Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight (February 5, 2021) Album • Page 35

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

 

Seeing Sonic Highways ranked above Wasting Light (or any album really) makes me wanna cry.

 

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.

 

Yep. Sonic Highways is one of those projects where the idea was far superior than the outcome.

 

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.

 

Congregation is definitely one of the best songs on there!

 

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 can’t think of a single sonic highways song i enjoy outside of uhh outside

 

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)

 

even outside i only really like bc the joe walsh solo

 

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

 

Outside is a banger.

 

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.

 

The Sign is better than most of the electric side of that album for my money. shit 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....

 

That was also on the original vinyl run of IYH. It’s a good one.