Reaction to The End by The Doors

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@barrycohen311 8 месяцев назад

IMO this is their Magnum Opus. No other song like it. It stands unique within this Universe.

@kelvinkloud 8 месяцев назад

morrison, indeed in this poem/song took a face from the ancient gallery. the song is both singular yet wide latitude. the shaman meets book of Danial... this piece has prophetic echoes, along w/ blake & joseph conrad influenced symbolism into also modern psychoanalysis. lyrically its lean but blake like dense. similar to cave art drawn across the landscape & arc of western culture.... listen closely, he starts the narrative on the ground. the intense experience of 2 young lovers breaking up as a central starting point. from that trauma & crossroads he then quickly scales it up thematically, & it takes flight like an eagles eye.... notice as the songs narrative shifts, he brings in the influence of the cultural authority family construct on the narrator (the oedipal section w/ parents). But he also, reveals the command control of the state over his freedom (blue bus driver). & then an even wider arc of western civilization shaping his world from its dna (ancient rome power appetites symbolized by the snake across time & lands), moving westward, across oceans & time. n amer shores to the West (gold mines) finally to the current present station in modern LA. hinting an empire near the end as the snake (catalyst) is soon to sink back to the sea. again J campbell meets blake. its all leads to the climax of the song.... then the eagles Eye comes back to rest & ground in the denouement stanza. the narrator stands w/ his earned vision. as painful as the loss is, he is ready to move forward to claim this self freedom & earned truth.... the end & riders are the greatest long construct songs the doors ever wrote. the end essentially is a vision quest of deep exploration into loss, self freedom, identity & resolution. its not a death song, rather a stark line in the sand for personal freedom. all in the backdrop & examination of what affect, both on a personal & societal level the culture has on shaping that. The earned bones to survive in a brave new world.

@DogFish-NZ 5 месяцев назад

One of the greatest songs ever written 🤜🤛🤘

@miamicool666 7 месяцев назад

I hope you had a good travel.

@deepdivemusicreactions 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for stopping by 😉✌️

@Hartlor_Tayley 8 месяцев назад

Ride the snake to the lake. Spooky on acid. I don’t know,I have mixed feelings about this song. It’s a classic and was a big deal in the sixties. It’s like a seance in a cocktail lounge. It’s good but it seems more like a missed opportunity, I 😅wished they worked on this a little more.

@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 8 месяцев назад

I am an optimistic cynic in that I know what you will do at 100 paces, but hope you will change your mind at 50.

@ZionForman 8 месяцев назад

You really have me re-thinking The Doors. I have to admit I do not like them. They just seem creepy. That said, it's hard to deny the quality of the music here, though I will say it's all really dated and has not stood the test of time like some other music from the same era. This song, see the classic film Apocalypse Now, possibly the greatest movie of all time. features this song.

@jameswiglesworth5004 8 месяцев назад

Totally disagree, like you, I am not a great fan of The Doors, but feel this is mesmerizing and does stand the test of time, but apart from this and a few other tracks, notably Riders On The Storm, I feel their catalogue is really weak

@ZionForman 8 месяцев назад

LOL, that sounds like you sort of agree with me. I don't know, maybe because Morrison died young, but this is junior high-school level music for me. they never had a real bass player, and the organ is cheesy sounding. nowhere near in the same league as say Jimi Hendrix.

@kelvinkloud 8 месяцев назад

some of the doors sounds dated, but the end really doesnt to me. it has an eternal vibe to it, that transcends its own era. and instrumentation wise, the spareness they use mixed w/ density, enhances that transcending sound. its the same reason, venus & furs still commands such attention by the velvets. the drums on this & the subtle accenting & haunting eastern sound of the guitar give a feel for the ages. ray actual does nice tonal work on this song & jim's baritone density & phrasing feel is point on.... the problem w/ the doors was they were inconsistent & overhyped (ray may have been the biggest culprit in those regards). it leads to a lot of false expectations, pretentious & certainly a fair share of misses by the band. morrison was at fault for this too, b/c he seemed conflicted on one hand doing strong experimental work & quality popular rock yet burdened by morrison also burning himself out as a crazy rock star.... to their credit they were singular sound and vision wise, but to their detriment, they many times werent focused. & that can really backfire w/ the ambition of what they were trying to be image wise. it hurt them.... but, I will always stand up for their A game material. & this is certainly part of that. it honestly doesnt get its due imo. I state that b/c this song was in full form, not in '67 but by the summer of '66! think about that. no band, except the velvets were in this zipcode. sure psychedelia and electro music etc was already occuring w/ rubber soul. & yes dylan lyrically blew thru the line in '65... but no one combined that w/ they dark drama, cinematic scale, mood & palpable danger the doors brought in '66. they deserve more credit then they get for that. they also finished very strong w/ la woman.

@kelvinkloud 8 месяцев назад

morrison in a way is hard to peg in rock's history and annals. he was both brillant but could also be a buffoon. inconsistent for sure. but even when he was out of step, trying too hard or not at all and bordering on pretentiousness, there was always and honesty & rawness that came thru. he may still be to this day, the most dangerous lead live in re to tension in what he might do. its why his trainwreck moments even have some sort of interest. he was a flawed star.... if you compare it to sports, the best I could compare him to was tyson or namath. when the night or album prepping session was right he could be truly standout, bordering on landmark. powerful charismatic talent. but he rarely could keep that going for very long & could sink into crap, both live and in filler (esp 3 & 4th album). like those athletes his prime window was short. but also, like them, their primes, marked their era.

@alphajava761 8 месяцев назад

It's been rare that artists can take a track beyond 4 or 5 minutes and keep it fresh all the way through. After Dylan many artists tried to do these long play tracks and they couldn't. I think the song Susie Q by CCR, which is 8 minutes, is a far better song than The End and Riders On The Storm. Pink Floyd perhaps did long play tracks better than anyone. You need to know what to do with more than 4 or 5 minutes is my point. And a lot of bands did these long play tracks but few ever appealed to me because they feel forced. The End feels forced. I don't think The Doors held up for 12 minutes imo. It's not even the music here, there's nothing even particularly engaging about the vocals. This was excellent for the opening scene of Apocalypse Now, always reminds me of that movie.