Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (4/12)

I am a Foo's fan and I am not apologizing for it, there seems to have been a transition where they went from great to everyone thinking they sucked after In Your Honour but I must have missed it because I think they have been consistently brilliant from the start. Seems once you get played on commercial radio its over and done with to your music snobs.

Really looking forward to the new album, the news that its a return to the earlier more thrash metal sound is good news.

I'm loving the new album. Listened to it twice today while cleaning the garage. Gets better with every listen.

Every so often my 2 year old will could up to the stereo and mess with the settings so I had to restart often. Tried getting her to bang her head to White Limo but she was having none of it.

Wasting Light is excellent, definitely back on the form of the first two albums. To me, the Foos were getting progressively softer with each album and losing the punk edge that worked so well with Grohl's melodies in their early material. 'Wheels' on the greatest hits album pretty much led me to give up on them altogether, so it's a huge relief to seem them turn the guitars back up. A Bob Mould duet is simply the cherry on top.

"Dear Rosemary" sounds like a Smithereens song. Love it. I also dig Grohly's garbley songs so I really dig "White Limo."

Really liking it. I haven't gotten an album of theirs since the third one. Never hated them just didn't care much for most of the singles. I have a feeling I'll grow to love this one. "Walk" in particular is sort of a perfect song for my life right now. Good stuff.

As good an album as they've ever released.  It is brawny and unrepentant in its embrace of straight ahead 90's era rock.  It is kind of amazing how much having Smear in the band gives them that extra guitar muscle that has been lacking since "The Colour..."  I was getting worried about this band during the One By One/In Your Honor era (albums with some great songs but an abundance of filler IMO), but between the nice exercise in dynamics that was "Echos...", and the rock gut punch that is "Wasting Light," it seems the Foo's are back on track.

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Originally Posted by neaux 

"Dear Rosemary" sounds like a Smithereens song. Love it. I also dig Grohly's garbley songs so I really dig "White Limo."

I like that song a lot, too. Not as much as "Dear Rosemary" AKA "The One with Bob 'Bob Mould' Mould", but still. Although it still feels a little bit like a gratuitous ploy to sound like "Weenie Beenie" from the self-titled debut. Sounds a bit cynical maybe, yet I can't help thinking Dave can probably bang out songs like that almost at will.
 

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Originally Posted by Benway 

Really liking it. I haven't gotten an album of theirs since the third one. Never hated them just didn't care much for most of the singles. I have a feeling I'll grow to love this one.

Same here! It remains to be seen whether or not it can offer as much replay value as their first three albums, but it's already becoming a firm favourite of mine.