What’s your favorite Foo Fighters record?

Colour and the shape is hands down their best. Self titled close second.

Wasting Light is my favorite, but I was a fan of pretty much all of their albums until Sonic Highways, which was meh. Everything post Sonic Highways has been basically trash.

Wasting Light is stacked with some really rockin' tracks:

Dear Rosemary
Rope
Bridges are Burning
Matter of Time
Arlandria

I need to revisit all of them, but I'll go with There Is Nothing Left To Lose. I think they were mostly never quite as good after this record, with Wasting Light being the exception.

1)Colour and the Shape
2)s/t









3) Everything else

Yep. First album is amazing. Second is about half good. After that there's a song or two on every album that's solid and a whole bunch of meh.

Wasting Light was my favorite Foo album, and it was probably when I liked the band the most. Since then, it's been pretty meh. Totally bummed about Taylor though, he always seemed like the happiest guy on stage

The songs on their own aren’t bad, but it’s an absolute failure for what they stated they were trying to accomplish, which was to have each song be written as an homage to the music of each city they represent, incorporating that city’s musical history into the song. The album objectively fails to do that as the so gs are indistinguishable from previous Foo records. There’s a few good songs on there like Congregation and Something from Nothing, but neither, in any way, really evoke the cities they were supposedly inspired by (Nashville and Chicago respectively).

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Sonic Highways

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Lyrically, the songs do incorporate the musical legacy of the particular cities in which they were recorded. The HBO series makes that clear.

The first three albums, Echoes..., and Wasting Light are, to me, the most listenable and consistently good records. With the first three being the top 3.

I'd probably lean Self-Titled, There is Nothing Left to Lose, and The Colour and the Shape in that order.