Dave Grohl has named the Foo Fighters lyrics he hates the most.
The band’s frontman was answering questions during an episode of First We Feast’s Hot Ones Versus – in which he appeared alongside fellow members Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee, Ilan Rubin and Nate Mendel – and he was asked to name the group’s “cringiest” lyrics with the drummer-turned-singer admitted he can’t stand the words he wrote for their 2005 track DOA because they are just “so f****** stupid”.
Dave said: “Take your pic. I swear there’s so many that I hate. I was thinking about this song today in the shower. That song DOA – ‘It’s a shame we have to die my dear/No one’s getting out of here alive/’.
“I just thought that’s so f****** stupid, why did I just … I feel like that’s one of those ones I wrote ‘cause you guys were like [tapping on the table] ‘Dave just sing something, anything!'”
Guitarist Chris then asked: “So it was our fault?” and Dave then joked: “Yes it was your fault. You guys have driven me to some of the worst writing I’ve done in my life!”
During the episode Dave also recalled an encounter with Davie Bowie, revealing he asked the music legend if he wanted to collaborate on a movie soundtrack and he received a particularly blunt response from the Heroes star.
Dave explained: “I asked him to collaborate on something. It was for a movie soundtrack. He said: ‘That’s not really my genre or thing. I’d love to do something, but I don’t think this is it.’ I didn’t want to bother him anymore, so I just wrote: ‘Hey man, thank you very much, I hope to see you soon’.
“And I immediately got an email back that said: ‘Well, that’s settled then. Now f*** off’.”
Dave previously revealed he also had an awkward encounter with Bowie when he managed to insult the music legend within seconds of meeting him. Speaking on Dish from Waitrose with Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett OBE, the Foo Fighters rocker explained he first saw Bowie perform at a festival and was completely overwhelmed by the experience.
He recalled: “I had just seen him perform at a, like a V Festival – or something like that. It was like Prodigy, David Bowie and we happened to be on the bill.
“I was standing in the photo pit and he was right there, he was right above me singing. It was otherworldly. I mean, it was like a religious experience.
“I was just like, ‘He’s an angel, this is amazing’.”
But when Dave met the singer in the studio shortly afterwards, his attempt to express that awe went disastrously wrong.
He continued: “I told him when I met him in the studio, I said, ‘I just saw you, like, it was such a trip to see you in human form right there, right in front of me.’
“And he says, ‘What did you think? What did you feel?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh f***.’” Caught off guard, Grohl blurted out the worst possible response. He recounted: “So, the first thing to come out of my mouth, like an idiot, I said, ‘Well, the first thing I noticed was all of your imperfections’. I backpedalled so fast.
“I don’t know how I got out of that one. But I was like, what did I just … I would never say that to anybody. Isn’t that horrible?”
Despite the mishap, Dave said Bowie’s talent in the studio was nothing short of breathtaking.
He enthused: “I swear to God, he’s one take – his voice, it’s the voice, there’s no effect. It’s just exactly like this. You get chills. You’re like, ‘Oh my God, that’s the most reassuring, beautiful thing, this is real’.”