He's in a band. Foo Fighters. You probably know of them. They're a good band. However, when Dave Grohl announced the Fighters going into a long, long hiatus late last year (like, a five or six year hiatus), I was glad. His reason for this hiatus was so that they could make time to do other things, give the fans a chance to really miss them, and to come back with something fresh and more original.
THAT'S why I was glad. As good as they are, if there's one thing the Foo Fighters are not, it's original or exciting. Like, in the slightest. As much as some people wish to deny it, they really only have two songs: the chord-mashing sort-of-spoken verse then sort-of-yelled chorus anthems, and the finger-picked crooned ballads. And it's really dull. Listening to an entire album of theirs is like bouncing a bouncy ball off the ground and catching it. It's fun at first, but very quickly becomes boring and almost becomes challenging. But always mildly entertaining. A band can be overrated or underrated by critics; but when pretty much every critic gives the music of a band an average review, then you have a band that makes average music.
Hence my disappointment when Dave Grohl recently announced that they were working on a new album. So that made the hiatus that he said would last over five years...four months long? Nice one. Let's hope they've had a musical reinvention and will try something different. I mean, seriously, why do you think an average Foo Fighters song takes literally a few minutes to write? Because most of them are the fucking same. Please guys, make me want to listen to your stuff without giving me that horrible feeling of familiarity.
Seriously, look at him. He's fucking awesome. And I managed to write a blog entry without mentioning Nirvana!
...fuck.
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