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How Do You Fight Your Foo? PART IV

1) "Wheels"

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2) "Rope"

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3) "Walk"

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4) "These Days"

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5) "Bridge Burning"

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6) "Something from Nothing"

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7) "Congregation"

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8) Other (from the [i:3qt9ni28]Wasting Light[/i:3qt9ni28]/[i:3qt9ni28]Sonic Highways era[/i:3qt9ni28])

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Edgy MD Jul 20 2015 07:27 AM

I have a distance cousin who writes horror novels. We're Facebook buds but I'm not sure we've ever met in person. This morning, he posted, "After last night I finally understand that Dave Grohl is the hard rock Arlo Guthrie." Not bad. Choose your final Foo Fighting weapon from among these not-yet-classic tracks. 1) "Wheels" [youtube]k04h5tQVKTw[/youtube] 2) "Rope" [youtube]kbpqZT_56Ns[/youtube] 3) "Walk" [youtube]4PkcfQtibmU[/youtube] 4) "These Days" [youtube]ZgTgOOemaA4[/youtube] 5) "Bridge Burning" [youtube]Rb7H7_b6Rqs[/youtube] 6) "Something from Nothing" [youtube]V_YlZ1JdcVk[/youtube] 7) "Congregation" [youtube]Nn3rbvDsjHY[/youtube] 8) Other (from the Wasting Light/Sonic Highways era)

Mets – Willets Point Jul 20 2015 11:53 AM Re: How Do You Fight Your Foo? PART IV

Does Grohl tell very long stories in-between songs at his gigs, or is there some other similarity to Guthrie.

Edgy MD Jul 20 2015 12:12 PM Re: How Do You Fight Your Foo? PART IV

Hairy genial raconteur, I believe the term is.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 20 2015 11:28 PM Re: How Do You Fight Your Foo? PART IV

Sonic Highways is chock full of good craftsmanship-- the vibrant riffs and rhythmic churn on "Congregation;" the well-lit, anthemic bombast of "God As My Witness;"-- but kinda leaves me a little cold. The ambitious stuff like "I Am A River" and "Subterranean" doesn't quite land... and the rest is just sorta well-executed playbook Foostuff with lyrics mined from interviews and local color. It's like, all this adventuring, and you couldn't do something more adventurous? All this time spent in LA and Austin... and you couldn't get weird? Wasted Light has a bit more to it, at least in the best spots. I do like the power-pop uproar of "Walk," but, ultimately, I'll go off-menu for the slow, dark build of "I Should Have Known."

Edgy MD Jul 21 2015 07:10 AM Re: How Do You Fight Your Foo? PART IV

I think you're on to something. Sometimes you're excited by how you're all playing, and you've got a good, visionary producer and a sound in your head and there's a healthy give and take and... you look at each other and nobody has written anything since the last tour ended. So you've got the sound, but not the songs, and that can get you a good album, but not really a good single. And ironically, such albums sometimes produce multiple singles while the band tours their ass off, living off past accomplishments, hoping one of the current tracks will gain traction.