MM Vol 1 - 012 - Foo Fighters

MM Vol 1 #012
Foo Fighters
"Baker Street"
(1998)

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Genre:Alt Rock

art by reggyrocket

Usually when classic songs are re-made, well, they aren't so great. For example ... Rolf Harris's re-make of "Stairway to heaven" accompanied by just a sheet of metal wobbling in and out & a didgeridoo caused a "Zep Head" backlash including a "hit" to made on the poor ocker. Luckily for him he's harder to find than old Osama. (I said Osama .. not Obama). Another example would be Britney Spears cover the Rolling Stones classic "Satisfaction" Oh the pain and despair. Heres a link to see the "Worst Covers of All Time" Please dont eat before you read this site! Which brings me back to to the start, Foo Fighters prove you can do it as long as you have intent. They sure ^#%@#!% did.

What the frag is a Foo Fighter anyway?

art by StrangeKelsey

"Foo fighter" was supposedly used initially as a semi-derogatory reference to Japanese fighter pilots (known for erratic flying and extreme maneuvering), but it became a catch-all term for fast moving, erratically flying objects. There were several other terms used to describe these objects, such as "Kraut fireballs", but "foo fighter" seems to have been the most popular. The term is generally thought to have been borrowed from the often surrealist comic strip Smokey Stover. Smokey, a firefighter, was fond of saying, "Where there's foo there's fire." (This "foo" may have come from feu, the French word for "fire", or Feuer the German word for "fire", or from Smokey's mispronunciation of the word "fuel".) A Big Little Book titled Smokey Stover the Foo Fighter was published in 1938. Foo may alternatively have come from either of the French words "faux" meaning "fake", or "fou" meaning "mad."Some have thought that the term refers to Kung fu ("kong foo") fighting, because of the reported wild, erratic movements of these aerial objects. The term Kung fu was, however, unknown in the English language until the late 1960s when it became popular because of the Hong Kong films and the later Kung Fu TV series; before that it was referred to primarily as "Chinese boxing". ~ [Source:Wikipedia]

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This song has a crowbarred rating of 97 out of 108 pts

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