Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

liebzz wrote:
Foo Fighters is more of a stage production. Dave Grohl is an excellent entertainer and plays off the everything is an epic anthem shtick for 3 hours. The running through the crowd at the exact same moment in the set to the stage in the middle, or the yells, or the various other histrionics are all choreographed. Makes for a tight show when there’s not much in variation.

Yeah this feels right. Your mileage may vary, but I hate it.

tragabigzanda wrote:

liebzz wrote:
Foo Fighters is more of a stage production. Dave Grohl is an excellent entertainer and plays off the everything is an epic anthem shtick for 3 hours. The running through the crowd at the exact same moment in the set to the stage in the middle, or the yells, or the various other histrionics are all choreographed. Makes for a tight show when there’s not much in variation.

Yeah this feels right. Your mileage may vary, but I hate it.

tragabigzanda wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote: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

Ello Sailor wrote:liebzz hit the nail on the head about the stage show. That level of choreography masqueraded as spontaneity is horrid. They were my fav. band when I was 13, and I enjoyed seeing them on the One by One tour, but by In Your Honor I was well and truly over Dave's bullshit.

Out July 17 as a limited edition vinyl album packaged era-appropriately in a dazzling rainbow mylar sleeve, HAIL SATIN is the bipolar party record of the summer. Side A features Grohl, Hawkins, Mendel, Smear, Shiflett and Jaffee lighting up the floor at Foo Fighters’ 606 studios with faithful renditions of five stone cold Brothers Gibb classics — Bee Gees bangers "You Should Be Dancing,” Night Fever,” “Tragedy” and “More Than A Woman" + Andy Gibb’s “Shadow Dancing” — while side B literally rocks the party with live at 606 renditions of roughly half of Foo Fighters pandemic panacea album MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT.

The DEE GEES: HAIL SATIN was recorded entirely at 606. For optimal results, listen with exposed chest hair and little gold spoon necklace (If you know, you know…).


Side A — The DEE GEES:
You Should Be Dancing
Night Fever
Tragedy
Shadow Dancing
More Than a Woman

Side B — LIVE at 606:
Making A Fire
Shame Shame
Waiting on a War
No Son of Mine
Cloudspotter

Ello Sailor wrote:Please get an avatar, Miss. There are too many of you now!

Ello Sailor wrote:liebzz hit the nail on the head about the stage show. That level of choreography masqueraded as spontaneity is horrid. They were my fav. band when I was 13, and I enjoyed seeing them on the One by One tour, but by In Your Honor I was well and truly over Dave's bullshit.

fyfe79 wrote:

Ello Sailor wrote:liebzz hit the nail on the head about the stage show. That level of choreography masqueraded as spontaneity is horrid. They were my fav. band when I was 13, and I enjoyed seeing them on the One by One tour, but by In Your Honor I was well and truly over Dave's bullshit.

Pretty much my take on it! Foo's were a great band between 1995-1997, loved the first two albums. The Brixton Academy '95 MTV show was just punk/grunge fun, and the Bizarre '97 show was also a fun spontaneous mid-festival slot. Both pro-shot shows which I watched to death as a teen.

It started to change for the worse with the 3rd album, and by the 4th, 'One By One', it was just theater. They're now a bloated mess - 3 guitarists? Some keyboard fella in the back? All the staged Dave shouts and roars, running around, extended meandering sections in songs? Nah.

These days, Foo's shows are to rock what Metallica shows are to metal. An excuse for event junkies to say they were 'there' at a massive rock/metal gig.

B wrote:This got past me. I'm adding this to my RSD wishlist.

https://pitchfork.com/news/foo-fighters ... -day-2021/

Out July 17 as a limited edition vinyl album packaged era-appropriately in a dazzling rainbow mylar sleeve, HAIL SATIN is the bipolar party record of the summer. Side A features Grohl, Hawkins, Mendel, Smear, Shiflett and Jaffee lighting up the floor at Foo Fighters’ 606 studios with faithful renditions of five stone cold Brothers Gibb classics — Bee Gees bangers "You Should Be Dancing,” Night Fever,” “Tragedy” and “More Than A Woman" + Andy Gibb’s “Shadow Dancing” — while side B literally rocks the party with live at 606 renditions of roughly half of Foo Fighters pandemic panacea album MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT.

The DEE GEES: HAIL SATIN was recorded entirely at 606. For optimal results, listen with exposed chest hair and little gold spoon necklace (If you know, you know…).


Side A — The DEE GEES:
You Should Be Dancing
Night Fever
Tragedy
Shadow Dancing
More Than a Woman

Side B — LIVE at 606:
Making A Fire
Shame Shame
Waiting on a War
No Son of Mine
Cloudspotter

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:

fyfe79 wrote:

Ello Sailor wrote:liebzz hit the nail on the head about the stage show. That level of choreography masqueraded as spontaneity is horrid. They were my fav. band when I was 13, and I enjoyed seeing them on the One by One tour, but by In Your Honor I was well and truly over Dave's bullshit.

Pretty much my take on it! Foo's were a great band between 1995-1997, loved the first two albums. The Brixton Academy '95 MTV show was just punk/grunge fun, and the Bizarre '97 show was also a fun spontaneous mid-festival slot. Both pro-shot shows which I watched to death as a teen.

It started to change for the worse with the 3rd album, and by the 4th, 'One By One', it was just theater. They're now a bloated mess - 3 guitarists? Some keyboard fella in the back? All the staged Dave shouts and roars, running around, extended meandering sections in songs? Nah.

These days, Foo's shows are to rock what Metallica shows are to metal. An excuse for event junkies to say they were 'there' at a massive rock/metal gig.

Their blatant transformation from an excellent rock band into vapid stadium-rock generica is truly depressing.