The Foo Fighters

[Jwar]

I think the Foo Fighters old stuff is amazing. Not a fan of their new stuff.

[Jwar]

You want to know who's worse than the Foo Fighters though. Fucking Filter man. They had one good album in the 90's some good soundtrack stuff, the rest sucks.

[More_Divebombs]

First album is a good listen. It's just a punk rock machine.
I dig the second album too. It's totally corny, but there's some huge rockers on there. It sounds like if Quicksand tried to write a chart topper.
Hell, I even like the 3rd album. It sounds more like an album that was jammed out than Grohl just turning up to a studio with riffs and telling everyone what to do. It's got a few stinkers on there, but Live In Skin and Aurora are really cool songs. So many grooves. Nate's a great bass player.

I really can't stomach anything they released after that.

Dave seems like a cool guy though. I always like to hear him talking about punk rock from when he was growing up. Pat Smear (Germs), Nate Mendel (Sunny Day Real Estate) and Chris Shiflett (No Use For a Name) have made a lot of music I like too.

[DarkAxel]

I like Foo Fighters a lot

I just do

They're not groundbreaking in any way. They're only a really great modern rock band. Perhaps one of the very biggest we have right now. And yes, rock music has changed, I think it all got very safe over the years because of all the crazy excess early on, all the trouble with the authorities, the drugs, the deaths... so inevitably, a huge modern rock band will probabyl be much safer than we want

if we don't want safe, we listen to "underground", right? Bands like Whores and such, eh?

[terminator]

Nate Mendel is a bad ass bassist.
And william goldsmith on drums. Holy shit.

[Rob Fossil]

I love that 1st album, "Oh George" is a great straight up rock song. After that, not so much.

[bigchiefbc]

a bit of too-cool-for-school hipsterdom going on here. Like someone else said, as far as mainstream, made-for-radio rock goes, they're better than most. I certainly don't like everything they've done, but Dave's usually good for a few straight-up rockers on each album. Nothing ground-breaking or boundary-pushing, but not all music has to be that all the time. And he never forgets where he comes from, he pimps a bunch of indy and underground bands all the time. He seems like a cool dude.

[The Mad Titan]

a bit of too-cool-for-school hipsterdom going on here. Like someone else said, as far as mainstream, made-for-radio rock goes, they're better than most. I certainly don't like everything they've done, but Dave's usually good for a few straight-up rockers on each album. Nothing ground-breaking or boundary-pushing, but not all music has to be that all the time. And he never forgets where he comes from, he pimps a bunch of indy and underground bands all the time. He seems like a cool dude.

This is pretty much my take on it. I've been a fan since shortly after Bleach came out, and have pretty much dug everything the guy's been involved in.

Throwing on Bleach right now aamof.

[D.o.S.]

Grohl doesn't play on Bleach.

I really like the Probot record.

[bigchiefbc]

Grohl doesn't play on Bleach.

I really like the Probot record.

Yeah, Bleach was Chad Channing. And his drumming was pretty damned solid, as well.

Grohl was still in Scream when Bleach came out.

[D.o.S.]

Scream is also pretty rad.

[Mudfuzz]

a bit of too-cool-for-school hipsterdom going on here. Like someone else said, as far as mainstream, made-for-radio rock goes, they're better than most.

really I like his drumming and Skeeter [King Buzzo EP] is one of my favorite songs but, I not like the Foo… I wanted to when they came out but it was like "Nirvana spawned this? how?

[darkfield]

Grohl is a cool guy, and Scream is the shit but foos are nothing more than a mediocre Swervedriver ripoff.

[dase]

Not liking something is hipsterdom?

[D.o.S.]

I don't know if I hear that, and I love the Swervies.

Someone else said something about 'radio rock,' and that's more or less the entirety of my thoughts on the FF.