Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
It feels almost too easy to give U2 a kick because of their decision to release ‘Songs Of Innocence‘ for free on iTunes, but Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has done just that, comparing the move to the totalitarian nightmare of George Orwell’s 1984 and the sound, slightly less bookishly, to that of a ‘fart’.
Hawkins reportedly made the comments fittingly enough during a chat with iTunes users, and remarked: “I don’t know that any of that new album has anything great on it. I listened to it once, but it’s so marred by that whole sort of, like I said, Orwellian, 1984 extreme that it just kinda sounds like a fart any way you listen to it.”
Foo Fighters’ own new album, ‘Sonic Highways‘, has been released – very much with an RRP – this week after recording sessions in eight different US cities with various special guests; a process frontman Dave Grohl has admitted he never wants to repeat again.