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I have not heard this and have no opinion, but wow, Pitchfork savaged it. 1.6 out of 10. (funny if you like negative reviews - I can't say if it fair):
Brothers Jake and Sam Kiszka, on guitar and bass, are both wearing hippie costumes they 3D-printed off the internet. The singer, the wretched and caterwauling third brother, Josh, is in dangly feather earrings and vinyl pants, like he was dressed by a problematic Santa Fe palm-reader with a gift certificate to Chico’s. It’s a costume—Greta Van Fleet is all costume. And if things that look like another thing is your thing, get ready to throw your lighters up for a band whose guiding principle seems to be reading the worst Grand Funk Railroad songs as if they were a religious text.
They inhabit a world they never experienced, namely the '70s. Jake may be the weak link, but he merely reveals how the whole band seem to have learned their moves from watching late-night concerts on Palladium while buying pre-worn vintage-styled T's at Urban Outfitters. For the band and audience alike, Greta Van Fleet is nothing more than cosplay of the highest order.
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I have not heard this and have no opinion, but wow, Pitchfork savaged it. 1.6 out of 10. (funny if you like negative reviews - I can't say if it fair):
I read the first review and would conclude that bitterness and cynicism are alive and well in the music critic world. It's hard to take seriously a critic that spends a half of his review bitching about the bands appearance. Isn't it all about the music? I take these reviews with a grain of salt. The vaunted Rolling Stone savaged every Zeppelin album back in the day so ...
Couple things: these guys are kids. If they expected the maturity of U2 circa Joshua Tree, well...
And it's their first album. Fact is all three musicians can play and the singer has a one in ten million kind of voice.
Second, they play and write their own music. For all the ramblings of this critic about algorithms and manufactured music he appears to be blithely unaware that there is not a drum machine, an auto-tuned voice or any sampling, to be found on this record. It's three musicians and a singer with about the same array of stuff from 1980.
Third, he says 'It’s a costume—Greta Van Fleet is all costume.' I assume he's never listened to the album because there's few people on the planet that can sing like this kid. Not his fault that he sounds like Plant circa 1969. That's his voice. What should he do - go into accounting because someone thinks he might sound like a Robert Plant rip-off? Imagine having the chaff to characterize songs on a group of 20's something's debut album as 'unforgivable'? Lol, guess it's hip to be unrelentingly mean-spirited in 2018.
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Ran across some internet posts about Jenny Toomey and her band Tsunami. This led me to pull out albums from the Simple Machines label and appreciate them again. Scrawl's album Velvet Hammer is a forgotten classic.
Listening to the new reissue of the Headstones' Picture of Health, and it's still just as badass as the first day I heard it in 1993. They re-recorded a couple of the original demos that didn't make the album, and this one in particular sounds great:
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The students at my University recently put on a production of Andrew Lloyd Weber's songs from various productions. One of those was Jesus Christ Superstar, an underrated contribution that people stay away from because of the religious overtones. However, I've always found it irreverent and open to questioning. It made my wife and I want to rewatch it and others in his catalogue. I forgot just how good it was, especially songs by certain characters. This one is the opening goddam number from Judas Iscariot, which is risky to say the least. I also have to say that Carl Anderson absolutely floors me throughout this film, but he really brings it here.
Honestly, if you've never watched it, it's great, and directed by Canadian great Norman Jewison. The use of anachronistic imagery and costumes always pleases me.
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The students at my University recently put on a production of Andrew Lloyd Weber's songs from various productions. One of those was Jesus Christ Superstar, an underrated contribution that people stay away from because of the religious overtones. However, I've always found it irreverent and open to questioning. It made my wife and I want to rewatch it and others in his catalogue. I forgot just how good it was, especially songs by certain characters. This one is the opening goddam number from Judas Iscariot, which is risky to say the least. I also have to say that Carl Anderson absolutely floors me throughout this film, but he really brings it here.
Honestly, if you've never watched it, it's great, and directed by Canadian great Norman Jewison. The use of anachronistic imagery and costumes always pleases me.
+1.
Loved JCS since the original soundtrack which predated the Jewison movie. The vocal leads were Ian Gillan (Deep Purple MK II) as JC, Murray Head as JI and Yvonne Elliman as MM.
Gillan in particular slays. His Gethsemane is an emotional Tour de Force. What he does in this song is as good as any one thing he ever sang for Deep Purple.
And while JCS is an interpretation of the last week of JC's life, it's not overtly religious, it's actually a political story.
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