On that first album, Grohl displayed a remarkable deftness for balancing melody and menace-- even as the rocket-launcher riffs of "This Is a Call" and "I'll Stick Around" shot into the red, he never lost his cool. On The Colour and the Shape, the noise/pop relationship feels more forced, like Grohl's trying too hard to grind down his sweet tooth into a fang, dressing up virtually every song in a chrome-plated guitar gilding that boosts the volume and fidelity, but ultimately dulls the impact. Maybe he's overcompensating for being a softie at heart: the gentlest turns are either presented as brief teasers (the 84-second opener "Doll"), are appended with portentous, power-ballad choruses ("February Stars"), or are muted into a blur ("Walking After You", which reappeared in improved, revised form on The X-Files movie soundtrack). Or just contrast the first album's standout single "Big Me" with The Colour's "Up in Arms", two melodically similar songs in vastly different packaging: Where the former is content to coast as a simple, gentle jangle, the latter resorts to a soft/loud about-face that feels like nudge-wink schtick.

Album Rating: 3.0

Count me as pleased that I don't agree with pitchfork... Especially since rock/alt-rock is clearly not their specialty.

the source is irrelevant, my tastes generally aren't in line with pitchfork approved stuff either but that's no reason to dismiss every single paragraph of their reviews

Album Rating: 3.0

True to a certain extent. You know they're coming from a different angle on music though. I mean, they hardly even review albums similar to The Fooeys.



Even ignoring that argument, I didn't dismiss it... just disagreed with it.

Album Rating: 5.0

Best Foo Fighters album by far [2]

i wouldn't say by far but i would say it is the best

Album Rating: 3.0

You guys are so cool.

so are you.

Album Rating: 3.0

Aww shucks.

Album Rating: 5.0

best album ever made

Album Rating: 4.5

Good Grief is by far the best song on this m/

Wattershed is so m/

Album Rating: 3.0

Come on people, 'Big Me' is the best.

Exhausted is practically SDBM so m/

Album Rating: 3.0

Now you're using too many abbreviations for me to follow.

Album Rating: 5.0

big me is a fun song but nowhere near the best



aaaaaaaalllllllllllllllll the staaaaatic

Suicidal Depressive Black Metal

Album Rating: 3.0

Ahhhh, not one of my preferred genres to listen to. LOL.

yeah neither I was taking major league piss

Album Rating: 4.5

Their best album if im honest. For a debut,its surprisingly good, but the amount of melody the foos had here was perhaps a warning of what was to come. Unfortunately, only their first three albums were the good ones. For me, after that, they went on a rapid decline.