re: Groups or performers you just never "got"

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I don’t understand the height of the pedestal the Stones and Led Zeppelin have been placed on,

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although I adore the vast majority of their work.

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Besides being part of the soundtrack of millions of peoples lives they were and continue to be wildly influential. Case in point: about 40 years after Led Zepplin's last studio album came out another band hit the scene with a sound so close and with their music engineered so similarly it was uncanny. The band has topped the rock charts with every album they have released. Their concerts aren't filled with old guys like me wanting to get a nostalgia rush but teens and 20 somethings discovering what 70s rock was all about even if they don't know that is what they are buying. I will do the opposite of what many reviewers do and mention Zepplin and not their name because unless you are living under a music rock you will easily associate one with the other.

While I was reading the thread I was trying to think of who I don't get. My tastes are so eclectic I kinda get everyone that has or had any level of buzz whether I like them or not. Probably my least favorite wide genre is Death Metal. It always feels like they are trying to commit aural manslaughter. That said I really appreciate the technical prowess of the groups popular enough that I have heard them.