There isn't a FF thread on here, for real?
Anyway,
This
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/FooFighters-TheColourAndTheShape.jpg)
Their best album by a landslide and one of the best albums ever made.
And thanks to the newly existence of this topic I just copied The Colour and the Shape, There Is Nothing Left to Lose and Wasting Light on my mp3 player.
Didn't listen to the older albums in a long time, while Wasting Light is in fact one of my favorite albums from 2011.
Big Wreck is better.
Not better than that album.
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Sep 06, 2012, 01:53 PM
Big Wreck is better.
(http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj60/bachelordandy/ibv2ooLsmOOAvg.gif)
Check the big wreck thread and joke questions will be joke answered
PS. Foo Fighters are the shit. Fantastic band even of completely safe, mainstream and radio friendly. I fucking love them.
There is Nothing Left to Lose is a cool album. Really different from any of their others I think.
Self Titled is still my favorite album to date by them. I recently rediscovered it (well, two years ago lol) and it hasn't left my iPod. Reminds me of middle school hahaha... It's just amazing.
With Wasting Light if felt like they were trying so hard to scream THIS IS A ROCK BAND. Felt that almost all the way through the album, still love it though.
Yeah I can see what you mean about Wasting Light.
It took me so long to warm up to that album. Only now do I enjoy it quite a bit and consider it a solid rock album. Nonetheless, it doesn't touch their old stuff (mainly TCATS). Foo Fighters seem to be much more an arena/stadium rock band these days than they used to be and that's what bugged me about WL, with the pretty much unanimous praise. People calling it their best and crazy stuff like that. It is definitely overrated but I am happy that they had so much success with it. The album is more generic rock than their old stuff. Not generic like most of today's rock, just in comparison to what they used to be to me. I haven't heard anything that sounds quite like TCATS for example. Wasting Light could be compared to a lot I'm sure.
for me tcats is THE foo fighters album
All I have from the Foo Fighters is TCATS and WL. Both are great albums, but I prefer TCATS.
what?
What is your issue?
From best to "worst" (maybe least best is a better description) for me:
The Colour and the Shape
Self-Titled
Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
There Is Nothing Left to Lose
In Your Honor
Wasting Light
One By One
The song LOW is on wat album??? Btw that's the best song :Pthey got imo! FF is a 6/10 as a band
Livewire:
I like the cut of your jib. The first cd of In Your Honor is probably the worst thing they've put out but the acoustic cd is pretty great. I've never felt One by One much either, there was always something off about it. It's really nice to see you're not all gung ho over Wasting Light. It almost seems like many people don't remember or care how Foo Fighters used to sound when they were more original and creative and great. Some people act like WL is the album FF were always supposed to make and I fear it will become the album they're known for which would be really sad. TCATS is their masterpiece. Simple as. My ranking would probably be very similar to yours:
The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters
There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
In Your Honor (because of the acoustic side)
Wasting Light
One by One
Yeah, I remember reading in an interview that Dave doesn't even like One By One except for four songs. My problem with Wasting Light is that it doesn't seem to have the same variety that their better albums have. They're good songs, but put together as an album they're all the same louder rock sound.
Totally agree. It's all so loud with constant huge rock chorus and too much shouting. It starts to sound too much the same.
Quote from: sing blue silver on Sep 06, 2012, 06:10 PM
Check the big wreck thread and joke questions will be joke answered
PS. Foo Fighters are the shit. Fantastic band even of completely safe, mainstream and radio friendly. I fucking love them.
Bingo.
Dave Grohl is an amazing musician and one of the coolest fuckin guys in the industry. Anyone who rates Foo Fighters anything lower than 10/10 need to get their ears checked.
I love TCATS, but lost interest completely after that. I still like them, but somehow their music just stopped being interesting.
Foo fighters are good and that. But it's like music made from a pop/rock recipe. They're the perfect gateway band from bieber to the dark/bright side.
I was just playing TCATS at my workstation and The song My Hero was playing. A customer came in and asked if it was Nickleback. WTF?!?!?
Quote from: sing blue silver on Sep 17, 2012, 02:43 PM
I was just playing TCATS at my workstation and The song My Hero was playing. A customer came in and asked if it was Nickleback. WTF?!?!?
That's just awful. :P
He then proceeded to claim that Nickleback and Foo Fighters sound the same. I wanted to face fuck him with my fist.
It's nice to finally see some people who share my lack of extreme enthuasiam for their latest. It is still much better than Nickelcrap though. Someone has the nerve to say that after hearing a TCATS-era song? Wow, I can't blame you sing. I could see it more with new FF (even though still definitely not), but absolutely not with old.
Quote from: sing blue silver on Sep 17, 2012, 05:16 PM
He then proceeded to claim that Nickleback and Foo Fighters sound the same. I wanted to face fuck him with my fist.
He deserves that for saying such bullshit.
The Foo Fighters can actually change their sound in some songs, unlike Nickelback, Hinder, Creed, etc.
And unlike Chad Krouger, Dave Grohl doesn't sound like a Kenny Chesney wannabe.
Edit: Scratch that. Dave Grohl isn't a Canadian Kenny Chesney sound-alike.
Yeah, Grohl sounds NOTHING like idiot stick Kroeger, thank goodness. There is one dead giveaway it's not Nickelback and yes, their sound has plenty variation.
talking about Nickelback
(http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/4436532_700b.jpg)
"but if you must" hehe ;)
Haha, that's good.
I may not like pickles, but they still have a better taste in my mouth than Nickelback in my ears.
There's a good reason the pickles got more Facebook fans.
Dave Grohl hints at Foo Fighters hiatus
http://www.nme.com/news/foo-fighters/66395 (http://www.nme.com/news/foo-fighters/66395)
Dave Grohl's Sound City Revealed
Dave Grohl's Sound City documentary, slated for a February 2013 release, will have a complementing soundtrack. The film's aim is "to demonstrate the human element of creating and recording music", with a number of significant recording artists writing and recording "brand new original songs on the spot".
In other words (NOTE: the following statement is in half-excitement, half-jest), Grohl wanted to make a record with some people and it's allegedly going to be THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST
http://buy.soundcitymovie.com/album (http://buy.soundcitymovie.com/album)
The tracklist and players are as follows:
“Heaven And All”
Robert Levon Been, Dave Grohl, Peter Hayes
“Time Slowing Down”
Chris Goss, Tim Commerford, Dave Grohl, Brad Wilk
“You Can’t Fix This”
Stevie Nicks, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee
“The Man That Never Was”
Rick Springfield, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear
“Your Wife Is Calling”
Lee Ving, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Alain Johannes, Pat Smear
“From Can To Can’t”
Corey Taylor, Dave Grohl, Rick Nielsen, Scott Reeder
“Centipede”
Joshua Homme, Chris Goss, Dave Grohl, Alain Johannes
“A Trick With No Sleeve”
Alain Johannes, Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme
“Cut Me Some Slack”
Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear
“Once Upon A Time… The End”
Dave Grohl, Jessy Greene, Rami Jaffee, Jim Keltner
“Mantra”
Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme, Trent Reznor
If, for whatever reason, some of the names are unfamiliar, reddit's _Noise posted a cheat sheet:
Peter Hayes- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, guitarist/singer
Robert Levon Been- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, bassist/guitarist
Brad Wilk- Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave, drummer
Chris Goss- Masters of Reality/Goon Moon, guitarist/singer; record producer
Tim Commerford- Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave, bassist
Rami Jaffee- The Wallflowers/Foo Fighters, keyboardist
Stevie Nicks- Fleetwood Mac, singer
Taylor Hawkins- Foo Fighters, drummer/singer
Nate Mendel- Foo Fighters/Sunny Day Real Estate, bassist
Pat Smear- Germs/Nirvana/Foo Fighters, guitarist
Rick Springfield- Zoot/solo, singer/ guitarist; actor on General Hospital
Alain Johannes- Eleven/Queens of the Stone Age/ Them Crooked Vultures, guitar/ bass
Lee Ving- Fear, singer/guitarist; Mr. Body in the movie Clue
Corey Taylor- Slipknot/Stone Sour, vocalist
Rick Nielsen- Cheap Trick, guitarist
Scott Reeder- Kyuss, bassist
Joshua Homme- Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age/Them Crooked Vultures/Eagles of Death Metal, singer/guitarist/drums
Paul McCartney- The Beatles/Wings, bassist/guitarist/singer
Krist Novoselic- Nirvana/Flipper, bassist
Jessy Greene- Geraldine Fibbers/The Jayhawks/Golden Smog, violinist, cellist, singer
Jim Keltner- Prolific session drummer
Trent Reznor- Nine Inch Nails, everything
Cut Me Some Slack - McCartney.Grohl.Novoselic.Smear (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBd9330h9kI#ws)
Foo Fighters will premiere 'Something From Nothing', the first track to be taken from forthcoming album 'Sonic Highways', this Thursday
http://www.nme.com/news/foo-fighters/80336 (http://www.nme.com/news/foo-fighters/80336)
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways: A Conversation with Foo Fighters - Extended (HBO) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QisGE_h8lrU#ws)
Foo Fighters w/ Zac Brown - War Pigs- Letterman 2014 10 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Asbgmh0OfU#ws)
I enjoy Something From Nothing quite a lot. More interesting than anything on Wasting Light. The three new songs so far are making me more interested in the new album than I thought I would be. I hope the variation continues throughout the whole album. Congregation has a bland-ness about it but it's pleasant at the same time. The bridge is also cool. Feast and the Famine is higher energy/more up-tempo and a potential grower, not great though.