Foos kick arse. Third best rock band to come out of the 90's, after The Wildhearts and Therapy?.

Posted By: jonnyaLove the wildhearts

Ohhh, I could make ya jealous with my Wildhearts vinyl collection!

No hate here. Great band. New single Shame Shame wasn't what I was after but it's hooky and after playing it a few times it's cool. Good to see something slightly different

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Posted By: jonalbaYou have my permission to hate this new track, btw.

LOL, I just gave it a spin and thought it was pretty decent.

Wait a minute. Which song is Jon taking about? Times Likes These that I posted (and was awesome) or that new song they played, Shane Shane?

Ah, I was talking about Times Like These. Haven't heard the other one.

Foo Fighters are pretty good. "Wasting Light" and "The Colour and the Shape" are top notch albums. Dave Grohl is an incredibly talented musician and a class act in an industry filled with a lot of big egos - much like the guys in AC/DC.
With that being said, I think that it's somewhat amusing and occasionally annoying that unlike AC/DC, the Foos are never tarred by the media for being "formulaic", when they are in my opinion they are.
Foo Fighters are also often heralded as a "hard rock" band, and while I agree that they're not quite Fleetwood Mac, they sound rather tame compared to AC/DC.
You can see in their cover of "Let There Be Rock" that Grohl and co. simply can't rock as hard as a bunch of guys who are 20 years older than them.
With that being said, live and let live. I enjoy them both.

Posted By: jonalbaI was talking about the new song. I have also heard parts of the new album, and it's much closer to Concrete and Gold than anything Wasting Light and Colour (as Iratehunter has accurately depicted).

ROTFL, I thought Times Like These is the new song. Sorry, as you may know I'm not the biggest fan of the FF.

First two albums are good, but they started losing that punky edgy element after that.
That is where I started losing interest, although I still keep up with what they are doing.

The old harder edge crops up in the odd song here or there but mostly it's just straight ahead by the numbers safe FM Radio rock.

Wasting Light was a good return to more energy but they dropped off again after that.

The new song is terrible. Will probably be their first album I don't bother checking out after hearing that, shame shame.

I just watched the Foo Fighters' performance of Shame Shame on SNL.

It's the equivalent of AC/DC playing on SNL in 1985, and busting out Danger.

Shame Foo Fighters. SHAME.

And those two soccer moms on backing vocals? Yeesh.

Still the most boring rock band of modern times.

Not hate.

Just boring beige rock for the masses.

Great band. Last two albums were shite though. This one looks to be about the same

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Posted By: BillyBollocksStill the most boring rock band of modern times.

Not hate.

Just boring beige rock for the masses.

That's indeed the case and that's all. If you love beige (what a great term, BB) rock that suburban soccers mom love, go right ahead. You won't convince the people like me and BB otherwise, and we won't convince you.

Posted By: CliffFINmark2They are bad;

Don't be ridiculous mate :) I like a handful of songs here and there, might see them live one day, that's about it. And I don't know about you but I fear Ned Flanders more than the Grim Reaper.

They just kind of get to be "the rock band" by default. They're modern enough to get out of the vintage / nostalgia trap. Grohl has enough cred from Nirvana and QOTSA... they can just wheel them out and they'll do an enthusiastic, workmanlike version of Whole Lotta Love and nobody will be offended. It's all agreeable and safe and it just doesn't really move the needle for me. Grohl is so much more interesting as a drummer than he is as a rhythm guitarist.

That said, I definitely understand why he prefers doing what he's doing over being behind the kit. I have a major depth of love for all kinds of rock, all sorts of eras and styles, and I can't do the Foos. And it's not like I wouldn't love to be a fan of a modern rock band that can sell arenas and actually puts out contemporary music. But I find them just so... damn... blah.

Listen to a song like White Limo and then listen to a QOTSA song like Millionaire, maybe superficially similar songs, and just *feel* the difference in your body :).

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Posted By: DustDevilFoos kick arse. Third best rock band to come out of the 90's, after The Wildhearts and Therapy?.

Love the wildhearts

Hell yeah, The Wildhearts!!!

Like the Foo's also.
C'mon everybody, Dave Grohl came out of Nirvana (love it or like it, it was one of the big bands of the early 90's) and after Nirvana was done he made his own band which is even bigger now.
Hats off to Mr. Grohl and he seems to be one of the nicest guys in business.

For me there are a lot of "Killer tunes of the Foo's, can't hear things like "Safe radio rock". But on the other side of the coin, there are also a lot of filler on the albums.

Conclusion: I love Dave, Nirvana & The Wildhearts, i really like the Foo's, but is there a Foo Fighters album for the "desert island"? No the most, if not all are to inconsistent

Ps: The new song is, well ...

I understand the complaint of their sound being "beige", which is kinda true unfortunately.

But you can't argue they aren't good at what they're doing. Yes it's "mainstream rock" and very much intended so.

And they're really solid and make really solid albums.
So, sure it's not gonna be everyone's cup of tea, but they are no "Nickelback" or whatever.

There aren't *that* many solid big rock acts around anymore, at least the Foo Fighters still hold the torch for it.

Posted By: CliffFINmark2I actually think that they are very close to Nickelback

Well, that is simply proof of FF being judged unfairly and disproportionately on here then ;)

Flanders and Lovejoy are more rnr

I'm as much a fan of the Foo Fighters as of AC / DC. Even though Concrete and Blonde was too extreme a Pop advance, Dave Grohl and his gang are untouchable. The new single Shame Shame rather tasteless is not a priori representative of the new Album Medecine at midnight.

Posted By: BillyBollocksThe Wildhearts are twenty times more interesting musically than the Foo Fighters could ever dream of being

Complete polar opposites to my ears

Which is also why they never broke big of course

What a fucking GREAT band they are though

Cool band for sure. Actually saw them opening for AC/DC on the european BB tour.