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Listening to Sam's Town again and... man. It reminds me why I started this thread. 

I mean this album completely blows away anything The Foo Fighters ever put out. 

Here's maybe like the 7th best song off of Sam's Town.

 

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This has more lyrical substance to it than anything that Dave Grohl ever wrote.

 

What is awesome about music is that each song can impact each person in a unique and personal way. Nostalgia, chord progression, vocals, lyrical relation, virtuosity, mix, production, etc. As such, "this band is better than that band" kinds of comparisons are very personal. There are some songs by each of these bands that resonate with me. Some because of the stories they tell; some because of the vocals; some because they allow me to just let go...

Violent Femmes wrote several great songs htat resonated with millions of people and they sucked as players. I will never mistake chops for creativity.

I couldn't care less if someone thinks The Killers are a far better band than Foo Fighters. I don't get that perspective one bit, but hey, I hate Jethro Tull and The Doors even more. It's just music. Listen to what you like. There is no Super Bowl.

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2 hours ago, boilerhorn said:

What is awesome about music is that each song can impact each person in a unique and personal way. Nostalgia, chord progression, vocals, lyrical relation, virtuosity, mix, production, etc. As such, "this band is better than that band" kinds of comparisons are very personal. There are some songs by each of these bands that resonate with me. Some because of the stories they tell; some because of the vocals; some because they allow me to just let go...

Great comment.

24 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Violent Femmes wrote several great songs htat resonated with millions of people and they sucked as players. I will never mistake chops for creativity.

I couldn't care less if someone thinks The Killers are a far better band than Foo Fighters. I don't get that perspective one bit, but hey, I hate Jethro Tull and The Doors even more. It's just music. Listen to what you like. There is no Super Bowl.

My last bump was mainly just to fuck with y'all. Rep for hating the Doors.

There are moments of Killers songs that I absolutely love (the back half of "All These Things I've Done" is perfect), and I feel like I should love Sam's Town - but I just have never gotten it to take root.

But Colour & The Shape is a nearly perfect rock album. It's better than a lot of other bands I like's best work. And there have been plenty of shitty Foo Fighter songs since (and plenty fucking great ones too), but that album is an incredible mix of all of it's influences. There's punk. There's 70's arena rock. There's wistful singer/songwriter folk. There's grunge. Sometimes it's all in the same song.

It's a staggering record. My hottest musical take is that it's the best record Dave Grohl ever participated in making. Certainly not the most important. Certainly not the most popular. Certainly not the most influential. It doesn't get it's due credit, in large part because Grohl never really pushed the envelope stylistically, and because he never topped it. It's just so god damn good.

1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

But Colour & The Shape is a nearly perfect rock album. It's better than a lot of other bands I like's best work. And there have been plenty of shitty Foo Fighter songs since (and plenty fucking great ones too), but that album is an incredible mix of all of it's influences. There's punk. There's 70's arena rock. There's wistful singer/songwriter folk. There's grunge. Sometimes it's all in the same song.

It's a staggering record. My hottest musical take is that it's the best record Dave Grohl ever participated in making. Certainly not the most important. Certainly not the most popular. Certainly not the most influential. It doesn't get it's due credit, in large part because Grohl never really pushed the envelope stylistically, and because he never topped it. It's just so god damn good.

It's astonishing. Just the heavyweight 1-2 punch of "Monkey Wrench" and "Everlong" puts it in, oh, maybe top 100 rock albums of all time? Then you have "My Hero".

Is it "Nevermind"? Nope, and you alluded to that. In MY world, The Killers have never made a record close to that, but that's why we all get to buy what we buy and think what we think.

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