The Foo Fighters

[UncleBBQ]

I don't really get them anymore...am I missing something? It seems like according to everyone they are doing all this "groundbreaking" shit but whenever I hear a new song - I just get more and more turned off by how radio they are.

Before I get potentially crucified, I do enjoy some of their older material; it's quite nostalgic.

What is your opinion?

[retinal orbita]

They have always sucked.... Just like U2 and every other shitty band that sucks.....

[intothegroove]

I agree, I used to like them but lost interest awhile ago. They are definitely sounding more commercial every time they put out a new song or album

[D.o.S.]

Dave Grohl seems like a good dude.

[dase]

it's mad they're giving exposure to all the underground stuff they came from originally but band has basically never not sounded like music for end of season montages on sports shows to me.

[UncleBBQ]

Grohl seems like a cool enough guy, I feel talking music with him would be cool...

On the other hand though, they are kind of everything I dislike about todays rock music.

[Chankgeez]

Dave Grohl seems like a good dude.

Yeah, I kinda liked him when he played with that band Nirvana.

[Iommic Pope]

I agree with these points regarding Grohl's coolness and props to littler bands....but I think it is more of an indictment on the state of music journalism as it stands and the major label industry as an overblown, gross, Jabba-style organism, about to eat itself (half in a haze of holdover gluttony, half from the subliminal recognition that its dying of starvation) if they are calling anything FF do as "groundbreaking".

Its just radio rock, they're good at it, let's move the fuck on.

[Mudfuzz]

Its just radio rock, they're good at it, let's move the fuck on.

this [and most of the other comments, I don't like Dave Grohl the ham, not in a car not on a bus, not on a plane not on a train. Dave Grohl's bad pop songs give my ears such a dull humdrumbling pain.]

[Iommic Pope]

My kids are watching Horton Hears A Who right now.

Seussian Cosmosis.

[UncleBBQ]

Its just radio rock, they're good at it, let's move the fuck on.

this [and most of the other comments, I don't like Dave Grohl the ham, not in a car not on a bus, not on a plane not on a train. Dave Grohl's bad pop songs give my ears such a dull humdrumbling pain.]

[Twangasaurus]

Yeah, their early stuff is super nostalgic for me. When I was about fifteen Rage (Aussie music video program) put on this huge FF special and my friend sat through the whole thing to tape it (on VHS...) without the ads. He put it on whenever we were drinking. Good times.

That said, I never really liked them much.

[terminator]

Dave grohl is why i play drums. Nirvana got me into playin music in 6th grade. I bought the first foo fighters tape at Walmart when it came out. That got me interested in home recording. The 2nd album has good good shit all over it. After that, not so much.
I hear grohl has a show where he visits legendary studios around the country. Based on the sound city doc. Which I haven't seen yet, but am eager to.
Plus pat smear dudes.

[UncleBBQ]

Pat Smear is kinda cool, I liked his guitar work with The Germs but that's about it.

[terminator]

Not to mention he got Michele gondry (sic) to direct the everlong video.