#121

so fucking dull. A band for people who ask for new potatoes with their steak rather than literally anything else.

Would much rather listen to Nirvana or SDRE (or Probot for that matter!)

Would have given them a 1 for the first album and a couple of bangers on album two but then there is the fact that Dave Grohl turns up eveywhere and on everything, and there was the whole aids denial thing so…its a zero!

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#122

They’ve became quite bland but they wrote Everlong which is basically one of the best emotional rock songs ever written - so they’ll get a three from me.

Everlong, man. What a great song.

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#123

Don’t get this meat and potatoes as a pejorative mind. Sometimes meat and potatoes is exactly what you want.

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#124

4/5 for the first 3 records. They were far better when they were a fun, power pop band taking their cues from The Posies (TINLTL era), just before he grew his hair out again, dressed exclusively in black and decided that he wanted to be Metallica with stadium choruses.

Last few years have been a constant stream of Dave Grohl joined onstage by Rick Astley’s mum to cover Lady Gaga with a kid from the audience on drums, and I’d just like them to go away for a bit if I’m honest.

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#125

3 for me.
1st album still holds up pretty well & Everlong is an absolute tune.
Been rolling out shit albums for years.
Saw them live at a festival a couple of years ago with my daughter - one of the most enjoyable gigs I’ve ever been to, in the context of having an absolute blast with her.

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#126

find something a bit grim about “music for people who…” type dismissals. in general, not specifically about the foo fighters, don’t really give a shit about them

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#127

Most annoying thing about them live (alongside the drum solos and all that) is how he always foregoes the last few words of the verse to just go RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH into the chorus.

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#128

i’ve not seen them for ages, probably reading festival in the early 00s, but he always did that then, instead of singing just doing a big rock scream, good if done sparingly but way overused

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#129

Great singles band, great drummer(s), 2 good albums, they know what they’re doing, slim pickings for a good 15 years.

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#130

They’re definitely nowhere near as ubiquitous as they were a few years back so I can’t really be moved to go into a rant about Grohl anymore. The Colour and the Shape is great. The drummer is an antivaxxer.

#131

I like the S/T, The Colour & Shape and Wasting Light enough to bump them up from a 2 to a 3 but christ they’ve released a lot of dull shite

#132

kind of wish I had gone to see them at wembley stadium, probably about as close to a band I like playing an actual stadium nowadays

#133

I like them, as in, I would never listen to them voluntarily but they have some goodwill from… Idk Germs, Scream, QOTSA etc connections. Didn’t mind that documentary of them going round recording songs and talking about all their favourite bands. Remember liking Probot. I will abstain becuase i don’t really like them but rating them a 2 feels quite harsh

#134

Obviously the same TCatS is great take as everyone else, and they’ve been dull since, although they do seem to do one slightly interesting track per album, which actively surprises me.

Quite like The Pretender and Bridge Burning, for example. That acoustic album they did was nice too.

#135

He was in Dischord band Scream before Foo Fighters for a bit

#136

A bad band, every song I’ve heard sounds the same, they seem like absolute arseholes, and I knew three guys in school who were big into them and all three are now horrendous right wing shitbags.

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#137

Love shit like this

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#138

every single one of these sort of statements can be summed up as “music for people who like something i don’t like”

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#139

I’d give them a 3 off the back of Good Grief alone.

I love the eponymous debut. Like seriously, at the time, who expected the drummer to be the one to come out of a tragedy so enormous with a dense but rewarding lo-fi alt-rock album suffused with depth of emotion and pockets of sparkly levity, and to do it alone (minus a bit of assistance from the awesome Greg Dulli)?

Or that he’d expand outwards from that formula and put out a second album of punchy pop-rock with massive singles and B-sides, and then the Generator EP and then…

…then I just lost interest. Dropped like a stone. I’ve heard the odd single here or there but I’ve largely treated them as if they broke up. It’d very hard to look past a solid 20 years of plodding stadium dross, otherwise.

So yeah, 3 seems fair.

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#140

this was probably a set up but is very fun to watch