THE DOORS - The End | FIRST TIME HEARING REACTION

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[@bobschenkel7921]

As soon as John Densmore shimmers on the cymbals, Robbie Krieger plays a few sinuous notes, Ray Manzarek fills in on the bottom, and Mr. Mojo Risin' starts singing, you know you are in a different world. Now Shawn, you must watch the movie "Apocalypse Now", about the Viet Nam War. "The End" is used to great effect in the beginning.

[@robbob5302]

Which is ironic, being the movie never did “end.”

[@danrumble74]

Sinuous? Not that I disagree, but I've never described anything, other than sinew, as sinuous 😆 Good job 👍

[@MongooseTales]

This song is used in 1979's "Apocalypse Now" to great effect, in fact it's as if the song was written specifically for the movie. If you think it's taking you on a journey purely as audio track you'll develop an entirely new appreciation for it in the context of Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece.

[@JulieFreyHomeWebBiz]

Before the movie there is the literary classic novel 'The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. (Maybe it would work to play this music while reading this book?)

[@pommie5093]

Exactly, I can't think of one without the other now. Both the film and this song are one in my mind.

[@ptrlxc]

This song forever now reminds me of the movie Apocalypse Now, it fit perfectly within the movie.

[@robbob5302]

This is “boundary-pushing” in any time. The doors became popular the same time LSD did.

[@mikecaetano]

For some further backstory, check out Sigmund Freud's 1929 book Civilization and Its Discontents. It's only like 120 pages or so. Morrison leaned on that for the "walk on down the hall" improve. If you're looking for psychedelic from The Doors, check out "I Can't See Your Face In My Mind" from their second album, Strange Days.

[@alpetrocelli4465]

The first time Jim did the killer awoke part of the song was live onstage at the Whiskey a Go Go, much to the surprise of the rest of the band. What a show that must have been. Great classic tune. ✌️❤️🎶

[@M.E.M.O.10-50]

The Oedipus story was badly abused by Freud, who imo had serious issues of his own. It's an ancient Greek myth about a baby born under the prophecy that he would cause the death of his father, a king, and was therefore left to die of exposure on a hillside (which was how they avoided the "crime" of infanticide because it was nature that did the killing, not the person who put the newborn baby there). The baby was adopted by kindhearted people who found him and NEVER KNEW his identity until the later tragic events. As an adult he was on a journey and was offended by another traveller, who he then killed in a fit of temper (which was his actual crime) not knowing that the man was HIS BIOLOGICAL FATHER. Still not knowing this, he then met and married the man's widow who was HIS MOTHER. The moral of the story is that you cannot escape your destiny. Oedipus's mother hanged herself when she learned the truth and Oedipus poked his eyes out, spending the rest of his life as a blind wandering beggar. So, as you can see, this is NOT AT ALL about secret incestuous feelings or desire to murder the father/rival for mom's affections.

[@mythicsin3083]

A brilliant mind loaded up on coke…what can you say.

[@jduke8565]

Well said man

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

Frued was a trailblazer in psychiatry.

[@robbob5302]

The live version is much darker. Especially on that mother line. Morrison goes full-on Oedipus.

[@michaeldonovan4793]

Live at detroit..When he got arrested

[@clifton8929]

Thank you for the album reviews and for sharing songs on your subscriber channel, too. We appreciate all the love you give your fans. Your hard work is greatly appreciated.

[@ohfour-seven6228]

As far as boundary pushing, it's The Doors, that's what they do!!! One of my favorite bands.

[@MongooseTales]

A deep dive into the inside of Jim Morrison's head. "Driver where are you taking us?" indeed. Amazing stuff.

[@bobschenkel7921]

"Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine" was the title of a post-Jim Morrison release by The Doors.

[@procopiusaugustus6231]

Parents were oblivious to music lyrics, at least mine were.

[@raynavarro7997]

A masterpiece!

[@mikefetterman6782]

Back in 1992, I did a tour of the North east with an assembly program for schools called, "Animals Nobody Loves". I had a tarantula, rat, Corn snake, Alligator snapping turtle, giant millipede and the star of the show, a giant Indian fruit bat (Flying Fox). For 3 months, 5 days a week I would do 4-5 assemblies/day for a total of 180 in 3 months. All that constant travel gave me a soundtrack to tour to, and the Doors and a lot of cannabis between shows (while driving and sharing with the bat) were a big part of that experience. Oh to be 22 again.

[@mikefetterman6782]

Jim was writing a ton of poetry during this phase releasing a few books of poetry through the band's run. Lords and the New Creatures and Wilderness were two of them. The Doors also release a spoken word album from Jim after his demise. It is as funereal and haunting as Nirvana's unplugged set.

[@mucksmith3569]

The killer theme ended their last album as well. Riders on the storm about a hitchhiking serial killer with lines like if you give this man a ride sweet family will die. I doubt it was thought out or planned but I find it interesting. In my fan view I like to think it’s the same man. I don’t need two psychopaths running around Jim Morrison’s brain.

[@glass2467]

I've read some analysis of the lyrics, although I don't remember all the specifics. There's some reference to the Oedipus complex, which is a Freudian psychological concept that states - the attachment of the child to the parent of the opposite sex, accompanied by envious and aggressive feelings toward the parent of the same sex. These are unconscious, repressed feelings. To discuss this kind of thing in a song is most definitely ground breaking. The 60's psychological explorations went far. Today's music can't even come close to this type of exploration.

[@StanSwan]

The Doors 1st album is the best album ever made. Was really a live album in the studio of 4 guys like 22 years old. Note perfect and game changing. I am a huge Beatles fan and they say Pepper was their best album. This blows it away.

[@joshuadeshaies7266]

RIP JIM AND RAY. OH MAN HANG ON EVERYBODY, IT'S TIME FOR A RIDE THAT ONLY THE LIZARD KING AND COMPANY CAN TAKE YOU ON. Just so you know, the blue bus Jim is referring to is a bus that used to take him and his friends around back when he used to live on his father's military base.

[@jamesgoudreau1940]

My father told me the blue bus was a reference to the buses that took draftees to boot during the Vietnam war.

[@mucksmith3569]

Epic song, Shawn. I don’t remember the end ever getting radio play. The subject matter and length made it less radio friendly. But when you bought the album and heard it for the first time it was mind blowing.

[@anthonyblakely399]

I was scolling and just saw the title song you are reacting to...I did not get a notive about your reaction.....and I haven't been getting the notices on You Tube....even though I am a subscriber of yours for a year....so you might want to look at that. But I saw this reaction to one of my Fav Rock n Roll bands and frontman....Jim Morrison and the Doors!!! Are you kidding me????? This song and album is one of their many masterpieces!!!! Just Golden!!!! I can't wait to see your reaction and comment on it!!!

[@markmurphy558]

When I tended bar, we put this song on right at closing time, and told everyone they had to leave when the song was over. Worked every time.

[@mikefetterman6782]

This song firstly, got them FIRED from the Whiskey a go go club on the sunset strip. Also, Jack Holtzman (president of Electra records) and Paul Rothchild were in the audience that night and got them their record deal at the same time.

[@larryoneill7432]

The “blue bus” is a reference to a vehicle that will take Jim through eternity

[@chitownlee]

Not surprising but this didn't get much radio play except on some FM station's back on 67.

[@Jude_196]

OTHER-WORLDLY & MESMERIZING!!! :) ENJOY, SHAWN! :)

[@AlekGrigorian]

There are alot symbolism and alot to interpretation

[@bobdelp2023]

OHHHH WOWWWWWW, YOU'RE IN FOR A REALLLL TREAT ON THIS ONE SHAWN!

[@thedocofrock1890]

i'll never forget the opening of 'apocalypse now' with this song playing. vietnam war with napalm bombs going off everywhere. it truly seemed like the end. a better song could not have been chosen

[@tommarks3726]

The instrumentals are kick A$$ in this. There is so much going on in the background musically I mean.

[@j.jennings1722]

The first number of times I heard this song was the radio edit and I really enjoyed it, but when I heard the album version I was shocked and perplexed, but I soon got over it and realized that this song was Jim's version of a Murder Song, which is a genre of Pop music that has a long history, with even big hits like "Delilah," by Tom Jones, falling into that category. The End is a really graphic Murder Song, and psychedelic AF, but it's become one of the most famous Murder Songs of them all. ❤✌

[@kelvinkloud]

You got to the key meaning by the end. It’s not a death song. It’s about drawing your own line of self identity and freedom. It starts as a break up song to Mary werbelow (his longtime prior friend) wh/ then transcends and compels him to declare his own freedom in a time of cultural strife. Hence the comparison of the culture to Rome & the youth desperate for enlightment (summer rain). It points to amer still in a Rome paradigm driven by greed (gold mine). The Oedipal is the final break from this structure (father) and to find anew in nature (mother) and feel. The coda at the end completes the cycle, the vision quest and brings the writer to the new found truth and pathway to take on his manhood and freedom.

[@kelvinkloud]

The snake is the metaphor for wisdom, sin & power. It’s used to show how our culture was drawn back to Rome & built upon this need for power and conquest. 7 miles is 7K wh/ traces the origins of Rome to modern amer. Notice it moves across the shores to n amer, the kings hiway. To the gold mine (western shores Calif driven by greed). & at the end it returns to the sea (ancient lake) wh/ implies amer is close to running out its western culture cycle. Amer falling. Hence his need to seperate and search anew for self freedom and guidance.

[@lotusladylotus6159]

Did you say that you've never heard this before?!? So you definitely missed out on seeing Jim perform this live then too... bummer. Well, better late than never! The whole album was groundbreaking, and you have to take it in & appreciate it within it's specific cultural context (1967 when folks were experimenting with LSD and open 'the doors of the mind'). The 'spoken word' section beginning with "the killer awoke at dawn..." is probably something with which younger generations might now be less familiar, but spoken word poetry and performance burst onto the (postmodern) scene in the late sixties, so it's apt that Jim spontaneously added this section during the live performance at the Whiskey a Go Go; it was based upon the Oedipus story, which we all learned in university literature, film studies and psych classes. I echo everyone's observations regarding to what effect this track was subsequently used in 'Apocalypse Now'. Have you checked out 'Riders on the Storm'? Side Note: Val Kilmer actually did an excellent job channelling Jim Morrison in the film "The Doors", it was kinda uncanny!

[@jimswank472]

Their best song by far

[@kimmomaki]

Nico from the Velvet Underground did a strange approximation of this tune on the 'June 1 1974' album with Kevin Ayers, Eno and John Cale. Still puzzles me, but I don't hate it.

[@danrumble74]

My favorite band of all time since I discovered them in '90 or '91 👍

[@flubblert]

*People are Strange" is a must! It's just a shame it is so short.

[@hopeklemann1]

🌸 dude , as much exposure as you've had to the doors.. I'm totally surprised that this shocked you!

[@MisterWondrous]

Here's a piece of life advice. When your wedding party DJ asks what music to play, don't say "Oh just some Doors will be fine."

[@jameswiglesworth5004]

To be fair wedding party music would rule out almost all the meaningful rock music of any era.

[@MisterWondrous]

@@jameswiglesworth5004 The dunce we hired played crap like "Feelings". Claimed to know what he was doing. It was the low point of the evening, in an otherwise elegant affair. The marriage even lasted three whole months. Wouldn't do that again.

[@mattjohn4731]

Yeah this definitely pushed boundaries. They influenced Iggy Pop who debuted with the Stooges in '69 with I Wanna Be Your Dog and a raga song called We Will Fall 🔥🎻

[@WilliamLater]

Blue bus was a kind of LSD back then

[@mrysedeers]

Have you ever viewed 'Apocalypse Now'?

[@LeighPennington]

Jim was a tortured soul who liked to test the bounds of reality

[@penelopehornswaggle102]

All i can say is that Jim was a trip and was usually on a trip.😅

[@debraschiro6234]

This song is played in Apocalypse Now I need to watch you have to have them watched it yet kick ass fucking movie😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

[@hannejeppesen1809]

Jim had a complicated relationship with his parents, especially his father. His father was an admiral in the Navy, he was at the gulf of Tonkin, needless to say they didn't see eye to eye on politics. His father never really acknowledget Jim's success, even after he died I think he was reluctant to praise him.

[@MikeOstrowski-iq8wf]

….it’s better when you sit down and listen to the entire album on acid !!! ❤️

[@chrisautry9479]

Weird scenes inside the gold mine. I can interpret that for you. Or you can just watch the world we live in.

[@davidtullis2810]

Jim Morrison was known to do a lot of LSD

[@AlekGrigorian]

Don't interpret it so literally

[@jordimoore2167]

Heart of Darkness

[@billwilson2025]

You just ran into one dude!

[@bobdelp2023]

SO THIS IS ALSO OFF THE GREAT MOVIE ( APOCALYPSE NOW )😊GREAT DOORS SONGS AND JUST A SUPER GOOD FILM! 💯👍

[@anthonyblakely399]

Let's say this: This song was the TV show series, "Criminal Minds" before the show was created!!! lol...The Snake is a river and also signifies the road of Life to the End......because Jim was heavy into drugs Acid and LSD and Jack Daniels and smoking a lot of cigarettes!!! And he was high making this song!!! And I saw him perform this at the Whiskey -A-Go-Go!!! It's about The End_Death!!! The End is a release from suffering of life which is what it really is. So, the mother is usually the friend of the child the father is the enemy of the child....it's a psychological thing. Love your reaction!!!

[@will-x9c]

I wouldn't read too much into this. Morrison was establishing his rep as the Lizard King so he wrote shocking lyrics of love and death. He was a great performer but a mediocre poet IMO. I love this song for the music; the band was second to none. John Densmore's drumming is superb here. Organ and guitar are outstanding as well. Trippy and mesmerizing

[@SteveMHN]

This song reminds me of a napalm attack.

[@michaelinnj7439]

I’m a big fan of your channel, and of course the focus of this song would be the shocking lyrics, but I’m a bit disappointed that you didn’t discuss the actual music. Krueger, Manzerak and Densmore painted a brilliant sonic soundscape there but I think you may have missed it by focusing on the lyrics.

[@Driecnk]

Krieger

[@michaelinnj7439]

@@Driecnk Yep I noticed that typo just as I was submitting. D@mn you autocorrect.

[@things.mostlytrue]

nice, tho na week behind

[@poptart4260]

It’s puts you right into 1967 weather you like it or not

[@poptart4260]

I know I spelled it wrong

[@salsonny]

The snake is the road

[@kelvinkloud]

Road of time. 7 miles long =7k yr wh/ takes you to ancient Egypt. The birth of the west. Morrison ingeniously uses this as a metaphor to trace the dna of the west from Cairo to Rome to n amer shores, out west to gold mine wh/ lured creation of Calif to modern USA and finally to the de (wh/ implies cycle is nearly over & amer and west could fall). The snake is the wisdom, knowledge, greed and power. It’s biblical in a sense. Book of Danial implies amer would be an extension of a still living Rome. Morrison takes that idea and traces it to modern amer culture still driven by conquest and a youth desperate for enlightment (summer rain).

[@10000Times]

Shawn, this is not a Top 40 song

[@Driecnk]

He's stuck in the middle of the road

[@vincentvancraig]

All that "hootin' & whoopin' & hollerin' " jim does at the end of "The End" was not on the original release of the album for 50 solid years...i think when the remastereed it for the 50 year anniversary in 2007 is when the put that in, or re-put it in from the original masters....idk how alone in my opinion i am but i cant stand it....for decades i listened to it the oroginal way & now that version is really hard to find....anyway, i think its ridiculous & totally ruins that end part of the song....yeah, its what jim did on the night, in the love session, but who cares?? ....its fine to release it that way, but to totally scrub the internet of the oroginal edit i think is bollocks....same with "break on thru" and the full "she get HIGH......she get HIGH"...whatever....just give me the original too...also....thanks

[@BRENDAJASON1]

It was the 60’s

[@Hal-x7l]

Gr8 channel! saw a pic of you in a tank top ... You should wear more tsnk tops on your channel please

[@NCthorn]

🔥👍

[@Bill_Jones.]

Val Kilmer did a great job portraying Jim Morrison in the movie “The Doors.” He even resembled Jim.

[@Driecnk]

Keep talking it

[@richardromney9205]

the kings highway. a thief. stand and deliver. then into a focused task. into madness.. murder with no result except death.must pay for it. no excuse except payment. to family. no excuse.drugs.

[@BernardHodgson]

Pretty middle of the road for back then! Was the blue bus used to pick up draftees for the Vietnamese war?

[@kathyrizzi8754]

This song is weird & not near as good as his others. I didn’t hear this song until I watched a man who impersonated Jim Morrison on KZbin. This song was not on the radio back then. 👍🧡

[@Driecnk]

Really

[@actorcontact]

"Now he's getting into some weird territory" - lol

[@actorcontact]

take Morrison's lyrics off - it kinda ruins it when you read ahead