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Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters (CD 2003)

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Track Listing
1. This Is A Call
2. I'll Stick Around
3. Big Me
4. Alone And Easy Target
5. Good Grief
6. Floaty
7. Weenie Beenie
8. Oh George
9. For All The Cows
10. X Static
11. Watershed
12. Exhausted

Details
Number of CDs:	1
Producer:	Barrett Jones, Foo Fighters
Recording Type:	Studio
Distributor:	Sony BMG/Arvato Services
Recording Mode:	Stereo

Album Notes
Foo Fighters: Dave Grohl (vocals, guitar); Pat Smear (guitar); Nate Mendel (bass); William Goldsmith (drums).Additional personnel: Greg Dulli (guitar).Recorded at Robert Lang's Studio, Seattle, Washington on October 17-23, 1994.FOO FIGHTERS was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance.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.

Editorial Reviews
Ranked #2 in the 1996 Critics' Poll.
Rolling Stone (01/25/1996)

Ranked #20 on Spin's list of the '20 Best Albums Of '95.'
Spin (12/01/1995)

Included on Jon Pareles' list of the Top 10
New York Times (01/06/1996)

...[Grohl's] songs stare down misgivings with cryptic lyrics, memorable tunes and a willingness to bash ahead.
Albums of '95

Ranked #6 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Village Voice (02/20/1996)

Ranked #26 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's 'Albums Of The Year.'
Melody Maker

Ranked #12 in NME's 'Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995.
NME

4 Stars - Excellent - ...Like Nirvana's best work, these songs sagely embrace alternative rock's essential contradiction--this is 'popular' music devised by an alienated few....If FOO FIGHTERS has a theme, it's that music remains the ultimate anodyne.
Rolling Stone (08/10/1995)

7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - ...Grohl hides behind his rapacious hooks like he disappears between his words...yet another impenetrable veil. FOO FIGHTERS seesaws efficiently, even rambunctiously, but there's a distance, a sheen to it...
Spin (09/01/1995)

...full of smart, crafty, kick-ass music....one can hear how much Grohl's musicianship guided Nirvana's sound--the album is packed with simple, forceful melodies, precise harmonies, and inventive arrangements...
Musician (09/01/1995)

3 Stars - Good - ...Foo Fighters are grunge-quite-lite....not with the country or pop leanings of, say, Soul Asylum, but with harder-sounding songs rendered accessible by layers of melody, much of it descended directly from Roger McGuinn if he'd had fewer strings...
Q (08/01/1995)

Bloody Essential - ...a play-loud summer blast....the band is so blissfully on-the-money it's almost as perfect as The Young Gods, were the Swiss maestros weaned on Husker Du and Anastasia Screamed. We're talking THAT breathtaking, that joyously gone...
Melody Maker (06/24/1995)

9 (out of 10) - ...hurtling, memorable songs, satisfyingly crunchy guitars, and an unambiguously joyful spirit....Grohl sounds blazingly optimistic....[a] talented man at last gaining the confidence and wherewithal to seize control of his own artistic destiny....a massively important record...
NME (06/24/1995)

...Most of these songs are so disarmingly hooky, and yet such a raw blast of energy, that it's as if Lennon and McCartney had grown up in Seattle. Not necessarily an important album, but a surprising one. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (07/14/1995)

...Most of these songs are so disarmingly hooky, and yet such a raw blast of energy, that it's as if Lennon and McCartney had grown up in Seattle. Not necessarily an important album, but a surprising one. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (07/14/1995)

Bloody Essential - ...a play-loud summer blast....the band is so blissfully on-the-money it's almost as perfect as The Young Gods, were the Swiss maestros weaned on Husker Du and Anastasia Screamed. We're talking THAT breathtaking, that joyously gone...
Melody Maker (06/24/1995)

7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - ...Grohl hides behind his rapacious hooks like he disappears between his words...yet another impenetrable veil. FOO FIGHTERS seesaws efficiently, even rambunctiously, but there's a distance, a sheen to it...
Spin (09/01/1995)

Ranked #2 in the 1996 Critics' Poll.Spin (12/95, p.63) - Ranked #20 on Spin's list of the '20 Best Albums Of '95.'New York Times (1/6/96, p.C16) - Included on Jon Pareles' list of the Top 10Albums of '95 - ...[Grohl's] songs stare down misgivings with cryptic lyrics, memorable tunes and a willingness to bash ahead.Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #6 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.Melody Maker (12/23-30/95, pp.66-67) - Ranked #26 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's 'Albums Of The Year.'NME (12/23-30/95, pp.22-23) - Ranked #12 in NME's 'Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995.Rolling Stone (8/10/95, pp.56-57) - 4 Stars - Excellent - ...Like Nirvana's best work, these songs sagely embrace alternative rock's essential contradiction--this is 'popular' music devised by an alienated few....If FOO FIGHTERS has a theme, it's that music remains the ultimate anodyne.Spin (9/95, p.107) - 7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - ...Grohl hides behind his rapacious hooks like he disappears between his words...yet another impenetrable veil. FOO FIGHTERS seesaws efficiently, even rambunctiously, but there's a distance, a sheen to it...Musician (9/95, p.88) - ...full of smart, crafty, kick-ass music....one can hear how much Grohl's musicianship guided Nirvana's sound--the album is packed with simple, forceful melodies, precise harmonies, and inventive arrangements...Q (8/95, p.118) - 3 Stars - Good - ...Foo Fighters are grunge-quite-lite....not with the country or pop leanings of, say, Soul Asylum, but with harder-sounding songs rendered accessible by layers of melody, much of it descended directly from Roger McGuinn if he'd had fewer strings...Melody Maker (6/24/95, p.36) - Bloody Essential - ...a play-loud summer blast....the band is so blissfully on-the-money it's almost as perfect as The Young Gods, were the Swiss maestros weaned on Husker Du and Anastasia Screamed. We're talking THAT breathtaking, that joyously gone...NME (6/24/95, p.54) - 9 (out of 10) - ...hurtling, memorable songs, satisfyingly crunchy guitars, and an unambiguously joyful spirit....Grohl sounds blazingly optimistic....[a] talented man at last gaining the confidence and wherewithal to seize control of his own artistic destiny....a massively important record...Entertainment Weekly (7/14/95, p.55) - ...Most of these songs are so disarmingly hooky, and yet such a raw blast of energy, that it's as if Lennon and McCartney had grown up in Seattle. Not necessarily an important album, but a surprising one. - Rating: B+
Rolling Stone (01/25/1996)

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foo fighters fight their way through

Review created: 05/06/08

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This is another no disappointment of foo fighters album. They, again, fight their way through to produce another good (must have) album!

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Foo Fighters Rock!!!!!

Review created: 05/12/07

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I'm a massive Foo Fighters fan and unfortunately my original copy got damaged so I had to replace it.I wonder how many people actually realise that the original draft and recording of this was done by Dave Grohl himself.He recorded the guitars,bass,drums and lyrics seperately and then mixed it together. Superb!!
I saw the Foos again at the NEC Birmingham on Nov 6th and what a gig that was.Got to see the lads proper close up.
Check out a few of the pics I got of them on my MySpace page. www.myspace.com/spud0112

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