would listen to a whole album of "white limo" style dumb ragers
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link
I remember liking One by One
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
discovered that grohl has done the 'back to basics just five guys in a room ROCKING OUT' spiel at least twice now with both wasting light and concrete and gold lol
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
Speaking of Pat, I don't think I've ever seen a clip of him where he didn't look like he knew he's gotten away with pulling a fast one. Like, Grohl and Hawkins are competing for role of Hamosaurus Rex, and Pat is all, lol, I can't believe this is making me rich.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
concrete & gold really isn't "5 guys in a rooom back to basics" etc tho, it's his first album with greg kurstin - he was collabing with McCartney and Justin Timberlake and Shawn from BoyzIIMen
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
he tried to spin it that way though is the thing
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
just ten guys with 1000 grammys between them making a stripped down rock and roll record
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:35 (three years ago) link
To be fair, haven't they been pushing that "5 guys in a room back to basics" since Wasting Light? Iirc, that was the album where they made a big deal about recording in Grohl's garage, y'know, just 5 guys in a millionaire's garage recording studio. Think that HBO project thing was the only one recently that wasn't pitched as such, given the collaborative nature.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:40 (three years ago) link
they also made a big deal about wasting light being recorded to tape
hard to tell
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
wasting light is still totally the best foo fighters record since there is nothing left to lose and it's not close
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
lol I remember this, made all the difference I'm sure lads
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
Eh, I'd actually argue that Wasting Light is the best Foos record outside of the first three, but that's a low bar.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
that's what i said
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
the new one hasn't been pitched as "back to basics" either this time is it's "we wanted to sound like bowie's let's dance and there's drum loops which counts as sonic experimentation for us" but i couldn't tell any of that from the singles
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
lol xp sorry Brad, totally missed your post!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
Always mildly fascinated with bands of a certain stature where you suddenly realise theres 5 or 6 guys in the band (especially when they could/did get the job done with 3)
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
If you have six guys instead of three then you only need to work half as hard. #math
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
Granted i know Dave has a lot of friends
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link
Sorry that sounded snarky - if there is a nexus between decent payday and easy-going guys rocking out FF looks about as attractive as it gets
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
On the other hand, I imagine the cost of cleaning and caring for Taylor and his cage has got to be considerable.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
i'm relistening to there is nothing left to lose and this band's existence was worth it for "generator" alone
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
hell yeah, i remember "aurora"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
run from "generator" to "headwires" is prob the best set of foo fighters songs ever
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
i dream of an emo/power-pop hybrid band that only puts out songs that sound like "headwires"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
It's an excellent record.
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
Right?! That look on this face...
― babe for the weekend (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
i put on wasting light right after and this album is great too, i find it very frustrating that right after this they made a record with a conceptual scale grohl's songwriting could never live up to (and said concept was kind of silly and threadbare in the first place—"we, the alternative rock band foo fighters, are gonna record in famous studios around the country and capture the magic therein, and the final result will be a really overblown foo fighters record"). like just put out power pop records with good songs on them, check out this one you made in 2011
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
yeah I feel the exact same way...it's doubly frustrating because you'd think there would be tons of veteran bands just cranking out solid pop-rock records like that and AFAIK there really isn't
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
rereading the wikipedia page for wasting light, i think it’s one of the most successful “back to our roots” projects i’ve ever heard. this is the exact kind of band that should be going back to their roots lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
One thread that disappeared too quickly from Grohl's music was the goofiness and spontaneity, especially on the back half of the debut. They carried it on with the videos for a couple of albums, but that element was an important part of why I absolutely loved the debut when it came out. It was such a balm in the years when alt-rock radio was inundated with self-serious sadsacks.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
yeah I feel the exact same way...it's doubly frustrating because you'd think there would be tons of veteran bands just cranking out solid pop-rock records like that and AFAIK there really isn't― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, February 9, 2021 9:09 AM (forty-one minutes ago)
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, February 9, 2021 9:09 AM (forty-one minutes ago)
wait, what? did you leave out a qualifier here or something? because there are lots of veteran bands cranking out solid pop-rock records.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
finally, the drum parts in foo fighters songs are always really fun to learn
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
once halloween shows are a thing again i think my band is inevitably gonna do a foos cover set
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link
+ nirvana "breed"
pre-sold
― honk honk honkin' on Bobo's door (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
This whole thing has been good in that it’s made me remember how great the debut still is.
― We’re Up All Night To Get Lochte (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
That and “Everlong” (and maybe three other songs) is all the Foo I need.
― We’re Up All Night To Get Lochte (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
pls do "low"
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link
also as far as one off foos tribute acts go is "noo fighters" taken
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
"faux fighters" was right there
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
"nirvano"
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
somehow the main thing that's come of this revive for me is that i have "Fraternity" stuck in my head. i don't even know what it was a B-side to - a friend put it on a mixtape for me in my freshman year of college. kind of a dumb one-idea song but that one idea is annoyingly headsticky.
also i remember my roommate hearing the lyrics as a tedious boast "I'm in a big fraternity, I'm in the Beef Fraternity-y-y"
― honk honk honkin' on Bobo's door (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
i agree w Brad re Wasting Light, it’s such a great albumeverything after it sounds homogenous/generic, new album is ~fine~ but boring it’s a shame bc they seem in general to be v funloving & enthusiastic music nerds, but i think they lost their looseness & sense of fun in the grind of putting out new materiallike they take themselves too seriously & deadens the music somehow idk
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
listening to TINLTL right now for the first time in eons. it's closer to TCATS than i remembered which is a good thing, and less exhaustingly compressed than it sounds in my memory.
"Headwires" even feels almost like an attempt at another "Everlong," with the "better than a bullet being fired" part sounding a great deal like "If everything could ever feel this real forever." I like the watery opening riff, always reminded me of 16-bit video game music for some reason.
― honk honk honkin' on Bobo's door (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
... wow the foo fighters s/t really slaps from front to back. i used to think it was a little undeveloped compared to the follow-ups but nope! wrong!
“exhausted” is like an alt universe catherine wheel song
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
ooh! the debut sounds amazing in my memory but I've been a bit afraid to return in case I'm wrong
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
I remember having the tape with me during a field trip in 3rd or 4th grade, and my friend being amused by the title "For All the Cows" and making up a sorta Monty Python-esque version of what it might sound like (first Python fan in my life).
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
if anything it sounds more amazing now, though my love for idiosyncratic rock records that unite several substrains of punk and alt rock (“floaty” is a GREAT emo song) and sometimes subvert their hooks in hilarious endearing ways cf. “good grief”
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 00:28 (three years ago) link
... is maybe peaking atm
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
For fans of the first one, this is also worth a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTGRxUlyV8
― Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link