Foo Fighters - But Here We Are (June 2nd, 2023) • Page 14

RESTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a trip....I can barely handle that song emotionally I cant see how they'd ever be able to play that live without breaking down

 

Waited till now to listen to Show Me How and wow what an incredible song

 

to draw a weird comparison, this feels like their “The Rising”

feels like that album was the last time there was a late career record this good that wasn’t predicated by a large break in between records or a terminal illness

 

This is good.

 

I'm only three tracks in, but it's cool how this really sounds like an amalgamation of some of their biggest hitters. There's a little bit of Medicine at Midnight in "Hearing Voices," but as a whole, it almost sounds like TINLTL-style songs through In Your Honor-style production. Really feels (and sounds) like they are firing on all cylinders here

 

Violet's vocals really steal the song

 

sounds most like the self titled to me, which makes sense given the pre-album write up

 

but yes obviously larger production

 

I hadn't thought of this, but I like it. (How did Pat beat me to the Springsteen comparison? Am I losing my edge?!)

 

The last two songs are such a fucking wallop. Even the rest of the album does not prepare you for what you get in those last two.

 

Loving the title track, Dave's voice and how loud and expansive that chorus is

 

Just started this and holy shit at the title track. This really is the best they've sounded since Wasting Light.

 

Big 90s vibes on "The Glass."

Still not huge on "Nothing At All," at least the verses. Chorus is pretty fun.

 

This far exceeded my expectations. I always enjoy new Foo albums but damn

 

Beyond Me is beautiful.

 

Was going to say, "Beyond Me" is scratching the dad-rock itch and not in a bad way. Very classic rock. They're really doing it all on here!

 

My personal point of comparison when it comes to big rock band comebacks, personal tragedy obviously aside, is Weezer making their fourth best record 14 years after Maladroit

 

This is great so far, but sort of hard to listen to.

 

"Rest" is fucking beautiful man. Wow

 

Based on these comments, I am excited to dig into this later. As already mentioned, haven't been much into anything since Wasting Light, and Rescued/Show Me How didn't grab me much either, but going to give this a full listen at some point today.

 

Yeah, this is easily their best since 1999. Really crazy. Feels like an alternate version of where they could have gone between 2002 and 2007, but obviously informed not only by what happened, but years of playing together and experimenting for the last decade. Really great and essential record.

 

Rest man. Wow.

 

I really, really loved Medicine at Midnight, to a degree that kind of shocked me after how meh I was on Concrete & Gold. I thought that was really best-case scenario for late-period Foos. And this one just absolutely demolishes that album. Really can't believe it.

 

The title track. Wow.