Foo Fighters

[bewareofrats]

There isn't a FF thread on here, for real?

Anyway,

This


Their best album by a landslide and one of the best albums ever made.

[black coffee]

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. 

[bright lights, big city]

Big Wreck is better.

[bewareofrats]

Not better than that album.

[theis]

Big Wreck is better.

Not better than that album.

[black coffee]

Big Wreck is better.

[bewareofrats]

Big Wreck is better.

Not better than that album.

In words?

[sing blue silver]

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.

[bewareofrats]

There is Nothing Left to Lose is a cool album.  Really different from any of their others I think.

[Robotsatemygrandma]

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.

[OnyxPanicProne]

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.

[bewareofrats]

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.

[mothraw]

for me tcats is THE foo fighters album

[deftones47]

All I have from the Foo Fighters is TCATS and WL. Both are great albums, but I prefer TCATS.

[Crazylegs]

what?

[bewareofrats]

What is your issue?

[Livewire]

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

[Northcal]

The song LOW is on wat album??? Btw that's the best song  :Pthey got imo! FF is a 6/10 as a band

[bewareofrats]

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

[Livewire]

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.