Won't Fall For It Again

In your honor, I will get ripped off tonight.

I sold some CD's today and bought two new ones with the credit. I got Days Away, which has been on my list forever but I had never seen the CD in a store. I got it, don't remember where I heard them, but I like it.

I also got the Foo Fighter's new CD. After reading so much good, I thought, "It can't be that bad." Sigh.

Without taking any risks you become stale with music. And since Foo hasn't taken any, and continue not to take any, I won't be buying any more music from them unless I see drastic changes. I hate safe route albums.

But with Foo, it's the risk you take. Their singles are full of energy, and generally fantastic musical pieces. It's just the albums usually have three or four songs. A couple singles, and then one gigantic song that spans the rest of the CD making my head hurt.

They tried releasing a double album this time. Disc one is faster stuff, and disc two is slower stuff. Correction. Disc one is the same filler shit left over from their last CD. Disc two is a pretty crappy attempt to be folksy, because there is only so much variation you can do when you only know four different acoustic rhythms. Note to Foo, you can make electric slow music too.

Splitting all of the slower stuff and faster stuff on their own CD's was a mistake also. Normally when you listen to an album, pacing can make a big difference between good and great. Since they are split though, pacing does not exist. I would have been ten time happier had they cut out 8 of the filler songs and just released a well paced 12 song album.

I didn't expect it to be the worst CD I'd get today. Each of the CD's drone on in their own right so badly, that I got a headache on the way home. I couldn't make it past track seven on the first disc. Oh My God, somebody throw a pie!