The Foo Fighters - Classic or Dud?

yep - i hasten to add that all the albums the posies HAVE recorded are better posies albums than There Is Nothing Left To Lose. But Aurora and Generator are wonderfully sugary rushes.

"Fuck this stupid fucking band"

― Master of Treacle, Thursday, November 6, 2014 6:41 PM (Yesterday)

Basically this.

Their first album was way better than I expected (for a drummer transitioning to frontman anyway) but everything else is mega-dud trad-rock ludditery.

That documentary where he buys the mixing board from Sound City Studios and then starts a phcking SUPERGROUP seals the deal. Progress hating rose-tinted-glasses ubiquitous establishment rockist dinosaur with increasingly patchy output. And HIV<>AIDS denier which is pretty sketchy but thats besides the point.

Their only non dud move in the last decade was cover of 2112 Overture on Rush's R&R Hall of Fame gig tbh

The guy seems like a super-nice bloke (courtney to the contrary, but hey), he gets a massive pass from those close to him, he has redefined crporate rock in his image, even Kurt would have sat back and applauded.

It's a laff: The BBC "Rock Show" sunday night always seems to start with the Foos, before getting into the proper stuff, a bit like the show that followed John Peel on the Radio 2 FM would pick something a little left field like Queen or BTO before getting back to the nice stuff...

Yeah, the first album, and yeah I was at that Reading tent when the crush happened. I don't need them tbqh, he's not totally embarrasing, so hey live and let live.

tbh am suspicious of grohl-haters who pillory him as "Progress hating rose-tinted-glasses ubiquitous establishment rockist dinosaur" and then celebrate him for covering a rush song?

yeah I was at that Reading tent when the crush happened

me too! my friend got concussed and had to be carried to first aid.

I have been otm in this thread.

We were at a safe distance.

tbh am suspicious of grohl-haters who pillory him as "Progress hating rose-tinted-glasses ubiquitous establishment rockist dinosaur" and then celebrate him for covering a rush song?

― stevie, Friday, November 7, 2014 11:40 AM (20 minutes ago)

In the context of being "a Progress hating rose-tinted-glasses ubiquitous establishment rockist dinosaurs" I thought the 2112 cover was absolutely perfect - I mean at the time of that gig he'd just bought an actual 70's style studio, and he's on stage at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, covering fcking RUSH of all people, infront of a peer group of ageing rockers.

Its kind of so far into rockist self-parody I though it was amazing. If he could stick to that and never release any more FF tracks I'd be fine.

the thing about this band isn't even that the music is bad. it's just milquetoasty and boring. the dumb rockist bullshit attitude is corny verging on truly unpleasant, but i imagine the critical listening public would give it more of a pass if the music was better, as many people do with solo jack white and previously the white stripes

if you're gonna make meat and potatoes rock, it needs to be a few tiers above what the foos can do in terms of songwriting, riffs, melodies, etc. to get over the fact that there's nothing innovative whatsoever about it. and pretty much since the first couple of albums, it's been blatantly "just ok" at best and sometimes outright bad.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2015/07/02/why-were-not-photographing-the-foo-fighters/

If we signed it, we would have agreed to: the band approving the photos which run in the City Paper; only running the photos once and with only one article; and all copyrights would transfer to the band. Then, here's the fun part, the band would have "the right to exploit all or a part of the Photos in any and all media, now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe, in perpetuity, in all configurations" without any approval or payment or consideration for the photographer.

a lot of my photographer friends have been posting about this on facebook. these bullshit contracts are becoming more and more common, any pushback on it is very welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozAmXo2bDE

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/07/foo-fighters-to-visit-cesena-italy/

nice

Meh - none of them broke their leg as a tribute?

Looking forward to seeing that at the Barbican next summer

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/news/a42610/foo-fighters-breakup/

*yawning_chasm.jpg*

slightly misleading URL there from esquire, but please for the love of god, break up and stop occasionally appearing on awards shows

i can't believe grohl was on the oscars playing the in memoriam song

it's times like these you learn to love again
it's times like these you learn to love again, yes and
it's times like these you learn to love again!
it's times like these you learn to love again!! i said
it's tiiimes like these you learn to love again!!!
it's tiiimes like these you learn to love agaain!!!!! yes and
it's tiiimes like theese you learn to love agaaaain!!!!!
it's tiiimes like theese you learn to love agaaaaain!!!!!! whoa now
it's tiiiimes like theeese you learn to love agaaaaaain!!!!!!!
it's tiiiiiimes like theeeeeese you learn to love agaaaaaaain!!!!! i said
it's tiiiiiimes like theeeese you learn to love agaaaaaaaain!!!!!!!!! whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahttps://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3280467561/c5240632ae97e773486abe98c8ada6f7_400x400.jpeg

Foos breaking up on my bday as a gift to me but also to hit home that no trace of my youth remains.

I can only really name 2 Foo Fighters songs released in the last 11 years, and nothing since 2007 or thereabouts.

i can name a few

You Don't Have Anything
Song For A Man
Adventure #11
Grateful
All Are Content
Blister and Rage
Do Not Follow
Searching For Real
Force Emerge
Main Disconnect

well fuck

http://pitchfork.com/news/63909-foo-fighters-mock-breakup-rumors-with-hilarious-video-and-nick-lachey/

admittedly the video is kinda funny at points

Nick Lachey vocals an improvement

the possibility of them ever breaking up being raised is the biggest improvement

but it doesn't matter cos you know it will just be Dave Grohl documentaries 24/7 on Netflix in 2020

more like foo farters

more like poo parters

i can name a few

You Don't Have Anything
Song For A Man
Adventure #11
Grateful
All Are Content
Blister and Rage
Do Not Follow
Searching For Real
Force Emerge
Main Disconnect

You made those up!

(didn't you?)

Well, he's done, done and he's onto the next one. (you see what I did there? Forgot to repeat that line 17/5 times, that's what)

17.5 but nm

what a bummer

their joke video only made me wish nick lachey were the frontman of the foo fighters

me too. he's good!

i heard a song on the radio while going to walmart the other day. it had this grownup sadman chorus part and the guitars got all chunky for a minute at the end. i went home and sang it to my cat who said it was foos. then i listened to it a couple more times on youtube. it's okay. foo fighters!

[saint cecilia]

I GOT ANOTHA CONFESSION TO MAAAAAAAAAYKE

"bands you were surprised to learn had not broken up yet"

i heard a song on the radio while going to walmart the other day. it had this grownup sadman chorus part and the guitars got all chunky for a minute at the end. i went home and sang it to my cat who said it was foos. then i listened to it a couple more times on youtube. it's okay. foo fighters!

― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Thursday, March 3, 2016 3:58 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah "Saint Cecilia" is nice. i find it funny that they went across the country recording their last full-length in 8 different studios and painstakingly documenting the process and wound up with probably their worst album, and then during the tour they knocked out an EP recorded on buses and hotel rooms that's a bit lighter on its feet.

first album is sick

I love the third one. A great power-pop album.

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it's tiiiiiimes like theeeese you learn to love agaaaaaaaain!!!!!!!!! whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRlJrkxsqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRlJrkxsqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRlJrkxsqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRlJrkxsqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRlJrkxsqo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTte01kdG_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifwc5xgI3QM

These guys are surely the alternative rock Status Quo by this stage? Like, everything after their third or fourth album just blurs into one huge fucking mush of samey to me now.

that new single seems to change shape enough to keep my attention

i really wish i loved this band more as things like the recent rick astley thing and this are rather wonderful.

http://www.nme.com/news/music/foo-fighters-under-pressure-cover-student-2152109?utm_content=manual&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nme

I watched the perfectly enjoyable THOR last week and it was almost ruined after the fact in the end credits thanks to what ended up being an especially terrible Foo Fighters song.

this is a bad band.