FF Talks Emo, New Album 2007-07-30 by Epilogue | 15 Comments | In a recent interview contucted by MTV, Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl speaks his mind about how he was involved in the scene as well as info from the upcoming album.
Excerpts from the interview include:
Dave Grohl has been in the rock business for more than 20 years now, and during that time, he's seen many so-called "musical movements" come and go. Thus, he's particularly amused by the current generation of emo-punk acts bounding across stages worldwide. After all, he's been doing this for so long that he remembers emo the first time it came around.
"I have a funny relationship with emo," he said. "I'm from Washington, D.C., and in the mid-'80s, the hardcore scene changed from what it was — Bad Brains and Minor Threat and the Dead Kennedys and MDC — to a bunch of new bands like Rites of Spring and Embrace, which Ian MacKaye was the singer for. Everyone started labeling it 'emo-core.' So I went to Rites of Spring's first show, and it was a revelation. I'd never heard anything like it, and it was a really emotional experience. But in D.C., we all hated that 'emo-core' tag."
It should come as no surprise, then, that Grohl has placed a song called "Cheer Up Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)" smack-dab in the middle of the Foo Fighters' upcoming Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace album, due September 25. After all, Grohl has always struck us as the kind of rock star who's aware of the inherent silliness of being a rock star — the kind of guy not afraid to take a few potshots at those who take themselves a tad too seriously. So the song must be a sort of piss-take on this current crop of raccoon-eyed emo boys, right?
Wrong.
"The title has nothing to do with the song — it's placed right in the middle of the record, where there's a lot of dark stuff. It's a pretty heavy record. We have a couple bummer tunes," Grohl said. "I felt the album needed something to sit in the center and balance it. So we had this lighthearted song, and I called it 'Cheer Up Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)' because it seemed like a little ray of hope in the middle of all this despair."
The full interview can be read here: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1565675/20070726/foo_fighters.jhtml
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Well, he did talk about the album for three quaters of the article.
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Boy do I wish I was alive to see all of those great bands in the early 80's.
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hope this album is better than In Your Honor. that one kinda sucked.
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/slits wrists
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Hoping for a good one...
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/slits wrists
Funny!
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C'mon Foo Fighters...their last album was so...average.
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yeah their last album sucked, i couldnt take one song from it. hopefully this will be somewhat good news.
this is completely off topic but in the newspaper today there was a article titled, "Emo bands upstage LInkin Park." i started laughing cuz i knew when i read it, the bands werent even going to be real emo bands. Taking Back Sunday (close but i dont think theyre emo), and My Chemical Romance (they mightve been emo back in the day but now i dont think so). i just thought that was funny, the media is so clueless
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Any one of the new wave "emo" bands, no matter how bad they are, is far superior to Foo Fighters.
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You're joking, right?
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No, I just genuinely dislike Foo Fighters.
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LostChild, you may be the stupidest person I've yet to meet.
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Haha Grohl's a funny bastard. Haha
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lol at Grohl. But yeah, the media knows bugger all about emo bands.
There are two types of 'emo'; true emo and mainstream emo. Which in essence isn't emo at all...
Just manufactured bullshit aimed at an audience of self-conscious herd followers (aka, teenagers).
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[Quote=]There are two types of 'emo'; true emo and mainstream emo. Which in essence isn't emo at all...
Just manufactured bullshit aimed at an audience of self-conscious herd followers (aka, teenagers).[/Quote]
Amen.
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