Band that best summed up the dark side of the 60's

[Taverner]

[PinkTiger]

1. Jim Morrison - the devil incarnate.

The god of Fire.

[DBoon]

2. Rolling Stones

Deserve to be on the list just for Altamont.

I'd almost say The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, except he was so over the top as to be silly

[Old and In the Way]

3. The Dead

Geez, I like the Stones, but Mick and crew weren't ready for Altamont. The Dead, the Airplane, the Quick...they were all on the dark side. Hell, Pigpen was honarary Hell's Angels.....

[dbt]

4. "The most erotic music ever made."

That's how a friend of mine summed up The Doors.

Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection,
Send my credentials to the House of Detention.
I got some friends inside.

:smoke:
dbt

[Leprechan29]

6. Erotic Music

The Doors (in part because of the Blues background) had songs mostly about drinking, drugs, and sex, and some (quasi-)philosophy and anti-war stuff later on.

I must admit my bias in this poll toward anything remotely Doors though

[dbt]

9. The music itself was erotic, the words were the icing.

I have never heard people play as seductively as Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore--before or since.

:wow:
dbt

(and a big HELL YES on a Doors Bias!)

[Leprechan29]

11. Definite Agreement. Definite

[Leprechan29]

5. The Doors:

The only ones who could truly be Stoned Immaculate

[DBoon]

12. The End

And who else could make a rock anthem out of Oedipus Rex?

[Mz Pip]

7. The Doors

WE WANT THE WORLD AND WE WANT IT NOW!!!!!!!

I saw Velvet Underground live once. They looked and sounded like a bunch of junkies who happened to wander on stage. Oh, wait, they were a bunch of junkies who had wandered on stage. They were awful.

They opened for Jethro Tull and Led Zepplin. Now that was a concert.

MzPip
:dem:

[wyldwolf]

8. The Monkees

I know - most of you didn't get "it."

[mitchum]

10. "The Milky Way" Charles Manson and Bobby Beausoleil's band...

kind of hard to top that one

[kcwayne]

13. The Jimi Hendrix Experience

If you weren't stoned, listening to Jimi, and doing major air guitar riffs to Purple Haze, you were a Young Republican wondering if you would get laid by the time you were 42.

[Kat45]

14. Definitely The Doors

They came to mind before I even looked at the names on the poll. The music, the vibe, Jim Morrison's persona, his death...even continuing through the state of his grave.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

15. The Doors

Speed Kills

[Dogmudgeon]

16. I must be missing something

Try though I might, I never saw the attraction of the Doors.

They seemed like such a self-absorbed, self-important band ... Jim Morrison acted the part of the complete narcissist, and the literary-slash-gnostic references were among the most laughable in the history of music.

I've gotta be missing something ... everybody thinks they're demigods ...

--bkl
Stronger Than Dirt

[Maestro]

17. Well he did ask for the "dark side" of the 60's.

Jim Morrison sure represented that.

[mitchum]

18. Maybe people are misreading it as "dork side..."...

since Jimbo was "Clown Prince Bozo" (thanks, Lester Bangs)

[Taverner]

19. I love the Doors

And think Jim definitely had presence...but one has to admit

His poetry and lyrics were laughable

"Her cunt gripped me like a warm, friendly, hand..."

WTF is that???

And this guy liked Rimbaud?

[jukes]

20. Stones

no dowt. not a big fan, but "paint it black" haunts me to this day.

[mitchum]

21. The Animals got there first...

in terms of presenting their music in a dark manner without any "entertaining" happy happy showbiz nonsense. Check out old British Invasion era film clips of them. Not a smile to be found among them. And Eric Burdon is ALWAYS glowering. This, during a time when:
Keith Richards was grinning and shaking his head like a jug-eared monkey
Jim Morrison was hurrying to class
Lou Reed was writing teen tripe for Pickwick
Iggy Pop was still in high school
MC5 was playing battle of the bands

That being said; I listen to the Velvets, MC5, Stooges, and Rolling Stones far more than I do the Animals. But I still contend that Burdon, Price, Valentine, and company pointed the way.