you can sorta tell when robbie krieger wrote the lyrics--they tend towards the generic, while morrison's stuff may be pretentious as hell but did have an artsy edge.
in other news, my current raves are:
steve earle, "transcendental blues"--the breadth of this record is actually pretty impressive--he goes from country to hard rock to pyschedelia to irish folk without sounding incoherent. he's also not as bad a singer as he says he is.
cotton mather, "kontiki"--smarter than your average power pop band--the principla might be the best lyricist in the genre. they're oft likened to squeeze, but i hear a lot of early john lennon (most of these would have fit comfortably on rubber soul). "spin my wheels" is as purty a weepy ballad as you'll hear.