I love the Doors one that goes something like:
“There is a buterrfly-ay-ay
in the sky ay-ay
It once flew over here
and now flies over there
It’s a circle and a square
Oh yeeeah!”
It’s not just the lyrics, it’s the meaning behind them, ya know?
No, I do not feel nostalgic for the crass, silly orgiastic me-generation symbology that directly destroyed so many lives in Vietnam, and more generally destroyed so much about what made our country great.
Winehouse was just another singer with a drug and alcohol problem. She was pretty good at singing, too.
As I said Winehouse will be forgotten tommorrow but The Doors and Janis Joplin actually created something new that influenced many artists. Their influence lives on in contrast to the lowest common denominator slop that passes for music these days. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant.
Well, the latter part of the 60s was a very innovative period for rock. Some great stuff and yet at the same time some really awful tripe. Socially, we pretty much handed our culture over to the same folks that we are fighting now in an attempt to save the country from complete disaster.
Nonetheless, all that was wrong about that time does nothing to diminish my enjoyment of so much of the music.