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How Do You Fight Your Foo? PART III


1) "Low" 0 votes

2) "Best of You" 1 votes

3) "DOA" 0 votes

4) "No Way Back" 1 votes

5) "The Pretender" 5 votes

6) "Long Road to Ruin" 0 votes

7) "Let It Die" 0 votes

8) Other contemporaraneous song 0 votes

Edgy MD
Jul 17 2015 07:10 AM

The foo are an inscrutable enemy. They have grown wings and filled the sky above your island and blocked out any signal messages you have sent. You need one song to disperse them, and it's going to come from the Foo Fighters 2003–2007 catalog, up to and including all tracks from the Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace album.

Nice freeze-frame on the "Low" video, YouTube.

1) "Low"
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2) "Best of You"
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3) "DOA"
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4) "No Way Back"
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5) "The Pretender"
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6) "Long Road to Ruin"
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7) "Let It Die"
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8) Other contemporaneous song

seawolf17
Jul 17 2015 07:15 AM
Re: How Do You Fight Your Foo? PART III

Is there a IV? Because if not, I'm going with "These Days" off "Wasting Light."

Edgy MD
Jul 17 2015 07:33 AM
Re: How Do You Fight Your Foo? PART III

There'll be a IV, covering Wasting Light and Sonic Highways. This may be the weakest of the four batches.

But what a run they've had for a band that's perhaps been a little taken for granted.

TransMonk
Jul 17 2015 08:49 AM
Re: How Do You Fight Your Foo? PART III

Gimme "The Pretender".

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jul 17 2015 09:58 AM
Re: How Do You Fight Your Foo? PART III

If we take them for granted, it may be because-- at least a little, at times-- it seems like they do the same. There's a lot of well-constructed, professionally-crafted sameness in these later years. (With some key- or tempo-change gimmickry tossed into a few of them, in lieu of actual fresh songwriting.)

That said, lack of dynamic change is what loses "Best of You" my vote (otherwise, I like it; its guitar squalls have a charge to 'em, and its emotional content is more fraught and complicated than its frequent commercial/promo usage might suggest). Instead, make mine "The Pretender, which marries sonic complexity to the same in its wordage.