LOL @ Nickc
As a student, I went through the Doors phase. Older and wiser now, I still can't decide if he was a fantastic lyricist, the band were fantastic musicians, a bit of both, or it was all just the James Dean effect, only reveared later because he was a star, pretty and died young. It's also difficult when you're judging from a different era, there were other bands before The Doors doing the same, possibly better, but didn't have the beautiful front man who died young. I read 'no one here gets out alive', obviously written by a JM adorer, but reading between the lines he still came across like a bit of a t0sser. But, maybe those little differences (ie a front man who spouts alot, lives the RnR life to extreme, has nice hair, croaks young) are what makes the difference between a good band forgotten and a good band who are remembered 40years+.
All things considered, he/they were unique.