Music Head Wrote:^^
I think REM may have invented the genre of alternative.

CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:

FOO FIGHTERS "wasting light" cd,2011.

yeh,yeh!, i know what youre all thinking.."these guys are alternative"....."bollocks!"...they are a rock band, "alternative" is just a lame excuse to pigeonhole artists who dont quite fit into other genres, and this may be true for Fooies...as they seem to cover hard rock,grunge,punk and straight rock all one one album, most of the time...anyway im taking a stand against "alternative"...i put REM here the other day as they would have been called a rock band before that name "alternative" was invented!

ok, enough of my rantings about genres and on with the album....

firstly of their seven studio albums, a live set and a best of set, i have four studio albums,the live and the best of set, that makes six of nine releases in my collection, thus i feel justifed and qualified to suggest that "wasting light" is their second best album(behind 1997s 'the colour and the shape').
this is a classy affair of good solid rock/heavy rock music from the get-go to the final ending of the final track...it is a blistering assault on the ears, but it has rythm,feel and melody, unfortunately there is one so-so track on here, that being the lead off single "white limo", which is their heaviest track they have ever recorded...and it does nothing for me...good video for it though in which Motorhead's Lemmy is driving round in a limosine...why they picked him to do it i dont know...dont even think he played on the track????
this album reached number one on the US/UK/CAN & Aust charts back in april or may of this year and justified IMO!

a worthy album by one of rock's finest bands over the last 20yrs, both live and in the studio!...all links bar one are live from a Letterman show...was it a special Foo Fighters show???

I LOVE THIS ALBUM!

worst track: white limo
best track: back and forth

tracks:

1. bridge burning **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZFMTjQ7Xi0 live
2. rope **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKcfQrgtLSU live
3. dear rosemary ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGkq5ifoIQ live
4. white limo *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S7QpNIF2og live
5. arlandria ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjqSDG7ygDw live
6. these days ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPHzknP7jNQ live
7. back and forth ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIOVfr856lY live
8. a matter of time **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWalBZ5P42U live
9. miss the misery ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sALb3SlcmWA live
10.i should have known ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=738EWaJ32i8 live
11.walk **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNT-e8AwmqU live

3s=6
2s=4
1s=1

rating: 2.5