Foo Fighters Sonic Highways Rocks

The Foo Fighters 8th studio album lives up to their reputation for punk-grunge rock that vents your angst.

Warning – this review and the album contain the venerable and irreplaceable Anglo-Saxon expletive.

By Stephen Pate – I’ve heard too much 60’s Dylan and Taylor Swift’s 1989 this month. I need Foo Fighters Sonic Highways.

Rock and roll is all about grabbing you by the solar plexus and rocking. We’re long past the rock-a-billy of Elvis and the mad poetry of Dylan.

“Fuck it all I came from nothing,” Dave Grohl screams in “Something From Nothing.”

Everyone knows we’re fucked, by the 1%, global warming, death and whatever your demons are. The Foo Fighters deliver the message and you feel the music and the anger, without resorting to Dave Grohl’s sarcastic cartoonish anger on “Walk.”

Some critics have damned “Sonic Highways” for being more of the same but its not. The album is new and we crave novelty, demand novelty.

So put the CD in the player or turn up your smartphone headphones and feel the groove.  It’s cathartic.  Now on the other hand, my wife is listening to pink noise in her office.

A lot of people agree. Sonic Highways is #1 at iTunes and #2 in Rock music at Amazon.com on release day. Nice.

The album’s premise is 8 songs composed and recorded  spontaneously in 8 different cities. Get it – 8th album, 8 songs, 8 cities.

Sonic Highways is also a HBO TV special with 4 of the songs /cities in the can already – Chicago, Nashville, Washington DC and Austin. The show even has its own trailer.

Here is “Something for Nothing” which is classic Foo Fighters with the slow lyrical buildup to full-on rock and enough of a hook to keep you coming back.

When Dave Grohl, who WAS the drummer for Nirvanna FLG, shows up, I want to hear it, to feel the music. Not to put too fine a point on it, if you like Foo Fighters like millions of people do, this is great music.

Sonic Highways is available from Amazon.com and iTunes and Amazon.com for $9.99.  Amazon.com has the bonus of instant Auto-Rip MP3 now and a CD in the mail.

Sonic Highways is $1 off at $8.99 for the digital copy at Amazon.com.

Vinyl fans get some love with Sonic Highways (Vinyl) at a modest $16.99.

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