you can't compare, cause mainstream music is so diffrent today. I don't feel the same way about new music from new artist the same way I feel about SP. And SP new music still gives me the same vibe as does the older stuff. And not just because I am a huge SP fan, I love lots of music, Led Zep, The Beatles, Ozzy, and such but no other band gives me the same felling (I geuss that is what I am trying to say, and put that in for lack of a better word) when I listen. The SP make you feel thier music, not just say, wow I like that song, you say, WOW I WAS FEELING THAT TOO!! I don't know any true fan that doesn't feel that way. Mainstream music today doesn't really make me feel a connection the way SP does, I geuss no band really does. but that's just my opinion.