The Colour and The Shape Wasting Light Self-Titled There is Nothing Left to Lose Echoes Sonic Highways One by One In Your Honor Concrete and Gold
this is probably close to my list too Wasting Light and Echoes are the best you're gonna get from this stage of the Foo's career and I still find them very enjoyable. first four albums are unfuckwithable tho I've given the new album one listen so far but I was distracted so I don't have any concrete thoughts other than I found it pleasant. haha
yeah and even WL has to be pretty close to a decade old at this point i think they’ll churn out some riffs i’m sure i’ll enjoy and i’m sure there will be some fun videos but they haven’t had an album that’s had more than a song or two stick with me since WL
There Is Nothing Left To Lose has been my favourite for years. TCATS second, self-titled third, Wasting Light fourth. All of those are great. Not a fan of the rest, outside of probably a couple of songs on each one.
Cool seeing all the love for There is Nothing Left to Lose, truly a great late summer/early fall record that outshines their entire discography aside from maybe that first record imho
i’ve never seen the amount of TINLTL love that i see here almost everywhere else it seems like TCATS is the runaway favorite with some shouts for the debut
I love that Chorus always has weird favorites. Most of engage with music a little more than the average fan haha.
this is fair sometimes sometimes it seems a little hot take for hot take’s sake not that this example is a perfect one for that scenario. it’s a great album. just nowhere near the first two imo
Hahaha I do agree, I have rolled my eyes in some cases. Color and the Shape is just sooooo 90s. My love for TINLTL is definitely related to my age haha
Listening to TCATS now and it's still very good, but yeah, some of the songs just feel dated and almost animated compared to how effortless TINLTL feels to me. Not sure if that makes sense, but it's the energy is just different than what I'm looking for most days.
MIA is the best "forgotten" Foo Fighters song ever (well, maybe tied with Hey Johnny Park). One thing I hate about bands getting older, is you never get those great old album tracks in concerts anymore like you did on the early tours - the Foos got too many hits they gotta play......
I'm not all that enamored with a few of the non-singles on TCATS, but it's one of the best singles records ever made.
there's only, like, one or two songs I'm not over the moon about on TCATS and even those two are better than pretty much anything on the last few albums and half of the rest of their albums
yeah Colour will always be my favourite I think. that run from "February Stars" to "New Way Home" is absolutely unbelievable, probably an all-time album ending run for me Nothing Left is super good though and my second fave
I actually really like "Shame Shame" and I'm down for them doing something lowkey as a first single. surprised at how short the new album is though, I hope it's consistently good also if we're talking best forgotten Foos tracks, the top of that list is always and forever "A320". top 5 track from Grohl's pen imo
If we're talking B-Sides some of my favorites are Win Or Lose, Down In The Park, Wheels (which was a semi-hit that nobody seems to really remembers) and one of the best recorded rock covers of all time, Band On The Run