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Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Music CD CoverArtist: Foo Fighters Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2007-09-25 Music Label: Rca Soundtracks: - 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
Free Music Notes for Echoes, Silence, Patience & GraceFree Music Review: An Absolute Must Buy!!!! Hit: 5 StarsThis is a brilliant CD. Don't pass it up. Three songs stand out. "The Pretender"-hard, fast and absolutely fantastic. "Let It Die" which is clearly addressed to Kurt Cobain. And "Home", a song which reached in and grabbed me.
The Foo Fighters have always had stuff I liked, but this CD has sold me on them for good. Absolutely amazing.
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace PosterHaving 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  | ? | More from Foo Fighters  Skin and Bones |  The Colour and the Shape |  In Your Honor |  There Is Nothing Left to Lose |  One by One |  Foo Fighters |
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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