Foo Fighters - But Here We Are (June 2nd, 2023) • Page 35

TINLTL is my go-to on the rare occasion I choose to listen to them. There's an uncontrived lightness to that album that I don't think they've hit too many times since.

 

TINLTL is my favorite and always has been.

 

It was the band at their most pared down, just recording in a house and it feels like it. After that, there was the drama with OBO, Taylor’s overdose and the band blowing all the way up.

 

Yes, that “lightness” you talk about is what sets this album apart from the others. The middle part where it’s got Generator, Aurora, Next Year, and some others is bliss. I really get moved or some shit by the lyrics and spacey feeling. I don’t even know how to describe it. I love how they get their two heavy tracks out of the way and the rest is almost like a pop rock album.

 

My rankings of the Foo Fighters Discography

1. The Colour And The Shape
2. Wasting Light
3. There's Nothing Left To Lose
4. But Here We Are
5. In Your Honor
6. Foo Fighters
7. One By One
8. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
9. Medicine at Midnight
10. Sonic Highways
11. Concrete and Gold

 

When I was 15 and that album came out, I was so pissed that it wasn’t as rockin’ as TCATS. Eventually came around to how laid back it is. It’s like the Foo Fighters’ equivalent of Green Day’s “Warning” - a singular album in their discography. Went total arena rock after.

 

And Warning is Green Day's best album, so it makes sense that TINLTL is Foo's

 

1. TCATS
2. S/T
3. TINLTL
4. Wasting Light
5. But Here We Are
6. One By One
7. In Your Honor
8. ESP&G
9. M@M
10. C&G
11. SH

 

TINLTL is the go to Foos record for me, feels like driving home from the beach in the summer

 

This is probably my ranking but some albums are so close in quality that it doesn't really matter.

 

Concrete & Gold is the only one I really don’t care for at all.

 

My people! There are dozens of us! Dozens!!

 

There is Nothing Left to Lose
S/T
The Colour and the Shape
In Your Honor
Sonic Highways
...But Here We Are
Wasting Light
Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
Concrete and Gold
Medicine at Midnight
One By One

...something like that. the One By One singles are top-tier but the rest of that album is a snooze-fest.

 

OK, FINE.

There Is Nothing Left to Lose
The Colour and the Shape
Wasting Light
But Here We Are
In Your Honor
Self-Titled
Echoes
Medicine at Midnight
One by One
Sonic Highways
Concrete & Gold

 

1. TCATS
2. TINLTL
3. Wasting Light

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4. S/T
5. But Here We Are

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6. One By One
7. In Your Honor
8. ESP&G

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9. M@M
10. C&G
11. SH

 

As someone who got to experience every release in real time (got the self titled right around when it was released in '95)

The Colour & The SHape
There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Foo Fighters
Wasting Light
But Here We Are
One By One
Medicine At Midnight
In Your Honor
Sonic Highways
Echoes, Silence Patience and Grace
Concrete And Gold

 

I concur

 

My contrarian Foo Fighters opinion is that I really like One By One and feel that it was the last of any Foo Fighters album to have a distinct personality. Everything after, while sometimes song-for-song better that OBO, just feels like them refueling for world tours.

 

I share this opinion. I’ve often wondered if maybe it’s just because I’m old.

 

Me too

 

Most of y'alls rankings look about right to me, although I think you all have But Here We Are a bit too high

 

But Here We Are is the only one that, to me, feels like more than the sum of its parts. Hence the high ranking.

 

One by One being good is the wise man’s opinion.

 

The Colour and the Shape
There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Self Titled
Wasting Light
But Here We Are
Echoes
One by One
In Your Honor
Medicine at Midnight
Sonic Highways
Concrete & Gold

 

In Your Honor is a weird one where most of the rock songs don’t rock as much as they should and most of the acoustic songs are just kind of boring. There’s a solid 12-track album on there somewhere.