Foo Fighters

yostarama

I saw the Foos on thursday night at the Spectrum with my wife. The crowd was not a bunch of teenagers, there was alot of older fans there ( plenty of grey rockin out ). the energy was awesome, lots of loud rock and roll. They pretty much have a standard setlist they play. No I won't travel to see them as I have for PJ. The only thing I didn't like about the show was Taylor singing. The rest was very very energentic. Dave made many commets about playing in Philly, ( lots of stuff about the Grateful Deads 53 sellouts at the spectrum ). His energy running all over and singing his heart out was great. PJ has several things that are a positive in there live shows, as do the Foo Fighters. Over all for the $108 dollars we spent for sec 215 row 1 well worth the money. Oh and the Foo Fighters fans don't whine as much as PJ fans. Later Yostarama

deadhead321

YOSTERAMA: glad you had a good time...it was a rock show..plain and simple...and as my ID suggests, i was happy to hear the Grateful Dead references!!

Carlos D

The Foo's are a great live band because all they play are the hits which everyone knows,I can't say I've ever sat through a whole Foo Fighters album and I own them all.I can't say anything harsh about them,they're good and nice guys but....they couldn't make albums like Binaural,Yield or Vitalogy even if they wanted to.

dr teeth

Sanford Koufax wrote:

saw FF at MSG last tuesday. boring as all fuck. greatest hits set list night after night. dave doesnt eben sing a solitary note of any song anymore, all he does is scream.

one of the worst concerts ive ever been too.

i'll tend to agree with this, although not as harshly.dave just doesn't sing well and tries to make up for it with jokes or awful screaming.and the foo's are so rehearsed that even there breakdown/jams are cheesy/boring.

ona side note let it die and long road to ruin are fuckin great songs off there new album.

rhcpjam1029

irishwpo wrote:

When did they become a better band then Pearl Jam. Hate to say it but based on their last album and the Skin and bones album/tour before that they may just have surpassed PJ. The fact that they don't sweat playing the Grammy's, doing press, and making videos is also refreshing.

Am I alone here?

listen up noob, but every foo fighters album is the same! each song is so similar to each other and theres hardly any diversity! they're a great band but going so far to call them better than PEARL JAM is not cool.

rossbrew

Anyone going to the Foo's Vancouver March 30 show ? Still deciding as Bruce Springsteen is in town the following night, not to mention the two Eddie shows following on the heels...

PJammer4life

Other than Pearl Jam, there isn't a better straight up rock band touring this year than the foos.

EddiE

hopethatuchoke wrote:

The level of pretension around here is unbearable sometimes.

Glad I'm not the only one, feels sometimes on this board that if you're not "one of the gang" you're completely ignored, or if your opinion is different, or even slightly deviates from anything other than "PJ are the best band in the world" you're shot down for it. Like I'm probably going to be shot down for what I'm about to say.

For me PJ are getting stale lately, not a proper tour of the UK since 2000, only the exclusive gigs that are hard to get to, the last few albums haven't been as gritty as their earlier stuff, might go as far as to say somewhat dull in parts. I wouldnt' say the Foo Fighters are better, but I would say, for me personally, they are on a par with PJ. Foo Fighters seem to make themselves more "available" to the fans, and I wouldn't say all their albums are the same. I would like to say that I have been a PJ fan from the beginning of Ten, but I've found myself listening to PJ far less and listening to the Foo Fighters ALOT more lately.

allmyrivals

I just saw Foo Fighters in Detroit 2 nights ago. They played for 2 hours. You might think " thats pretty good" But let me say this, in that 2 hours they played maybe 13 songs. there was so much filler going on it got really boring. Do they really need 4-5 guitar solos? And a ( what seemed like) 10 min drum solo? And you think Ed talks to much sometimes.....Dave doesn't shut the fuck up. His 4-5 min stories between what seems to be every song got really boring. And after talking to other Foo fans i'm told the stories are pretty close every night. I have the new FF album. And i like it. But there is no way i would say their recent cds are better than PJ. If you want an over produced, polished sound, then by all means you will like the FF albums. But if you want down to earth, organic sounds then stick with PJ.

Although they sounded amazing live. It felt like it could have been any band up there, jamming away making the crowd scream. The only people that seemed they had a connection with the band were the people that had at least 5 beers in them. It was just about the party. Nothing wrong with that. But the issue here is PJ vs. FF. and with PJ it's not JUST about the party. It's about the connection between their fans and the band. And it goes WAY farther than just the music when it comes to PJ .

PJ is not just a rock band like FF. They are an institution. I don't see the FF doing nearly as much charity work or benefit shows as PJ. You have a PJ fan base that has mobilized themselves to set up benefits of their own before almost every PJ show in the WORLD. Then there are all the environmental issues that PJ jump on. If you don't know what i'm talking about then take a trip to http://pearljam.com/activism/ . Do FF have anything going on like that? Nope.

So who's better.......the answer is , you can't compare these 2 bands. Cause they are nothing like eachother. The music is to different to say one is better than the other. Each band does their own thing.

The way i see it:

Foo Fighters are a fantastic band !

BUT

Pearl Jam are one of the greatest rock and roll institutions the world has ever seen !!



allmyrivals

danny

irishwpo wrote:

When did they become a better band then Pearl Jam. Hate to say it but based on their last album and the Skin and bones album/tour before that they may just have surpassed PJ. The fact that they don't sweat playing the Grammy's, doing press, and making videos is also refreshing.

Am I alone here?

better drummer than a frontman!!!!!!!!

booomm11

rhcpjam6306 wrote:

listen up noob, but every foo fighters album is the same! each song is so similar to each other and theres hardly any diversity! they're a great band but going so far to call them better than PEARL JAM is not cool.

really!!! every song is the same pop bullshit.

Champagne Breakfast

can somebody tell me which FF album the song Sking & Bones is from.
(Besides the live album skin & bones). I can't find this song anywhere. was it a B side or a cover??????????

Ricsard

Dr. Delight wrote:

Todays Foo Fighters are not as good as yesteryears!

Skin/Bones is a very boring album. I'll take Nothing Left to Lose any day over it.
Grohl is a little too available nowadays for my liking. It was much better during their first couple albums when they just released it, made a video and thats it. The music was darker and better.

Well said - they have not done a decent record since There Is Nothing Left To Lose (which was 5*) - since that things have got really worse for the music but not the band. Their new stuff is absolutely garbage, I honestly hated
Dave Grohl's behaviour at the MTV EMA 2007 in Munich was akward, he was not funny but pathetic. He is so hungry for success, he wants it so badly I am afraid his band is the next Red Hot Chili Peppers that have sold out records ago!!!

And why the fuck is this blasphemy not in OTHER MUSIC topic???

Ricsard

irishwpo wrote:

When did they become a better band then Pearl Jam.

NEVER!

ARE YOU CRAZY?

GoBucky

The last thing Grohl did worth listening to was Songs for the Deaf!

EddiE

Champagne Breakfast wrote:

can somebody tell me which FF album the song Sking & Bones is from.
(Besides the live album skin & bones). I can't find this song anywhere. was it a B side or a cover??????????

It was a B-side I think Dave wrote it in his Nirvana days and it never got on a record (while with Nirvana). I'm sure you'll be able to find it on the net somewhere. Theres a b-side cd knocking round somewhere.

Anon

Number 18 wrote:

Foo Fighters > Nirvana without a doubt.

You're insane.

Champagne Breakfast

EddiE wrote:

It was a B-side I think Dave wrote it in his Nirvana days and it never got on a record (while with Nirvana). I'm sure you'll be able to find it on the net somewhere. Theres a b-side cd knocking round somewhere.

wasn't marigold a nirvana song too?

Jack_C_Gregory

Champagne Breakfast wrote:

wasn't marigold a nirvana song too?

That was released with the Heart Shaped Box single.

Cosmo

Champagne Breakfast wrote:

can somebody tell me which FF album the song Sking & Bones is from.
(Besides the live album skin & bones). I can't find this song anywhere. was it a B side or a cover??????????

...
Look for it at the local Best Buys... it's called 'Five Songs and A Cover'. Cover has a buffalo on it and is of the same art direction as 'In Your Honour'. It's usually about 5 or 6 bucks.
1. Best Of You - (live)
2. DOA - (Demo)
3. Skin and Bones
4. World
5. I Feel Free
6. FFL