Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

facepollution wrote:

So I just finished listening to it, and even after one listen I think I can say it is probably their best since TCATS. For a start it is pretty varied, no two songs sound alike. In all honesty, I don't know what some people expected from a new Foo Fighters album. At the end of the day they're a pop-rock band, always have been and always will be. To say they always make the same old shit (as some people on here have said), is completely wrong. The new album has a couple of piano lead songs for a start, which they have never really done before, and the arrangements are much stronger on the acoustic songs. It seems like a lot of people had made their minds up before they even gave it a chance.

Mine arrived from play last night but I didn't get in from the Immagine in Cornice cinema screening 'til gone midnight so haven't had a chance to listen to it but you're selling it well

You going to either of the O2 dates? I'm standing on the 17th ... think we may have discussed this before Cornell but my mind is a sieve

Love FF!!!!! Can't wait!

Went to the CD Release party last night and the new stuff sounds GREAT live. If you get a chance to catch the Foos live... GO!

allornone wrote:

Rolling Stone only gave it 2 1/2 stars, WTF? Every other review I read about the album has been great. I've only listened to the first two songs so far, but they are both great.

3 and a half stars: http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/foofighters/albums/album/16432697/review/16521830/echoes_silence_patience__grace

Benzor wrote:

2 and a half in the magazine

lol, well they need to make their bloody minds up - the deaf bastards!

i really hope they play somewhere close to me in Canada, cause im going for sure. They should come to the rock, fuck if PJ and the White Stripes could why cant the foo's.

whodunnitb4 wrote:

Entertainment Weekly gave it an "A" and called it a "perfect album" and Beatlesque. WoW. Yes, one of my favorites is Let It Die. Apparently, Grohl described some anger towards Courtney and sorrow towards Kurt as his influence in this song.

Yeah, Entertainment Weekly and People gave the album spectacular reviews, but both Rolling Stone and Spin were so flat in their response. I swear they must have listened to it once all the way through, not noticing the great guitar work on it, or Dave's great singing (the best of his career to date) or the branching out of genre's that they've never done before, or the fact that "Let It Die", "Summer's End", and "Statues" are flat-out classic songs...it shouldn't be as irritating to me as it is, but this is an album I feel very strongly about and I hope the public proves them wrong.

I've never been a big Foo Fighters fan, my older brother had all their albums, I liked their singles so I listened to them and they just seemed so bland (except the singles.) So I never really bothered with them.

Then, last October, they opened for Bob Dylan, playing an all accoustic show, and it was stunning, it was beautifully amazing. The best show I've ever seen. I went back to their albums, and unfortunately, they still seemed quite bland to me. But I really liked The Pretender so I picked up the new album and am genuinely surprised how great it is. I love the song Statues:

"We're just ordinary people you and me, time will turn us into statues eventually"

That is a near perfect line. I love this album.

There's no real point to this thread except that I aprove of this new album.

Right now I'm listening this album and loving it.
I think it's better than "In your Honor".