One By One (studio album) by Foo Fighters

Great album. Consistently catchy heavy rock anthems. Those first four tracks are an incredible way to open an album. All My Life and Have It All are my favourite tracks on the album. Naturally it drops off a bit after that. Then we get the glorious Come Back to close.

Poor album

Album Rating: 70.00
(770/11)

1.All My Life - 85
2.Low - 72
3.Have It All - 71
4.Times Like These - 87
5.Disenchanted Lullaby - 71
6.Tired Of You - 81
7.Halo - 77
8.Lonely As You - 23
9.Overdrive - 46
10.Burn Away - 73
11.Come Back - 84

It sucks.

I think I'm higher on this album than most, and I understand why. This is probably the record that gets the furthest away from the token Foo sound. However, it really does add a bit of melody that opened the door for E,S,P,&G.

82,45% THIS ALBUM
How I evaluate:
I am not evaluating the objective musical quality, but expressing my subjective impression,
...how the song affects me.
For example, if parts of a song are too repetitive without any gradation,
then it can happen over the course of the song, each chorus can get a different rating if
loses drive, dynamics and interest within the song.
I rate the verse separately, the chorus separately, etc., but also the development within these units.
I rate in individual sections, e.g. after 4 bars, sometimes after 8 bars.
It's not strict, it varies.
It depends on the type of song, but it's always bars within a verse or a chorus, it doesn't mix.
I then add up the individual ratings and make an average.
That's then the final rating of the song.
The album rating is then made up of the average rating of the top ten songs on the album.

Example:
01 All my life
76-78-80-80-84-84-82-80
80,50

02 Low
65-60-60-65-60-65
62,50

03 Have It All
80-86-85-80-86-85-84-86-84-87-92-94
85,75

04 Times Like These
100-85-87-90-86-88-92-88-100-92-94-
91,0909

05 Discenchanted Lullaby
84-88-84-90-88
86,800


06 Tired of you
45-30-40-30
36,250

07 Halo
80-85-78-80-86-82-83-86-
82,500

First four tracks are glorious. Middle three are poor. Closing four are descent enough to make One By One an overall enjoyable album.

Solid album. Liked this more than their previous album There is Nothing Left to Lose.

A bit like the way I felt about Kings of Leon initially, but after a few listens I started to love this album having only picked it up in 2017. Disenchanted Lullaby and Tired Of You are such excellent tracks and right up there with my all time favourites

It's a mystery to me how a band with great drumming, decent guitars and some pretty good songs can somehow sound so completely featureless. Maybe it's because there aren't a lot of creative risks happening? It all kind of sounds like a radio-friendly antiseptic version of Sugar. The band just refuses to let their sound reach a noisy catharsis. I think it's the safest sounding "hard rock" I've ever heard.