[kj] RE: Foos, Nirvana, whatever

Tim Bucknall tim.bucknall at btinternet.com
Sun Jan 8 08:56:50 EST 2006


its my honest opinion, they were popular when colour & shape came out and i 
loved that

too much rock cliche stuff now

maybe the foo's really needed Pat Smear, although i didn't rate his 
contribution to nirvana
something just changed, lots of people  i know when off them  after pat went


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Martin" <robmartin at bluebottle.com>
To: <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 1:38 PM
Subject: [kj] RE: Foos, Nirvana, whatever


> Tim
> If this is your honest view that you don't like what the Foos have done
> recently, that is up to you but I don't agree with you at all personally.
> The more I play the latest couple of albums, the more I appreciate them. 
> I'm
> not saying they are better than their earlier stuff - they are different.
> Why people have to continually compare stuff, I don't know.
> No offence mate but it just sounds like the usual "they are popular now so
> they are now shit".
> That was my view with Adam and the Ants when I was a kid and they put out
> Kings of the new frontier.
> It is true with some bands still - they get popular and start pumping out
> pop-shit for the masses rather than put out the music they actually wanted
> to do.
> Call me Mr. Naive if you want, but I don't believe Dave Grohl is putting 
> out
> his new stuff to sell more. It's not as if he has toned down the guitar
> sound or cut down on his screaming. As iPat once said, the production on 
> the
> new album is outstanding and that is probably putting some people off - 
> they
> want the more basic sounding production.
> Unfortunately for them, not many bands would stick with their original
> production options when they have the option of using the best equipment 
> and
> producers.
>
> Regards
> Rob Martin
>
>
> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 17:09:46 -0000
> From: "Tim Bucknall" <tim.bucknall at btinternet.com>
> Subject: Re: [kj] Nirvana
> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
> <gathering at misera.net>
> Message-ID: <002701c613ad$29ef5ae0$585d7ad5 at Tim>
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>
> foo's 95-97 = great
> foo's after 97 = crap
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Tinsoldier645527 at aol.com
>  To: gathering at misera.net
>  Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 4:49 PM
>  Subject: Re: [kj] Nirvana
>
>
>  Could you say that a little louder please?
>
>  In a message dated 07/01/2006 16:46:51 GMT Standard Time,
> crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk writes:
>    I'm a Nirvana fan.
>    Anyone who prefers Foo Fighters must be defa as a bat!
>
>  Forests are falling,there's smoke in my throat
>  Machine over man,and the mass over mind
>
>
>
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