First Time hearing The Doors and starting at "The End". Jim Morrison is everything y'all said!

[@TheCharismaticVoice]

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[@ArlyMusic]

Best reaction And reppin PNW

[@lawrenceallen8096]

The Oedipus complex reference was quite controversial in the day.

[@arnepietruszewski9255]

When will the Archspire - Golden Mouth Of Ruin happen. Cause I want to see you surprised. Even Tank doesnt know how to headbang to this band, they are playing too fast. They have been described as: a couple of machine guns having a domestic disspute, a catastrophic seismic event, unfriendly aliens testing out sonic weaponry and a pterodactyle attempting mongolian throat singing on fast forward but it strangely combines into something beautiful.

[@BradNeely-i1u]

I think you should check out the band "Unto Others." The songs "Jackie" or "No Children Laughing Now."

[@jefflittle8913]

Google "27 club". Also for the Doors the songs you need are "Riders on the storm" (for the integration of nature) and "Crystal Ship".

[@stpnwlf9]

Morrison's bizarre poetry and imagery aside, guitarist Robbie Krieger deserves a ton of credit for creating the musical atmosphere of this song. He's amazingly good in this band.

[@Baldevi]

Truth!

[@mrnoahlott]

RIP

[@4Kandlez]

They all are, equally

[@Richarddraper]

Definitely, the two are talking to, matching and responding to each other throughout. It really is a singer and guitarist in total togetherness.

[@christopherwhite1648]

Ray Manzerak's keyboards were pretty awesome too.

[@StephenRae-u1t]

The Doors is what happens when you take a classically trained pianist, a jazz drummer and a flamenco guitarist - then add in a poet as singer/songwriter. It is a sound like no other band before or since. Truly one of a kind.

[@jonathankerr4859]

Could not have explained it better👍 Absolutely

[@letsgomets002]

Far from a real Flamenco guitarist

[@jonathankerr4859]

@@letsgomets002 but you can tell how someone has first learnt a instrument. Like when a drummer for example has been taught jazz, blues or rock style originally. They learn different techniques and they stay with them even after they have learnt others.

[@mikewiltshire9121]

​@@letsgomets002, Kreiger's flamenco playing was not too shabby on Spanish caravan

[@flesruoYkcuFoGuoY]

@@letsgomets002 A "real" guitarist is such a stupid term, regardless of what genre. If you're playing the notes on the guitar and they sound right and the music sounds good, then you're a "real" guitarist. Whatever the fuck that stupid shit means...

[@DEPARTMENTOFREDUNDANCYDEPT]

Summer of 1967 and I am 21 years old, just returned from my Vietnam combat cruise aboard USS Waddell, DDG-24, hanging out at a fellow sailor's home in Glendale, listening to my vinyl copy of this record over and over again, especially this song, "THE END!" All of the amazing music of that year, Sgt. Pepper, The Chambers Brothers, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and so much more, is BURNED into my memory and provided a young man coming of age with the best life soundtrack I could have asked for, providing both relief and context for the chaos of the times and my efforts to navigate the turmoil. Thank you, Elizabeth, for looking into this landmark creation which emerged from one of the most turbulent and creative periods of the history of popular music. Whenever you look into a song that I love, your insights help me appreciate it even more.

[@jamesreding6336]

Thanks for your service

[@durangodave]

@@DEPARTMENTOFREDUNDANCYDEPT thank you for your service 😁

[@sheldonsmodels6543]

Yup, I’m the same generation, however I was int the South African / Angola Bush war. Listening to the same bands and the doors.

[@JFrit67]

Thanks for your service.

[@somedude2384]

Thank you for your service

[@ChuckRusty]

When I was 18, not long before my Dad died, he put this cassette tape into his truck's radio and told me to listen to it. After, he asked me to play this song at the end of his funeral. Little did I know I'd lose him about a week later. I honored his wishes. I still listen to this song today. It's a masterpiece.

[@bobbiedeleon4845]

My condolences! The wound that never heals!

[@imfrcd]

Sorry for your loss.

[@EyeAmMyOwn777]

May he rest in peace. My condolences. Wishing you only fulfilment in this life.

[@WVF112469]

Keep the memories, lessons and words fresh. I learned my dad was right, I'm finding what he was telling me is still correct. No matter how much I didn't want to hear it. We keep them in our lives by doing the best we can everyday to honor their efforts for us.

[@MichaelSerby]

RIP

[@PrestonMoG]

Riders on the Storm. It has a rain effect on it! immaculate song.

[@vlfriscia]

Gives me goosebumps every time! My favorite Doors song. As I said, the soundtrack to the creepiest horror movie never made.

[@francescocapizzi3109]

@@vlfrisciawhich is?

[@vlfriscia]

@@francescocapizzi3109 I was referring to Riders on the Storm.

[@Dr.Claw_M.A.D.]

I love the duet w/ Snoop Dogg.

[@PrestonMoG]

@@Dr.Claw_M.A.D. naw Jim died

[@Deguello23]

The part beginning with "The killer awoke before dawn" is basically "Oedipus Rex," an Athenian play by Sophocles. The "took a face from the ancient gallery" is referring to a death mask, like families used to have of their dead ancestors. The Greeks cast them in metal, and I think the Romans used wax. So he's wearing the face of one of his ancestors. There was a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, but he's unaware that he doesn't know who they actually are. He deposes the previous king without knowing it was his father, and takes his mother as his queen. When they learn the truth, his mother hangs herself, and he puts out his own eyes. The song states it like Oedipus knew, but that's Morrison and artistic license at work:) The use of this in 'Apocalypse Now' never fails to give me the chills.

[@jhamler1]

Faceless Men assassins from Game of Thrones was probably inspired by those lyrics. I dunno what I'm talking about, though..

[@mastersloseymusic3928]

I've read that same thing before. I remember an interview of Morrison recounting a time where they performed this song and when they got to the Oedipus myth part Morrison said the words "Mother, I want to **** you!" This apparently outraged the owner of the venue saying to them, "You don't sing about your mother like that!" He then told them that they're never playing at his venue again and Morrison asked, "Do we still have a tab?"

[@MrSean03839]

​@@mastersloseymusic3928 Whisky a go go, where the doors were the house band.

[@greensleevez]

This, but a bit more.

[@ologhai2]

Actually, the lyrics reflect Sigmund Freud's Oedipus Complex theory more.

[@TheCharismaticVoice]

Okay. So I had in my prep document that the full song was played in the intro of Apocalypse Now... but I've never heard of that movie so I really had no reference point for it. Sorry if I offended anyone by not mentioning it in this analysis! ♥

[@misatankosic1001]

Apocalypse Now, a film that will be watched even in 100 years... a powerful dive into the dark side of the human psyche...

[@audiophileman7047]

Unless you don't care for war film based conflict and deep psychological musings on the dark side of the human mind and nature, Apocalypse Now is a must see, Elizabeth. I recommend watching the original theatrical release; the extended version doesn't add much to the original and really detracts from it (my humble opinion). Apocalypse Now is inspired by the classic novella by Joseph Conrad called Heart Of Darkness.

[@joergojschaefer3521]

@@misatankosic1001and is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's story Heart of Darkness...😞

[@rustywater3219]

Apocalypse now-- full metal jacket-- deer hunter-- band of brothers Are all must sees.

[@dfusit]

We’ll forgive you this time, but don’t let it happen again young lady 😜. This is one of those songs where you put on your headphones, turn down the lights and get into the whole atmosphere of the entire song.

[@ryanwallace5871]

This song will forever be associated with Apocalypse Now. Elizabeth picks up on the feeling…exotic, psychedelic, then unhinged…insanity. Absolutely fitting for the film.

[@stuart_oneill]

Yeah it was.

[@garyluciani1082]

Yep. I share those sentiments. Although of course I'd heard it a number of times before, but not like that. Ever since I've associated it with apocalypse now. An epic song in an epic movie

[@garyspeed8961]

no.. this song is associated with me being 16 years old in 1967... actually closed my eyes when the track seen appeared in AN.. did not want it to taint my own interpretation of the song visually

[@stratfanstl]

"I think if I had to pick one, I would say toss all of the production and just give me human expression." That comment wins the Internet today.

[@gruggerduggerhoose]

“Perfection? Nah. Get that in the bin. I want to hear what the singer FEELS and what that means in the context of this song” this should be how music is made.

[@csmelen]

To quote Martin Sheen in Apocaypse Now. "Absolutely Goddamn right".

[@williams.1130]

That's why older music will never be topped

[@davidlincoln78240]

That is a quote for the ages! (Right at 12:12 in this video.)

[@airobsmith]

that comments beats down the internet today :)

[@musicevolution6549]

What’s more amazing is the fact the full song was recorded live in the studio. No overdubs, fully live.

[@stevehatcher7700]

And fully, not slightly, inebriated

[@brianmann5419]

@@stevehatcher7700 Yeah, I laughed out loud when she said that.

[@casca.forgot]

Jim Morrison was always fully inebriated lol always

[@adrianwagner336]

@@stevehatcher7700 and many micrograms of acid included

[@kratoleaf7619]

they were fucked up and it took one take...they were in the zone...

[@denis.patritti]

Ray Manzarek, the former keyboard player of the Doors, explained: 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 a theater!

[@BettyBrancato]

@denis.petritti That's the interpretation that I'd always thought it was about. The killer put his boots on and did in the whole family: the mom being last- and after a little torture. It's a work of genius and serious madness- looking into the mind of a killer.

[@BrianDouglass-o3u]

Sounds right. Jim did study film at UCLA.

[@victorwilburn8588]

@@BettyBrancato: I mean, he makes it pretty explicit, at least live. They had to tone down the part about effing his mother for the studio version (they just turned it into a wordless scream), but the father-killing is still there.

[@lau-guerreiro]

I thought that was obvious to everyone, but hardly anyone ever mentions it! I guess not many people had to read Oedipus Rex in high school.

[@bluebird3281]

Oedipus didn't even want to do his own mom and dad, that is why when he heard the oracles prediction, he fled them, not realizing they were his adopted parents, and he would unknowingly meet his real parents on his journey.

[@SnapesHoney2800]

"The End" Always felt like waves to me. Rolling and crashing, some are bigger, some smaller, some crash faster, some take their time and turn into tubes. They roll in from calm seas. And unbeknownst to the surfer, under the water lurks something dark and sinister. It slithers and darts under the waves. Watching. Waiting. Leaving the listener with a vague sense of unease to the swirling euphoria of the upper layers of the song.

[@hemlock399]

"The End" is a masterpiece of psychedelic progressive rock, and the lyrics are a prime example of Jim Morrison's fever dream poetic imagination.

[@brendanbird7900]

My wife asked me where the story of this song came from. My response was Jim Morrison's fever dream

[@thomas2782]

@@brendanbird7900 yes, both parents survived his career...

[@andrewjost6714]

Elizabeth feels she is In a hookah lounge listening to this... maybe with a white rabbit!

[@edanderson8274]

Indeed. But if you've never heard this song "tripping," you've never really heard it.

[@llanitedave]

​@@thomas2782But unfortunately, he didn't.

[@jamesjohnson8601]

This haunting song mixed with Helicopter rotor sounds in the opening scene of Apocalypse Now sets the tone for the whole movie and really highlights Martin Sheen's character being internally torn up and the effect and toll the war has taken on him.

[@troystibal2151]

My thoughts exactly. I always think of that movie when I hear this song!

[@macthir13en87]

Yup

[@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665]

Is it also used in the Film dawn to dusk kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJLUY3d8asaFmq8si=VZzzw453TmZ3kB0V Zombie ,Vampires ...and plenty of snakes 😂 Definitely not for children ..

[@darrenpyper9689]

"siagon shit............I'm still only in Siagon"

[@salmanilla7943]

Interesting timing, Apocalypse Now was released yesterday in 1979.

[@lucas_berg]

Dude was only 22 when this was recorded, absolutely mind blowing

[@JosephGillmer]

Serious LSD

[@ericfalk948]

Truly a unique individual. I find him to be one of the more interesting people in history. A true poetic genius.

[@inspectre27]

​@user-eq9bx7qh4t Possibly, but the dreamlike quality reminds me of peyote. The tension and waves of perspective in Soft Parade sounds more LSD. To me. Your mileage may vary.

[@stevemartin4249]

@@inspectre27 LOL. Here in Japan for 41 years, remembering undergrad days back in the states. Now my choices for mind altering substances are limited to an extra spoon of instant coffee or one more beer. 🙃

[@Music-Is-Real-Love]

​@@stevemartin4249 😄

[@codimiranda3029]

I’m crying, you’re the best I’ve wanted to hear specifically what YOU thought and felt when his voice touched your ears for ages!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

[@Kaddywompous]

“Dark, complex, slightly inebriated…like a nice cab.” She’s so good at this!

[@cbsolo5628]

Reinforced by the "chocolate and cherries" reference

[@treetopjones737]

Wine is society's pretentious excuse for getting buzzed.

[@robotto8858]

I LOL'd when she said "slightly inebriated". I don't think he was ever "slightly inebriated". Tripping, trashed, stoned? Sure, but "slightly inebriated"? Nah.

[@ManOnPen]

@@cbsolo5628 Slightly inebriated. Cab. I was wondering if she would take the next step into “opium den”. That’s the feeling I get.

[@Roberta80]

@@treetopjones737 Maybe in Trumperica, but in Europe, wine is as normal a thing as beer or vodka.

[@deadlyDM]

Jim Morrison still turning people on with his voice 57 years later 🔥

[@casca.forgot]

Took me a sec to figure out what you meant since the 1st album came out and not since he died LOL

[@rubenrecalde2266]

That's Jim

[@Catmando-z7g]

Morrisons voice and poetry made the doors

[@meliageckosong]

His voice always makes me warm and fuzzy ❤

[@betorenteria7768]

She said “Some sort of weird dreamland. Where rules don’t necessarily apply”. That’s exactly where Jim lived! Love your breakdowns. Love The Doors. 🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@joenobody5631]

It's called LSD. 😂

[@TrianglesAndCircles]

Elizabeth is the best. The Doors members were college educated in music. Our dear seems to be getting a good experience with them.

[@gr0tbagz]

The Doors Of Perception - Aldous Huxley

[@jackolson8775]

​@@joenobody5631Heroin. Jim was a junkie. That's probably too limiting a definition, he took EVERYTHING. ... including whatever any stranger may give him. He was a very flawed human, but a perfect artist.

[@rchrdwks]

@@joenobody5631 Peyote and a frightened Bufo toad 😛

[@SkeenAdcock]

For 1st time hearing the Doors, you captured the essence of Jim Morrison. Every description of lyrics and vocal expression were spot on. Morrison's lyrics were mostly already written as poems------visual poetry--very dark, very emotional, very melancholy-----very VERY!

[@orbislame]

“Accepted regret” I can’t believe how perfectly you nailed that. Ive tried for YEARS to put into words what this song makes me feel. And you just said it, on your first listen. Holy cow, you are good.

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

Yep same

[@mightandlightvfx7157]

She pretend not knowing it, that's all.

[@johnstorton]

I'm amazed at how well she nailed so much stuff so quickly. I wonder if she's done some research beforehand.

[@lymphomasurvive]

​@@johnstortonShe reads the lyrics at as a minimum.

[@frankhennigan3196]

Recorded live in the studio start to finish. No overdubs at all. They played it twice. The second recording was the one they put on their album. A true masterpiece in every way. All amazing musicians and Morrison is the icing on the cake. He wasn't a song writer. He was a poet. I hope you analyze more of their songs.

[@TheDirtyDoors]

Actually, the first half of the song is from take 1, and the second half of the song is from take 2. If you listen carefully, you can hear the cut right before Morrison says, "The killer awoke before dawn."

[@Paul_Oz]

omg, watching you go from gleefully enjoying the sonic experience to slowly realizing you are in a horror movie was precious. this all happened to us once, a long time ago. thanks so much for letting us remember again.

[@danduntz2539]

That was tough to watch, knowing what’s coming…

[@RandyKuppless]

The Doors, Surrealistic Pillow and Days of Future Passed were the holy trinity that colored my mind that summer. Thx for listening and sharing your insights with us.

[@aand8454]

Nice! I used to sneak my transistor radio under my pillow at night, plug in my earphones (or what did we call them then?) and fall asleep to Days of Future Passed, especially Nights in White Satin. Sigh . . . .

[@ashbriggs169]

As a 55 year old lifelong Doors fan I’ve listened to this song thousands of times. You did an amazing job of breaking this song down, absolutely amazing. I enjoyed that so much. You nailed it….The Doors are the most unique band to me, jazz, rock, poetry and everything else. It’s like a magic music box you open up. Go listen to all the albums and get lost. Great content

[@EL_Duderino68]

They don't make music like that anymore. I'm 56 and while there are still modern bands I like it's not the same. You could hardly call this commercial.

[@adrianwagner336]

yeah you have started, appropriately, at The End from their 1st album ...now check out the last album recorded while Jim was alive "LA Woman" kzbin.info/aero/PLrv5a_5drVgSfiGF8H96g9_drlm6pvbRR 🤗

[@radiof00le]

55 here too.

[@isaachaze1]

@@radiof00le 55 yo here too and grew up on Hendrix, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, and absolutely the Doors!

[@johnstorton]

"The Doors are like a box of chocolate. Ya never know what you're gonna get." lol I'm 70. They've been, by far, my favorite band since I heard Light my Fire for the first time. Summer of '67.

[@PaulDamonThomas]

Glad to get a chance to witness Elizabeth open up The Doors of perception! ❤

[@johnwolff3206]

Nice, Aldous Huxley.

[@andrewjost6714]

This may be one of the most hilarious analyses that Elizabeth has done... seeing her shock and surprise and trying to explain the possibly LSD laced lyrics like there must be some sort of rationality to it, and then making the F word musical!!! LMAO!!!

[@EL_Duderino68]

She finally got to ride the blue bus.

[@joelkrause388]

"There are things that are known and things that are unknown, in-between are the Doors" ~ Jim Morrison

[@keithmyers6121]

AMEN

[@Call_sign_Rover_1]

So… The Doors don’t know?

[@liorap5636]

He is referring to the Doors Of Perception book

[@casca.forgot]

​@@liorap5636exactly! "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite." - William Blake

[@green917]

Actually that quote is from Aldous Huxley

[@BigSteve710]

I love how giddy this song made her.

[@johnplaysgames3120]

THE BLUE BUS: Jim lived mostly in Venice (spitting distance from Santa Monica) and The Big Blue Bus is a bus service founded in 1928 and operated by the city of Santa Monica in and around that area. Given that much of that part of "The End" is referencing "the West," I think he was just using the blue busses he was familiar with as a metaphor (remember, Jim was a writer and poet before he was a rock star). A metaphor for what? Well, here's what Ray Manzarek (keyboardist for the Doors) had to say about the "blue bus" reference in the song: "[It was] Jim’s version of the Egyptian solar boat… it is the boat that the pharaohs and everyone, everyone else rides on through infinity, through eternity, and 'the blue bus' was, for me, a vehicle that would take you on a voyage into magical places." Speaking of which... RIDE THE HIGHWAY WEST, BABY: I do think Jim was referencing being on the West coast but, also, as he did a lot with his poetry, there were layers of meaning. When he's talking about riding the King's Highway west, it could be interpreted as simply an invitation to come out to the West coast where everything is sunny and golden, the counter-culture was taking hold and challenging the establishment, etc. But, given how much of the song talks about death and change and whatnot, the "King's Highway" might also be a metaphor for the Egyptian cycle of the sun god Ra in his path across the sky. The ancient Egyptian word for death was "Westing." They believed that when you die, you join Ra on his journey west through the underworld. "Ride the highway west." He might also be referencing the historical King's Highway. Mentioned in the Old Testament, it was an important trade route connecting Arabia, the Fertile Crescent, the Red Sea and Egypt. Caravans transporting incense and spices from Arabia took this road on their way to the thriving Nabataean capital of Petra. THE KILLER/OEDIPAL SECTION: This is obviously a reference to Oedipus Rex, the Athenian tragedy by Sophocles, but is also tied in to Freud's Oedipal theory which was popular in pop psychology at the time "The End" was evolving. He was using it partially as a metaphor for the shift that was happening in society during the 60s. It was the idea of "kill the father," i.e. the authority, the patriarchy, the old way of doing things, and "F the mother," i.e. return to nature, embrace the real, a more natural way of existing. In his autobiography, John Densmore (drummer for the Doors) talks about the night they recorded "The End" and specifically his discussion with Jim about the Oedipal section. He says: "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 it 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 to reality, the end of alien concepts, the beginning of personal concepts." Personally, I don't agree with Densmore that that's what Sophocles was saying with his play, but that's what Jim was thinking about when he wrote that section. RIDE THE SNAKE: I don't have any quotes to back this one up, but I know from his music and poetry (and life) that Jim often referenced Eastern philosophies and mythology in his poetry and lyrics. In Hindu mythology, the God Vishnu is a cosmic entity which dwells In a dimension of an infinite sea. He sleeps on the back of Ananta, a 100 headed cobra which swims through the waters. Ananta means "Infinity." Thus to ride the snake to the ancient lake means to connect with the cosmic dreamer. The source of inspiration and soul. This ties in to the theme of getting back to the source that you see in a lot of the rest of the song (the insane Roman children, stripped of their natural ways by the civilization founded by the Roman empire and driven mad by that civilization, "waiting for the summer rain" - natural, cleansing - to heal them, e.g.). THE OVERALL MEANING: It's interesting that you say that the song sounds improvised, Elizabeth, because it's a song that evolved over time with many bits of improv poetry woven in over different performances. When they performed the song, it was constantly changing. You can see a very different version in the "Doors Live At The Hollywood Bowl" video, with completely different bits of poetry (and Jim being a little more light-hearted and silly with it at parts, including an "ode to a moth" that he sees on the stage at one point). Overall, though, the song started as a breakup song for a girl Jim had split with but evolved into a song more about endings and beginnings, life and loss, change, leaving behind what we're told is real in favor of returning to the source, etc. The "musical mattress" that the band laid down for Jim to "rest his words on" (as John Densmore once described their music) was this open place for him to sing and recite bits of poetry around these themes.

[@jackolson8775]

Well done, sir

[@chrisrobinson196]

I agree with this, though I'd add I believe the buses used to take new recruits to basic training were also blue, and there's the local bus colour too that's at play here. One of great things about this song is how flexible it is, both with what it contains and what you can find in it. There's a lot of Vietnam undertones in here, the farewell to a friend could also be to a brother in arms, or one friend going to war, the other not.

[@jasonmelo1974]

This woman does not care about all this stuff lol she says in the video that she just found out he died young 30 minutes before making the video 😆

[@JayRGewing]

King's Hwy... Santa Monica to San Francisco via "Camino Real" or Royal Highway of the King connecting the Missions by order of the Spanish Crown...layers to peel from 'jimmrs oniom'

[@sollyharr]

I always thought ride the snake was comets or shooting stars…

[@daver4590]

As soon as I saw "The End" by The Doors pop up in your video list, I knew I had to watch-there’s something electric about seeing someone experience this song for the first time, especially someone with your depth of knowledge and expressive insight. When Morrison croons, “Walk on down the hall,” leading to that infamous "mother" section, I was on the edge of my seat, eager to see how you'd navigate that raw intensity. And you nailed it-capturing the unease, the tension, the unraveling. It’s like watching a master painter discover new colors on a well-worn canvas. Your reaction wasn’t just about the technicalities, but about feeling the song-something I, like many others, probably felt in the marrow of our bones when we first heard it but never had the words to articulate. You brought those feelings to life with a clarity that’s both captivating and relatable. If you’re planning to dive deeper into The Doors, I suspect you’d enjoy watching the film starring Val Kilmer. It’s a wild ride-equal parts myth and madness-and I think hearing your take on it would be fascinating. Thanks for keeping your content so consistently rich and thought-provoking. Watching your videos is like rediscovering the music all over again. Keep it up!

[@brettkenschaft4239]

Very well put! This was hands down the best reaction I've seen to this song. Her description of it as being "unhinged" was spot on and I too was anxiously waiting for her to get to the "mother" part. I also agree about the movie. Val absolutely nailed that part! I saw it completely sober and walked out of the theater feeling like I was on something 🤪

[@armad1n]

If this was a live version with f the mother screamed multiple times and all night long I wonder how it would have been handled?

[@memorywhole366]

@@armad1nWatch Thee Door Live at the Hollywood Bowl. The performance contains the unedited version of that song. ❤

[@armad1n]

@@memorywhole366 Huge fan since my teenage years in the 70s. Have 19 live albums including the 1968 Hollywood Bowl concert. It is one of the best performances of The End. You never knew what kind of show you would get until the concert got underway and The End was often performed with a mix of Jim's poetry.

[@Johnny_Insomnia]

"It's almost like we're in some kind of weird Dreamland where the rules don't really apply." You just described all of the best Doors songs

[@da_blade5040]

#FACTS 👍💯♥️ AND You Never Want to Leave it!! 😎

[@johnb2422]

Good description of a psychedelic experience

[@USTtraining]

Such a great reaction. You totally got it! Next stop: watch Apocalypse Now...

[@avalonjustin]

The Doors are a hell of a drug😁❤

[@gentlmentlmn]

I love how she slowly but gradually ingests then absorbs the genius of first Jim, then Robbie, then John, then Ray, then them together as a unit, their improvisational quality… really great reaction to one of my favourite songs. Jim was an “old soul.” True rock poet backed by some of the best musicians in rock

[@atexandude8303]

If you can’t bring yourself to appreciating one Doors song, it’s so very easy to find something in another. They created so many different sounds in such a little time. Spanish Caravan, Roadhouse Blues, Peacefrog, The End, Love Me Two Times. Their depth is truly incredible. Again, in such an unbelievably short time. They steamrolled the scene and bursted into a supernova. I wish Jim would’ve stuck around longer. To see the growth that man was destined to.

[@edwardmunoz7853]

He would of been disappointed 😞

[@dramoth64]

Jim was the short fuse on explosives. Destined to run hot and fast and then cause a massive explosion. He was never destined to be with us for a long time.

[@jameslionspirit9636]

and we can't forget Riders On The Storm...

[@bryanblackburn9673]

@@jameslionspirit9636 addin LA lady, light my fire plus strange days as well as people are strange

[@ronin4713]

@@dramoth64 Exactly.... the thing about rock stars is tht a lot of the time, their longevity often undermines their relevance. Not saying I enjoy seeing my heroes die, just saying that there are a lot of instances of musicians bursting on the scene in a ball of fire, forever changing the landscape, only to gradually age and fizzle away, sometimes completely tainting their legacy in the process. I'd rather see my heroes die than watch them grow old, comfortable, and complacent, selling themselves out in the process. Jim had a mission in this realm, and he left it precisely at the right time.

[@johnpettibone2453]

I'm sure glad Ray and Jim had that cinematography class together.

[@Gerard_Mulligan]

And then ran into each other on Venice Beach later that summer.

[@johnobullingtonjr]

Whenever I see this on a jukebox I play this. Changes the mood of the room. And 11 minutes is bang for your buck!

[@trish.b]

This is the first time your channel popped up on my home page. And my oh my, my first of your reactions is to the band I adore and Mr. Jim Morrison. He has and will always be my favorite singer, frontman, whatever. I’ve been listening to The Doors since the Mid Seventies. Just one fact, you probably know this already, but the Doors recorded this song in only 2 takes. Amazing…

[@jimmorrison632]

Same here. Rare treat!

[@topladave]

Elizabeth - "The End" by the Doors was used in one of the most brilliant cinematic intro's in film history in the 1979 film "Apocalypse Now" by Director Francis Ford Coppola. The narrative of the film is based on Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" set in Vietnam. The integration of the song with the visuals and editing is stunning! Cheers! Dave

[@ronin4713]

That film is legendary! It is still widely held to be among the best films ever made.

[@Joaker66]

Wow. Kind of jumping into the deep end of the pool with this one. An absolutely great Doors track but usually a person works up to this one!

[@StoneE4]

Deep end of the pool? That was more like cliff diving before graduating out of your water wings. 🤣

[@Lona_Chess]

Exactly! Not the first song I’d recommend for a new Doors listener, but a great song nonetheless. Why her peeps thought this was the best starting point is beyond me.

[@greggbell9837]

Ray Manzarek is a musical juggernaut. And this band was very, very special! Thanks so much; long awaited.

[@Peter-hi6ur]

You are very deep in the study of the voices to me elvis voice is the.most beautiful voice that I have ever heard roy orbison was good but elvis had the beauty in his voice that no other singer had such beauty

[@mjeffn2]

I can’t believe you chose “The End,” as your introduction to The Doors. That’s heavy, man. ❤

[@sarahneedham]

I was thinking the same! Love, love the Doors and this song is a heavy one to start off with!

[@MichaelSerby]

Real heavy song to hear the DOORS first time, start with "-Twentieth Century Fox" . , or "I looked at You"

[@catherineconner9968]

so glad you went with this one , its a beautiful, compex, emotion evoking masterpiece. thank you for going deep!

[@dabhidhm4093]

I've long thought of Jim Morrison as one of the most unique rock singers of his generation. When others were going for the high pitch, Jim crooned in a smooth, silky baritone or barked and howled like a wolf. His was one of the most conspicuously masculine voices of the period.

[@rdrrr]

Frank Sinatra was his childhood hero.

[@Sadpotatoirl2010]

His singing style is the archetype of every 'grunge' singer. How they sound and how they delivers. Ohh my Jim..

[@rdrrr]

@@Sadpotatoirl2010 I'd argue Iggy Pop shares that honor. He could switch from crooning baritone to howling banshee just like that.

[@dabhidhm4093]

@@rdrrr Yes, they have striking similarities.

[@eeblatter]

A musical journey rather than a song. Imagine being a student in the mid 60's and all of a sudden being drafted to go fight some foreign war you know little about. Plucked from your home, school and friends and possibly never coming back. This song symbolizes that stress for me.

[@eeblatter]

@@user-hj7zh9re6b Nope. The drafted my brother from high school in 1970. He was the valedictorian of his class.

[@BruceLyeg]

@@user-hj7zh9re6b Nope, they removed that exemption when things went south

[@EileenHeitman]

eeblatter….as a 17 year old kid I listened to this album a million times the summer before I went into the Marines. I wasn’t drafted. I enlisted. …….signed up voluntarily……my parents had to sign permission documents due to my young age. I wanted honor and adventure like some young males do. I got both. After boot training, combat training and tech training, all of which consumed my first year, I volunteered for Vietnam. I served in Nam 19 months. This music was in the background when music was available. Listening now brings tears. Lots of emotion back then. I left my beloved behind. I was all in as a Marine and did intelligence gathering ….intercepting enemy field radio communication. Critical, challenging, frustrating. I arrived as a Lance Corporal and left a Sgt. The Corps and the war are in my thoughts several times daily. After I signed up I told my best friend. He joined. 2 other high school friends ditto. We all did our time in the war. That’s what Marines do. We are still the closest of friends this 57 years later. One guy, Bill W. was shot up bad his 3rd month there. He spent 6 months recovering in a Naval hospital. He still has night terrors . He has had cancer twice. He is a bad ass and I love him. Denny J. humped a radio on patrols and became the radio man in the command tent on hill 55. He is reclusive and lives in an old farm house, surrounded by trees and relishes his solitude. Another bad ass. Bill E. humped m-60 machine gun ammo . He was the big boy of our circle in high school. He was a good Catholic boy. He has ptsd and also likes solitude. I take pills for depression. We all paid a price for our participation. I would do it all again. Serving with Marines is heady stuff. The average age of Marines in Vietnam was 19. I landed in Danang on my 19 th birthday. Those experiences taught me that I could endure anything. Despite the after effects I described above, all these guys got education, had productive successful careers, married, had kids, invested and all are retired excepting me. ( all also divorced but I’m still married)The war demons contributed to those divorces. These guys are hard and intolerant of bullshit. I’m 74, still working full time as a building contractor. My life is better than I ever imagined it could be. I’m a blessed man. Truly blessed. I give my Marine training much of the credit for instilling discipline and resolve into my character. I still lift at a gym. I push and push. But……this music brings tears. Dave Heitman Sgt., USMC 1967-1970 Semper Fidelis

[@jcallinger]

@@EileenHeitman Did you do morse, non-morse or voice intercept? I was an army morse op in Germany in the 80s.

[@EileenHeitman]

@@jcallinger Morse

[@denjhill]

While I was in the Army in the 60's the Doors were my go-to music. The rest of the world was hypnotized by the Beatles but the dark, rhythmic sound of the Doors was my way of escaping a rotten war.

[@chiefline7084]

Thank you for your service

[@EinSofQuester]

Thank you for preferring the Doors.

[@JoelBergerPhD]

One thing to remember is that this band is different. This isn't a 70s rock band. It is 3 classically trained musicians and a poet. It's not like anything else. I like to say that The Doors are still ahead of their time, even now.

[@burke615]

Yeah, I was going to say that the thing to remember about Jim Morrison is that he isn't a singer who wrote lyrics. He's a poet who through circumstance wound up singing his poetry. And John Densmore was a jazz drummer who through circumstance wound up in a rock band.

[@steveludwig4200]

Excellent description of the band. Possibly the most important rock band ever from the United States.

[@simontemplar3359]

Must have had to be there because I don't hear any of that. Jim Morrison strikes me as someone who wrote things that were vague and weird enough that people made more of them than they were and he got away with it because he was charismatic. These guys are an adequate blues band that went psychedelic. The musicians carried the whole thing. Morrison's writing is IMO just not particularly interesting.

[@idzakaiasan]

I agree. The Doors will always be ahead of times. I think that Elizabeth will enjoy Jim Morrison's An American Prayer. That is such a wild ride.

[@richardpare3538]

The only band member who could be said to be "classically trained" is John Densmore, who, while he was at CSU in Northridge, studied ethnic music. None of the other band member had any sort of formal music training.

[@davestarr4529]

The Crystal Ship made me fall in love with the Doors

[@madmod]

I was jamming Peace Frog and my mom introduced me to the Crystal Ship. Such great songs

[@moonooze6171]

@@madmod Peace Frog is great too

[@garretthenderson5738]

Me too, I used to go to sleep to crystal ship all the time.

[@CarloVanelli]

One of my favorite ballads ever

[@shaunmccaul1695]

"a thousand girls, a thousand thrills"

[@metalmark1214]

In a 1969 interview with Rolling Stone, Morrison said the song means something different every time he listened to it: "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."

[@dzed9191]

The thoughts of a true artist. It doesn't necessarily matter what the artist thought or intended it only matters what it means to the person who experiences it.

[@niklaslundh8944]

Insanity by a trip full of urban legends and emotions. Very entertaining and invokes feelings, great song overall though.

[@CrimsonCrow420]

nah, this song is just a song about California

[@FrankUli]

Brilliance has no limits.

[@JayRGewing]

​@@CrimsonCrow420😂good one, corky😅

[@ktrulez9790]

That “wind chime” sound at the beginning is played on the guitar. Robbie strummed the strings at the top part of the neck of the guitar that is between the tuner keys and the neck bridge.

[@johnb.3476]

The Doors are one of a kind. Robbie Kreiger’s flamingo style of playing, John Densmore’s jazz drumming, Ray Manzerick’s hypnotic keyboards and Jim Morrison’s vocal abilities are all amazing! You said this was “art” and I believe all the members of The Doors would be appreciative of that description.

[@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302]

FlamenCo style... lol, you're talking about a bird.

[@VielFart]

Manzarek. For Christ's sake give him the respect of getting his name right.

[@johnb.3476]

@@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302 ah, you got me. Thanks for the correction

[@johnb.3476]

@@VielFart sorry, it was late at night. Appreciate the correction. Should have gotten it right.

[@The-Saxon]

I am one of the many who has laid flowers at the Parisian grave of this man, Jim Morrison. I grew up listening to The Doors and still listen to their music today. Incredible music from incredible musicians, at the very top of their game in every aspect.

[@kennethsmith6942]

The question is . We're you actually visiting a grave or a monument. What happened to his body . No one close to him will ever know

[@The-Saxon]

@@kennethsmith6942 A question I have also wondered about and will never know the answer either.

[@j.munday7913]

I visited his grave in the 90s, too. It was surprising because you were picking through this insanely packed cemetery and then suddenly (at the time) a humble grave marker covered in lipstick.

[@hjhjhjhj6611]

Yeah, but, she's goof balls.

[@FrankUli]

Crystal Ships and The End still gives me chills when I listen to either 1 of them and I’m 73, Great music, lyrics and can’t ever be duplicated.

[@bartledew]

The End and When the musics over are the best Doors anthems in my humble opinion

[@kermitcook8498]

Elizabeth. The Doors started in the mid 60s. Jim died in 71. If there's a Vietnam movie made, you'll probably hear at least one Doors song in the soundtrack. There are so many hits for you to enjoy. You'll hear a lot of Indian musical influence in several songs from the late 60s. Ravi Shankar made the sitar an instrument to be played or simulated. I think he taught George Harrison. In The End, the keyboard has some Light My Fire sound to it. Val Kilmer at 31 portrayed Jim in the biopic THE DOORS and does his own singing. It's a movie that I think is worth seeing. I have loved seeing your horizon broaden in the last few years. Please continue the trip.

[@rabbitandcrow]

Yep. The song is completely inseparable from the Vietnam War.

[@Dr.Claw_M.A.D.]

Twenty seven club

[@unstrung65]

David Crosby of 'The Byrds ' introduced Harrison to Eastern music

[@CollideFan1]

Very well placed in Apocalypse Now

[@PeterLarge-jg1sb]

Forrest Gump used 5 Doors songs.

[@frankpentangeli7945]

I still can't believe this was on their debut album. Astounding maturity for the time, and I don't think The Doors ever quite surpassed this.

[@nekoken04]

In my opinion they equaled this with Riders on the Storm. But I don't think you can surpass perfection.

[@Greenchileaddict]

The killer put his boots on....and he patiently waited for this analysis. 🤘

[@audiophileman7047]

Good one my friend. I too await the "analysis" with much interest.

[@thomas2782]

lol

[@marcwright8395]

Oedipus complex

[@S_Z55555]

I remember i wrote in some of your reactions that you you gotta hear The Doors cuz your gonna love the iconic Jim Morrison. you finally did it. I'm 19 im into metal (classic, thrash and melodeath) a little punk and goth but lately i just can't stop listening to classic rock/hard rock from the late 60s, 70s and 80s. that period of time is just the greatest for rock music.

[@LHeyden-o6i]

This is THE BEST and most thorough analysis that I’ve ever seen. Elizabeth actually breaks down and analyzes the word F*CK in this song for us. It was so much more complex than I ever realized. Exceptional analysis.🙌

[@MikeHedberg]

Love when you said it almost makes you feel "drunk". I believe the correct terminology is "tripping". Explains the journey you were taking in your mind. Great reactions! You have earned some beads to wear and a flower for your hair! ☮

[@meliageckosong]

The same feeling overtakes me every time I listen to White Rabbit ❤

[@MikeHedberg]

@@meliageckosong feed your head ☮

[@user-rs5or4yp6u]

The Doors changed my life, definitely for the better. Thank you so much for giving to all of us again what I (and probably so many others) experienced when we first discovered Jim!

[@coreenamartinez6114]

I so appreciate your channel and hearing and rexontextualizing songs I thought I knew well. This one especially hit me. I have a friend that's a musician and her all time favorite song is The End by the Doors. My all time favorite song is The Tower by Julian Cope (a little less well known). The first time I played her that song, she just sat there for a second before she said it was like The End had a part 2 she didn't know existed. Even after that experience, it wasn't until you broke down the things that Jim Morrison does with his voice that I realized how much Jim influenced my beloved Julian's voice (at least post 92 or so) and now I wonder how much of that derives from just doing allllll the acid. Anyways, this reminded me of a really special memory and I appreciate how your openness to music can be so emotionally evocative.

[@user-wy1ev4yq5d]

FYI: Harrison Ford was a roadie for the Doors. When this album was released on 1/67, it rocked the world of my friends and I. Difficult to put into words how it changed our lives that led us down the path of exploration of new sounds/bands and individual discovery. There was/is something about hearing this classic rock music the first time when it was initially released because it was fresh, unknown and breaking barriers with sounds, lyrics and creativity that had never been created or exposed in that time period. Thanks for doing the review. You're so good at what you do and I am always impressed by your analysis and enthusiasm. "Ride The Snake!"

[@4thlinemaniac356]

Jim Morrison is Rush Limbaugh Google it hit view images hands smoking Read Rimbaud And Morrison.

[@MisterRlGHT]

Ford was an assistant cameraman on a crew filming the Doors on tour in 1968. I suppose that could count as a roadie, but it's not like he was humping amplifiers on and off stage.

[@saltydroog854]

John Densmore is a jazz drummer and it really shows in this song specifically, Robby Krieger is trained as a flamenco guitarist and I think it really shows in his rambling runs that seem to go on a little longer than you expect them to, and Ray Manzarek usually recorded on a Hammond c-3 and b-3 organ, but generally used Gibson G-101 with a Feder Rhodes Piano bass resting on top of it for live shows and tours. But he's also pictured in a few shows using a Vox Continental and an RMI electric piano/harpsichord. Manzarek might be the most underrated musician of the era. It was hard for anyone to get credit when around Jim. He was just such a glowing superstar that he vacuumed up all the attention.

[@TheZenaxa]

Latin influence coming in at the time, too. They caught the knife's edge of the culture and are still captivating.

[@bobjohnson1096]

Awesome band top to botttom!

[@metalmark1214]

Elizabeth first The Doors song and she started at "The End"? 🤔🤣 Recommend: Riders on the Storm, Light My Fire, L.A. Woman, Break on Through, People are Strange Roadhouse Blues.

[@stlmopoet]

I know! This may be his wildest/weirdest song. With oedipal F bombs!

[@darkknite2k11]

My vote is People Are Strange. Every time I hear it the opening credits to The Lost Boys plays through my mind.

[@pandorafox3944]

I know! Maybe Hello, I Love You??? But no!

[@geegaz1057]

Gotta add their other epics - When the Musics Over and The Soft Parade.

[@boroblueyes]

Crystal Ship also.

[@green917]

This song is, essentially, a Raga with poetry sung over top of it! It's brilliant!

[@temetnosce2099]

The unedited version when he addresses his mother is...something else.

[@infidel60]

The unedited version got them banned from the Whisky A GOGO. It would probably put Elizabeth into shock

[@vogel2280]

@@infidel60 Yeah, copulating your mother against her will (to avoid the word) is something that was frowned upon.

[@liamprincetech]

I think the point is he's kind of reenacting the story of oedipus, as if it was some kind of Greek poetic recital or chorus. I don't think he's necessarily singing about his own mother... I do like the percussive use of the word "fuck", it works beautifully

[@JayRGewing]

Ted Gazzari blew a gasket at that!!🤯

[@randywissler9923]

Didn't Jim actually sing the unedited version on The Ed Sullivan Show?

[@scottj719]

#2 for the Doors - When the music's over You will dig Manzarek's interludes on the organ and Morrisons raw emotion

[@PittDaddy]

I was 14 the year this came out. It changed my whole worldview. There was so much great music that arrived that year. But this grabbed me and even now in my 70s, has a place in my mind. Imagine listening to this as a 14-year-old. Will anything ever be the same?

[@meliageckosong]

Do you like White Rabbit as well?

[@PittDaddy]

Jefferson Airplane was at the same level. Although I liked Jefferson Starship, JA was another eye-opening band.

[@M0j0_p1n]

love this comment. I am 14 and I really adore this band. Songs like this one really introduced me to a whole new world of music, even if I’m 50 years late to the party.

[@michaelsmoyer6568]

Ah, the only thing better than enjoying some of my favorite songs of all time is watching Elizabeth experience them and share her inspiring interpretations and analyses with us. None have been better than her review of The End. Thank you, Elizabeth, once again!

[@doug6threescore6]

Its a jazz drummer,jazz flamenco guitarist,and a jazz keyboardist,with an insane singer

[@jackiewilliams4854]

Insane Blues singer

[@doug6threescore6]

@@jackiewilliams4854 yeah I would have to agree with that,an unwilling insane blues singer,the story of how the end came about where they had went on stage at the London fog or the whiskey (I haven't read these books since gradeschool in the 80s,so I know it was one if them) and Jim was a no show during a break they went to find him and he was in his apartment on a massive amount of Lysergic Diethylamide,any way they get him back to the bar and the end was a short jam before then,but Jim had something new in store...the rest is really rock and roll history!

[@markgarber3465]

A blues singer who studied the Beat poets of the 50’s

[@oozeman23]

Pretty much nails it !!

[@CaptainWallaby]

This was hands-down your best reaction, Elizabeth. This is one of the most complex songs. There's violence on the surface, with the Oedipus motiff buried within. And deeper still is Jim's life philosophy.....kill off knowledge - what you've been told (father) and embrace (mother) nature - your natural self, unburdened by the stains of human existence. The message is relayed in both the lyrics and the music. Perfect in its rawness.

[@jimwiesenauer6380]

I am so happy that you are analyzing the Doors. Please analyze When The Music's Over next, please?

[@robdisner]

Or Hyacinth House!

[@AntonNidhoggr]

Such a great song. I agree, it would be fun for Elizabeth to listen to it.

[@David-fg6sm]

"When The Music's Over" is a masterpiece

[@thinman8621]

Great review! Thank you, Elizabeth. You rock!

[@tpernis23]

THE DOORS - L.A. WOMAN for the next reaction would be nice.... who agrees?

[@zimmy4868]

L.A. woman should have been the first song to start the deep dive into the doors universe.

[@robertmccoll3569]

Moonlight Drive

[@brianstrong1510]

I would not have picked the End as your first Doors reaction. It is very macabre. I think L.A Woman, Moonlight Drive, People are Strange or Roadhouse Blues would have been better.

[@robertmccoll3569]

@@brianstrong1510 I think The End is perfect. No song is more signature Morrison

[@audiophileman7047]

@@robertmccoll3569 As a very big fan of The Doors, I must agree.

[@sandelic1]

I love how in the outro she simply stated: This is a work of art. Because The End is exactly that. I could not hear it for a year or two and upon hearing it again still be shocked how truly amazing it is.

[@armadillotoe]

"Riders on the Storm" is a great piano-heavy jazz-rock song by The Doors. "The End" was featured in the movie "Apocalypse Now." Interestingly, Vagner was too. The guitar style is reminiscent of a sitar and adds to the song's vibe.

[@caseypurpus4323]

An excellent choice! I remember the first time I heard it In 1967 It never loses impact Jim Morrison is possibly The most enagmatic Rock Star You must explore deeper Start at the beginning With the first song Jim Morrison Sung to Ray Manzerek On Venice Beach “Moonlight Drive”

[@marcduhamel-guitar1985]

I believe the name of the band was based on Aldous Huxley's essay "The Doors of Perception". Jim wanted to be a door, opening people's minds to a reality which they might not be able to experience otherwise.

[@marcduhamel-guitar1985]

@@jcporter8206 I read the No One Here Gets Out Alive biography way back in the 80's, as well as Huxley's book. Never saw the movie, I'm not a fan of biopics.

[@filiphenry1]

The essay of Huxley's described his experience with mescaline, a hallucinogen similar to LSD. Door-opening indeed.

[@laurahardgrove955]

Jim was a ongoing shamanic experience.

[@marcduhamel-guitar1985]

@@laurahardgrove955 yeah I remember Huxley writing about the importance of mescaline in Hopi rituals. Many shamanistic references in Doors lyrics for sure

[@laurahardgrove955]

@@marcduhamel-guitar1985It wasn't just references to those experiences. A shaman, or similar person is a door or bridge between the normal world and that state. They usually take it pretty far, but leave the door open some- so others can at least glimpse the other side. He had those talents but it takes self control to do it safely. Getting help could have helped him use less and maybe live much longer. He said one of the people that died in that crash was a medicine man that influenced him. He had a big interest in native American spiritually and the southwest. I think if he lived, he would have eventually calmed down and learned more of their ways.

[@vermithax]

Getting to experience, and often times rediscover, a song through your ears, your expressions, and your insights is such a pleasure. It's often like hearing the song for the first time myself. Never change, Elizabeth.

[@TranzparentMethods]

Fun fact. Before 1999, the public never heard this version of the song. The vocals towards the end with Jim going full on lizard king were buried in the mix prior to the Doors complete studio recordings box set.

[@sethvanduyn4538]

Wasn’t the ned of the song in apocalypse now? With the vocals

[@TranzparentMethods]

@@sethvanduyn4538 Yes, but that version was shortened down to 6 minutes.

[@catfips9461]

Thank you, I thought I was having a senior moment. I still have the CD I bought of the album in the early 90s and never heard the "fuck you" section. Was this the rerelease that the unabridged version of Break On Through was released on too?

[@TranzparentMethods]

@@catfips9461 Yes

[@p_mouse8676]

I have this on original vinyl. So it makes me wonder if there were different versions in different countries? Or are you talking about the radio edit?

[@MichaelClay-hx7lp]

Musical expression, except for perhaps cave painting, is the most primal of the human arts. I have enjoyed the Doors with a passion since the early 1970’s yet I have not appreciated the nuances and profundity in the Doors’ art until now. Thank you for your enriching commentary. I look forward to hearing your analysis of other music in the “rock” genre, especially as it relates to, and borrows from, classical masters like as Ravel, Wagner, Bach and others. I am subscribing to your channel. Mike

[@davidpyorkshire]

There is a hallucegenic dreaminess to the song yet it is still menacing and chilling at the same time. All strung together with Jim's magnificent, powerful vocal ❤

[@bob_._.]

Today on The Charismatic Voice, Elizabeth closes her eyes and dives into the deep end.

[@lowexpectations3554]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jameskelly7003]

Krieger's guitar sounds like it's in dropped D tuning, and the scales are very sitar-like right down to the microtonal bends. The "chimes" in the beginning are just plucking the strings behind the bridge saddles or headstock nut. Robbie deserves a lot of credit for this song.

[@herbieschwartz9246]

Jim Morrison was an unparalleled poet who just happened to have a great voice and the strength to make the music he wanted to make, not what the mainstream tried to coerce him to make. He started as an almost cult following then inevitably grew to stardom, something that I think he ultimately regretted.

[@nmmboy]

This song holds a special place in my heart. The lyrics pierces through each time I listen to it. People are strange is another favorite from them 😭😩

[@franksullivan1873]

There is a great book on Morrison called,”No One gets Out Alive”and is a inside look at such a most interesting poet of the Twentieth Century.

[@JeffreyCantelope]

The use of mixolydian mode and the use of open tuning of the guitar to create the sitar sound lend to the feeling of the song. The Doors were a very"atmospheric" band. One time on the the popular American Band Stand show Dick Clark asked the keyboardist how they characterized their music. The answer, " Well we don't do that. The music is us and we are the music. So it's really up to others to label us". ( I paraphrase}.

[@JamesCharlesBurge]

You helped me finally connect the building momentum of Scheherazade to this song. Also, try to get that the "f-bomb" was so much more 'Lenny Bruce' back then. Adore your role as meaningful knowledgeable interlocutor, walking me through what is old to me with fresh eyes.

[@raoulduke8382]

I honestly expected that Elizabeth would react unfavorably to the mad poet Jim Morrison’s lyrical psychedelic Oedipal LSD voyage… but I was pleasantly surprised by how she not only totally got it but also went with it and felt it. Kudos to you, madam.

[@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302]

Why would you assume that? Morrison has been electrifying fans for over 60 years now, getting steady radio play to this day.

[@raoulduke8382]

@@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302 Because I’ve watched her react very literally to lyrics at face value in the past and not always get what they were actually trying to convey. Your comment seems to be implying that I denigrated the Doors. I did not. I’ve loved the Doors for decades.

[@OldSchlPunk]

My understanding (and depicted in The Doors movie) is that this song had gotten a very visceral response the first time they played it live.

[@KennethSavage-nn2vv]

Hello, being a lifelong drummer this is the iconic John Densmore on drums… He plays such an integral part in almost every Doors composition… Great reaction and review 👊🏻

[@LostInSweden-cc2zu]

Sitting in a bar in Kranj, Slovenia, in October '91, reading about the horrific battle of Vukovar between Serbia and Croatia, the neighbouring country, which was raging at that moment and this came on. I'll remember it 'til the day I die.

[@blmatthews]

Thank you for doing this! The Doors are one of my favorite bands and this, "When the Music's Over", and "W.A.S.P." my favorite songs, and it was fascinating seeing someone experience it for the first time and remembering when I first heard it (a long time ago as a teenager).

[@streetrider1977]

Why am I so teary eyed watching you share such an intimacy with your first listen! The first time I heard "The Doors", I fell in love.

[@divazoe04]

Same!

[@Gerard_Mulligan]

Because she's perfectly verbalizing what we felt

[@Lashley1337]

Roadhouse Blues, Peace Frog, Light My Fire, Touch Me. There is no way to go wrong with The Doors. Jim Morrison had one hell of an imagination with lyrics and voice inflection given his very low overall tone but he had the ability to hit some crazy notes.

[@deannadewbre8351]

❤Yes! I am so excited you have taken this in. It is deep and full. There is so much, you will listen to it again and again and find more. How wonderful for you to feel the depth. ❤

[@Cadinho93]

Listening to The Doors and Jim Morrison's poems are almost like a spiritual trip. It's so bizarre and calm. Also, this was a perfect song for the scenes it was picked for in the film "Apocalypse Now".

[@Quintzal]

I seem to recall Ray Manzarek (the organist) saying that his background was classical piano, the guitarist had been playing flamenco, and the drummer was playing improv jazz. They came together with an amazing chemistry. Mr. Morisson was studying filmmaking and I believe didn't have any vocal training. He wrote a ton of poetry and learned to sing as he went. The story goes that at the start, he would deal with nerves by singing with his eyes closed and his back to the audience.

[@MisterRlGHT]

lt's always fascinated me how all four members are obviously stellar, versatile musicians -- yet I can't picture any one of them playing in any other band, nor this band being able to replace any one of those four members.

[@dr.maturin4648]

I saw The Doors live at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in the mid-sixties. At the time my favorite song was "Light My Fire". Now that I am approaching the end of my life, I like this one even more, thanks to your incredible analysis! You do such good work!

[@HYDE5510]

If you listen to the Doors, the lyrics are a world of their own. Morrison was first and foremost a poet. His lyrics are deep, rich, and other worldly.