Talk:Foo Fighters (album)

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March 16, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed

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Studio[edit]

This album was NOT recorded in Barrett Jones' basement as this article states. It was recorded at Robert Lang's studios in October of 1994 (the same place where the you know you're right session took place with Nirvana 9 months prior in the year).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters

http://www.gohastings.com/catalog/item/item.asp?prodid=34723099

Cover[edit]

What is the signifigance of the album cover? --Richy 21:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Genre[edit]

Shouldn't be "grunge" as well? The album sounds very very grungy, especially stuff like "Exhausted" and "X-Static" Speedboy Salesman 13:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so. Grunge was a culture not a genre anyway. This music sounds like alternative or punk rock, distorted guitars, aggressive drums, and most of the songs are up-beat rockers and the singles as well. Not a whole lot of angst on here. Look at the "grunge" bands they tagged, did any of them necessarily sound the same? Its a rather dumb tag if you ask me. 131.125.115.15 (talk) 20:22, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What? Grunge is a genre, just as any other genre is a genre. And this album (along with all Foo Fighters earlier stuff) sounds like Post-grunge, which it is. It sound NOTHING like punk rock. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.217.139.181 (talk) 05:04, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A ridiculous edit war has erupted yet again over what genre(s) to classify this album. It's sad to see so much time and effort spent changing the genre back and forth INSTEAD of actually improving and expanding the article. Perhaps if this gets taken care of we can move forward??? I think we can safely say it is an alternative rock album, but beyond that is where there seems to be great debate. Lets get this grunge/post-grunge issue figured out, as I can understand it being classified as both/either. Also, in response to the above, how can you honestly say the album sounds NOTHING like punk rock?? Songs like "Weenie Beenie" and "Wattershed" are extremely punk influenced. However that being said, I don't think it's enough to constitute listing the album as such. 98.248.185.151 (talk) 21:24, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article upgrade[edit]

Does anyone else feel this is an extremely important album that could easily have an article like No Code for example, or possibly even a featured article one day? This album has enough history surrounding it that I feel this could be a really interesting, significant article, if improved. I've done a fair amount of work on it myself, but am limited at what I know how to do.

For starters there needs to be references added. It would be great to see the History section broken up and expanded into these appropriate categories:

Recording
Music and lyrics
Release and reception
Tour

For now, I've left all information in chronological order. The Packaging and Accolades could be expanded. The Chart positions is in desperate need of some help. Song samples, photos and additional album art could eventually be added. Are there enough editors who care as much about this album as I do? 98.210.231.173 (talk) 04:02, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]