Foo Fighters - Self Titled (w/ guest Jim Hanke)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2016

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Bill welcomes podcaster/music guru Jim Hanke from the Vinyl Emergency podcast (soundcloud.com/vinylemergency) to talk about Foo Fighters' self titled debut album (1995, Capitol/Roswell). Following the tragic suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, the band's drummer, Dave Grohl, was left with no band and an uncertain future. Instead of taking offers from Tom Petty to join the Heartbreakers, Grohl decided to take his future into his own hands and front his own group. Jim talks about his podcast, forgives Bill for not really owning vinyl, and discovering the Foos on Eddie Vedder's Self- Pollution pirate radio broadcast in early 1995. Bill and Jim also discuss the album's "indie" aesthetic, the influence of Nirvana on how the album is perceived, how Foo Fighters maybe haven't really ever put out a front to back great album, how Dave Growl has become the official spokesman of rock 'n' roll, how studio noise draws us in, the band's attitude toward and humor in music videos, William Goldsmith's heavy drumming, the album working in groups of 3, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	I thought I made more that took to bother you
0:21.6	different word i said was true
0:25.6	natural see
0:28.6	found in me
0:32.6	I'm the only one who sees
0:35.6	your reverse insanity the only one who sees you're the first in 70 yeah
0:43.8	Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill and unfortunately my regular co-host
0:50.1	Brian could not be with us today. Sadly, his grandmother passed away the other day, so he is
0:56.7	attending to the affairs with his family of settling her estate, I guess, and making sure to
1:03.8	have a nice funeral. Man, I'm thrown off my regular schick here because normally I toss it to
1:09.7	Brian and say, Brian, what were we
1:10.9	just listening to? So I'm just going to answer the question myself and say that we were listening
1:14.9	to the foo fighters. That was a song called I'll Stick Around off of their 1995 album that is
1:21.3	self-titled. It was their debut. And if you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do
1:26.9	hear every week is take a different album of music
1:29.8	and talk about what makes it great.
1:32.2	We're going to talk about a little bit of like sharing personal stories
1:37.0	and anecdotes about the music.
1:38.8	We're going to talk a little bit about the background of the band
1:41.0	and then we're going to get to a track-by-track review.
1:43.6	And luckily, I am not going to be going to get to a track by track review. And luckily,
1:44.6	I am not going to be talking to myself because it is tough. So thankfully, I've got Jim Hanky
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