The End or the End? Brave New World or The Doors

It's the end of the world as we know it... and I feel fine.

I distinctly remember preparing this poll before, but a search did not turn it up. Perhaps I prepared one but opted not to post it as sometimes happens (the joy is more in the writing than the posting with such things for me). Maybe I just didn't look hard enough, but I don't care.

Two bands with lengthy tracks called "The End", and two bands whose band names were inspired by Aldous Huxley works. Brave New World should be obvious, and the album that that "The End" is off is called Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley. The Doors band-name was inspired by Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception -- in case anyone doesn't already know this.

I love Huxley, but this is about the tracks, both of which I have loved. Which do you enjoy more?

Is this the end of my post? Not quite, here are the tracks for those that don't know both.

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Great track, and I might have fallen for it originally because of Apocalypse Now, which is one of my favourite films. When I was a teenager it was certainly my favourite song at one time. A somewhat depressive friend of mine who is now a psychologist wanted it to be his funeral song.

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The Doors.

But thank you Logan for having

introduced me to

Brave New World!

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It's hard to not enjoy the original, which is so different and so out there in nowhere land, and a shocking experience in its emotion, something that most bands have a hard time with, other than being loud and noisy, and not even capable of interpreting the lyrics and their important message, which one could say that THE DOORS had most of the time, and made use of really well, with material that is still ... glorious ... and beautiful to appreciate.

This new group's version is interesting and worth the listen, however, I am not sure that it stands up to the original very well, but that's based on one listen, and ... maybe ... just maybe ... if the original was not as well known to me, this one might stick a bit better. At least they did not try to duplicate the singing or the words ... I think that Patti Smith had this song in her and it was in a couple of bootlegs, but I don't think she ever put it down for what I would say obvious reasons. But the reviews and comparisons in the early days considered her a female Jim Morrison.

The way it was used in the film APOCALYPSE NOW is a bit of a ... weird one for me. I had been already doing reviews at that time, privately in my diaries, and that song there did not feel right for me, but the impact was good for the film. And, of course, the director was not, necessarily, a good one for the use of this kind of music, like some others were at the time, like Nicolas Roeg, and David lean, for example, and for me, I am not sure that it made the film better, but it added a haunting feeling to it, that was sort of crazy, and completely out of control, something that I did not feel that THE DOORS were, even if Jim Morrison became a well known crazy on stage ... but the band played on and often got him back, though towards the end, it usually ended the show ... but I think this was Jim's way of saying ... screw the top ten, I want to do poetry and some other things, and for all intents and purposes, he couldn't, or the audience would get visibly upset, which happened a couple of times.

An important piece of music, for the history of rock music ... but a sad one at the same time. But it really made the point, that we were doomed in those days of psychedelia and experimental this and that, including music ... that in many ways the "parents" would win, and the son would come off as crazy and out of it ... stoned immaculate, which the media used to kill this whole art scene for the next 10 years!

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^^ While there are some musical similarities due to the psychedelic, freak-out qualities in both "Ends", and both share the same name, I don't get the sense that Brave New World's version is a remake of The Doors song at all if that is what you meant, Pedro.

Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley is a loose concept album. The track list for Brave New World's Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley is:

1. Prologue (1:01)
2. Alpha Beta Gamma Delta (7:38)
3. Lenina (4:21)
4. Soma (5:18)
5. Halpais Corn Dance (3:24)
6. The End (17:42)
7. Epilogue (1:28)

In "Epilogue" the last lines of the Brave New World novel are quoted. The track "The End" I assume to refer to the final chapters or chapter of the novel rather than The Doors song. That said, there are distinct flavours of American psychedelia music in the "Krautrock" album, and I expect the members would have known The Doors, and its "The End" very well.

I love both tracks.

I love the whole album, but this is another track I love off it.

Edited by Logan - January 30 2019 at 10:27

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Poll Question: Which "The End" do you prefer?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Brave New World - "The End"	3	[21.43%]
The Doors - "The End"	11	[78.57%]
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