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Dave Grohl<\/a> was usually the last person to say that people needed to pay attention to his lyrics. <\/p>\n He was no Bob Dylan by any stretch, and since he was taking a lot of his lessons from what he had learned in Nirvana, it\u2019s not like Kurt Cobain was known to be the most comprehensible vocalist of all time. All those songs were more about how the music made them feel at the end of the day, but Grohl knew that there were some true wordsmiths out there when he started forming the basis of Foo Fighters.<\/p>\n If we\u2019re talking about the grunge canon alone, there are people like Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell who were already reaching for something a bit deeper than the average rock and roll song. They wanted to write stories or more cerebral takes on rock and roll, and Grohl figured that he could try his hand at writing and figure out what the tunes meant later when he made that first official Foo Fighters record.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s not like he didn\u2019t grow into a great songwriter later. \u2018Friend of a Friend\u2019 took years before it was ready to be recorded, but facing a body blow like losing Taylor Hawkins, a song like \u2018Rescued\u2019 from But Here We Are has some of the greatest kind of self-reflection<\/a> that he has ever done in a song. Not all musicians have to suffer for their art, though, and the greatest punk bands Grohl had ever heard could get their point across by making the angriest music they could whenever the amplifiers got turned on.<\/p>\n The Clash were never trying to be the greatest musicians in the world, but Joe Strummer was the one forcing everyone to pay attention<\/a> whenever talking about his political agenda. The same could be said for John Lydon writing odes to self-destruction and frustration, and for someone who had the DC hardcore scene happening in his backyard as he was growing up, Grohl was still ready to fly the flag of politics whenever he saw someone who aligned with his beliefs out in the wild.<\/p>\n Ian MacKaye was his hero in terms of personal politics, but Atari Teenage Riot had absolutely everything that he was looking for. There was no shortage of bands that were about making music sound as abrasive as possible in the 1990s, but you could feel the band\u2019s vitriol towards fascism in just about everything they played, and Grohl was happy to go along for the ride when he heard the song \u2018Sick to Death\u2019.<\/p>\n He had dealt with fighting against oppression his entire life, and he was ready to stand behind everything they did when he heard them in the late 1990s, saying<\/a>, \u201cAnyone looking for the new punk should look no further. This has just about the greatest lyrics I\u2019ve heard in years, total attitude, total commitment, total insanity. If I was 13, I\u2019d dream about a band like ATR. I think they\u2019re gonna be huge.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n The song isn\u2019t exactly the cleanest recording ever made, and the vocals can be a little bit abrasive for someone who only thinks about punk in terms of Green Day, but you can definitely hear what Grohl sees in it. He was in love with the kind of dissonant punk bands that he toured with back in the days of Scream, and even if he was looking for a melody every time he wrote a song, it\u2019s hard not to get an adrenaline rush and want to jump into a pit the minute that the tune starts.<\/p>\n Atari Teenage Riot wasn\u2019t going to be the same kind of music that Grohl placed next to his Beatle records or anything, but there\u2019s something about it that feels like home for any aspiring musician. Despite the whole thing sounding like it\u2019s on the verge of chaos at every second, it does capture the spirit of playing music with your friends whenever that count-off starts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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