Jazz listening has dulled my taste for Rock...you?

Poor digital transfering, and the voicing priorities of many high end components can really hurt some pretty good (especially rock) recordings. Apart from that, the last few decades have produced thousands of releases that help to blur or reconfigure the descriptive verbage and alot of the arbitrary boundries that we try to impose on music. Miles Davis, Zappa, McLaughlin, Holdsworth, Torn, Fiuczynski, (and many others) have delivered the kind of visceral whomp that most would describe as rock without confining themselves to established rock idioms. Some stuff that might be thought of as rock is often way more challenging and sonically complex than most of what is in the BMG or Columbia House jazz catalogs. The old Duke Ellington truism about there only being two kinds of music seems to hold. Well informed or not, the listener will decide if the music is good or bad/(boring or interesting).