Stranger Things Have Happened by Foo Fighters

I haven't quite followed things with Foo Fighters after The Colour and the Shape as heavily as I used to before but I still consider myself a big fan of theirs, especially of Dave Grohl. During highschool, Dave Grohl and Noel Gallagher were two of my biggest heroes, until I got the hiphop/RnB bug during that time. Today was just the 1st time I really listed to Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace and this was one of the songs I had developed a liking for.

Goddamn this dusty room
This hazy afternoon
I'm breathing in this silence
Like never before

This feeling that I get
This one last cigarette
As I lay awake and wait
For you to come through that door

Oh, maybe, maybe, maybe
I can share it with you
I behave, I behave, I behave
So I can share it with you

You were not alone, dear loneliness
You forgot but I remember this
Oh stranger, stranger
Stranger things have happened, I know

I'm not alone, dear loneliness
I forgot that I remember this
Oh stranger, stranger
Stranger things have happened, I know

You'll dream about somewhere
A smoke will fill the air
As I lay awake and wait
For you to walk out that door

I can change, I can change, I can change
But who do you want me to be?
I'm the same, I'm the same, I'm the same
What do you want me to be?

You were not alone, dear loneliness
You forgot but I remember this
Oh stranger, stranger
Stranger things have happened, I know

I'm not alone, dear loneliness
I forgot that I remember this
You were not alone, dear loneliness
You forgot but I remember this
Oh stranger, stranger
Stranger things have happened, I know

I'm not alone, dear loneliness
I forgot that I remember this
Oh stranger, stranger
Stranger things have happened, I know

I'll Stick Around by Foo Fighters

I recently watched the Foo Fighter's documentary Back and Forth after shelving the idea for more than a year. I've been in a sort of movie/video binge the past few weeks. So far I've seen the following: Easy Rider, The Thing, Prometheus, Six Degrees of Separation and Rushmore. I haven't gotten around watching Reservoir Dogs.

On topic, this was one of the songs that made me buy the 1st Foo Fighters album. The music video made an impression on me especially after learning that the band was led by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. I liked the idea of someone trying to start something new. I guess that resonated with me (for reasons I really don't know) and have been generally a fan of Foo Fighters music ever since.

 

 

I thought I knew
All it took to bother you
Every word I said was true
And that you'll see

How could it be
I'm the only one who sees
Your rehearsed insanity (And I)

I still refused
All the methods you abused
It's alright if you're confused
Let me be

I've been around
All the pawns you've gagged and bound
They'll come back and knock you down
And I'll be free

I've taken all and I've endured
One day it all will fade I'm sure


I don't owe you anything

I had no hand
In your ever desperate plan
It returns and when it lands
Words are due

I should've known
We were better off alone
I looked and I was shown
You were too

I've taken all and I've endured
one day it all will fade I'm sure

I don't owe you anything

I'll stick around
I'll stick around (and)
Learn from all
That came from it

Next Year by Foo Fighters

There's Nothing Left to Loose was the Foo Fighters album that I didn't own outright, as during the time this was released I was sort of in a limbo with the music I like OR was it because I was buying CDs already, which are more expensive that the cassette, thus I had to make well chosen purchases. Among the hits from the album, this is one of my favorites. Probably because it was more mellow that most Foo Fighters songs that I've liked.

I'm in the sky tonight,

There I can keep by your side
Watching the wide world riot and hiding out
I'll be coming home next year

Into the sun we climb
Climbing our wings will burn white
Everyone strapped in tight
We'll ride it out
I'll be coming home next year

Come on get on get on
Take it till life runs out
No one can find us now,
Living with our heads underground

Into the night we shine
Lighting the way we glide by
Catch me if I get too high
When I come down
I'll be coming home next year

I'm in the sky tonight
There I can keep by your side
Watching the whole world wind around and round
I'll be coming home next year

Come on get on get on
Take it till life runs out
No one can find us now,
Living with our heads underground

I'll be coming home next year
Everything's alright up here
If I come down
I'll be coming home next year
Say good-bye

My Hero by Foo Fighters

There are only a few bands that captured my heart during my high school years, Oasis and Foo Fighters are the one's that really standout. I advidly collected Oasis and FF albums since HS.

I was recently able to see Foo Fighter's VH1 Storyteller's gig were they did a somewhat acoustic version of this song. I enjoyed though is Dave Grohl's incite about this song, which was inspired by "ordinary" friends in his life, but are people who he really looks up to.

Too alarming now to talk about
Take your pictures down and shake it out
Truth or consequence, say it aloud
Use that evidence, race it around

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He’s ordinary

Don’t the best of them bleed it out
While the rest of them peter out
Truth or consequence, say it aloud
Use that evidence, race it around

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He’s ordinary

Kudos my hero leaving all the best
You know my hero, the one that’s on

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He’s ordinary

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary

Marigold by Foo Fighters

I tried to take my first listen to the Foo Fighters Skin and Bones album, the live acoustic album of one of my favorite bands. I've owned the album for more than a year now, but i haven't had the time and courage to dig into this album. I'm not exactly thrilled hearing some of the songs in their acoustic version, but this song was a welcome addition to the Foo Fighters library. Doing some research, I found out that this was originally a Nirvana song written and sung by Dave Grohl himself.

She's there in case I want it all
He's scared cause I want
She's there in case I want it all
He's scared cause I want

All in all the clock is slow
Six color pictures all in a row
Of a marigold

She's there in case I want it all
He's scared cause I want
She's there in case I want it all
He's scared cause I want

All in all the clock is slow
Six color pictures all in a row
Of a marigold

She's there in case I want it all
He's scared cause I want
She's there in case I want it all
He's scared cause I want

All in all the clock is slow
Six color pictures all in a row
Of a marigold

Halo by Foo Fighters

The song is simple yet powerful, just like any power pop song by Foo Fighters. The bass line is surprisingly creative as well especially at the 0:26 - 0:29, that was a refreshing lick. This is one was released at the time when my interest in Foo Fighters have been waning and I have moved to other bands. Listening to it again though revitalized my love for Dave Grohl and his band.

Good and bad I swear I've had them
Both are overrated
But isn't it fun
when you get hold of one

Some go bad and some come back
The good ones all get taken
I'm calling your bluff
You ain’t strong enough

Wait and pray you'll pick on me
the day I raise my hand
Guess that I've been blessed but I'll be damned

Halo god only knows
Right behind me everywhere I go

Say your prayers when you get scared
You pray you're gonna make it
and then when you're done
you keep fucking up

One day soon I'll disappear
and if you'll come I'll take you
somewhere to go
To keep from growing old

Wait and pray you'll pick on me the day I raise my hand
Guess that I've been blessed but I'll be damned

Halo god only knows
Right behind me everywhere I go

Disappear the light is fading
Disappear outside their range
Disappear I'm tired of waiting
Disappear before we fade away

Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters is one of my favorite bands and Dave Grohl is one of my musical idols especially during HS. The song is on of the highlight cuts from Foo Fighter's sophomore effort, The Colour and the Shape. I can't believe that this song is around 12 years old, I still remember seeing a 3rd year HS student in UST carrying a copy while i was in 2nd year, asking my parents to buy one for me and reading an article on Time magazine (we previously carried a subscription). It's also amazing to know that Dave Grohl was the drummer for the album, while manning the guitars and writing the songs.

What have we done with innocence
It disappeared with time, it never made much sense
Adolescent resident
Wasting another night on planning my revenge

One in ten

Don't want to be your monkey wrench
One more indecent accident
I'd rather leave than suffer this
I'll never be your monkey wrench

All this time to make amends
What do you do when all your enemies are friends
Now and then I'll try to bend
Under pressure wind up snapping in the end

One in ten

Dont want to be your monkey wrench
One more indecent accident
I'd rather leave than suffer this
I'll never be your monkey wrench

One last thing before I quit I never wanted any more than
I could fit Into my head
I still remember every single word
You said and all the shit that somehow came along with it
Still there's one thing that comforts me since
I was Always caged and now Im free

Dont want to be your monkey wrench
One more indecent accident
I'd rather leave than suffer this
I'll never be your monkey wrench

Don't want to be your monkey wrench (fall in, fall out)
Don't want to be your monkey wrench (fall in, fall out)
Don't want to be your monkey wrench (fall in, fall out)
Don't want to be your monkey wrench

Everlong by Foo Fighters

I was first mystified by the Foo Fighters because of Dave Grohl. Famous for being the drummer of Nirvana, it's surprising to see him fronting his own band, singing and playing guitar. He was one my of 1st musical idols (the others being Noel Gallagher and later Rico Blanco) for the sheer fact that he wrote most of the songs for Foo Fighters.

In The Colour and the Shape, Grohl played guitar, sang the vocals and did the drum parts. I was amazed of how someone can do all of this things and how I wished I was the same. I remember reading in the Time Magazine (we had a subscription then) that the band even tried to be "intelligent" with the spelling of "colour" in the albums title. The Colour and the Shape was one of my favorite albums during HS.

Hello
I've waited here for you
Everlong

Tonight
I throw myself into
And out of the red, out of her head she sang

Come down
And waste away with me
Down with me

Slow how
You wanted it to be
I'm over my head, out of her head she sang

And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang

Breathe out
So I could breathe you in
Hold you in

And now
I know you've always been
Out of your head, out of my head I sang

And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang

And I wonder
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang