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Album Review Foo Fighters – Wasting Light

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A review of the upcoming Foo Fighters album by a close friend and huge Foo fan Ian Bailey. English spelling preserved Smile

http://wastinglight.foofighters.com/

  1. Bridge Burning – quality opener, really heavy just how every Foo’s album opens but there’s something so explosive about this one
  2. Rope – really tight first single, very clever and includes a great guitar and drum solo that I love, like they’ve incoporated the live act in to a song
  3. Dear Rosemary – Really catchy tune, love the beat
  4. White limo – Sabotage-esque !!
  5. Arlandria – the quiet/heavy dynamic is in full effect here
  6. These days – love the lyrics, about life and death
  7. Back & Forth – probably my least fav song on the album but still ok
  8. A matter of time – this is so catchy and really poppy, love this !!
  9. Miss the misery – really heavy guiter riffs very Alice in Chains like
  10. I should have known – probably my favourite track on the album, stunning, defo about Kurt I reckon
  11. Walk – Ending on a postive note “I never wanna die”, definitely my favourite closing song since “new way home” on the colour and the shape.

 

All in all equally as good if not better than the Colour and the Shape which I thought they’d never manage to better.

Highlights: I should have known and These days

Low point: Back and Forth

3mm thin TVs

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Being both a Sci-Fi thinker and technology fan, along with many others, I’ve dreamed of the day that we can have screens which cover our walls and provide an immersive visual experience.

Flip the switch and the wall paper changes. The paint changes colour. You are sitting atop a Everest with a beautiful day all around. The occasional cloud rushes past at high speed.

Ok, we are not there yet. But today we got one step closer. Organic LED TVs which are 3mm thick are available today.

Hopefully we’ll be on top of the mountain soon.

See the video below for more, and the link below that to more information about this technology showcased at CES 2008

MSN Tech & Gadgets – Consumer Electronics Show 2008 – Video – OLED: The future of TV

Muse, Key Arena, Seattle, WA, USA September 9th 2007

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It’s really hard to describe how fantastic this show was. Until last night the best gig I’d ever been to was Muse’s 2004 Glastonbury festival performance. With last night they didn’t necessarily top it, rather they continued on with a powerful trend. 

 

Body shaking drums. Penetrating base line. Wide ranging, singing guitar and epic piano’s. All wrapped up with just enough synth and electronica to bring the mesh together. Not that they needed the later with the confidence and execution of the three primary instruments and of course not forgetting the fourth and equally important voice of Matthew Bellamy. The stage is also worthy of a mention – far from over done, and done just right it added a visual delight to the atmosphere of the night.

  

The show was superb, it grew and built throughout from an opening with Knights Of Cydonia to the pre-encore finish with Plug-in Baby before returning for a thirty minutes starting with Take a Bow. Deftly introduced with a quote from J.F.K. which if wasn’t intended to cause a politically charged response then I don’t know what would have done. My suspicions regarding the lyrics for Take a Bow and its message were confirmed last night.

 

Muse are three very talented musicians at the top of their game. Seamless performances with enough rock and jamming to prove they know those instruments better than most of us know how to breath. Despite all this power there is a humbleness that emanates from them each of them. A quiet confidence that can only be wrought by really knowing what you are doing and having a respect for each other and your audience.

 

Thank you Muse and your crew for putting on such a spectacular show. Keep doing what you do and I look forwards to many more performances and albums in the future.