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FOO FIGHTERS - Skin & Bones
| Sputnikmusic.com | | Last year when Foo Fighters released a live set entitled "Live From Roswell" to various internet media outlets as an "exclusive", it contained pretty much what those who both love and hate Foo Fighters have come to expect from them. Loud explosive guitars, a thundering rhythm section, brash, abrasive vocals, and just a bit too many generic hooks and cliched hard rock riffage to be called anything more then "pretty good" . Standard issue Foo Fighters for all intent and purposes....full text |
| | The Independent | | One might expect a Foo Fighters live album to showcase the band's heavy-rock blitzkrieg; but having experienced the efficacy of the Unplugged approach with Nirvana, Dave Grohl has cannily chosen that route, using an expanded eight-strong line-up including extra guitar, keyboards, percussion and violin to deliver new, largely acoustic versions of the Foos' songs. It's an elegantly accomplished exercise, the shortfall in wattage more than compensated for by the ingenious re-arrangements....full text |
| | Popmatters | | Dave Grohl must sometimes feel as though he’s required to rock out. I mean, he found his fame as part of perhaps the most celebrated rock act of the ‘90s, a band that largely spent its time making its points via noise and catharsis. Many of the fans of that band followed him to his new band, a band that, at its start, was but a pale imitation of the tragically departed former. Since then, the latter band has changed and evolved into its own entity, a group whose artistic reach is nearly nil, yet who writes songs that hook into your brain, songs that drill themselves into your consciousness and stay there for days. ...full text |
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