That's a very poor argument. All music ever created would be influenced by a caveman banging two rocks together in some sort of rhythmic fashion. Yet we don't have shrubberies commemorating Bob Rocksmasher do we?
If A influences B, it doesn't mean that A > B. Likewise, you can like one, but dislike the other.
Exactly. The 80s is only a bad decade if you look at it from a pop / c0ck rock perspective. In general, there were a hell of a lot of good banRAB.
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