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The Doors – The End (11:39)

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“The End” is a song by The Doors. Originally a song Jim Morrison wrote about breaking up with a long time girlfriend, it evolved through months of performances at Los Angeles’ Whisky a Go Go into a nearly 12-minute opus on their self-titled album. The band would perform the song to close their last set. It was first released in January 1967.

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Robby Krieger’s slinky, haunting guitar lines over D drone in DADGAD tuning using a harmonic minor scale recall Indian drone and raga-based music, as has often been noted, and the rolling and dramatic crescendoes of John Densmore’s drums recall Indian tabla rhythms. The music as a whole, though, does not sound entirely or even particularly “Indian”. The sharp, ringing edge of the guitar recalls the 50s rock and roll style, while the fingerpicking attack may derive equally from the flamenco guitar style Krieger had studied as a youth and from folk music. Ray Manzarek’s organ is used sparingly to provide an inconspicuous bass line (I-V-I-V-I-V…) and fills. One may find a strong similarity to Chopin’s “Funeral March” theme and also to Sandy Bull’s guitar instrumental “Blend” - but this may be more to do with the quality of the melodic minor scale than with any specific influence.
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  • giggleloop1

    Apocalypse Now!!!!! An excellent song made even better by Morrisons voice!! Don't think it woulda worked for anyone else!! But thats just my opinion:O)

    Friday evening

  • PattySauce

    Perfect to the end....

    10 days ago

  • nashgory

    So limitless and free! ..........The End.

    17 days ago

  • TOMHINKLE57

    I NEVER HEARD THIS UNTIL I SAW APOCALYPSE NOW. AM RADIO COULD NOT HANDLE THIS KIND OF MUSIC WHEN I WAS A KID.

    19 days ago

  • Vanessatraviesa

    ...and all the children are insane

    23 days ago

  • roadkillbarbaqu

    I've listened to this song for the first time when I was 12.. And I've never heard anything like it ever since.. It's just pure poetry from a tortured soul.. He makes death so poetic.. Beautiful.. I have no words for ir.

    27 days ago

  • oldiesfanjohn

    d(*__*)b...Song is like musical acid..Each time I hear it,I just want to float away on a cloud,forever!!!

    last month

  • WiseJake237

    The ultimate closing track. No one has ever come close to it, and no one ever will.

    last month

  • LuanAlvesCobain

    My only friend... the end. <3

    last month

  • Roy1968Wood

    The perfect song for December 21, 2012! Imagine being at the Whiskey A Go-Go in 1966 when The Doors performed this song for the first time to an audience of a little over a dozen?! Even Manzarek, Kreiger and Densmore were blown away!!!!

    last month

  • PattySauce

    AMAZING, gives me chills every time!!!! <33

    last month

  • zero000000000

    life, death, legend

    last month

  • ryanmichael224

    Peace Man!

    last month

  • ken23z

    fits since it's 2012

    last month

  • jah104

    simply amazing

    last month

  • nola872

    <3 beautiful

    last month

  • Grimmoire

    Best song ever to grace this plane of existence.

    March 2012

  • AcidVenom22

    so primitive and captivating!!!

    March 2012

  • antisocialistic

    My only friend... the end...

    March 2012

  • shroomer1999

    awesome

    March 2012
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