The Foo Fighters - Classic or Dud?

Saw 60 seconds of "My Hero" and I was shattered, I don't know how I could manage to watch the whole concert.

Sam still pretty shook that Gaz and the lads put their differences aside to reform.

Pat Smear lost band members in the Germs, Nirvana and now in Foo Fighters, too

― StanM, Sunday, September 4, 2022 10:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I hadn’t thought about this, but yeah.

yeah well that happens when you live to be 150 like Pat Smear

same when they did “let there be rock” w brian johnson - foos are like half the age of acdc & everyone including lars were already gassed by the bridge lol

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, September 3, 2022 2:26 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Of all the drums at this event Lars is about the last one I would pick to play an AC/DC song given his extreme allergy to anything close to a groove

The Pretenders I thought were great

james gang reunion was my personal fave but i enjoyed pretty much everything

i think i like the Medicine at Midnight album more now than i did than when it came out

love dies young is v good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=val3oj4wpxQ

Sounds like they are officially carrying on without Hawkins (if that was in doubt):

pic.twitter.com/IcYduS7ZY4

— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) December 31, 2022

Josh Freese has been announced as the new drummer, surprising ... probably no one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmkQ3hIFbwA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYWmNQT4VMU

Josh Freese is so good, anytime that guy is involved in anything is just tremendous, he even keeps a lot of Taylor's choices in the performance, Josh Freese for president

xpost - ok that was funny

Better quality version of the live stream -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPiSDRPw9C4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idib1kDvPyM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L8abdskl08

Can we talk about the alternate reality where Dave Grohl and Louise Post never broke up and this is just what the Foo Fighters always sounded like and how I wanna be there

Heh I heard about Freese a few months ago from a friend in the know, seemed like the sensible and inevitable choice.

“show me how” is excellent, best song i’ve heard from them since wasting light

They should have held auditions for the content though. The Dream Theater drummer audition videos are great in a Spinal Tap/Some Kind of Monster way, doesn't matter if you hate the band, which everyone does (and should).

Yeah, Dream Theatre are fucking nonsense but I loved watching them struggle through (or not) the mad bit of math rock they had concocted to test each drummer out.

I thought the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts were kind of fun live drummer auditions, and I think they made the right choice but like...what if Omar Hakim joined the Foo Fighters?

Also Taylor's son Shane is absolutely capable but am glad they're not shoving a teenager in mourning into the most famous rock band on the planet

I wonder if Dave ever considered taking over on drums and finding new singers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Zgplw4AcQ

this video will prob get deleted eventually, but it's another new song from that stream where josh freese was announced as their drummer, chorus is the closest i've heard grohl come to the foos s/t sound in some time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MF6trC529M

“foo fighters stretching out” is usually a recipe for boredom but this 10 minute song is actually really good?

best foos record in ten years imminent

yeah, the new LP is excellent. my favourite from them since there is nothing left to lose. grohl's long been great at the craft of the rock anthem but these ones are actually about something meaningful.

Teachers single and video are very cool. Have not been this excited about foo music in a long time.

hoo yeah this album rules. one of my favorites of the year

guitar tones are perfect throughout, almost thought this was produced by vig (it’s self-produced with assistance from greg kurstin, somehow it sounds bigger and deeper and more like siamese dream than their actual recorded-to-tape vig album)

"beyond me" is like if a power ballad by heart were also a shoegaze song

and the title track reminds me of mastodon

fuck i think i love this album
i might cry

it’s the best

IT IS!

also i did in fact cry … damn, “rest” really got to me

i love the insane build from verse to chorus in Nothing At All — totally sounds like “Breed” for a moment

i also selfishly like having Dave on drums for this album for comfort/nostalgic reasons. but sad that he had to

Under You is the one that really gets me, love the hook for that so much

Under You is about both and all and blah blah blah, but ... i mean ... it's about Kurt, right? if we're honest, it's about Kurt.

Genius annotations and every article about the song says it's about Hawkins and maybe it is.

But to me, it's about Kurt.

the new one is pretty good but they still can't quite make a great album, it merely reaches the quality of their previous best work (the colour and the shape and wasting light) where there's some excellent material but also some that's just fine. a little disappointing because the singles had me hoping they might get there and they almost did. in some places it finally feels like the same band that made "everlong" which has always been weirdly singular in their catalogue. the dreamy guitar tones are lovely too and going full siamese dream on "rest" is a great move.

went back and checked out the singles for the last few albums and wow what the hell had they been doing? some absolutely dreadful stuff

I'd have to agree, though to be fair, being a good singles band for a decade and a half is nothing to sneeze at. Greatest Hits is too thin to fit the bill (especially when it's diluted with a couple of unremarkable re-recordings and a couple of underwhelming new tracks), but a compilation that strings together their 18 or 20 best singles would be highly welcome.

this album being so good triggered a foo fighters discog run. s/t through wasting light was better than i remembered. post-wasting light, worse. medicine at midnight is godawful

there is nothing left to lose is a flawless power pop record btw

"godawful" is harsh, pretty sure i'd like medicine more on second listen, it just did nothing i want a foo fighters record to do outside of "love dies young," which is the cruelly the last song

idk, I think "godawful" isn't far off for MatM, and I'm usually an apologist for these guys

the new one is basically what i'd want there is nothing left to lose to have been, a similar shiny guitar tone but the songs are stronger overall

post-wasting light grohl seemed to become obsessed with recording session gimmicks to keep him interested? & they got out of their comfort zone but completely forgot how to play to their strengths at all

there is nothing left to lose is a flawless power pop record btw

I still think it's their best.

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!

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”