Thematically they shifted from "alternative" jibberish to "DAMN, woman, why can't you stop me from cheating on you" hard rock just as rock stations did, without getting so blatantly macho as to turn off the old fans who can still listen to rock stations.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
plus Grohl can still write a hook
whether or not you like nirvana, its pretty funny what a Hagar Grohl has become when you look back at his roots.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I've only heard the one Scream track on the Dischord comp from a pre-Grohl record, so I don't really know what they sounded like. but he always struck me as a metal/classic rock kid who fell into punk/alternative rock, and the later Foos/Probot/QOTSA stuff he's done in the past few years probably reflects those roots as much as you could say for anyone whose career started as underground and ended up as mersh as his.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
always? like when you were 12?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sure he wasn't the only 15 year old punk drummer who dug Bonham but he might be the only one singing "It's a shame we have to die, my dear" in an arena today.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
So really you just hate him for being successful.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Not sure what point you're trying to make there, but okay.
-- jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:22 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
^^^^^^^^^^ (haha xpost)
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't hate him now (too many Hagars out there who CAN'T write good hooks), and I didn't find him ridiculous until well after he was a millionaire.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
if we're gonna harp on anything being a betrayal of his XHARDXCOREX roots it should probably be the goofy videos where he wears wigs and plays 'characters', not the self-serious dirges.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
oh i won't harp on admirable ironies (Though "Everlong" is a way better video than "Learn To Fly").
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Way upthread: Nirvana were terrible lyrically!
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
not in a "the more you live the more you give" way
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Hagar would NEVER right "aqua seafoam shame"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
write, ha
Rock star in "recovery lyrics" shocker. Just be glad we didn't have to hear Kurt's.
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
this is true
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm digging Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace so far. He does his thing.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
COlour and teh shape was pretty great. i say classic.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah this is good. Summer's End in particular, with tight blades of guitars dancing around a pretty boogified southern bedrock.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
this still has me rolling though
Oh fuck you all, the world would've been a better place if it were dave grohl that courtney had shot. the foo fighters are the osound of stinking sneaker rock from the 70s with a bad moustache to boot. Now go on, be quiet and fuck off.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
DUD: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/02/foo.html
― elan, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
DOM: http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2441073
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
o i c
― elan, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i didn't realise that music reviews required every sentence to include painfully unfunny one-liners
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 25 April 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Posts to ILX don't, however.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 25 April 2008 13:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Can someone tell me a better major label hard rock album that came out in 1997, because I just listened to The Colour And The Shape for the first time and is not very good.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 12 July 2008 06:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't think of a better one. Doesn't mean Foo Fighters is any good, though.
― stephen, Saturday, 12 July 2008 06:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.riverofsound.com/Images/Products/IxnayOnTheHombreTheOffspring19978495f.jpg
http://www.tripstar.org/silverchair/covers/freakshow.jpg
http://cdn.last.fm/coverart/300x300/2268697-44219207.jpg
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 12 July 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Serious answer: there ain't one.
Its the last foo fighters album i liked
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 12 July 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Me too!
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 12 July 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
they were great on that tour. they sucked after pat left. I saw them support the prodigy after that with one of the stahls but it wasnt the same. Its quite sad how bad they've got now, even sadder they've got huge with it.
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 12 July 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I honestly cant think of a better major label rock/metal album from 1997. Lean times.
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 12 July 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
DUDDUDDUDDUDDUD
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 12 July 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i love the first album and the first album only. it's so different from the others, basically because it's a glorified demo tape.
-- latebloomer, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 1:43 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Link
― latebloomer, Saturday, 12 July 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd be even harder pushed to think of good major label rock/metal albums from the last few years. Mastodon, Qotsa, anything else?
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 12 July 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually this might make a good seperate thread
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 12 July 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
It would be a good thread. Good major label rock/metal acts have been rare this decade. You can have your My Chemical Romance and Panic! At The Disco and a bunch of other bands whose names bother me. Maybe American Idiot, if that's to be considered a good major label rock/metal album. What else is there?
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 12 July 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Good major Label Rock/Metal albums from Late 90's-2008?
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 12 July 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
debut album was i think the fifth cd i ever bought. love this record, even if it sucks apart from the first three tracks.
― caek, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I really like "Big Me" and "Everlong," but I absolutely despise "Fingernails are pretty. Fingernails are good." "Learn to Fly" was OK. Haven't heard anything else.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
First album showed promise that never really materialized on later albums.
― Jesus Christ, Attorney at Law (res), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
first album is great, love the whole thing. fun, garage-y. everything after is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
― Vokuhila (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link
2nd album >>> 1st album
― the daily fail (some dude), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
no wai.
Altho the second album is not bad. Anything after that is just terrible. Playing Guitar Hero: Metallica and it has the song "Stacked actors" on it which I think is from the 3rd album. Absolute shite. Not as bad as "I've got another confession to maaaaaaaaake" song, which sounds like something from a 1980s beer commercial.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i actually preferred grohl's lyrics when they were just scratch, "fingernails are pretty" and all. when he started taking his writing and music a bit more seriously, his earnest-rocker meter went off the charts and i tuned out. i do agree with the notion that the first disc of in your honour is probably the closest they've come to matching the greatness of their first two albums.
― borntohula, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The only album I actually like is the 1st one. The 2nd and 3rd have a few good songs. I would still listen to their stuff at least once when it came out, even though I didn't really like much of it, up til the point "Times Like These" came out - it was blaring out of the neighbour's window and I went to my gf "omg wtf this song is total shit, like embarrassingly awful, who is it?". That was the moment I went off Foo Fighters forever.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I like to picture some elaborate swearing off ceremony that included burnt pictures of Grohl and a cracked copy of the first album.
― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
He changed, man.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
there is nothing left to lose is a flawless power pop record btw
I still think it's their best.
― serving aunt (stevie), Thursday, 8 June 2023 09:31 (ten months ago) link
A coworker just sent me pics from a recent music fest; he was standing with his bf watching Peaches perform, and noticed Grohl was standing right behind them. His bf got a few selfies w/Grohl... pretty cool!
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Thursday, 8 June 2023 22:33 (ten months ago) link
revisiting the new one, god the best parts of this are like the best foos record ever. also really appreciate “the glass”’s resemblance to “in the meantime”
― ivy., Saturday, 25 November 2023 18:14 (four months ago) link