The Colour and the Shape There Is Nothing Left to Lose S/T Wasting Light Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace In Your Honor Medicine At Midnight Concrete & Gold One By One Sonic Highways
Counterpoint: the album is good and the songs are strong and memorable for each having a relatively unique style. I like Wasting Light -- it's got some of their best songs -- but I also think it's a little less cohesive and has some filler in the back half
“Sonic Highways” is a disappointment since it has so much extra talent that I feel gets wasted. Like I would like nothing more than a collab between Dave Grohl and Ben Gibbard, but he’s barely on “Subterranean.” “Something From Nothing” and “Feast and the Famine” still rip though. I feel like the “Saint Cecilia” EP was a little better product of that time because it was just the band chilling and recording old and new B-sides without the pressure of traveling and writing songs in a bunch of different cities.
I agree that Sonic Highways doesn't quite live up to its concept, but I genuinely like all the songs. "Congregation" and "I Am The River" get a lot of play from me.
Sonic Highways is my least favorite FF album, but Something From Nothing is one of my favorite FF songs. Feast and Famine is fun too. I just remember when the series was premiering my expectations were so high with that first episode and then slowly started going downhill week by week.
I like all of them except for "In the Clear" I think (I'll have to relisten to confirm, it's the only one I can't hear in my head)
Just relistened to “Sonic Highways” for the first time in awhile. Strong first half, but I feel like they’re straining after “Outside.” “In The Clear” is such a waste of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
C&G being ranked last anywhere saddens me. such a cool, vibey record that tries on a bunch of sounds really effortlessly and makes it sound fun ask me it's a fuckin clear sight better than Sonic and Medicine, but
I really like Sonic Highways, but I intentionally didn't listen to the album until the whole show had aired so I could hear the songs for the first time at the end of every episode. Really made each individual song stick out for me
The Colour and the Shape ***** (There's no question this is the best FF) TINLTL ***** (They really show their range the most successfully here) Foo Fighters ***** (This could be number 1 on any given day, every song is quintessential 90's) Wasting Light **** (They channel the spirit of Colour here, sometimes) One By One **** (FF album that shows what they sound like live) In Your Honor *** (When they slay here its a bloodbath, the acoustic tracks aren't my favorites) Concrete & Gold *** (T-Shirt->Run is magical, Sky is MEH, Dirty Water, Sunday Rain and Arrow are classics) Echoes *** (Doubling down on the In Your Honor concept to bring the acoustic and rock together was OK) Sonic Highways ** (Highs and lows vary greatly) Medicine at Midnight * (Could not get into this at all) I don't know where Dream Widow fits yet
I haven't watched the Learn to Fly music video in like 15 years. Watched it last night and forgot how hilarious it was. Forgot Tenacious D was part of it too haha.
went through electric side of In Your Honor first time in a long time and they still rock, Taylor was crushing those tracks too
Wasting Light The Colour and the Shape There is Nothing Left to Lose Foo Fighters One by One In Your Honor Echoes, Silence Patience & Grace Medicine At Midnight Concrete and Gold Sonic Highways
s/t there is nothing left to lose wasting light the colour and the shape the rest in whatever order idk
Best to worst: Colour & The Shape There Is Nothing Left To Lose Foo Fighters Wasting Light One By One Medicine At Midnight In Your Honor Sonic Highways Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Concrete And Gold Some people will find the most recent being ranked where it is controversial but I feel like it's the most fun and melodic without the big RAWK trappings. Concrete and Gold isn't bad persay, I just can't REMEMBER much about it. Echoes, Silence is a bit too dad-rock at times while Sonic Highways is too conservative for how it was recorded. Nevertheless, there really aren't many clunkers in this entire catalog.
I don't know if it's on Spotify or other streaming services but there is a bonus track (I think on the European release) called "The Sign" on the electric side which rules.
Yeah that one is on streaming, on one of those "vault" EPs they put out the other year. But A320 still isn't .... grrr....