Recent postings on Idolator have upset the Pink Floyd and Madonna fans out there, sparking complaints about the site’s overall negative attitude and tendencies toward “hating everything.” I can’t speak for Maura, Anthony, or any of the other bylines on this site, but I can assure you I don’t hate everything. I really, really do hate the Doors, though.
Oh, is there a popular act of the rock era worse than the Doors? I’d entertain nominations for the Eagles, but as much as I hate those country-rock cocaine Californians, the Doors have committed crimes of assault upon my ears that cannot be forgiven. Listen to this garbage:
AAAARRRGRGHGGH. I can’t think of anything I’d rather excise permanently from the universe’s playlist, yet it comes back again and again, swaggering with a unique combination of pretension and stupidity that should have disappeared long ago.
I’m sorry in advance for doing this, but here’s Exhibit B for the prosecution:
I don’t want to blame Arthur Lee, but his recommendation got these clowns signed to Elektra, and they still sell a million albums a year somehow. I thank the Doors for one thing only: providing the musical base for Jay-Z’s “The Takeover.” But that’s a case of Kanye West turning coal (to be kind) into a diamond. The Doors were a hacky slam-poetry band that somehow found its way into the spotlight during a time period where A&R guys were taking prodigious amounts of drugs, which clearly compromised their faculties.
Pink Floyd? I’d listen to them any day before even looking at a Doors press photo. Madonna? “Holiday” is my jam.
The Doors are the worst band of all time. Period. And, yes, I’ve heard CCR.
The Doors [Official site, which I'm linking for some unknown reason]
The doors kick ass! It’s a shame you’ve lived your entire life without realizing the true power of this music. PS I hate you.
ha your a loser
They totally suck. Their little instrumental breaks are horrid. Too much fuckin’ organ too.
piece of shit
The guy who wrote this blog — Dan Gibson — is the biggest fucking retard on the net whom can't even formulate his own opinion on why he hates The Doors other than the popular alibi which goes on with something about the fact that the music had psychedelic lyrics leaking all over the place. Just, please, Gibson, SHUT THE FUCK UP. Never insert your opinion on music ever again, you blabbering fucktard. Enjoy the profanity, fucker.
Um, Troy – I beg to differ, but The Doors really do suck arse. Droany, boring shite that should be wiped off this earth. I hate The Doors with a passion.
Damn you’re all little kiddies who doesn’t know jack-shit about music, The Doors were a good band their music had sense unlike other shit (Guns N Roses, Metallica, AC/DC, ect…) You are obviously some retard who needs to get his facts straights like other shitheads around listen good music and then you can judge…Asshole!
P.S. You don’t even have a good reason why to hate The Doors you’re a damn hypocrite….
Id be courios to know what you call good music?
Obviously, your doors of perception are closed tighter than an asshole in a prison shower.
Where’s your will to be weird?
Jim Morrison
Can’t say I think that the Doors are one of the worst bands ever, nor the most overrated (waaaaaaaay too many of those, and these guys were better than them). But the problem is that these guys, especially Morrison, were made out to be geniuses and poets when they were PATENTLY NOT. Indulgent, wanky music that went on waaayyy longer than it should’ve, faux-elegance and “poesy” in the lyrics – massively overrated, and very contrived.
They do have a couple of decent tunes (including The End, which I don’t think is all that bad of a song) but they’re not “classic” in “great”. Even their look and attitude was carefully ripped off (eg. from Gerard Malanga and EPI). The one good thing they did was that Morrison somehow managed to inspire Iggy, but that’s about it.
who ever wrote this article is deaf. you have no taste. the doors are the defintion of rock and roll. hang your self you idiot
Way to go, Mr. Gibson. You spent an entire article saying that The Doors suck and gave no concrete proof as to why you believe so. Oh, no. They’re lyrics are all psychedelic and they were on drugs. So what? That has absolutely nothing to do with the music itself. I’d like to see you write or compose something with 1/100th of the musical genius that they did. And next time you decide to bash someone, give actual CONCRETE REASONS as to why you believe they are horrible. The Doors are my absolute favorite band. I even have the logo tattooed on my right shoulder. They are way better than any of the CRAP that gets played nowadays. And I am 19, so I can say that. This is my generation and it sucks. I would much rather listen to The Doors any day. Kindly go do inappropriate things to yourself and leave The Doors out of it.
You, my friend, are amazing.
And by you, I mean the guy up there—–^ with the name Jim.
OMG………..the doors were the best band of the 60s!………..way better thanb lady gaga and all that crap!….you my friend are an asshole…..with all do respect
Thank you!
i tried liking the doors by forcing myself to listen to them again n again
its that bad, i cant last the whole album.
wats beyond SUCKS?
Shut up fag you dont like the doors cos only awesome people do. Not fags. Go listen to Lady Gaga or Jonas Brothers while im listenin to AC/DC and The Doors. fag
As Jim once said, hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
Dan,
I agree, I hate the doors. A lot. But at least they play music… without jim morrison they would have been a sweet instrumental psycadelic band.
anyways, i got a good one. Justin Bieber or The Doors?
I started writing lyrics in 1968 when I was 9 years old……Jim Morrison is the absolute worst lyric writer of anyone who “made it”….It’s CRAP!!!! I wrote better crap when I was 9 and I’m not being egotistical….It just is what it is….He’s The worst lyric writer EVER….On the other hand, the band members (THE DOORS) were pretty great. Losing Morrison should have been the best thing that ever happened to them.
chris
To the author of this article; “hacky” isn’t a word. I think the word you were looking for is “hackneyed.”
The Doors were pretty lame. I imagine a lot of people grew up on them because of their parents, but in all honesty, I found Morrison to be a bit of a trite, boilerplate, hippy. His lyrics were that of a 9th grade flower-child with an overzealous fascination with doing LSD.
I’m sure bitches loved him, though, and he undeniably made an impact on pop-culture and record sales. He had an Oliver Stone movie written about him for crying out loud. 99% of all musicians can’t say that.
Still, in my worthless opinion, their music was rather lame.
um lol @ chris dole. that is all.
I hate the doors too, never even got any proof as to what the hype was all about. I am a guitarist / bassist who listens to classical, jazz, funk, world music to heavy metal, death.
Likes virtuoso musicians as well as normal folks (read kenny rogers, alabama etc..).. but i can’t stand any stuff that doesn’t move you by sheer musical virtuosity or emotions .. and that is what doors is all about. the drugs might be the reason but we dont have to listen to the crap and worse to hear idiots all over the world praising them
You really have no idea what you’re talking about, do you?
i hate the doors. i hate jim morrisons voice. i hate the lyrics that attempt so fruitlessly to be epic, thought provoking and visionary, but fall so very short. they are just one of the most overrated bands of the era, and there is not a lot of classic rock i dislike. but the doors, i just despise.
ahahahahaha u are a poor pathetic looser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doors Rules forEver!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU WILL KNOW WHEN YOUR ABOUT TO BE PUT AWAY, IF YOU BUILD IT, IT WILL FALL ON UR TOE, AND UR TOE WILL SWELL UP W/GANGEREIGN BETTER BE IN A GOOD PLACE WHEN IT HAPPENS…
Of all creative bands in the history of rock music, the Doors may have been the most creative. Their first album contains only masterpieces and remains virtually unmatched. Jim Morrison may well be the single most important rock frontman. He is the one who defined the rock vocalist as an artist, not just a singer. Ray Manzaker’s style at the keyboards was at the vanguard of the fusion of classical, jazz, soul and rock music. The virulence of some of their riffs bridged the blues-rock era and the hard-rock era. Whether it was him, Krieger or Manzarek or all of them, their songs have a unique quality that has never been repeated. They are metaphysical while being psychological and while being physical (eroticand violent). They are the closest thing rock music has produced to William Shakespeare.
No bass player. This is what annoys me the most about
the Doors. Yet, in studio recordings, they hired one. What
kind of band who really cares about their live performances
would refuse to have a Bassist in their band ? It makes no
sense. Robbie and Ray were average musicians, there is
no escaping that. The band’s popularity was embellished
by the physical attractiveness of Jim Morrison, and his
counter-culture bad-boy image, with faux-psychadelic imagery.
Musically speaking there is little to admire. There were literally
thousands of people playing the same styles of music just as
well, and many of them better than the Doors.
Without Morrison, none of them would have been remembered
today. Love him or hate him, Morrison was the draw, and personally,
I hate him. From every report, he was a total pompous ass.
wow, you’re a miserable person. The Doors kick ass.
I love the doors. Call me a stoner, call me an idiot, call me a depresed teenager, because quite frankly I might very be all three (well, no the stoner one).
To some people, Jim Morrison’s poetry is the rhyming of random words while he was high…perhaps it is. But, it is really deep, and it hits me somewhere inside.
I enjoy the sound of the music. It is different. It is good. It makes me mellow. And it is fascinating to listen to.
Unlike so much other music it gains my interest, sucks me in…second by second I’m being pulled into another world and taken away from this life.
That’s what good music should do.
And if you don’t like Jim Morrison, think he’s nothing, read some of his quotes. They are very true, and very beautiful. And I appreciate the art he has given this world…
so yah.
The Doors are one of the top Rock Acts of all time. They are timeless. They were a huge inspiration for Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Siouxsie, Echo and the Bunnymen, Marilyn Manson etc etc.
You claim they’re crap, but if they are crap how come 40 years after they ended, they’re still going strong in sales, influence, and even being discussed in this blog where everybody claim to hate them.
That’s the perfect example,how they were really important and inflential. If they were meaningless nobody would be discussing them now.
The Doors suck.