Reviews (page 9 of 14)
Much has been said about the “foo” that was to be fought by this band. Was it a colloquial shortening of the word “fool?” Was it a bastardizatipn of the martial art “kung fu?” Probably that one. It’s not a big mystery. Uhhh I don’t really like this kind of music. This is the end of grunge and the beginning of Nickelback. It’s somewhere in between those two entities and I look forward to seeing exactly “how this reminds me” of the great Alberta stink rock outfit that’s we’ve come to know and despise. Ok Foo’s, start fighting. This is a Call - Somebody likes the Beach Boys. No, that isn’t a playful playground tease towards a girl who has a crush on one of the guys who is constantly down on the beach spilling dune buggy motor oil into rare starfish habitats. This is a pretty decent song despite it reminding me of commuting to the my mail delivery job in my early 20’s. I’ll Stick Around - Whoa! Riffs?? Repetitive vocals and that distinctive Dave Grohl vocal that the years have been cruel to, but we’ve got some fire, and some god damned riffs. Incredibly easy folks. Big Me - uhhh what was that? Alone + Easy Target - + ratio. Ugh I hate speaking like the internet. Why do I do it? Learned verbal ticks from endless scrolling that I’m fully sure is as addictive as some drugs. Good Grief - The good kind of grief, or a heart wrenching tribute to one Charles Brown. Floaty - This is strating to “float (y)” by me. Weenie Beenie - We have dumb 90’s megaphone voice everybody. Why was this effect so popular? But hoooo boy that riff. I like the nods to metal in this. Could do without the megaphone, but keep this energy high. Oh, George - This is a nice little break. There are distinct moments here that remind you of the time. This feels more radio friendly, except for the rare guitar 90’s solo which you’d never hear back then. Well, some bands were moving away from it. Whatever. If you’re reading this, youre probably not looking for a music historian’s take on the record. You’re probably the most bored you’ve ever been because you’re like 16 reviews deep on the Foo Fighters debut “about” page in this website. For All the Cows - Finally, a song for our bovine friends. It’s pretty catchy too. X-Static - Isn’t this another band. No, that’s Static-X. Don’t they suck pond water? I don’t have time for that. One bad record a day please. All I can handle. This one isn’t even so bad! The song is kind of a snoozer, but you know. Wattershed - Uhhh. I kind of forgot to type anything. That happens a lot. Exhausted - Atmospheric black metal intro into a sad 90’s indie song??? YES! Great way to close this thing. This had more art to it than I expected. I’m still not in love with his vocals, but they were less obnoxious here than they would get on future releases. In many ways, this is a meat and potatoes rock record, but it has enough interjections of uniqueness and excitement to take it past that into the territory of intrigue. This was not an incredible album, but considering I expected a monster energy soaked ozzfest ticket in audio form, I was pleasantly surprised. Now, hand me alien blaster, I need to experience a psychotic episode during laser tag. 3 HIGHLIGHTS: This is a Call, I’ll Stick Around, Weenie Beenie, Exhausted
2, 3, 5, 10. Rather boring overall; a safe debut. Rating: 2.7/5
mind numbingly mid. the raw sound of the record as a whole can be appreciated in some aspects, but i found myself struggling to even reach the end.
Good but I never think that they got near to Nirvana levels of brilliance more grunge light.
Meh. 7/10.
No. 318/1001 This is a Call 3/5 I'll Stick Around 3/5 Big Me 3/5 Alone + Easy Target 3/5 Good Grief 3/5 Floaty 3/5 Weenie Beenie 3/5 Oh, George 3/5 For All the Cows 3/5 X-Static 4/5 Watershed 2/5 Exhausted 3/5 Average: 3,0 Just an average album. Kinda disappointing that they didn't include „The Colour and the Shape“ over this album.
As it turned out later, Dave Grohl was the artist making the most impact after Nirvana. However, this wasn't on display on this recording yet. Pretty uneven, very few good tunes, pretty hard rocking, it sounds as if he's still finding his way.
Kadett, HDH - Aalen, Deutschland. Okayes Album, aber halt die Foo Fighters.
So so average. It turned out I'd been hearing Foo Fighters songs for years and just never noticed cause it blends into the background so well.
Best Track - "Big Me"
This was OK, but nothing really grabbed me. Some nice moments, but then it got a bit repetitive. I’m sure it was super influential, and obviously Grohl did an amazing job producing this single-handed, but not really my thing. Not horrible, but it just dragged a bit and seemed longer than it is.
To be honest, very generic. Having recently had Nirvana's MTV Unplugged album, the contrast is huge and shows how much of their creative distinctiveness was via Cobain. For me this just doesn't have that special thing that sets it apart.
My colleague and I like to play a game with this site, where we make each other try and guess an album based only on 1 star reviews. I thought this might be a good candidate, but alas even the reviews are extremely generic.
aHHHHHHHH I'm bummed this is the first foo fighters album I'm getting. Not my favorite, but gotta start somewhere.
Ok, vaikka tyylillisesti ei ihan mun makuun. Taattua Foota.
Ihan kelpo debyytti!
I miss this Foo Fighters. The record comes out of the gate with strong songwriting and arrangements. I do wish he had hired the band to record this instead of doing it all himself though, it misses a little bit of the "band in a room" energy that the songs deserve. Energy lags a bit through the back half.
A 3 or 4.
Surprised how much I like this, after finally giving it a good chance. Great hooks! The Foos would become more and more formulaic and “chromed out” from here, but the debut rocks with the best of them. Great drumming, too.
definitely a nostalgia trip. good post grunge album. a good listen but not something i would necessarily return to over and over
Laying out the Foo's blueprint. I like that this is before he got way too shouty. Overdoing the shouting really detracts from the songs but I guess that's what the hitmakers require.
Maybe I haven’t spent enough time with this album, but I’m struggling to figure out why I should want to return to it. I’ve never loved the highly distorted grunge sound, but I can appreciate what Cobain and Nirvana were doing artistically. In that case, there’s a point to the ugliness of the music. Here it feels like that point gets lost in too much of the album. There are certainly highlights in the first few songs, but this album generally retains the low points of grunge and discards a lot of what makes it worth listening to. The album is at its best when Grohl is working through the demons that remained after Cobain's suicide. This Is a Call, I'll Stick Around, and Good Grief offer hints of the anthemic power rock that Foo Fighters would grow into. While it might be more pop-forward than anything Nirvana would have put out, Big Me serves as a nice reprieve from the relentless distortion we get through most of the remaining tracks. The album takes a downward turn on the second side, lacking the standout tracks that keep the first side interesting. The only true point of departure from uptempo power chords are the verses of For All the Cows, which makes for one of the more interesting songs on the album, despite the puzzling lyrics. The rest of the side falls into a pattern of uptempo, highly distorted power chords that become fatiguing, at least to my ear. Weenie Beenie and Wattershed were particularly difficult listens for me, and by the time I came to the album's closer, "Exhausted" was how I felt. This is by no means a bad output from someone trying to right the ship after tragedy struck, but it doesn't have the qualities I usually look for in great albums. The best songs don't hit the same highs, and the deeper cuts aren't interesting enough either musically or lyrically to keep me engaged. While a technically impressive achievement for Grohl to produce this by himself, the album just doesn’t stand out to me relative to what Nirvana had released previously or what Foo Fighters ended up becoming. It's certainly noteworthy as a response to Cobain's death and in light of what Foo Fighters would become, but I'd almost always rather be listening to something else.
Plenty of decent/good songs, but didn't speak to me. Dave Grohl is pretty dope though
Fine
Not gonna listen to this one. A couple fine tunes. I was huge into foo a decade ago but the shine has washed off. I’m glad this is guitar riff focused instead of the chorded nothing they’ve devolved in to.
Average didn't grab me
This is exactly what I thought it would be. My mom and my uncle and a bunch of other adults in my family really liked the Foo Fighters because they were kinda funny. The singles on this album were such staples of late 90s rock radio, but I don't really love any of them. 3.5 overall.
i think this is the most boring offering the foo fighters have, but it's still got some high points
This was good, Foo Fighters quickly established a very strong sound and identity in this album. However, it does feel a little samey
The individual songs are great to listen to, the album felt a little samey though. Other Foo Fighters will certainly rate better, but this is a solid listen anyways.
Cool album, but not a big fan of their first album
Not a patch on their next album, The Colour and the Shape, but fine to listen to. I don't think I recognised any songs; perhaps Floaty, which was my favourite. Dave Grohl is a great drummer.
An interesting historical curio as a side project that grew to arguably be a bigger deal than the band that spawned it. Has it's charms as a scrappy little one-man project, and Grohl is a great performer, but it gets a little samey and lacks that extra energy that comes from a bunch of people playing in a room together.
Kudos to Mr Grohl playing every instrument on the album. I am totally on board with this cathartic experience for him in the wake of Kurt Cobain's death. I don't really have one outstanding track from this album but as a whole it's solid and well produced.
Very much a “hey I used to be in nirvana album” Which was the zeitgeist for the 90s era this album was produced. There were pockets of future Foos coming through which I enjoyed. But felt more like a what could have been album for nirvana than a stamp of full independence. 3/5
Et ret fedt rockalbum der nok ikke ville være det som essentielt hvis ikkebandet blev mere succesfuldt senere
Fanger FF på et tidspunkt hvor de ikke lyder som et band der spiller kæmpe stadionner men mere som et band fra en alternative rock scene. Det er sgu ret fedt faktisk.
Great rock album, post-Nirvana. The foundation for their awesome career. (But not as good as the albums after this)
Definitivamente el disco me gusta mucho más cuando Dave Grohl le mete caña, pero fuera de esos momentos, tiene canciones que se alargan demasiado y que no me vuelan mucho la cabeza. Es muy interesante el deje a Nirvana que tienen algunas. Props a Dave por tocar todos los instrumentos del debut. Lo hizo él solo y después fue que formó la banda, loquísimo. A la playlist: I'll Stick Around, Good Grief, Weenie Beenie
Best Song: This Is a Call. You can see glimpses here of what went on to become the Foo Fighters recipe for success: starting soft and continuously raising the musical stakes of the song until it ends in a much louder, more blistering place than where it started. Worst Song: X-Static. I'm very glad that the Foo didn't go in this mumble-rock direction for the rest of their career. Overall: As someone who went through a bit of a Foo Fighters phase when they were younger, I expected to like this more. It turns out I mostly listened to stuff from later in their career. Here, it feels like Dave Grohl is still stuck a bit in the past, making a sort of Nirvana-lite (especially in the vocal department). It's not bad, but also not so exciting. Just generic.
Could only listen to half of it. They are fine, just not my cup of tea.
6/10
Decent album. Definitely something to listen to, but nothing that grabbed me and made me listen.
Uit nostalgie luister ik toch wel graag naar Foo Fighters. Al heb ik deze plaat eigenlijk nooit helemaal gecheckt. Bijzonder wel dat Grohl binnen een jaar na Nirvana deze plaat in elkaar flanst. Alle instrumenten speelt hij zelf in, zonder band. Het slaat aan en één van de grootste post-grunge rockbands is geboren. Gaaf verhaal. De kwaliteit van de muziek zal later nog wel toenemen, want de echte bangers ontbreken op dit album. Prima, wel leuk om naar te luisteren. 7/10 Highlights This is a Call
Estuvo interesting
Impressive album with some killer tracks. The first quarter of the album feels more like their next release, 'Color & Shape'. The rest of the tracks are gungier and less polished but are prime examples of where they came from and how their sound evolved.
So when this first came out I listened and went OK. Today I listened and went OK. I've seen them live, they are fun live. I do enjoy them, but they are pretty generic rock overall. It's not bad, it's not great, it's good. No new ground will be broken. You won't hear something that will change your life. You'll find out you know more of their tunes than you realized and maybe have some fun. They are a band that if there was a greatest hits album I would 100% buy it. It would be the only Foo Fighters album I would own.
Decent enough background noise
There are some classics on here for sure. I’ve never heard the album in full, but appreciate learning that their first release is maybe the most gritty I’ve ever heard Foo Fighters sound. Songs like Weenie Beenie still go hard. The guitar on this album is just a straight wall of sound. I can see how this is an important album, especially since it’s one of those projects where it’s literally a one man band situation. There are some guitar parts on this album that just sound fun to play. I’m not too high on the album as a whole, but it’s a fun listen and definetly worth listening to once and I appreciate it for what it is
A bit too overstimulating for me but i can understand why it’s iconic
Thoughts before listening: The first Foo Fighters album and a very important album for me as a kid. The Foo Fighters had the aggression of the grunge and punk rock I loved at the time, but with a real focus on melody and catchiness. This is a pop record with loud guitars, and it contains some of my favorites from that era. Review: This album really frontloads the hits. "This is a Call", "I'll Stick Around", and "Big Me" are 3 of the Foo fighters most well known and loved songs. The rest of the album stays in a similar lane of poppy rock with crunchy guitars although I can admit the songs for the most part just aren't as good as tracks 1-3. There is definitely a strong nostalgia for me with this album that I can tell is missing from the negative reviews on this site. If I had not been obsessed with the Foo Fighters when I was 15 I would probably be more likely to point out that its a fairly generic 90s alt rock album, but the familiarity wins out for me. Still though, the weaker middle and end of this record only gets 3-stars.
Feels way less campy and/or abrasive than you'd expect for an album with what looks like Marvin the Martian's gun on the cover. Every time I listen to Foo Fighters, I think that I could easily get into them, but then I never actually keep it up. Sorry Dave, but Nirvana's the only one keeping my attention!
They're not my favorite band but I like them...especially a certain handful of songs that are not present here. This isn't my favorite album by them but it's solid classic 90s rock. I enjoyed hearing it again.
alt-rock redelijk
This album was fun. Felt very "Nirvana" but less angry. Pretty cool that Dave Grohl did the entire thing himself. There are some great songs here. I HATED how static-you "Exhausted" sounded tho. I restarted it like 5 times because I thought there was something wrong with my speakers. "Big Me" is a CLASSIC. Actual rating...3.5 Liked Songs: "This Is a Call" , "I'll Stick Around" , "Big Me" , "Alone + Easy Target" , "Floaty" , "Weenie Beenie" , "Oh, George"
To me it just kind of blends together. Not bad but not distinct
BEST SONGS: - For All the Cows - Exhausted
the foo, they came back and played a show in slo the day i had this album so that's pretty cool. not my favorite of theirs tho. 6/10
Just never a foo fighters fan. Music always seemed bland to me.
good grief больше всего зашла в альбоме
decent but i took more notice of the music when spotify started playing the colour and shape album afterwards
Good 90s rock album paved the way for some awesome later on Dave Grohl albums
I probably should've listened to this when I was younger. I'm not going to lie, it's pretty damn good. There's a lot of influences here, but I'm hearing quite a bit from Bob Mould and Sugar. That said, I will probably never choose to put this on. 90s alternative radio absolutely killed this band for me.
A mixed bag. Some songs feel like leftover discarded Nirvana songs, others are less derivative and much more enjoyable. In all this record is neither a high- or a lowlight in its genre or this list.
It's Foo Fighters, its aight. Maybe back in the day it was way cooler but it doesn't really do much anymore, some songs sound like they had some big Elliot Smith influences which is kinda fun.
It's a good album but not as good as The Colour and the Shape
just doesnt hit like it used to
assez chill
Better than I remembered.
It has some good musics like big me, but other than that it's the same thing
Ikke et kjempebra album. Men det er jo imponerende at gutten har alle instrumenter og vokal. Flink type. Bra album til at det ikke var planlagt utgitt en gang. Liker spesielt Big Me og Weenie Beenie. Hva er greia med pistolen? Solid 3,5/5.
I was ok with about half of the songs, but none of them rose to a level of enjoyment that could have made this a 4 for me. Kind of bland, middle of the road, songs that filled the airwaves without much distinction.
Was expecting a bit more
Impressive debut by Dave Grohl, that still carries the sound that Foo Fighters has today. Great vision and execution although the mixing could’ve been better. Not many songs that I can recall by name.
Dude why is this album so long?
Fine I guess.
nothing was that great I’m afraid to say
this is not as good as i remembered as a kid
Good jams. Not their best album imo but good nonetheless. 3
fine maybe i didnt actually listen to it. but thats only because i forgot and plus ive heard it before, albiet like 2 years ago. still i do remember enough to say that its a decent album, yet only decent, not spectacular.
Enjoyable, not exceptional
"Mum, can we listen to Nirvana?" "We have Nirvana at home." Decent three star record, this!
A proof of concept for what the Foo Fighters would be. An interesting album for the drummer of Nirvana to put out on his own, with a nice variety of different styles on display here. Big Me is the only song I remembered from this album and it’s still the best thing on here.
They can do better
Heavier tracks are better, forgettable in parts
A very charming debut from a band who on the whole like a poppier Nirvana, which is no bad thing. They do deviate into more shouty territory on Weenie Beenie which I particularly like. I suspect I probably would have checked in with this band sooner had I been exposed to songs like these, rather than the more radio friendly stadium rock they are now better known for.
Giving Foo Fighters a solid 3, will keep three of these songs and it was all pretty good but nothing special
Just some hard rock, a bit bland I guess, average. 3 stars
Perhaps not surprising as it was recorded in the wake of Cobain’s death, this sounds pretty much like Nirvana. Some pretty good punk / grunge tracks on here. Not entirely my thing but it rocks enough to get a thumbs up from me
2.8 I was shocked how mid that was
I love thr ray gun but something about the Foo Fighters always felt off. For every learn to fly there's an album I don't like. The Alt Rock version of Guns n Roses
What an album and in terms of Foo Fighters Discography one that doesn't get spoken about very often overall, with that being said let's get on with this as I type this out on my work computer instead of doing my job. The album kicks off in what would become typical Foo Fighters fashion, beginning with Dave Grohls soft vocals before the track kicks in, blasting distorted guitar, heavy hitting drums and the bass is certainly there. One thing that I think needs to be said about this album is that Dave Grohl wrote it all and recorded it in 6 days, which I think adds to the sheer amount of fucking awesome of this album. This is a Call is the perfect introduction to the Foo Fighters sound, with hints of blues hidden within the powerful rock n roll sound. I'll Stick Around, follows a similar formula but here we really get to hear Dave's vocal range with screams and a more aggressive vocal style, each track of the album introduces little bits of Grohl's style that will eventually see consistently in albums to come. Big Me is the lighter track on the album, the distortion is toned down for rough sounding chord progressions, with Grohl's vocals returning to a softer tone, with lyrics that'll now be stuck in your head for a week, a lovely little 2 minute ditty. Tracks like Floaty and X-Static have a grungy almost punk like sound to them, with Grohls clear vocals sailing through beautifully, showing hints of his beginnings at Nirvana, aggressive music with clean vocals is a personal favourite of mine. Overall class album, not one of my favourites but its an album bigger than the sum of its parts, what we see in this album is a few of Grohl's ideas that blossomed into arguably one of the most fun rock bands of the 2000s and onwards. 3/5 MTW I think it would be fair to say that any work by the Foo Fighters past 2011’s Wasting Light
6/10
2.5 top 3: - big me - good grief - exhausted
Pas mon style habituel, j'écoute très peu de rock, mais j'ai quand même apprécié. J'avais déjà entendu parler d'eux mais j'avais jamais écouté donc bonne découverte. 3/5
Was surprised. When this came out, I was still listening to grunge. The radio hits that came out, I found a bit cloying. In hindsight and in context of the whole album, that definitely contains some more grungy songs, I quite like it. Fun, energetic. I love the drums, his style is so recognizable. Recordings a bit flat?
POWER CHORDS! Post grunge was a weird time in music and I feel like this album would have been forgotten if Dave Grohl wasn’t behind it. A couple of staple PopRock songs prevented it from fading into obscurity.
Starts off strong but kind of peters out towards the end. I liked it at the time and it still is pretty good but not great
Solid e/5
i actually thought this was pretty good. but not good enough and i'm in a good mood so 3
still not really into rock. like the name foo fighters tho - always knew the name, never heard a song. checked out songs from other albums, like those more.
1 sounds like an outro, I like it def not the foo fighter sound im used to 2 love the transition between tracks 3 I like 4 rock on 5 I like how you can still hear the nirvana influence 6 experimental in vocals, almost deftones esque, me likey 7 weenie beenie 8 jam!! 9 I like the changes in tempos 10 this is a jam too, I like the dissonant and lazy harmony 11 😛😛😛😛 12 distortion and good vocals I likey Album cover: it looks pretty cool Overall enjoyment: There weren’t many notable songs besides the first and last but overall I enjoyed it as well as the genre!!
Hard to believe that the drummer on Nirvana, after being part of such wonderful music, could go on to be so goddamn average…
Again this isn’t my favorite genre but the songs were pretty fun and easy to listen to.
Not my favorite Foo Fighters album but there is good energy and is a solid post-grunge record. 6/10
Ehh I don’t know. It’s decent.
# Album Name: The foo fighters # Artist: The foo fighters # Rating: 3/5 # Comments: I can see why Cobain didnt think Grohls music was fit enough for Nirvana. The album starts with a very solid three song intro. This is a call, ill stick around and big me are good tracks. it drops off after that. obviously the foo's turn into a good band as they go on. sadly this album is just ok. # Top Tunes: This is a call / ill stick around / big me # Would I listen to it again? singles only
IDK its not terrible, but its just totally average, worse than his previous band in every way, there's not really any riffs, or catchy parts whatsoever, even though this is more pop music. Some of the more emotive bits are really good, and the songs which I like the most, but the bits where he's just yelling are painful to listen to imo, he has a nice singing voice when he doesn't yell so hard, which is quite I common pitfall I find. There are some rhythm guitar parts which are good, but I think as he made this on his own mostly, there's no variety in the guitar parts. Favrouite songs: I'll stick around, alone+easy target, good grief, floaty, exhausted. Overall around 6/10
Gut. Haut aber auch nicht vom Hocker. Im Hintergrund trotzdem sehr angenehm.
I found this album a bit boring when it came out in 1995. It hasn’t really got better with time. I’ll admit it’s impressive that Dave Grohl managed to become an entire rock band almost by himself to create this album... but apart from that, there’s not a lot to be excited about. There's a few nice moments here and there, but it often sounds like a parody of Nivana. I rated this album a 2* at first, but I think it was a bit harsh. Despite its lack of originality, it was not unpleasant to listen, and it's clearly a honest effort. There are so many far worse albums on this list, I'll add 1 star.
Yep !
Recht eingängig und gut für den Hintergrund, mir ist aber kein Song besonders in Erinnerung geblieben.
Not my genre but pleasant
Initially somewhat underwhelming but elevated by a surprisingly dynamic and energetic second half. Highlights are Alone/Easy Target, Good Grief, For All the Cows, This is a Call, Big Me.
I’m not sure how many stars I should give to this album - some songs are super cool but some I wouldn’t listen for the second time so maybe a 3?
As I listen to this, I am still deciding on what I will rate it, but whatever it is, it will get a bump, for no other reason than the David Grohl and Taylor Hawkins inducted Rush into the RnR HoF. Okay, I'm done. I wanted to like it more than I did. 2.5 bumped to 3.
Colour and the shape is better but this is cool. Especially given the circumstances of its recording. Band and Dave Grohl both suck now.
Listens: 2 Standout Tracks: Big Me I like the Foo Fighters later stuff better: In Your Honor, Echos, Silence, Patience & Grace. That being said, I really don't think I ever knew or truly appreciated that this is solely a Dave Grohl album. He created the entire album virtually by himself: vocals, guitar, drums (bass too I assume) with only the help of a producer to put it together into a consumable format, and so soon after Nirvana disbanded with Cobain's suicide. Crazy to think about. Not out of this world crazy (you still have people like Jack White and Billy Corgan who can do it) but it's nonetheless still incredible talent. As for the music itself. It's fine. Like I said, I like their more refined, mature sound in the mid 2000s more so than the post grunge stuff he threw together. I also really need to be in the mood for this kind of music, because it can get a bit monotonous.
I’ve always been quite “eh, they’re ok” about Foo Fighters and this album just confirmed that.
Standout tracks: Alone + Easy Target, Good Grief
Pretty good album, some of it was real bad tho
I enjoyed this one without being blown away by anything on here. There isn’t that absolute banger of a song that will stick in my memory. Foo Fighters are a band I always feel I should like more than I do. I enjoy them whenever I hear them but they aren’t a band I ever go out of my way to listen to. Top Track - Exhausted
Listen to this and then listen to a range of the music over their discography. You can see their polish over time. Interested to see how this album broke the mold back in the day
First 5 songs are good and the rest is so-so.
It's a strange feeling to know that Grohl played everything on here. It takes away all of the power behind any one instrument, or even his voice. Knowing this doesn't make the album worse, but it makes it a weird experience.
Solid, not the best Foo Fighters album but a good one
This is one of a very few freshman albums that open with a 1-2-3 combo of songs that some bands could wish for in a career. “This is a Call”, “I’ll Stick Around” and “Big Me” are fantastic. The rest of the album is fine. You can tell this is Dave Grohl still using his Nirvana brain when it came to writing songs as there are several, especially later in the album, that sound like his previous band.
A Dave Grohl solo album in all but name but this set the tone for FF and all that followed. I liked the singles on this one, This I A Call, I'll Stick Around, Big Me and For All The Cows. Likeable album but the Foos went on to write better
Dave Grohl attempts to make his very own Nirvana album and instead makes a middle of the road radio rock album. It's aggressively fine.
Not a bad effort though it does very much sound like a demo.
Fine. New rock noise.
Incredible DIY record by Dave Grohl. Laid the foundation for a band that still had to be formed, with tremendous success. A bit rough at the edges, this may have needed some polish before release.
God damn, didn’t know he recorded the whole album by himself. Respect
Grohl”s first post-Nirvana album. Doesn’t exactly break new ground, but not a bad listen. At times sounding a bit like Nirvana, at other times hinting at the new direction he would go.
Well ... I had this first Foo Fighters album on cassette when it first came out. I was a fan of Nirvana and so of course I had to hear Dave Grohls new project. I wore that cassette out, but have not listened to it in many years. I am not a fan of any Foo Fighters album after this as I feel they just became commercialized processed crap. So the big question was did I love this, what is pretty much a solo effort from Dave. It starts off great and then just ends up playing out like a tired 90s album. I still admire it as it's all done by Dave, even it if was just for fun while he was still grieving for his bandmate Kurt. So I give it 3 stars for that. It was fun to revisit, but I doubt I will ever come back to it.
Not much to say about this one.
As a 90s kid this gives me a very nostalgic feeling. I makes me want to pick up a skateboard and feel the wind in my hair. Great rock album, definitely can hear the grunge influences compared to their later songs, has more of that 90 pessimistic vibe. ‘Big me’ and ‘floaty’ are my favourite song on this album. I like the second part of the album over the first half, it’s a little harder. It’s a little one note for me, found myself zoning out while listening to it. I think I’d listen to some songs individually but probably won’t listen to the album as a whole again.
It's a good album, but not a landmark record. The post-grunge feel is there, you can hear the influence of Grohl's work with Nirvana and he delivers well on the heavy/soft technique too. But for me, it's a lighter record, it lacks the edge and raw aggression of better Grunge albums. The songs themselves also aren't as catchy. The context of the record adds more nuance and makes it a more worthy listen, as Grohl wrote and performed almost the whole album by himself when he was trying to get back to making music after Cobain's suicide. It's remarkable that he wrote and performed a pretty consistent and good rock album all by himself. The album could've used a bit more polishing in the songwriting department, but since he didn't even mean for it to be such a big project, it makes sense. Overall, it's a good listen, he delivers high quality rock and it's also the beginning of what would later be Foo Fighters as a band.
Three decent tracks - the rest is filler
This Is a Call is such a great album opener. I think it's easy to rag on Foo Fighters for becoming such a formulaic arena rock band over the years, but that first 10 years was, mostly, very good. I came to this album late as was a little too young at release but with the wider context of knowing where Dave was and what he had experienced I think this is a really great little solo project. Not sure many would have predicted it growing into the biggest rock band in the world.
Surprised this is the Foo Fighters album that made the cut. It's decent rock but not ground breaking or particularly memorable. Just straight middle of the road. Kind of like of like the ITV comedy of music. It's there.
I dunno. I've never really been into the food, I thought maybe the first album would be exciting and more raw than the later stuff, but it was a bit forgettable. I think their second album is where he hit his stride. It's fine, but I feel like the hype around the band isn't really justified and certainly not with this album.
Such an odd time for post grunge as it moved from late 90s good feeling pop rock like Goo Goo Dolls. These guys tried to bring back the musicality and hard guitar sound and were effective, but really it's just pop. Not that it is a bad thing, it just is what it is.
It’s fine. I kinda like it but there are better albums from this time - including from the Foo Fighters
Not for me but good
Foo has always been too generic rock for me, but this first album is still raw enough to hold my interest.
its ok
I enjoyed this, solid album.
Good album enjoyed it
Q: What do you call it when grunge is all cleaned up and well produced by people who have their shit together? A: The Foo Fighters They’re talented and this sounds fine. But it’s not something I’ll come back to again and again. It’s a 3 (maybe a 2).
Better than Coldplay
felt like a necessary listen, although not their most popular. don’t know if i enjoyed it as much as i should have
Hay mejores de los foo
Not yet at the heights of the following couple of albums. I know he played all the instruments himself but I could do that. A later track came on after this and I was like OH YEH HERE WE GO so while FF deserve to be on this list, not with this album.
I probably resisted this at the time because it seemed like Nirvana-lite? That doesn’t seem so much like a bad thing now. Really like: “I’ll Stick Around” and “Big Me.” The album is about 15 minutes too long, though. This is really closer to 3.5 stars.
Не мой стиль, но музыка в общем-то неплохая и заводная!
This was alright didn't love anything but it was solid all around. I like it a little less then. The colour and the shape
While post-grunge has to be one of the WORST musical successors of all time, spewing out shit bands like Bush, Nickelback, Creed, Staind, Puddle of Mudd, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Shinedown, Seether, and Matchbox Twenty; I have to give this album sine street cred for it's historical significance. Dave Grohl creating this entirely on his own and finishing within a month is insane. Makes me a proud Seattleite to see how for the FF have gone, even having their own stand in Jojo. While the movement they created is one of the worst, I appreciate this album as a relic of the time. 3/5
Not really my thing although I like this kind of music.
Many hits and reliably rockin tunes, but it got a bit tired towards the end
Definitely 'Foo Fighters' enough to be a self-titled album. I enjoyed hearing some songs that, showing what I don't listen to a lot of, I'd not heard before. Great range across the album with a mix of very hard, almost metal, sound with some lower down and more mellow songs, too.
Very cool rhythms and some great songs.
I've actually never listened to a Foo Fighters album. For some reason I had a really positive association with their name, but this album didn't really do it for me. Not unpleasant but didn't pull me in or make me want to listen to any of their other albums.
Pretty cool that Dave wrote and recorded the album by himself and later formed the band
I’ve heard it way too many times. I mean it launched a juggernaut right so, can’t be terrible. There’s some good tunes, but I’m pretty tired of it.
Good stuff.
This album is very much a product of its time. It’s weird to me people complain it sounds like Nirvana. Aside from being a principal of that band, it is also grunge of the era. As I am not a big fan of grunge, this album didn’t make me swoon, but it was good enough and I definitely didn’t hate it.
Heard it before. Best Foo Fighters album, they went downhill after this. This one is good because you can still hear a bit of a Nirvana influence here and there. Dave became deeply uncool not long after that 3/5
Felt sort of like a bland rock album. This gets bumped to a 3 after reading a little about it, pretty cool that Grohl did all the instruments for the recording.
Sounds just like Nirvana minus Kurt Cobain. Cool, if that's your thing.
I hated this when it came out, just because it wasn’t Nirvana. I thought it was an insult to the memory of Cobain. That was way too harsh. I don’t hate it anymore and I now realize something that the much younger version of me didn’t: Grohl had more grief than I did about Cobain and at least he did something creative and productive with his. But it’s not a great album. It’s amazing what Grohl could do all alone but too much of this winds up sounding generic. Foo Fighters would get better when they became an actual band.
While you can definitely hear some of the remnants of Nirvana in the album brought from Dave Grohl, you can also sense the lack of Cobain in the style which made the album a little "more to be desired". This will get a 3.5 which is bumped down to 3 as it didn't really hit the heights to be closer to 4.
I thought the album was decent but not particularly remarkable or exciting. Definitely got Nirvana vibes as expected throughout (esp on 'I’ll Stick Around').
Initial reaction was it's good to see a Foo Fighters album I've never listened to. I then checked what other Foo Fighters albums made the list. None. The creator picked this over 'The Colour and the Shape'...the first album with actual band members and not just Dave Grohl. Anyway this is a decent debut album but no songs worth revisiting. Supposedly a lot of lyrics were written 15mins before recording. 3/5.
Favorite track: I'll stick around. Overall score 6.8/10.
Cover: 8 Starts with the familiar songs. The first two are slower than I remember but still decent. I liked Weanie Beanie and Watershed. Fun sons. Lyrics are nonsense but fun.
3/5 generic rock
mweh. Too little grunge, too straight forward rock.
It was solid, no stand out hits. The Foo Fighters hit their stride more in works after this I think.
I've never been into Foo Fighters, and I'm still not. Their music is fine, but not particularly interesting to me.
It’s okay. I think 13 year old me would have loved it.
It's the Foo Fighters. Pretty good debut album. Pretty same-y all the way through. I did start to zone out near the middle. A fun listen, but not something I would return to a lot. This is a Call is definitely the stand out track.
I guess this is how I found out the Foo started this early... damn. They definitely found their sound between this and their second album. Some tracks on this stood out, including Big Me and For All the Cows, but it's not at all what I'd call Foo Fighters. Everyone's gotta have a debut album, I guess. I just don't think this is one with much replay value. 5/10
Well, it's pretty obvious that a drummer recorded this album; that's pretty neat. That's about all I have to say on this one, it's pretty mid.
i've never been a huge fan of foo fighters. they're a bit too derivative mall-punk to me, with some admittedly good hits but the standouts have always been their music videos. great music videos, some say they have the biggest, most beautiful music videos. fortunately big me is the first music video to feature dave grohl in braids therefore elevating this album to a 3 for me. i think the most dissapointing part was that grohl's drumming was so good in nirvana and it's so middling in this release. standouts for me are good grief, exhausted and x-static. if every track carried the same grungy depressed tone i'd probably like it more, but you can hear him starting to lean into the pop-rock mall-punk sound that foo fighters would eventually adopt which just isn't for me.
A well-performed novelty. The lyrics, according to Dave Grohl, were written 20 minutes before the week-long recording of this album, of which only one instrumental track is played by someone other than him. In terms of industriousness I suppose this album gets top marks. In all honesty, it would have been more fair to review The Colour and the Shape as this album feels overshadowed by the loss of Cobain and feels more like a coda to Grohl's career in Nirvana, whereas his sophomore effort feels like he's come into his own. Music serves a purpose, some music is designed to make you cry, self-reflect, be happy, run, pine for something long gone. This album is designed to pine for another garage beer, this is music to drink mid-strength lager to on a Saturday afternoon with 4-5 other people. The kind of music for conversations that begin with "Remember when..." and "What happened to X?". Highlights: Oh, George, X-Static, Exhausted
Foo Fighters is music for people who don’t actually like music. Genericore. And this isn’t even the kind of music that Dave Grohl listens to. He likes Pantera or Gwar or some shit. This is just pablum he made to sell records to normies. Well I ain’t buying.
I like a lot of Foo Fighters songs but the album on the whole is just fine I suppose. The first half of the album has some bangers but it loses steam halfway through. "I'll Stick Around" still rocks 30 years later. But I'll be honest I don't know how this one made a 1001 albums list. Maybe it's to show post-Nirvana Dave Grohl but it's not the band's best work. Grohl played all the instruments and sang on this album so you don't even get Taylor Hawkins, whose drumming was really integral to the band for years before his untimely death. I'm surprised they didn't go with The Colour and the Shape (which has "Everlong" and "My Hero," two timeless songs) or There Is Nothing Left to Lose (first full album with Hawkins). Missed opportunity here to showcase the band here.
3.75
Doesn't leave much of an impression.
Growing up, everyone liked the Foo Fighters, but nobody listened to the Foo Fighters. My punk friends never had a Foo Fighters CD in their disorganized piles of music covering the floor. My goth friends just didn’t think Grohl was dark enough, despite playing the devil in Tenacious D. My preppy friends serenaded girls by playing Everlong on their acoustic guitars, but otherwise only rocked out to Dave Matthew’s. I knew the core Foo Fighters songs from the radio, but I always wondered, who is this for? Who’s listening to this? Yet, here we are, thirty years on, and these guys are still selling out shows, playing SNL, spitting out records. Who’d have guessed it? This debut album is impressive considering it was composed solely by Grohl in a state of grieving. I always marveled at how different the Foo Fighters were from Nirvana, how cheerful, triumphant, and poppy. This album is sort of like the missing link from how we got from Nirvana-state to Foo-state. Glad I listened to it for that bit of education, but doubtful I’ll put it on again.
Très grunge, ça me fait un peu chier. Mais c’est plutôt cool dans son genre.
Meh. Fine, but I`ve heard better FF albums
Have you ever heard of Hüsker Dü? I bet Dave Grohl has! At least this is better (with the exception of The Colour and Shape) then all the shite that came after.
This has to be the most bland set of Foo Fighters songs I have listened to. It doesn’t really have the highs and lows of their later catalogue so you’re left with the uninspiring middle. It was an ok listen but left me disappointed.
You can feel the emotion behind the rock in this album. Lots of feeling, lots of yelling, lots of rocking. Was good for keeping me awake at work today. 3 stars
I much preferred Nirvana from earlier this week.
good in the background, not an album I'd put on to really listen to tho
This album is fine. It’s rough around the edges, and DG shows off his musicianship and grunge roar adequately. I like the songs for the most part. They have a decent energy and catharsis. However, there isn’t much variety on there, and the beat is relentless. It sounds very much like the cheap band you booked because Nirvana were too expensive. It’s pretty front loaded and drags a bit towards the end, but on the whole it’s a decent listen. I like it well enough, and it’s probably the best offering from the Foos. It’s just not that innovative or inspiring.
very nostalgic
high energy and non-Stop garage punk diy sort of vibe
Another one from my teenage years, but didn’t find that this one held up as well. A few stand out tracks, but found myself struggling to connect.
Where it all began again. Dave Grohl delivers a catchy and scratchy solo debut, picking up where his last band left off but adding even more big radio sensibilities. Tight bangers abound. Favourite tracks: This Is a Call, Big Me, Alone + Easy Target, Good Grief
Haven't been able to get in the Foo Fighters that much, but this was pretty great overall.
Definitely not a bad album, but for me it's a bit too basic and repetitive. Songs like "Big Me" and "Floaty" and "X-Static" are my favourites. I really disliked "Weenie Beenie" and "Wattershed". All the other songs are good but nothing special. 7/10
Not exactly an essential album, but perfect if you want to chart out the exact middle of the road
It sounds like a Foo Fighters album, everything in there is an instant classic and I can hear clearly how it inspired the rest of their discography. Not their best of course considering Dave Grohl did everything in the album but you can learn how much impact that gave to the band.
Dave Grohl seems like an all around awesome rock and roll dude. Which the world needs more of. However, outside of Everlong and Best of You I gotta say the Foo Fighters have never really done it for me.
Older Foo Fighters is not what I'm used to. Definitely grittier and grungy. Pretty decent
Sometimes this felt like the 4th Nirvana album which makes alot of sense given that it's Dave Grohl in 1995. Not a huge fan of FF, but this album was pretty good. I may have to visit some of their other stuff.
This is 'OK'. It didn't grab me on first listen. Didn't offend me either. It might grow on me... bit 'porridge made with salt and water'; OK but you really want to add some taste. Oh yeah, 'bland', that's the word. 3/5.
Pretty good first album, nothing too special on this album.
Does what it sets out to do, but not in a particularly exciting way - this has none of the magic of Nirvana. I like it well enough, but can't see myself seeking it out.
Damn he did that alone
First two songs were really good. Then all the songs started to sound the same. But I did enjoy this album. Downloading it!
I support this band being in the list, but this album... I think The Colour And The Shape; There Is Nothing Left To Lose or One By One lay more claim to these titles imo. Not to say this is a bad album but it doesn't capture the spirit of what was to come.
Nothing negative to say about this but also kinda forgettable
Aika voimallinen! Grunge kuuluu, vaikka 2000-lukua lähestytään. B-puolella jopa Nirvana (no shit). Tykkään kyllä, asenne on hyvä eikä ole liian kieli poskessa tehtyä, vaikka taitoa ja selkeää visiota halutusta suunnasta ja estetiikasta ei yhtään piilotella.
I’ve heard this one before. Better than I expected but my expectations were low. Wouldn’t say many songs stuck out to me but it was an okay listen overall. Not my favorite from them.
Decent Album
Goodish.
Good in parts. Could be better if Kurt sang it
I really didn’t like Foo Fighters when this came out. But I have grown to appreciate Dave Grohl over the years. In the “drummer from band goes on to solo career” I’d rank him above dingo, Collins and Henley
Meh- it's ok for what it is. It does what it says on the tin.
Great record written and recorded by one single guy who was known as a drummer. You like him or not, this is quite an achievement.
This album takes me back.
Underrateds: -Good Grief -For All The Cows
Songs like This is a call and Big me are great power pop tunes. Bit like Nirvana, but without the angst. These first few Foo fighters albums had the relaxed and innocent atmosphere of just enjoying making music, before Foo fighters turned into stadium machine. I quite like this album, although it gets bit monotonic towards the end
Some songs more pop than I assumed. As positive/neutral comment would be that somehow lukewarm album.
Just don’t get them. Average at best
Foo Fighters, cool! But very mediocre first album. Their sound is good but not a great mix and meh songs.
Good album, there are quite a few better Foo fighter albums tho
Wish I paid a little more attention when listening. Just feels like classic foo fighters stuff which is very good at bringing the hype! I would rate this higher than all 3 star ones but lower than 4 star ones
Примітивний альбом. Нічого особливого
I like it overall. Foo Fighters are not my favorite band to listen to - I don't know why. They just always felt soft to me. Even on this album, when they are objectively not being soft. I think it's stems from my prenotion of industry favoritism because of nirvana's. It is a really solid rock album though. More intense than some of foo fighters other stuff which I enjoyed.
Fair play to the man for doing this all alone, for fun, post-Nirvana. Some saves too: This Is a Call Good Grief Exhausted
Early Foo is good goo. Faves: - I'll Stick Around - Good Grief - Floaty - Wattershed
Never listened to this album before but I can see that Foo Fighters have basically always been the same since inception. It's a guitar and Dave Grohl repeating the same line over and over. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. My favourite song was "Big Me" which sounds very Beatles inspired to my ears.
Very heavy sounding album. Love the riffs and drumming from Grohl. Some good melodies also. Can definitely hear his influence from Kurt Cobain
Cool I guess
It's okay, you can listen to it sometimes when you want something more energetic. 6.5 out of 10.
Cool post grunge crunchiness, a couple tracks are nice but overall a bit tiresome.
This album felt like a large wave of noise, with just 1 song to allow for breathing room. Sounded decent overall.
Could take or leave the Foos, I like some stuff but I'm not really into them as such. This wasn't too bad as first albums go and it was cool to learn that Dave did this all by himself. Some decent songs but not life-changing
Definite the start of something great.....but a little thin on this one.
Generic 90s rock band music
The best FF album.
This is probably the best of their albums, probably because of the proximity to their time in Nirvana. I hate that somehow Dave Grohl is the face of rock and roll now; all FF music sounds more or less the same to me.
It's good, but I'm trying really hard to find something specific to cling onto. The Foo Fighters debut is that prototypical alt rock album everyone would go on to copy in the 00s. ⭐⭐⭐
It’s good but I also found it a bit samey after a while
Good for a debut but not their best album. Fairly raw and distant feel compared with their later works.
I mean no denying this was a strong debut. Some solid fun tracks. And cool that Grohl had this so ready to go after Niravana. But to consider this one the greatest albums of all time is pretty odd to me
There is a Chuck Klosterman quote about the first Van Halen album being the perfect average rock record - anything worse than it is bad, anything better is good. Foo Fighters are the embodiment of the Hagar-era of that metric.
Enjoyed this one more than I expected to, and it turns out I already knew most of the songs. Dave Grohl clearly picked up a lot of songwriting cues from Kurt Cobain — "Alone + Easy Target" sounds like a Nirvana B-side. His talent at marrying loud, distorted guitars with catchy melodies recalls his former band, Husker Du and Weezer's Green Album. And the riffing on "Weenie Beanie" (what is it with these song titles tho) foreshadows his later collaboration with Queens of the Stone Age. But as the song titles suggest, it's probably best not to focus on the lyrical content.
This was fine, but nothing that wowed me. Not sure why this is on the list.
From one huge debut (The Cars) to another...both with gigantic hits as their first three tracks. The big difference is the format era...The Cars being released at the height of vinyl, and this one at the height of CDs. I think the Cars win out here being forced to whittle down their output to a nice-sized 9 tracks, while the Foo Fighters had the need to fill up much more of a 80 minute CD. As such, this albums starts out great but tires soon after and I had to struggle a bit to get through all 12 tracks. To be fair, part of that is likely just due to the amount of times I heard this all through the latter half of the 90s. Maybe this is one of those albums that I just got burnt out on. All that said, no doubt this is an iconic and important album of the era. Signaling that transition from 100% grunge into a more pop-song direction.
Not bad. Heard enough of it on the radio at the time of release, don’t think I need to go back and listen. Cheers though.
Groupe connu de nom uniquement. Je suis impressionné par le fait que D. Grohl ait composé tous les morceaux, et joué tous les instruments seuls. Le résultat est bon, en particulier sur les morceaux les plus dynamiques. On retrouve un peu l'esprit Nirvana. J'ai particulièrement apprécié 'This is a Call' et 'I'll Stick Around', un peu moins les morceaux plus calmes comme 'Big me' et 'X-Static'. Il ne rejoindra donc pas ma collection, mais j'ai bien apprécié l'écoute. =>3/5
i enjoyed myself throughout the runtime and didn't get bored. sometimes, that's high enough praise.
Goed rock album, maar niks bijzonders
Solid but not overwhelmingly groundbreaking, enjoyed it. Good Grief was maybe my favorite on here
alright
A band I like but do not love and this is one of their most mediocre efforts. Plodding and samey. All at one level. 2.something if I had the choice.
Any single track was an enjoyable, if formulaic, rock track but altogether the album became an amorphous chain of "rock noise". Quite enjoyable but nothing special. Floaty was a highlight in that it had more variable rhythm and vocals. It struck me during the guitar solo in Oh, George that there were very few instrumental breaks or guitar solos in the album, further adding to the feeling of simplicity. Not a bad album but lacking depth in my view.
Dave fought the foos!! This is so cool !! Very awesome to hear that this is a solo album, super duper cool omg. Raw tracks with some that sound a little shoegazey
For a grunge band, they are precisely what Nirvana isn't but in the best way. This authentic rock sound for their opening album is neat.
This is not the best Foo Fighters' album. And cannot really be considered a true Foo Fighters album, either. Following the end of the Nirvana era, Dave Grohl embarked on a new chapter with an album he entirely recorded on his own. Stripping away most grunge elements, Grohl delves into a more pop-influenced approach ("Big Me"), along with predominantly alternative hard rock songs. This album is a billboard announcing the need move on from the sadness of Kurt Cobain's death. The opening track, "This is a Call", is an honest greeting of gratitude to the people and experiences that have shaped his life. The rest of the album is a fairly autobiographical and intimate and personal journal of the rediscovery for his passion for music, from the self-empowering "I'll Stick Around", to dealing with public perceptions and managing the absurd moments of life in "For All The Cows", to the guttural expression of anger and frustration found in "Weenie Beenie." This album highlights Grohl's ability to craft engaging songs and lays the groundwork for the more dynamic follow-up album, "The Colour and the Shape, " - an evolution likely due to Grohl's increased confidence and also engaging in the collaborative process with a full band. TLDR: The Foo Fighters' debut album is a solid entertaining effort featuring several outstanding tracks. However, as a complete work, it lacks much of the greatness of future albums.
This surprised me for a Fooeys album - it’s more raw and more grunge and to be honest, more like nirvana than the shiny stuff that came later. A bit repetitive though and nothing reached out and grabbed me in the way that grunge can when done well.
6/10
1 This Is a Call - decent 6 2 I'll Stick Around - lite 6 3 Big Me - lite 7 4 Alone + Easy Target - decent 6 5 Good Grief - decent 7 6 Floaty - decent 6 7 Weenie Beenie - decent 6 8 Oh, George - lite 6 9 For All the Cows - lite 6 10 X-Static - strong 6 11 Wattershed - decent 6 12 Exhausted - decent 6 Favourite 3 Tracks - 1. Good Grief 2. Big Me 3. X-Static - NOTE RATINGS ARE FROM A FIRST LISTEN - SCORE - 6.2/10
echt slecht is dit niet, maar wel eentje van dertien in een dozijn... had dave grohl niet meegespeeld, dan was dit regelrecht in de vergeetput geraakt...
This is actually kinda embarrassing, I had no idea that the Foo Fighters had a self titled debut album. For some reason I genuinely thought the colour and the shape was their debut album. So I was excited to learn there was FF music I hadn’t heard yet. But like all wildly successful radio rock bands, I actually was already familiar with a few songs on the album. “Big me” is an all time classic rock song. I love that track as well as floaty and watershed. However I thought as a whole the album was underwhelming. It definitely peaked 3 songs into the album and only just recovered with 2 more songs of note. They do sound like they are trying to discover themselves which is fascinating to listen to, and they definitely have a strong garage rock sound on this album. My biggest complaint is there wasn’t enough variety on the album, which made some of the songs forgettable. But I still think, despite this not being one of FF best albums, that this is a solid modern rock album.
OK, not great. some tracks a bit jarring compared to others. 3/5.
The Foo Fighters have come a long way since this album, and the decision to include this but not The Color And The Shape is yet another example of how sloppy this list actually is. This album is very rough around the edges, which makes sense. It was all recorded in only a few days all by Dave Grohl himself. But it's still really solid, showing a lot of potential that would soon be met in future albums.
It’s cool, they rock. Not great
Not bad.
This is ok in a mildly boring sub-Nirvana sort of way, nothing to dislike but doesn’t really stand out for me either.
All in all not bad, but not great either. Impressive that he did this by himself though.
never incompetent, but never particularly interesting either.
Not the biggest fan of this album honestly, much preferred the color and the shape. had some good moments but largely fell flat.
meh
great album but I can't give everything 4-5 stars
ok
Good music
Started with the hits, got sorta generic the longer it went on.
Fav tracks: Big Me; Good Grief (except the "Hate it" parts).
Pretty good, pretty good. I don't like it enough to own a hard copy of it but it's more interesting than I remember. Best solo album by a drummer since Ringo's 'Beaucoups of Blues'.
Very 90s, it was a good time I liked a few tracks but for some reason it didn’t click with me as much as I wanted it too. Some songs went a little too long and the lyrics were a tad too repetitive and those little nitpicks I had added up for me. Favorite Tracks: This Is A Call, I’ll Stick Around, Wattershed.
I like how 90's grunge this sounds, it even has some shoegaze vibes which I was not expecting. I don't mind the production either, it has some similarities to Hüsker Dü and Pixies. I wish the angry parts were sung even more angrily though, lol.
Solid debut album. Nothing particularly stands out here but that’s not a bad thing
Only three stars because it’s not my favorite Foo but Dave Grohl’s musicianship cannot be denied
Not as bad as I expected.
Never really got into Foo Fighters and it always seemed to me as this kind of generic, radio-friendly rock music. Listening to it I realized that in fact it is exactly what I thought but it's still pretty enjoyable! I added a few tracks to my favorites. My rating is raised by the excellent drumming (duh!) and the back story - the album being recorded by Dave on his own as a sort of catharsis after Kurt's passing.
Pretty lackluster in my opinion, a really redundant sound that while a lot heavier and grungier than what they'd eventually morph into later down the line, just doesn't provide the stimulation I needed to enjoy this
Pretty good, but I always considered them gunge light
A very cool album, with a song I really like (Big Me), but I can't grade it with more than 3 stars. I like it, but I don't love it.
I appreciate that there are some unique sounds and chord progressions here, but DG manages to take those assets and make them sound as generic as possible.
A solid mid 90s formation for a new act for a new era.
I’ve always found FF to be a bit generic for lack of better word, but there is catharsis here for Dave Grohl in getting out of the shadow of Nirvana. This album overstayed its welcome a tiny bit for me with a lack of diversity in songwriting. However, I believe that this is another case of fatigue due to Dave’s outsized influence on what would later be considered generic, radio friendly accessible songwriting. While this may not be a master work, it showcases a talented musician who changed the face of mainstream rock in the 90s and 00s. The album is solid with some standout cutting edge radio rock tracks. Rating: 3.25
I actually don’t think I’ve ever listened to foo fighters. This was more 90s grunge than I expected even though I shouldn’t have been surprised based on the time and artist. A decent listen but nothing really grabbed me. Heavy 3.