DAVE GROHL SAYS HE HAS 50 SONG IDEAS FOR NEXT FOO FIGHTERS ALBUM
Dave Grohl discussed Foo Fighters’ next album in a new interview with the BBC, “We decided to go on hiatus, which Pat Smear calls “I hate us.’ We’re backing off a little bit and getting ready to write the next record. It’s funny in the Sound City the debate of analog vs. digital and the conversation when it turns to technology. People think I’m Amish or something like that, that I would never use a computer. But my iPhone right now is filled with the next Foo Fighters record because every time I come up with an idea, I hit record on this thing and just go bam. There’s fifty songs in my phone right now that I’m dying to record with the band. So our process is usually like, let’s get in and get it ready and once we feel like it’s good then we’ll come out and let everybody hear it. We have a really definite plan of what we want to do and when we want to do it.”
Get ready for another Nickelback-sounding album with 5 overplayed singles on the radio stations. Dave Grohl is such a sell-out these days. At least we don’t have to worry about teenyboppers ruining the fanbase of far superior bands like AIC, SG, PJ, and SP.
badmotorfinger, I bet you didn’t even listen to Wasting Light. Nothing like nickelback, that I can assure you!
Foo Fighters is a great band.
@Badmotorfinger- fuck off. Like Pedro said, did you even LISTEN to Wasting Light? Best fucking album to have came out that entire year.
The Foo Fighters have honestly been losing their focus on what they wanted to sound like after all these years, NO MORE ACOUSTICS, NO MORE SOFT MELLOW POP RADIO SONGS OK? Just get back to pre raw post Nirvana , first self – titled album status. Go back to the good old days when Big Me, I’ll Stick Around, Weenie Beenie had a real raw punk drive to the music ok?? I love the Foo Fighters like everyone else but im even getting sick of listening to radio friendly singles, Wasting Light had 1 or 2 good songs that kinda had punk elements like White Limo and Bridges Burning, but the rest just lacked that sense of crazy teenage angst and a heavy grunge Seattle sound to it. If Dave Grohl wants to personally rewrite any Nirvana song and turn into a new Foo Fighters experiment , I would be happy with that too , but anything than this mainstream mediocre radio pop meltdown ok?? Soundgarden, Alice In Chains and even Queens Of The Stone Age, Green Day and Social Distortion are trying their best to avoid sounding overly mainstream to the point of generic meaningless in rock n roll today, so the Foos should do the same , thank you
Double album?
Why don’t you guys go check out your pectorals in the mirror while listening to Outshined and the let the rest of us enjoy the best Foo Fighters record ever made (their newest one), which you’d have to be on crack to compare to Nickelback (that is, if you actually listened to it)
Because they have some softer songs then they’re sell outs? Moronic. Grungecaster 1, Foo’s aren’t a “grunge” (ahem marketing term) band. They don’t have to be angsty for you or anyone else. And the thing about Grohl rewriting Nirvana songs, do I even need to go into that?
Fucking douchefaces. Nirvana were just as radio friendly. That doesn’t mean it’s bad. Grungecaster 1, you honestly think Green Day is less “mainstream” than Foo Fighters? You’re a fucking moron. And the fact that you even put them in the same sentence as those other bands… it renders everything you have said/will say obsolete.
I love the Foos but I really wish they’d take a few years off so we were desperate to hear new tunes. I feel they’re so overexposed over here in England & more often than not they headline a festival over here which diminishes the must see nature of their shows too. Foos are a very good band but they could be amazing. If you ate at your favourite restaurant every night you would soon get bored of it.
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I wouldnt mind if Dave put out kurt cobain’s craftmanship in new foo fighters record as long as it isnt a nirvana album. bring back the FF self titled album style!!!
What the hell are people talking about the Foos going pop? Nickelback? Mellow? Just because they don’t sing about wallowing in pain and sorrow all day fucking long? Big Me, This is a Call, Floaty..,were they raw punk songs? Fuck no. Dave has always written rock songs with pop elements. Certain bands of today’s rock scene try to do the same but they only end up sounding like watered down and sanitized rock n’ roll with no soul. Dave and the Foos have been doing it since day one and they do it fucking well.
Go listen to Dirt on repeat if you can’t handle the fact that there is a flip side to every emotion. It’s not all doom and gloom, you know, and music isn’t any less real just because it deals with other stuff than “my life sucks”.
I hope they’re good. I was a little let down by the last release.
50 shits like wasting light jajajajaj
The Foo Fighters make radio friendly unit shifters. They’re a generic band who only keep getting more generic. I get the Nickelback comparison. They’re both following a formula of creating average rock music to keep selling out arenas. I’m surprised the FF are loved so much. Must be a lot of Nirvana fan crossover + top 40 listeners who’ll accept any rock band as long as they play the MTV Music Video Awards.
a quadruple album
All the Foo Fighters albums sound very samey to me. I do go out and buy them on the day they come out, and always enjoy them, but none of them end up on permanent rotation like SG, STP, AIC etc always do.
Shame really, because if you look at all of Dave’s output like Probot and Them Crooked Vultures, it’s pretty diverse, but he seems to want Foos to only be a radio friendly pop band.
I love the Foo’s but who here says Big Me is not pop?
The Foo Fighters may not be “grunge,” but Dave never said he wanted to make a grunge band. You guys are pissed at the fact that Wasting Light had poppy elements to it, when thats exactly what Nevermind did? Artists make the music THEY feel like making, not so they can banter to your every need. If you don’t like what they are making, just shut the fuck up and go listen to what you want. There are plenty of FF fans without you. They will continue to sell albums whether or not you like it.
Over the past decade they have become huge, and I just don’t understand how. Everytime when they have a new record out I listen to it a couple of times but everytime I feel dissapointed. Dissapointed by the record and therefore by the fact that I still not understand why this band is so popular. Yes, they RAWK \m/ and Dave seems to be the hardest working man in rock N roll and the nicest. But to me, their songs and records are just not so good. Dave is not a good singer, I don’t like most of the lyrics and think their music is extremely derivative. I don’t really consider them a band anyhow, to me it’s the Dave Grohl show. The other bandmembers are roommeat to me… and I don’t think their playing is very inspirational. My god…that bassplayer makes me yawn…. The only other one who gets some attention is Taylor Hawkins, but he’s not even the best drummer in the band, Dave Grohl is. To me the Foos are a good band not a great one. Soundgarden or Pearl Jam are both great bands.
So how is it possible that they have became almost as popular as PJ. I think that Bono once said that Pearl Jam could have been the biggest band in the world but choose not too. The Foo’s did the exact opposite, they worked really hard to become the biggest rock band on the planet, well how do get bigger?? Play what the fans expect you to play, a new Foo Fighters record or a live show will gives the fan exactly what they want. Being a PJ fan means you are not always be given what you want. PJ never made another TEN record, from Vitalogy-Riot Act they basically did the exact opposite. Somewhere this year we’ll see a new Pearl Jam record and eventhough some of us fear (or hope) it will sound a lot like backspacer, being a PJ fan has learned us that you can never be sure. And in about two years orso it seems likely the Foo Fighters will come with a new record but I have a feeling, like all of their fans, that it will mostly RAWK \m/ , but not as diverse as PJ’s rockers or as ‘hard’ as let’s say QOTSA or Soungarden. Just your average rocksong where you scream and pump your fist in the air. There was a time when bands like ‘Bad Company’ outsold bands like the ‘The Who’ or when ‘foghat’ outsold ‘Led Zeppelin’, so good bands can actually become more popular than great bands, but fourty years later everyone will admit who was the better or greater band. Nirvana, SG, PJ are all great bands..the Foos are a good band.
I don’t understand why people want bands to right the exact same album over and over again, and if they don’t, people call the sellouts. I think “sellout” is one of the most over and misused words.
I’m not sure if I really understand what I ‘selling out’ means.
I mean is writing a less raw and more pop-friendly record because you have good artistic reasons really selling out?? Examples: Backspacer, El Camino,
latest Kings of Leon records, Chris Cornell’s Scream, latest two Wilco records, the new Muse record. Yes you can argue whether or not they are good
artistic choices but to me it’s still not selling out. Is putting your music in movies, commercials selling out? Well, that depends…it’s also a way
to reach new listeners same as making videos in the 80s and 90s was, and to my latest knowledge no one ever considered making videos selling out.
Is promoting your own band and making business deals yourself instead of a record company selling out? You know like PJ did with that target commercial?
I’m not sure, all and I really mean all the local bands I know are promoting themselves and trying to make some deals (will play for beer!!).
PJ is an independent band nowadays, so is/was NIN, Wilco, Radiohead and they all have used different ways to promotion and distribution but
in the end it’s same…play for beer!!
So, I’m not sure what selling out means besides an amazing record by the Who. If all the examples I have written here is indeed selling out,
than there is only one band in the history of rock & roll that never sold out, and that is the amazing Fugazi. So, what does selling out mean to me?
Well, pop music like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Lady Gaga,…has the sole purpose to reach as many listeners as possible, but that’s why it’s pop music.
But most of us here don’t like pop music, but to me some bands come awfullly close. How? Well, to me that’s a simple story, just rehash the same song,
the same album over and over. Sometimes the productional views will differ, but basically we are hearing the same U2 song for over 20 years. Same lyrics,
same chords, same riffs, because they know that’s how they sell. And there are many more, Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Chili Peppers, Linkin Park, Metallica and the Foo Fighters
So, selling out to me is:
selling out = selling as much record as possible > creativity, and not the other way around.
As long as you are singing for yourself and not for corporations or your ‘listeners’ your fine with me..
Joostone, I don’t think the problem is with the songwriting, Foos have a load of great songs, the problem is with the delivery in my opinion. The play every song the same, same guitar sound, same vocal style, same everything.
I think if they just tried to make their sound more diverse, it would make a big difference.
@Pingfah: yes..that could be true but the fact remains that they didn’t do that. They always sound the same..they never suprised their audience and that’s the way to grow your audience. That’s also why I think the Foo’s are just soo boring. Dave is best when he’s behind a drumkit!
Hopefully
Dave
will drop
his iPhone
in
the crapper.
Peace
@joostone, Foghat outselling Led Zeppelin? WTF? Never happened.
As for Dave and the Foos selling out – I don’t see anything to suggest that. As for Dave’s songwriting – he’s an excellent lyricist and a very good melody writer; not as good a melody writer as Kurt was, but definitely better with lyrics. The only problem I have with Foo Fighters songs is that the arrangements more often than not lack sufficient dynamics. They need to lose at least one of the guitars to create more space in the music. And they need to slow things down now and then. Taylor is a great drummer, but I suspect he’s primarily responsible for the one-dimensional rhythmic aspect of their tracks. Sort of like the effect that Pickerel had on the Screaming Trees. The Trees are my favorite American band, but it wasn’t until Barrett joined that they really began to develop dynamics in their music. So, in conclusion, slow Taylor down a bit, lose a guitar and the the wall-of-sound over-production, and keep writing solid songs.
Analog Shmanalog! And I’m a recording engineer! It would have actually mattered that Wasting Light was recorded all analog if they didn’t squash it to piss during the mastering process. It’s too loud to sound good!
Wasting Light is a great album. I agree that it would be nice to see the Foos use a more dynamic sound, particularly since Chris Shiflet is a decent guitar player. Its a wall of sound where it could be something a bit more textured and complex.
love the Foos. they can do no wrong. can’t wait to hear the new stuff and with Smear still in the band.
So is he not supposed to make music that millions of people like that can be played on a radio?
Anytime a rock band or grunge band makes rock music thats radio friendly, it tends to not have much of a hardcore lyrical edge or sound edge, that means the music will not always have a heavy guitar, deep bass and pounding drums. The only reason why the last 3 Foo Fighters albums: 2005 ( In Your Honor ) Echos, Silence, Patience and Grace ( 2007 ) Wasting Light ( 2011 ) were so critically successful was because the band was able to cross over from their post punk-Nirvana roots and go in a totally mainstreamed modern pop rock radio approach. If Dave Grohl really wants his band back and I mean the old band back, he needs to bring back the raw OVERLY loud low-fi quality of the first Foo Fighters album: Weenie Beenie, Watershed, I’ll Stick Around and Alone And Easy Target were really good at showing what skills Dave had while writing songs during his off-time from Nirvana when Nirvana were still around in the 90s. I hate to say this but I think I know what all true FOO FIGHTERS fans really want , they wanna hear more of Nirvana, the Ramones, the Clash, the Sex Pistols and even a little bit of Led Zepplin, Van Halen, in the next albums right?? WE WANT THE EDGE, WE WANT THE PUNK , WE WANT TO SEE AND HEAR THE FOO FIGHTERS ROCK LIKE THEY HAVE NEVER ROCKED BEFORE
We want to start hearing more angry deep protest music . OH JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT, WE WANT THE FOO FIGHTERS TO SOUND MORE LIKE RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE BUT LESS LIKE MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE RIGHT??? 
Dudes…Nevermind is over 20 years old. Dave Grohl needs to write rawer punier tunes about teenage angst while he’s gotta be in his forties, right? Dave Grohl grew. Are you the same dude you were when Dave drummed in Nirvana?! People change over time and try new things, because shit would be boring if he didn’t. I admire the dude, he plays a variety of music and is always creating, and collaborating with people. This dude doesn’t NEED to do shit…never did, he could’ve retired the day that Kurt died and been just fine.
TL,DR
Dave Grohl has grown as an artist, and would be awfully bored having written 7 albums of I’ll Stick Around.
Not to mention the guy truly loves and champions Rock and Roll. Collaborations with Members of…
Queen
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Motörhead
Queens of the Stone Age
St. Vitus
Nirvana
Tom Petty
There’s a ton more, too.
Dude is living the dream of every fucking rock fan. Playing with Jimmy Page and Paul McCartney…get the fuck out of here.
Dave Grohl is a 40 year old multi millionaire why the fuck would he write about teenage angst? They are a rock band, not a grunge band, not a metal band, not a punk band. You think if Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath came out with new records they would be about the same shit they wrote about in the 70s? No, they are different people. They have wives and children. Wasting Light was their best record since nothing left to lose, which is their best record.
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