I don't really see any worship going on. if you followed the messages posted you'd see that we were talking about the birth of metal. Metal has definitely progressed and no one would really call Zeppelin and the like "metal" anymore. It's true that there aren't as many bands with the freedom to experiment that was afforded them in the 70's. of course, that was both good AND bad! I haven't really heard anything "new" in metal since Randy Rhoades and his predecessors and don't much listen to it anymore. I think the closest thing to "new music", at least in the Rock vein, was the Seattle sound. Of course, the industry packaged and commercialized that as well since the early days of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc. But I think these guys were make "real" new sounds. You don't have to agree, that's the beauty of music, there are no absolute wrong or rights. it's subjective and there's plenty of room for personal taste and opinion. after the 80's I really got bored with the overproduced metal sound and the U2 copy bands. Save U2, I think the 80's was a miserable decade for music lovers! (of course, much is due to my age!)
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