Foo Fighters

[PCLoadLetter]

"Everlong" by a pretty good margin for me. Then "Walk" and "Learn to Fly."

 

[Starman]

I kind of jacked my own post off topic earlier, but the point I was kind of getting at was that Nirvana may really have had a potential songwriter combo in Cobain-Grohl that might have rivaled Lennon-McCartney and Jagger-Richards if Cobain hadn't been really messed up in the head and allowed/ encouraged Grohl to participate more in the writing process.

But Nirvana was probably never meant to have a 30 year lifespan.

 

[Huggy]

"Monkey Wrench" is my fave Foos song

 

[terrier]

So did anybody see their 3 1/2 hour club extravaganza Lollapalooza afterparty show in Chicago?

 

[Moderator1]

Everlong came up at the end of my walk today. I love it when that happens

 

[Chef2]

Reason number 4,198 why Dave Grohl is the coolest son of a bench on the planet.

Foo Fighters, 10-year-old boy perform Metallica song at Missouri concert

 

[Slacker]

Foo Fighters, 10-year-old boy perform Metallica song at Missouri concert

Collier also has reflected on his recent 15 minutes of fame.

"Metallica knows who I am, the Foo Fighters know who I am," the fifth-grader told Fox 4 KC. "Dave Grohl gave me a guitar, I've played at the Sprint Center, I think my bucket list is done."

Not so fast there, kid. You just qualified as an early contender for the Poin Files.

 

[RARist]

If you think about it, Grohl and the Foos is kind of like if ...

The Beatles started to get big in 1962 as in real life.

With a lineup of John Lennon, lead guitar, vocals; George Harrison, second guitar, backup vocals; Stu Sutcliffe, bass, and Paul McCartney, drums.

They became a worldwide sensation in 1963-64 and broke through artistic barriers. Kids start wearing long hair. Except the music is overwhelmingly written and produced by John Lennon. Drummer McCartney is given an occasional novelty vocal turn. He's given writing credit on a handful of songs, mostly single B-sides. Lennon mostly discounts McCartney's writing; when McCartney offers co-writing credit, he just laughs it off.

In summer 1965 one day, Lennon blows off a recording session, spending the day smoking pot with new pal Bob Dylan, one of a number of new drug diversions Lennon dips into. In the studio with the other band members, McCartney offers a song he calls "Scrambled Eggs."

Producer George Martin suggests some new lyrics and a string quartet backing. The next day, Lennon returns to the studio and dismisses the song, now called, "I Believe In Yesterday," as "Paul's granny music." The track is shelved.

The Beatles continued through the groundbreaking "Revolver" in 1966, in which the music takes a turn toward a raw and punky style called 'grunge.' One of the notable tracks is a weird send-up of Fifties doo-wop, "Happiness Is A Warm Gun." Lennon takes the Beatles in a direction toward rough and raw hard rock in reaction/rivalry with contemporary Brian Wilson. Lennon makes a remark the Beatles are "bigger than Jesus."

In August 1966, following riots sparked by his "Jesus" remarks, Lennon is killed by a deranged gunman at a Memphis concert. At about the same time Wilson goes borderline crazy. The Beatles break up after four classic albums.

Harrison joins his friend Eric Clapton in Cream; one of their biggest hits is 1968's "My Guitar Can't Stop Crying," about Lennon's murder, from the album "Creamy Cream," which features an all-white cover. In 1969 Harrison replaces the late Brian Jones in the Rolling Stones. Sutcliffe retires to a 30-year career as an artist, painting dozens of huge hit album covers.

In 1974, McCartney forms Wings with old school pal Ringo Starr on drums. McCartney switches off between lead guitar, bass and keyboard. They start pumping out a chain of hits never recorded under the Beatles' banner.

The first single, a pair of songs McCartney had in the can for years, is "She Loves You"/"Helter Skelter."

In 1992, the surviving Beatles reunite for an "Anthology" project. McCartney takes a boxful of unfinished Lennon demo tapes and adds lyrics and new instrumentation, in several cases largely rewriting the song. The first three-song CD, the first three songs ever credited to "Lennon-McCartney," includes "Let Me Take You Down," "Penny Lane" and a strange hybrid merging of two songs, entitled "I'd Love To Turn You On."

I know this is late, but I have no idea how any of this is supposed to illustrate Foo Fighters.
The effort is acknowledged, though.

 

[RARist]

But if want to mesh Beatles and Foo Fighters together, they've already done it.

McCartney plays drums on this track. Quickly moving up my list of top Foo songs:

 

[Chef2]

I still remember someone talking with Grohl about Prince. The question was asked who the better guitar player was?....Him or Grohl.......Grohl's response was along the line of "are you kidding me?......Prince was a better DRUMMER than I was."

 

[ChrisLong]

Reason number 4,198 why Dave Grohl is the coolest son of a bench on the planet.

Foo Fighters, 10-year-old boy perform Metallica song at Missouri concert

Very awesome. I've seen Tower of Power do this as well, with a young sax player somewhere in Europe. They even picked him up at his house.

 

[Human_Paraquat]

I have a lot of nostalgia for the self-titled debut. "The Colour and the Shape" is a tremendous album and I also really like "There is Nothing Left to Lose." ("Generator" would go near the top of my favorite Foo songs, though I concur "Everlong" is the triumph -- a true classic.)

However ... I really can't listen to the new stuff. To my ears they have really devolved into some adult contemporary pap of late. (Not as bad as the Weezer freefall, but painful nonetheless.) But in totality the catalog has some great work.