There I am, burbling along through the weeds of the interwebby when I stumble across something some whippersnapper blerk writes which cheekily informs me that some snotty band with a name they ignorantly stole from an earlier UK band actually invented the idea of the loud/quiet dynamic. Well I never! I almost fainted with derision.

Here are one of the bands who really perfected that dynamic, decades before the upstarts decided they had something new, playing years after said upstarts fizzled to a tragic close:

Let’s have some more (or even better) examples of the LOUD/quiet dynamic from days of yore.