I'm so unfamiliar w/the Doors' music beyond the obvious songs that I heard "Peace Frog" on FMU recently and it took me a minute to register who it was. Sounded perfectly OK to me, and vaguely contemporary till I caught Morrison's voice. The Doors-haters cult is a strange thing.
@dmandl it's a classic overrated/underrated backlash thing playing out over time I think. Plus a lot of Music Guys struggle coming to grips with a band whose appeal lies partly if not largely in the hotness and charisma of the male lead singer - Morrison above all from that generation for vibe reasons. I'm not much of a Morrison As An Artist fan, but i get that he really works for a lot of people, and they certainly have their share of perfectly good songs.
@mrcompletely@dmandl absolutely. I am a Doors hater (as much as I'm a hater of anything, which isn't all that hatery TBH) and it's precisely because they're so overrated, especially Morrison. Whenever people call him a "poet" I just cringe because, yeah, he's a poet alright, in the same way every 15-year-old who ever wrote their angst down in rhyming couplets is a poet, and about as profound.
They're a C-tier pop group with like 5 good songs and a great atmosphere/vibe.
@mrcompletely@dmandl I don't mind if you (the generic you, not you specifically 😅) enjoy them but if you try to tell me they're one of the GOATs, we're going to have a spirited discussion and I'm gonna say some things that you won't want to hear about your favorite band...
Overrating and over exposure still get to me to some degree, even as I've mellowed into my "all music is good music, it all depends on who's listening" stance.
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