The Foo Fighters - Classic or Dud?

heh I remember being confused in high school as to why the version I kept hearing on the radio was not the one on my cd. even just the "I'm on your back part", he sings eighth notes at the end instead of all quarters

that video is so.....canadian

Listening to Foo Fighters s/t, realizing that I basically know all these songs in a general "sound of the 90s" way but no longer know that they were by the Foo Fighters -- have learned furthermore (by finding it ripped in my iTunes) that I owned this CD.

Also, the toy-gun cover is what I think of as the canonical Foo Fighters graphic, I would have assumed that this was the album that has all their biggest songs on it, but apparently not

Wait it's possible there is actually no song I know to be by the Foo Fighters

"Everlong" and "Learn to Fly," I mean, these are -- songs, songs one hears -- but... they're by the FOO FIGHTERS?

“Aurora” is my fave off that album

I did an overnight road trip to LA from Sac to the entire One by One album non repeat not long after it came out & i cannot listen to it anymore as a result lmao

i loved it at the time tho

*on repeat

also “Next Year” always makes me think of the tv show “Ed” (which i loved & will never stream bc of all the great music they used that i guess they cant get clearances for ~sigh~)

"Stacked Actors" was pretty much the last Foo track that drew my attention more than, I dunno, any given Chili Peppers song post-"Scar Tissue." Even the badass Rat riff in "Stacked Actors" is offset by Dave... crooning.

The riff on that is fantastic.

Ed was a lovely show.

"stacked actors" is also notable for being the least "nice" song notorious nice man dave grohl has ever written

This is all so interesting. I think it must be that when the Foo Fighters first popped up, it was simultaneously when I had my least interest in stuff like the Foo Fighters, my least interest in listening to alt-rock radio, and maybe even no access to MTV. I knew at the time "Everlong," the "Hero" song, the Mentos video, I know a couple of other big Foo Fighters songs, but I don't know a single album track (because I've never owned an album), and I've never had a friend that was a fan of the band, either. I've always liked Grohl's drumming, and enjoyed listening to him with QotSA, Crobot, Tom Petty on SNL, etc., but the Foo Fighters ... just the wrong wavelength at the wrong time?

"Stacked Actors" i remember getting as a leaked mp3 a little before the album came out, my buddy and i were AMPED for what was clearly going to be the hardest-rocking thing ever made. at the time we were a little disappointed that the rest of the album was not really in that style but in hindsight i'm glad we got what we got instead. almost the exact opposite of our experience with the "Everlasting Gaze" MP3 (taken from some radio station preview including a DJ going "We're playin' it first.... AAAAAA-GAIN!") now that i think about it.

re: the weird stuff being sanded off, now i want to go back through The Colour and the Shape and look for it. like there's that skronky opening bit on "My Poor Brain" which could come from the same mind as "Weenie Beenie" but is now more like a little special effect flourish.

"alone + easy target" is the most nirvana-esque foos song, right? it would sounds excellent on incesticide

Dave played Kurt a demo of 'Alone + Easy Target' late in 1991, prompting Kurt to kiss him and say, "Now I don't have to be the only songwriter in the band"

Kurt also signalled an interest in recording Exhausted, though he wanted to rewrite the vocal

Dave played Kurt a demo of 'Alone + Easy Target' late in 1991, prompting Kurt to kiss him and say, "Now I don't have to be the only songwriter in the band"

― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Wednesday, February 10, 2021 9:42 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ugh lol

can i live in the alternate reality where there was a fourth nirvana album with grohl songs on it pls

FFs nommed for RRHOF btw

do they even have any albums in lists like ALBUMS U MUST HEAR BEFORE U DIE after like...the first two?

I'll say it again, the third album is excellent

do they even have any albums in lists like ALBUMS U MUST HEAR BEFORE U DIE after like...the first two?

this is true of a lot of inductees tbh

they'll pave the way for boston's induction

s/t > there is nothing left to lose > colour and the shape > wasting light > the rest

there is one bad song on "wasting light" and it's "these days," i have no idea why they wrote "walk" twice

they were just learning to "walk" again

just five guys in a room, repeatedly learning "Walk"

they'll pave the way for boston's induction

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 10, 2021 12:10 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

BOSTON HAD AN ALBUM THREE
THEY'LL BE AN INDUCTEE

AMANDA

lmao thank you

it never gets old

I listened to There Is Nothing Left to Lose last night it is still fucking great - not a bad song on there! All filler no killer as they say

“Headwire” is my new rediscovered fave, totally forgot how much i love it

20 years ago, certainly in the NYC music media/major label ecosystem in which I resided, and no doubt in similar redoubts elsewhere, the foo fighters represented a kind of mainstream rock group populated by people that we, or more significantly I, recognized as guys I would like. And this band was contrasted with what at the time appeared to be the ascendant dominant rock music: nu- or rap-metal, or creed style butt rock. The Foo Fighters were respectable! and they did mainstream music that employees of major labels and hangers on like myself were not threatened by…

What really turned me against the guy was the HBO documentary. I really liked that "Rope" song, and I have mainstream radio-rock so deeply embedded in my being that I have no doubt that I would like many songs on their records, even this dopey new one (you can't do better than mentioning let's Dance or "Miss you?" Can't you have someone tell you to talk about Dua Lipa?) were I inclined to listen to it. But when he uses that doc to privilege his own experience coming up in music, through punk rock, clubs, guitars, etc etc and to in essence complain that if kids aren't doing it that way, they are doing it wrong? Fuck him with a hot poker. It is not up to him or Little Steven to dictate the proper ways for kids to experience music. Neither he or Little Steven would like it if some 50 year old told him that Mantovani or Glenn Miller done it this way…and indeed, most kids are experiencing music in their own image…as it should be!

yeah, I certainly encourage preservation/renewal of techniques, technologies, spaces, etc, but it can come off more offputtingly conservative or prescriptive than I think they meant to

realization, i think what happened to me in college was more or less that what i looked for in the foo fighters, i now found in the Guided By Voices best-of.

it brings me no great pleasure to share this video, in which Dave Grohl is his usual charming self for 30 minutes - burping, cursing, telling stories and getting Hot Ones Sean drunk. sorry, but i love it.

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

thx for this -Dave is a good time imo!

also Dave reminds me of my brother in law who i love to death. same age, same level gregariousness, same “fun hang” vibe. so for that i cannot help but enjoy him.

Thought this bump was going to be about their stupid horror movie.

Came to post about their stupid horror movie...Was looking at the schedule for the rep theatre an hour away, and it's on there for next week. As a non-fan, it was like "Am I actually reading this?"

i want to see it. my friend loved it.

It's like their "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park" or something, right?

In the end Grohl is kind of like the alt Phil Collins, an incredible drummer with his name on lots of good records who is best when he is playing drums and sort of hit or miss (no pun intended) when he's doing anything else, which averages out to a kind of default middle of the road reputation a little discordant (again, no pun intended) with his punk roots and love of Real Metal.

I've heard from a few horror loving friends that the gore and kills are great, but everything else is absolutely awful.

Grohl retorts "I DON'T OWE YOU ANYTHING"

When they make the documentary on the making of the stupid horror movie, that'll work out well, because Dave Grohl would have been in it anyway.

what the fuuuck

seriously what the fuck. completely shocking.

rip taylor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-0EGjHwSKE

insanely awful news RIP

this is very sad news, RIP Taylor

That's so sad to hear. They were on tour in South America. So far from home.