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Greta Van Fleet Album Finally Released!


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It's as great as the debut YYNot album!

 

This is a great year for old school rock fans! Both albums feel fresh as well.

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Didn't we first hear that in about 1971?

 

Classic Rock reviewed this album saying that it is shaping up to be the "best debut album of 2018 and 1972".

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I'll give this a listen for certain, because I did enjoy a few of the singles and thought they showed good improvement over their earlier material. That said, I'm not enthralled by the band in general. They always come off to me like they're trying to sound like LZ and more importantly not trying to sound like themselves. If they manage to write great songs and great albums I'm all ears, good songs and albums overrule everything (see LZ's own plagiarism), but their earlier stuff just wasn't great. Hopefully this is better.

 

Glad y'all enjoy it though. More rock to enjoy is never a bad thing.

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I'll give this a listen for certain, because I did enjoy a few of the singles and thought they showed good improvement over their earlier material. That said, I'm not enthralled by the band in general. They always come off to me like they're trying to sound like LZ and more importantly not trying to sound like themselves. If they manage to write great songs and great albums I'm all ears, good songs and albums overrule everything (see LZ's own plagiarism), but their earlier stuff just wasn't great. Hopefully this is better.

 

Glad y'all enjoy it though. More rock to enjoy is never a bad thing.

 

Considering you listen to heavily watered down pop punk and very VERY commercialised "emo" that owes nothing to that genres roots, I find it surprising you sound so jaded against a back to the roots rock n roll album like this. It sounds fresh and vintage, and we are living in a day and age in urgent need for rock to have another gamechanging moment like Nirvana. This band is showing great promise of bringing crowds back. It shouldn't matter if they sound old, they have a sound that anyone who loves guitar music can be drawn too. No overdubs, Facebook meme-worthy lyrics, no cliche breakdowns or top 40-esque pop production. This is a great rock album. A PURE rock album. Like YYNot this year, they could be on the verge of true greatness.

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I really like the music, which is loaded with classic rock hooks and grooves. The vocals are hit and miss for me. Obviously the kid's got great pipes, though.
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I like this record. it's not very original. but who cares? this is easily the best "back to the roots" album i've heard in a bit. and in an age of mostly shit commercial pop. this was like taking a deep cleansing breath.

 

i'll need more spins to pinpoint favs but first couple spins have been very positive.

 

very zeppelin heavy but nothing wrong with that.

 

Mick

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Awesome!

 

It's been far too long since Zeppelin released new material.

 

if these guys want to take that mantle fine i say, lol

 

Mick

 

Well, it makes sense since we live in a time of mostly shitty movie reboots that someone in music would try a shitty Zeppelin reboot. Who needs talent and an original thought anymore? Just copy something that was successful already and put no effort in to it.

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Awesome!

 

It's been far too long since Zeppelin released new material.

 

if these guys want to take that mantle fine i say, lol

 

Mick

 

Well, it makes sense since we live in a time of mostly shitty movie reboots that someone in music would try a shitty Zeppelin reboot. Who needs talent and an original thought anymore? Just copy something that was successful already and put no effort in to it.

 

i never thought of reboots bleeding over into music. but we could be seeing the dawn of it, lol.

 

Look out for my police album, lol

 

Mick

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I'll give this a listen for certain, because I did enjoy a few of the singles and thought they showed good improvement over their earlier material. That said, I'm not enthralled by the band in general. They always come off to me like they're trying to sound like LZ and more importantly not trying to sound like themselves. If they manage to write great songs and great albums I'm all ears, good songs and albums overrule everything (see LZ's own plagiarism), but their earlier stuff just wasn't great. Hopefully this is better.

 

Glad y'all enjoy it though. More rock to enjoy is never a bad thing.

 

Considering you listen to heavily watered down pop punk and very VERY commercialised "emo" that owes nothing to that genres roots, I find it surprising you sound so jaded against a back to the roots rock n roll album like this. It sounds fresh and vintage, and we are living in a day and age in urgent need for rock to have another gamechanging moment like Nirvana. This band is showing great promise of bringing crowds back. It shouldn't matter if they sound old, they have a sound that anyone who loves guitar music can be drawn too. No overdubs, Facebook meme-worthy lyrics, no cliche breakdowns or top 40-esque pop production. This is a great rock album. A PURE rock album. Like YYNot this year, they could be on the verge of true greatness.

 

I listen to many things. Production matters a lot to me. Guitars matter a lot to me. Proficiency matters a lot to me. Great songs and albums matter more. If you ain’t got the songs, I lose much of my interest, and prior to a few of the singles I’ve heard from this album, GVF had very little in their songs that interested me. As far as them sounding like zep, it isn’t that they sound like zep. It’s that they sound like they want to sound like zep, down to the last vocal warble. To me, that makes them sound robotic, calculated, but without good songs. If you tossed me a tape of randomly selected and jumbled together clips of actual LZ songs, it would have the same effect on me.

 

I understand who they’re emulating; I don’t understand what they bring to the table.

 

EDIT: also I’ve definitely heard some embarrassing lyrics from them.

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I'll give this a listen for certain, because I did enjoy a few of the singles and thought they showed good improvement over their earlier material. That said, I'm not enthralled by the band in general. They always come off to me like they're trying to sound like LZ and more importantly not trying to sound like themselves. If they manage to write great songs and great albums I'm all ears, good songs and albums overrule everything (see LZ's own plagiarism), but their earlier stuff just wasn't great. Hopefully this is better.

 

Glad y'all enjoy it though. More rock to enjoy is never a bad thing.

 

Considering you listen to heavily watered down pop punk and very VERY commercialised "emo" that owes nothing to that genres roots, I find it surprising you sound so jaded against a back to the roots rock n roll album like this. It sounds fresh and vintage, and we are living in a day and age in urgent need for rock to have another gamechanging moment like Nirvana. This band is showing great promise of bringing crowds back. It shouldn't matter if they sound old, they have a sound that anyone who loves guitar music can be drawn too. No overdubs, Facebook meme-worthy lyrics, no cliche breakdowns or top 40-esque pop production. This is a great rock album. A PURE rock album. Like YYNot this year, they could be on the verge of true greatness.

 

I listen to many things. Production matters a lot to me. Guitars matter a lot to me. Proficiency matters a lot to me. Great songs and albums matter more. If you ain’t got the songs, I lose much of my interest, and prior to a few of the singles I’ve heard from this album, GVF had very little in their songs that interested me. As far as them sounding like zep, it isn’t that they sound like zep. It’s that they sound like they want to sound like zep, down to the last vocal warble. To me, that makes them sound robotic, calculated, but without good songs. If you tossed me a tape of randomly selected and jumbled together clips of actual LZ songs, it would have the same effect on me.

 

I understand who they’re emulating; I don’t understand what they bring to the table.

 

EDIT: also I’ve definitely heard some embarrassing lyrics from them.

 

To be fair, Zeppelin had some bad lyrics as well. The difference is Plant was cool enough to pull it off and not have anybody care.

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It’s okay now Greta Van Fleet can steal from Led Zeppelin like they did all throughout the 60s and 70s

 

I don't argue with this. LZ were humongous thieves. Maybe the only difference between the two brands how thievery is how well-known the victims were.

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I did enjoy this album i won't lie BUT......much like YYNot and Rush........if Zep is ALL their going to sound like in the future i'll have little use for them. in both bands case it's a wait and see for me.

 

Mick

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I did enjoy this album i won't lie BUT......much like YYNot and Rush........if Zep is ALL their going to sound like in the future i'll have little use for them. in both bands case it's a wait and see for me.

 

Mick

 

YYNOT sounds like Rush in certain spots but they have their own sound most of all. Can't say that about these lazy ass f***s in Gretta Van Fleet.

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