Foo Fighters

frankus

Is there anything that doesn't sound like a mini-version of Chris Cornell screaming his lungs out?

Like a slow tune or something?

Deadman

In your honour disc 2 would be the most obvious suggestion.

1nten5e

Try this for starters

Nunogilberto

Walking After You
See You
Aurora
Next Year

stimpsonslostson

Skin & Bones is a live acoustic album. It's pretty gentle.

I always think they're at their best doing "anthemic" stuff (Walk, Rosemary, learn to fly, Everlong etc), the quiet stuff bores me & the shouty stuff grates after a while.

stickyfiddle

Nunogilberto said:

Walking After You
See You
Aurora
Next Year

Their best song imo. See also Razor from disc 2 of In Your Honor. Not a bad album that - would've been a great single rather than double.

Lixarto

I've never seen what the fuss is about.

They're terrible.

Octahedron

I was under the impression that you liked them @Lixarto :P 

And my affections for the Foos grew. It wasn't an instant "I heard them and I loved them" thing. I had to buy The Colour & the Shape at a car boot sale before I decided that I liked them. Then "In Your Honor" and "Wasting Light" albums cemented that.

It was a 'sorta just happened eventually' thing before I got into QOTSA, Nirvana (well their heavy stuff anyway), Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, old Green Day, Blink 182/AVA, etc etc too. 

Sometimes things just happen

EricTheWeary

Lixarto said:

I've never seen what the fuss is about.

They're terrible.

I think they're terrible and Nirvana were massively over rated. However, I keep watching stuff with Dave Grohl in on the telly box because I like his enthusiasm for stuff. That song in Sonic Highways about Chicago blues is just awful but I like the fact he wanted to do it.

Lixarto

Yes, Nirvana were shit as well.

I don't like Grohl either. He's like a shit Stephen King.

I quite like some of Courtney Love's songs.

Octahedron

Lixarto said:

I quite like some of Courtney Love's songs.

I'm sorry. We will never be friends.

Deadman

Loving the Foo hate. Funny as fuck.

RocknRollDave

Don't like the Foos (and, yes, Nirvana are massively overrated) but I took my ex to see them and have to say they are deserving of their reputation as a great live band. 2 hours, song after song after song, no dicking about between songs (Metallica, I'm looking at YOU) and a cover of Holiday In Cambodia that puzzled all the hip young rock kiddies who had no idea what it was.

JAYJO

Havent heard much foo fighters and didnt really have an opinion on Dave Grohl. Untill i saw him on a Beatles tribute concert and he seemed like a really nice chap and i now like him!!. ps Im not sure if he likes me, time will tell i suppose.

richardhomer

EricTheWeary;402973" said:

Lixarto said:

I've never seen what the fuss is about.
They're terrible.


I think they're terrible and Nirvana were massively over rated.

Agreed.

ICBM

I like Dave Grohl from what I've seen of him in interviews and I think he's one of the best ever rock drummers.

But I find the Foo Fighters massively boring and over-rated, and I can't understand why someone who is that good a drummer should choose to be a rather average* guitarist and singer and have someone else play drums in his band.

Nirvana I think are over-rated as a band but still one of the most important bands ever, if that makes sense. Kind of a bit like the 'did punk matter' argument. Whether they were actually good is somewhat beside the point, it was the effect they had on everyone else.

(*He's better than me of course. But that's not the point.)

frankus

For the record, I like Nirvana - just not all the time and frankly, like Them Crooked Vultures, I think it'd be lost in a mire if it wasn't for his great drumming.

I thought I'd give Foo Fighters a go as I'd not listened to anythign for a very long time so picked up In Your Honour and apart from a few tracks on side 1 I struggled, so much so I didn't finish it and went onto some Mike Keneally (one of my staples - so a step backwards in terms of listening to new stuff).

Maybe my tone "mini Chris Cornell" sent this thread into the route it's taken, I was really hoping to find a track where I thought his vocals jumped out or conveyed a range of emotions, that'd explain (as ICBM put it) why he got someone else drumming for him.

I love No Way Back - but I think it shines more when bunged in a playlist of different music  

Octahedron

I really wanna see them when they come and play in Australia next year.

And I can't wait to get my hands on Sonic Highways. It's the little gap (aside from Skin & Bones) in my Foos collection.

stimpsonslostson

frankus said:

I love No Way Back - but I think it shines more when bunged in a playlist of different music  

I'd agree, whenever certain Foos songs come up on my iPod Shuffle I think "this is great" and find myself singing along. I rarely want to listen to a whole album of theirs.

StefB

ICBM said:

 

Nirvana I think are over-rated as a band but still one of the most important bands ever, if that makes sense. Kind of a bit like the 'did punk matter' argument. Whether they were actually good is somewhat beside the point, it was the effect they had on everyone else.

I still struggle with this concept a bit, even 20+ years after the event.  Angry looking young men in the right place at the right time, and to say they were solely responsible for killing the somewhat broad brush genre of '80s/hair metal' is stretching things.

They didn't help, but the bombast and excess of that colourful decade had all but died out by 1989 anyway so the soundtrack that accompanied it was bound to pass by the wayside too, just like the '60s and '70s.

Kids that didn't like Poison and Whitesnake already hated them by the time Nirvana came along and popularised what was ultimately to be a short lived, miserable genre of rock, They already had The Pixies, Black Flag, Sonic Youth etc to listen to, and none of them dressed like David Coverdale or wore their hair like him even before Kurt turned up looking like a scruffy student with a shit out of tune guitar he could hardly play.

EricTheWeary

That Nirvana killed hair metal is often trotted out, quite often by those who were in hair metal bands, I'm sure it is only part of the picture. But, close to irrelevant in the UK, whatever we were listening to in the late 80's very little of it was hair metal IIRC.