Though they're long gone
I would like to nominate The Doors as a band never to be heard again.

Honestly I've never understood their appeal. Morrison had a great voice and was charismatic, but their music was dreadful. I mean, try to read the following aloud as a poem:

You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah

Did you sound like a retard? Come on, be honest...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 30 Dec 2010, 12:43, 18 replies)

You're trying to prove the music is shit by asking people to read the lyrics without the music?
Yes, somebody sounds like a retard.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 12:48, closed)

*high fives*

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 12:49, closed)

Have you heard the song in question?
Halfway through it I get the urge to ask someone to hit them as it seems they're stuck. The same repetitive screechy keyboard, the same monotonous bass line, followed by uninspired guitar work that eventually leads to a repetition of the two verses.

Or for that matter, take "Touch Me". Is there anything redeeming about that song, aside from a passable sax solo at the end? And "LA Woman" makes me grit my teeth. Mr. Mojo rising, indeed. Gah.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 30 Dec 2010, 13:20, closed)

i have heard all the songs you mention, yes.
sadly though, it seems that your opinion is different to mine. i hope this doesn't spoil your enjoyment of the internet too much.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 13:29, closed)

My opinion may be biased
due to having had to hear The Doors played ad nauseum by every Classic Rock station everywhere for the past thirty years. They didn't appeal to me as a kid, and they haven't improved with age. It seems that now every time I go to a shop to get my car fixed they have a radio somewhere in the garage blaring out The Doors or Lynyrd Skynyrd.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 30 Dec 2010, 13:33, closed)

Are you suggesting that Lynyrd Skynyrd are in some way not awesome?
Fie on you.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:18, closed)

ONE SONG IS ENOUGH.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:18, closed)

Let's just say
that every time "Freebird" is played on the radio I either have to change the station or leave the vicinity lest violence occur.

The Allman Brothers were similarly dire. And I won't start talking of The Band lest I get really agitated.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:30, closed)

oh, man. we're really going to fall out in a minute.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:39, closed)

I get the impression that you don't like 1970s rock music
You probably ought to stop listening to it.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 14:48, closed)

Not all 70s music
but the whole Southern Rock genre really irritated the fuck out of me. I mean, I can listen to Peter fucking Frampton* and Fleetwood Mac and the Stones and so on, but the drunken stoned-out-of-their-gourds hicks-with-guitars thing annoyed me almost as much as the I-take-drugs-and-make-music-so-I'm-deep thing. Back to my original post, Morrisson took himself far too seriously and crawled up his own anus just before he offed himself. I for one will never miss him.

There are other seminal 70s bands and performers that I think are far better than most of what I find on the radio these days, but a good many of them are extremely overrated. I'd take Green Day over the Marshall Tucker Band any day, and prefer Nirvana over Grateful Dead.

(*"High Fidelity" reference)
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 30 Dec 2010, 17:37, closed)

that's lyrics, not music.
and, to be fair, you could make your point about any song just read aloud. SO SHUT UP.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 12:49, closed)

Your own advice.
www.b3ta.com/questions/worstband/post1023407
(tacpprm has a mmrpcat, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 16:41, closed)

Dead people sell more records
FACT.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 12:59, closed)

Odd choice of song too
The lyrics for that one weren't even written by Morrison.
The Doors are a guilty pleasure for me - I love them while also being aware that they're ludicrous.
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 13:23, closed)

I like The Doors

Some of their songs are a bit lame, but there's genius in there - The Unknown Soldier, The End and When The Music's Over are all both amazing and great.

Do the same lyric thing with any Beatles song, they don't really sound very intelligent either but for some reason people go mental over them.

Personally, I can't fucking stand the Beatles - two dimensional trite, but there you go.
( scoshi pretending to diet since, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:24, closed)

TISM put it quite succinctly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRa0B5OYVM
(nuffnuff, Sat 1 Jan 2011, 0:42, closed)

In small doses they are ok...
But more than two or three tracks and I'm ready to eat my own liver... Just gets so dull.. and this is coming from a massive classic rock fan!
(bottle_cap, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 8:11, closed)