┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │■ ■│ │ .-/ .-. │ │ _.-~ / ___ | ~-._ │ │ \:/ -~| / __/| .\:/ │ │ / || (:/:| \ │ │ / /\/| |:\___\| |\ \ │ │ / /:::|.::/:::/:.|:\ \ │ │ / /:::/ \\/:::/::/:::\ \ │ │ / .::\ \-~~~~-/\/:.. \ │ │ /..:::::\ /:::::..\ │ │ /::::::::- -::::::::\ │ │ \:::::-~ ~-:::::/ │ │ \:-~ ~-:/ │ │ METAL CLASSICS ARCHIVE │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ P R E S E N T S │ │ │ │ │ │ + Greta Van Fleet - Anthem Of The Peaceful Army + │ │ │ │ │ │╔═════════════════════╗ │ │║ Release Information ║ │ │╠═════════════════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════╗ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Rls Date..2020-01-24 Encoder......LAME 64bits version ║ │ │║ Genre.....Hard Rock Graber.......EAC ║ │ │║ Year......2018 Khz/Bitrate..44.1 / VBR kbps ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Ripper....Anthem Songs........10 ║ │ │║ Source....CD Covers.......Yes ║ │ │║ Url..http://www.gretavanfleet.com ║ │ │║ ║ │ │╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │╔═════════════════════╗ │ │║ Release Notes ║ │ │╠═════════════════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════╗ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Artist : Greta Van Fleet ║ │ │║ Album : Anthem Of The Peaceful Army ║ │ │║ Label : Republic Records ║ │ │║ Cat.No : 00602567964438 ║ │ │╠════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Description : ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Greta Van Fleet sound like they did weed exactly once, ║ │ │║ called the cops, and tried to record a Led Zeppelin album ║ │ │║ before they arrested themselves. The poor kids from ║ │ │║ Frankenmuth, Michigan donÆt even realize theyÆre more of an ║ │ │║ algorithmic fever dream than an actual rock band. While ║ │ │║ theyÆre selling out shows all over the world, somewhere in ║ │ │║ a boardroom, a half-dozen people are figuring out just how, ║ │ │║ exactly, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are supposed to fit ║ │ │║ into the SUV with the rest of the Greta Van Fleet boys on ║ │ │║ ôCarpool Karaoke.ö ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Just look at this photo: 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 ║ │ │║ ChicoÆs. ItÆs a costumeùGreta 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. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Though their debut album, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, ║ │ │║ sounds like a bona fide classic rock recordùwith its fuzzy ║ │ │║ bass, electric sitar solos, and lyrics featuring the kind ║ │ │║ of self-actualized transcendence brought on by a few too ║ │ │║ many multivitaminsùit is not actually classic rock. They ║ │ │║ are a new kind of vampiric band whoÆs there to catch the ║ │ │║ runoff of original classic rock using streaming servicesÆ ║ │ │║ data-driven business model. Greta Van Fleet exist to be ║ │ │║ swallowed into the algorithmÆs churn and rack up plays, of ║ │ │║ which they already have hundreds of millions. They make ║ │ │║ music that sounds exactly like Led Zeppelin and demand very ║ │ │║ little other than forgetting how good Led Zeppelin often ║ │ │║ were. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ItÆs possible to be an exceptional classic rock vampire act ║ │ │║ but it requires something more than the major label money ║ │ │║ and vaguely Native American accoutrements. ItÆs why Greta ║ │ │║ Van Fleet canÆt compete with, say, the Darkness circa ║ │ │║ 2003Æs ôI Believe in a Thing Called Love.ö The Darknessùwho ║ │ │║ aped big rock warhorses like Queen and Aerosmith and Van ║ │ │║ Halenùwere so outrageous that they had to be credulous. ║ │ │║ They had a song that went, ôGet your hands off of my woman, ║ │ │║ mother fuckerö and did a power metal cover of RadioheadÆs ║ │ │║ ôStreet Spirit (Fade Out).ö Who would do such garish ║ │ │║ things? They dared you, tongue in cheek, to take this ║ │ │║ impossibly foolish thing very seriously. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Greta Van Fleet do no such thing. They care so deeply and ║ │ │║ are so precious with their half-baked boomer fetishism, ║ │ │║ they mollycoddled every impulse of late-Æ60s rockænÆroll ║ │ │║ into an interminable 49-minute drag. Each song here could ║ │ │║ be written or played by any of a thousand classic rock ║ │ │║ cover bands that have standing gigs at sports bars and ║ │ │║ biker joints across America (the same venues where Greta ║ │ │║ Van Fleet cut their teeth when they were kids). So why ║ │ │║ should Greta Van Fleet be the ones signed to Republic and ║ │ │║ William Morris, because they donÆt have bald spots yet? ║ │ │║ Tons of people in those cover bands play their instruments ║ │ │║ better than Greta Van Fleet, who are, currently, proficient ║ │ │║ at best. No one in this band offers anything in the way of ║ │ │║ personality that doesnÆt sound like your average YouTube ║ │ │║ tutorial for a Jimmy Page-type pentatonic solo or a John ║ │ │║ Bonham-type shuffle. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ And at least Zeppelin knew to separate their ║ │ │║ sweet-lady-IÆm-horny songs from their ║ │ │║ howling-about-literary-fantasy songs. Hilariously, Greta ║ │ │║ Van Fleet combine them into one on ôThe Cold Wind,ö where ║ │ │║ the narrator (who is dying) begs his ôsweet mamaö to take ║ │ │║ the family ox (I guess) to town to sell it, when, ║ │ │║ mid-ox-transaction, this happens: ôThe Yankee peddler ║ │ │║ bargains with you on his way/Whoa sweet mamaÆs gotten ║ │ │║ herself a new dress.ö ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ThatÆs funny, but itÆs not supposed to be funny, because ║ │ │║ Greta Van Fleet do not possess self-awarenessùat all. When ║ │ │║ asked about a characteristically ugh lyric (ôAll my ║ │ │║ brothers who stand up/For the peace of the landö), Jake ║ │ │║ responded, in part, ôI guess itÆs subject to ║ │ │║ interpretation. But I think the initial idea with that was ║ │ │║ that, as brothers, we stand for the peace of land. And that ║ │ │║ was for the good of the Earth, and for man.ö Ignoring that ║ │ │║ this is basically a gag in Spinal Tap, a much better answer ║ │ │║ that would speak to the spirit of the music they are trying ║ │ │║ to capture would be: ôI donÆt know, who gives a shit.ö ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ What they lack in self-awareness they more than make up for ║ │ │║ in rigid self-consciousness, failing to make any fun or ║ │ │║ campy choices to lift these songs out of a morass of the ║ │ │║ worst impulses of Rush and Cream. The back half of the ║ │ │║ album alternates between the ignorable and unforgivable, ║ │ │║ from what is (a somewhat fun stomper ôMountain of the Sunö) ║ │ │║ to what should never be: ôThe New Dayö features Josh ║ │ │║ singing about watching a child grow in a garden, seeing her ║ │ │║ bloom so she can ôbe a woman soon.ö None of this ║ │ │║ lysergic-sexual thinking is within the bandÆs grasp, they ║ │ │║ are just swatting at crusty platitudes and copy-pasting old ║ │ │║ mythos hoping no one notices that they are too small, too ║ │ │║ inept to even put forth one meaningful, specific, original ║ │ │║ idea. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ But for as retro as Anthem of the Peaceful Army may seem, ║ │ │║ in actuality, it is the future. ItÆs proof of concept that ║ │ │║ in the streaming and algorithm economy, a band doesnÆt need ║ │ │║ to really capture the past, it just needs to come close ║ │ │║ enough so that a computer can assign it to its definite ║ │ │║ article. The more unique it sounds, the less chance it has ║ │ │║ to be placed alongside what you already love. So when the ║ │ │║ Greta Van Fleet of your favorite artist finally lands on ║ │ │║ your morning playlist, spark up a bowl of nostalgia and ║ │ │║ enjoy the self-satisfied buzz of recognizing something you ║ │ │║ already know. ItÆs the cheapest high in music. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │╔═════════════════════╗ │ │║ Release Tracklist ║ │ │╚═════════════════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════ │ │ │ │ 1. Age Of Man 6:06 │ │ 2. The Cold Wind 3:16 │ │ 3. When The Curtain Falls 3:43 │ │ 4. Watching Over 4:27 │ │ 5. Lover, Leaver (Taker, Believer) 6:01 │ │ 6. You're The One 4:26 │ │ 7. The New Day 3:44 │ │ 8. Mountain Of The Sun 4:30 │ │ 9. Brave New World 5:00 │ │ 10. Anthem 4:38 │ │ │ │ │ │ Total Length : 00:45:51 │ │ │ │ │ │ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ╔═════════════════════╗ │ │ ║ Greetings To: ║ │ │ ╚═════════════════════╝ │ │ │ │ Too all people who contributes to make this │ │ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │■ ■│ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘