Foo Fighters album review Sonic Highways (2014) Genre: Hard Rock, Post Grunge, Alternative Rock, Pop Rock

Foo Fighters

Sonic Highways (2014)

Genre: Hard Rock, Post Grunge, Alternative Rock, Pop Rock  

If you are a music nerd like me you'll really appreciate this project, but you must see the documentary series that has the same name made by Grohl to really understand what Dave trying to do on this  fantastic album, in many ways its similar to Dave's Sound City Project.  

                                 

Vocals and Lyrics: Dave Grohl, does an OK job but vocally and lyrically none of the songs really stand out, that's what I thought till I saw the Sonic High the documentary, and I discovered how personal the lyrics are to Grohl,  the songs have tons of references about the history of the music of the places that Dave visits, for example on one of the songs Dave makes a couple of references to Gary Clark Jr. and if you didn't see the episode of Sonic Highways about Austin Texas, this it just flys right past you.10

Instrumentation:                                                                

Guitar:  Smear and Shiflett guitar playing is one of more interesting aspects of the album, their playing has a more of a Rock and Roll feeling, which is refreshing.Gary Clark Jr. is one of the guest guitar players with Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick and Joe Walsh from the Eagles

Bass: Nate Mendel, is one of the most uninteresting bass players in rock, his playing is as basic as they come.

Drums: Taylor is a solid rock drummer, his executions flawless. 7.5

Melody and/or Structure: Grolh knows how to make great songs.  10

Sound, Production and Feeling: The production of Mr. Vig leans on adding extra musicians to add to the songs making them sound bigger and more epic at moments. Now after watching the doc series I want to kill Vig the A-hole instead of taking advantage of the sound of each of the special places that they used to record  the album, he just used his standardized style of mixing, what a wasted opportunity. 8

Songs: It's good from front to back 8

                                                                                                                         

Originality: Fascinating project a real treat for music nerds like myself. 10 

Overall:53.5

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