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Originally posted by mercury-hg
though i agree with most of what was said here, i've got 2 problems with it:
1) if you demand innovation only, then you're missing out on an artist/band who "perfects" a genre. if i decided that hendrix was all the rock/blues that i needed, i'd have never listened to stevie ray vaughan. if i stopped at zeppelin, i'd have never picked up on aerosmith, guns n' roses, pearl jam, STP, etc.
2) there is plenty of innovation to find in the past decade, it just may not be fit to your palate. if tool, system of a down, etc aren't creative/innovative, then i don't know what is
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I'd also like to mention that I'm sure that there was just as much second rate crap back then as there is today. Every innovative band gets copied badly until the next big thing comes along, which gets copied and so on. There may be a ton of crap on the radio today, but if you know where to look, there's a ton of innovation in today's music.