527 Song of Ice and Fire

This article by "Alternative Choice" Vincent Brooke not only criticizes the album "Almost Famous" as useless, but also nails the entire band to the pillar of shame for glory to death. In Vincent's view, the existence of such a band as Glory to Death was itself an insult to rock 'n' roll, and the attention paid to the band by the music media throughout the United States was the beginning of rock 'n' roll's degeneration and devastation. This is almost unforgivable. In fact, this is also the consistent review style of "alternative choice", the magazine has always believed that the commercial 'sex' of pop music has eliminated the most essential characteristics of music, and the reason why underground rock has not been recognized by the market is because pop music has corrupted the entire music industry, and people are 'confused' and 'confused' by those simple and catchy melodies, so that they ignore the 'sex' of the ideas carried by the music itself.

The reason why rock is rock is because since Bob and Dylan, the deep meaning of the lyrics has become an important part of the music, he has given rock and roll a soul, and at the same time made rock and roll art! This is what sets rock apart from any other kind of music.

Therefore, "Alternative Choice" has always insisted on digging out the 'essence' of underground rock, hoping to recreate the glory of the golden age of rock in the 60s and 70s, which is why "Alternative Choice" has been enthusiastically supported by die-hard rock fans. The reason why Nirvana Band was able to turn out in the first place was that the recommendation of "Rotation" was very important, because the admiration of "Rotation" made people widely know Nirvana, but the recommendation of "Alternative Choice" also played a key role, because the praise of "Alternative Choice" made people realize the "spirit" of Nirvana.

However, it is worth mentioning that "Alternative Choice" has always had a clear and lofty attitude towards its own insistence, believing that rock is the most 'fine' and gorgeous of all music. They scoffed at the band's first album and scolded them bloodily, but they highly praised the band's second album "Don't mind"; Similarly, Paul I. McCartney's album "Off the Ground" released earlier this year. the。 ground)" was also criticized by the magazine, and although the album achieved very 'outstanding' results in the market, "Alternative Choice" still believes that Paul has gradually lost the creative power that stood alone in the Beatles period.

It can be said that the "radical" rhetoric of "alternative choice" is not surprising, if it is the music they like, even if the 'sex' is special and there is no market, they will not hesitate to recommend it; on the contrary, if it is the music they hate, no matter how popular and good it is, they will use all their words to express their opinions.

Glory to Death has made a name for themselves in the past few months with road tours, but their musical style has always been the subject of controversy, and as the "alternative choice" attitude suggests, the band's style is shocking, and it is definitely a subversion of the existing rock music. Therefore, as soon as "almost famous" came out, the first comments were a strong sniping of "alternative options", which was also expected.

The "alternative option" directly plunges glory to death into the abyss hell of Antarctica, which has the meaning of never turning over; But "Rotation" shows a completely different attitude - this is relative to the "alternative choice", and if it is relative to "Rotation" itself, then they continue their usual attitude of support and appreciation, and pay tribute to glory to death.

"Giordano Bruno was condemned by the Inquisition as a heretic for defending and developing the theory of the center of the sun, and burned to death in Piazza della Flower, Rome. Today, they will undoubtedly be judged as heretics by the so-called defenders of rock and roll, and then hope to crucify the band to the square of fresh 'flowers' with the power of the cross, but we must have a clear understanding: any new thing is not accepted by people when it comes out, we should abandon our own prejudices, and see this new thing with a correct and calm eye, and then we will discover the truth of the facts. ”

David Marches, the "spinning" independent music critic, has repeatedly written manuscripts to express his support for Glory to Death, and now that Glory to Death has finally released his first official album, he naturally stood up as soon as possible and wrote a professional music review manuscript to once again strengthen his support position.

"The 'brilliance' of this band is that they continue the soul that Bob Dylan and The Beatles injected into rock music; But they have broken the shackles of traditional thinking on rock music and opened up a new sky.

When Elvis Presley fused blues and country music, almost no one could have predicted that this new genre would become an integral part of American life, and rock music from the fifties to the present day was a blend of blues, gospel, jazz, country, and other styles, and set off one "tide" after another of ideas and cultural movements.

The hippies of the 60s, the punk and no "waves" and "tides" of the 70s, the new "waves" and "tides" after punk, the rave culture of the 90s, the cultural influence of rock and roll is too strong to express in words, and only those who have really experienced the changes of this half century can feel the impact of rock on life.

Well, what is rock 'n' roll! Cumbersome and flashy arrangement? Long and complicated guitars? A brave and tyrannical roar? No, it's not, rock is an attitude to life, an attitude to life, it opens its arms, embraces all kinds of different music styles, and then through the performance of the guò band, it truly shows the band's outlook on life, values and worldview, which is an art that comes from life, but because of the different bands and different styles, it interprets the colorful 'spirit' world of art. Glory to Death is such a rock band. Glory to Death has injected a new breath into rock and roll, they have broken the shackles of rock and roll for cumbersome arrangements, and used concise, clear and catchy melodies to make everyone eligible to enjoy rock and roll; They let the guitar dominate the 'show' situation to return to the state of all members of the band working together, and the abilities of the bass, drummer, and guitarist play together to form a collective; They boldly added the softness and impact of the keyboard on rock, using the keyboard's 'color' to enrich the 'color' of rock, and giving more ways to express their feelings, and most importantly, they injected endless ideas into rock and roll, touching the heartstrings.

Discussing what the 'god is' is not rock 'n' roll at all. What is the 'spirit' of rock 'roll'? Autonomy of youth, love and peace, opposition to religion, hedonism, pessimism...... These are rock 'spirits'. Then, love life, love family and friendship, break dogma, love xù catharsis, social problems...... Are these rock 'spirits'? Yes, of course!

The rock 'spirit' has never been an outline, dogmatic 'spirit' god thought, but is based on each independent band and specific works, all of which come from life, from the life experience of the band members, and each 'spirit' is so special that it cannot be replicated, which is the charm of the rock 'spirit' god.

Glory to Death with his debut album 'Near Fame' carried that idea throughout, showing all the keys a band needs. After listening carefully to the album "Almost Famous", it is hard to imagine that this is a band that has been established for less than a year, because the maturity of their music and the "sexuality" of their thoughts have reached the top level, just like the Goatskin Band and Radiodirector Band that came out of nowhere this year, and they also have such a super high level of glory to death, which is admirable.

'Second Chance (SED. ce), full of hippie drift, but at the same time not simply decadent, but full of hope and expectation for life; look。 ba。 anger), which is full of a kind of flamboyant decadence, but it also brings out the freedom and persistence of breaking the status quo and bravely running towards the future; 'Kill. your。 heroes), the dreamy and "mysterious" and "meng" positive "spirit" brings out the band's infinite courage to break the status quo, and "lithium" outlines the soul that collapses one by one under the huge pressure of society, and the "spirit" of the band is pushed to a high "tide" without any reserved catharsis!

In the album "Almost Famous", the band conveys a positive attitude towards life, the atmosphere of decadence, darkness, frustration, and collapse is the main theme, but the love of life conveyed in the lyrics and melody, including friendship, family affection and love support, is a complete interpretation of the band's 'spirit'.

This involuntarily reminds people of the band's name, 'Death to Death.' Lory)" glory or death, this can be seen in the band's unwavering belief in running all the way towards the rock and roll dream, no matter whether glory or death awaits the end, they will not give up lightly. This is the real rock 'spirit'.

It is worth mentioning that Lancaster, the lead singer and album producer of the glory to death, showed a dazzling talent in the process of making the whole album, the completeness of the eleven songs on the whole album is very high, and the positioning of the album has reached a high degree of unity, Lancaster's creative talent and production ability can undoubtedly be called the current leader in the rock field, which can definitely be called the most 'outstanding' album in 1993!

Many people's general impression of rock and roll is that it is fashionable to dress, to be 'aggressive' to think, and to be decadent...... But this qiē is just prejudice. Rock isn't alternative, but it's not popular either; Rock isn't long hair and leather jackets, but it's also not guitar and drums; Rock 'n' roll is not even a shouting hoarse voice! What is Rock 'n' Roll? Rock is the attitude to life, and this is the true meaning of rock and roll. If you have to add a frame to rock 'n' roll, then the move itself has lost the 'spirit' of rock 'roll'.

'Almost Famous' is an album that will tell every listener about true rock 'n' roll, and that is: glory to death!"

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