[squarenuts]

this articles is interesting, yet uneducated... first off, it can be said that creed's vocalist does imitate pearl jam's, but that's where the similarity stops. have you ever seen what the guitarists are doing? pearl jam was grunge aka power chords, whereas creed plays a lot of arpeggios- entirely different bird. and michelle branch and avril are entirely different too- branch wasn't commercialized- she entirely wrote almost everything herself (except the song with Santana) okay, on to real stuff- you don't think every other decade had it's group of sell-outs? as my friends once observed, it sucked to be a revolutionary band, because once you get big, everyone imitates you, and all of a sudden your popularity drops as a result. the grunge movement is a good example- after Nirvana got big there were a bunch of bands that followed and became one-hit wonders.... so actually, it is d/ling that is causing the drop in sales- as the author said, "Why would I buy each of their CDs, when I could download "Sk8r Boi" and "Game of Love" and be done with it?"- it's that attitude that is why file-sharing is such a problem... it would have been better to write an article on how CDs are overpriced, considering they cost less to make then a tape, and are a lot more expensive... but that would be an educated arguement, oh yeah... true, singles are better than the radio- of course, that's generally because singles are usually written with the intention of selling out... as for good albums, i can name several albums worth getting- any our lady peace, black sabbath, led zeppelin, or beatles album is good, as well as nirvana- yes i do realize nirvana is the only american band i mentioned.... but the point is, there are always a million crappy bands out there- and as peruvian noted, there are many great unknown bands out there... all because they're not punk, or emo, or pop, or this whole nu-metal craze (which isn't that great)