The Foo Fighters - Classic or Dud?

slightly misleading URL there from esquire, but please for the love of god, break up and stop occasionally appearing on awards shows

i can't believe grohl was on the oscars playing the in memoriam song

it's times like these you learn to love again
it's times like these you learn to love again, yes and
it's times like these you learn to love again!
it's times like these you learn to love again!! i said
it's tiiimes like these you learn to love again!!!
it's tiiimes like these you learn to love agaain!!!!! yes and
it's tiiimes like theese you learn to love agaaaain!!!!!
it's tiiimes like theese you learn to love agaaaaain!!!!!! whoa now
it's tiiiimes like theeese you learn to love agaaaaaain!!!!!!!
it's tiiiiiimes like theeeeeese you learn to love agaaaaaaain!!!!! i said
it's tiiiiiimes like theeeese you learn to love agaaaaaaaain!!!!!!!!! whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahttps://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3280467561/c5240632ae97e773486abe98c8ada6f7_400x400.jpeg

Foos breaking up on my bday as a gift to me but also to hit home that no trace of my youth remains.

I can only really name 2 Foo Fighters songs released in the last 11 years, and nothing since 2007 or thereabouts.

i can name a few

You Don't Have Anything
Song For A Man
Adventure #11
Grateful
All Are Content
Blister and Rage
Do Not Follow
Searching For Real
Force Emerge
Main Disconnect

well fuck

http://pitchfork.com/news/63909-foo-fighters-mock-breakup-rumors-with-hilarious-video-and-nick-lachey/

admittedly the video is kinda funny at points

Nick Lachey vocals an improvement

the possibility of them ever breaking up being raised is the biggest improvement

but it doesn't matter cos you know it will just be Dave Grohl documentaries 24/7 on Netflix in 2020

more like foo farters

more like poo parters

i can name a few

You Don't Have Anything
Song For A Man
Adventure #11
Grateful
All Are Content
Blister and Rage
Do Not Follow
Searching For Real
Force Emerge
Main Disconnect

You made those up!

(didn't you?)

Well, he's done, done and he's onto the next one. (you see what I did there? Forgot to repeat that line 17/5 times, that's what)

17.5 but nm

what a bummer

their joke video only made me wish nick lachey were the frontman of the foo fighters

me too. he's good!

i heard a song on the radio while going to walmart the other day. it had this grownup sadman chorus part and the guitars got all chunky for a minute at the end. i went home and sang it to my cat who said it was foos. then i listened to it a couple more times on youtube. it's okay. foo fighters!

[saint cecilia]

I GOT ANOTHA CONFESSION TO MAAAAAAAAAYKE

"bands you were surprised to learn had not broken up yet"

i heard a song on the radio while going to walmart the other day. it had this grownup sadman chorus part and the guitars got all chunky for a minute at the end. i went home and sang it to my cat who said it was foos. then i listened to it a couple more times on youtube. it's okay. foo fighters!

― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Thursday, March 3, 2016 3:58 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah "Saint Cecilia" is nice. i find it funny that they went across the country recording their last full-length in 8 different studios and painstakingly documenting the process and wound up with probably their worst album, and then during the tour they knocked out an EP recorded on buses and hotel rooms that's a bit lighter on its feet.

first album is sick

I love the third one. A great power-pop album.

THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST

it's tiiiiiimes like theeeese you learn to love agaaaaaaaain!!!!!!!!! whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRlJrkxsqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRlJrkxsqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRlJrkxsqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRlJrkxsqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRlJrkxsqo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTte01kdG_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifwc5xgI3QM

These guys are surely the alternative rock Status Quo by this stage? Like, everything after their third or fourth album just blurs into one huge fucking mush of samey to me now.

that new single seems to change shape enough to keep my attention

i really wish i loved this band more as things like the recent rick astley thing and this are rather wonderful.

http://www.nme.com/news/music/foo-fighters-under-pressure-cover-student-2152109?utm_content=manual&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nme

I watched the perfectly enjoyable THOR last week and it was almost ruined after the fact in the end credits thanks to what ended up being an especially terrible Foo Fighters song.

this is a bad band.

they should have quit 20 years ago

i got another confession to make!

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UTM.

i'm almost stunned every time i hear a post-Everlong foos track because they're always vv featureless and bland and despite Grohl being the wacky chive king throne god and future twice-inducted RNR HOFer there's zero personality and songcraft that comes out in any of their music, and even the early superior stuff is fairly blank corporate uber-competency completely divorced from his persona.

when hate-shazamming any generic rock song i'm unfamiliar with, the answer is always "foo fighters"

They are very My First Rock Band.

excellent summary omar little.

i used to think of them as "whatever album came out while you were still in high school is their last good album," but maybe i was wrongly generalizing from my own experience where that would be "there is nothing left to lose." tho in hindsight that only has like 3-4 tracks i'd still consider more or less good, hmmmmmm

I still think There Is Nothing Left To Lose is a very very strong power-pop record

I keep getting YT clips recommended to me of FF gigs where they seem to be endlessly getting fans up on stage to play their own songs or a parade of classic rock cover versions and fucking about doing crowd-pleasing goofy things, it's all a bit Vegas.

The other guys (apart from Hawkins, perhaps) perform like they are simply there for the paycheck, Ghrol can keep up the illusion that they are a real band and not just a vessel for his songs, but he really should have just stuck it out as a solo artist, like a Gen-X Billy Joel.

there is nothing left to lose has “aurora” and “generator,” the best foo fighters deep cuts. they’ve never released a completely solid album but yeah the albums get markedly worse after that one. (except for wasting light which was weirdly pretty good)

"live-in skin" was my personal jam deep cut from that one. i wish i could re-inhabit the excitement when my buddy and i first scored a leaked radio promo mp3 of "stacked actors" and believed the impending album would be one of the hardest-rocking CDs ever pressed.

"when hate-shazamming any generic rock song i'm unfamiliar with, the answer is always "foo fighters""

--Nick Cave

Foo Fighters are 21st Century butt-rock.

I think the second album and *maybe* the first are both "completely solid"

Wasting Light is probably close ... like 84% solid

Grohl has a forever pass, he can do what he wants as long as he wants and I'll still like him ... as long as I don't have to listen to the albums.

I still think There Is Nothing Left To Lose is a very very strong power-pop record

― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Wednesday, February 12, 2020 2:50 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

“Aurora” is so great. There was a point maybe 10 or so years ago where I thought Paramore could do a great cover version of that album.

Aurora, Generator, MIA, Stacked Actors, Learning To Fly, Ain't It The Life, Live-In Skin... There isn't a song I'd skip, and there's quite a few I genuinely love. After that, his hit-rate gets spotty, and he's definitely more a craftsman than someone given to maverick inspiration, and he'll forever be living in the shadow of his first band, and he'll never be cool, but I certainly reckon Foo Fighters remain a net positive. And Sonic Highways was a great TV show (if a lumpen and patchy LP).