Foo Fighters by Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters' debut album was the first album I bought on the day it came out. After this album came out it was really popular so it was therefore no longer cool to like them according to the grunge douchebags at my school, but I was a dork so whatevs is what I said. I remember I had a Foo Fighters shirt that I spilled ink all over, but I still wore it until I lost it convincing myself that the ink made it look cool somehow. Oh, right, the content of the album itself. I guess it's pretty good - Grohl has some interesting chord constructions that deviate from standard radio power chord fare, even if he moved away from that almost immediately, not that I don't like the extremely poppy follow up album for its own reasons. Forsooth!

RATING: 76%

One By One by Foo Fighters

I know that by liking Foo Fighters I am dismissing any kind of musical credibility in a lot of people's minds, but so what? I like Foo Fighters, and have been buying their albums ever since their self-titled debut. One By One is not as ridiculously poppy as There Is Nothing Left To Lose, and in fact harkens back to the strange chorded fun of Dave Grohl's Late! demos. The songs aren't especially complex, but they're fun to pump up to a volume that old people might find offensive.

RATING: 68%