Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
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Artist: Foo FightersEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
Published: 2007-09-21
CD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Music Label: Rca
Product features:
- Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
- The Pretender
- Let It Die
- Erase/Replace
- Long Road To Ruin
- Come Alive
- Stranger Things Have Happened
- Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)
- Summer s End
- Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners
- Statues
- But, Honestly
- Home
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Free Music Review: Deliciously crafted album
Hit: 5 Stars
9.25.07 REVIEW: Foo Fighters~ Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace?
Excellent album. Very much reminds me of Led Zeppelin III. Every song does something good for me and hopefully you. I am very proud of the Foo for crafting this.
1. The Pretender: Perhaps the best all-around song released to radio in their history. It starts simple and pretty and progressively builds and builds into a dynamic rocker that gets you moving and wanting more. The drumming in this track is perfect. Not too much, not too little, but still present. The song is very good and very hard-charging. 5 stars. 1st out of 12 on my favorite list here.
2. Let it die: I love how innocent it starts and how it draws you in. It is a very clean song (thank you Gil for allowing us to thoroughly enjoy the elements of the music, unlike the last two records) and you just know something bigger is ahead. I love the middle of the song when it goes from mellow to crunchy instantly. Great guitar work, very nice. I read how Shiflett is all over this record....somebody is, I hope it is Shiflett. How can you tell if it is Dave or Chris on record? Obviously Long road to ruin, Summer's end, and But, honestly are Shifty, but this is a little heavier. I love the idea of the Foo allowing Shifty to have more of a presence here. These two songs are a great start to an album. I could do without the blood-curdling screech at the end, but this is a great song. 5 stars. 2nd favorite out of 12.
3. Erase/Replace: To me, this song sounds very TCATS to me. Eveyone wanted that and I think this is the song that sounds most like 1997 to me. I do however, think people need to realize this isn't 1997 or 1999 or 2005. This is a new album. Don't try to say it is what it isn't. Accept the fact that the Foo's are doing what they want and doing it well. Back to this song. I like the energy here. Although this is probably my 2nd least favorite here. 3 ¼ stars. 11th favorite out of 12.
4. Long road to ruin: Very cool sounding song. Very Shiflett themed. I love the bass and the guitar solo is hands down the best we have heard on record from the Foo's. I am glad they made a song that sounds like this. People will here this and feel good. Everytime I hear this I see myself driving with the window's down and the sun visor down with the lady on my side. 5 stars. 4th favorite of 12.
5. Come alive: I was expecting something more, but nevertheless this is a quality track. The acoustic to electric thing definitely reminds me of Led Zeppelin's finest moments. This song is similar to Let it die, but not nearly as good. It does, however have a very neat guitar line in its closing moments. 4 stars. 10th favorite of 12.
6. Stranger things have happened: When I read it was just an acoustic guitar accompanying Dave I wasn't excited. Then I heard the song and fell in love. This was the first song I wanted to hit "repeat". Great lyrics and beautiful guitar work by Shiflett and or Grohl. This is a masterpiece. 5 stars. 3rd favorite of 12.
7. Cheer up, boys (your make-up is running): I had heard live versions of this song and was really looking forward to hearing it in its studio form. It doesn't disappoint as this is what every Foo fan loves: Rocking energy at a frenetic pace while maintaining a great melody. The chorus is both catchy and slightly disappointing. I am a sucker for back ground vocals and incorporating all members, but it doesn't work for me here. That may change the more I here it though. This is a great catchy rock song that will be played at stadiums near you soon. 4 ¾ stars. 6th favorite of 12.
8. Summer's end: Very cool intro and great guitar work throughout. I really like the lyrics of this song and the guitar work. Overall it hasn't excited me as much as I want it to, but it will. 4 ½ stars. 8th favorite of 12.
9. Ballad of the Beaconsfield minors: Granted, it is done for a cool reason, but my God-this song is not very good. I can't play guitar like that, but it just sounds like a bunch of foreign noise. 1 star (only because the Foo deserve a star for making any song). 12th favorite of 12.
10. Statues: I can't understand why people don't like this song much, it is beautiful. Dave sounds great, the guitar work is very good and the piano is outstanding as well. I really like the lyrics here too. Very nice sound that makes you love the Foo even more. The intro sort of gives off a Peter Frampton thing for me. I really like the potential this song brings. 4 ½ stars. 7th favorite of 12.
11. But, honestly: Freaking good song. Really good song. I love the simplicity and the beauty in this song. Another song I wanted to listen to again right away. The electric guitar work in the end is great and feels very mid-summer, sun going down kind of joy. 5 stars. 5th favorite of 12.
12. Home: Very ballsy song in that Dave goes very soft and pulls it off. I for one actually like the lyrical content of this song and the piano is nice. It is a good song to unwind with. 3 ½ stars. 9th favorite of 12.
Overall: 11 of the 12 songs are very good with 8 of them being fantastic in my mind. This may be one of the two most complete Foo Fighters albums and definitely their most wholesome and band-influenced. All four members shine on this disc and other than the ballad, you never lose focus as a listender. This may go down as a classic, it does for me. I can't wait to see these songs played live and I hope they don't hold back on stage with their new music. Ten years ago I was worried about what songs would be singles, now I could care less, but I do hope people from all realms get to hear this great disc.
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Poster
Having commemorated their tenth anniversary with a year-plus run commencing with In Your Honor (a double album the New York Times called an "unexpected magnum opus"), sold out rock arena shows and a toned down intimate theater trek, and a headlining gig at London's Hyde Park for a crowd of 85,000, the question looms larger than any in the Foo Fighters' career to date: What do they do for an encore?!? The answer comes in the form of "The Pretender," the first single from the band's sixth studio album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, out on Roswell/RCA. Produced by Gil Norton, who last worked with the band on 1997's double-platinum The Colour and The Shape (recently reissued in deluxe 10th anniversary form), Dave Grohl, bassist Nate Mendel, drummer Taylor Hawkins and guitarist Chris Shiflett have crafted a 12-track milestone that showcases and reconciles the band's every strength and sensibility in the most complex and confident Foo Fighters album to date.Foo Fighters Photo
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In 1997, Foo Fighters teamed with alt-rock production cornerstone Gil Norton to make their best album, The Colour and the Shape. Ten years later, they've regrouped with Norton for a disc that's more sophisticated and diverse, if a tad less rockin'. The curveballs include "Stranger Things Have Happened," a solo soul-searcher where leader Dave Grohl's accompanied by just his acoustic guitar and a ticking metronome, and "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners," an acoustic guitar duet for Grohl and guest virtuoso Kaki King. Plus "Summers End" tickles the Foos' classic-rock fetish with a dead-on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young arrangement. There's still enough of the intense, snarling power-pop that's Foo Fighters' longtime forte. "The Pretender," "Erase/Replace," and "Long Road to Ruin" combine sheer thrust, zeal, and melody like no other group currently on the charts. Yet the finale, "Home," makes its clear that this is a changed band--or, at least, that Grohl's a changed man. With only his piano for company, Grohl's pleading voice reveals fragile layers of insecurity and loneliness as he sings "all I want is to be home." Seems this rock & roll road warrior's mellowed some, albeit without compromising Foo Fighters' vitality. --Ted Drozdowski
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