I def know a lot of people whose musical opinion I respect agree with you. I usually dont bring it up. I'm a lifelong musician and am surrounded by many lifelong musicians and my opinion is in the minority.

But to me they're the band that got me into listening to classic rock, Houses of the Holy was an early influence, but over time I've just gotten less and less impressed with them. Part of that might be the sort of disdain I have for the music industry, as the bands who made it at the time weren't necessarily the best but were the ones best equipped to play the game with access to industry connections in a hyper-commercialized, post-Woodstock milieu.

It just irks me to no end, that a huge portion of their catalog is basically straight copied from black USAmerican artists who played the songs better, who didn't get credit or compensation. At the same time, when theyre paying tribute to artists, like Leadbelly in their rendition of Gallis Pole, it's almost unlistenable and wanky, whereas the og version is basically unplayable for all but like one guy who learned to play it from Heddy himself. They just ripped off other people, got incredibly famous and wealthy, while artists who were more original and more talented, like Rory Gallagher and Peter Green, got passed over, and maybe this is stressing the point too much, for not being total whores.

The whole fish (CW)

spoiler

child molestation

incident also disgusts me, and casts a pallor on their career. Rock star decadence is not glamorous. I'm sure a lot of the old bluesmen have hella skeletons in their closets but I dont have to think about it every time they come on the radio, which they never do.

I totally accept that it's an unpopular opinion. But there's so much better music out there, I dont really miss them.