Yes, you have to accept it. Or the press will never speak to you again.

It was a totally surreal experience. Being right next to the stage behind the mixing desk and hear them play it during the encore, 25 years after I taped it from the radio...

You seemed confused when the other person referred to The Clash as "the only band that mattered". You contradicted it in a way that suggested you weren't familiar with that slogan. And now after skimming the 8 paragraphs you just wrote I'm still not sure if you are aware of that slogan's existence and relative popularity. My age or where I'm from is irrelevant to this point. Either you are familiar with the slogan or you're not. It doesn't matter if you personally agree or disagree with it, it was just a slogan.

I think it might have something to do with the personnel changes. Personally I prefer the Machine Head lineup with Ian Gillan, and other permutations just haven't stuck like that one for me- though the brief lineup with Tommy Bolin was pretty amazing. Led Zep was always the same, imo kept getting better and more interesting, then called it quits when Bonzo died, so all their material, while not interchangable, is on the table to enjoy. DP has changed over time and a random DP album just doesn't have the same appeal as their best (even if each does have something to recommend it).

That must have been awesome. I still get excited when I run across an original version of something that was sampled on Paul's Boutique

Ghost

I also notice a lot of Boomers seem to think that their music was the mainstream back in the day when it wasn’t necessarily. The week of Woodstock the #1 song in the country was “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies.

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Up until about 2006-2007, probably. After that the “poptimism” movement got bigger and you saw more openness towards the mainstream from alt folks until the lines were blurred. Nowadays I don’t even know what distinguishes one from the other anymore.

Just a way smaller catalog of quality. Those other bands plus Rush had longevity

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Personally i never think hey i want to listen to a entire DP album, i want to hear the songs i like and the songs i do not like, i skip. Led zep and pink floyd, i can sit and listen to their entire albums and never think about skipping a song. Zep had a 5 album run and floyd had a 4 album run and 3 of the greatest albums ever. DP just did not have that consistency for me.

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I think early-mid 80s radio was pretty undeniable even by punks, etc. I remember Kim Gordon saying that it was hard to remain oppositional to mainstream music all the time when Prince and Cyndi Lauper was on.

I agree that Zep and Floyd do have a stronger overall catalog, and shorter as well, but their highest points are pretty much on the same level as these other bands highest points too. DP was pretty much a "1 album a year" band, which I think led to some albums having some filler that shouldn't be there.

Also, maybe another point to why their live albums sold so well too. You could just get all the singles in a single packaging. See: Made In japan

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Well thats nice to hear, In flames are my all time favorites, got the raven from the album cover as a tattoo :D

Very understandable!

I don't think they marketed themselves in the US as much as the other bands you listed.

Machine Head is one of the best rock albums of all time, imho. I enjoy Deep Purple, but for me, while their catalog is deep it’s not quite as strong as other favorites such as Zeppelin and Floyd. They don’t really take me to that next level consistently.

Yes, but…over the air is becoming more and more uniform. We HAD a pretty solid local station, until 1 week ago. Now there is just a message that plays over and over saying it was sold. I expect to hear I Heart Radio on it within the year.

in the beggining i was like: i won’t like it, but to my surprise i actually liked this song haha. tho i don’t think i would like louder genres than this one

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