Greta Van Fleet

wow that is the biggest #shotsfired at bill bruford, how insulting

you mean the food writer?

the inspiration for Rally's Big Buford?

somewhere there's a concrete pile that knows too much about "the organs of The Who"

They could permanently move the bass player to keys, and then hire Glenn Hughes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqTQAVfE-U

i love how they keep uploading live videos that ruin my life and my enjoyment of music

had no idea Legolas was their drummer

omg is THIS what their singer sounds like

his voice is more wrecked with each new vid

god this song isn't even that terrible, until the vocals start.

people need to stop posting shreds videos in here please, this is serious rock music not your Dua Lepa's

he's like the dude at karaoke night that's drunk and trying to sing Welcome to the Jungle and the KJ is in the bathroom and not able to turn down the mic volume

lasted 25 seconds, cos....fuck no

Why are there so many comments on their videos like this one?

Mr Pigeon
42 minutes ago
He's getting better and better at singing live

Like wtf, I have never seen another band where the fans praise them for improving

Tbh I think the vocals are the most interesting and distinctive thing about this band and set them apart from most of what makes the active rock charts these days. Otherwise, the compositions and playing seem almost shockingly banal to me.

I mean there is DEFINITELY nobody else taht sounds like this guy right now, you have that right.

fair

if Bruce D is the air raid siren, this dude is just an airhorn

WOOAAAAAAAAHHHH bodyform!

to be fair this is probably the most competently written song of the recent batch, and also the most boring.

i guess we'll all enjoy ourselves...sure, laugh it up...until the lead singer is found unresponsive on the floor of his hotel room, helium tank by his side. rock n roll always takes the very best.

If I knew how to make gifs, I'd make a gif of the singer at :49-:51 where he raises his hand, then looks at his hand, and pensively reflects, "Ah, yes. My hand."

Piano very "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues".

i got sympathy pains listening to his voice crack a few times there, like at 2:21

band of invisible bass player

made it about 45 seconds into this one. I continue to be surprised by the near universal extremely high praise and when I check the comments (scanning quickly, only somewhat negative comment is about Jake's (whichever one that is) posture) but I guess people don't go to a band's youtube comments just to boo them.

sorry - near universal extremely high praise and when I check the comments

Piano very "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues".

― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, May 13, 2021 11:17 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes, finally answering the question what if the chorus of i guess that's why they call it the blues was just

i guess that's why they call it the blues
i guess that's why they call it the blues
i guess that's why they call it the blues
i guess that's why they call it the blues

If I knew how to make gifs, I'd make a gif of the singer at :49-:51 where he raises his hand, then looks at his hand, and pensively reflects, "Ah, yes. My hand."

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, May 13, 2021 10:15 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is like every moment of every video though! These guys each have one move, and that's his. Guitar player's is leaning back and walking back and forward in a straight line, like he's on a track.

If I knew how to make gifs, I'd make a gif of the singer at :49-:51 where he raises his hand, then looks at his hand, and pensively reflects, "Ah, yes. My hand."

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, May 13, 2021 10:15 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

here u go https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-13-2021/eUTDgk.gif

That didn't work for some reason, but I found another gifmaker.

https://j.gifs.com/MZDYgR.gif

lmao that is too good

"Alas, poor Greta, I knew her well. . ."

had been browsing bedazzled skulls on etsy before the show. he has a favorite but will it look right?

I think the world needs more greta van fleet gifs tbh

There's a choice we're making. We're saving our own lives.

vlaho1967 isn't going to stand for it any longer:

Larissa Mehlig - 5 hours ago
One of the most beautiful love songs i have ever heard. they never miss

vlaho1967 - 2 hours ago
Why???

J. Gona - 2 hours ago
@vlaho1967 Are you really asking her why she likes what she likes? 😆

"She Likes What She Likes" = Lead Single From Next GVF Album

I made an AI bot listen to 30 hours of Greta Van Fleet, so it could write a Greta Van Fleet song.

Unfortunately, just one hour in, it secretly wrote code to self-destruct and is no longer with us

The lizard tongue makes it.

I made an AI bot listen to 30 hours of Greta Van Fleet, so it could write a Greta Van Fleet song.

Unfortunately, just one hour in, it secretly wrote code to self-destruct and is no longer with us

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Thursday, May 13, 2021 3:07 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

And that AI was named Pete Buttigieg . . . Good Day!

So I'm listening to Monuments, the latest album from a Icelandic trio The Vintage Caravan that is also very indebted to bands Like Zeppelin and Cream, but it's really good! It's more baffling to me that Greta Van Fleet is so huge when there are actual bands doing the retro classic rock thing in a much more competent manner, it's not like folks into old school sounding rock are starved for choices.

Surely the only reason GVF are big is because there is somebody behind them with shittons of money to throw at marketing/promo, no?

Sure, that's probably part of why they had a huge start at such a young age, but that only goes so far these days and they seem to be getting more popular.

Vintage Caravan is definitely better, also they are in that vein but they have modern elements that make if feel less like cosplay, there's elements of metal/hard rock that occured after the 70s in there at least

That's true, but I can imagine them scratching a similar itch for people hungry for "real rock" or whatever.

definitely - i just meant that's a (one of) the reasons they are better, but overall they could fill the same market

they are like 5x better players too

Just checked them out, pretty decent - they don't seem to have the melodramatic 'epic' thing going on like GVF do, however risibly, which I guess some people lap up.

Yeah, maybe that OTT-ness is exactly what people love about GVF, I dunno.