Dave Grohl is a nice guy but The Foo Fighters suck!

Fook Off wrote:

Seriously, Dave Grohl seems like a lovely guy but I just don't get the Foos. They're like some kinda terrible rock cliché making devil horns and their greasy long hair.

Plus the music is just bland and repetitive with lots of distortion masking some pretty awful playing.

Anyone here actually listen to this High School band?

They have perhaps 10 songs that are really great. Start with Everlong. Fantastic!

Funny how he makes fun of Nickelback. I've always lumped his music in with them. Both terrible.

Cringy and cliche.

Also if we're talking sh tty knock off artists might as well thrown in the black keys.

The worst thing is perhaps the ott jumping about and head bashing but Dave is such a nice guy and looks like he enjoys himself so fair play as he's living the dream.

I just don't get the music.

What's crazy to me is that he was in the band Scream in D.C. A pretty important band in the D.C. hardcore scene. Dude knows Ian MacKaye personally. Kind of nuts that he's the face of weak corporate rock music now.

The first Foos album is solid though.

they had a few decent songs but yeah they're pretty trash now

They need to try something new, classic/90's rock is boring now

Which bands do you like? Need to assess your ability to provide criticism.

Disagree, Dave Grohl is a jerk, but the Foo Fighters rock.

930 Club wrote:

What's crazy to me is that he was in the band Scream in D.C. A pretty important band in the D.C. hardcore scene. Dude knows Ian MacKaye personally.

And let's not forget that Pat Smear was the guitarist in the Germs. They were one of the original Los Angeles punk rock bands that started the scene there, as famously documented in "The Decline of Western Civilization." Thanks to Darby Crash's self-destructive lifestyle and premature(?) death, they didn't last long, but Pat Smear would have gone down in history for that alone. Then on top of that, he played 2nd guitar in Nirvana. Then for a 3rd act, he plays guitar for the Foo Fighters. The guy must be 80 years old by now! But how many other musicians have been in THREE legendary bands??

john utah wrote:

Fook Off wrote:

Seriously, Dave Grohl seems like a lovely guy but I just don't get the Foos. They're like some kinda terrible rock cliché making devil horns and their greasy long hair.

Plus the music is just bland and repetitive with lots of distortion masking some pretty awful playing.

Anyone here actually listen to this High School band?

They have perhaps 10 songs that are really great. Start with Everlong. ✔ Fantastic!

True, I don't like all his political views but he is a great figure of the last 25 years.

Not many bands out there with as many recognizable songs as them and have hits in as many different years as them.

If you're comparing Foo Fighters to Nickelback, you have no idea what you're talking about. They're very diverse and experiment with their sound quite a bit. It's crazy that people hear things so differently...I've seen them compared to anyone from The Beatles to a crap band like Nickelback. Considering top level musicians line up to play with Grohl (including McCartney), I think they're closer to the former than the latter.

When it comes to music, people crap on anyone that becomes popular. If Foo Fighters were a band that was on the fringes, who hadn't broken through to the mainstream, people would be calling them the greatest band since the 1970's. Since they've had such mainstream success, people call them overrated and generic. Have people who bash them actually listened to their full catalog? I seriously don't know of any band that has as many great songs that are so different from one another (not just the stuff played on the radio). Their new record skews so many different types of rock sub-genres, it's kind of mind-blowing. The fact that they can make different types of music sound, at the same time, like the Foo Fighters is what makes it most impressive.

Dave Grohl waved to my friends and I once while we were on a balcony. We were like "Daaaaaaave" and he turns around, smiles and one finger up, fist pumps the sky. Other people chimed in right after. My friends and I talked about it for days.

https://youtu.be/zgvUaOuEdwA

Lorna Doom wrote:

930 Club wrote:

What's crazy to me is that he was in the band Scream in D.C. A pretty important band in the D.C. hardcore scene. Dude knows Ian MacKaye personally.

And let's not forget that Pat Smear was the guitarist in the Germs. They were one of the original Los Angeles punk rock bands that started the scene there, as famously documented in "The Decline of Western Civilization." Thanks to Darby Crash's self-destructive lifestyle and premature(?) death, they didn't last long, but Pat Smear would have gone down in history for that alone. Then on top of that, he played 2nd guitar in Nirvana. Then for a 3rd act, he plays guitar for the Foo Fighters. The guy must be 80 years old by now! But how many other musicians have been in THREE legendary bands??

Pat Smear is an old closeted queen from way back.

Lol who cares if he knows Ian MacKaye lol dude is a jerk off. I've met him, we have mutual friends

Lorna Doom wrote:

930 Club wrote:

What's crazy to me is that he was in the band Scream in D.C. A pretty important band in the D.C. hardcore scene. Dude knows Ian MacKaye personally.

And let's not forget that Pat Smear was the guitarist in the Germs. They were one of the original Los Angeles punk rock bands that started the scene there, as famously documented in "The Decline of Western Civilization." Thanks to Darby Crash's self-destructive lifestyle and premature(?) death, they didn't last long, but Pat Smear would have gone down in history for that alone. Then on top of that, he played 2nd guitar in Nirvana. Then for a 3rd act, he plays guitar for the Foo Fighters. The guy must be 80 years old by now! But how many other musicians have been in THREE legendary bands??

Eric Clapton.

Eranwar wrote:

Lorna Doom wrote:

And let's not forget that Pat Smear was the guitarist in the Germs. They were one of the original Los Angeles punk rock bands that started the scene there, as famously documented in "The Decline of Western Civilization." Thanks to Darby Crash's self-destructive lifestyle and premature(?) death, they didn't last long, but Pat Smear would have gone down in history for that alone. Then on top of that, he played 2nd guitar in Nirvana. Then for a 3rd act, he plays guitar for the Foo Fighters. The guy must be 80 years old by now! But how many other musicians have been in THREE legendary bands??

Eric Clapton.

That's true. Also Ronnie Wood. But the list is short.

john utah wrote:

They have perhaps 10 songs that are really great. Start with Everlong. Fantastic!

Agreed. Everlong is a GREAT song. Foo Fighters is a great band.

930 Club wrote:

What's crazy to me is that he was in the band Scream in D.C. A pretty important band in the D.C. hardcore scene. Dude knows Ian MacKaye personally. Kind of nuts that he's the face of weak corporate rock music now.

The first Foos album is solid though.

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