10 Big Takeaways Foo Fighters: Medicine At Midnight - Album Review

8. Best Head-Banging Moment

Foo Fighters Medicine At Midnight
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Although I have talked a lot about the band's new direction and the way they have fused 80s/90s synth pop into their repertoire, there's no denying that there's still a great deal of head-banging, feet stomping, all-out rocking going on in this album. The song "No Son Of Mine" is an all out hurricane of rock which feels like the band saying "Yeah, we may be trying something new but here's one for you just to show you we've still got it."

Be that as it way, my noggin was bouncing up and down like a Dwight Schrute bobble-head when I heard track three on the album titled Cloudspotter. The song itself feels like it is building toward an epic conclusion and it takes the roof off at around the 2:45 mark.

With a heavily distorted guitar riff and Taylor Hawkins banging the drums like they owe him money, the songs ends in a colossal wall of sound set to Dave Grohl's piercing vocals. Blast that bad boy as loud as you can and if the neighbours start banging on the walls, that only means they want you to turn it up louder!

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