10 Perfect Rock Music Albums Of The 2010s

There's normally an unspoken time limit when a rock band stops being relevant. As you start reaching your mid 30s, people start taking you less seriously as an artist, thinking that you lived too long a life to be able to reach the youth like you did in the early days. If that were the case though, Foo Fighters have managed to find the fountain of youth with their album Wasting Light.

Considering the lead up to this album though, you wouldn't expect this to be an all time great. Coming off of the more epic sounds of their last records and being worked on concurrently with a documentary, you wouldn't fault rock fans for getting St. Anger vibes from this record. What we got though was everything we could have asked for from a late period Foo Fighters record: a return to the dirty side of things.

Tracked on tape with Butch Vig at the helm, this sounds like the Foos finally got their groove back after toying with what their sound could be. You can still hear the orchestrations on songs like I Should Have Known, but the raw edge of something like Bridge Burning and the anthemic sound of Walk make it feel like your favorite album before you've listened to it all the way through. Whatever Good Guy Grohl has in his arsenal, it's something that most other rock acts would die for.