01 - This Is A Call
02 - I’ll Stick Around
03 - Big Me
04 - Alone + Easy Target
05 - Good Grief
06 - Floaty
07 - Weenie Beenie
08 - Oh, George
09 - For All the Cows
10 - X-Static
11 - Wattershed
12 – Exhausted

Musicians:
Greg Dulli - Guitar
William Goldsmith - Drums
Dave Grohl - Guitar, Vocals
Nate Mendel -Bass
Pat Smear - Guitar

Essentially a collection of solo home recordings by Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters' eponymous debut is a modest triumph. Driven by big pop melodies and distorted guitars, Foo Fighters do strongly recall Nirvana, only with a decidedly lighter approach. If Kurt Cobain's writing occasionally recalled John Lennon, Dave Grohl's songs are reminiscent of Paul McCartney -- they're driven by large, instantly memorable melodies, whether it's the joyous outburst of "This Is a Call" or the gentle pop of "Big Me." That doesn't mean Grohl shies away from noise; toward the end of the record, he piles on several thrashers that make more sense as pure aggressive sound than as songs. Since he recorded the album by himself, they aren't as powerful as most band's primal sonic workouts, but the results are damn impressive for a solo musician. Nevertheless, they aren't as strong as his fully formed pop songs, and that's where the true heart of the album lies. Foo Fighters has a handful of punk-pop gems that show, given the right musicians and songwriters, the genre had not entirely become a cliché by the middle of the '90s. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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01. All My Life
02. Best Of You
03. Everlong
04. The Pretender
05. My Hero
06. Learn To Fly
07. Times Like These
08. Monkey Wrench
09. Big Me
10. Breakout
11. Long Road To Ruin
12. This Is A Call
13. Skin And Bones
14. Wheels
15. Word Forward
16. Everlong (Acoustic Version)

Foo Fighters are a band that began as a solo project for Dave Grohl, the former drummer for Nirvana. They are now an internationally renowned band and three of their albums have won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album. The early years: During his time as Nirvana's drummer, Dave Grohl occasionally booked studio time to record his own demos, not wanting to ruin the chemistry of Nirvana by introducing his own songs to the band. Grohl released a cassette entitled Pocketwatch in 1992, under the pseudonym `Late!' The demo tapes that eventually became the debut Foo Fighters album were recorded in Seattle. Grohl played all the instruments and sang all the vocals on the recordings, apart from one guitar line, which was played by Greg Dulli of the band Afghan Whigs.

Ex-Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic was the initial candidate to play bass in Foo Fighters but both Novoselic and Grohl were concerned that people may think the pair were trying to reincarnate Nirvana. However, Grohl was keen to avoid Foo Fighters being a one-man studio project. He drafted ex-Sunny Day Real Estate bass player Nate Mendel and their drummer, William Goldsmith. To complete the line-up, Grohl invited Nirvana's occasional touring guitarist, Pat Smear to play second guitar. Smear also used to be a member of the punk band The Germs.

The first single, `This Is A Call' was released in 1995, followed by the self-titled album. That same year, they made their first appearance at the Reading Festival.

Mainstream Success: The second album was recorded with producer Gil Norton but Grohl was unhappy with the mixes of the tracks. He headed to a studio in Washington DC and began recording some of the songs again by himself. The newer version of `Walking After You', with Grohl playing all the instruments, was the one used for the album. When the band re-grouped in LA to re-record the album, with Grohl playing drums, Goldsmith was not informed about the session. Eventually, he found out from Mendel. Feeling betrayed, he left the band. The album, The Colour and The Shape was released in 1997.

Alanis Morrisette's touring drummer, Taylor Hawkins volunteered for the role of drummer in the band and was playing live with the band in time for the release of The Colour and The Shape. In September of 1997, outside the MTV Video Music Awards, Pat Smear also announced that he was leaving the band, and introduced the crowd to his replacement, Franz Stahl. Stahl appeared on two soundtrack recordings (a re-recorded `Walking After You' for The X-Files and `A320' for Godzilla) but left the band before they recorded their third album.

There is Nothing Left To Lose was recorded in Virginia, as a three-piece. The single `Learn To Fly' was the band's first single to hit the Billboard Hot 100. Chris Shiflett successfully auditioned as a touring guitarist and eventually became a permanent member of the band.

When Queen were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, Grohl and Hawkins performed with them, with Dave Grohl taking on the vocals of the late Freddie Mercury. Grohl also took time out to help Queens of the Stone Age record their Songs for the Deaf album, after spending four months recording the Foo Fighters' fourth album. Having finished the QotSA album, however, Grohl was inspired to get Foo Fighters to re-record their own album. The resulting record was entitled One By One. The single, `Times Like These' was used as part of George W. Bush's presidential campaign, much to the band's distaste.

The fifth Foo Fighters studio album was In Your Honour, a double CD. One disc was acoustic numbers, the other contained rock songs. Grohl stated that it was the perfect way to celebrate the band's 10th anniversary.

The follow up, produced by Gil Norton again, was released in 2007, entitled Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace. Soon after the album's completion, the band played at the huge `Live Earth' event at Wembley Stadium.

They also performed their song `The Pretender' at the Grammy awards, with John Paul Jones conducting the orchestra. ---contactmusic.com

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01 - All My Life          play
02 - Low 
03 - Have It All 
04 - Times Like These 
05 - Disenchanted Lullaby 
06 - Tired Of You 
07 - Halo 
08 - Lonely As You 
09 - Overdrive            play
10 - Burn Away 
11 - Come Back
12 - Danny Says
Personnel:
* Dave Grohl – lead vocals, backing vocals, rhythm guitar
* Chris Shiflett – lead guitar
* Nate Mendel – bass
* Taylor Hawkins – drums
Guests
* Brian May – guitar on "Tired of You"
* Krist Novoselic - backing vocals on "Walking a Line"

One by One is the most accomplished album Foo Fighters have made, which isn't necessarily the same as the best. Picking up the clean, focused sound and attitude of There Is Nothing Left to Lose, One by One is gleaming hard rock: it may have a shiny production, but hits hard in its rhythm and its impeccably distorted guitars. Dave Grohl's songs often express (or at least suggest) tortured emotions in their lyrics, but the album doesn't hit at a gut-level; it's too polished for that. It's not a bad thing, since the band is damn good and the production is more focused than any of the Foos' previous albums. The problem is, Grohl's songwriting has slipped slightly. It's still sturdy and melodic, yet not as immediate or memorable. Nothing is as majestic as "Learn To Fly," haunting as "Everlong," gut-crunching as "Monkey Wrench," or even as boneheadedly irresistible as their contribution to the Orange County soundtrack, "The One". Instead, it all fits together and sounds good as a piece, without offering individual moments to savor. Not the worst tradeoff, of course, but it's hard not to wish that the songs stuck in your head the way they used to, even if the album is still enjoyable as a whole. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

One by One – czwarty album rockowego zespołu Foo Fighters. Został wydany 22 października 2002 r., a nagrywany był od 6 do 18 maja 2002 roku. Istnieją dwie wersje tego albumu – jedna z CD i białą okładką, druga to limitowana edycja zawierająca CD z muzyką i dodatkowe DVD, która ma czarną okładkę. DVD te zawiera wersje audio (Mixy Stereo i 5.1) i video takich piosenek jak All My Life i Walking the Line, oraz wersje tylko-audio utworów The One i innych.

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01 – Bridge Burning 
02 – Rope 
03 – Dear Rosemary 
04 – White Limo 
05 – Arlandria 
06 – These Days 			
07 – Back & Forth 
08 – A Matter of Time 
09 – Miss the Misery 		
10 – I Should Have Known 
11 – Walk
12 - Rope (Deadmau5 Mix)
13 - Better Off 

Foo Fighters
* Dave Grohl – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
* Pat Smear – lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals
* Nate Mendel – bass
* Taylor Hawkins – drums, percussion, vocals
* Chris Shiflett – lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals

Additional personnel
* Bob Mould – vocals and guitar on "Dear Rosemary"
* Krist Novoselic – bass and accordion on "I Should Have Known"
* Rami Jaffee - keyboards, piano, organ
* Jessy Greene - violin, cello
* Fee Waybill - background vocals

The seventh Foo Fighters album has been heralded as a back-to-basics sort of record, a direct affair impaled squarely on a set of devil's horns. Perhaps in an effort to contrast with the American rock band's last bloated (and yet Grammy-winning) double album, 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, it was recorded on to analogue tape in main man Dave Grohl's garage.

The video for album teaser "White Limo" finds the Foos in a limo driven by Lemmy, making a hybrid punk-metal racket and gurning like goons. You can see the appeal of returning to basics for a man who has achieved pretty much everything. As well as selling magpie-deterring quantities of shiny discs, Grohl has headlined Wembley Stadium, hung out at the White House, played with everyone he's ever admired, from Macca (at an Anfield gig in honour of Liverpool's tenure as a City of Culture in 2008) to John Paul Jones (in Them Crooked Vultures) and cultivated a reputation as rock's least-damaged nice guy. Lest we forget, he also had a drum stool in the thick of the late 20th-century's biggest rock drama: Nirvana. Sign up for the Sleeve Notes email: music news, bold reviews and unexpected extras.

As befits a rock star of his status, it follows that Grohl's garage is no dank shed paved in slug pellets. It is probably rather plusher than most of our houses, thus parking the notion of an analogue garage album as an exercise in passionate mid-fidelity. The man who pressed "record" on this offering was Butch Vig, producer of Nirvana's Nevermind. Adding to the weight of history, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic adds his low-slung rumble on "I Should Have Known". Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear, meanwhile, permanently rejoined the Foos line-up recently, adding to the frisson.

"I Should Have Known" is undoubtedly heartfelt and direct – an elegy for Grohl's childhood friend-cum-roadie Jimmy Swanson, who died of an overdose in 2008 – but it will inevitably stand in as an elegy for another death, 14 years previously. As Grohl beats himself up – "I should have known," he howls – you want to comfort this most life-affirming musician. But simultaneously, you wish he could summon more of the taut emotional clout which graced 2002's "Times Like These" or "All My Life".

Another hero is buried in the duet "Dear Rosemary" – hardcore legend Bob Mould. Grohl has recently acknowledged that Mould's bands, Hüsker Dü and Sugar, have provided a great deal of Foos raw material. But although the song is a perfectly serviceable slow-burner, there's nowhere near enough of Mould's vintage input to even up the scores. The riff, meanwhile, actually recalls the Raconteurs' "Steady, As She Goes".

Anyone coming to Wasting Light for a back-to-basics Foos album will find instead one that is rather more thickset and refined, one that only very comfortable rock industry men might consider raw or primal. Much of Wasting Light rocks just fine, but takes precisely no risks with the Foos' commercially peaking, but artistically diminishing, tattooed chug-pop.

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1 	In Your Honor 	
2 	All My Life 	
3 	Best Of You 	
4 	Times Like These 	
5 	Learn To Fly 	
6 	Breakout
7	The One 	
8 	Shake Your Blood
9 	Stacked Actors 	
10 	My Hero 	
11 	Generator 	
12 	DOA 	
13 	Monkey Wrench 	
14 	Tie Your Mother Down
15 	Everlong 	

Dave Grohl – lead vocals, guitar
Nate Mendel – bass
Taylor Hawkins – drums, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Cold Day in the Sun"
Chris Shiflett – guitar
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Drums, Vocals – Roger Taylor 
Guitar, Vocals – Brian May
Vocals – Lemmy Kilmister

Originally performed in June 2006, the Foo Fighters live performance in London, England’s Hyde Park is masterfully shot and is a well composed historical piece of the Foo Fighters playing to a sold out crowd of 80,000 fans (this being the biggest live show the band have ever done). There are two ways to know that your band have made it in the world of music: having 20-foot-plus television screens with your mug on it or playing a gig at Hyde Park. Considering the line-up of past performers, Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queen, the Who, Pavarotti, Eric Clapton, Daft Punk and now the Foo Fighters, adding yourself to that roster of artists, like them or not, says it all. Essentially this DVD is the Foo Fighters doing what they do best: ripping out alt-rock tunes while Ghrol drops F-bombs. Their set includes hits from The Colour And The Shape ("Everlong,” "Monkey Wrench” and "My Hero”), There Is Nothing Left To Lose, One By One and In Your Honor. Although there isn’t anything else besides their performance, it’s clear why the Foo Fighters are where they are in the scope of rock music and are somehow still constantly getting better and bigger. --- Dave Synyard, exclaim.ca

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1 	Doll 	1:23
2 	Monkey Wrench 	3:51
3 	Hey, Johnny Park! 	4:08
4 	My Poor Brain 	3:34
5 	Wind Up 	2:31
6 	Up In Arms 	2:15
7 	My Hero 	4:20
8 	See You		2:27
9 	Enough Space 	2:36
10 	February Stars 	4:49
11 	Everlong 	4:10
12 	Walking After You	5:04
13 	New Way Home 	5:40
14  The Colour And The Shape	3:24

Bass – N. Mendel
Drums – W. Goldsmith (tracks: 1, 6)
Guitar – P. Smear
Vocals, Guitar, Drums – D. Grohl

Taking a cue from the old Blondie marketing slogan, the sophomore effort from Dave Grohl’s post-Nirvana band was their “The Foo Fighters is a band” project -- well, at least it was intended that way, but Grohl pushed aside drummer William Goldsmith during the recording and played on the entire record. And who could blame him? When you’re the greatest drummer in rock, it’s hard to sit aside for someone else, no matter how good your intentions, and Grohl’s drumming does give the Foos muscle underneath their glossy exterior. That slickness arrives via producer Gil Norton, hired based on his work with the Pixies, but he manages to give The Colour and the Shape almost too sleek a sheen, something that comes as a shock after the raggedness of the group’s debut. Even the glossy final mix of Nevermind has nothing on the unapologetic arena rock of The Colour and the Shape -- it’s all polished thunder, rock & roll that’s about precision not abandon. Some may miss that raw aggression of Grohl’s earlier work, but he’s such a strong craftsman and musician that such exactness also suits him, highlighting his sense of melody and melodrama, elements abundantly in display on the album’s two biggest hits, the brooding midtempo rockers “My Hero” and “Everlong.” Elsewhere, the Foos grind out three-chord rockers with an aplomb that almost disguises just how slick Norton’s production is, but everything here, from the powerful rush of the band to the big hooks and sleek surface, wound up defining the sound of post-grunge modern rock, and it remains as perhaps the best example of its kind. [Legacy’s tenth anniversary edition of The Colour and the Shape was expanded by six bonus tracks, adding a clutch of non-LP B-sides, the highlight of which is a version of Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street.”] ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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