's one of Morrison's poems put to music.
Great description of it from the other members of the band.
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I went there when I was barely out of high school. Smoked my first pot in there. I saw The Mothers of Invention and Love and probably more I don't remember. That and the go go girls dancing in cages.....I bet The Doors were absolutely great in that place. It was a small venue as I remember it. That would be mind blowing!!
The Blue Bus was also possibly a reference to Vietnam.......many of the buses that drove the recruits/draftees to base were blue. However, attempting to decipher these lyrics in a literal, one to one (this image equals that) manner is problematic at best. It was written/improvised by Morrison as an abstraction, a kind of Acid trip/journey through the landscape of the United States of the 60's. So many of the references are intentionally symbolic and open to interpretation. I think the only certainty about the song is that he wanted to convey a vision of social and personal entropy by way of chaos. Very much the same theme of Oedipus Rex, who unknowingly killed his Father and married his Mother. Google that to better understand the song as well.
Again I recommend watching Oliver Stone's movie "The Doors" where this song is used to good effect. It stars Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan and Kyle McLachlan.
probably is the best scene from the movie which many fans including Doors hate it hehee
My drama teacher in high school was a hippie and he made us all create a scene to this song where we are on the stage alone for the whole song, apparently preparing for our suicides. That was the drama assignment and we all watched each others, so we listened to the song so many times. I'll never forget that, loved that teacher man....
Mystic, yeah, so dark and mesmerizing, and it’s a strange journey through love and death. Morrison’s lyrics and Densmore drums sets all this filthy and glorious mood. Good reaction man, i recommend for the next Doors song “When the Music’s Over” Isle of Wight 1970, in the Doors channel have the version with the live footage and the “Live at Wight album” version too, do this man please, and thank you for doing “Tarkus”.
Great reaction to a great song. This is a good example of cencership where the lyrics didn't include the swearing. The DOORS were never invited back to the Ed Sullivan show because of the song Light My Fire. He sang, girl we couldn't get much higher, the producers wanted him to leave that line out, but he did it anyway. Your playing People Are Strange was pretty good and your vocals are good. You should do more. Thank you.
When the music is over.
Amazing song
Dig deep in Doors. Crystal Ship and Soft Parade
Daniel, the "wind chime" effect is actually done by plucking the strings on the electric guitar above the nut, next to the tuners.
I read somewhere that Morrison identitied with Alexander the Great and if you look at the sculptures of him you can certainly see why -interesting-it give the line -He takes a face from the ancient gallery and walks on down the hall -perhaps he saw himself in history class in high school-fuel for the poet in him I’m sure
Jay Sebring, Sharon Tate's friend and Manson murder victim, gave Jim a haircut to look like Alexander the Great in 1968
Very famous picture of Jim called the alexander the great pose. My personal favourite is called the push. Shows such vulnerability and I prefer to think of it as the pull instead as if hes reaching out to be loved by someone
Natural Born Killers was based on this song actually. When Oliver Stone made The Doors movie in 1991, he got very very inspired by Jim Morrison and the Doors (as well as everybody getting involved with them do. Val Kilmer who played Jim Morrison that movie never really recovered but more or less became Jim Morrison even after the movie was done), and created Natural Born Killers based on the lyrics of "The End". Fun fact!
As for the Doors you might want to check out "The Soft Parade".
No bass used in most Door's music. It is Ray on the keyboard doing the bass lines.
Blue Bus could be Venice busses that were blue and some saying the dark blue military busses with draftees. The Snake was excepted back then as The Ho Che Min trail. Pathways around college campuses were named the same. It's really difficult to understand Morrison if you don't understand the psychedelia of the time.
14:00-might have an idea why the 7 minute version was not the 11 minute version....
To me, this song was a product of the Vietnam War era. Young adults, kids, were being sent to fight in Vietnam, some dying, and it all seemed "insane." It is a meditation on what the end is, what death is. What it must be like for a soldier to kill, or be killed. The whole "family scene," to me, is just a pop regurgitation of Freudian psychology. Sons want to kill their father and "f" their mother. It is metaphorical for the insanity of the period. Everyone was out of control from the White House to the Pentagon to the kids on the street. It is a reaction to death being around the corner. It is an attempt to capture it all. At least, that has been my take on the song.
Yep, I'm from that era and this song makes me think of my two uncles who served in infantry combat units in Vietnam. RIP Uncle Clyde and Uncle Larry.
I was 13 in 1967 when I bought this album. I must have heard this song a hundred times. When i die I want to hear this song loud with headphones
You poor lad, I recall when I first heard it to. Being confused by Jim is a "thing" you don't have to be wasted!!!!! he's infectious through the ears
I really like your thoughtful analysis of songs like this. Separating a literal meaning from metaphor can be tricky, but you do an awesome job.
EDIT: Well done on singing and playing "People Are Strange"!
This is a very trippy song. The imagery is like a series of hallucinations one replacing another. i really wouldn't take it too literally. When time is expanded each of these images can become a world in itself.
Just a thought, this time period saw generous amounts of psychedelics distributed throughout the popular culture. Once you've spent substantial time staring at the back of your own head, psychological metaphors tend to run very deep and wild. Lyrics and poetry of this era tends to run starker and deeper, under a guise of multilevel metaphor, especially sexual metaphor. Once it clicks, it usually isn't as deep as you may have intuited.
That said, it's been a minute since I've been high enough to understand Jim Morrison.
And nice jam there at the end. Sounded coffee shop clean.
I cannot hear this now without seeing this intro to Apocalypse Now. The most brilliant, troubling film I saw during my college years -- and it stays with you 30 years on. Martin Sheen really punched that mirror, unscripted, during the scene and Coppola kept the cameras running as he bled. Not hard to understand how Sheen had a heart attack while filming this. Please give a watch: th-cam.com/video/ntPHFVWDIqM/w-d-xo.html
Don't try to understand Morrison's lyrics. He was an alcoholic, LSD fueled poet who tried to cover up his insecurity with shocking lyrics. The band was the absolute best. Densmore on drums was superb in this song.
Or, more probably, you can’t understand poetry yet...
@@antoniomaraspin Jim was a full-blown alcoholic and LSD user. He was incredibly talented, but also incredibly troubled. Perhaps you can't understand the ugly truth.
I also love People Are Strange. Another is Roadhouse Blues. Oh, and Love Me Two Times, and the first song I ever loved by them, Hello I Love You. This song is new to me to exciting to be hearing Doors music I have never heard.
Other Doors songs --- When The Music's Over, Soul Kitchen, Soft Parade, The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat), Roadhouse Blues, Peace Frog, Crystal Ship.
@Firebird 7479 ALL GREAT PICKS The short love song Touch Me and the long, jazzy, progressive The Soft Parade from The Soft Parade (1969) and the 2 mellow deep cuts Peace Frog and Blue Sunday, from Morrison Hotel (1970) that should be played together and back to back. Finally The Crystal Ship from their debut(1967). Flyers ? STRONGER THAN DIRT
@@recyclerhopkins I'd love to see Daniel do a live stream some night with a watch along to the Doors Classic Album episode or The LA Woman documentary...maybe even the Live at the Hollywood Bowl movie.
I love all the long songs they have at the end of their albums --- Soft Parade is awesome, as is When the Music's Over.
Touch Me is fantastic. Maybe even Crystal Ship just so Daniel can experience how good of a crooner Morrison was.
Yeah The WASP Texas Radio I wore out LA WOMAN album playing that song. Great beat
good list...'when the music's over' is epic and overlooked
"Roadhouse Blues" Fantastic, raw, Morrison at his best! "Woke up dis mawnin and I got mysef a beer, the future's uncertain, and the end is always near!"
I've always taken the first parts of the song ("this is the end...") as being about death. "No safety or surprise, the end." No one's safe from death and it's not surprise because we all die eventually. As it moves into the second part ("Can you picture what will be? So limitless and free"), that would be after death. Afterlife. Nirvana or whatever. "Desperately in need of a stranger's hand/in a desperate land." The world has become a desperate, troubled place. We long for connection. "Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain." The Romans were well known for doing things like watching people being thrown to the lions as entertainment, eg. The world at the time of the song is dark, ugly, violent. A falling empire, and we've lost our way in its metaphorical wilderness. "All the children are insane." For this line, you have to remember that this was the time of the hippies, shortly after the "summer of love," etc. The older generation saw the children as having gone off the rails. "Waiting for the summer rain." The rain is imagery of things being cleansed and, I assume, the "summer" in this line might be connected to the summer of love. ie, the hippies are waiting for their revolution to cleanse the ugliness of the older generation's world. Which would be another type of "end." The end of everything that stands. There's a ton of poetic imagery in this song and it goes in a number of directions but it all revolves around the idea of things ending, changing, transforming.
Great review/reaction! I listen to this as a grade school kid. My older brother had great taste. Even as a preteen, I loved: Light My Fire, Riders on the Storm, LA Woman. But I didn't really get into this song until years later when it was reintroduced to me in Apocalypse Now. Even then, the meaning was elusive to me, beyond the message of the title. It was only when I was deeply and completely heartbroken and betrayed that it all made complete sense to me. To me, It will always be an anthem of the anguish of love's destruction. Cool song, thanks!!
Here in Hollywood the buses are red, or orange, but in Santa Monica they are blue. The Big Blue Bus takes you to the beach, the ocean.
Back in those days, I used to sing this in my band. We usually ended our gigs with this song. I called it "descending into hell or insanity."
Interesting factoid….Ray Manzarek was the only member of The Doors to play on every song they recorded. RIP Jim Morrison & Ray Manzarek.
You bit off a big piece with this, but it gives you a lot to chew on. The Doors' music was ahead of its time and is timeless. As a kid listening to the Doors, they always made me feel older somehow when I was done.
I have avoided hearing this song for many years.
I had a suicidal friend who would play this and go mad. He was an Algerian Army deserter.
The song brings unpleasant memories.
Oh, I'm sorry... That's terrible. Don't listen to it if it's going to bother you, unless you want to. I mean, I think you've avoided the song for a reason.
Morrison considered himself a poet, and wrote poetry besides lyrics. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The heart of the band was the keyboardist who also provided the bass!, but Robby Krieger's pickless guitar playing was damned awesome. A fav lyric from I think 'Peace Frog'[fantastic tune] is 'fragile eggshell mind'
If you listen to the 1967 MONO mix of The End with head phones, you can hear the F-bombs and KILL KILL KILL, although it is not as loud as the remixed stereo version. The STEREO version you listened to, was the more recent remix with the obscenities restored the way they were meant to be. In the 60s the MONO mix was always done first and then the STEREO mix would be done last. When the 1967 STEREO mix was done, the obscenities and KILL KILL KILL were completely wiped away from the mix.
I love the music you’re exploring. I grew up in the 60’s & 70’s & took it for granted when this greatness would come out of the radio but please understand that even though the journey & the lyrics are incredible Jim was as high as fuck when he wrote this stuff.
I’m need to repeat this: I’m so glad I found someone who feels the way I do about music, you let it runs through our your veins. No way to come back. Love you beautiful human being.
I LUVVVVVVV WATCHING YOUNG PEOPLES REACTION AT THE END ( NO PUN ) DANIEL! LMAO :)
Nice job on a piece of music that doesn't really match your heart. Your mind is young and active - not a natural match for this smokey inchoherent trip. The California scene was full of kids that just gravitated there because they had no where else to go, or were fleeing the boring lifestyle of their suburban parents. Left to their own devices, things devolved quickly. How far can a live show go?
Jim found out in Miami.
To me, he seems like a smart poetic kid transformed into a drug-addled arrogant jerk. For confirmation of this theory, you may want to see the movie - The Doors.
However, in the right time and place, The End is a captivating trip. Do not get hung up on the psycho-sexual imagery. It is partially based on the ancient Greek play Oedipus the King. (Required reading for college lit classes).
I do love the Doors, esp. the keyboards. They tend to lose a bit of their power out of the context of the 60s.
Such a Groovy masterpiece, really makes you think, you kinda just fall into yourself...RIP Jim... Brilliant
Jim Morrison claimed he wrote this song for a girl who followed him out to LA from New York...He told her she needed to go back...
Given the time, so much of Jim's poetry was translated into meanings of Viet Nam War and unrest of the 60s...A lot of songs are synonymous with death, rebellion, war..the 60s
Five to One...etc...
Stream of consciousness, surrealist imagery, whether in poetry, art, or music is often intentionally too open ended to put a conclusive definitive meaning to. It often intentionally keeps you at an arms distance, to allow you to draw your own feelings or meanings. What does a Dali painting of pocket watches melting over tree limbs mean? It's intended to evoke vivid mental pictures, more than definite literal conclusions. The mother/father thing is a direct reference to the classical Greek Oedipal complex.
It's the story of a fleeting relationship and it's end.
Also must understand the influence of early psychology on American pop culture. Freud was still being taught, he's the one who said all our motivations came from wanting to overpower our fathers so we could have our mothers to ourselves. I think that was Freud's motivation.
A lot of the psychedelic-era bands from the late 1960s were influenced by Indian Mystic music ... the Beatles and the Rolling Stones are prime examples. You can hear some of that in this song.
This song and Apocalypse Now are intertwined now. Can't think of one without the other.
I try not to associate my favorite songs with movies or tv commercials, as it tends to dilute or change the meaning of the songs with imagery and context the artist did not intend.
That's a very accurate summary, it was about his relationship breakdown through the the over-use of phsycadelics also used in the movie Apocalypse Now about Vietnam war. So yes 2 wanting to kill each other through being overwhelmed by ??? or whatever else you can read into it for you is the whole point
Hi Daniel, I’m new to your channel and decided that it deserves binge watching on my part. Love your reactions and dissections on these songs.
I don’t click the subscribe buttons on too many channels but I have on yours. Keep doing what you’re doing.
P..S. Do you encourage requests from your listeners?
Another trippy deep lyrics song by The Doors, " Not To Touch The Earth." ✌
Ok, we kinda set you up for that one, those lyrics are just... well, people have probably explained it below.
While the lyrics are obviously quite dark and disturbing, this has always been one of my favorites just because of the music, the music is so good. There are a lot of euphemisms, the snake is... well...
I lived in downtown Hollywood for 3 yrs, took the 'Redline' to West Hollywood, then picked up the BlueLine' on a 'Blue Bus' that would drop you off in Venice Beach one block from the Boardwalk. Took the 'Blue Bus' back. I often thought he might have been 'literally' talking about that and stuff that goes on in the "back of the BlueBus'.
I get something different from this song every time I hear it. This listen makes me think the song is, in a Freudian sense, pure "id". Thank you for keeping songs like this alive. :)
Francis Ford Coppola knew Jim Morrison from film school - that was how he was able to get the rights to use the song in Apocalypse Now.
Oh boy, my friend, I think this one might be a little darker in tone than expected, particularly with the F word which has been remixed so you can hear it. My old copy of the album you can't hear all that F-ing. I think there are at least two themes here, with a psycho-sexual meaning, one that probably alludes the Oedipus complex and the other, the French expression La petite mort. It looks like others have mentioned King Oedipus who unwittingly kills his father and then unwittingly has sex with his mother, and was turned into a psychoanalytic theory by Sigmund Freud. However, I think that 'All those nights we tried to die', and other parts of the relationship, as far as it's discernible, might well refer to what the French call 'La petite mort' or the little death, which is a term describing the momentary, but all consuming loss of our cognitive powers, at and immediately after orgasm. Oh, what fun!!
Did you have to write a novel to get the F word across? Easy Dude, The condensed version please!
Daniel! You are freakin me out! You are so smart and talented!! You sing and play guitar beautifully. 👏
A member of the 27 club forever young love and peace.
The song was originally about faded love but it became entirely different after one of Jim's more chemically experimental evenings.
The west is the best"
In this case is California, he was born in Melbourne, Florida and took the highway to the west. (Remember that this is early sixties)
He is doing blue rock (Coke) on a blue bus ( a bus he rode in his youth, like a yellow cab)
You might see the movie “Apocalypse Now” about the horrors and craziness of the Vietnam War. It will give you a good context. Look out for Colonel Kersey - played by none other than Marlon Brando
A POET, A COMPLEX , IRREVERENT, SELF DESTRUCTIVE GENIUS.!!. THERES A MELANCHOLIC SOUND TO HIS LYRICS AND YET, REBELLIOUS, ANGRY TONES TO IT. A LIFE TOO SHORT LIVED. SUCH A WAIST OF TALENT. ONE OF MY FAVORITE GROUPS! . 👍❤. Can you play crystal ship please!!
Enjoyed your singing/playing "People are Strange"
His father was an Admiral in the navy. Jim always told people he was orphaned. This always seemed the anger Jim had for his strict upbringing. This was his rebellion from his father said he would never be able to support himself. Sister wrote a book. This came out when I was in high school. We al seemed to be kinda anger from things like the Vietnam war. We were fighting a war that no one wanted to win. Just go there and get killed. Who wanted to go to war just to fight?
Free association by Morrison - must be on hallucinogens to fully appreciate it.
People are strange, welcome to the club!!!😜👌✌😎 Nice Job!!!👌✌
I've been listening to The Doors and reading Jim Morrison's poetry since the 60s and every time I do so I have a slightly different interpretation of what I've read or heard.
Many of the lyrics to The Doors' songs were based on Morrison's poetry so I have a feeling that only he fully understood them and even then their meaning may have changed according to his mood and whatever drug/booze he was using at the time.
As Miles Davis once said, "“If you understood everything I said, you’d be me”.
I've waited all my life for your REACTION, for the DOORS "THE END"... ✌
YOU'RE DOING THE END DANIELLLL??? :) ENJOY THIS ONE KID! IT'S REALLLLL GOOD R.I.P TO THE BRILLIANT POET JIM MORRISON :(
The buses that took men drafted into the military were "Blue" it was a Vietnam war era reference.
classic Doors...reminds me of late nights driving across the country...this would only get played on radio late at night
The Kings Highway was built by order of Charles II between 1650 and 1735 from South Carolina to Massachusetts
Great memories - check out my personal fave Soft Parade - guaranteed to blow your mind as we used to say - and then their Opus When the Musics over
This song plays, so appropriately, for the opening sequence of "Apocalypse Now". The images of the napalm exploding always comes to mind when I hear this.
I love this song. Great reaction. Definitely subscribing.