Foo Fighters

[tragabigzanda]

[Jorge]

Also the first Foos album features some of Dave's best melodies. "Exhausted" is loud and fuzzy but it's also very beautiful

[Jorge]

i had a whole tirade against Surf and Mickey's positioning of me as a deadnamer, but I got caught up in parenting stuff and then the thread got deleted. KD is maybe absorbing some of my simmering rage.

Wait what thread, I missed it

[tragabigzanda]

[wease]

imma listen to the Foo's today. Been a long time.

Same. Have 'Pocketwatch' on right now.

Goddammit. I need to find this somehow.

Thanks trag

[Strat]

OH man. I forgot about "Up in arms"

What a great song.

[Kevin Davis]

i had a whole tirade against Surf and Mickey's positioning of me as a deadnamer, but I got caught up in parenting stuff and then the thread got deleted. KD is maybe absorbing some of my simmering rage.

Ha, FWIW I did not sense rage or hostility in your reply at all, and even if you were taking a backhanded jab at my tastes I still thought the sequence of posts was funny. I didn't really think you were though.

I just meant that they leaned into the melodic stuff, with a big rawk vocal, more than the naval-gazing garage vibes of their debut, where you'd gotta squint to really appreciate the melodies.

I was 12 when the first Foos album came out, so my tastes were pretty pliable -- not every song pointed me down a path I'd follow on a micro level (i.e. I've never actively sought out bands whose entire MO was songs like "Weenie Beenie," even though I get a kick out of that song), but the patchwork quilt of the whole thing has always been very enjoyable to me.

Truth be told it was probably albums like this, Siamese Dream, etc. that trained my ears to listen through murk and feedback to find melody, craft, etc., unwittingly learning in the process to find the murk and feedback pleasurable in itself, even though I wasn't aware of it in those terms as it was happening.

But by the same token, if late-era Foos has Elvis Costello-level melodies going on, I need to listen immediately!

[tragabigzanda]

[Stickman]

[Hatfield]

Truth be told it was probably albums like this [Foo Fighters], Siamese Dream, etc. that trained my ears to listen through murk and feedback to find melody, craft, etc., unwittingly learning in the process to find the murk and feedback pleasurable in itself, even though I wasn't aware of it in those terms as it was happening.

I never thought of it that way, but you are exactly right.

I've been spinning that first record this week and remembering how much I loved it.

[tragabigzanda]

[BurtReynolds]

Did anyone here see that movie they were just in?

[Jorge]

Yeah, my dad, he hated it

[BurtReynolds]

It looked extremely lame

[Jorge]

Fred is my buddy and I suggested he do this one

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Jorge]

I knew you'd say something mean but I figured it would be about his singing

[tragabigzanda]

[tragabigzanda]

[Jorge]

It's Taylor's original drums, isolated with some software (no official stems have been released)