Episode 67: Foo Fighters Today's Song

In this episode of Mandatory Music, hosts Michael and Sebastian discuss their personal experiences, including Sebastian's sunburn from playing soccer. They then transition into a conversation about the Foo Fighters, focusing on Dave Grohl's musical talents and the band's sound. The discussion delves into the emotional impact of losing band members, particularly Taylor Hawkins, and how it influences their music. They analyze the latest single, 'Today's Song,' reflecting on its themes and the band's legacy in rock music.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 2:50 Discussion on the Foo Fighters
• 5:31 Dave Grohl: Drummer vs Guitarist
• 8:33 Analyzing Today's Song
• 11:16 The impact of Taylor Hawkins
• 14:10 Songwriting Dynamics in the Band
• 16:54 Public Perception and Band Identity
• 19:51 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Transcript

Michael (00:16.239)
Hey, good evening and welcome back to Mandatory Music. I'm Mike. I'm here as always with my amazing co-host, best friend, man of the century, Sebastian. How are you, We're good. Yeah, I was going to say, Mike, I don't know if it's your camera or you're a little, you're a little crispy. So yeah. How come you were a sun kissed yesterday? What were you doing? boy.

Sebastian (00:26.972)
What up, what up, what up, what up? I am fine, how are you? Little sunburn, but that's okay.

Sebastian (00:34.886)
I got sun kissed yesterday for sure. Yes. I played four hours of soccer yesterday and let me tell you, you don't want to see me try to get out of this chair because I'll probably fall on my face. Yeah, it's well, two hours and we broke for five hours and then I played another five hours, four hours and played another couple hours. Yeah.

Michael (00:46.255)
That's amazing. Four hours of soccer.

Michael (00:53.137)
That doesn't matter, you-

That's a lot, dude. is an awful lot of soccer to play in blistering heat. Cause I know where I am. It was ridiculously hot and I was down in your city the day before and it was ridiculously hot. yeah, right. So being outside, being active like that is not easy in the sun. So my only advice to you is maybe wear some sunscreen.

Sebastian (01:08.078)
It's 33 degrees yesterday.

Sebastian (01:17.298)
Yeah, and for our American friends that means it was 91 yesterday

Michael (01:18.745)
That might help.

91 Fahrenheit for a coastal city is on the West Coast is hot.

Sebastian (01:24.752)
Yep. Hat. It was hat.

Michael (01:27.833)
That's gross, actually.

Sebastian (01:29.476)
I was not, it was not comfortable running in that.

Michael (01:31.565)
Yeah, wow, 91, geez. That's the kind of garbage we get up here in the interior, but it's much different heat where I am as dry and it's, 91 is kind of nothing because it's just like, yeah.

Sebastian (01:36.838)
That's true.

Sebastian (01:41.328)
Yeah. It's very muggy here in Vancouver. Like it's just like thick wetness in the air. So it's not like a Vegas desert heat where it's like super dry.

Michael (01:49.197)
Yeah. Yeah. No, that's, yeah, that's what I got is the old desert heat. So I love, I love the desert. yeah. Yeah. It was down there and I'm like, can't wait to come home. Cause I just, just the humidity and all that stuff. And I don't know how you do that traffic. I don't know how you do that traffic either. Big city traffic is, I know you're used to it, but

Sebastian (01:57.519)
Yeah.

Sebastian (02:03.058)
It's.

Yeah, it's it's hard. It's yeah.

Sebastian (02:14.386)
You get used to going down side streets for sure. But yeah, a lot of podcasting, a lot of listening to podcasts and traffic. That's for sure. Yeah. Yeah, it sucks.

Michael (02:16.729)
Yeah. Right. Yeah.

And patients, have to have a lot of patients. it was, it was, it was fun. The wife was dry. She drove, the busiest part on Saturday and, it was just cause she, she hates driving in traffic. hates.

Sebastian (02:38.034)
It's like, need to do this for me,

Michael (02:39.919)
Yeah. And so she did. And I was, I was coaching her and I said, I'm just practicing for when my son gets behind the wheel and I'm to be coaching him. And I was very encouraging and I was, I was being, I was trying to be as no, I actually, I wasn't at No, I wasn't at all. And I was, it's that fine line you walk up trying to help. And then you start being patronizing when you're trying to help somebody get somewhere when we're not, you know, I'm like, I'm not using the map where I know where I'm going. We'll, get there.

Sebastian (02:50.48)
Maybe a little bit patronizing. Okay, good.

Sebastian (03:07.302)
And then you're like, okay, get the map out. Okay, Google, Google, Google magic. Let's do it.

Michael (03:09.015)
Yeah. Okay. Let's, let's get good. I think we took a wrong turn. Let's get out the gooks. Cause we tried to go from a North fan to down to off of, boundary and like first where poses is right behind the, the VPD building. And so I was trying to do it by memory coming off the North shore and. she, yeah, we got there. It was all good. yeah. We got there. Enjoyed myself a great panini and a coffee and bought some, yeah. man. Those paninis were sort of die for. Yeah, man. You should have one.

Sebastian (03:20.134)
Yeah.

Sebastian (03:25.488)
Did you get it? Yeah, that a boy.

Nice. It's been a hot minute since I've had a panini actually. You're going to make me want to get one tomorrow.

Michael (03:38.639)
They're tasty. But we're not here to talk about paninis and coffee, even though we could not today. Maybe next week we'll have all, all episode about coffee, but we did. did get, I did get gas right by your house and uh, yeah. So yeah, right off 200th and like where we, where we get coffee when we go to concerts and stuff, right. It was right there. So yeah, it was good times. And then I took over the wheel. I'm like, I can do the rest and cause the hard

Sebastian (03:42.61)
Not today we're not.

Yes.

Nice. Right before they get on the highway, probably.

Sebastian (03:59.75)
Yeah, nice.

Sebastian (04:04.934)
You got me out of the dark, deep traffic hole. Now I can go on the highway and take. Yeah.

Michael (04:08.023)
Yeah. And that stupid highway was backed up to Chilliwack. Like, for everyone that doesn't know the highway, was like a 50 kilometer stretch of doing like 10 for no good reason. No good. Yeah. Like no good reason. Yeah. We had like from basically from your place, I don't know, to, whatever two 64th, a couple, you know, five miles or whatever was good. And then it just, all of a sudden just. It's like, why are we stopping? Why are we going 10?

Sebastian (04:20.338)
Yeah, was on a Saturday too. That's weird.

Sebastian (04:30.353)
Yeah.

Sebastian (04:36.06)
Well, there is a lot of construction on the highway right now to widen it, but.

Michael (04:38.627)
Yeah, but there was none going on. was completely, it was just strange. And then you just, kept going and kept going. And I'm like, is this ever going to thin out? I'm like, what is going on? Cause we made fun of it the night before when we were driving, man, look at that traffic going out towards the interior. Wow. Suckers. And well, the next day we were suckers. So whatever anyways, we're not here talk about that either today. We are, we're going to talk about the Foo Fighters.

Sebastian (04:41.616)
Yeah, that's odd.

Sebastian (04:49.04)
That is odd.

Sebastian (04:54.995)
Suckers.

There we go, What are we here to talk about?

Sebastian (05:07.236)
of the way you got to say it right.

Michael (05:09.977)
Talk about Foo Fighters. sorry.

Sebastian (05:11.57)
You gotta say, hold on, let me do it. Ladies and gentlemen, the Foo Fighters. The Foo Fighters. Did you see that thing with Dave Grohl? I can't remember what talk show he was on, but he was talking to some guy and they're like, yeah, we did SNL and Christopher Walken was the host. you know, we all know the way he speaks, how he like accents certain words. he came up to Dave Grohl. He's like, hey, you know, I'm gonna be introducing you guys.

Michael (05:16.511)
okay Christopher Walken, all right then.

The Foo Fighters.

Michael (05:33.291)
Absolutely.

Sebastian (05:40.434)
Foo fighters. It's like, or is the accent on the fight or the the the Foo or the fighters? He's like, it's on it's on the fighters, sir. So he's like, ladies and gentlemen, the Foo fighters. Just because he knew he knew that, so he's going to say.

Michael (05:42.242)
You

Michael (05:53.199)
And he probably just said that just to get the, just cause he knew, Oh man, that is, that is great. So, you know, Dave Grohl is, he's kind of, uh, been polarizing last couple of years with some of the stuff, but we're not going to talk about his indiscretions or I just want to focus on the musician and cause he's a, he's a great drummer. He's a great songwriter. He's a great singer.

Sebastian (06:12.145)
Yes.

Sebastian (06:16.644)
Is he a better drummer or a better guitarist?

Michael (06:19.919)
My personal opinion is I think he's a better drummer.

Sebastian (06:23.534)
I agree. I agree.

Michael (06:25.475)
because like, know he, we all know he can play, he can do it all. But I think the drums, he, he's just able to get into that pocket better. Like Taylor, Taylor was as just as good, if not better. But yeah, I think he's, yeah, he's a much better, I, I prefer him on the drums. Like when he played on songs for the deaf by Queens of the Stone Age, he just drummed and just played drums and it was just a drummer. And that album just thumps, totally thumps. So.

Sebastian (06:36.4)
Yeah, think I definitely.

Yeah.

Sebastian (06:53.841)
Yeah.

Michael (06:55.811)
And I'm sure you do agree with that as well.

Sebastian (06:57.626)
I do. Yeah, I do. I do think he his I mean, he's a great he's a good guitarist. He's a good singer. So I understand why he's doing that for Foo Fighters being the front man. Sorry, Foo Fighters. Foo Fighters. I do think he's a great, better drummer. One thing he said a long time ago is that his approach to writing riffs is very percussive. So if you if you like just think about the Foo Fighters catalog of riffs and music that he wrote writes,

Michael (07:06.595)
Yes. Two fighters.

Sebastian (07:27.58)
They're very much like drum patterns, the guitar work, right? It's like accents on the first and third beat or second and fourth beat, depending on how you look at it. The Pretenders is like the biggest example of that, of like a riff written that's very drum centric, I guess is the best way of explaining it. So, and I get similar vibes with this song too.

Michael (07:30.349)
Yeah, absolutely.

Michael (07:39.535)
That's very interesting.

Hmm.

Michael (07:46.211)
Yeah.

Michael (07:51.639)
without a doubt. think this song was written back in the day. Like today's song was written, I think, back after Kurt died.

Sebastian (07:55.644)
Today's song.

Sebastian (07:59.45)
And that's the official name of the song, today's song. It's not like today we're doing the song. It's like, it's actually called today's song. If you go on Spotify today's song. Yeah.

Michael (08:01.847)
Yeah, today, today we're, yeah, yeah, today's song is today's song. Yeah, I think, cause I read somewhere that it was written when they first became a band with Pat and I can't remember the other guy who had the time. They wrote it, but they never did anything with it. And then the lyrics are current to now.

Sebastian (08:16.251)
Really?

Sebastian (08:21.958)
So he updated the lyrics and go, this will fit this music. Let's put it out. Yeah.

Michael (08:24.759)
Yeah, because this obviously this song, there's a lot of a lot of depth to lyrics more so than the music. The music is it's it's it's the Foo Fighters.

Sebastian (08:34.086)
Yeah, I mean is it fair to call this like a power ballad? Yeah, what's your initial feeling or your initial reaction to when you heard this?

Michael (08:38.607)
without a doubt.

Michael (08:46.633)
like I think for me with a lot of Foo Fighters songs, I want to love them all, but I don't cause it's, musically, I don't find a lot of their stuff very interesting to me, which is, I don't want to say that in a bad way cause the song is good, but it just, the

Sebastian (09:04.101)
Yeah.

Sebastian (09:08.836)
It's good. It's just very vanilla Foo Fighters. Like it's just it's a Foo Fighters song like you from beginning to end. You're like, yes, this is Foo Fighters for sure.

Michael (09:12.003)
Yes.

Michael (09:18.893)
Yeah, it's nothing like it's going, it's not anything that's going to, you know, make, it's gonna win awards or get put in the Hall of Fame. It's just, or even in the pantheon of all the Foo Fighters songs, like there's plenty of better Foo Fighters songs out there.

Sebastian (09:35.418)
I think my biggest issue with the song is I would like it to be a little quicker in terms of the pace. I think it owns that sludge pocket a little bit and it's kind of like in that broody space almost. Number one, so if I think if it was just quickened a little bit, I would enjoy it more. And number two, this is a constant. I'm not going to say it's an issue, but this is something I've noticed with Foo Fighters a lot.

Michael (09:51.213)
Yeah.

Sebastian (10:03.613)
When it comes to like their choruses or their parts or all the instruments are playing together, it's kind of like a noise soup.

Michael (10:14.67)
Yeah.

Sebastian (10:15.026)
the best way of explaining it. It's like, it's hard to distinguish like the drums and the guitar and the bass and the they all just kind of mix into like one sound. And you want diversity, you want to be able to like hear the different parts and they all add towards the musical sound, right? So I think, and I don't know how you solve that with the Foo Fighters. I think with them, it's a choice of what they want their guitar tone to be with their drum patterns and stuff. And it's to me, it just it needs to be cleaner, I think.

Michael (10:42.671)
Well, I think because there's also three of them, like I think, right? Like, let's just, there's not many bands out there with three guitar players. Maiden's the only other one I can think of. But they, no, because they all play distinguished parts from each other. They don't just play the same thing on top of each other. You know what I mean? Like it's, yeah. So you got, you know.

Sebastian (10:46.716)
yeah, guess, yeah.

Sebastian (10:54.352)
Yeah, but you don't have that problem with Iron Maiden though.

Sebastian (11:03.152)
and just layered over top of it for thickness.

Sebastian (11:08.516)
I guess that's a good way of saying it. think that the sound during the core, like during the heavy parts is too thick. Like there's too much like it's hard. You can't hear one guitar from the other from, you know, like there's like drums and cymbal crashes and distorted guitar for all three of them. And it's just it's kind of like messy in a way. Right. In my opinion, I mean, if songs fine, like it's a good song. Is it is it?

Michael (11:20.077)
No. And that's.

Michael (11:25.55)
Yeah.

Michael (11:32.11)
Night.

Sebastian (11:36.514)
One of my favorite True Fighter songs ever. No, is it, you know, one song that I want to listen to over and over again? No, I mean, it's fine. Nothing terrible about it, right? So.

Michael (11:44.653)
No, but you know.

But it's topical to sort of what they are now is still abandoned morning in a band that's... Okay, so let me ask you this. Taylor Hawkins passed away and obviously Dave and Taylor were, you know, they were all six of them or whatever was in the band. They were all very tight. Would you have pulled a Led Zeppelin and said, if one of the parts of the wheel is gone, out.

Sebastian (11:53.766)
Yep.

Sebastian (11:57.348)
Ask away. Yes.

Sebastian (12:05.425)
Yes.

Sebastian (12:15.514)
Not with the Foo Fighters. I wouldn't. Let the specific to Led Zeppelin, that was such a special moment in history when that band came out. It's like no one no one's really doing what Led Zeppelin did, and they were so iconic. You're not going to you're not going to look at the Foo Fighters and rank them as this like iconic moving genre band, whereas like Led Zeppelin did so many things that

Michael (12:16.75)
No?

Michael (12:42.105)
No.

Sebastian (12:44.88)
moved the needle in terms of the music world and you know they were arguably the biggest rock band of their time when they were current. So I mean you could say the same thing with Linkin Park should they have called the quits when Chester you know decided to yeah that's true.

Michael (12:55.661)
Yeah, like I'm not comparing them, Drake.

Michael (13:01.623)
No, I don't think they should have at all. No, cause they were, no, we talked about this before, but they were a band before Chester and the summer, right? The sum of the parts were, were more, but I think the, I split the Foo Fighters because they, the one record since Taylor's passing, it's, it's the same, but it's different and same with this song. It's like a Foo Fighters song, but it's not a Foo Fighters song. that, yes.

Sebastian (13:27.472)
OK, let me me ask you this. When you look at the Foo Fighters drums, is there anything that stands out in terms of icon passages of drums like you would with Led Zeppelin? Because there's so many examples of drumming in Led Zeppelin that you go, wow, this is I remember this, you know.

Michael (13:43.927)
Yeah, songs like Everlong, stuff like that. Sure. Monkey wrench. Not like, hey, this is a, what's that song? boy. It's not cashmere or it's not, when the levy breaks.

Sebastian (13:55.506)
Dude, that's like one of the best Led Zeppelin drum songs of all time is When the Levee Breaks. It's like John Bonham in his greatness. And without John Bonham, you don't have When the Levee Breaks. You do not. So.

Michael (13:59.469)
Yes. Yeah. No. No. So I guess in fairness, as great as they were the Foo Fighters were, guess if you, because they've lost members, not to death, but they've changed members over the years. I guess they're kind of interchangeable because I thought, you know, Dave,

Sebastian (14:13.938)
True fire.

Sebastian (14:21.904)
Yeah.

Michael (14:28.835)
Dave plays probably tells or at one time told Taylor, Hey, play it like this when you do this. Right. And then probably as time went on, just like, just do your thing.

Sebastian (14:37.316)
Yeah, that must be tough being a drummer in a band and the lead singer guitarist knows more about drums than you do as the drummer. So it's like. That would be very interesting to see how they create the dump parts like was it. Taylor Hawkins or was it Dave Grohl and telling him what to play or a collaboration of like. If it's done in a positive vein, that's actually kind of a really cool thing, right? Because you could have Taylor Hawkins come up with a drum part and Dave Grohl's like, like that. But what if we?

Michael (14:53.209)
Right?

Michael (15:00.495)
Yeah.

Sebastian (15:06.63)
did this with the ride symbol or the crash symbol instead of this. And then, I see where you're going with that. Let me try it. And then they work on it together as a collaborative effort. That would be pretty cool. So.

Michael (15:15.041)
I probably would think that's the way they did it because if they didn't, they wouldn't have been best friends. Right? Cause if it was just like, I'm pointing the finger at you telling you, okay, you play this, play it like this. And this is how I want it. You're not going to be.

Sebastian (15:20.443)
Yeah, that's true.

Sebastian (15:27.318)
Or, and I could see Dave Grohl doing this, totally honest. He would just be like, you know what? I'm not the drummer in this band, so I'm stepping away. It's up to you to come up with the drum parts, whatever you feel fits is what we'll go with. I could see him doing that, but no pressure. But just know that I could do it better.

Michael (15:36.407)
Right? Yeah. Right.

But no pressure, but no pressure. Don't worry, no big deal. I'm only watching over, yeah, I'm watching over your shoulder and don't screw it up. That's so funny. But there really isn't a lot to the song. It's three minutes and change. There's, I don't know. It's, I just thought we could.

Sebastian (16:00.72)
Yeah, it's nothing crazy like amazing, you know, do they have a new album coming out?

Michael (16:03.427)
No.

It says that there has not been confirmed if this song is going to be on the next album or not.

Sebastian (16:11.1)
They just released it as a standalone single. Yeah, it was on July 2nd. I think they released it,

Michael (16:13.005)
Yeah. You never know. would. Yeah. July 2nd is three minutes and 16 seconds. I guess even for a Foo Fighters song, it's short. It's short, but it's to the point and it's just, it's just them still grieving over, you know, all the, all the stuff that is, that has happened over the last couple of years. Cause you know,

Sebastian (16:35.738)
Yeah, I mean, it's you're right. This is a song about remembering the past and the present, you know, with their members. That's that's true. What you say there.

Michael (16:43.065)
Mm-hmm.

Michael (16:51.257)
Cause even like in verse one, it's, know, these are, these lyrics are pretty good. Like I woke up today, I woke up today screaming for a change. I knew that I must. So here lies a shadow, ash to ashes, to dust. it's like, right? Like Taylor's right there. Like he's, he's still right in his, the front of his consciousness as I put my hand right over my face.

Sebastian (17:02.82)
Yeah, that's very much.

Sebastian (17:12.282)
Yeah, that's that's going to be a hard thing to get over, honestly.

Michael (17:16.047)
I don't know if he ever can, right? It'd be like, I don't want to compare it losing a family member because, but they spent so much time. Yeah, right. They spent 25 years together doing everything under the sun. So they probably considered themselves to be brothers. So losing a sibling can't be easy. No. And then he decided to go and have a kid with another lady. So whatever that's, you know, that's.

Sebastian (17:17.756)
Yeah.

Sebastian (17:23.874)
I mean, is like you're band members or family, honestly, right?

Sebastian (17:39.14)
No, that's not.

Sebastian (17:44.638)
We won't get into that, but.

Michael (17:45.451)
No, we won't get into that. know, rock stars be rock stars, but he's doing the right thing and he's, you know, I'm sure he's making sure the kid is taken care of. that's that's on the up and up at least.

Sebastian (17:48.622)
BLEH

Sebastian (17:55.926)
Yeah. I'm not sure. I think you said it the best. And this is kind of my feeling of the Foo Fighters. I want to so desperately like all of their material, but I'm not I'm never blown away by them.

Michael (18:10.201)
can't. No, no, no, you're not wrong. No, I don't think so.

Sebastian (18:14.872)
Am I am I like I can't be the only one in that like I think it's fine. Like I think it's good, but it's just you know, it's

Michael (18:22.575)
Like for me, Wasting Light was, I think I was in 2014. I think it's a really good album. it's borderline great. Like it's awesome. But I don't like a lot of, not like, but I don't just go and say, I'm just going to throw on the foos for something to do. Unless it's that off of that record. I love that record. Like I'll put on Rope or...

Sebastian (18:43.452)
Yeah. I mean, we're definitely wrong because the world loves Foo Fighters. Like they're a pretty successful band and like they have insane amounts of followers. they're in that hard rock genre. They're up there in the top echelon of hard rock bands.

Michael (19:00.527)
And they're holding the torch for grunge still really because Dave is like the godfather of grunge because you know Pearl Jam doesn't count because they're just... They're just Pearl Jam. whatever. But here's a... Do you say you're just still over them? good yeah I I just honestly I'm still...

Sebastian (19:04.86)
Kind of, sort of, yeah.

Sebastian (19:09.809)
Yeah.

Sebastian (19:14.2)
Champ. my god. I'm so over that band. Yeah, I did say that. Dude, I don't listen to anything past the first two albums really. I mean, there's like the odd one or two songs that kind of like hit me sometimes. But maybe the third album I listen to stuff to like, what's the third one? Vitalogy. That's the third album, right? Yeah. So I listened to that. And then anything after that, I'm just kind of like, Yeah.

Michael (19:27.096)
No.

Sometimes.

Michael (19:35.641)
Vitality, yeah, that's the third album. It's decent. No, yeah, yeah, no. So yeah, I think Grohl is just because Nirvana's had this ongoing resurgence. All the young kids know, obviously know, they all wear the Nirvana shirts, whether they know who Nirvana was, they just wear the shirts.

Sebastian (19:54.45)
Dude, it's wild to me when you see teenagers wearing Nirvana shirts. I'm like, do you actually listen to Nirvana? I don't care. I think that's great, because it's just showing support for a band. But honestly, a lot of them don't even know the music. They just like the t-shirt. You see a 12-year-old wearing a Megadeth shirt. Like, what is going on? Oh, yeah. Your daughter's friend is a Megadeth fan, isn't she? Yeah.

Michael (19:57.719)
I know, right?

Michael (20:07.459)
Yep. yeah.

Michael (20:13.261)
Well, take my daughter, she wears pink Floyd shirts. And her brother's like, yes, she has, we call her Megadave.

But so yeah, my princess wears Pink Floyd shirts and her brother is always like, okay, name me five Pink Floyd songs. She's like, I can't. Like I'm just being straight up. She's like, I can't.

Sebastian (20:26.204)
That's so good.

Sebastian (20:37.702)
That's fine.

Michael (20:38.723)
whatever, because that's what the kids at school did to him a couple years ago, and he was in grade eight wearing his Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Pink Floyd, whatever shirts, he's a, man, he's in encyclopedia song titles, he knows them all, so.

Sebastian (20:47.322)
Yeah, I bet he can name them now,

Sebastian (20:54.202)
Okay, that's a good question. How do you feel about people wearing band shirts and they can't name more than a handful of their songs?

Michael (21:00.565)
It used to really annoy me. I'm just like, why then? Like, okay, like, let's just say people wearing Metallica shirts that don't know anything. It's like, especially for me, I was like so obsessed. I'm like, how do you not know? Like, this is like...

Sebastian (21:10.979)
I guess that would kind of almost be the equivalent of like sports fans for their respective teams and they don't support the team when they're not in a good spot. You know, so it's like these Vancouver Canuck fans that all of a sudden just multiply during playoff seasons. But then when they don't make the playoffs, they don't know anything that's going on with the team. They don't care about crickets. Yeah. So that's kind of similar, I think, in that vein. But.

Michael (21:21.005)
Yes. Yeah.

Michael (21:31.215)
They just, it's crickets. Yeah. Right.

Michael (21:40.621)
Yeah. So back to back to back to topic. I do have a quote from Dave that apparently accompanies a song. I'm going to try and read it. I'm going to try and not butcher it. So here we go. Over the years, we've had moments of unbridled joy and moments of devastating heartbreak moments of beautiful victory and moments of painful defeat. have mended broken bones and broken hearts, but we have followed this road together with each other for each other, no matter what, because in life you just can't go it alone.

Sebastian (21:40.784)
Sebastian (21:48.018)
Okay, send it.

Michael (22:09.647)
So that's sort of what this song is, right? It's totally right. So that's kind of what this song is. It's just a statement that we're still here and we're not going anywhere, you know, much to, I'm sure, because they had a new drummer for a minute and then they got rid of him because the rumor is they're going to bring in Dave's son. I can't remember his name. Yeah, it's a rumor. It's a rumor around town.

Sebastian (22:10.906)
He's right.

Sebastian (22:29.478)
really?

That would be interesting. My question to you is, what do think of the name?

Michael (22:38.541)
Foo Fighters are today's song.

Sebastian (22:40.274)
both, I guess, but today's song. It's a powerful name, if you think about it, like, but I'm kind of trying to figure out what it means. I guess maybe it's reflective on how they feel today about everything.

Michael (22:42.517)
I, I, yeah.

Michael (22:53.635)
Yeah, I think it's a snapshot into where they are right now. Yeah. Yeah.

Sebastian (22:56.964)
right now, like this is how we're feeling right now and this is what we're thinking about. I mean, it's it's a 30 year anniversary song, if I'm not mistaken, because the band started about 30 years ago. So that's kind of interesting. Yeah. I don't know, it's just like I'm not like I'm not blown away by the song, man. I'm not blown away by it. It's fine. Like, it's fine. It's you know, I I won't turn it off, but it's not like.

Michael (23:05.879)
Yes, yes I did.

Michael (23:13.743)
Yeah. You're just not wild by it. No.

Sebastian (23:25.52)
I'm running, my God, deep diving it because it's so amazing and great. It's a fine song. Yeah.

Michael (23:30.211)
Yeah, I've put it on a few times. It's good. It's Foo Fightery.

Sebastian (23:35.75)
There is one review I read, which I'll do it, and it's kind of like very Foo Fighters, I guess. So it's it's minimalistic, but personal. So much like Foo Fighters' early approach, it's raw, honest, and emotional. Today's song is an overly poetic in title. It's straightforward and meant to resonate wildly.

So I mean, that's a pretty good summary of what it's supposed to appeal to like a white audience, I guess.

Michael (24:01.647)
Yeah, I would agree. think it's just to get it up to the masses and you know.

Sebastian (24:06.01)
Yep. And I guess the universal message, the title feels intentionally simple and timeless, allowing listeners to insert their own meaning into today. It's not about a person or place. It's about you now today. So yeah.

Michael (24:19.351)
Hmm, interesting. Well, there you go. Yeah, that's it. I think that's it. Not much more to say. Foo Fighters. Yeah, if you don't, if it's fine or you think we suck, whatever.

Sebastian (24:24.218)
Interesting. Yeah, not much more to say.

Let us know if you like it or don't or if it's fine. If you agree with us, that is fine.

And it's okay to be just fine. Yeah. I mean, you're not going to write stairway to heaven with every single song that you write. Like you're not going to get that, but they all fit a certain style, you know, certain.

Michael (24:39.191)
It is okay to be fine, right? Because being fine is good. It means you're not bad.

Michael (24:49.177)
That seems to be once in a universe thing is Stairway to Heaven. That's like me comparing them to Led Zeva. Now you're doing it. Now you're doing it. That's right. Okay. Yeah, that's it. That's today's song today for Monday, July 14th. And we'll be back next week with something fun. Yes. Okay, bye.

Sebastian (24:53.338)
Yeah, basically.

Sebastian (25:01.574)
Well, it's the theme of this one, right? So that's today's song today.

Sebastian (25:14.962)
Yes, yeah. Bye.