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Originally Posted by batreleaser
i dont feel even like offering a rebuttle, i like most of the shit you mentioned, i think the doors are garbage but yeah whatever u can think what you want ill think what i want. allright, good.
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Frankly, I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like The Doors. Their first two albums are easily the classiest records of 1967, containing the best lyrics, musicianship on par with The Hendrix Experience and Cream, and production values a shade above everyone else that year, including The Beatles.
Actually, backdated production values--e.g., number of tracks used in mixing--is one of the major reasons why so many great and classic bands from that era have not endured like The Doors and a few others have. The Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead and the majority of the other San Fransiscan bands sound terribly dated owing mainly to their recording on just 3 or 4 tracks; while John Cale himself has called
White Light/White Heat "a technical failure".
Something else: from my experiences, meeting someone who enjoys The Velvets and The Stooges but not The Doors is something of a rarity. Personally, I've always seen The Doors and The Velvets as two sides of the same coin--Morrison is analogous to Reed, Manzarek is analogous to Cale, same beatnik and avant influences, and everyone (plus Iggy!) was nailing Nico! It's interesting to note that The Doors and The Buffalo Springfield were the only West Coast bands that The Velvets got along with/approved of.