🎆🎸 5K Celebration Train! [Level 3+] - Nov 4-11 👀🌌❗

Mr. Adams would be proud. :)

Not even close. Not when you have all-eighth-note-bands like The Arcade Fire (who, I will admit, write really great lyrics but eternally boring songs) or semi-talented @ss-clowns like Kanye who throw down lyrics like "you're such a ------ hoe, but I love it" and call it art, "most overrated band ever" isn't even in the neighborhood for Foo Fighters, whether you like them or not.

The Foo Fighters are practically the only relevant rock band that gets played on the radio these days and are one of the only acts to help stem the tide of horrific DJ tracks being passed off as original music. I can go blow-by-blow and break down how truly good some of their songs are, if you'd like. There's actually a lot more technicianship in many of their songs than is obvious at first listen, which is precisely what makes them good. I mean, they're not insane music theory wizards like Dream Theater, Steve Morse, Steve Vai, or Jeff Beck, but they're not trying to be...they love rock and roll and want to create songs that are played by real musicians that people actually want to hear. While they're at it, they do some pretty interesting things, both structurally and dynamically speaking, and yet it's completely listenable for a wide audience. I don't know if you've ever written music, but that's pretty hard to do, especially consistently.

Even if you're just talking about rock bands...as long as Nickelback exists, pretty much everyone else is safe for the time being. :D

Most overrated band of all time, two words: The Beatles

Yeah, you should spin some later stuff. The two most recent ones were pretty good, but the two before that (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace and Wasting Light) have managed to claw their way to the top of my personal Foo favorites list. Wasting Light was recording to freaking TAPE in Dave's garage using an old sound board, and it sounds like a million dollars. There's something to be said for recording live to multi-track in the studio, and then just making minor fixes in post-production. It always makes the band have more of a live, together sound because, well, that's precisely what it is...not just individual tracks pasted together (which is what most songs are these days). That older technique (which, of course, was used because there were technical limitations that prevented the perfection -- and often, coldness -- of today's music tracks) can be heard on so many classic tracks...Bohemian Rhapsody, Carry On Wayward Son, Dark Side of the Moon, etc. Most of these tracks are more complex to play than the average modern track, and yet they needed less production because the musicians simply had to be better, and tighter as a band. Anyway, my mini-rant aside, I love that Dave decided to do an album this way...he's just a guy that loves music and all of its history, and wants to embrace things like that. It shows a lot of soul and having his musical priorities in the right place.

In any case, you should definitely check out both of those albums. Spin them both a few times...around listen 4 or 5 on each one, you'll suddenly shift from going "well, this is pretty good, but just sounds like Foo Fighters" to "holy crap, how did I not notice how awesome this album was before?" 😁

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