In which The Curmudgeons explore the work of the worst rock band of the 21st Century...so you don't have to do all the work yourself! Seriously, this is a public service we're doing here. Greta Van Fleet is a quartet from a small town in Michigan that did an admittedly great job of studying the style, technique and sound of the mighty Led Zeppelin. But then they mistook that for creative juice and served up a bunch of boring, comically vapid imitations of their heroes. When critics called them out on their uninspired mimicry, they tried their best to style themselves as a more prog-rock-leaning metal band...and became even more boring and vapid in the process. This prompts us here to ponder: Who the hell are the people that like this band and helped propel them to stardom and success?
We dare you to listen to, we guess, the best of Greta Van FLeet's music by accessing our special Spotify playlist:
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(00:52 - 03:43): Arturo Andrade sets the parameters for our discussion of Greta Van Fleet
(05:27-15:51) - The Parallel Universe, featuring reviews of recent music from Automatic and Grace Ives
(16:49 - 31:17) - We tell the origin story of Greta Van Fleet and marvel at the awfulness of their debut EP From the Fires, which won a Grammy for Best New Rock Album. Related: We trash the history of this particular Grammy.
(32:31 - 49:16) - We analyze Greta Van Fleet's three full-length studio albums, which grow worse and then worser as we reach them
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Co-written and co-produced by Arturo Andrade and Christopher O'Connor - The Curmudgeons
