Just came out on the 25th...anyone pick this up? Picked it up an hour or so ago. The Pretender is a great single...still trying to give the rest of the album a good playthrough.
pretender is awesome, but their music seems repetitive to me. i loved the first single from their last album. let me know how it is i may pick it up.
They've switched things up from their first few albums. You can't call this album formulaic Foo. Added a lot of dynamics and raised the musicianship bar up several notches. Not as single-friendly as before, but it's really good music. Pretender is old-school type Foo at it's best. Home is fantastic. Let This Die is one of many songs merging acoustic and power styles together. Good at the first listen: Long Road, Summer's End, Come Alive, Seda, Beaconsfield (instrumental), Statues Okay: Cheer Up, Stranger Things, Erase/Replace, Honestly You can hear a bunch of old school rock influences in this album. I'm not going to go overboard and say this is the best Foo album ever, but if you like them, you're not going to regret this purchase at all. Rock solid - not a single crap song on the disc. Evan
I agree about the Pretender...you could put that on any of the other FF albums and it wouldn't seem out of place at all. Let It Die is probably my favorite song on the album, though. It just builds up really really well. They're one of my all-time favorite bands for sure though. They've been consistently fantastic for a long time now. I do think it's a step up from their last album...although who doesn't love two CDs for the price of one?
pretty solid album. though i find the first half better than the second half. i was hoping they'd go old school with this album and make a balls out rock record. grohl needs to go back and listen to their first 2 albums and get back to it.
I love the Foos because they remind me of the rock music I grew up on. I can't get "Long Road to Ruin" out of my head because it is so reminiscent of things I've known before. The Foo Fighters are derivative and that's one of the main reasons I like them. There is nothing earth shattering or amazing about them. They are just a great rock band that plays balls to the wall. In today's music, it seems that the MOST cheesy and obvious or the MOST bizarre and left-of-centre, the more buzz. It's like an inverse bell curve with all the good, solid rock music down at the bottom when it used to be the top of the bell curve with the way out stuff on one end and the super cheese on the other. The music industry doesn't serve up as MANY quintessentially good rock songs anymore. There were always middle of the road bands like Nickelback, but there were just as many Foo Fighters. For every Skynnard there was Aerosmith and Van Halen. For every Foghat there was AC/DC and Bruce Springsteen. I guess I just miss the days when rock music was king of the music heap and the Foo Fighters remind me of that.
good post. though like i said earlier, i still think foo needs to get back to like their first 2 albums. these newer ones seem way to "soft" i guess you could say. pretty consistent band, which i love, but i wish they'd make and album that could rival colour and the shape. Queens of the Stone Age are another band i'd say continue to make balls to the wall rock albums. it straight rock in your face, no question about it as you listen to the albums.
See, I really didn't care for the first CD. I liked Colour and the Shape fine, but the first CD just didn't really do it for me. Queens of the Stone Age are ok, but the singer makes me crazy, so I have a hard time listening. Plus, not enough hooks for me overall. Grohl has openly admitted to be more influenced lately by rootsy, straight ahead American rock like Tom Petty and I think that's pretty obvious on a lot of the stuff.
