>If it makes you* feel better, there's not a lot of white bands
>in contention any more, either. It's hard to come up with a
>reasonable list of names. That shit was a much lengthier
>conversation in the heyday of rock: you could reasonably start
>comparing The Kinks, The Who, The Beatles, The Stones, Led
>Zep, AC/DC, and a bunch of others. Nowadays the list is
>thinner, and bands that look like up-and-coming contenders
>blow away in the breeze, or lose their way very quickly.

at least ones with long-reaching, well-known discographies