https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0TrqXHoL10
I know that the Foo Fighters are a polarizing band in this forum, and turning an album into such a documentary series is frowned upon as self-aggrandizing hyperbole that detracts from the music, but I still assume some people will be interested in this if nothing else for those being interviewed and the fact that HBO usually does a good job with these things.
Is anyone else going to be watching or TiVoing this series?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 13 October 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
oh i'll watch it for sure
― some dude, Monday, 13 October 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
I like Grohl/Foos, and now that I have HBO I'll be watching.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 October 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
The Foos are mega ding-dongs but I can't wait to watch this, though I am admittedly most excited to see the episode at Electrical Audio cuz the band I'm in made a record there and I can be all "whoa Taylor Hawkins is sitting where I sat and ate like a pound of trail mix!"
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 13 October 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
Not much of a fan of their music but this series looks cool. Will watch. Always interested in production and what goes on in the studios.
― Mathew Klickbait (Spottie), Monday, 13 October 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
there was hilariously awkward promotional clip where the interviewee said something like "bands only have 3 good albums in them" and then realized the foo fighters have like 8 albums and then he started laughing. i guess we as the viewers are supposed to be like "haha he's obviously wrong because the foo fighters have all of those great albums" but then there's an uncomfortable moment where all of us, viewers and the interviewee, together, are counting up the number of good foo fighters albums and it's less than 2
― Karl Malone, Monday, 13 October 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
could be good for grohlz lolz
― tylerw, Monday, 13 October 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
― Karl Malone, Monday, 13 October 2014 22:50 (3 days ago) Permalink
It is Gibby Haynes, who knows a thing or two about making terrible albums beyond the first three
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
i'm all over this
as much as he *should* annoy me i can't really hate on grohl that much, he's like the likeable bono
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
can we all agree that "sonic highways" has got to be one of the most milquetoast/boring album titles in forever though?
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
It's not Rattle & Hum. It's HBO.
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
It's not Rattle & Hum
well, it's got that going for it.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
I wish they'd named it One Nation Under Foo
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
"Sonic Highways" is the name of album that comes with pair dad jeans and nice pair of brown tassled loafers.
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
the problem with Our Band Could Be Your Life was that it didn't explain how all this maverick trailblazing could lead to the foo fighters. now we'll find out, with dave fitting albini and mackaye into the pbs tapestry they've previously been excluded from.
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
"sonic highways" are special roads for major label rock stars and their guests
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
xp honestly One Nation Under Foo would be preferable. it'd at least be swinging for something rather than shrugging and driving down the middle of the road. which has kind of been the deal with FF since the fourth album.
otm with the dad jeans reference
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
i'm sure i'll find plenty to enjoy in this like i do most rock docs, but i kind of wish he'd just made a goodbye to broad street instead
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
sorry, give my regards to broad street
or maybe a one-trick pony with lorde as the b-52s
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
Intensity In 8 Cities
― some dude, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
^^^even that's better than Sonic Highways. 8 Ways to Rock is one of the only things I can imagine that'd be worse/more basic.
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
America Rocks
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock
― Simon H., Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Life Is A Sonic Highway In America Keep On Rockin'
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
"8 Ways to Rock"
I'm having trouble with this link, can you help? I'm trying to post it on facebook.
Thanks.
― Evan, Thursday, 16 October 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
sonic highways 2
1. The Dirtiest Water (with Steven Tyler & Joe Perry)2. Pumped (with Uncle Luke)3. Always Dreaming (with Peter Buck & Kate Pierson)4. Going (with Darryl Hall & Questlove)5. Way Down Home (with Aretha Franklin & The Black Keys)6. Candles (with Bob Seger)7. Working On It (with The Original 7ven)8. There For All Time/Combine (with Billie Joe Armstrong, E-40 & Bob Weir)
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
imagine if they'd gone to philadelphia - questlove would totally get involved and then either angrily castigate himself for it or self-righteously defend it in the liner notes of the next roots album
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
Foo Fighters Over America and then he could have squeezed in appearance by his close personal friend Paul McCartney
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
Foo Fighters are the number one band for people who tuck in their t-shirts
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
gotta save paul for sonic eurail
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, October 16, 2014 12:13 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Rush fans aren't gonna give up that easily pal
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
lmao
― some dude, Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Foos have steadily eclipsed Rush in the past few yrs according to my research
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Rush fans I think have moved into the mock-turtleneck phase
you can categorize many fans of both bands under the umbrella of "people who probably bought zunes"
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 October 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
"Sonic Highways" is being pushed to Zune users exclusively for free!
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
nah, ballmer gave all those up - used them on the low to pay for the clippers. chris paul is furious.
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
oh btw here's the first single, it's...pretty whatever IMO. not that bad, not that good, almost entirely uninteresting though the breakdown near the end is decent...
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― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
wow that didnt work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3B0Vx_yQgo if you're curious
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 16 October 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Has any rock band ever made a good record with different special guests on every song? Other than Santana, of course.
― Brio2, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
The 6ths, Wasps Nests - if you pretend its the magnetic fields with a different singer on each track
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's a good album
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
wow, foo fighters really are unleashing some amazing new sounds into this vibrant rock and roll genre
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 16 October 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
this music http://i57.tinypic.com/x62ir.gif
SO DO FOO
― da croupier, Thursday, 16 October 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
Indiana Grohl and Sonic Highway of Doom
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 October 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
as someone who stanned for "Rope," "The Pretender," "Best of You," etc. this is definitely their most underwhelming lead single in a long time. the funky clavinet (?) at the halfway point is cool, though. this was the song done at Electric Audio, doesn't sound especially Albini-ish though, i'm guessing he was just interviewed for the show and not involved in the track.
― some dude, Friday, 17 October 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
track 5 of the album is gonna have Joe Walsh on it, so that will probably be the ILM pick hit
― some dude, Friday, 17 October 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
New Orleans song was the most hilariously non-sounding-like-the-city-we-just-immersed-ourselves-in yet
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Are the other band members (besides Taylor) always quiet anonymous plain dudes on purpose so they don't alienate the very large Foo Fighters fan demo of quiet anonymous plain dudes?
― Evan, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
XP - Yeah, I was hoping for some crazy track with a bounce rhythm and some horns, then we get another pumped up Rick Springfield tune. *caveat* I only listened to the first 40s
― Rita, Sue and Peter Gabriel Two (MaresNest), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
ha yeah I turned it off too maybe there was a brass band breakdown at the end lol
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Yeah but they made sure the camera panned across portraits of disappointed looking New Orealns legends during the video
xxxpost
― Evan, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
The others come across very well on that Doc that came out a couple of years back, esp Nate.
― Rita, Sue and Peter Gabriel Two (MaresNest), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
i wonder if joe walsh was a compromise to keep dave from having to meet don henley
(well, yeah)
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
― Rita, Sue and Peter Gabriel Two (MaresNest), Tuesday, November 25, 2014 3:20 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He's the AIDS denier
― benbbag, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
Really? I guess that must have been in the special features.
― Rita, Sue and Peter Gabriel Two (MaresNest), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 07:57 (nine years ago) link
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/02/foo-fighters-hiv-deniers
Mendel says he was won over by Maggiore's book, and passed it around to the rest of the band, which includes former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Mendel says that he would steer anyone considering an HIV antibody test toward Maggiore's group."If you test positive, you are pretty much given a bleak outlook and told to take toxic drugs to possibly ward off new infections," says Mendel.With the other band members on board, Mendel aims to use the Foo Fighters' celebrity to get the message out to a broad audience. The Foo Fighters plan additional benefit shows, and have placed a banner ad on their Web site linking to Alive and Well. Mendel says that he does not have HIV, nor does he have any friends with HIV besides Maggiore, who has remained asymptomatic.
"If you test positive, you are pretty much given a bleak outlook and told to take toxic drugs to possibly ward off new infections," says Mendel.
With the other band members on board, Mendel aims to use the Foo Fighters' celebrity to get the message out to a broad audience. The Foo Fighters plan additional benefit shows, and have placed a banner ad on their Web site linking to Alive and Well. Mendel says that he does not have HIV, nor does he have any friends with HIV besides Maggiore, who has remained asymptomatic.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 08:04 (nine years ago) link
Watched the Seattle episode last night. Some genuinely moving parts, especially toward the end. And then, for no fucking reason at all, the mood shifts completely and Dave interviews Macklemore. WTF
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
haha wow ok glad I turned it off before that
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Taylor Hawkins bums me out, but I bet it's kind of a bummer to be Taylor Hawkins.
Can't really think of another example of such a famous band whose drummer is not the best drummer in the band, besides maybe that one time Sheila E was one of Ringo's all-stars
― sheesh, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 09:54 (nine years ago) link
Are the other band members (besides Taylor) always quiet anonymous plain dudes on purpose so they don't alienate the very large Foo Fighters fan demo of quiet anonymous plain dudes? --Evan
weird to see that pat smear is now a relatively quiet anonymous plain dude, but he's rich, so that prob makes up for it.
regarding current foo fandom, this is so OTM it's not even funny ( ok it is funny bc I'm laughing)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 12:05 (nine years ago) link
Grohl just basically spilled the beans on The Daily Show that there will be a second season. Hopefully it won't be tied to an album, but of course it will.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link
Has this been addressed yet?
http://jezebel.com/dave-grohls-sonic-highways-systematically-erases-women-1666309945
I don't necessarily agree (maybe Hole weren't mentioned because - ultimately -- HOLE DON'T MATTER)...but just throwin' it out there.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
Said article also features this line...
"Kanye West, an artist as complicated, heart-driven, and relevant as Nirvana ever was, is seen in a short clip at the beginning, near the credits, but is not mentioned thereafter."
Kanye West is complicated?
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
FOH
― resting waterface (m bison), Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
There have been a bunch of women on the show - heart, joan jett, dolly parton, emmylou harris.
Hole is/was terrible
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Oh Kanye's complicated alright: http://gawker.com/which-giant-titted-anime-statue-was-kanye-west-obsessed-1667243236?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
That being said criticism of the show being conventionally rockist is obviously legit
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
"i wish there was more women in it" is more a than valid note, but the claim of systematic erasure in the headline doesn't really match the "sure there was heart but where's bikini kill?" tone of the rest of the post. not totally sure what the definition of "systematically erasing women" would mean, but i assume it would mean having even less than the token legends like dolly, joan jett, etc.
also hole was from la
― da croupier, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
i stopped watching after my own thinkpiece went up, but unless nate mendel got a lot of love in the seattle episode one could argue he's systematically erasing the other foo fighters almost as much as he is women
― da croupier, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
"sure, taylor got to jizz his pants at an eagle for one minute, but is the occasional doofy grin all he's had to contribute since 1997?"
― da croupier, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
"Why, on the LA episode, is there a lengthy interlude about the desert outside the city because Queens of the Stone Age once recorded there, but can't even make a gesture towards Chris Shiflett, the band's guitarist since 1999, who was raised in Santa Barbara?"
― da croupier, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
I started laughing really hard when the Seattle episode transitioned from grunge to Macklemore. It did a really great job of making the city look like a LA's farm team. Getting so sick of Subpop's "We're losers...really!" schtick.
Austin episode was the highlight of the season for me. Hope season 2 explores the scenes in completely innocuous cities. Maybe send Dave Grohl to Newbridge.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
dave-grohls-sonic-highways-systematically-erases-calvin-johnson
i was going to at least check out the seattle episode of the final three but ever since news of macklemore floated out i haven't been able to force myself
― da croupier, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
I thought the Austin one was terrible. Too much spillover from Nashville, and the rest was overwhelmingly Austin City Limits centric.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure the NYC one will make me froth at the mouth. Nate got about three nanoseconds in the Seattle episode.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
seconds away from watching the final one, and I have every expectation that it will please AlexinNYC very much. Given the deeply conservative worldview presented by Grphl so far, the only thing I can think of that would annoy AiNYC is if the show declined to make a case for Killing Joke as a huge influence on every right thinking act in town, or as a signature achievement in human history.
I have no doubt that Grohl will walk around town and lament clubs that are no longer there, which would be in line with the program thus far. surely there will be a lengthy CBGBs segment.
― veronica moser, Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
I hope he just interviews Bono, Sting, Madonna, Taylor Swift and other musicians rich enough to live in New York. Then he can lament how the death of CBGBs means no more bands like Interpol or the Strokes.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
Was really praying for a sax-playing bill clinton to walk in and interrupt the obama interview segment.
oddly this was easily the worst episode (ugh a fucking kiss hagiography and no mention of the velvets), resulting in the best foo fighters song of the series. Which was still pretty blah.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
Close your laptops and hire a string section and world-class arranger, kids.
― Andy K, Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
I still think Taylor Hawkins is just filling in between Alanis Morissette tours
― du mein bestie (micarl), Sunday, 7 December 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
It bums me out because this band could be good if Dave just gave in and went back on drums and got someone to help write not so structured songs.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Sunday, 7 December 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
this band could be good if Dave just gave in and went back on drums and got Kurt Cobain to help write the songs
― alpine static, Sunday, 7 December 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
This band would be great if different people were in it and they traded their guitars for synths and changed their name to kraftwerk
― resting waterface (m bison), Sunday, 7 December 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
I kinda got the sense that Grohl just wanted to geek out on Kyuss but felt like it had to be sold as an LA episode
Pat Smear eating a sandwich in the New Orleans episode was great
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 7 December 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Dave Grohl's new band ... Oujia Board Kobain ... I'd buy that ...
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 7 December 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
" .... N ..... O .... "
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 December 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
― sheesh, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 4:54 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Dinosaur Jr. imo
wouldn't say Hawkins is as good as Grohl all-around but i've never really been able to pick up on any substantial gap in technical proficiency, he's pretty damn good
― some dude, Monday, 8 December 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
He smiles too much.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 December 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
NY episode was so terrible
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 December 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Also when she was in the Revolution
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb ranks (The Reverend), Thursday, 11 December 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5308/35/16x9/640.jpg
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, and as much as I like Meg White, Jack White is probably a better drummer
― sheesh, Friday, 9 January 2015 09:01 (nine years ago) link
Oh no, Lefsetz has just discovered the show and is raving about every aspect of it.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 January 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
Whatever it takes to teach kids today that real music can be made with guitars.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 January 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
We built these citiesWe built these cities on rock and roll
― da croupier, Friday, 9 January 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link