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opinions?

Jim never got a chance to fully fly. Axl might make a comeback.

^ I am going to agree.. Jim morrison and the doors to me were ay ahead of their time... brilliant awesome music and very diverse..

JIM MORRISON >? Axl

Therre would be no Axl Rose if there had not been a Jim  Morrison.

They have a same in common.Like they both did rants on stage.

Axl should have died at 27. We've had to watch him grow old and sport hair extensions.

if axl had passed when the illusions came out we'd all be sitting around saying wow by now gnr would have been the best band ever and had 4 more albums out by now :D

yeah, but axl still has some dealing to do with his rough karma....:yes: :hihi:

Axl is 10 times more talented than Morrison, but Morrison was a true pioneer, the first bad-ass rock star, noone can ever take that away from him.

Morrison is THE rock star - no one else comes close.

Before Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Vince Taylor and Little Richard were quite bad ass...

Morrison over Axl anyday of the week.

Morrison as a lyricist was truely amazing. The Doors were poetry to music.  Not to mention the first dangerous rock star. Listen to what he was doing in the 60's. He is so emulated these past 35+ years.  Axl has some work to do to catch up.

However, dead rock stars seem to get the glory over the living ones.

Yeah, not to mention blues artists like Robert Johnson and Bo Diddley. Jim Morrison: the first? Thats pretty mistaken.

jim morrison will always be one of the best no matter what, but axl does have amazing talent, and for me he comes quite close to being able to being compared to morrison in a lot of ways, their quite similar.

i personally like morrison more than axl, but i like gnr more than the doors.   :yes:

I'm surprised so many people actually like the doors, I don't see it.
Lyrical genious? We call these kind of lyrics, "yoghurt lyrics" over here. You know, like in "A Whiter Shade Of Pale". They're a cool collection of words, induced by the dellusions of a man completely doped up and out of his senses. They sound good together, but any actuall meaning one might find in them is probably more of an accomplishment of the listener's mind than morrison's genuis shining through.

Same goes for the music. It's more an endless collection of cool sounding riffs played indistinctively one after another, jumbling some notes and getting sloppier to come to some kind of climax.

Not that I hate it, but I would never call it visionary, revolutionary or even "really good". I usually turn down the radio when the doors come on...

Little Richard?!? I mean, you can't deny the man's place in music history... but BAD ASS???

Yeah, to me the Doors sound pretty much like any other band of their time.  The music sounds dated to that period, as well as the voice.  When I hear the Doors, I might as well be listening to Tom Jones.

Of course, many people say that about Guns N Roses.  Most of the world views GNR as just another 80s metal band, in the same category of Bon Jovi, Poison, Winger, Warrant...all those.  The hear GNR and get a retro feeling and it excites them, just like if you were to see a pair of roller skates and remember when you were a kid. 

This is for fans both of The Doors and GN'R, it's nothing big but this video reminded me of this thread>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX35Q0lybFU

 I never liked the doors. I didn't see the magnetism of Morrison or the brilliance in his songwriting capabilities but hey, my opinion and opinions vary.
 
Axl... I don't even know. After the AFD tour he just lost a part of himself. When he's on, he's untouchable.

'axl rose=jim morisson?'

- No Jim Morrison didn't put out crap.

axlk rose and jim morrison r in my opinion 2 of the top 5 frontman in the history of rock and probably my number 1 and 2
also in my top 5 would be sebastian bach robert plant and probably ozzy just because hes ozzy

 I don't think they have anything in common (that's what the thread's about, right?) at all but they are two out of my most favorite singers of all time.

Axl's a great frontman and a sometimes-brilliant / sometimes-ridiculous lyricist. Jim Morisson was a great, magnetic figure on stage and a true intellect. I like Axl and I think he's got potential but Jim... hey, I don't touch the legends.

One thing I think they have in common though is this: everybody lends a closer ear to their whisper. Take "Estranged" .  Take "Cars hiss by my window".

Morrison didn't put out crap? Yes he did. But he didn't put out as much crap as Axl has (so much filler on UYI). That being said, the Doors' debut album isn't even in the same league with Appetite in my opinion. Not many albums are.

And Jim WAS a pioneer, but not of rock stars. Anyone remember the Beatles? They most certainly were rock stars, as was Elvis quite a number of years before Jim Morrison. But Morrison definitely pioneered the cliched rock star of the 1970s and 1980s (for better or worse). He was one of the first to wear the leather, etc. This ended up leading to the whole hair metal leotard stuff of the 1980s, but it's also a damn cool look if it's kept simple enough. Axl is probably the most over-the-top rock star ever based on his look from the UYI era. Wow, running around in underwear, biker shorts, etc. The crappy leotard and makeup garbage of the 80's was pretty ridiculous, and Axl's shunning of it helped slam the door on hair metal. But he took his own wardrobe to an excess we'll probably never see again (and don't try to say Slipknot, etc. is more excessive...BFD, they're wearing masks and trying to scare people).

i dont know
but scott weiland did well replacing jim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Do9TsF9yc

I like gnr better and Axl's a better singer but the fact is that Jim has transcended being a rock star. He is a legend, a myth.  He's bigger than life now and I don't think there's any comparison. At least not yet.

Jim was the blueprint for subsequent rock stars. Axl borrowd a lot from Jim & made it his own, so its almost like comparing apples to oranges.

Lim gets the nod because he was the original rock star bluepring & has taken on mythic ststus since dead rock stars usually do.