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The 40 Worst Lyricists In Rock
10 • Jim Morrison
Why would a guy who looked this good shirtless want to be smart, anyway?
"As a teenager, Morrison was alleged to have read a hundred books a week. Before his 1971 death in a Paris bathtub the Lizard King made pretentious-rocker history fusing French symbolism, Blake-ian romanticism and Beat shamanism into dreamlike evocations of L.A. excess. The result: poetry a drug-mad hippie would come up with if he'd never read a single book."
Worst lyric: "Breakfast where the news is read/Television children fed/Unborn living, living, dead/Bullet strikes the helmet's head" ("The Unknown Soldier")
The 50 Worst Songs Ever
26 • THE DOORS • "The End" 1967
The most pretentious rock star's most pretentious song
"Bombastic? Lugubrious? Sounds like it was recorded in a large metal shipping container and mixed by drunks? It must be a Doors song! Painful in so many ways, "The End," for starters, has none. (OK, it's 11 minutes and 45 seconds long.) Over anemic jazz noodling, Jim Morrison intones lyrics that would make the kid wearing the pentagram T-shirt in the back row of homeroom blush with shame. For example: "Father...I want to kill you/Mother...I want to unh-grblgrauauauauaugh!"
Worst Moment According to online lyrics guides, that last vocal eruption actually contains the words that constitute the most appropriate response to the song: &$#% you.
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