Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins has taken a surprising dig at U2, slamming them for their new album 'sounding like a fart'.
The usually zen sticksman has now joined the ranks of The Black Keys and Pink Floyd in being less than complimentary about the band's new album Songs Of Innocence and the way that it was released for free to all iTunes users.
Speaking to TheMusic.com.au, he said: "I mean, I think they probably thought it was gonna be a great idea, ‘Here’s the deal: everybody who has an iPhone, gets your record. And they get it for free!’ And they thought, probably, ‘Well that’s pretty awesome!’ but they didn’t really take into consideration the Big Brother feeling that kinda goes along with like, ‘[In menacing voice] You have the new U2 record’ … You couldn’t get rid of it and they actually had to come up with an app to get rid of it, that’s horrible.”
He added: "What happened to U2, man? I don’t think people are that hyped on them.” He said he has only listened to Songs of Innocence once, and didn’t find “anything great on it.” He added, “…it’s so marred by that whole sort of, like I said, Orwellian, 1984 extreme that it just kinda sounds like a fart any way you listen to it."
Ouch.
Meanwhile, Foo Fighters' new album Sonic Highways is out now. Check out our interview with the band here, and track-by-track review here.
