Foo Fighters

Genre: music4me > Rock > Rock

Format: CD Album

Released: Fri 3 Oct 2003

Catalogue Number: 82876554962

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Description:
Dave Grohl's opening post-Nirvana salvo, FOO FIGHTERS seems merely ordinary only in the wake of the historic, sweetly abrasive sensations that his previous band was famous for. Full of both lilting summer-breeze melodies and search-and-destroy guitar blasts, it helps present the case that Grohl's punk-pop blueprint just might be as forward-minded as Kurt Cobain's was, if slightly less grungy and a bit more blue-collar. Arriving at its destination by coupling pure '60's guitar-pop with the hyperkinetic pace of hardcore, FOO FIGHTERS takes most of its song-hooks for a joyous high-speed ride. Tracks such as the prankster-ish kiss-off, "This Is A Call," and the meditative-but-bitter "Good Grief" are perfect pop nuggets, with turbo-jet guitars propelling them. There are brief respites from such reckless rolling: the glammy verse-chorus-bridge of "Alone + Easy Target," the near-folky "For All The Cows," the sweetly Squeeze-like "Big Me." Yet, these are only refueling stops for Grohl (who recorded most of the album alone) before he turns the engines back on and blows through alterna-pop's speed limits. Named after UFO-like apparitions that U.S. fighter pilots claimed to have seen during World War II, FOO FIGHTERS chooses to ignore Grohl's tumultous real-life connections (there are few, if any, kiss-and-tell lyrics) in favor of establishing a separate musical identity. It's as though the songwriter felt there was little of Planet Nirvana worth rehashing, and decided to find a new (if similar) musical satellite to call his own.

Details:

Distributors: Arvato Services, Sony Music
Producers: Barrett Jones, Foo Fighters,
Sound Engineer: Steve Culp
Discs: 1
Release Year: 2003
Running Time: 44 minutes
Weight (g): 96

Track Listing:

1.	This Is a Call [3:53]
2.	I'll Stick Around [3:53]
3.	Big Me [2:12]
4.	Alone + Easy Target [4:05]
5.	Good Grief [4:01]
6.	Floaty [4:30]
7.	Weenie Beenie [2:45]
8.	Oh, George [3:00]
9.	For All the Cows [3:30]
10.	X-Static [4:13]
11.	Wattershed [2:15]
12.	Exhausted [5:47]