The Album Review Club - End of Round #9 Break (page 1904)

RobMCFC said:
I didn't know the story but I googled "Cliff Richard's name on a pen" and that story came up.

I had to laugh at the quote: "In the UK there's a cheap kind of pen called a Biro pen...."

Does he not know that the pen is named after its Hungarian inventor, Lazlo Biro, and that's why it's known as a biro worldwide?!
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Funnily enough, if you hadn't included the word 'name' in your search, it wouldn't have come up. Something I had tried on google when quickly checking it wasn't too easy a clue. That story had done the rounds at gigs some 15+ years ago, surprised the article is as late as last year. There have been other joke explanations by them over the years, so not entirely sure I fully believe it myself.

I remember telling a good friend about them whem they first started, saying you heard of this new band etc etc. And he said, what the hell's a clyro. Which made me think he knew what a biffy was. But I was too proud to ask.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
Listened to 2/3rds on the commute home.

Just so I can gauge the preference of the audience here for when I write my review, do you all prefer “Foo Fakers” or “Foo Light-ers”?

Just kidding :)
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I'm not Foo-Biting.


The last 3rd is where it really comes together ;)
 
I am struggling with this one more than most. I can’t decide if I dislike it because of all the Foo’s rips or like it because I like the Foos. It’s not all Foo-like, but the stuff I like best on the record is Foo-like.

I will say I do keep listening to “Bubbles” (not on this record) and that’s a good little tune and sticks in my brain. Had it going through my head while playing golf yesterday and had a good round so there must be something about it.
 
I've listened to "Infinity Land", the album before "Puzzle", to see what direction they had come from. And I've come to a conclusion.
Where as "Infinity" appears to be a sort of Soundgarden/ early Foo Fighters/ late Nirvana/ Mudhoney grunge type inspired record "Puzzle" appears to be a later Soundgarden/ Foo Fighters grunge lite inspired record. Fair play for moving on, but there doesn't seem as much progression as their web page blurb would have it though.

It also came out within a few months of my favourite Foo Fighters album, "Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace". It's of a similar style but that doesn't mean that they are a Foo light. My trouble is it reminds me of In Your Honor the album before "Echoes". Which came out 2 years before and as such they appear, and I say appear, to be running on the coat tails. Sort of "everyone else is shifting so why don't we?"

All well and good though if it actually is any good and stands out, or indeed stands the test of time.

My answer? No. And maybe. It's not to say I'm not enjoying Puzzle because I am but that it's been done before and more importantly, better. A decade before. I'm listening to some Stone Temple Pilots whilst writing this, can you believe "Plush" was recorded in 1992? Or Soundgarden's seminal "Black Hole Sun" came out in 1994? Puzzle is 2007.

And as an album in the same sort of vein it simply isn't as good as either of the above offerings from a decade before. You could say the same about the Foo Fighters though.

Still, I've listened 5 times now, twice to "Infinity Land" and yet I reached for "Superunknown" as soon as I could. Nope, definitely a decade too later. I might have mentioned that last part a few times.

A score? It's hard to score but I do actually quite like some of it even if it is very familiar.

6/10
 
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