^This.
― Frozen II Outtakes Playlist (morrisp), Monday, 9 December 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
It's not coming out.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 December 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
I have forseen it
What is and what should never be
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 9 December 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
the other day, I was hunting for Fairport live footage, and YT suggested a GVF rendition of "meet on the ledge"; that kid's Dio-by-way-of-Percy stylings are…not suitable for that song…
― veronica moser, Monday, 9 December 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Finally. After decades of searching for the worst possible cover version of anything, I have now found it. Thank you, veronica moser.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 9 December 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
And we haven't even discussed their Spotify Single cover of "Rolling In The Deep"!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 9 December 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
how on earth did they get the notion to bother with doing such a thing? I wondered if those kids' dad is like a baseball dad, forcing them as 10 year olds to listen to Zeppelin, beating it into them that this is the way to do rock music…
― veronica moser, Monday, 9 December 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
It may surprise you to know that 13 year-old kids are still discovering classic rock warhorses even in 2019. Which isn't meant to support these guys or their approach, but it's not exactly shocking to me to see that bands kids in their early teens are still doing that thing where they get super excited about the classic rock canon. Where they go after that phase is what seems to be more interesting.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 December 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
yeah the surprising thing with greta van fleet isn't that teenage guitar boys love led zeppelin, its that anybody else cared
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Monday, 9 December 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
yeah no "beating" is generally necessary, kids just latch onto stuff they're exposed to (says the dad whose 6yo is constantly chanting the refrain to Judas Priest's "Breakin the Law" throughout the day)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 December 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
a few weeks ago I saw some school of rock band where this tiny 14yo guitarist was absolutely raging through "20th Century Schizoid Man"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 December 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
man, that Paul Green School of Rock shit is gross… it's one thing if kids discover it for themselves, but it seems like that guy is, based on a fee videos I saw, having them learn "One More Red Nightmare" like its "Autumn Leaves" or "caravan." Maybe I'm a jerk, but I'm glad that pedagogy had nothing with my wanting to learn to how to play…I guess we're resigned to having rock and roll having reached such a point where its something parents and teachers hand down to 'em, or I guess this happened 10-15 years ago… my 3 year old pounds the Beatles and the Rutles, but when she's past 10 or whatever, and 1000 Gecs turns out to be a foundational recording for her crowd, I hope I'm not an asshole about it…
― veronica moser, Monday, 9 December 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
I'm not gonna worry about it. In 20 years there will be a School of Cloudrap where kids will be taught how to autotune like Lil Yachty
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 December 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
LOL
― Frozen II Outtakes Playlist (morrisp), Monday, 9 December 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
Berklee used to have DJ Scratch Skills videos up where a guy who looked like Eric Stoltz show ya how to work the decks.
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Monday, 9 December 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
at the holiday parade this weekend the School of Rock kids were playing "Merry Xmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)"
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 9 December 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Xpost Also auctioneering classes with the vocalist of Rednex
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 December 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
omg omg omg omg omg omg that video
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Monday, 9 December 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
there is a brick+mortar "how to DJ" spot in my neighborhood
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 December 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
are these guys still around?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:31 (four years ago) link
some say they live in the twinkle of a child's eye
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:35 (four years ago) link
lol
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
does anyone remember laughter?
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
Well, they were the future of music, maybe we're not there yet.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
For a band so studious of the work of Led Zeppelin, they still haven't managed to totally ape their early release schedule.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
Maybe they're changing their template to early Boston
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
I'm for it!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
If this were the mid-90s they would be recording with Albini as we speak.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
They're still played four times a day on mainstream bro rock radio.
I am counting the days (hours?) until their weak little bubble bursts.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
Can't wait see how their third album poll gets derailed...
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
Amanda Van Fleet
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
ok thats epic
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago
albini would still do it guys, give him a call
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
This is more accurate than they realize.
Greta Van Fleet on critics: ‘They’re pissed off that we’re doing something’ https://t.co/NtVRU9rXVF— Guardian culture (@guardianculture) April 12, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 00:43 (three years ago) link
hope Lord Summerisle puts them in the Wicker Man soon
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 05:26 (three years ago) link
Josh Kiszka’s high and mighty voice – which, at full screech, can sound like an ejaculating hyena
Greta Van Skeet
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 05:40 (three years ago) link
welcoming to the stage Greta NirVan’ Fleet, here to perform their exciting breakthrough hit, “Sounds Like Ejaculating Hyena”!
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 10:46 (three years ago) link
Read that piece this morning and that line did indeed spurt out at me like a tumescent canine.
I have never heard a hyena ejaculate. Has Jim Farber? Has Josh Kiszka? Have you?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 11:08 (three years ago) link
I have. Iirc it was actually a lot more chill than Greta Van Fleet.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link
is it sort of a husked tonal screech?
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 12:40 (three years ago) link
Can you guess which omnes ISN'T the sibling based on that picture in the Graun link? I assume it's dude far-right, as he has bare arms, and the drummer is not a sibling, and drummers always have bare arms. I cannot tell by their faces.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link
omnes = one, I think
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 12:49 (three years ago) link
hyena bit sounds like a derogatis line
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
Critics hate Greta Van Fleet because they're nostalgic for the wrong things. If they imitated Fleetwood Mac or any mid '90s Matador act, they'd be worshiped as gods. But Led Zeppelin (or, more accurately to my ear, the first Rush album)? Nope, stone them and banish them. It's such lazy horseshit.
They're a perfectly adequate, replacement level classic rock-ish act. Which is still 10,000 times better than the thrice-microwaved grunge that still makes up 95% of US radio rock.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:01 (three years ago) link
It's such lazy horseshit.
Tbf, this also describes GVF. It's not that they're ripping off the wrong thing, it's that they're ripping off shit that's already been ripped off a million times, for decades and decades. Like, name a band that imitates Fleetwood Mac. There really aren't any, or many, and of those they're all pretty recent. But Zep? They've been a source of "inspiration" almost as long as the Beatles.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
I disagree. Unoriginality is no crime with critics, as long as you're ripping off the "right" things. Led Zeppelin are not a critically favored source of inspiration this decade. If GVF's publicists were smart — or cared to get the critics on their side — they'd have the bandmembers talk about their love of early Rush. Rush have been 100% critically rehabbed and are now on the Approved Influence List next to King Crimson.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
Imitating Zep feels more 'original' to me in 2021 than 1980s pop pastiche #25435832034242361.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
There have been a ton of bands imitating Fleetwood Mac in recent years, maybe not always consistently or as successfully, but it definitely feels like Fleetwood Mac has been namechecked a ton in the last 10 years or so. Pom otm.
Also seems like bands imitating Zeppelin, going all the way back to the '90s, automatically get more shit for it than bands who ape, I don't know, Talking Heads. I've just assumed it goes back to critics originally despising Zep from the start.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
I do think Zep actually *is* still a favored source of inspiration, but it's *aspects* of Zep - the drum sound, the exotica, the sprinklings of folk, etc.. (Same with Fleetwood Mac, probably.) I think in the end it might just boil down to the style of vocals. I think that was always the sticking point with Rush, and certainly the aspect of LZ many least want imitated. Shrieked male vocals have always been a point of contention/division, and in more recent years they've seemed more acceptable when they're arch or camp (White Stripes, the Darkness) than when they're po-faced.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link