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Arguably the year's first great hot-weather record. [24 Jun 2005, p.161]
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Loud, anthemic, joyous and bitter, it's easily the best Foo Fighters album in a decade. [12 Jun 2005]
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83The first half is instantly familiar, throwing up the same flurry of guitars and post-grunge drudge the Foos have been hammering home for years. The more laid-back stuff is... charming and warm.
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83Both these records chronicle the physical and mental graffiti of figuring out how to emerge from some very large shadows, including his own, with nerve and power. [Jul 2005, p.96]
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By stretching out, the Foo Fighters not only have expanded their sound, but they've found the core of why their music works, so they now have better songs and deliver them more effectively.
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The most accomplished work of Grohl's post-Nirvana career. [Aug 2005, p.174]
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74If you buy In Your Honor and toss out the second half, you'll own the band's best record since The Colour and the Shape. [#16, p.88]
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Feels a bit like your bedroom partner trying on all kinds of flash costumes and gadgets to try and excite you, and the realisation that it wasn't really necessary and they wouldn't have had to bother had you just shown them a little more love in the first place.
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70It is not the Foo's finest moment, but for all its flaws and flab, this meandering record may just become one we all learn to love.
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This is by far their most realized and balanced attack. [#10, p.111]
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70Unquestionably the work of a band with ambitions rekindled. [Jul 2005, p.92]
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The rock was catchy, but it's the slow stuff that flips you on your axis with its depth.
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The rock CD overpowers the acoustic one. Yet among the quieter songs, there are enough supple melodies and hypnotic guitar patterns to suggest fine prospects for a follow-through album that would dare to mix plugged-in and unplugged. [12 Jun 2005]
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70It is clean, polished rock with a vaguely punk edge that stays within a clear set of boundaries but in doing so manages to appeal to indie-kids and metal-lovers alike.
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68In Your Honor, like most Foo Fighters records, is sterile and controlled; there is never any threat of dissolution.
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Lurking somewhere in its spotty 80+ minutes lies an excellent 40 minute album, one of the best the Foos have ever done. As is, though, with its heaps of filler, dated production and needless segregation of rockers from ballads, it may actually be their weakest.
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60[Disc 1] is grunge-punk-metal boiled down to mere energy -- and calories don't rock. [Jul 2005, p.102]
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60Let's face it: Foo Fighters are dull. [Jul 2005, p.117]
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60[Disc 1] is impressive stuff--the sound of a muse regained. Pity the acoustic disc is nowhere near as good. [Jul 2005, p.109]
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Some of Grohl's lyrical shortcomings become exposed: The sameness and vagueness of his love lyrics blunt their impact.
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60Ten tracks of this kind of thing [on the acoustic disc] is pushing Grohl's ability as a Damien Rice, but it makes a neat complement to the first disc, and together they're pleasantly chewy.
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In Your Honor's acoustic half reveals Dave Grohl's songwriting shortcomings.
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60In Your Honor has some great tunes, but it is by no means perfect.
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50One can't help but think that by scaling back their ambitions, the Foos could have made one great album instead of two average ones.
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40'In Your Honour' is as rancid and moribund and as redundant of ideas as it is possible to be.
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Sure, the Foos are excellent at what they do. It's just unfortunate that what they do is so unavoidably mediocre.
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5Half of the songs are great and the other half feels filler and a bit boring. A really ambitious project and I applaud them for that.