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 (sixteen years ago) link
DOM: http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2441073
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
o i c
― elan, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:45 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Posts to ILX don't, however.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 25 April 2008 13:32 (sixteen 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
He's like a nice Chad Kroeger now.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Mostly dud for me overall, but I have to hand it to their recording engineers - they all sound great. Call 'em the alt.rock Boston.
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:43 AM Bookmark
OTM about the recordings. Also the multitracked Grohl voice just has a really distinctive sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONkiLR5Ehys
^^^ actually a pretty good melodic rock song, didn't think they still had it in 'em.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 June 2010 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i didn't really give that song much of a chance when it came out. it isn't so bad, but the more i listen to their older stuff, the more i really wish they had stayed that power-pop course.
― borntohula, Monday, 7 June 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm listening to the first album at the moment for the first time in 800 years. "I'll Stick Around" is quite powerful in its furious riffage.
― Freedom, Monday, 7 June 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"Wheels" is totally the weakest of even their most recent singles, "Long Road To Ruin" is a way better melodic pop tune
― some dude, Monday, 7 June 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"Wheels" sounds like Gerry Rafferty.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJ2brErERQ
― NYCNative, Sunday, 13 February 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
LOVE pat's beanie cap
― I'd rather climb into the saddle of my Ford Mustang and sink spurs (stevie), Sunday, 13 February 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man. thanks for posting. maybe this album will be good, and i can take a break from being a foo fighters apologist!
― borntohula, Monday, 14 February 2011 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
D U D
― John Lennon, Monday, 14 February 2011 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the video and the song is pretty decent too.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 February 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
album is pretty tite. bob mould's backing vocalsonthat one song are a thrill too.
― I'd rather climb into the saddle of my Ford Mustang and sink spurs (stevie), Monday, 14 February 2011 08:13 (thirteen years ago) link
takes a while but the journey ref was worth it. and I totally approve of Dave Grohl hitting Danzig poses in front of the band instead of playing guitar.
― da croupier, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
read something about a feature-film doc on the way
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 February 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Foo Fighters: Never Say Over
― da croupier, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At3rZUgQsh8
more new stuffs. they sound like a completely different band. what the hell happened between that dud of a last record and this?
― borntohula, Thursday, 24 February 2011 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm also wondering who's playing the guitar solo because that sounds a bit beyond both dave and chris.
― borntohula, Thursday, 24 February 2011 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
they recorded the whole album in Grohl's garage and did everything analog until the mastering process iirc
― some dude, Thursday, 24 February 2011 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link