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Back when I was in high school, 20 to 25 years ago, the two essential bands to have come out of the '60s were The Doors and The Velvet Underground (with The Pink Floyd and The Who coming in next on just a slightly lower tier). If you liked The Doors, you liked The Velvet Underground, and vice versa. The Doors were seen as having been the west coast equivalent of The Velvet Underground, and The Velvets were seen as having been the east coast equivalent of The Doors. It was as simple as that. Morrison was compared to Reed because of their shared beatnik influences, poetry, occasional nastiness, and black clothes and shades. As well, the two contemporary groups that were seen as the truest (then) modern-day extensions of these bands were Joy Division and Sonic Youth--JD evolving more according to The Doors' strands of DNA, and SY more according to The Velvets'.
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