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and thoughtless songs. Songs for the Deaf
should stay muted.
Basically, Queens of the Stone Age is three
nobodys who got together and wrote a bunch of
songs and somehow got Dave Grohl. the former
drummer for Nirvana and current lead singer tor
the Foo Fighters, to play drums for them. Listeners
should remember, however, that poor music, no
matter who’s playing it, is still poor music.
The tracks are the easy guitar-pop-punk
melodies any guitar band can beat out. “No One
Knows” has gotten some radio play and granted,
it does have a different beat compared to the rest
of the slop on the airwaves.
There are tons of great bands out there with
far better skills at both writing and performing,
and it’s too bad this little group gets to distribute
its songs on a nationwide level and get so much
air time. If listening with one’s brain as well as
one’s ears isn’t the preferred method for discern
ing quality in music, owning this CD shouldn’t
be a problem.
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Foo Fighters
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If punk rock was a wine cellar. Good
Charlotte would be the bottle of Snapple that
somebody left there by accident. The band’s
sophomore album. The Young and the Hopeless
is a direct prequel of its 2CXX) self-titled debut
album with the same theme — hatred for high
school, jocks, preps and all others things a
stereotypical punk is expected to detest.
The 14-track set is chock-full of emo rock
that would even make Dashboard Confessional
beg for mercy. In songs such as “Bloody
Valentine" and "Anthem,” the band tries to use
fast-paced tunes and clever guitar riffs in an
elaborate scheme to cover up the fact that front
man Joel's vocalizing efforts would be perfect
for a boy band.
The track “The Day That I Die” reaffirms the
band’s status as a pseudo-punk-pop band, with
over-the-top sappiness and guitar music reminis
cent of Matchbox 20. “Say Anything” starts off
like a pop effort, and continues on to morph into
a mushy chronicle of whining.
The album isn't entirely a lost cause though,
because Good Charlotte manages to salvage a
couple of songs on the record. The saving grace
of the album are the tracks “Lifestyles Of The
One by One, the Foo Fighters’ fourth alt*!
contains a mixture of hard rock ballads with
heart-felt lyrics that have been compared to
songs written by Kurt Cobain in the late 1980
and early 1990s.
Dave Grohl. lead singer of the Foo Tightenn! !
former drummer for Nirvana, seems to mimic
Cobain’s dark style when he sings, “Dead on the
inside. I’ve got nothing to prove/Keep me aliveal]
give me something to lose.’’ in “Comeback."Oth
lyrics (i.e. "Down and out again/But I mdown
with you,” in “Lonely As You”) suggest Grohl is
moving away from such loneliness.
Band members Taylor Hawkins (drams,. ;
Chris Shiflet (lead guitar) and Nate Mendel j
(bass) lend powerful guitar riffs and intense
rhythm to most of One hy One's tracks. While j
Grohl’s contribution to Nirvana was his pew
sion style and occasional backup vocals,his
position at helm of the Foo Fighters Greatest
different style of music that can appealtothe
grunge lover.
Whether singing with melody or simply
screaming lyrics into the microphone, Grohl sib
with passion in every song. In “All My Life,
Grohl screams, “I’m done, done/On to the nett
one!” w ith a tone of voice that could scare unpe
pared ears. One by One is an all around good
album with good lyrics and riffs, but it’sjustnol
the same old Foo Fighters.
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