Red Mosquito

VinylGuy wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Also, three guitars, keyboards, backup singer...and it all sounds so one note...

I don't even think Pat is playing anything half the time

yeah he is kinda dancing the whole time. No solos, no fucking anything.

Pat is there to look cool, which is highly necessary with Mendel and Shifflet in the band

VinylGuy wrote:I hate that one. I do like Wasting Light. Thats the last thing i really cared from them.

What's wrong with the Pretender? That one and All My Life are good post prime foos rockers

I like this better than any post-TNLTL Foos song

verb_to_trust wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:I hate that one. I do like Wasting Light. Thats the last thing i really cared from them.

What's wrong with the Pretender? That one and All My Life are good post prime foos rockers

Its kinda meh. Also the lyrics are super awful. All My Life is better yeah.

Ello Sailor wrote:'Live-in Skin' is actually one of their best songs. TINTL is better than I'm giving it credit for, here. Gimme Sitches, Headwires and Aurora are all great. The singles might be the worst songs on there!

This guy fucking gets it.

verb_to_trust wrote:

Ello Sailor wrote:'Live-in Skin' is actually one of their best songs. TINTL is better than I'm giving it credit for, here. Gimme Sitches, Headwires and Aurora are all great. The singles might be the worst songs on there!

Next Year is such a nostalgia track for me

Love it. I made a mixtape back in the day and it led right into Everlong. Beautiful

verb_to_trust wrote:The Pretender was a good song

Not as good as the track right after it. Let it Die. They opened with it on the tour for that album and it was fucking fantastic.

VinylGuy wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:I hate that one. I do like Wasting Light. Thats the last thing i really cared from them.

What's wrong with the Pretender? That one and All My Life are good post prime foos rockers

Its kinda meh. Also the lyrics are super awful. All My Life is better yeah.

All My Life is pure jam.

tragabigzanda wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:THA SKYYYEEE IZ A NEIGHBORHOOD!!!

So bad

This was stuck in my head for a whole week a few years back, and I was SO FUCKING MAD about it.

Such a shitty fucking song.

Just watched SNL. Oh man that was really unenjoyable. Both songs. Yikes.

Man, that was really boring.

First Foo Fighters record still kicks but it's all downhill from there.

Isn’t this the whole existential debate over whether an artist can stay in their lane or has to expand and grow over time? Foo Fighters have basically been putting out The Colour and the Shape clones for 20-something years. There’s a slight variation here and there but it’s basically the same (Wasting Light I really liked but it still was only different in the production was less glossy).

I mean, if some dude said they just wished Pearl Jam made another Ten, your answer is go listen to the Foo Fighters.

If they're trying to remake TCATS they are doing a horrible job.

The SNL performance was so boring, terrible song

The debut is the only solid front to back album.

Some of the rest of the catalogue has some decent songs:

TCATS: Monkey Wrench, Hey Johnny Park, My Poor Brain, TCATS
TINTL: Aurora, Ain't it the Life
OBO: Low, Disenchanted Lullaby
IYH: Acoustic: What If I Do?, On the Mend, Virginia Moon, Razor - The regular half of this album is terrible except for maybe the title track
WL: White Limo, Arlandria, I Should Have Known

Rest of it? Meh.

VinylGuy wrote:I hate that one. I do like Wasting Light. Thats the last thing i really cared from them.

Yeah I think this was a good late career album

As much as i greatly prefer the first few albums, I Should Have Known is a top 10 Foo's song.

Thurman Murman wrote:As much as i greatly prefer the first few albums, I Should Have Known is a top 10 Foo's song.

I agree with this. It made Wasting Light.

50 Million Feet of Earth... wrote:The SNL performance was so boring, terrible song

The debut is the only solid front to back album.

Some of the rest of the catalogue has some decent songs:

TCATS: Monkey Wrench, Hey Johnny Park, My Poor Brain, TCATS

Rest of it? Meh.

Everlong is a stone cold classic rock song. Probably one of the best of the 90s. My Hero has those huge drums in the intro. I guess someone could be sick of these two but if we had never heard them before and they dropped with the new album we would all be blown away.

I'm in the camp that really loves the first album above all their others -- Dave sounds like kind of a lost soul on it, looking for his own voice as a guitarist, a singer, and a songwriter, all under the weight of this immense personal and artistic loss that concurrently signified a massive cultural crossroads to the rest of the world. It's a fascinating mess of a record, a diamond in the rough shaped by all kinds of forces beyond the control of its creators, and is a singular moment in '90's rock as a result.

By the second album that awkward sense of quest is completely gone; the songs are immediately more confident, controlled, and undemanding. There are really strong pop-rock songs on there but -- to the extent that I'm familiar with their catalog, and there comes a point when I'm not -- the first album to second album represents their biggest shift in general aesthetic philosophy, even if the major quality dip doesn't really set in until a few albums later. For my own purposes the first and second albums are the only ones I ever reach for anymore, though I always enjoy them when I throw them on.