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Foo Fighters: Greatest Hits

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Label: RCA Records
Released: 2009.11.03
Time:
 63:48
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Barrett Jones, Gil Norton, Adam Kasper, Butch Vig, Foo Fighters
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.foofighters.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] All My Life [One by One, 2002] - 4:24
[2] Best of You [In Your Honor, 2005] - 4:16
[3] Everlong [The Colour and the Shape, 1997] - 4:10
[4] The Pretender [Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, 2007] - 4:27
[5] My Hero [The Colour and the Shape, 1997] - 4:19
[6] Learn to Fly [There Is Nothing Left to Lose, 1999] - 3:56
[7] Times Like These [One by One, 2002] - 4:28
[8] Monkey Wrench [The Colour and the Shape, 1997] - 3:53
[9] Big Me [Foo Fighters, 1995] - 2:14
[10] Breakout [There Is Nothing Left to Lose, 1999] - 3:22
[11] Long Road to Ruin [Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, 2007] - 3:48
[12] This Is a Call [Foo Fighters, 1995] - 3:55
[13] Skin and Bones [Skin and Bones, 2006] - 4:04
[14] Wheels [Previously unreleased] - 4:38
[15] Word Forward [Previously unreleased] - 3:49
[16] Everlong (Acoustic) [The Colour and the Shape sessions, 1996, Previously unreleased] - 4:11

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Dave Grohl - Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Drums on [3,5,8,9,12], Lead Guitar on [3,5,8,13], Bass Guitar on [9,12], Producer, Liner Notes
Pat Smear - Rhythm Guitar on [3,5,8,13], Producer
Nate Mendel - Bass Guitar on [1-8,10-11,13-16], Producer
Taylor Hawkins - Drums on [1,2,4,6,7,10,11,13-16], Backing Vocals on [4,11], Producer
Chris Shiflett - Lead Guitar on [1,2,4,7,11,13-15], Producer


Barrett Jones - Producer on [9,12]
Gil Norton - Producer on [3,4,5,8,11,13,16]
Adam Kasper - Producer on [1,6,7,10,17], Engineer, Mixing
Nick Raskulinecz - Producer on [1,2,7], Engineer, Mixing
Butch Vig - Producer on [14,15]
Steve Culp - Engineer
Mike Terry - Engineer
Geoff Turner - Engineer
Rich Costey - Mixing
Tom Rothrock - Mixing
Rob Schnapf - Mixing
Jim Scott - Mixing
Chris Sheldon - Mixing
Charles Peterson - Photography

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Almost 15 years on from their debut, Foo Fighters deliver their first Greatest Hits, a 15-track (16 if the double dip on "Everlong" counts) retrospective covering their six albums from 1995 to 2007. Greatest Hits isn't arranged chronologically, which isn't a detriment; if anything, skipping through the years emphasizes just how consistent the Foos have been, always delivering oversized rock & roll where the hooks are as big as the guitars. The only exceptions to the rule are the two lo-fi cuts "Big Me" and "This Is a Call," with "I'll Stick Around" qualifying as this comp's inexplicable omission ("Walking After You," "DOA," "Stacked Actors," and "No Way Back" all also didn't make the cut), plucked from their 1995 debut, where the band was only Dave Grohl recording at home. Apart from this pair of tunes, this is all muscular, melodic modern rock, the kind that Foo Fighters almost patented, and if their consistency has occasionally made their albums blend together, it does result in one strong hits collection.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - AllMusic.com



Greatest Hits includes a selection of Foo Fighters hit singles. Two singles from their 1995 debut, Foo Fighters album ("This Is a Call" and "Big Me") are included. Three singles are included from 1997's The Colour and the Shape album ("Monkey Wrench", "Everlong" and "My Hero"). The Colour and the Shape remains the band's biggest selling album in the US. Two singles are included from 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose album ("Learn to Fly" and "Breakout") as are two singles from 2002's One by One album ("All My Life" and "Times Like These"). One single ("Best of You") is included from the band's biggest world wide selling album In Your Honor, released in 2005. "Best of You" remains the band's highest charting hit on the US, UK and Australian singles charts. Two singles are included from 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace album ("The Pretender" and "Long Road to Ruin"). Greatest Hits also contains two new songs "Wheels" and "Word Forward".

"Wheels" is the first single taken from the album, which premiered on radio on September 23, 2009. The single was officially released on September 29, 2009. "Wheels" and "Word Forward", which was written for Dave Grohl's friend, Jimmy, who had recently died, were composed during the Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace tour and recorded specifically for the compilation with producer Butch Vig.

Dave Grohl has stated his displeasure with the release of a greatest hits album, stating he would have preferred to wait until after the band had retired. The band's label, however, had been wanting to release a compilation album for four years, and exercised a clause in the band's contract that allowed them to do so. Grohl has also mentioned that he would've preferred a different track listing, featuring some songs other than those that were included. In the liner notes of the album, Grohl writes:

      These 16 songs are what we're calling our "Greatest Hits." Not to be confused with "Our Best Songs" or "Our Favorite Songs," it is a collection of the songs that have defined our band's identity to most people over the years. The other 65 album tracks... well, some of those might be our greatest songs. "Aurora", "New Way Home", "MIA", "Exhausted", "A320" ... depends on whom you ask. Personally, I don't think we've written our greatest songs yet. But that door is always open.

Reception was mostly positive for the compilation. Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted in his positive review that the compilation was missing some of the band's successful singles, most notably "DOA" and "I'll Stick Around". Matthew Perpetua of Pitchfork Media also noted the lack of "I'll Stick Around" on the compilation and suggested that the release would have been stronger with the inclusion of rarities and fan favorites, such as their cover of Prince's "Darling Nikki" or their popular soundtrack contribution "The One". Perpetua also writes "Like nearly all songs recorded specifically for [greatest hits compilations], 'Wheels' and 'Word Forward' are catchy but uninspired, and have no place among the heavy hitters in this collection." As of October 27, 2010 it has sold 333,000 copies in the US.

wikipedia.org



Greatest-hits compilations seldom make worthy additions to bands’ catalogs, but in some rare cases, they become the only record fans need to own. That’s overstating it in the case of Foo Fighters, but long before the release of the new Greatest Hits, the band had a reputation for filler-heavy albums punctuated by takeoff tracks. Even fans may remember 1997’s The Colour And The Shape mostly as a bunch of other stuff surrounding “Monkey Wrench,” “My Hero,” and “Everlong,” but when Foo Fighters were on their game, they tended to hit it out of the park.

So few bands may be better suited to the greatest-hits treatment, and with the group going on hiatus (following 2007’s middling Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace), now is the time to do it. The standard edition collects 13 of the hits and features two songs, “Wheels” and “Word Forward,” recorded for this compilation, and a previously unreleased acoustic version of “Everlong.” The deluxe edition has all that, plus a 28-page photobook and DVD featuring videos and live performances. Aside from the new tracks, the standard edition offers little in the iTunes age, when casual fans probably have all the hits already. (Tellingly, iTunes only offers Greatest Hits as an entire album, though fans can opt for an “EP” version featuring only the new songs, the video for “Wheels,” and a cover of “Band On The Run,” which isn’t on the discs.) Still, as a collection of songs, Greatest Hits is hard to beat. It’s as if Foo Fighters have been working up to this point all along.

Kyle Ryan - Nov 3, 2009
The A.V. Club



Fünfzehn Jahre Foo Fighters – ein geeigneter Zeitpunkt für einen Blick zurück. Einige Highlights: In den vergangenen eineinhalb Dekaden erreichten sechs Alben der Band alleine in den USA Platinstatus. In der gleichen Zeit wurden die Foos mit sechs Grammys ausgezeichnet und es gelang Ihnen, das Wembley Stadion, den Madison Square Garden und das L. A. Forum auszuverkaufen. Am 30. Oktober 2009 folgt nun ein weiterer Meilenstein in ihrer Karriere: Unter dem Titel »Foo Fighters Greatest Hits« veröffentlicht die Band ihr erstes Best-Of-Album.

Dass es der Foo-Stammbesetzung Dave Grohl (Gesang / Gitarre), Taylor Hawkins (Schlagzeug / Gesang), Nate Mendel (Bass) und Chris Shiflett (Gitarre) dabei nicht genug war, einfach nur eine Art Mixtape ihrer bisherigen internationalen Smash-Hits zusammen zu stellen, die den Musikern unzählige Platin-Awards, Gold-Statuetten und weltweit ausverkaufte Arenen beschert hatte, versteht sich von selbst. Deshalb enthält »Foo Fighters Greatest Hits« gleich zwei brandneue Stücke: »Wheels«, das erstmals im Rahmen von Präsident Obamas »USO Barbeque« zu Ehren US-amerikanischer Kriegshelden am 4. Juli im Weißen Haus öffentlich aufgeführt wurde und »Word Forward«. Beide Tracks wurden im legendären, Band-eigenen 606 Studio speziell für das Best-Of-Album unter der Regie von Butch Vig aufgenommen. Neben den zwei Newies enthält der Longplayer natürlich auch die Grammy-preisgekrönten Songs »The Pretender«, »All My Life« und »Learn To Fly«, sowie zahlreiche Foo-Favourites wie »Best Of You«, »Times Like These«, »My Hero« und »Everlong«, um nur einige zu nennen.

Für all diejenigen, denen das Musikgenre »Rock’n’Roll« bis dato noch fremd ist, hier eine Kurzusammenfassung der bisherigen Foo-Karriere. Ihren Einstand feierte die Band im Jahre 1995 mit dem selbst betitelten Debütalbum, zwei Jahre später folgte mit »The Colour & The Shape« ein Longplayer, der in den USA mit über zwei Millionen verkauften Einheiten Doppel-Platin erreichte und 2007 in einer »10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition« neu aufgelegt wurde. Das dritte und das vierte Foo-Fighters-Album »There Is Nothing Left To Lose« (1999) und »One By One« (2002) wurden jeweils mit dem Grammy in der Kategorie »Best Rock Album« ausgezeichnet. 2005 feierte die Band ihr zehnjähriges Bestehen mit der Doppel-CD »In Your Honour«, ein Jahr später folgte mit der »Skin + Bones«- CD und –DVD der Livemitschnitt einer Tour, bei der die Band in kleineren Theatern aufgetreten war und ihre Songs größtenteils in akustischen Versionen gespielt hatte. Das bislang letzte Studioalbum der Band »Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace« erschien 2007 und stellte in Großbritannien einen Erstwochenverkaufsrekord bei iTunes auf. Für ihren sechsten Longplayer erhielt die Gruppe ihren dritten »Best Rock Album«-Grammy (die sechste Auszeichnung dieser Art insgesamt) und räumte die internationalen Preise bei den Brit-Awards ab. Die »ESP&G«-Tour gipfelte in den zwei größten Headline-Shows ihrer Karriere: zwei ausverkaufte Konzerte im Londoner Wembley-Stadion, die ihnen den Publikumsrekord von 165.000 Zuschauern einbrachte. Die sensationelle Performance wurde auf der 18 Stücke umfassenden DVD »Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley« verewigt.

Im Rahmen der mittlerweile legendären Wembley-Shows fragte Grohl das Publikum: »Wie konnte diese Band nur so verdammt groß werden?« Die eindrucksvolle Antwort darauf geben die Musiker am 30. Oktober selbst – mit ihrer ersten Best-Of-Collection »Foo Fighters Greatest Hits«.

JPC.de
 

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