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Foo Fighters taking a "break"

EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
edited September 2008 in Other Music
one word .... YES!!!!!!!!!


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  • MattyJoeMattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    Finally.
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  • HushBullHushBull Posts: 996
    Thank god. Now go do something that won't be utterly mediocre, all of you.

    And Dave, stop chewing the fucking gum for just a damn second.
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    hahahahha, my sentiments exactly!!! YAY!
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  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    THANK GOD! Now maybe Grohl will do something that's worth a shit...like drumming for QOTSA.
  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    Woah.....lots of hate for the Fighters of Foo in here. :(
  • ZosoZoso Posts: 6,425
    they really have strung a few medicore albums in a row.. good timing I'd say.
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  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    Thorns2010 wrote:
    Woah.....lots of hate for the Fighters of Foo in here. :(

    They've become the posterboys for boring, middle-of-the-road, corporate rock music...a far cry from their first album. I don't get what people see in them. They get more and more lame with every album. They took the Chris Cornell route years ago. It's about time they give it a rest, and do something that's worth a shit.
  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    I thought their latest one was the best overall album since The Colour and the Shape
  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    All of these bands taking breaks. Tool did, RHCP, now FF. Makes you think how much sicker PJ is. When do they ever take "breaks"?
    5/28/06, 6/27/08, 10/28/09, 5/18/10, 5/21/10
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  • magikevmagikev Posts: 296
    Personally, I thought ESP&G was a GREAT album
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  • mole1985mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    Thorns2010 wrote:
    I thought their latest one was the best overall album since The Colour and the Shape

    I agree. The first two albums and the last one are pretty good but that's about it.
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  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    The last time the Foos took a break, Dave drummed on an album and tour'd with QOTSA, recorded the Probot album and worked with Trent Reznor among other things.
    Good things are coming.:D
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  • stu geestu gee Posts: 1,174
    I think all their albums are good aside from one by one which is crap, the first 2 are great and TINLTL and IYH are pretty good as well.
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  • searchlightsoulsearchlightsoul Posts: 583
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    Makes you think how much sicker PJ is. When do they ever take "breaks"?

    They could use one..
  • ii44ii44 Posts: 430
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    All of these bands taking breaks. Tool did, RHCP, now FF. Makes you think how much sicker PJ is. When do they ever take "breaks"?

    All the time.

    There were 4 years between Riot Act and Self titled, and there are going to be 3 years between that and the next one.
  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,640
    I was at the Wembley Stadium gigs this year and I have to say they were really fucking good. I've always had a soft spot for Foo Fighters, you always know whay you're going to get from them and they don't pretend to be anything other than a great rock band
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  • Stacked ActorStacked Actor Posts: 6
    They were talking about taking a long break after the acoustic In Your Honor tour... they were back in the studio within two months and had an album out within the year. But with the fact that all four guys have little kids now, I suspect they're serious about it this time. Dave's been talking about getting the itch to drum again, and that's always a good thing. Either way, I doubt the break will be that long, they just seem to enjoy working together too much.
  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    ii44 wrote:
    All the time.

    There were 4 years between Riot Act and Self titled, and there are going to be 3 years between that and the next one.

    In between Riot Act and Self Titled there was:
    -A full 2003 tour
    -2004 Vote For Change tour
    -2005 N.American and Canadian tour

    In between Avacado and the next one-
    -Full 2006 tour
    -Festivals in 07
    -East Coast tour, 2 EV mini tours.

    PJ has never taken a "break". Tool, FF, RHCP have all/ are all taking legitimate breaks where they need to announce it to their fans.
    5/28/06, 6/27/08, 10/28/09, 5/18/10, 5/21/10
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  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    Being a former Foo junky (TCATS days) I think this is a good decision.

    I've bought all their records and would continue to but there's just something missing.

    Hopefully they come back in 5 years refreshed or Dave creates a new amazing project
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  • Jack_C_GregoryJack_C_Gregory Posts: 540
    I hope the next foos effort will fall back on Dave's punk background, or, they will take this time to listen to the foos self title debut and will create an album like that.
  • mr bunglemr bungle Posts: 1,369
    Maybe this break will alow Nate to have time to work on a new Fire Theft album with Jeremy Enigk.
  • Sexy2aFaultSexy2aFault Posts: 388
    Foo Fighters are disapointing. Tehy can still entertain live (though that is fading) Their first two albums were pure gold, their 3rd album was risky with the edgier melodies but it turned out to be their best work imo. Since that risk with their 3rd album they have become utterly boring. Like RHCP, they just hit a wall and chose the safe midtempo, risk free, anti-art route. Very disapointing.

    Generator, Stacked Actors,Ain't it the Life, Live in Skin, Gimme Stitches were just amazing, beautiful songs. Unfortunately, Next Year and Breakout were the type of songs they chose to write after that album.

    I am not even joking, I thought "long road to ruin" was pure 3 Doors Down, or some other mook nu rock band. They have had a few good songs in that span, Times Like These, One by One, DOA, but they could not sustain an entire album. Listen to the One by One album from track 5 on, and name one memorable song?
  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    The and color and the shape is EXCELLENT!
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  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    The first time I heard "Times Like These", I almost threw up. It's the kind of lame rock song I would expect from Bon Jovi, not Dave Grohl.
  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Gardenparty wrote:
    Being a former Foo junky (TCATS days) I think this is a good decision.

    I've bought all their records and would continue to but there's just something missing.

    Hopefully they come back in 5 years refreshed or Dave creates a new amazing project

    I'm hoping for a nice re master and proper release of the Late! Pocketwatch ep, was listening just the other day and have to say that Milk is one of the best songs Dave has done.
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  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 94,087
    that sucks! hope things are well with the group.

    will never forget picking up the first record in greece summer of '95, day's before the cdn/usa release. it was my road trip album from artemisa to kalamata for 2 weeks. one of my favorites. :)
  • arielariel Posts: 191
    I'm glad I got to see them a few weeks ago - almost didn't go, and had been wanting to check them out for a while. Looking forward to good things from them with whatever projects they do during the break.
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  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    12345AGNST1 wrote:

    In between Avacado and the next one-
    -Full 2006 tour
    -Festivals in 07
    -East Coast tour, 2 EV mini tours.

    Lets not forget Into The Wild, Tone, Harrybo McGee, Stones new one, Love Reign O'er Me, various benefit show apperances, The Who Rock Honours.
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  • PaukPauk Posts: 1,084
    They definitely need a break. Record wise they haven´t released anything great since There Is Nothing Left to Lose, although I think One By One is bad mainly due to the sucky production (most the songs sounded fine live). Their live show is still good, but is becoming a little too much stadium rock by numbers, the banter was repeated every show. All the songs (including bsides and unreleased songs) around the TCATS and TINLTL era were great, especially love A320. I don´t understand where all that magic was lost, it´s kinda tragic, they were my fav bands in my late teens. They really need to stop releasing rock songs and acoustic songs on the same album, it makes the albums sound like some slapdash compilation.

    On the other hand, the best song of recent years is The Pretender and that was apparently written within an hour. Maybe they should just try to write a whole album in a day rather than drawing the process out...
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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,550
    The Foo Fighters suck. They are the most generic sounding rock band out there and they were so boring live.
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