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corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 27988

boo boo wrote:

corrections wrote:

pave wrote:

Dave Grohl is not only an underrated drummer, songwriter and frontman, he's also one of the coolest guys on the planet earth. the fact that he said that is just more proof of how awesome he is.

No it is not. It is prove that he likes to make hyperbolic and provacative statements.

Couldn't it be possible that he isn't being hyperbolic and he really does like her drumming as much as Bonham and Moon?

I'm not hyperbolic when I say I think Neil Young is a better guitarist than Yngwie Malmsteen.

He could say that but then why draw the deliberate comparisons of talent to Moon and Bonham. He's trying to be provocative.

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 27988

dreamcoil wrote:

foo fighters are a band who are trying to remain relevant way beyond their time/ grohl's a cool dude but he just doesnt have it in him to write the anthem he so wants to. plus that foo fighters sound can be confused for countless generic alt rock bands, which doesnt help

Yes.

batman · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 1:55 am

for the let's get it on/what's going on comparison, here is my song ranking of both combined

1 Let's Get it On
2 Please Stay
3 Distant Lover
4 God is Love
5 Mercy Mercy Me
6 If I Should Die Tonight
7 What's Going On
8 Just to Keep You Satisfied
9 What's Happening Brother
10 You Sure Love to Ball
11 Come Get to This
12 Flying High in the Friendly Sky
13 Wholy Holy
14 Inner City Blues
15 Save the Children
16 Keep Gettin' it On
17 Right On

now that I did that, I'm not quite sure why I did. Both are 10/10 albums

boo boo · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 1:59 am

corrections wrote:

boo boo wrote:

corrections wrote:

pave wrote:

Dave Grohl is not only an underrated drummer, songwriter and frontman, he's also one of the coolest guys on the planet earth. the fact that he said that is just more proof of how awesome he is.

No it is not. It is prove that he likes to make hyperbolic and provacative statements.

Couldn't it be possible that he isn't being hyperbolic and he really does like her drumming as much as Bonham and Moon?

I'm not hyperbolic when I say I think Neil Young is a better guitarist than Yngwie Malmsteen.

He could say that but then why draw the deliberate comparisons of talent to Moon and Bonham. He's trying to be provocative.

And who was he trying to provoke?

Oh yes. Snobby drumtards. More fucking power to him.

batman · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:16 am

I also think Let's Get it On is a more complex album than just a guy singing about having sex. There's a lot of pain to go with the pleasure in that album

Georgi · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:37 pm **Posts:** 9165

batman wrote:

I also think Let's Get it On is a more complex album than just a guy singing about having sex. There's a lot of pain to go with the pleasure in that album

Yes! Don't tell me your heart doesn't ache listening to Distant Lovers.

Brett Alan · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:17 pm **Posts:** 6333

pave wrote:

one last thing, the "if he wasn't in Nirvana" argument is just an easy way of dismissing him, but one that has no real foundation under it. is there one other comparable situation?

Well, Sweet 75 is a pretty comparable situation, and how many people reading this even recognize that name? Heck, I saw them live once, and I still want to call them "Swirl 360" (which is also a pretty obscure band--they were a modern bubblegum/power-pop group--but they had more success than Sweet 75 did).

(For those who haven't figured this out, Sweet 75 featured the OTHER member of Nirvana, Krist Novaselic.)

pave · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:32 am

Brett Alan wrote:

pave wrote:

one last thing, the "if he wasn't in Nirvana" argument is just an easy way of dismissing him, but one that has no real foundation under it. is there one other comparable situation?

Well, Sweet 75 is a pretty comparable situation, and how many people reading this even recognize that name? Heck, I saw them live once, and I still want to call them "Swirl 360" (which is also a pretty obscure band--they were a modern bubblegum/power-pop group--but they had more success than Sweet 75 did).

(For those who haven't figured this out, Sweet 75 featured the OTHER member of Nirvana, Krist Novaselic.)

yeah, i'd say this confirms my stance that the "Foo Fighters were popular because Dave was in Nirvana" argument is ridiculous. cause it sure as hell didn't work for Novaselic.

Yousha · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:26 am

He's the bass player, of course it didn't! How many people know the bass players in bands anyway dude?!

boo boo · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:41 am

I'm currently making a rock bassists list, which will be a little more expansive than the official one. Bassists always get it worse than the drummer unless they're singer/songwriters, and as everybody knows I like to stick up for the underdog.

Shit even some of the greatest bass players like Entwistle, JPJ and Deacon are thought of by many people as the "other guy" of their respective bands.

I fucking love the bass.

Adequate Gatsby · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:53 am

I refuse to acknowledge the Foo Fighters are underrated when Wasting Light was called by so many as the savior of rock music.

Adequate Gatsby · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:55 am

pave wrote:

one last thing, the "if he wasn't in Nirvana" argument is just an easy way of dismissing him, but one that has no real foundation under it. is there one other comparable situation? i mean, he was the drummer. he had very little creative influence over Nirvana as a whole (maybe their overall sound, but definitely not the songwriting). i doubt anyone in the world expected the drummer from Nirvana to start his own band as the primary songwriter and frontman. for him to actually be successful with it is a credit to him. the idea that it was just given to him because of his association with Nirvana is absurd. if anything, the constant comparisons have actually hurt them.

I wasn't saying he wouldn't have been successful, I was saying that he wouldn't have the same critical acclaim.

Patrick · **Joined:** Sun Dec 26, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 7941

wait i thought depressed thirty somethings with shitty jobs like dishwashing were the only people who listened to the foo fighters did they make some sort of resurgence amongst the youth as of late?

Patrick · **Joined:** Sun Dec 26, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 7941

also i never knew the dude from nirvana was the dude in the foo fighters i can definitely see that they're both like the same kind of boring disaffected music that's completely irrelevant to anyone above the age of seventeen with a personality

batman · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:54 pm

Georgi wrote:

batman wrote:

I also think Let's Get it On is a more complex album than just a guy singing about having sex. There's a lot of pain to go with the pleasure in that album

Yes! Don't tell me your heart doesn't ache listening to Distant Lovers.

Also "Just to Keep You Satisfied"

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