What an awful sentence!
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Massive Belinda Carlisle fan so I take a keen interest in what any and all members of her old bands are up to
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This just raises further questions for me but I’ll leave it there
Ask away
You think that’s bad, you should hear some of the sentences (or lyrics if you will!) that come out of David Grohl’s mouth when performing in the band Foo Fighters! 
What bands was Belinda Carlisle in?
The Germs
Dunno any others
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Ok, next question, who is Belinda Carlisle?
As a teen at Reading Festival I skipped the Foo Fighters 3 hour headline set to go see the band Tall Ships. Have never ever regretted that decision.
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Sang Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Imagine your face if really you had turned up and there were just models of boats from the Spanish Armada!
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Ah yeah
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The Dave Wigan of Rock. Sort of band I wouldn’t turn the radio off if it came on but does nothing for me 2/5.
Has @saps voted on his own band yet?
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I used to be a very big fan of Foo Fighters, until around 2003-ish. However, I do owe them a huge debt for at least two big reasons:
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When I saw them play Wembley, they were great fun, but most importantly they picked Cave In to support. Off the back of that, I picked up Cave In’s album Antenna, and then Until Your Heart Stops, which completely flawed me. I’d never heard anything so crazy and chaotic before. Then I got into loads of brilliant stuff like Converge, Botch, Every Time I Die and Dillinger Escape Plan, which I enjoy to this day.
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They also got me into Husker Du and Sunny Day Real Estate, and again loads of that great American post-hardcore and emo stuff.
I still get a good kick from those early albums (up to the first half of One By One). There’s nothing subtle about it, it’s just could massive, energetic catchy rock with a raw edge, and sometimes that hits the spot. They did recapture a bit of that on Wasting Light. However, when they lose that rawness, it sounds really bland and generic.
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I just missed them so had other big alternative rock bands wash over me in my formative years, I can imagine them being an absolute key for many people but for me, no. Everlong is such a great song though, that intro / riff is one of those ones that gets me right in the chest somehow, chills. Takes me back to being a teenager in Reading festival, lost in the rain.
Some proper fucking bangers on the first two albums.
Good Grief is amazing. So’s Hey, Johnny Park and Everlong. Plus their cover of Baker Street.
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I’m a pretty big fan. Definitely a big gateway album for me.
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Good Grief is superb but it barely ever gets a mention. Have a ‘like’. 
Really fun first few albums and plenty of bangers after that. They’re far from cool but fuck it. 4/5
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Love Good Grief, what a track.
Think New Way Home is one of my fave tracks of theirs, just the huge, happy-sounding drums and guitars at the beginning and the way it all goes hell for leather at the end, a proper adrenaline rush.
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