Celebrity Paedogeddon and old men yelling at clouds

I never really 'got' them. Loved Nirvana, but even the first 2 albums always left me a bit cold.
I never hated them, and I think they're 'fine', but I also didn't really understand how they got as big as they did.

Well, they do good songs for listening to in the car I guess, and that thing where they get loud half way through each song.

But Grohl always seemed like a nice guy, so I wished them luck and bought the occasional album in the hope it'd wow me.

At least they were better than Pearl Jam, so there was that.

I think I slightly prefer Oasis, or at least their first 2 albums. At least I can tell their songs apart.

One of my friends is a megafan. She sees them pretty much every time they visit the UK.

I probably should check in on her....

My sister is a massive fan. She jaunts all over Europe to see them.

They are a musical shrug to me.

Tbh I don't like or dislike their music tbh, it's just *there*. It's fairly inoffensive background music. But generally thought Grohl seems like a decent bloke in interviews.

I do find it strange how someone into hardcore and metal ended up making stuff that's so MOR and unedgy.

His finest work was undoubtedly appearing as the devil in Tenacious D’s video for Tribute.

Why are we not surprised the people we like are dickheads? Josh Homme kicking that female photographer comes to mind too.

Here's the correct overview - their first two albums are really good. Then it's a quick decline into mediocrity and increased popularity, so it kind of makes sense they keep churning out MOR stuff and filling arenas. I gave up following their music several albums ago, I think that double one with Dave doing acoustic tappy tappy stuff was my limit.

Cobain shot himself because he heard some of Grohls Foo Fighters songs.

Think Wasted Light was the last one I listened to properly.

Foo Fighters are probably one of the only true stadium rock bands still touring. I've also given up listening to their newer albums, but they still know how to put on a great show.

I think there’s room for avant garde and there is room for stadium choruses with crunchy guitar chords and big drums. Not everything has to be ‘edgy’ or ‘challenging’ and it’s so much more fun liking more stuff than less for me, and also much more fun to read about why somebody likes something than why they don’t.

I sometimes like to listen to Converge or Morbid Angel but 9/10 these days it’ll be something more melodic. I think it’d do my head in to only listen to harder edged or left field stuff exclusively. It doesn’t seem different when that’s all you have and that’s from past experience

If people want to hear them do something a bit darker and more different go and listen to The Teacher which is about his mother passing. I find that both musically excellent and really quite emotional. They even did it live when I saw them recently - will never forget that snare drop in it live.

That said, the recent stadium show I saw was packed with casuals who knew Everlong and Learn to Fly so maybe it comes at a price. The reaction to the likes of Generator or Aurora was a stark difference to when I saw them tour the third album in a theatre. I couldn’t believe people would pay those ticket prices and not know their shit.

Edit - I do hope it’s not a teenager or this will age really badly…

Pretty much this.

Seen plenty of bands who have melodic songs, big chorus singalongs and aren't really breaking the mould (Haim, Tame Impala, Spoon, War on Drugs etc). Just find the Foo's a bit generic. Horses for courses and all that.

Celebrity Paedogeddon and MOR stadium acts