Foo Fighters suck, change my mind.

This morning I heard Monkey Wrench on the way to work - hearing that opening note right before the furious onslaught of the guitar riff took me back to when The Colour and the Shape first came out. I liked the first album but I knew from reading online (this was the early days of internet message boards) that the whole thing was just Dave's home recorded demos from over the past few years that he decided to produce into an album after the end of Nirvana, playing the instruments himself. Then they toured with a quickly assembled band but it wasn't necessarily a longterm thing.

So when there's a second album, you're wondering if this is really something that's going to last. Then, it comes out and you pop the CD in and . . . Monkey Wrench. Holy sheet what a statement that song was - first track on the critical sophomore album opens like that - kicking the door open - and ends with one of the more "wow" vocal moments of the 90s ("one last thing before I quit . . . still I was always caged but now I'm freeeeeeeeeeeee"). For me, I think it's there with Everlong as my favorite FF song.

I don't really give a crap about whether people think they're overrated, that whole exercise is pretty silly when it comes something that is completely subjective (though sometimes crap is crap). I like them and I think Dave is cool as hell - beyond that I don't need to get involved with where they rank or whatnot. It's music man, nobody is keeping score.