The Foo Fighters - Classic or Dud?

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.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 10:17 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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...

yeah the doc is pretty entertaining.

"Sonic Highways" might the stupidest album name ever.

Haha, it is a classic "dad rock" title

it's funny because if it's themed around studios in different cities, "Sound City" would be a better/less awkward title, but that was what Grohl already used for his last passion project about old school recording studios

It's like they got it from a Neil Young album title generator on the internet

Yeah it does sound like a title of a classic rock band's album from 1998.

So... pretty fitting for Foo Fighters then.

Cool album cover though:

http://www.sonicstadium.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Sonic-Generations-HD-Speed-Highway-screenshots-3-1024x576.jpg

Radio 1 sorry for double F-word
BBC Radio 1 has apologised for broadcasting a Foo Fighters track that contained two F-words twice in 12 hours. Newsbeat

How long is that Foo Fighters track then?

didn't know you weren't allowed to say 'foo fighters' on national radio

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I don't mind the debut and The Colour and The Shape, and even a few singles from the two albums that followed. Anything they put out after One By One, though? Forget it.

Fuck this stupid fucking band

I like the fact people were complaining of his guesting with other bands as far back as 2003 (not sure why im surprised but whatever)

he played with tom petty on snl in 1994, i'm sure pockets of the net would have WTF'd if it'd existed then

new album is good. though i don't think he's done anything great since the third album, which to me sounds like the best Posies album the Posies never made.

I think if the FF had the personality of Stringfellow/Auer I'd appreciate them more.

he definitely can't shine their shoes, singing-wise or songwriting-wise. but yeah There Is Nothing had a nice power pop sheen to it.

i went to see if the song from this week's episode of the show was online yet and the fake song on YouTube is pretty hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HGO6-QUGhg

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.