In short; Yes. Whether you’re drawn to the genre or not, all the groups you first listed produced/wrote great melodies and in my view that's what it's all about ... that and the arrangement. Sadly, much of the !@#$%*! produced today and for perhaps that past two decades, is a pathetic and sad attempt to pass noise off as "music" .... but, the millennials & X generations lap it up to the tune of billions of dollars annually. There is very little or no variety … one, two, maybe 3 chords repeated over and over with a backdrop of syntho-babble …. a mindless bunch of flats and sharps and an arrangement that are agonizingly unimaginable and unmusical. There are a very few, what I call good bands out there ….. but the greater majority is just processed crap. I’ll step off my soap box now.
