{"id":365564,"date":"2025-12-23T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365564\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:25:07","slug":"the-most-sophisticated-song-ever-according-to-dave-grohl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365564\/","title":{"rendered":"“The most sophisticated” song ever, according to Dave Grohl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dave<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Dave Grohl)<\/p>\n

Tue 23 December 2025 11:19, UK <\/p>\n

Dave Grohl <\/a>had been a part of some of the most imposing and culturally resonant songs in rock history. His work with Nirvana provided moments of true timeless brilliance, while Foo Fighters remain one of the most important rock bands of recent times. Both bands\u2019 success was built on songwriting. <\/p>\n

For decades now, there has been a sense that the art of songwriting is in decline. Today, it\u2019s commonplace to hear even relatively young music fans complain about the state of songcraft, which many seem to regard as a dying art. <\/p>\n

Indeed, some have gone so far as to claim that the 21st-century pop music canon represents the death of melody. I personally find such generalisations a little fatalistic. Dave Grohl, on the other hand, would disagree. For the Foo Fighters frontman, there was clearly a golden age of melodic pop songwriting. <\/p>\n

The 1970s were a strange time for music. It was a decade in which everything seemed to be happening at once. Thanks to the mass popularity of artists like Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the recorded music industry was at the height of its powers and had already made a lot of people very, very rich. <\/p>\n

Fans had already seen the creation of pioneering albums like Highway 61 Revisited, Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Beggars Banquet \u2013 all records that pushed the art of songwriting into new territory while remaining attached to traditional Western melodic and harmonic practices. <\/p>\n

The public\u2019s hunger for well-crafted songs continued into the 1970s, leading to a surge of syrupy pop balladers. According to Grohl, these artists represent the moment American popular songwriting reached new heights. Talking about his early experiences with music, Grohl told Marc Maron, \u201cThe music that really got into my head first was AM radio in the car. So, this was the mid-1970s, so you\u2019re talking Andrew Gold and Phoebe Snow and Helen Reddy and Carly Simon and 10cc\u2014all that AM bullshit, man.\u201d <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a paradox of music that must be addressed and confronted by any true music lover. Does a song being popular make it inherently good or bad? Can something that pleases everybody be a bad thing, or does that popularity suggest a simplicity that means the song is terrible? For Grohl, there is beauty in the ability to appeal to everybody. <\/p>\n

While clearly lacking in edginess, the likes of Andrew Gold, in Grohl\u2019s <\/a>opinion, were some of the most \u201csophisticated\u201d songwriters of the era. \u201cThe keyboard sound is a little maybe, you might call it cheesy, it\u2019s not cool anymore, but melodically [\u2026] it is maybe one of the most melodically sophisticated songs I have ever heard in my entire life,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to hear it. It will blow your fucking mind.\u201d <\/p>\n

Released in 1978, \u2018Never Let Her Slip Away\u2019 stands in stark contrast to \u201977 punk classics like The Ramones\u2019 \u2018Sheena Is A Punk Rocker\u2019, The Damned\u2019s \u2018Neat Neat Neat\u2019 or Buzzcocks\u2019 Orgasm Addict\u2019, which perhaps explains why it didn\u2019t do particularly well on release. Still, the saxophone-laden balled \u2013 which Gold apparently wrote for SNL comedian Laraine Newman \u2013 clearly left a permanent mark on Dave Grohl. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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