Understanding "The End"

[@joermnyc]

The horror… the horror. Best use of any song in a film, hands down.

[@tss3393]

Beat me to it. Absolutely the best soundtrack moment.

[@DadCanInJapan]

The song is about death and travel. Well he travelled up the river and there was a lot of death.

[@shatteredbloodrunner]

Thanks boss

[@unclegumbald989]

“Never get outta the boat” ...... Absolutely goddamn right....

[@austintrousdale2397]

Second best, probably: Ride of the Valkyries during the operation with the ‘copters, from the same movie.

[@coastercook]

This song reminds us of our existential existence and inevitable death... have you tried Hello Fresh?

[@CelestialDung]

Well a guy's gotta eat. Literally at that.

[@cjzed6916]

I literally started laughing out loud when the plug for Hello Fresh came at the end...so terrible!!!

[@DaedalusYoung]

If you don't eat, you will face the end sooner than expected.

[@zhuofanzhang9974]

Supper's ready

[@numerum_bestia]

Ride the snack.

[@MoGreensGlasses]

I'm loving the recent format of playing the song in its entirety and structuring the "essay" so it is always relevant to the current section of the song. Very nice work... keep it up!

[@Josh-lo6ws]

I agree with this so much! Just when I thought the quality of Polyphonic's content couldn't be any better.

[@Danielwoesthoff1]

Yes! And that's why it is the best music-related KZbin channel out there!

[@talesofrock7444]

Agreed! Doe's anyone know how he played the whole song without copystrike?

[@richardaversa7128]

Agreed!

[@andresortizmasso]

This would be impossible with a Ramones song 😅

[@jamesduby7031]

The song that made me fall in love with the doors and psychedelic music generally. A real standalone song, never heard anything else like it.

[@danielreynolds6498]

And we will never hear anything quite so special again …

[@ExNihil0]

This and echoes are the best of all time.

[@HankBukowski]

The closest I've ever found was another Doors song and a couple Tool songs.

[@sillysod33]

@@ExNihil0Child in Time?

[@clarkewi]

I was 15 living in LA in at this time. And started dropping those little purple pills. The Doors were a local group in 1967 but they were having a heavy impact. I saw them early 1967 in an unforgettable performance. I'll never forget it. Morrison was on another level.

[@ZezolinkoDuarte]

Wow, you were lucky to be there. I born too late for that.

[@fordprefect7316]

Owsleys purples?

[@dirtydantthepondboglim]

cool story bro

[@wormsnake1]

I don’t believe you.x

[@definitiveenergy1]

@@wormsnake1 Why not?

[@shamusclarke7512]

The End is a song beyond time, you could play it in a thousand years and it would still be ahead.

[@megamcee]

9:48 so Morrison literally sang "reject society, return to monke". He was truly a genius beyond his time.

[@unclegumbald989]

*gasp!* Babyyyyyyy.... PS: Vaush bad.

[@masicbemester]

_Industrial Society and its Future_

[@SnailHatan]

No, not literally. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@sisyphuslifehacks]

@@unclegumbald989 This not the anime crossover I was expecting in the comments. Also pretty sure Vaush would call Jim Morrison an ecofascist lul

[@brendanmccabe8373]

@@sisyphuslifehacks which Vaush would know about

[@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051]

The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on..

[@PartyOnTheBed]

he took a face, from the ancient gallery and he walked on down the hall!

[@Timliu92]

@@PartyOnTheBed That phrase always sends me chills whenever I listen to it.

[@poetsdreamsatc]

The killer awoke before dawn...have you tried Hello fresh? 😆

[@biguprochester]

Mother? Yes son

[@myaimistrashgaming5175]

Gives me chills

[@Jackknuckleson]

“Everyone gets everything he wants.” “I wanted a mission, and for my sins they gave me one.” “Brought it up to me like room service.”

[@willardv]

“The horror. The horror.”

[@philosophicalviking6808]

“I’ve seen horrors; horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that. But you have no right to judge me.” - Colonel Kurtz

[@vinceemery5943]

“Charlie don’t surf!”

[@TheFedaykiin]

"Hey soldier......Do you know who's in command here"

[@danielmoseley8040]

Thanks for the video!

[@Babayaga962]

My favorite song of all time. I’ll never forget the first time I heard it. It was probably 11:00 pm and I was in the car driving home from a friends house, I think I might have been on something, maybe it was just that late, I don’t think I’d be stupid enough to drive high, but it was the surreal thing that’s ever happened to my, driving home, across a desert no less. I was lost in thought, adrift in a sea of my mind. It felt like an eternity, and I couldn’t believe it was only 10 minutes. I’d pay a million dollars to hear this song for the first time again.I almost only ever play heavy metal when on stage, but my band always closes with this song. We usually run it out to 17 minutes or so, we stuck a few new verses on there and added a more complex bass part. I have dealt with loss all my life, I have fought a war in my head against depression, I have visited a state of mind that I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemies. I lost my best friend to a war just like mine and it changed me. I came back from that place with a revelation, I ask that you head my warning. You only live once, don’t throw it away…please…

[@SpaceCattttt]

The End is about Hello Fresh. It seems so obvious now.

[@trippythecat1113]

The End of unhealthy meals!

[@SpaceCattttt]

@@trippythecat1113 Yes, fellow cat. May I recommend the vegan lifestyle?

[@enshen2190]

You silly space cat, you

[@SpaceCattttt]

@@enshen2190 Thanguverymudge. 😄

[@tgirlycoldcrust]

My favourite song of all time, I'll always remember the first time I heard it, watching Apocaylpse Now for the first time, that opening shot, Jim's haunting vocals and Robby Krieger's soft guitar line. Masterpiece.

[@beno2662]

Same here🤜

[@christophercremo3020]

That’s my favorite version of the end. There are a bunch of live versions that are pretty cool too.

[@mikeporter3280]

And the Napalm...

[@actuallukecolombero]

My own musical project got its name from this song: the lyric "lost in a Roman Wilderness of pain" struck me and Roman Wilderness was born. Jim's lyricism is unmatched in my opinion, and only the music of The Doors could bring his poetry to life. Thank you for this video, so glad to see my biggest musical inspiration get some love nowadays.

[@miatalife94]

Where can we look at this project when it's done?

[@Gurci28]

Top 10 fun facts about Jim Morrison Posted by Lyra on November 25, 2019 'While many view Jim Morrison as a provocative rock star, he actually was an intellectual figure and very committed politically. He was especially drawn to French existentialism (think Jean-Paul Sartre). Other influences include Friedrich Nietzsche, Jack Kerouac, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Allen Ginsberg, Franz Kafka, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Molière, Jean Cocteau, Albert Camus.' Source - Discover Walks

[@Gurci28]

10:20

[@incognitoatunknown2702]

I completely agree with you. There is no one's keys that could nurture and coax Jim's lyrics like Ray Manzerek's.

[@actuallukecolombero]

@@miatalife94 I have an album out now on Spotify, Apple Music, and various other streaming platforms entitled "Roman Wilderness" with another one on the way! Definitely give it a listen if you're a fan of the Doors and other classic rock bands, I would really appreciate it!

[@austins.2495]

I wish I could time travel to the late 60's to see them play live

[@moonxliqht]

same i'm so sad i was born way too late

[@bigcheese2128]

@@moonxliqhtyou were born in time to be able to listen to their music any time anywhere on any device for free

[@moonxliqht]

@@bigcheese2128 true but it's different seeing them live. also i still buy records lol

[@adabofeverything7120]

My grandma saw them in 1969/1970. Sadly all she has ever had to say about them was "they were really weird. It was a very weird concert, and Jim Morrison was drunk" She said the same thing about seeing Janis Joplin open for another band she was seeing in concert. She said she had never heard of Janis and she was also super drunk and had to be carried off the stage. She said she just felt bad for her, and didn't understand who she witnessed until after she died.

[@grv7437]

Pretty much one of the best records ever created. The lyrics, the drumline and the VOCALS!

[@marcuswoolley5680]

A lot of The End’s symbolism draws from The Golden Bough by James George Frazer. The “Roman wilderness of pain” and “ancient lake” are references to the priest of Diana at Nemi known as the Rex Nemorensis. The œdipal concepts also relate to the cycle of mortality and fertility inherent to kingship. Morrison almost quotes The Golden Bough I’m Not to Touch the Earth. It’s a dense book but it’s one of his major literary influences.

[@Zocrates8]

Thank you for the recommendation

[@unclegumbald989]

Funny how Colonel Kurtz was reading it before he got his head bashed in.... 🤭

[@pompom7x728]

I saw a documentary about Jim Morrison. His father explained that his son had read all the classical books when he was young. It served him well. Not to mention the opening of the perception doors (William Blake) with some LSD.

[@naradaian]

I wish I knew which section of the Golden Bough - I have a copy from when I was 15! Its the abbreviated version not the multivolume work

[@marcuswoolley5680]

@@naradaian Morrison’s songs are littered with references throughout his songs, but the chapters “The King in the Wood” (Book 1, Chapter 1), “Killing the God in Mexico” (Book 3, Chapter 3), “Between Heaven and Earth” (Book 4, Chapter 1), and “The Seclusion of Girls” (Book 4, Chapter 2) struck me as the most comparable to Morrison’s lyrics. The latter two are clear inspirations for “Not to Touch the Earth” whereas the other two inspired “The End” without a doubt.

[@vancecunningham5032]

I just watched apocalypse now, perfect timing

[@quarter_moon_and_a_guitar]

1967 was THE year of rock music, when the universe aligned and produced in America a renaissance of musical art. It of course included The Doors' first album in January, but had they released the album weeks earlier, in '66--with The End juxtaposed against the thin pop of the times--there would be no dispute that The Doors were true pioneers in that magical era.

[@mindriot69]

“The Blue Bus” is the nickname for the city of Santa Monica’s public transit buses. They’ve been called that for over 55 years. Santa Monica is right next to Venice on it’s northern border (if you discount the area called Ocean Park). Whether or not Jim was using the phrase “The Blue Bus” as a metaphor is only something he knows. And it most likely is. Anyway… I LOVE your videos, Polyphonic. These kinds of videos are like hanging out listening to records years ago while stoned and looking for meaning (both deep and face value) within the songs. You put your videos together perfectly. Each one of these kinds of videos is like a magical trip through the words and music of geniuses. Peace, Love & Mushrooms. ✌🏽❤️🍄

[@bobaoriley1912]

Sounds like a reasonable geuss but what I heard is that blue bus is street code for oxymorphone, a highly addictive painkiller, which would probably have been abusing considering how messed up he was on Lake Shore Drive.

[@mindriot69]

@@bobaoriley1912 It’s not a “reasonable guess”. The Blue Bus is what Santa Monica has always referred to their transit buses as. And if you ever lived in Venice, Santa Monica, Ocean Park, etc you’d know how it permeates the vernacular of local peoples. During his time in the L.A. area before The Doors… Morrison lived all over the westside and beach areas. There are many known addresses where he stayed, lived, etc. And as a UCLA student he most likely took the Blue Bus from Venice or Santa Monica into the Westwood campus of UCLA. The Blue Bus is synonymous with the beach areas of Los Angeles. As to what Jim Morrison was exactly referencing… well that died with him. But being from Venice, as I am… I know what the initial reference was from. Ray Manzarek has referred to The Blue Bus as “Jim’s version of the Egyptian solar boats”. But let’s be honest… Manzarek became incredibly protective of Jim’s image after Jim died. And he always tried to make Jim Morrison seem like he was 100% in deep thought. Which wasn’t the truth. It’s like the Oliver Stone movie “The Doors”. It’s easy to pull someone who died long ago out of context and try to give deeper meaning to what they said and what they were about. I dont doubt that many of Jim’s lyrics are filled with double entendres, etc. But searching online as to what other people suppose The Blue Bus stands for just leads to silly conjectures. Like I said… I dont know what was in Jim’s mind. But the basic reference comes from the Santa Monica Bus lines. Jim even said in 1969 that the meaning of the song changes each time he sings or hears it. So all of these wild ideas as to what he initially meant were added later on. Either way it’s n AMAZING SONG that will always matter to me. ✌🏽

[@bobaoriley1912]

@@mindriot69 Yeah, there's a double edged sword with art and that is the multiple interpretations of art forms and I do think that the interpretation I introduced holds less weight and I don't know much about California (I'm literally on the opposite end of the U.S). I wasn't trying to say that you were wrong or anything, get in an argument, or put myself as better or more big-brained and sorry if it seemed like I was saying it like that. We should probably not be arguing when we agree that this is great song and acquired from a quality taste.

[@Prezzen77]

Nah, you've got it all wrong - Jim Morrison was making a Fortnite reference there /s

[@Laughcrime]

@@mindriot69 Yep, I remember reading somewhere that this is exactly what inspired his "blue bus" phrase

[@phillipwee3631]

This is completely inspirational for me. Just got laid off from my job of 20 years. That’s an end. A new beginning is presenting itself to me now. How shall I face it? Thanks to this awesome analysis into this song I’ve been listening to all my life, I’m seeing it in a new light. It’s helping me see the existential crisis in front of me, and the courage I must have to reinvent myself.

[@hoardsearcherscotland1499]

Chin up mate, 👍

[@rainmanjr2007]

Peace and long life, bro.

[@kilo-watt]

Reading this comment 1 year later hopeful that you found your way

[@ronmurphy00]

Polyphonics is great it is explained so many different things of American music things that I had no idea were going on... Keep 'em coming brother

[@Osssssss666]

The blue bus in the 1960’s related to the buses used to pick up and take to special schools intellectually disabled children and take home afterwards.

[@veraroder7529]

Couldn't it be that where Jim writes "The west is the best, get here and we'll do the rest", he's talking about the american dream and the united states as the "promised land", and how the united states was seen as the ultimate in culture, technology and democracy at the time? Just spitballing ofc.

[@brazenlilhussy5975]

Could very well be..people as clever as Jim was at a certain point he certainly knew you give up ownership of lyrics once you put them out there. "Perception is everything" I guess. : )

[@carlosf.l.pariapazavera5430]

Yes, could be! The LA theme and coming from the "Virginia Swamps". I saw this more from a cardinal points metaphor (like the meaning of the sun rising from the east and dying in the west). Morrison's lyrics include that kind of dual/parallel figures.

[@phlushphish793]

Nah. Back then in the 60's with the psychedelic trip, the West was where it was happening, with The Grateful Dead in San Francisco, Jefferson Starship, etc. That's what he meant.

[@rainmanjr2007]

I think it applies to both and poets love ambiguity.

[@nunya___]

@@phlushphish793 Ya, at that time the US was the center of the world and who he was singing to .

[@karmicexperiment5034]

Most videos, documentaries suck when talking ABOUT music. But this is the first actual, useful analysis of a musical composition and its performers i literally ever heard. Well fucking done! Well done! “Manzarek used his organ as a tambura.” Yes and thank you for actually saying something beyond “generic vague bs” Note this man is not telling stories or anecdotes shrouded in generic descriptions. No this is real. Impressed and inspired.

[@johanna-hypatiacybeleia2465]

I read somewhere that if you exit a video before it's finished, You Tube's algorithm counts that as you don't like it. I don't like the commercial at the end; I turn down the volume and look at another tab, but I let it play out, so that it won't impact the esteem for your work and your channel. In this Black Mirror world we find ourselves in. It shouldn't detract from your esteem that you need to pay the bills.

[@pellemller2132]

The video is just as hypnotising as the music!

[@padmakshkhandelwal1832]

This is one of the most terrifying songs I have ever heard, I can't bear to listen it again. But still a psychedelic masterpiece. And haunts like no other

[@trentc7329]

Do “Whipping Post” by the Allman Brothers. It’s actually about Gregg’s experience with the music business in LA before the Allman Brothers instead of about a woman. Can talk about him composing it on an ironing board, the Fillmore East version, people yelling Whipping Post at shows, Duane and Berry’s spooky deaths, song’s legacy, Gregg’s history with Cher and many other wives. It’s the birth of Southern Rock, but they hated southern rock and it’s actually closer to prog rock or fusion jazz. It’s in 11/4 time and the most famous version is 22 minutes.

[@Rockhound1943]

...please...

[@trentc7329]

@@Rockhound1943 You don’t demurely ask for “Whipping Post. You command it, as thousands have since this fateful evening in New York. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqHTip-am7mAn6c

[@camronbay1]

The whipping post is a very deep song the guitar definitely gets you.

[@ImJustKaren_]

This has been my favorite song for as long as I can remember. Sad, haunting, questioning yet hopeful. Jim's lyrics were beauty you just don't see in the music of today.

[@tylerhackner9731]

I absolutely love the doors one of my favorite bands

[@wanderer3561]

I heard this song for the first time yesterday. Man the song itself is a journey.

[@MrTheTrollberry]

I wish I'd never listened to The Doors' debut album so I could hear it for the first time. Is truly an unbelivable experience

[@ricktheexplorer]

Thank you for an essay on 'The End". It should be taught in schools for eternity.

[@ricktheexplorer]

@deadvoguestar If you don't like that song, what's wrong with you?

[@dinekevinke2268]

This song is such an masterpiece! since im early I can't say something about the vid itself other than that I'm exited for it!

[@threelittlebirds2288]

My favorite Doors song, thank you for covering this masterpiece for Jim's 50th passing anniversary.

[@michaelctanner]

Two masterpieces. The song and this video. Respect.

[@yourbebopid]

Jim Morrison is a great story teller, he make me mesmerized with all his word, every single song is always take me to another imagination 🖤

[@RahduDrahkqul75]

Meditations of a Rockstar. Lost in Roman wilderness of Pain and all of the children are insane. Offers up a philosophical glimpse through the window of Morrison's poetic lyrics. Looking from the past the great rise and fall of the Roman empire and at the same time secretly speaking of America during the bleak Vietnam era. : “Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me ..... but I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of childhood." ~ Jim Morrison c.1969 The Doors commented further on the so-called soldier’s situation in “The End,” singing that “The blue bus is callin’ us” and asking “Driver where you takin’ us?” The term “blue bus” refers to the buses that took drafted men to basic training, as is mentioned by William Caughey in his “A War Story,” and the apparent ignorance of the soldier asking “where you takin’ us?” reflects what historian James William Gibson explains about the ignorance of what going to Vietnam really meant, that “much [of] war culture [reflected] upon the ‘unreality’ of Vietnam, the sense in which nothing seemed to meet preconceived concepts of rationality” Through its references to an apocalypse, “The End” accurately assesses not only the war in Vietnam, but also how this conflict was reflective of a larger ideological conflict that affected all levels of American society, heralding the end of American society as it was and the development of a new society and national identity. The new American Gothic. The Ends "The Killer awoke before dawn ..." and Riders on the Storm's "There's a Killer on the road ..." of course was Morrison's reoccurring nightmare antagonistic character; professing to Manzarek that he's inspired to make a movie about a hitchhiker killer out on the road. "Because you gotta have some Death." ~ Jim Morrison

[@rainmanjr2007]

Beautiful writing. You win a Danny Sugarman book. Thanks.

[@LUISCHAVZ100]

One of the best musical pieces to be ever put together. Long live the lizard king

[@davideaston6944]

With their musical virtuosity, brilliant poetry, and wide-ranging influences, styles and genres tackled successfully, I argue The Doors may be the GREATEST American rock & roll band ever.

[@jemrawc]

This is by far the best…of anything I’ve ever seen or heard about The End…The Doors…KZbin video…documentary…overview…insight…AbsoFUCKinglutely spot on brilliant! Genius All I can say is WoW and thank you.

[@DissectingtheDisco]

I really dig your take, Poly. You did a great job of emphasizing the cyclical nature of the song, which I somewhat overlooked until now. This was awesome!

[@vmannv868]

dude, the editing, how the whole analysis is aligned with the entire song, the pacing *chef kiss*

[@mysterbear]

You know your music, young man. Excellent choice, and superb analysis, as usual.

[@adabofeverything7120]

My grandma saw them in 1969/1970. Sadly all she has ever had to say about them was "they were really weird. It was a very weird concert, and Jim Morrison was drunk" She said the same thing about seeing Janis Joplin open for another band she was seeing in concert. She said she had never heard of Janis and she was also super drunk and had to be carried off the stage. She said she just felt bad for her, and didn't understand who she witnessed until after she died. She also got to kiss Conway Twitty. She used to hang out with Willie Nelsons sister Bobbie and would meet up for lunch together. She said Alice Cooper was the best showman/concert she ever saw. But she watched Willie Nelson the most. She saw Pink Floyd play Darkide in 1972 and she said she took a random yellow capsul pill before the show and doesn't remember a thing from it. That sucks! I love my hippie grandma so much. Lol

[@techtipsuk]

Morrison has got to be the most charismatic person in all of music.

[@rainmanjr2007]

Other's have occurred but Jim had a very deep rawness that draws and resonates. We are jolted by a human being expressing something primitive in public. Such moments are riveting.

[@emmajones5994]

jim morrison actually used hello fresh when he was living in venice...

[@robinwitting2023]

The End just got spookier, Emma!. Imagine being halfway through a nightmare and you get a commercial?

[@enshen2190]

THESE POLYPHONIC AUDIO/VISUAL VIDEOS ARE SO GOOD!

[@DanGerZoNe857]

This is such an incredible song docu on a song with so much complexities and colors. Jim was on another plane, and with the help of LSD he was able to tap into this thus generating a poetic musical interpretation compiled from his trip. You really dissected this masterpiece and I thank you for it coming from a huge Doors fan.

[@brandonpage7087]

Jim was such a poetic genius!! I've always wanted to write like him!! This is definitely one of my favorite Doors tunes, next to Riders on the Storm, Break on Through, LA Woman, People Are Strange, etc. Would love to see you cover LA Woman, People Are Strange, & Break on Through, in future episodes.

[@brandonpage7087]

What's the matter? His lyrics not dumbed down enough, or literal enough, for you, like the majority of today's "music"? Lmao!!

[@rbaldwin3208]

And "Hyacinth House", "Crystal Ship" "Soul Kitchen", etc.

[@michaeld1889]

As well...I believe "the blue bus" was also a reference to the buses that young men rode when going into the military and possibly die in Vietnam. "The blue bus is calling us / driver where you taking us?" Also a reference to the river styx and the boat's driver guiding you to the other side. Just another lyrical level.

[@jeremywanner4526]

The blue bus takes you to the state penitentiary as well

[@sibro4747]

The first time I heard this song, it was somewhere around midnight. I hated it, but I kept playing it, again and again. I remember how fucking terrified I was. I felt extremely cold eventhough I was covered with blanckets. It amazes me that such a brutal lyric was allowed at the time. This is as dark as metal, but much more haunting.

[@CacophonyOfDestruction]

All I know this was one of the greatest songs of all time that ended up fitting one of the greatest movies ever made Apocalypse Now made many years later. Two amazing pieces of art made years apart from each other that somehow fit like together puzzle pieces.

[@alpacaslordnoam8215]

Amazing analysis dude. I love your videos, always spot on and educating. I had an indescribable moment during a mushrooms trip yesterday when this song came on. The Doors will always be my favourite band. I’ve heard the story of the birth of this song many times before, still incredibly fun to hear it again every time. Keep up the good work, man. Your videos are great ❤️

[@plryunb]

Thank you. I’m so glad you’ve decided to continue your work. Your interpretations of the subjects are always illuminating and your use of this relatively new format, I think, will be a reference for its growth and development. I’m super glad to have had the opportunity to actually hear this in its intended form; I don’t know how the copyright stuff got figured out but, good job on that too!!

[@ke6319]

I remember reading somewhere that the end also represents the loss of innocence of childhood and the birth of manhood. It kinda makes sense if you take the last couple of lines "it hurts to set you free, but you'll never follow me, the end of laughter and soft lies" at some point, we all have to leave the childhood behind, where we had the freedom of laughter, and we're sheltered from reality with little lies

[@sofaking1472]

This is perfect timing since I just got my VMP copy of their debut album today!

[@PerezBroz-p5o]

Thank you for doing your part to keep the memory of the most mystical figure in our lifetime alive.

[@peggywillenberg]

I was in college. Viet Nam was looming over everything. I will never forget this music.

[@creepingmetal7635]

This is an actual masterpiece of a video. Thank you so much for making this, truly amazing. Jim was a lyrical genius

[@Verilee1970]

Good video, great song. It always makes me want to watch Apocalypse Now.

[@BazookaToe]

I appreciate this right before the 50th anniversary of Jim’s breaking on through.

[@galileanmoonz]

I absolutely adore your song essays, while the song plays in the background. Please more!

[@giovanni21mas]

This and the Echoes video are masterpieces

[@janparadowski4894]

The End may well be the greatest piece of rock music. Hard to top on so many levels.

[@sethgould6497]

I'd never heard this song before and was shocked how much it reminded me of Swans.

[@oldmanwillyboy2786]

This was one of the tunes we played when my buddies and I dropped our first micro-dot back in 1980 at a party in the dunes near our hometown in south east Scotland..............Every time I hear it, it takes me right back to that night.............

[@traildoggy]

Listening to The Soft Parade on Mushrooms will set you right on the path

[@fossilmatic]

I’ve read Densmore’s autobiography a couple of times and approach it with some caution when it “explains” Morrison. As much as I think his drumming is magnificent and a large part of the dramatic impact of the music, his perspective gives him a lens onto the music and the band driven by his own issues as much as it has the accuracy of being there.

[@basielu]

the editing and explanations in this are amazing ❤

[@bela-sofia34]

This is the most intensely deep and complexly profound song in so many ways.

[@llll9945]

The TV was a b&w portable. It is owned by Bruce Botnick. He was watching the world series. The TV was not working in control room. He put it in rehearsal room. When Jim noticed it. He threw the TV at the window. It bounced off the glass. No break through. The TV still works and Bruce still has it.

[@Neilious]

This video Is so well put together. I love how the video flows with this immaculate song and explaining the story as the music goes. The way that the lyrics are shown with the stories and also lets you listen to the whole song is such a genius way to tell a story. I don't even listen to the doors but this video makes me want to. One of my favourite videos on the platform for sure.

[@brantleylansing7696]

You really should man... literally every album of theirs is a trip and every single one is on it's own beat, it's crazy how selective the concept is for each one of the albums

[@thetideishighandsoami3928]

This song always gave me a certain comfort. I remember when I was young, I felt like every time something unfortunate would happen, I would feel like my world was ending, yet, it just kept on going, I wanted my world to end but it just kept on going, I wanted to never wake up again. When I would listen to this song, I felt the satisfaction that one day, pain would end. Everything would end, one day, nothing would be left.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

20 seconds in... one of your best videos yet! Great editing, great voiceover, great thematic breakdown!!!

[@mikegresko14H]

Happy to see this channel approaching 1mil

[@JennaLeigh]

I'm the child of a 60s hippie and like her, adore Morrison. His lyricism and innate ability to convey feelings uniquely has always captivated me. Robby Krieger and his flamenco style meshed so brilliantly with John Densmore's blues based drumming.... And Ray Manzarek... My God what a gifted, genius musician. Jim was the face and the "image"... But Ray- Ray was the heart and soul of the Doors. It really warms my heart to see The Doors getting love here. They seem to be swept aside in remembering the 60s rock movement and I hate it. I wish my mom was still here to watch this with me. Thank you for this breakdown.

[@bmcgrath45]

Absolutely love your content mate Always loved this this record and trying to dissect it. RIP Legend

[@benb3316]

Beautiful! I love Jim Morrison - considered an oddity during his day despite one of the most powerful songs of that incredible era - he had a cult revival (and cash grab) by 90s people - Know a lady from the other side of the world - she said relating to a personal tragedy I shall not speak of that some people are special - they come here for a little while, leave their mark then depart. Jim Morrison certainly was one - he left music and poetry - his "Lizard King" thing seems to be some kind of spiritual message to people in the surge of the 60s. They think it'll be a different world, that they'll change it, but the powers will just adjust tactics and they'll dust themselves off and go back to college, get jobs, try to struggle for some of their parent's prosperity and keep their heads down as our economy is sabotaged to prevent "the people" from EVER having that much power again. It was a spiritual message... "Have you forgotten the lesson of the Ancient War?" The world wars? The Trojan War? The Titanomachy? Or every war perhaps? --Be neat if/when you go to the "Lizard King" act and his attempt at a concept album...

[@Mr_Mirv]

Your videos are always great. This video is one of my favorites, since The Doors are one of my favorite bands.

[@goffrd137]

The blue bus was literally a bus that ran in LA that took people to the beach

[@fredkrissman6527]

Was it Sta Monica transit? I was too stoned at the time to remember now... "The Blue Bus is calling us... Driver where you taking us?"!!!

[@INADRM]

Hmmm, the beach you say... like the edge of eternity? the beach of reality?

[@goffrd137]

@@INADRM literally beach

[@goffrd137]

@DrumWild no. It was a literal reference to the Santa Monica bus. As often happens the "Deeper Meaning" was retconned after the fact by people who didn't know the Blue Bus was a literal object in Jim Morrison's life

[@equinox_flower_]

Literally just made the same comment about the blue bus in Santa Monica before reading this. Lol people really read to deeply into some things. But it's interesting and Jim is a genius nonetheless.

[@SebsBeenHere]

First time I really absorbed this song was at a buddy’s house, we took 3 grams of mushrooms each. We had a fire burning throughout the entire length of the trip. Listened to this album from start to finish. One of the most profound experiences I’ve ever experienced. The fire went out once this song ended. We changed the album to Lonnie Liston Smith - Reflections of a Golden Dream. As soon as I hit play, the fire started up again on its own. It was fucking crazy

[@donjantzen]

Another great take…. It’s so hard to truly know what, or where some of his thoughts came from…. But I feel fortunate to have heard him.

[@ryanlovvorn8024]

That was a bad ass video bro. Very deep. The Doors will always be the top of the mountain for me. They will take up on a trip into he unknown. It's music for the uninvited. Very well done.

[@jucurtis23]

That song is a self fulfilling prophecy. Jim knew this song would change the course of his life and he'd be a huge star. He also knew what was coming....his inevitable death. He saw it in that trip....and instead of running away from it, he embraced it. That's the End.

[@rbaldwin3208]

It's hard to fathom but he died only 10 years after he graduated from George Washington High in Alexandria. Virginia in 1961. I used to drive past his old school a lot and I'd pick up an eerie vibe about it. That was way before I found out that it was Jim's alma mater. 😮

[@Verdun16]

It’s my favorite song in my 2nd favorite movie, from my favorite band in my favorite album.

[@kylben]

Great analysis. This has been one of my favorite songs since forever, but I never really thought about the meaning of it. You were talking over the last verse. "The end of laughter and soft lies, the end of nights we tried to die." The French term for orgasm is "little death." Sex and death, again.

[@desertrose1226]

Yes.. la petit mort I think it’s spelled. Surely if dying is like having an O, people shouldn’t be so scared to die… 😂

[@josannahowell2461]

Jim Morrison and his band never encourage me to destroy myself the band such a great Harmony together I was 11 years old and my sister and I played instruments we enjoyed music and poetry. Without the crazy drugs and drinking without that I grew up a very decent person. So I saw Jim Morrison and his band has great artists. In 1969 Vietnam what's going on in the 1960s. Change changed.

[@michaelthomson2504]

Jim Morrison was such an intelligent and fascinating human being

[@fongsbasement]

Man, this was your best analysis of a song yet. nice job!

[@jesuscampos8136]

This is an extremely cool song. The way they used it on apocalypse now was perfect.👍💥🎸

[@deerseaheraklorne6140]

Really cool video, a song that truly deserved a deep dive. It’s on another level

[@bobaoriley1912]

Wow, there's some Apocalypse coming on us Now

[@alexsunsin]

One of the greatest band of all time. Their sound is timeless.

[@charkiihssane8446]

YEEEEEEEEES 🤷‍♀️ This is a masterpiece of human creation ❤

[@atomrockerrrr]

Well done mate. Great analysis and I liked the visual accompaniment and the song actually playing throughout, with lyrics displayed and analysed. Thank you.

[@tycho_m]

it's depressing that a thoughtful treatise on life, death and Jim Morrison has to be bookended by an ad for a soulless billion dollar revenue multinational corporation that got started as a predatory overseas IP cloning corporation and that prides itself on shark-like coercion. This aggressive hyper-intrusive marketing doesn't just leech off and drain original content, it forces itself into our lives so ubiquitously that we grow up thinking it's normal to live among ads. There's no blame on content creators for wanting to make a buck, but it's a societal flaw that this requires malignant cancerous advertising by amoral corporate grey goo.

[@Alex-jq5ft]

We feel the same way about capitalism and advertising haha. I get that it's a necessity in today's day and age, but I hate being advertised to - there's seriously nothing I need, no matter what any ad tells me. I'm not knocking Polyphonic - he has to do these ads if he wants to continue to bring us content of this quality

[@jamesmathai1138]

I don’t mind it, because I know every time I watch an ad for such a corporation they’ve wasted their money on me.

[@yu1142]

you're watching & commenting on a vid on KZbin. you are the advertisement.

[@Red_Lanterns_Rage]

use adblock.......it solves the problem

[@EnervatedSociety]

My favorite part is how you typed that on a device made by multinational corporations that no doubt uses slave labor somewhere down the chain of production. It screams sincerity in your position. lmao.

[@hoschi367]

Wow. This is great. I always love to hear people's interpretation of such kind of songs. "The End" is still such a mystical piece of art. There's somehow an unique special vibe to it. Dark, apocalyptic, meditative, reflective would probably some words to describe it.

[@certifiedschizophrenic8598]

I wish we would get masterpiece albums like we did in 67-73, truly a magical time for music no matter the genre. Might just be because of the years that remove us from that time period, not sure either way it is so incredible to listen to no matter how old it becomes.

[@henryhill92]

We still do, they just haven't had the decades to be canonised yet.

[@certifiedschizophrenic8598]

@@henryhill92 that’s what I’m saying

[@gethbach1988]

Music died in 1998 thanks to Cher!

[@certifiedschizophrenic8598]

@@gethbach1988 that’s not true, don’t think like that. Be open minded about it

[@getofly313]

The good LSD helped spawn unmatched creativity

[@Buckshot-00]

@Polyphonic: Your analysis is very insightful and no doubt well researched. However, I've always had a simpler interpretation, namely Morrison's impending suicide. Imagine those lyrics playing in his head during his actual end in that Paris bathtub... it all fits.

[@fearsomename4517]

Jim Morrison had an IQ of 149 a true genius. The End is truly a masterpiece, it is about life and death. No one here gets out alive.

[@mrledhead68]

5 to 1, baby 1 in 5...

[@robzdrone9599]

Awesome video and writing! Really loving this new format! Mad respect for you, man! (just have a longer pause before the sponsor at the end)