Todd Lyden

Image via Wikipedia Everyone is creating blogging topic helpers. Brogan is selling them. Others giving them away for free. Decided I wanted some inspiration and found it a few weeks ago with the release of the Foo Fighter 's Wasting Light album. I wrote about the first  line of the first song was "These are my famous words" and I asked, what would yours be (in 140 characters of course). So what about the rest of the songs? Turns out Grohl gives food for thought. "A Matter of Time" opens with "Let's change the subject to someone else." "Back and Forth" starts with "Once upon a time, I was someone else" "Arlandria's" first line is "Ain't that the way it always starts, a simple round of conversation." "I Shoulda Known" starts with the predicable "I should have known it would end this way." "White Limo," one of the least understandable songs in history, opens w...

  And now for something completely different: I have been waiting for the next Foo Fighters album since they announced they were going back into the studio last year (Dave's garage!). The innovators have released a streaming album this past week in what could have been taken as an April Fool's joke. I decided to give my opinion of the album as hardcore Foo fan. The trim album barely clocks in at 47 minutes with 11 songs. 1. Bridge Burning- call me a traditionalist, but I love this song. Like many of their other big hits like Pretender , this progressive song is hard hitting and has the changes the band has become known for. Dave screams, but does great lyrical work.  The progressions are amazing. The harmonies are dead on. The backing sweet. A terrific riff. Just perfect. There are so many performers on this song and not an ounce of them are wasted. This song is a shot across the bow of all deadbeat bands. 2. Rope- the first official single from the album. Probably th...