The Foo Fighters - Classic or Dud?

i'm also wondering who's playing the guitar solo because that sounds a bit beyond both dave and chris.

they recorded the whole album in Grohl's garage and did everything analog until the mastering process iirc

hahah they paid all that money to build a fancy studio for them to record in and they end up recording in a garage? niiiiiice.

oh man "Rope" is fucking aces

I have zero opinion on the Foo Fighters, but I think their attitude to Glee is great

Don’t count on hearing the Foo Fighters hit “Times Like These” on Glee anytime soon. Frontman Dave Grohl says he and his bandmates are squarely in the corner of Kings of Leon and Slash. As in, they want no part of the Ryan Murphy-helmed show.

“It’s every band’s right, you shouldn’t have to do f---ing Glee,” Grohl told THR following the premiere of Foo Fighters: Back and Forth, the new Foo Fighters documentary which just made its South By Southwest debut. “And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we’re not, like, begging to be on his f---ing show… f--- that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee.”

You might be wondering, has Grohl ever actually watched the show? As it turns out, yes, he gave Glee a whirl. “I watched 10 minutes. It’s not my thing,” Grohl grizzled. But he doesn’t have as much of a problem with the series as he does with its creator.

Recounting anti-Glee comments made by Slash earlier this year and subsequent retorts by Murphy, reported by THR, Grohl explained to drummer Taylor Hawkins: “The Glee guy, what a f---ing jerk. Slash was the first one. He wanted to do Guns ‘n’ Roses and Slash is like, ‘I hate f---ing musicals. It’s worse than Grease.’ Then [Murphy's] like, ‘Well, of course he’d say that, he’s a washed up ol’ rock star, that’s what they f---ing do.’ And then Kings of Leon say, ‘No, we don’t want to be on your show.’ And then he’s like, ‘Snotty little assholes…’ And it’s just like, Dude, maybe not everyone loves Glee. Me included.”

Said Hawkins: “Yeah, f--- that shit.”

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streaming! sounds good so far.

there goes my heroku

New album is pretty great, imho, best thing they've done since The Colour and the Shape. I know these guys get a lot of backlash for being sorta formulaic and like too popular, but, man as far as over-hyped mega-selling mainstream rock bands go, they are so much better than the alternatives.

Even when they're sucking, I still kind of like them because Grohl is an all-time cool duder.

That Financial Times piece on Grohl was pretty good (via Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2290837/), but then tosses in this hyperbolic boner:

It's practically unheard of for a drummer to make it as a lead singer—perhaps the only other famous example is Phil Collins, who forged a solo career after his time in Genesis. Yet Collins is not playing stadium gigs 20 years on.

Anyway, that new Foo Fighters single sounds like Rush.

Yeah, I think Grohl's everydude personality helps out a lot. If he was on some ego-fueled Stapp trip or something, it would make the ubiquity much less tolerable. The only thing that really makes squicky about this band is that Alive & Well bullshit, but I think that's more Nate Mendel's doing than Grohl, iirc.

somehow i managed to get two instances of "white limo" going on that player at the same time, a 16th note apart. so i thought that there was this crazy slapback delay on the drums and that it suddenly sounded unimaginably heavy and evil. now i am very disappointed.

Kind of cool that Bob Mould has a guest appearance on one of the tracks.

Yeah I saw that, which explains why XRT has been playing the hell out of that track instead of any of the other singles.

somehow i managed to get two instances of "white limo" going on that player at the same time, a 16th note apart. so i thought that there was this crazy slapback delay on the drums and that it suddenly sounded unimaginably heavy and evil.

I just tried to replicate this, but I don't know if it's exactly the same thing you heard. Mix I made sounds pretty badass, though.

http://www.box.net/shared/vahycs52oh

Awesome. I love the Foo Fighters when they're good. I have a playlist called "mediocre modern rock" and it is mostly just the FFs greatest hits 1995-2005.

(and that playlist might be about to get longer? can't wait to listen)

i really love 'there is nothing left to lose' - its a great soppy power-pop album. new one's a cracker too.

streaming link up thread still works, yay!
I'm a huge Grohl fan but lost interest in the last couple of Foo albums...am LOVING this. Definitely will pick it up.

dave grohl really likes gum

ugh yes

it's the only caveat to an otherwise pretty perfecto rock dude

I was jealous of him not for being in Nirvana, not for being an awesome drummer, not for hanging out with Lemmy, but for those rumors of him hooking up with both of the Veruca Salt girls.

i thought he just dated one of them for a while? or i guess there's a rumor in addition to that?

I still love him for Probot...dude has an awesome black heart of metal

also: handsome :D

Well, maybe this has long since debunked, but there was a rumor at one point in the 1990s that he slept with one while or shortly after dating the other and caused some friction.

man i tried to reproduce it but couldn't. it was an exact 16th note delay.

i've got another confession, my friend . . . i'm no fool . . .

WERE YOU BORN TO RESSIIIIIIIIIST

the last track on this is really remarkable

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This band is 30% Classic and 70% Dud. Could probably make a single CD of totally classic foo

i think the first and third are all-killer/no-filler tbh

http://www.hulu.com/watch/126479/saturday-night-live-band-reunion-at-the-wedding

classic?? no!!
dud? hell no. gigantic crock o'crappp, more like.

"Wheels" sounds like Gerry Rafferty.

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They've covered Baker Street, that's probably entirely intentional.

Speak of adding insult to insult...

This band is 30% Classic and 70% Dud. Could probably make a single CD of totally classic foo

― kgositsile project (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, April 15, 2011 3:30 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

by your math there's 112 minutes of classic Foo!

I should say that I was utterly ambivalent about the Foo Fighters until I saw them live, and then I actively disliked them. I've come around a tiny bit since then, but not much. It was like a Fisher Price My First Concert set, with all the attendant cliches, which gave the show such a smug feel. If they were joking, they were mocking the kids taking them seriously. If they were being serious, I couldn't take them seriously.

Is Foo Fighters one of the few contemporary rock groups, along with Radiohead, that Prince has been known to cover?

the first half of this album is pretty strong, and then it's hit and miss. but i'd agree with those upthread who said that this is their strongest since the colour and the shape. i was always mad that grohl left the title track off of that album because it's so damn awesome, but they make up for that now with "white limo". better late than never?

i like that they're playing to their strengths, but it's still kindof sad that even on an album where they play to their strengths, they can't do it consistently.

was anyone else blown away by novoselic's bass part on the record? i forget what song it is, but it's hard to miss. it just comes through the mix so well, and makes me wish that nate mendell wasn't such a softy. why can't the foo fighters sound like that all the time?

I disagree on the 'hit and miss' 2nd half, I haven't found that at all. So far the only song I don't care for is 'These Days'...but everything else feels really strong, consistent and ridiculously hook-y. It's good enough for me to wish it had been the follow up to One By One, which is probably the last time they really had my interest (but even then it was starting to slip a little)

Find myself easily singing along to almost all of them after only a few listens. Which is nice after the one-listen-"meh" of the last two albums. I like to think it's Smear's return, but who knows

imo the electric half of In Your Honor doesn't get enough props as one of their best albums, disc 1 is pretty strong front to back

Dud

unlistenable.

;_;

the last track on this is really remarkable
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― kgositsile project (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, April 15, 2011 3:30 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

Is it called "Walk?" The intro sounds like Matchbox 20.

its the one that ends with dave yelling "i never wanna die" over and over, but i'm not sure what its called and have never heard a matchbox 20 song

then you have yet to experience true bliss, my friend

They're both classic and dud at the same time. They seem to take their rockstar status with humor and I really appreciate when they do that. It feels to me the whole thing is a little tongue-in-cheek. As if they were conciously trying to be some sort of parody of the anthemic, stadium rock band while casually delivering the hits at the same time. This is why they're also dud, they're not really ambitious in musical terms. They found the formula for a rock anthem and they stick to it most of the time.

that doc that was just put out was really good.. I like seeing all the behind the scenes stuff, and I like nowing that Grohl can be a dick sometimes, but has a clear vision of what he wants the band to do...