Foo Fighters - But Here We Are (June 2nd, 2023) • Page 16

shes been playing the song with them every night of the tour that they've played the song. so far sonic temple is the only show they haven't played it. couple of the shows shes also done rope

 

Sweet. Hope she’s still out with them in a couple of weeks.

 

Kicked off my drive back home from Seattle today with this, it did not disappoint. Beyond Me straight up gave me goosebumps, the kind of song that feels like it’s always existed

 

Holy shit those last two songs man.

 

I just picked this up on CD in anticipation of possibly having it to spin in my car in like 3 months. I think I like this album

 

Yeah, this is extremely good and just what I need right now.

 

This may be the most I’ve ever enjoyed a foos album

 

Definitely their most focused album in a long, long time. Really impressive. You can just feel the grief throughout the album.

 

Glad to hear this is great. Wish they didn't take like a decade to out out a great album with a bunch of mediocrity in between but it is what it is lol.

 

It is fairly distracting on a couple choruses for sure. Trying to think of it as a feature but it's not great

 

After I heard it, I can’t unhear it, but it settled in for me.

 

Beyond Me.

It sounds like it’s been around for decades.

 

This album is special. Lot of all timers in here. Dave's screams in But Here We Are are the best I think I've ever heard from him. Beyond Me and Rest will forever crush me.

 

Definitely my strongest first impression of a Foos album in a LONG time, some truly fantastic songs on here. Have to admit I was a little disappointed by The Teacher though despite loving the meaning behind it, I guess I was expecting something more "epic"

Can't wait to let all of these songs grow on me even more as I keep listening though

 

Was not expecting to see this opinion ever lol

 

yeah idk that song is full on Rush lol it’s exactly what i expected

 

I think it's just OK too, probably because I hate Rush.

Definitely a few bangers on here though I have production gripes (boo hiss I know)

 

i mean yeah kurstin isn't the best and i would love to hear a Butch Vig take on these songs but ultimately it doesn't ruin the album by any means

 

the glass was the only one not fully working for me for a bit but now i can’t get the hook out of my head

 

this fuckin rules

 

Fork reviewed it, gave it the highest score they've given the band to date, decent Ian Cohen write up too

 

album is so good that it triggered a discog run, which was at first more consistent than i remembered (up to and including wasting light and about half of sonic highways) and then grew unpleasant:

s/t
there is nothing left to lose
the colour and the shape
but here we are
wasting light

^^ nothing's changing for this tier, damn it's almost as if they're at their best when they're a somewhat weird power-pop band

then:
- one by one (overhated to a ridiculous degree by the band and their fans)
- echoes, silence, patience & grace (pretty good and definitely plotted out to be an Album Experience, i just think they needed one more banger in there to offset all the piano balladry)
- sonic highways (also... underrated? parts are embarrassing and i dreaded every time a song did an abrupt pivot in the bridge, but some of the good songwriting on wasting light is def carried forward here on "congregation," "outside," "feast/famine" etc. still it's sort of bad in the same way in your honor is... band not very capable of stretching out stretches out)
- in your honor (rock disc is overstays its welcome by track five but damn those first five tracks. acoustic disc ebbs between being atmospheric and cool and being sooooo boring. kind of a wash!)
- concrete & gold (i admire the approach they took on this record but it somehow ends up feeling both annoying and slight. still "arrows" is utterly dope. i have never liked "the sky is a neighborhood" and continue to hate it. self-seriousness doesn't fit this band at all imo)
- medicine at midnight (just about hated everything that happened on this one unfortunately :( )

 

agree with the majority of that, a few changes but nothing major

 

I also did a discog run, and I was not prepared for how good There is Nothing Left to Lose is. I’ve always been kind of a casual fan, and I know I have listened to it before, but I always kind of lumped it in with one by one and in your honor as just kind of “fine” . I pretty much alternated between it and the new one all weekend long!

 

both discs of IYH lose me a bit in the middle but start and end incredibly strong. last 3 songs on the rock disc is maybe one of their best runs ever?