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I had forgotten Rage Against the Machine, that deserves a spot in the top ten just for breaking so many of the rules and being timeless. It's derivative, Audioslave, also made two very good albums (and one bad one).

For all the VH fans, after my confession of Hagar, I pulled out Van Halen's self titled disk and played it on the way to drop the kids off at school this morning. Surprise, surprise, they loved it. Didn't take them long to catch on to the chorus. Thank goodness for double-entendre, the Ice Cream Man sounds so nice!

The Grinch?!? Good call. And yes, OU812 should have gone down as a watershed event. But they tried to go "old school" after that. To me, they just sounded old and reaching as they tried to get harder as they got older. OU812 had a mature sound they could have rolled forward with. Oh well, not the first or the last to fade away.

Didn't know Boris Kharloff sung "The Grinch", wow! Zimm, I think there's a lot of 'youngsters' out there who have never heard anything other than the Pop, Rap and Hip-Hop forced on them by the music industry these days. I'm hopefull though. Every once in a while I'm surprised like the other day I'm looking at some music Dvd's at the local W'Mrt and I see a couple of 14'ish kids pick up a Zeppelin Dvd and one says to the other, " that Jimmy Page is an awesome guitar player".

Have to add a couple more Canuckians to my list, "Up to Here" and " Fully Completely" by The Tragically Hip as well as "Love Junk" by The Pursuit of Happiness (TPOH). Don't know the name of any Gordon Lightfoot albums offhand but I like a lot of his songs...the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Sundown, If You Could Read my Mind, Canadian Railroad Trilogy ect.

Guitar Hero and Rock Band are doing wonders for introducing the youngsters to some great old time rock.

My 8 yr old loves GNR Apetite....

1.Rage Against the Machine-Rage Against the Machine
2.Rage Against the Machine-Evil Empire
3.Rage Against the Machine-Renegades
4.Dave Matthews Band-Everyday
5.Dave Matthews Band-Before these Crowded Streets
6.Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek-Reflection Eternal
7.Pearl Jam-Ten
8.Dead Prez-Turn off the Radio
9.Collective Soul-Collective Soul
10.Bob Marley & The Wailers-Legend

You should give Rage Against the Machine a try, I think you will like it. How did you take to Audioslave?

I had not thought of that - not a player of those games. Very interesting. It is amazing the subtlety that even the likes of David Lee Roth or Axle Rose could pull off when forced to by the Gores. Now, there is no mystery; I know exactly what JZ did with that girl "with the boots with the fur".

I really enjoyed Audioslave and still listen to them quite frequently: their live in Cuba DVD is pretty cool. I also love The Nightwatchman, I've seen him live in Toronto (rocking show)and I was only a couple feet away from him waving my Che wall flag!! Zacks solo stuff "One Day as a Lion" is wicked also, especially the song Wild International.

'Classic Rock' still has a large following with the 'kids' today. Led Zeppelin still sells around a million disks a year and AC/DC has a big following in that crowd.

Agreed, Fred, and as Jay said I think with Guitar Hero ect. they are being introduced to music that they would otherwise not know. Saw an interview with Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee saying the exact same thing and are gaining a whole new legion of fans. Of course, they are still releasing new material once in a while, which helps too. It's unfortunate that the companies which make up the "music" industry these days, is more interested in promoting "celebrity" than real talent IMHO.