That was one impressive interpretation of a very deep song. For a young guy like you to get the gist of a Vietnam-era tune is admirable. Kudos to you for recognizing the Oedipus Rex reference. Cheers Brother
The singer Jim Morrison said: "Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. I really don't know what I was trying to say. It just started out as a simple goodbye song ... probably just to a girl, but I could see how it could be 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."
The doors were their own genre for sure,many great songs in such short span together '66-70?? LA woman album is a listen from beginning to end,been down so long,crawlin king snake,love her madly
The main thing about this song is not that it was great, though it was, it was that it was so different then anything that had been heard before, anywhere. Stream of consciousness as a vehicle for things that can never be fully described but understood anyway as a different vision of art and expression. Original and cool.
This entire album was recorded on 4 tracks in two weeks. Music and vocals recorded live in one or two takes. The album could be considered a live performance. Same is true with their second album Strange Days......the "Father?" "Yes Son?" sequence refers to the Oedipus complex. "Blue Rock" was a psychedelic drug popular in LA......
Many years ago in college, my classmates and I would get together to do our math homework. We found it helpful to have music playing softly. I chose The Doors one night. In the middle of "The End," someone asked "WTF are we listening to?"
Hey man, if i may recommend something, theres a live recorded show called ''The Doors Are Open'' here on youtube, its from their Europe tour in 1968 at the London Roundhouse, there you can see Morrison in his fucking prime man, wearing full leather clothes and wildin on stage, if you would like to react to a song i highly recommend ''When the music's over'' from that show or studio version, i personally like more the live version because he screams more and adds some more lyrics and also seeing him perform is the best man, keep it up and be safe!!!!
It's a reference to the Oedipus complex. This is as follows....The Oedipus complex is a psychoanalytic theory that describes a child's sexual feelings for their opposite-sex parent and hostile feelings toward their same-sex paren
🌸 and ...... considering the chain of events that occurred before his death and his death itself, this hits really hard and it and it's very eerie and haunting. 💔
Shon - "The End" was used in the movie "Apocalypse Now" if you have not seen it watch it the music is perfect for the movie and it it's an amazing movie!!!!!!!!!! No movie like it!!!
John Densmore may not have been one the world's top drummers, but damn he was perfect for The Doors. I always felt that the snake he is referring to is the highway leading west. Jim could be quite dark. Yep, the myth is the Oedipus complex. I highly recommend "When The Music's Over", you won't be disappointed. It's my personal fave
Watching you listening to a song takes me back to my first time listening to it. I thoroughly enjoy your reactions because you get in it and feel it like no other reactor ❤
Airforce busses were blue in this era, and met the new guys coming into country taking them to their units. I was in 1984-2004, so was not my war but i knew a lot of guys that were there.
We seen the Doors perform in 1968. Morrison was into archeology primarily the Mayan and Aztec culture. The snake could be a reference to the Aztec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl. The Doors had been performing this song at the Whiskey A Go Go. They were the house band there. The part with Manson's parents was a Improv. Even the band didn't know where he was going to go with the song. The manager of the Whiskey A Go Go was pissed. And most of the audience was reported to be shocked also. I don't remember which band member,but one of them in a interview said the manager came up there yelling no band going to be in here singing about f ing their mother. And fired them. When we see them it was at the Arizona State Fair. You go too the fair always get a free concert at the Coliseum. I think the ticket was $3.5 about 2 hours pay.lol After the concert they rode the Tramway from the Veterans Memorial Coliseum over the top of the fairgrounds to the other side. The whole way they were yelling extremely lewd obscenities at the crowd below. And lugging on them. The State of Arizona ask them to leave and not come back.lol That was on all the news and newspapers. 🤠🐂
Oh, Yeah! Jim Morrison, the Poet, and Ray Manzarek , who brought the sound to go with it. Spot on analysis again, I'm so happy that young people are not only listening to these classics but understand the meaning behind the music. Morrison would trip adid and write the most interesting poems, they'd all go to Joshua Tree and just trip out. What came from that is what you hear in the music a lot.
This is one of their "Desert Songs". Robby Krieger was a flamenco acoustic guitarist before he joined the band, so he brought a big Sonoran desert, Latin inspired element to the music. John Densmore took pride in his "jazz style" drumming. The drummer was in a jazz band, the guitarist was in a Spanish guitar band, and the keyboardist was in the military band playing lots of big band and jazz piano. Jim was a master of the word, the bottle, the cannabis, and LSD. His final 2 years had his doctors telling him to quit smoking cigarettes and drinking, it was killing him. Just before he left for Paris, his doctor told him he didn't know how Jim was still standing.
There is a Gison SG guitar, (Robby) An electric piano and a moog keyboard bass (Ray) and a drum Kit (John) on this song. That is it. Oh, and Jim on the mic. This is the song they performed at the Whiskey in LA that got them their recording contract, and got them fired from the whiskey for the whole incest thing (Oedipus-----kill the father, F**k the mother)
Please, "Light My Fire","People are Strange","L.A. Woman","Love Her Madly" Peace 😊✌️ your 70 year old forever Young Hippie Gary 🕺💃 now "The End" Is'nt it Wonderful, Great Reaction Shon! 👍 14 year's old my first party they played the Doors, and it Lit my Fire l'm a fan forever.
I googled it because I, too, wanted to know what he meant by the blue bus calling us and here’s what Google says: “In The Doors' song "The End," the "blue bus" is widely interpreted as a symbol of a journey into the unknown or a metaphorical vehicle for death, likely referencing the band's frequent use of the Big Blue Bus public transit system in Santa Monica, which they would ride to gigs, making the bus a recurring image associated with their travels and potentially the end of a journey; some fans also see it as a mystical or spiritual transport, similar to the Egyptian solar boat, taking one to a beyond-worldly realm.”
The music swells to a crescendo when Morrison repeatedly says the F-word (it was altered for play on radio). To me, this represents an orgasm. I've never seen a quote from the band confirming this.
Jim the poet, philosopher was way a head of his time that is one reason he was always clashing with law enforcement. They were never ready for Jim's antics much less his concerts he would do some wild stuff on stage that if I wrote it here YT would have a melt down.lol💪✌️👍
😂 that was one album that the adults would not allow me to play on my record player back in the day ... They were offended by the F phraseology part of the song. After one listen at high volume it got confiscated. I referenced the war protests and free speech but to no avail ..i never saw the record again .. on the radio back then they bleeped out the F section .... Pure genius RIP Jim Morrison
'Long John Baldry + Kathi McDonald - You've Lost That Loving Feeling' look for the 5:27 min UA-cam. Met him in the mid 80's and tipped some beers with him before his awesome set at the David Thompson Motor Inn in Kamloops one Halloween night. Great night, awesome dude, he really liked it here in B.C. and had moved to Vancouver just the year before I think. Good times.
Ok, so I also Googled about the parents and I read several answers but the general consensus was this: "The End" is death, although the song also deals with Jim Morrison's parents - it contains Oedipal themes of loving the mother and killing the father. Morrison was always vague as to the meaning, explaining: "It could be almost anything you want it to be."
They only have 4 track recording equipment hence the sound in different ears. The Beatles you find the same thing. And they were out of their minds on LSD
lost in a roman wilderness of pain, is a reference to Christianity, and the seven mile snake river, is about the 7 chakras, energy serpent, killing father is about god and how people don't know the true teachings, and raping mother is a reference to mother earth, yes its very esoteric!
One last comment before I move along, I really didn’t like the song, especially once it hit the part about the parents because I find that too sick, lol, but I stuck it out because I wanted to see what I could learn, to see what others wrote and also to see how you reacted to the rest of the song.
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That was one impressive interpretation of a very deep song.
For a young guy like you to get the gist of a Vietnam-era tune is admirable.
Kudos to you for recognizing the Oedipus Rex reference.
Cheers Brother
Apocalypse Now ... Comes to mind... And that phrase " i love the smell of napam in the morning" 😂😂😅😅
Man I love this channel. Always positive vibes.
The singer Jim Morrison said: "Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. I really don't know what I was trying to say. It just started out as a simple goodbye song ... probably just to a girl, but I could see how it could be 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."
🌸 this is one of those songs that you lay back on the floor and close your eyes and put your headphones on, you know?
Smoked a joint with my buddies when i was 17, by Jim Morrisson grave in Paris , " Pere Lachaise cemetery".
The doors were their own genre for sure,many great songs in such short span together '66-70?? LA woman album is a listen from beginning to end,been down so long,crawlin king snake,love her madly
The main thing about this song is not that it was great, though it was, it was that it was so different then anything
that had been heard before, anywhere. Stream of consciousness as a vehicle for things that can never be fully
described but understood anyway as a different vision of art and expression. Original and cool.
This entire album was recorded on 4 tracks in two weeks. Music and vocals recorded live in one or two takes. The album could be considered a live performance. Same is true with their second album Strange Days......the "Father?" "Yes Son?" sequence refers to the Oedipus complex. "Blue Rock" was a psychedelic drug popular in LA......
Many years ago in college, my classmates and I would get together to do our math homework. We found it helpful to have music playing softly. I chose The Doors one night. In the middle of "The End," someone asked "WTF are we listening to?"
You’re right!!!! That’s the mythology he is referencing!!!
Oedipus
🌸 YOU GOT THE VIBE, DUDE! lol the purple sunglasses are appropriate
Jim is crazy!!!! 😂😂😂😂
HELL YEAAAH!!!! NEW SUB MAAAAN, KEEP THE DOORS COMING UP!!!!! PURE FIRE!!!
Hey man, if i may recommend something, theres a live recorded show called ''The Doors Are Open'' here on youtube, its from their Europe tour in 1968 at the London Roundhouse, there you can see Morrison in his fucking prime man, wearing full leather clothes and wildin on stage, if you would like to react to a song i highly recommend ''When the music's over'' from that show or studio version, i personally like more the live version because he screams more and adds some more lyrics and also seeing him perform is the best man, keep it up and be safe!!!!
The Doors are so unique. Love their music.
Morrison was referencing Oedipus from Greek mythology.
In high school I had a World Lit teacher who kept calling it an "eat a puss" complex. She was a cool teacher.
Even live they sound pretty damn good too!
🌸 yay!!! I have been in love with Jim for decades and this is one of my favorite songs of theirs.
It's a reference to the Oedipus complex. This is as follows....The Oedipus complex is a psychoanalytic theory that describes a child's sexual feelings for their opposite-sex parent and hostile feelings toward their same-sex paren
That’s how stereo was…in one ear, through your head in both ears etc…loved it
Great reaction song choice! You always choose music that other reactors dont...you are a trailblazer 😃
It's called surround sound instruments and vocals can shift around speakers separately and together... So the sound moves around you surround sound
Yep, the middle part is inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Oedipus. The recording style is definitely very natural and has a big live venue sound.
🌸 and ...... considering the chain of events that occurred before his death and his death itself, this hits really hard and it and it's very eerie and haunting. 💔
Past out on his back, threw up, and drowned in his own puke. He was so high he couldn't wake up.
Sad
@lesblatnyak5947 I guess that's what you believe so you do you
🌸 Jim was highly highly intelligent, he was a poet and a philosopher of sorts
You may not want to go so deep into the psyche of the 60's, you may never come back!
😂ain't that the truth 👍💯
Shon - "The End" was used in the movie "Apocalypse Now" if you have not seen it watch it the music is perfect for the movie and it it's an amazing movie!!!!!!!!!! No movie like it!!!
Absolutely brilliant movie
What a ride this is❤a dark, psychedelic delve into the soul of Jim Morrison ❤
And yes it started as a song to a lost love.
Great Reaction as always - the blue bus was the bus that took you to basic training when you were drafted into the army to fight in the Vietnam War
John Densmore may not have been one the world's top drummers, but damn he was perfect for The Doors. I always felt that the snake he is referring to is the highway leading west. Jim could be quite dark. Yep, the myth is the Oedipus complex. I highly recommend "When The Music's Over", you won't be disappointed. It's my personal fave
Watching you listening to a song takes me back to my first time listening to it. I thoroughly enjoy your reactions because you get in it and feel it like no other reactor ❤
Airforce busses were blue in this era, and met the new guys coming into country taking them to their units. I was in 1984-2004, so was not my war but i knew a lot of guys that were there.
That was crazy! Thanks Shon
Those were crazy times. I wouldn’t trade them for the world.
We seen the Doors perform in 1968.
Morrison was into archeology primarily the Mayan and Aztec culture.
The snake could be a reference to the Aztec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl.
The
Doors had been performing this song at the Whiskey A Go Go.
They were the house band there.
The part with Manson's parents was a Improv. Even the band didn't know where he was going to go with the song.
The manager of the Whiskey A Go Go was pissed. And most of the audience was reported to be shocked also.
I don't remember which band member,but one of them in a interview said the manager came up there yelling no band going to be in here singing about f ing their mother.
And fired them.
When we see them it was at the Arizona State Fair.
You go too the fair always get a free concert at the Coliseum. I think the ticket was $3.5 about 2 hours pay.lol
After the concert they rode the Tramway from the Veterans Memorial Coliseum over the top of the fairgrounds to the other side. The whole way they were yelling extremely lewd obscenities at the crowd below. And lugging on them. The State of Arizona ask them to leave and not come back.lol
That was on all the news and newspapers.
🤠🐂
Jim is a trip 🌀
Oh, Yeah! Jim Morrison, the Poet, and Ray Manzarek , who brought the sound to go with it. Spot on analysis again, I'm so happy that young people are not only listening to these classics but understand the meaning behind the music. Morrison would trip adid and write the most interesting poems, they'd all go to Joshua Tree and just trip out. What came from that is what you hear in the music a lot.
This is one of their "Desert Songs". Robby Krieger was a flamenco acoustic guitarist before he joined the band, so he brought a big Sonoran desert, Latin inspired element to the music. John Densmore took pride in his "jazz style" drumming. The drummer was in a jazz band, the guitarist was in a Spanish guitar band, and the keyboardist was in the military band playing lots of big band and jazz piano. Jim was a master of the word, the bottle, the cannabis, and LSD. His final 2 years had his doctors telling him to quit smoking cigarettes and drinking, it was killing him. Just before he left for Paris, his doctor told him he didn't know how Jim was still standing.
There is a Gison SG guitar, (Robby) An electric piano and a moog keyboard bass (Ray) and a drum Kit (John) on this song. That is it. Oh, and Jim on the mic. This is the song they performed at the Whiskey in LA that got them their recording contract, and got them fired from the whiskey for the whole incest thing (Oedipus-----kill the father, F**k the mother)
Please, "Light My Fire","People are Strange","L.A. Woman","Love Her Madly" Peace 😊✌️ your 70 year old forever Young Hippie Gary 🕺💃 now "The End" Is'nt it Wonderful, Great Reaction Shon! 👍 14 year's old my first party they played the Doors, and it Lit my Fire l'm a fan forever.
I googled it because I, too, wanted to know what he meant by the blue bus calling us and here’s what Google says: “In The Doors' song "The End," the "blue bus" is widely interpreted as a symbol of a journey into the unknown or a metaphorical vehicle for death, likely referencing the band's frequent use of the Big Blue Bus public transit system in Santa Monica, which they would ride to gigs, making the bus a recurring image associated with their travels and potentially the end of a journey; some fans also see it as a mystical or spiritual transport, similar to the Egyptian solar boat, taking one to a beyond-worldly realm.”
I think you are hearing Ray Manzarek on the Vox Continental organ, The Doors organ work was famous
The music swells to a crescendo when Morrison repeatedly says the F-word (it was altered for play on radio). To me, this represents an orgasm. I've never seen a quote from the band confirming this.
Jim the poet, philosopher was way a head of his time that is one reason he was always clashing with law enforcement. They were never ready for Jim's antics much less his concerts he would do some wild stuff on stage that if I wrote it here YT would have a melt down.lol💪✌️👍
I dig the music part of it, so much going on musically at one time and in backgound.
😂 that was one album that the adults would not allow me to play on my record player back in the day ... They were offended by the F phraseology part of the song. After one listen at high volume it got confiscated. I referenced the war protests and free speech but to no avail ..i never saw the record again .. on the radio back then they bleeped out the F section .... Pure genius RIP Jim Morrison
Damm, that's a great tune
Used to incredible effect in the climax of the film “Apocalypse Now.”
In my opinion, The End is the best song ever composed.
Dan Vasc - Amazing Grace
NOW: YOU MUST WATCH "Apocalypse Now" vietnam war movie that showcased this song
tHE BLUE BUS reference is refering to Merry Pranksters bus that was blue...they traveled the country turning people onto LSD before it became illegal
This song was use in Apocalypse Now
Give a listen-Long john bauldrey-Dont try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll.Cheers.
'Long John Baldry + Kathi McDonald - You've Lost That Loving Feeling' look for the 5:27 min UA-cam. Met him in the mid 80's and tipped some beers with him before his awesome set at the David Thompson Motor Inn in Kamloops one Halloween night. Great night, awesome dude, he really liked it here in B.C. and had moved to Vancouver just the year before I think. Good times.
The mother/father scene is indeed the oedipus complex and the blue (cold) bus ride is a hearse ride... *the_end (< the night we tried to die)
Ok, so I also Googled about the parents and I read several answers but the general consensus was this: "The End" is death, although the song also deals with Jim Morrison's parents - it contains Oedipal themes of loving the mother and killing the father. Morrison was always vague as to the meaning, explaining: "It could be almost anything you want it to be."
Love Her Madly, Love Me Two Times, Roadhouse Blues, and People Are Strange
Also, I'm the 420th view! 😂
There aren’t a whole lot of songs without a chorus that are top tier. Dylan may have one
They only have 4 track recording equipment hence the sound in different ears. The Beatles you find the same thing. And they were out of their minds on LSD
Apocalypse Now, featured this song in the movie....CHECK IT.
#This.
A short, beautiful song from the same album: "The Crystal Ship" . . .
Sugar cube.
Window pane.
Peace frog also by the doors
Saigon Kick-Love Is On The Way
Space Hog-In The Meantime
Soil-Halo
When the musics over!!!!!!!!🔥
Some Velvet Underground in there. A bit of The Factory influence having a cheeky peak.
Oedipus Rocks
It's really about serial killer
L.S.D. my Man! Vietnam, sex, drugs and Rock n Roll!
Oedipus is the Greek myth you are thinking of.
Check out Crooklyn Dodgers by 90's Rappers Special Ed, Masta Ace and Buckshot. Kickin man!
lost in a roman wilderness of pain, is a reference to Christianity, and the seven mile snake river, is about the 7 chakras, energy serpent, killing father is about god and how people don't know the true teachings, and raping mother is a reference to mother earth, yes its very esoteric!
Please react to Kacey Chambers doing a cover of Eminem's Lose Yourself. She is an Australian singer. Cheers from Down Under.
Just think, LSD....
Vietnam war them song.
I do like a couple of their songs, but stir up some bad memories.
May i ask why?
Oedipus complex….
Oedipus?
One last comment before I move along, I really didn’t like the song, especially once it hit the part about the parents because I find that too sick, lol, but I stuck it out because I wanted to see what I could learn, to see what others wrote and also to see how you reacted to the rest of the song.
Dude : The Rolling Stones
Think of hell when listening to this... Riding the snake... Serpent the lake etc... lake of fire