The Foo Fighters - Classic or Dud?

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”