Video Of The Week #36: Foo Fighters - Run

Video Of The Week #36: Foo Fighters – Run

Maybe it’s my age, but it’s still something that causes me to marvel that the Foo Fighters are very much still with us, and are now in their third decade. How long is that? Well, put it this way, I bought their first, self-titled album the week it came out in 1995, the day before school finished forever.

They’ve delighted on record, in concert – and indeed in music video. The tongue in cheek video for ‘Big Me’ or the Jack Black featuring ‘Low’ or ‘Learning To Fly’ showed they were a band who could use the artform and have a little fun with it.

The video for their new single ‘Run’ shows no sign of this stopping anytime soon. With a sentiment about getting old but not taking any crap that hasn’t been shown so much since Pulp‘s ‘Help The Aged’ (bloody hell, that’s 20 years old now as well), the six-minute-plus promo sees the now six-piece showing that there’s no harm to be had in rocking out, and taking no prisoners while they do it. Without wishing to give too much away, the band feature as part of a bunch of elderly miscreants who cause havoc in a church before carjacking some kids. As you do. Pipe and slippers can wait.

There ain’t much justice in this world, but the band’s first new music since the Saint Cecilia EP in late 2015 shows just why they are still so highly regarded, and this deserves to be one of the anthems of the summer.

  1. No, just no. I’ve been wondering ever since I discovered this site whether it had a high enough percentage of interesting music to be worth reading. This post is perhaps evidence that you are an utter, pointless waste of space. No-one is interested in this band (i refuse to type their name). No-one. People who think they are interested are actually not interested in anything at all, they are brain dead, as proven by their interest in this band. Is there any way you can block me from accessing this site as I have little self control?

    1. Hi Mr Wild Eye.I am not sure you understand the concept of the site.It’s a website made up of different subjective opinions upon music, we often have disagree.This isn’t the NME where we pretemd that we all love certain things.This is one of Ed’s opinions.As it happens I haven’t been interested in the FFs since their debut album and I’m the editor.

      As to to how this one piece relates to the quantity of interesting music covered here is sweeping and subjective too.We are reflecting current artists and releases and mostly what we like and some that we don’t like.There are many artists covered here, so to judge the ‘percentage of interesting music’ covered here on a sample of reviews is a generalisation. That’s as much about your view of the releases themselves, than anything written about them here.But I am interested what do you define as ‘interesting music’ currently? Personally I mainly cover things that ‘interest’ me.I have written very critical reviews but I enjoy writing about music that I like in the main, it inspires me more.

      1. Hi Mr Cummings. I’m not sure you understand the point of comments sections under articles on the net. They are there for two things. One is for people to pointlessly tell the writer how right they are generally lick backside and say nothing; the other is slightly more interesting.

        I accept that not everything is going to be to my taste on a source of information like this site – I am wondering the extent to which your hit rate is high enough for me to wish to continue to read (which I do a lot of at the moment because I seem to have subscribed to every post you make and not (yet) bothered to adjust my settings. If I do adjust my settings you’ll probably lose me for good (big loss!!!!) because I have never been in the habit of going to your site other than by clicking on a link in an email. You don’t seem to much cover the heavier end of music that I am finding myself increasingly interested in, yet you do cover a LOT of what I would call “boring music for old people who like to think they’re alternative but probably aren’t and quite possibly weren’t twenty five years ago either”. Employed to Serve are one of the better known bands I have discovered in the last couple of years that I love. Getting v. good reviews in Kerrang, but I’m no metaller. Currently sat here in an ((Ohhms)) T-shirt and Skinny Girl Diet are the best band I have seen in the last couple of years. If you sound less angry that EtS or SKD in 2017 then something is wrong with you. If you can suffer this never-ending Tory BS whilst listening to Americana / folk then you deserve all you get.

        To be clear this is not about YOU it is about whether I want a relationship with you. And you’re clearly not all wrong, there is definitely good stuff you cover.

        I am increasingly struggling to find interesting music, other than stuff very very local to me which I can go see live in very small venues. I am an indie kid with psychedelic tendencies, who got into trance, techno, tech house, bit of D and B and electro in the mid to late 90s and has subsequently got back into guitar music mainly through noisy 80s american alt-rock / punk and more recently stoner / doom / sludge in the UK. I would say that my tastes are pretty wide-ranging, but over the last 10 to 15 years I have become increasingly intolerant of folk, americana, “indie” and all sorts of other things that weren’t that challenging to start with but in the 21st century are offensively dated and pointless and dull and unchallenging. Maybe I am being quite contradictory given a lot of the music I listen to is rooted in Black Sabbath records made before I was born, but at least it has the decency not to sound like old-people’s music, faux-alternative BS, and its anger and misery reflect the post-decency times that we live in.

        Perhaps more importantly though is the writing. I like to read and think (and write) about music. The writing on here is of a pretty high quality, but IMHO you’d be better off reducing the quality and making it a little more interesting, provocative. It takes time to read and I want to enjoy reading, not simply take on board facts and reasoned balanced opinions. In fact I have no interest in facts or reasoned, balanced opinions.

        I love Everett True and writing in a similar vein. I also love finding new music. Part of my problem is what I really really want is music that combines the futuristic tendencies of drum and bass and techno, with the anger, lyrics and full band of – say – Black Flag. Yet little to nothing tries to do quite that that I have ever come across, and when guitars do meet ‘dance’ / electronic music the results are nearly always horrific in my experience.

        Perhaps my criticism is that you are not ET and you do not cover music that does not exist.

        1. That’s cool you can say what you like in comments, its free speech, just as I am able to disagree with you and the piece if I want to.To be clear I edit the site and don’t agree with every piece or enjoy every artist covered, we are largely driven by current releases, what we are sent by email or post or we are exoted by and seek out ourselves.We have 150 writers all with varying tastes. So if you think we are covering boring music that’s clearly just as much about the state of music as it is what we cover and how we do it.

          Feedback on our writing is welcome of course, music journalism is as much about entertainmemt as it is critique.Thanks its interesting to know what you are into and I am thankful to every reader we habe including you and we do try to cover as much as we can even though we all have limited time and do not get paid for it.Know this we have no genre preference, there is nothing we won’t cover and no opinion is censored here, its all as valuable as your opinion is.

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