Hipsters, we need to talk.
I don’t know how to
tell you this, but I think we need to break up.
It’s not you, it’s me.
We had our good times. You introduced to me to vintage music and showed me what quality craftsmenship looks like. I can’t thank you enough for that; and you know Fleetwood Mac will always be our thing.
But I need to move on. I guess I just wanted to tell you about me, the Foo Fighters, and Wasting Light before you heard it from someone else.
Before you start getting upset, know that I’m only here because you always taught me to follow the music.
Don’t worry; I’m in good hands. You two would probably be very good friends if it wasn’t so awkward. I mean, you both like Nirvana and Butch Vig. Did I tell you about the garage recording? That’s right, the enter record was made in a garage on analog equipment. You can hear the imperfections. Doesn’t that get you excited?
Here’s the thing: Dave and the boys can give me something you never could. Airplay.
I mean, there was that one time with Mumsford and Sons, but you said they were too maintstream after Taylor Swift covered “White Blank Page“. You know I love spending time with you; I just wish you would make an effort to come to me. I’m tired of always coming to you. Wasting Light’s ‘Rope’ launched at #1 on Billboard’s Rock Songs. I didn’t have to go pillaging through records stores and cans of PBR at a some $10 cover show just to find good music. You know where we met? Top 40 radio. Yeah, I said it. I sometimes listen to Top 40.
Please don’t even act surprised. You know me and Foo have been friends since ‘97. And I’ve heard you sing “My Hero” before, so don’t try to hid it.
Try to be happy for us. This is what I want. It’s not like we won’t see each other anymore. I won’t even be mad if you stalk them online.
Now if you’ll excuse me, Dave is calling.
The Foo Fighters are back with their seventh studio album, Wasting Light
Like a family reunion, Krist Novoselic and Butch Vig join with Grohl to help fashion an album the way Nirvana would have:
badass. Not only does the music deliver, it was all done without computers. Recording in his garage, Grohl wanted to get back to raw feel of the music. In case you don’t believe him, Grohl shredded the master tapes after recording and included a piece in every CD.
The Good: Talking with a friend about which bands our generation will remember 30 years from now, I mentioned Foo Fighters. This album only solidifies that belief.
The Bad: For fans of the lighter side of Foo Fighters (read: In Your Honor: Disc Two), about the closest thing you’ll get to an slow song is ‘These Days’.
The Veridct: Forgo the digital download and buy the physical album. You’re gonna rip it anyway; might as well get some master tape out of it.
P.S. For audiophile’s who respect the notion of physical music, be sure to check out Medium Rare on April 16 available only on 12-inch, 120-gram vinyl.
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Hells yeah! I do community radio – peddling hipster musac – and I tottallly agree – Foos are the shit
That was one of the funniest intros I’ve read in a long time. Very nice.
Ugh. So what’s pretentious about saying the Foo Fighters are good? If I wanted to hear about how amazing the Foo Fighters are, I would visit any other music site on the web. I come here to get away from that stuff. I guess it’s not as bad as suggesting Kid A might the greatest album of all time. Now that was nauseating. Hopefully these things remain few and far between.
I love the Foo Fighters, and I think Dave Grohl is a genius, but this album is not good. It is probably the most generic album out there. There is nothing new here, no growth. Its good for little more than background music. For all of Dave Grohl’s genius he comes up short.
That isn’t even my biggest issue with it, it just increased the time it takes for the new Them Crooked Vultures album to arrive, who are much better than the Foo Fighters
For a blog that prides itself for it’s pretentious, upper-class, educated, know-it-all (self-prescribed) status, that prescribes Shakespeare as though one has an all encompassing grasp of the English language, one sure can’t spell check worth a shit. If it was a typo or two, I’d get it. Amateurs are allowed those. But when one completely fucks a word up… (enter and entire aren’t so interchangeable if you had bothered to proof-read your work).
And if it was only *just* typos and misplaced words, one might be inclined to forgive and forget. But then it goes further. The more I read, the more I am appalled that one can chastise readers for not having read Shakespeare but can also use ‘an’ “interchangeably” with ‘a’. Someone needs to finish grammar school before they start flipping through Cliffs Notes for Bill.
And if it only ended there, I’d close this web-page and go on to listening to Taylor Swift but you say craftsmenship instead of craftsmAnship. However you do get forgo correct, so I’m torn, whether to laugh at this pathetic dichotomy of pretentiousness void of any substance or commend you for at least getting ONE thing right.