Dave Grohl can't really sing, can he

casper leblanc

I just heard him butcher Stairway To Heaven on the radio. Dear god, man, stick to just screaming.

off_the_record

you could say that about 80% of "rock" vocalists

Pearl Jam and toast

casper leblanc wrote:

I just heard him butcher Stairway To Heaven on the radio. Dear god, man, stick to just screaming.

If that's what I think it is he was just fucking around with his drummer for fun on some talk show.

edit: Or maybe it's on the new live CD?

I actually LOVE his voice. It's breathy and floaty (no pun intended..) and also one of the better screamers around in popular rock music.

Jennytree

Listen to Skin and Bones (the album) - its beautiful!

yield2me

you should listen to the new Foo Fighters live cd that just came out...his voice is really amazing on it, I was really surprised how good he sounded!

Jennytree

yield2me wrote:

you should listen to the new Foo Fighters live cd that just came out...his voice is really amazing on it, I was really surprised how good he sounded!

haha- good timing

Kirkwood

I think he has a really beutiful voice, but his screaming is pretty bad. The first tour, he gave me the chills everytime he sang.
But Foo fighters was only good on their first record, when grohl wrote it all.
C.A.T.S was ok, but then a big no no

prytocorduroy

Never heard Marigold I assume...

swede

i dont like his voice at all

tnt358

yield2me wrote:

you should listen to the new Foo Fighters live cd that just came out...his voice is really amazing on it, I was really surprised how good he sounded!

i feel the same way

chrisopalooza

i dont think he's terrible at singing...his lyrics recently are weak as all hell though.

catefrances

this is the first time i've ever heard anyone say anything negative about grohl.
and knowing the man's love of zeppelin he was probably mucking around.

sadprofessor

He is good in spots, and he was great when he harmonized with Kurt.

My general opinion of Grohl is that he needs to stop being a front man. I loved the Foo Fighters at first for maybe the first record and part of the second, now he seems to have driven them straight to the middle of the road and parked them right in the middle of generic radio rock land. Grohl seems at his best when he is augmenting someone else, like when he plays with QOTSA.

But that is just me.

FnCircus

does anyone have the boot from this year's Bridge benefit????? (posting a link would be nice) I'll tell ya....his voice sounded great that night.

Gary Carter

i used to be a big dave grohl hater as lead singer,loved him with nirvana.so i bought the ff live cd skin and was bones and blown away by his voice.dude can sing

mookie_in_eugene

metsfan531941 wrote:

i used to be a big dave grohl hater as lead singer,loved him with nirvana.so i bought the ff live cd skin and was bones and blown away by his voice.dude can sing

Skin and Bones was superb at Bridge. I'll have to go out get the live cd.

BUENA

chrisopalooza wrote:

i dont think he's terrible at singing...his lyrics recently are weak as all hell though.

I GOT ANOTHER CONFESSION TO MAKE!!!!!!!!

Julien

I don't know what to think about Dave Grohl and Foo fighters.
Sometimes I like his vocie and sometimes it's very weak, as if he lost his voice.
Foo Fighters have a few great tunes (mainly on the color and the shape) but each album isn't so good... at least that's my point of view.
I haven't listenend to the live CD yet, but that's maybe a good compilation of their best tunes... I saww them once and I wans't so impressed (except for the bassist, who has a very coll way of playing the bass...)

cafeamericain

i think that dave grohl, eddie vedder, jack white and beck are the most talented people in music today.

Pearl Jam and toast

cafeamericain wrote:

i think that dave grohl, eddie vedder, jack white and beck are the most talented people in music today.

+ Billy Corgan and Thom Yorke/Jonny Greenwood and you may be right.

enharmonic

Dave's voice is good enough for rock and roll.

Now, if we're talking about most complete musician, Dave is certainly that. The guy is easily one of the most talented rock musicians in the game today. He's one of the sickest drummers ever, a good singer, a servicable guitarist and bassist. He can and does do it all.

The first Foos album was all Dave, and he did that sort of thing for years before he had a record deal. There used to be tapes floating around in the Baltimore/Washington region of "Dave doing everything" songs. I think that's why his music is so good to be honest. He has a very sharp sense of how to put it all together.

Toshala

I love him! I have all the cds, seen them live 3 times and really enjoy Skin and Bones live CD (which by the way is NOT a compilation of mostly old songs but many off their last cd, the double disc IN YOUR HONOR)..........he CAN sing and does quite well. I've heard enough awful singers on the radio that there's just no way I could agree that he can't sing........on top of that he's one funny motherfucker!!!!

Pearl Jam and toast

enharmonic wrote:

Dave's voice is good enough for rock and roll.

Now, if we're talking about most complete musician, Dave is certainly that. The guy is easily one of the most talented rock musicians in the game today. He's one of the sickest drummers ever, a good singer, a servicable guitarist and bassist. He can and does do it all.

The first Foos album was all Dave, and he did that sort of thing for years before he had a record deal. There used to be tapes floating around in the Baltimore/Washington region of "Dave doing everything" songs. I think that's why his music is so good to be honest. He has a very sharp sense of how to put it all together.

Yes, yes, yes.

chrisopalooza

cafeamericain wrote:

i think that dave grohl, eddie vedder, jack white and beck are the most talented people in music today.

you're smoking Rolling Stone magazine.

IlovveePJ

swede wrote:

i dont like his voice at all

Yeah, I agree.

A Surprise Left

He is more of a screamer rather than a true singer but it works for most of the material that the Foos do. I think he's certainly a better drummer than he is a singer but he is quite a good songwriter. I reckon he is a vastly better voice than Cobain did.

A Surprise Left

cafeamericain wrote:

i think that dave grohl, eddie vedder, jack white and beck are the most talented people in music today.

My brother saw The White Stripes a couple of years ago headline the Big Day Out here in Oz and said that the White Stripes were purely noise pollution and people who were jumping the barriers were trying to jump back over the barriers in an effort to escape the "music". Jack is a good guitarist but like Corgan is quite an awful singer. There are more talented people than those that you listed.

pjfan020

I've always thought the foo fighters were just a fun band to listen to. nothing too serious but still decent. Dave's voice isn't too shabby. The new live disc really displays his vocal talents. I definitely think he's better at the slow stuff than the more rockin tunes. Wouldn't mind if he permanently drummed for Queens of the Stone Age, he did some awesome work with them.

catefrances

A Surprise Left wrote:

My brother saw The White Stripes a couple of years ago headline the Big Day Out here in Oz and said that the White Stripes were purely noise pollution and people who were jumping the barriers were trying to jump back over the barriers in an effort to escape the "music". Jack is a good guitarist but like Corgan is quite an awful singer. There are more talented people than those that you listed.

yeah well i saw the white stripes this year and i wouldn't call them noise pollution. of course i am a big jack white fan anyway. so mine is hardly an unbiased opinion. but it's more about the guitar playing than the singing anyway.

Pandemic

Most of the Foos catalogue consists of albums with only two or three good songs.

He should just stick to drumming.

Go drum for QOTSA full-time would be my advice.

mattosborne

I think Dave has a great voice, one of the best rock/guitar vocalists IMO.