@Nick Ashley,
if it helps i'll put my dislike of creed in the same category
at a certain point in my life i realized that the music i liked the best wasn't probably going to be played on the radio, at least not right away, and probably not on corporate radio
a lot of the early bands are of course now staples of those jukebox style radio stations that play late 70's, 80's and 90's music, but a lot of those artists couldn't get much airplay outside of college radio in their early days
i'm not a big fan of the top 40 corporate rock bands, the best thing in the last few years has been the rise of the internet based distribution of music let's a lot of great bands that aren't going to get the attention from the corporations get their music out and about