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On a side note are any of the Foos from Seattle? They're an LA band no?
Wasting Light hasn't been beaten since its release imo. One of the best rock records of the decade
Sonic Highways has some good stuff - Congregation is among my favourites from their whole catalogue.
Concrete & Gold - a bit poppier/shinier sounding but good fun
Medicine at Midnight - trying much harder to do things that don't just sound like another Foo Fighters record. With some success.
Then some of them did a Bee Gees cover record and a proper metal album. Followed by the new one which so far sounds closest to There Is Nothing Left To Lose so far, which is ace.
Sunny Day Real Estate were a superb band!
Was quite surprised how it all went with William Goldsmith.
and the Sonic Highways & Sound City docs are well worth watching either way, just as a music fan
* our first date was to see either the Foos or the Manics in Cardiff, years ago. They were a week or two apart and I can't remember which one was first. The Manics were excellent, the Foos less so. Their sound quality was dreadful. I've seen them since and they were much better.
Presumably it's all about how the three guitars are used. I'd guess there are rarely three guitars all playing at once, and (in Radiohead and Mogwai, at least) one or more is providing "texture" rather than "a guitar part".
In Foo Fighters, the three guitars are always bashing away on stage but I'd imagine it's different in the studio. I'd guess Grohl does a lot of the guitars - and everything else - himself, but maybe I'm overestimating his control-freakery.
Musically, sure, there's nothing new here. But that doesn't stop them being well-written, arranged and produced songs with a heartfelt theme. I'm impressed!
And when I say well arranged, that's about the songs themselves; whether it's the best use of 3 guitars at all times is another debate!