OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

I can only name about Foo Fighters songs and think they're dull as mud and I don't think this makes me a straight-talking maverick. This self-aggrandising "yeah I went there" approach is silly. Also, Grohl's problem isn't that he's not "real" enough.

"I just don't like thing that some people like, it's just my gut reaction" is such a terrible premise for an entire thinkpiece, it's like showing people arty photos of your turds.

"This self-aggrandising 'yeah I went there' approach is silly."

Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen this used in a situation where I found the (whatever) stance as edgy as the writer wants me to think. Yet there's always a little story about how the writer SHOCKED somebody they were talking with this opinion (like what I pasted upthread).

I'm SHOCKED if I meet someone who passionately loves the Foo Fighters.

You weren't here when Aja posted I suppose..

I've met (worked with) at least 3 people who passionately love the Foo Fighters. Two of them are/were women under 25.

The other was Taylor Hawkins.

The enthusiasm of my total bro cousin (studying grad school economics in London, natch) for the Foo Fighters knows no bounds.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/foo-fighters-sonic-highways-is-the-so-so-rock-doc-gene-1660615929

concourse did a much more reasonable, non-hot-takey version of criticizing sonic highways than the pompous hate-screed posted upthread

hmm who is this mysterious anthony miccio character and can we get him to post here I wonder

has any other musician switched instruments mid-career like DG?
off the top, I can only think of Phil Collins...........

You mean are there other musicians who can play more than one instrument? Yes. Lots. Most of them actually.

Karen Carpenter

Miles Davis

Scarface

kanye

yeah but come on, MC is talking about people who were pretty much exclusively associated with one primary instrument and switched mid-career.

scarface and kanye actually work pretty well

Miles Davis was known for playing the trumpet for the vast majority of his career - then abruptly switched to organ for a large portion of this electric period

Drummer of B52s became their guitarist.

Carpenter drummed and sang for the first half of her career, then p much just switched to singing (just like our man Phil)

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Bobby Gillespie lolz

DJ Quik's kinda done this - switching back and forth from production and rapping

Brian Wilson (he def stopped playing bass altogether at some point iirc)

Kim Deal

Stevie Wonder

(ie from singin + harmonica to I PLAY EVERYTHING)

When?

xpost re Kim

Pixies (bass) to Breeders (guitar)

Beastie Boys

Miles Davis was known for playing the trumpet for the vast majority of his career - then abruptly switched to organ for a large portion of this electric period

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, November 19, 2014 5:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah but no one is ever gonna mainly associate Miles with the organ, and he played trumpet on all the records he played organ on (unless there's one I'm not thinking of).

where does this "mainly associate" come from? the question was strictly about mid-career instrument switching

even if that did matter, do you really think Grohl is "mainly associated" with his shitty guitar+vocals and not his drumming in Nirvana?

I'm saying he didn't really "switch" he just started also playing organ, it wasn't a collins or grohl type thing where their primary band role completely changed.

I think for a lot of people the image of Grohl that comes to mind first would be frontman of foo fighters, yeah.

I'm saying he didn't really "switch" he just started also playing organ

ok fine

don't agree about Grohl but whatever

Father John Misty

you're overestimating the shitty younger generation

Dennis Wilson

John Cale

ven if that did matter, do you really think Grohl is "mainly associated" with his shitty guitar+vocals and not his drumming in Nirvana?

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, November 19, 2014 5:15 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what planet do you live on

Bill Clinton

the planet where Nirvana is one of the biggest bands of all time and the Foo Fighters are that shitty band that happened afterwards

xp

me too, mate

that's not a planet it's an age

Age Planet

the planet where Nirvana is one of the biggest bands of all time and the Foo Fighters are that shitty band that happened afterwards

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― Οὖτις,

You slipped from sales to aesthetic judgment here

I mean if you don't pay attention then say so but Foo are huge for anyone who came of age 1997-2004.

have they sold more records than Nirvana?