Foo Fighters
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the music group Foo Fighters.
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Foo Fighters – “Saint Cecilia EP” (2015)
After Sonic Highways, you may have been inclined to believe that the riff-generating machine must have finally broken down, but if this EP is any indication it seems back up and running, even though it’s not at full capacity. The title track is Foo Fighters‘ best song to appear since Wasting Light, and the sound… (read more)
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Foo Fighters Retrospective
(Original publication date unknown) Oh ho, neighboring music nerds. So you want me to apologize for my love of Foo Fighters? Call them a “guilty pleasure?” Say the usual stupid image-preserving apologies like “I like them, but they aren’t objectively good?” Tough luck. Foo Fighters are great. Foo Fighters kick ass. Foo Fighters are possibly… (read more)
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Foo Fighters – “Foo Fighters”
In the running for the best Foo Fighters album. Being their first, it has a less-produced sound than their later albums and is essentially a garage rock album. Very melodic alternative rock with several great riffs and a lot of energy accompanied with Dave Grohl’s soft voice or tuneful yells. At times borders on noise… (read more)
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Foo Fighters – “The Colour and the Shape”
Similar pop songwriting ideals of the debut album, but the hooks are bigger and the production is cleaner. Loses the more lo-fi, garage-y, punk feel of the debut that made it so charming. Almost all songs are midtempo, and there’s only two types of songs: brash rockers and strummed mellow electric guitar ballads. The latter… (read more)
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Foo Fighters – “There Is Nothing Left to Lose” (1999)
On the Foo Fighters’s third album, Dave Grohl made a conscious effort to juxtapose the abrasive nu metal bands that had become popular during the album’s conception by making There Is Nothing Left to Lose the band’s most restrained album yet. Melodic and full of guitar lines that just glide by even during the loud… (read more)