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Date: 3 Jul 2001 17:26 (UTC)No pun intended.
It's akin to why most people like Shakespeare or Tolkien; not because either of them are any good, but because they are told to like them; they are socialised to like them; they are brainwashed into liking them... by school, by peers, by snobs, by the media...
Morrison's "poetry" for the most part, was crap. I think he was a pseudo-intellectual, if such thigs exist. Those who didn't like him were equated to the level of ignoramus. You know the type I mean? Art snobs?
Lennon's work always had a message; though I'd never suggest that a heavy-duty message was a requirement of being good. Lennon had a brain. Morrison had drugs. There seemed precious little honesty in anything Morrison ever did. (I guess I'm trying to imply that Lennon had far more depth than Morrison did.)
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy The Doors myself. (Though I find it ironic that the song they are most famous for, wasn't one that Morrison wrote. Actually, I find it very funny.)