(Round are way, all hell has broken out after the world at large decided I was wrong to claim David Fricke was a company stooge. Of course, that wasn’t the first time I claimed Fricke was in Wenner’s pocket.. this is the first time I claimed Fricke was a company stooge… in April 2011… I think it stands up nicely.. . IL)
Rolling Stone’s David Fricke knows his way around a record review but he has been growing incessantly more company line and maybe he has too many rock star friends to stay close to the truth..
People of good faith may disagree about the new Foo fighters album, I think it’s their best and still a dog with fleas, everybody else loves it.
But there is no faith good enough to make “I Should Have Known” -the Nirvana wannabe, anything more or less than bloody awful unlistenable whinging
Here is how tone deaf Fricke is, discussing this crap song: “…reverberates with his (Cobain’s) consuming absence. “Didn’t hear your warning/Damn my heart gone deaf,” Grohl sings as the initial darkness – a solitary guitar and the quiet cutting guilt in his voice, set in inky reverb – slowly blows up to a purging rage: “No, I cannot forgive you yet/To leave my heart in debt.” If you ever thought Foo Fighters were Nirvana-lite because Grohl lacked Cobain’s torment, get ready to apologize.”
Are you kidding me? Is Fricke really comparing this blather to COBAIN??? Even if it was a good song, which it isn’t, lyrically it is terrible. To which Cobain is Fricke comparing Grohl to? How does it compare to, say, “Heartshaped Box”? Here is the first verse of that song:
“She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I’ve been locked inside your heart-shaped box for a week
I was drawn into your magnet tar-pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black”
Grohl couldn’t get Cobain’s torment if it sat on his knee and gave him a lap dance.