"nobody can read anybody's minds so no-one should hazard a guess why anyone does things" is an interesting take on a website where users claim to know the reasons and secret impulses of others on a daily, hourly, minutely basis
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 12:40 (three years ago) link
"hazarding a guess" oh is that what he's doing there
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 12:43 (three years ago) link
On the other side of every Larson review is a funnier, truer, more insightful world that Larson has cordoned off out of insecurity. Instead, he writes music reviews out of a sense of duty and fear.
wow such insight
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 12:44 (three years ago) link
Dave keeps rock alive, whoever that is keeps rock journalism alive. Why, we will never know.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 12:49 (three years ago) link
it's 2021 simon i don't really have the time to explain music journalism to you
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link
that's just duty and fear talking
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 12:57 (three years ago) link
pathway to the Dark Side iirc
― honk honk honkin' on Bobo's door (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:16 (three years ago) link
i think maybe i’ve expressed in this very thread how disappointing the foo fighters greatest hits actually is. they put “skin & bones” on it ffs, gross
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:26 (three years ago) link
i have a little less love for the There Is Nothing Left To Lose album tracks, but thanks for the reminder on "Aurora," I'd forgotten that one! my favorite deep cut on that record at the time was "Live-In Skin." a lot of the stuff from that album and The Colour and the Shape is just hard on my ears these days - i wish i could still hear the "Doll" to "Monkey Wrench" transition the way i could in 1997 - but i do respond to all those shiny multitracked hooks. listened to TCatS yesterday straight through for the first time in eons and there was indeed some solid power-pop on it. i think at the time i really understood them as "alternative" and couldn't perceive the through-lines to the hookier, poppier end of Classic Rock which i was also just getting into in those same years. for me, besides "Everlong," the big standout from that album is "New Way Home."the first album is its own beast as this lo-fi, one-man-band, quickie recording thing... it's written differently, it sounds different, some of the songs are in deep fuzz-blanket territory but the hooks are still there... even the poppiest thing on it, "Big Me," basically gets him as far as sounding like "Take the Skinheads Bowling." it's great. you can easily imagine it being the only thing released under the Foo Fighters name, in a world where he'd chosen a new name when recruiting the band (like the Julie Ruin -> Le Tigre shift).
― honk honk honkin' on Bobo's door (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:29 (three years ago) link
had they put it out right after wasting light and not fucked up the tracklist with boring acoustic songs no one has ever liked (or had they never recorded “wheels”)... alas
i assume it’s record company fuckery that kept the x-files soundtrack version of “walking after you” off that collection too. the injustice! etc.
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:29 (three years ago) link
xp
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:30 (three years ago) link
even grohl didn't like the greatest hits tracklist iirc
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:31 (three years ago) link
any mention of how Dave Grohl is the nicest guy ever should also be accompanied by his AIDS denialism
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
had they put it out right after wasting light and not fucked up the tracklist with boring acoustic songs no one has ever liked
Wasting Light proved for me that they are still pretty good at being a big obnoxious hooky arena rock act but, at this point, pretty bad at everything else
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
“rope” and “walk” are top-tier foos singles def
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
would listen to a whole album of "white limo" style dumb ragers
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link
I remember liking One by One
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
discovered that grohl has done the 'back to basics just five guys in a room ROCKING OUT' spiel at least twice now with both wasting light and concrete and gold lol
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
Speaking of Pat, I don't think I've ever seen a clip of him where he didn't look like he knew he's gotten away with pulling a fast one. Like, Grohl and Hawkins are competing for role of Hamosaurus Rex, and Pat is all, lol, I can't believe this is making me rich.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
concrete & gold really isn't "5 guys in a rooom back to basics" etc tho, it's his first album with greg kurstin - he was collabing with McCartney and Justin Timberlake and Shawn from BoyzIIMen
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
he tried to spin it that way though is the thing
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
just ten guys with 1000 grammys between them making a stripped down rock and roll record
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:35 (three years ago) link
To be fair, haven't they been pushing that "5 guys in a room back to basics" since Wasting Light? Iirc, that was the album where they made a big deal about recording in Grohl's garage, y'know, just 5 guys in a millionaire's garage recording studio. Think that HBO project thing was the only one recently that wasn't pitched as such, given the collaborative nature.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:40 (three years ago) link
they also made a big deal about wasting light being recorded to tape
hard to tell
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
wasting light is still totally the best foo fighters record since there is nothing left to lose and it's not close
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
lol I remember this, made all the difference I'm sure lads
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
Eh, I'd actually argue that Wasting Light is the best Foos record outside of the first three, but that's a low bar.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
that's what i said
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
the new one hasn't been pitched as "back to basics" either this time is it's "we wanted to sound like bowie's let's dance and there's drum loops which counts as sonic experimentation for us" but i couldn't tell any of that from the singles
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
lol xp sorry Brad, totally missed your post!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
Always mildly fascinated with bands of a certain stature where you suddenly realise theres 5 or 6 guys in the band (especially when they could/did get the job done with 3)
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
If you have six guys instead of three then you only need to work half as hard. #math
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
Granted i know Dave has a lot of friends
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link
Sorry that sounded snarky - if there is a nexus between decent payday and easy-going guys rocking out FF looks about as attractive as it gets
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
On the other hand, I imagine the cost of cleaning and caring for Taylor and his cage has got to be considerable.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
i'm relistening to there is nothing left to lose and this band's existence was worth it for "generator" alone
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
hell yeah, i remember "aurora"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
run from "generator" to "headwires" is prob the best set of foo fighters songs ever
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
i dream of an emo/power-pop hybrid band that only puts out songs that sound like "headwires"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
It's an excellent record.
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
Right?! That look on this face...
― babe for the weekend (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
i put on wasting light right after and this album is great too, i find it very frustrating that right after this they made a record with a conceptual scale grohl's songwriting could never live up to (and said concept was kind of silly and threadbare in the first place—"we, the alternative rock band foo fighters, are gonna record in famous studios around the country and capture the magic therein, and the final result will be a really overblown foo fighters record"). like just put out power pop records with good songs on them, check out this one you made in 2011
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
yeah I feel the exact same way...it's doubly frustrating because you'd think there would be tons of veteran bands just cranking out solid pop-rock records like that and AFAIK there really isn't
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
rereading the wikipedia page for wasting light, i think it’s one of the most successful “back to our roots” projects i’ve ever heard. this is the exact kind of band that should be going back to their roots lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
One thread that disappeared too quickly from Grohl's music was the goofiness and spontaneity, especially on the back half of the debut. They carried it on with the videos for a couple of albums, but that element was an important part of why I absolutely loved the debut when it came out. It was such a balm in the years when alt-rock radio was inundated with self-serious sadsacks.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
yeah I feel the exact same way...it's doubly frustrating because you'd think there would be tons of veteran bands just cranking out solid pop-rock records like that and AFAIK there really isn't― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, February 9, 2021 9:09 AM (forty-one minutes ago)
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, February 9, 2021 9:09 AM (forty-one minutes ago)
wait, what? did you leave out a qualifier here or something? because there are lots of veteran bands cranking out solid pop-rock records.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
finally, the drum parts in foo fighters songs are always really fun to learn
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
once halloween shows are a thing again i think my band is inevitably gonna do a foos cover set
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link
+ nirvana "breed"
pre-sold
― honk honk honkin' on Bobo's door (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link