THIS FOO FIGHTERS THREAD IS BETTER

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 6/11/2005, 1:37 am

The Foo Fighters MTV2 takeover starts at 11:30 AM on June 11th, where the
Foos will be taking part in a ceremony honoring the band and renaming
Times Square in their honor! We want as many of you as possible to try
and go to Times Square, New York City and support the band.

They will be randomly picking a handful of Foo Fighter fans from the
street to be part of the MTV2 audience! Repeat: they will be picking
a selected few from the street to be part of the audience during 24
Hours of Foo! So, if you want to have any chance of getting in there,
get down to Times Square by 11:30 Saturday morning and support the
band!! Be as enthusiastic as you can! Get noticed!

Go to this if you guys can, it would be sweeeeeeet, that's directly from the foo fighters mailing list, they're taking over MTV2 all day tomorrow.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 6/11/2005, 2:16 am

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 6/11/2005, 2:28 am

We saw ads for that when we were down the shore... those guys seriously seem like they're ALWAYS having fun. :lol:

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 6/11/2005, 2:54 am

indeed they rule

areusad831 · Post by **areusad831** » 6/11/2005, 4:52 pm

too bad their music doesnt.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 6/11/2005, 7:11 pm

Matter of opinion.

areusad831 · Post by **areusad831** » 6/11/2005, 8:04 pm

i kid i kid.

they are okay, but you must agree if nirvana didnt exist they would not be this popular.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 6/11/2005, 9:41 pm

probably.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 6/12/2005, 12:33 am

I dunno... I think they can hold their own. They most likely would've risen to fame completely differently, but I think they might be just as popular now if Dave hadn't been in Nirvana.

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 6/12/2005, 2:05 am

I got that email. Too bad I am down south now.. I would of went. I love the FOOS. figures they are finally in NYC when I am not.. :cry:

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 6/12/2005, 2:54 am

nikki4982 wrote:I dunno... I think they can hold their own. They most likely would've risen to fame completely differently, but I think they might be just as popular now if Dave hadn't been in Nirvana.

Totally true, there aren't many musicians out there who are as talented as grohl is. I mean he did do EVERYTHING for the first foo fighters album. There were no members except him. If he wanted to ride the coat tails of Nirvana's fame he should have just called himself Dave Grohl and it would be his solo effort, but when his album was actually good, he was forced to find a band to tour with him and I'm sure they actually have some input now lol

Dread · Post by **Dread** » 6/12/2005, 6:44 pm

areusad831 wrote:if nirvana didnt exist they would not be this popular.

You should write for Rolling Stone.

That might be the reason people checked them out in 1995, but there have been plenty of people to come along in the past 1/10 of a century who really couldn't care about the Nirvana connection. I think Nirvana pretty much sucked. I think the Foo Fighters are great though, and I'm definitely not alone in that feeling. I heard "Everlong" in '97 and I was hooked. It wasn't until sometime after that I even knew Dave was in Nirvana.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 6/12/2005, 8:52 pm

Yeah, a lot of kids these days like the Foos but never even heard of Nirvana.

... :neutral:

Dread · Post by **Dread** » 6/14/2005, 7:00 pm

I figured I'd just use this thread to talk about the actual album. Here's what I said about the album on another board. P.S. I've been a big fan of the band since I was 15, so forgive the longwinded post...

It's the moment everyone's been waiting for. That's right, it is time for Dread's first impressions after one listen through Foo Fighters' newest album, "In Your Honor." Yay! Woohoo!

First I'll begin by saying that I forced myself to like their last album much more than I did at first, and now I plainly state that "One by One" is without a doubt their weakest album. So, I don't want to go too overboard here just yet.

First, let's start with the rock disc. It could very well be not even as good as "One by One." Sure, "Free Me," "DOA," "End Over End," and "In Your Honor" (I changed my mind about this song) kick ass, but... there's just something missing from it. Perhaps it's a lack of diversity. Perhaps they were trying too hard to rock out. But there might be more hope for it then "One by One" due to the fact that I don't like it a whole lot right away. Time will tell.

So that leaves the acoustic disc, and so begins the gushing. When I first heard about them doing this, I was highly optimistic. Finally, in the eight years that I've liked the band, they would be doing something different for a change. "One by One" suffered because it was mostly more of the same. Surely they couldn't do that with acoustic stuff, right? You can't strain yourself to rock hard on acoustic, since acoustic music doesn't rock generally. And I'm happy to say this album absolutely meets up to my expectations, and even shatters them from time to time. It is masterful. It is familiar, but different. It is like Beck's "Sea Change" album, which was all acoustic and sappy, too, and I also love a lot. And the strings, mandolin, accordion, piano, keyboards, and harmonica found on various songs add such a fantastic and layered dimension to the affair. The Norah Jones song? Exactly as great as I was hoping it would be. I have loved Dave's vocals since I first heard "Everlong" in 1997, and I'm totally not ashamed to admit that. This disc highlights just how awesome and underrated his voice can be. On one song, his voice reaches a high note that I never thought it could reach. So what makes me think that I'm not forcing myself to like this more than I actually do? My tastes in music have matured greatly since 2002, and I know I know better now. This disc is the kind of stuff I actually listen to more now, while the rock disc is kind of stuck in the past.

I wish I could just recommend the acoustic disc to people, so they could go out and buy it separately. So if you are at all remotely interested in this album, snatch up the album before the first week sales are over and the price gets hiked up for being a double album. It's only $9.99 at some places. And just listen to the acoustic disc, and save the rock disc for when you want to see just how inferior it is to the acoustic. Or just download the acoustic disc from somewhere.

Some time later...

listened to them both twice now (83 total minutes, two times over), and the rock disc does sound better now. Still, I'm haunted by "One by One" and inevitable decline of favor I had for it, so we'll see how this holds up in a few months. It's still not as good as the first three albums, but it might be better than the previous one.

Oh, and "Over and Out" on the acoustic disc is this millennium's (since we've reached so far in it already ) "Everlong." It's like a mix of Led Zeppelin and Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" (or at least Cash's version of the song), which is sort of ironic since it isn't one of the songs that famed Zeppelin member John Paul Jones plays on.

And "Friend of a Friend" is about Kurt Cobain, being the actual first song clearly about him. Critics like to think there are more than that though. But since the song was actually written in 1992, it's really a no-brainer. Even the word 'nevermind' is part of the lyrics in an amusing way.

So, in short... if you don't like the acoustic album, you shouldn't really like the Foo Fighters anyway. Go home.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 6/14/2005, 7:57 pm

i should download their acoustic stuff then, if i had a music-downloading computer that wasn't screwed up.

reza · Post by **reza** » 6/14/2005, 8:00 pm

are they seriously renaming Times Square? maybe i'm just slower than everyone else

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 6/14/2005, 8:08 pm

Yeah you're definitely the "slower" part after that comment. :lol:

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 6/15/2005, 12:22 am

Frog, they've done it before... I don't remember who for, but MTV really overdoes that. I don't know how they get permission to do it, but yeah... I think the "re-name" only stays for a day or something. Hopefully they then give the street sign to the bands.

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 6/23/2005, 6:11 am

anyone on Edmonton's radio station the Bear's mailing list have the foo fighters presale password?

Or anyone from Calgary's Cfox mailing list have that one???

PLEAAAASE DUDES! WOOEEEY!

Sonya · Post by **Sonya** » 6/23/2005, 11:50 am

all i know is that the Vancouver presale's password is resolve.

:GASP: