After the grunge scene died down, some bands decided to ride the cotails of previous great acts and deliver a watered down version of music that used to have some passion and emotion going into it. The Foo Fighters can be catergorised as "grunge-lite" - harmless almost dancible tunes that will not offend anyone and are sure to be played in every radio station around.When listening to this, I cannot say that it is a terrible album. The band does know how to write some catchy music - "Everlong", but these songs are too harsh to be pop, to weak to be considered rock and they lack the bitterness of grunge. I am reminded a lot of Silverchair's 1st three albums as they are very similar to this - neither of those making any impression on me at all.In the end like many bands this music falls into the "cute" category - read: background music.