Foo Fighters‘ 1995 self-titled debut album (recorded entirely by Dave Grohl himself) turned 30 last week (6/26), and the band have been celebrating / possibly teasing something with the hashtag #FF30. One of the things they’ve posted is a cover of Minor Threat‘s hardcore classic “I Don’t Wanna Hear It,” which Dave says he recorded the instrumentals for in 1995 and then did the vocals this year.
“I Don’t Wanna Hear It” is obviously a massively influential song on the entire grunge/alt-rock movement that Foo Fighters were part of, and Dave himself came up in the DC hardcore scene and drummed for Scream, who were signed to Minor Threat vocalist Ian MacKaye’s Dischord Records. (As Stereogum points out, Dave and Ian were also spotted together this year.) The cover is a faithful, straightforward take on the classic original, and there’s nothing wrong with that at all. It’s always cool to see alt-rock giants paying tribute to their hardcore punk forebears; this is no exception. Check it out below.
Dave also recently joined Kim Deal in London for the Pixies classic “Gigantic,” another song that paved the way for the grunge movement and Nirvana in particular.
