Anybody is invited to bash DP (or anything I might like) - if it's done with humour and/or decent argument, I'm all for it. I prefer bashing to being ignored.
By the way I like Sly Stone. Very creative band, intrepid of real or envisaged boundaries and limitations. Rob probably likes them too, because he has a penchant for music that is slightly more rhythmically oriented and blues-inspired than your typical plain vanilla white band would offer. So we have a musical taste in common (besides Mother's Finest)
And I don't deny Nirvana's relevance or lasting influence, but they are popular enough to survive a dig or two - that said, Nirvana fans tend to be po-faced because
everything about them is
so sad and serious and Seattle and shotgun - sigh!
Nor do I compulsively put down anything somebody else likes. My CD collection is filled with stuff I heard over here from others first. But if Rob (or anybody else) raves about something, am I not allowed to mention that the king is without clothes (IMHO)? It doesn't put Rob down who I rate as a person and musician, never mind how he either likes druggies like Thin Lizzy, this curious Led Zep outfit (of which I have every release!) or Royal Blood who obviously forgot their guitarist at the last gas station. Not that anyone from these bands gives a shit whether I of all people like them or nor. But the fact that their music - in the case of Lizzy and Zep - is still being vigorously discussed on boards decades after their demise probably pleases them more than anything. If you're a decent band, you should also be able to divide opinion. This at least Royal Blood seem to have done, now all they need to find is a guitarist. One step at a time.
Kurt Cobain liked the Carpenters, maybe he related to Karen C. who had her demons as well. I'm disappointed that no one made the connection here!