19

Foo Fighters
In Your Honour

As much of an (in your) honour as it undoubtedly is for any album to make my top 20 list, a placing of 19 just isn’t up to standard for the Foos. The dual disc thing was a good idea, but I’m not sure it really works overall. There are a smattering of amazing tracks on both discs. The title track is a great opener, and is a bit different from a usual Foos track, ‘Free Me’ is the best track on disc one and kicks a big chunk of bottie, ‘Another Round’ has a lovely simplicity to it and ‘Razor’ is the best track on the entire collection (this sounds to me like a Queens Of The Stone Age track done on an acoustic, which I suppose makes sense cause Josh Homme did the guitar).

More than that, no track on In Your Honour is ‘bad’ exactly (the Foos are just too darn competent for that). However, there are loads of filler tracks, and it is certainly overblown and inconsistent. The strength of the good songs (and the fact that even the lesser songs are perfectly listenable) gets this in here, because I have really enjoyed it. Overall a big disappointment though. I prefer the acoustic disc just because it is a bit different. Except for ‘Virginia Moon’. I take it back about the no bad track thing. That’s shit.

If you combined all the good tracks and lost the rest, you’d have a truly brilliant 11 or 12 track album. Except you wouldn’t, because half of them would be rock and half acoustic and it just wouldn’t fit…