I like Sex and Candy. I detest The Doors.Anthony Flack wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 5:37 pm I can understand disliking the Doors, sure. I can't understand disliking the Doors more than Sex & Candy by Marcy Playground.
Admittedly (and it may not reflect well on me to say it), I liked Sex and Candy better before I saw the video. When I first heard it on the radio, I thought it sounded like a Southern rock band that accidentally wrote a song that crossed over to “alternative” radio; I was, quite seriously, expecting them to look like The Allman Brothers, and to see interviews with them in which they were like, “Man, I dunno … we just thought we were writin’ a slow jam. And then it turned into all this.” Nope — college rock alterna-dudes who appeared to be taking the piss. But I’d already taken a shine to the song at that point.
On top of being risibly bad, The Doors enjoy a reputation predicated on a facade is unsupported by their music, like if Paul Revere and the Raiders were consistently credited for being a bunch of guys from the 1800’s who were way ahead of their time by playing rock and roll a century before anyone else even thought of it. (Or the vexation engendered by hearing Trump supporters insist that he should be given credit for being “a successful businessman.”)
Aside from that, I suppose they’re no worse than other blowhard, knucklehead bands that traffic in macho “Hey hey hot mama, you wanna heat up the silo on my love rocket?” juvenilia while making occasional, vague allusions to “the dark side of life” to make people over 60 think they’re “dangerous,” like Warrant or Buckcherry. (And they’re probably better than Poison.) So yeah, I’ll concede they’re probably not the worst band ever.
For that, I think we’d need to at least talk about Blues Traveler. (Do I think Blues Traveler is worse than LFO, the band that did that “I like girls who wear Abercrombie and Fitch” song? Or the Shaggs? Yeah, maybe I do.)