Most overrated bands ever?

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Originally Posted by scottsy

I have never been into the Doors so I agree with the notion that they're overrated. I always thought Jim Morrison was just a bit of a ****, personally, and the lyrics are hippie mumbo jumbo trumped up as meaningful insight. Ditto for his terrible poetry.

Persona dressed up as substance...

But I guess I wasn't there and don't really understand the whole sensation of the time... I kinda am looking back on it all with a detached criticism.

Jeez, does anyone actually care about the actual music anymore?

This trend of putting down bands strictly for their lyrics needs to stop. I hardly even pay attention to their lyrics.

There's nothing about Morrisons lyrics I find particularly upsetting, it's just very cryptic and ambigious, and for very obvious reasons that's not a big deal to me. I don't care if it was something he truly felt deeply about or if it was just something he shat out during a crazed drug trip. It sounds cool, that's all that matters to me. It's hardly any different from the surrealism in Bob Dylan's early rock stuff, or Captain Beefheart or Syd Barrett for that matter.