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seby wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:11 am I love The Doors! Why does everyone here hate them? I genuinely do not understand. Morrison’s lyrics are fabulous. You are all nuts : /

Not my favorite band, but I certainly do not hate them.

Question though: if everyone hates them, how can they be massively overrated?

I've said it before, but the Doors were seen as a hugely important band to the Stooges, Ramones, Patti Smith, influential writers like Richard Meltzer and Lester Bangs, etc. It's weird that they are now treated as a boomer staple on par with the Eagles or something.

I love The Doors, Radiohead, Bowie and The Clash (another band ripe for PRF piling-on). Damn my pedestrian tastes.

Overrated? Guns N Roses, Billy Joel, Metallica, Joacquin Phoenix, Chik Fil A, the movie 'Heat', Instagram activism, "gut health" snake oil, luxury cars, the Marvel universe, perfection.

Stranger Things, IPAs, "non GMO", Christianity, Zach Braff

I was poised to say air fryers, but then I bought one and my oh my...

Also, fun factoid: when Rimbaud died he was very busy running slaves off the gulf of Aden.

Tom Wanderer wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:28 am Overrated? Guns N Roses, Billy Joel, Metallica, Joacquin Phoenix, Chik Fil A, the movie 'Heat', Instagram activism, "gut health" snake oil, luxury cars, the Marvel universe, perfection.

My man!

jfv wrote:
Question though: if everyone hates them, how can they be massively overrated?

That's what I'm saying!

There are these weird moments where it seems a majority of the population chimes in about how everyone is wrong about something (see "I hate IPAs", "I don't like the word moist"), not realizing that fandom is now the minority opinion.

Sourdough bread.

andyman wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:09 pm I was poised to say air fryers, but then I bought one and my oh my...

Also, fun factoid: when Rimbaud died he was very busy running slaves off the gulf of Aden.

AND ZEN HE WALKED ON DOWN ZEH HALL!!!




The slave trading is disputed. Seems he ran guns once and took a loss. He was certainly an unsavory character.

kokorodoko wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:09 pm Sourdough bread.

Sorry, I love the stuff. I always look forward to visiting San Francisco because they all do sourdough better than just about everyone else.

kokorodoko wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:09 pm Sourdough bread.

Focaccia, in all but the very rare exception, is shit.