Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters – Medicine At Midnight (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 31, 2023 · Comments off

Foo Fighters have been a reliable alt-rock institution for more than 25 years. A band with that kind of august track record could get bored or complacent with their job. But Dave Grohl and Co. just keep happily chugging along, putting out solid-to-great records, satisfying their enormous fan base with killer stadium shows, and keeping things fresh for themselves by coming up with interesting concepts (like their 2014 HBO doc series/album Sonic Highways) and tossed-off collaborations with pals like Justin Timberlake, Rick Astley, or Serj Tankian.

The Foos’ 10th album is upbeat even by their uniquely well-adjusted standards, returning to their core Nineties alt-rock sound minus any gimmicks, detours, or shenanigans.

From the first track, “Making a Fire,” the album is brighter and more optimistic than anything they’ve ever done. As Grohl commands a slippery guitar riff that ascends toward the heavens, a choir of women sings a sunny “na-na-na” refrain, leading to a foot-stomping, hand-clapping gospel breakdown and his latest lyrical confession, “I’ve waited a lifetime to live.” Then there are even more na-na-na’s, which, incidentally, aren’t by a choir at all, but the LP’s most notable guest, Dave’s teenage daughter, Violet, who recorded her own harmonies. Whether it’s a sense of paternal pride or sheer determination, Grohl sounds reinvigorated here, and that enthusiasm is the group’s guiding light on the record.

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Foo Fighters – In Your Honor (2005/2009) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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In Your Honor is the fifth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters. It is a double album, with one disc containing heavy rock songs and a second disc with mellower acoustic songs. Frontman Dave Grohl decided to do a diverse blend of songs as he felt that after ten years of existence, the band had to break new ground with their music. The album was recorded at a newly built studio in Northridge, Los Angeles, and featured guests such as John Paul Jones, Norah Jones and Josh Homme.

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Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007/2010) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the sixth studio album by rock band Foo Fighters. The album is noted for a blend of regular rock and acoustic tracks with shifting dynamics, which emerged from the variety of styles employed on the demos the band produced. It also marks the second time the band worked with producer Gil Norton, whom frontman Dave Grohl brought to fully explore the potential of his compositions and have a record that sounded different from their previous work.

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Foo Fighters – Dee Gees / Hail Satin – Foo Fighters / Live (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Dave Grohl’s six-piece finds common cause between gaudy disco-pop and willfully absurd arena rock on an album-length collection of Bee Gees covers and live-in-studio Medicine at Midnight cuts.

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Foo Fighters – Concrete And Gold (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Concrete and Gold is the ninth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters, described by the band as an album where “hard rock extremes and pop sensibilities collide”. Upon its release, Concrete and Gold was received positively by music critics, who praised the album’s more expansive feel, both musically and lyrically.

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Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 29, 2023 · Comments off

Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

It’s not quite right to say that the Foo Fighters only have one sound, but why does it always feel like the group constantly mines the same sonic vein? Even on 2007’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace – their sixth album and first with producer Gil Norton since their second, 1997’s The Colour and the Shape – the Foos feel familiar, although the group spends some palpable energy weaving together the two sides of their personality that they went out of their way to separate on 2005’s In Your Honor, where they divided the set into a disc of electric rockers and a disc of acoustic introspection. Here, the Foos gently slide from side to side, easing from delicate fingerpicked folk (including “Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners,” an instrumental duet between Dave Grohl and guitarist Kaki King) to the surging, muscular hard rockers that have been the group’s modern rock radio signature. Echoes never lingers too long in either camp, as it’s sequenced with a savvy professionalism that only veteran rockers have. That sense of craft is evident in all the songs, whether it’s the subtly sly suite of the opening “The Pretender” – after a slow build, it crashes into a crushing riff into a chorus, building to a typically insistent chorus before taking a slightly surprising bluesy boogie detour on the bridge – or the sweet melodic folk-rock “Summer’s End,” a song as warm and hazy as an August evening. “Summer’s End” is one of the unassailable highlights here, and all the rest of the truly memorable tunes on Echoes share its same, strong melodic bent, particularly “Statues,” a wide-open, colorful anthem that feels as if it’s been resurrected from a late-’70s AOR playlist. These songs place the melody at the forefront and also have a lighter feel than the rockers, which are now suffering from a dogged sobriety. For whatever reason, Dave Grohl has chosen to funnel all of his humor out of the Foo Fighters’ music and into their videos or into his myriad side projects. When Grohl wants to rock for fun, he runs off and forms a metal band like Probot, or he’ll tour with Queens of the Stone Age or record with Juliette Lewis. When it comes to his own band, he plays it too straight, as almost every rocker on Echoes – with the notable exception of “Cheer Up Boys (Your Make Up Is Running),” a song that has a riff as nimble as those on the Foos’ debut – is clenched and closed-off, sounding tight and powerful but falling far short of being invigorating. They sound a little labored, especially when compared to the almost effortlessly engaging melodies of the softer songs, the cuts that feel different than the now overly familiar Foo signature sound. And since those cavernous, accomplished rockers are so towering, they wind up overshadowing everything else on Echoes, which may ultimately be the reason why each Foo Fighters album feels kind of the same: Grohl and his band have grown subtly in other areas, but they haven’t pushed the sound that came to define them; they’ve only recycled it. Since this is a sound that’s somber, not frivolous, the Foos can sometimes feel like a bit of a chore if they lean too heavily in one direction – as they do here, where despite the conscious blend of acoustic and electric tunes, the rockers weigh down Echoes more than they should, enough to make this seem like just another Foo Fighters album instead of the consolidation of strengths that it was intended to be. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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Foo Fighters – The Essential Foo Fighters (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Compilation featuring a selection of fan favourites and hit singles by the American rock band, including ‘Everlong’, ‘Times Like These’, ‘Monkey Wrench’, ‘My Hero’, ‘Best of You’, ‘All My Life’, ‘Learn to Fly’, and many more.

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Foo Fighters – One by One (2003) [DVD-AUDIO ISO]

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One by One is the most accomplished album Foo Fighters have made, which isn’t necessarily the same as the best. Picking up the clean, focused sound and attitude of There Is Nothing Left to Lose, One by One is gleaming hard rock: it may have a shiny production, but hits hard in its rhythm and its impeccably distorted guitars. Dave Grohl’s songs often express (or at least suggest) tortured emotions in their lyrics, but the album doesn’t hit at a gut-level; it’s too polished for that. It’s not a bad thing, since the band is damn good and the production is more focused than any of the Foos’ previous albums. The problem is, Grohl’s songwriting has slipped slightly. It’s still sturdy and melodic, yet not as immediate or memorable. Nothing is as majestic as “Learn To Fly,” haunting as “Everlong,” gut-crunching as “Monkey Wrench,” or even as boneheadedly irresistible as their contribution to the Orange County soundtrack, “The One”. Instead, it all fits together and sounds good as a piece, without offering individual moments to savor. Not the worst tradeoff, of course, but it’s hard not to wish that the songs stuck in your head the way they used to, even if the album is still enjoyable as a whole. (more…)