Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

Awesome CD!

This CD is fantastic! Great songs and highly recommended. Very talented band! Foo Fighters is one of my all-time favorite bands. June 26, 2008

Lust from beginning to end.

I wish Kurt were here to here this, of course, he was probably there when some of the material was tested - infact this very well could have made the next Nirvana album. June 8, 2008

SOUNDS GARAGE!! SOUNDS GREAT!!!!!!

The Foo Fighters are a great band, that I've always sort of held on the back burner for some reason, even though for years now, I've been almost unconsciously rocking out to their songs.
As they now have an armful of albums to choose from, with a few acclaimed ones at that, it is easy for many to forget about this one entirely. But this is a totally solid album. Compared to any other in the Foo Fighters cannon it sounds like it came from another time and place competely. Possibly because, in a way, it did.
While the album was released in summer of 1995, it was actually recorded alot closer to the time when Kurt Cobain died, and Dave Grohls previous band, that the two were a part of was no more.
Dave Grohl created this album almost out of the ashes of the other one, and you can note a ton of similarities between the two. The guitar sound is pretty close too, even though Grohl didn't play guitars in that other band he was in. This was his first shot at proving himself capable of stepping out from the drums and leading a band, as well as, writing the songs. And they sound great! It's not dated, like others have said. It was that garage sound that made them big in the first place. Later albums got more polished, and that never hurt these guys actually, but the raw garage sound of this album is what makes it a unique record all together. And also, a ROCKIN one. YES! May 7, 2008

Good Songs, Bad Sound

I originally owned this CD but sold it a while ago, i am now about to puchase it again mainly because i want to own all the foos albums and this is the only one i dont have. The main problem with this album is the sound even Dave Grohl said this is pretty much a demo, however the songs are quite catchy its just the sound that lets it down March 24, 2008

The Start of Something Big

Kurt Cobain's suicide in the spring of 1994 was a shock to the rock music community, and particularly troubling for band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl. When Grohl was reported to be working on a new project, I salivated with anticipation. I loved the album immediately, almost unconditionally, upon its release.

The sound is not as raw as Nirvana, instead a sort of power-pop solo project put out by Grohl. Grohl was still fairly young, and had never been the front man of any band, and here he was, only a year after the death of his close friend, dipping his toes into the water of his own band. As a result, the sound is relatively timid compared to later albums the Foo Fighters have put out, and with historical perspective we can see the self-titled album for what it is.

Most noticeably, the sound quality on the album is not particularly amazing for what it could have been. The band recently released a re-mastered version of The Colour and the Shape, which really didn't need re-mastering, when they really should have re-mastered the self-titled album.

But the foundations for the band were also established with this album; a hilarious sense of humor came forth in the music video for "Big Me," spoofing the (consciously) campy Mentos commercials on television at the time. The musical style of alternating quiet and LOUD that is a hallmark of the Foos, carried over from Nirvana, is seen throughout the album.

Musically, the guitar work is not challenging, the lyrics are nonsensical, and you can't hardly hear the bass guitar on the recording. But the tunes are great, and there are some real gems on the album. Singles "This is a Call," "I'll Stick Around," and "Big Me," tracks 1, 2, and 3, on the album, make the album front-heavy. That is not to say the rest cannot be enjoyable.

If you're used to the pace of Foo Fighters albums released since 2003, you might not enjoy the self-titled release as much as I did when it was released in 1995. The pace is more moderate; no acoustic ballads, no hard-hitting rock like "One By One" or "The Pretender" are to be found here. But no one who can truly call themselves a Foo Fighters fan should be able to live with themselves without this landmark effort on the shelf. February 15, 2008

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