Bluesking - I think you worry too much about taste issues, as I think of speed as taste issue. Let the kids mess around at 300 km/h. They'll grow up and get over it someday. Then again... maybe they won't

. Speed is overwhelming, exhilarating. It's like the notes doing this frenzied dance... I can't imagine anyone liking speed just for it's own sake. Those people probably grow up to become secretaries or something. It's bever just about speed. It's about the
sound of speed, the
feeling of speed. And large intervals. And odd time signatures. And so on.
I remember AC DC's guitarist saying something like "If you can express something with one or two notes, why do it with thirty ****ing million?"
Well...
...here's
one of many reasons why.