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| From | Bill <billm45s@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: UK Hall of Fame |
| Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2004 21:18:33 +0000 |
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Jake in response to a prior email quoted and noted:
> > What the F*&%?!? No Byrds? No Doors? No Who?
The Byrds have replaced the Kinks as the most influential group that had periods of amazing consitency that do not get enough due. To me, the 60'e would be Beatles, Kinks, Dylan and then the Byrds. The Who (and the Hollies - where are they???) were great in the 60's but must pay for all the endless reunion crap and the bombast they spawned. The Doors on the other hand, IMHO, are the most over-rated band of all time. Sure they have some decent material and if you listen John Densmore was quite a good drummer, but overall quite over-rated.
> > Now I will concede that Aretha Franklin has a great voice (although I
> > absolutely DETEST that gospel-style singing - over emotive, melodramatic
> > clap-trap) but was she really all that popular or influential?
Yes!!!!!
> > Velvet Underground WERE influential, but were they actually any good? I
> > always thought it a lot of it was style-over-content with them.
Inconsistent but at time extremely good and almost always influential.
> > 5 acts get automatically shoed in: The Beatles, U2, Elvis Presley,
> > Bob Marley and Madonna
Dear god, how can anyone equate U2 or Madonna with the other three artists?????????
> > What is this continuing fascination people have with the Doors? Thank you for this. Jim Morrison was a drunk who wrote bad poetry:
> Light my fire/ desire/ pyre --- come ON! god. how many times in that
> song does he rhyme "fire" with "fire"? wow.
You already know my opinion of the Doors and I readily agree that Morrison was a drunk who wrote bad poetry and ranks with the absolute worst performers I have ever seen (ah my teen years at the old Singer Bowl watching him make a drunken fool of himself on the same bill with the Who), but Robby Krieger wrote "Light My Fire", which other than Morrison's vocal is relatively harmless. Morrison's bad poetry is much more pompous and overly dramatic.
Who else was nominated for the other decades?
And if you are talking the 60's how can you leave out Smokey Robinson? (Marvin Gaye? Otis? etc.)
Bill
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