Top Inspirational Artists - Number 4

/4. The Doors - The End

With dreamy lyrcis and a soulful voice, the unusal and brilliant instrumental vision of the Doors only helped to enhance their emotional appeal and musical power. 'The End' is the most inspirational record from the band both because of its length and its ambigouity. Here is a rock song that told a story, that changed its tone throughout and that had an air of unpredictibility and spontanoity that has gone on to influence many a daring band in the years that followed its release. Going somewhat against the conventions o fa traditional rock song, 'The End' is a song that takes many directions and is not afraid to shock, soothe and challenge the listener. Its lyrics conjure up images that are both surreal and ambitious and widen the horizons of reality.
Its uncertain, melodic tune challenged in turn by a pounding of the drums and frantic changes of pace is no less original than the strange and melancholy lyrics and its inspiration is unbound in bands who have tried with variations of success to create something more than just a rock song. Its profound inspiration can be found in the storytelling genius of Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven', Radioheads's darkly unsual single 'Just' and Guns N Roses 'November Rain' just to name but a few.
Like the Doors, these are bands with songs that subvert the usal rock steroetpye with deeply existensial and daringly poetic tunes that arent afraid to be challenging and restricted to a certain time.
The Doors deserve to be recognised as an inspirational band because they are an important part of rock's history, a band who helped the movement of a genre with daring, unusual and thought provoking music that defeated the limitations of an exciting style of music that they helped to show could be expressed in a variety of exciting and meaningful ways.