Music CD - Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

	Music CD: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Artist: Foo Fighters List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $6.46 Your Save: $ 12.52 ( 66% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Rca
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Tracks: 1. The Pretender 2. Let It Die 3. Erase/Replace 4. Long Road To Ruin 5. Come Alive 6. Stranger Things Have Happened 7. Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) 8. Summer s End 9. Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners 10. Statues 11. But, Honestly 12. Home
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886971151626 Label: Rca Manufacturer: Rca Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Rca Release Date: 2007-09-25 Studio: Rca
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Get you Headwires on, these guys ROCK Comment: It's been almost a year since E,S,P&G has run the Billboard Charts and more importantly, won the Grammy for Best Rock Album, and it remains one of my all time favorites. In my opinion, the Foo's are the best "Hard Rock" band presently in commercial existence. Track one, The Pretender is an instant favorite, in classic Foo Fighter's format, it's a quiet, demure beginning, crescendo-ing to the rocking, balls-out finish, a storyline to so many of their best songs. It won the Grammy for best rock PERFORMANCE, but it's not even my favorite song on the album. I love the introspective, "Stranger Things Have Happened". It's the formula Grohl uses to succeed with an acoustic guitar and metronome song. We are forced to focus on the simplicity and deep introspection of his lyrical patterns. Very similar to the wonderful "Friend Of A Friend", a song he wrote early in his career while still with Nirvana. It's such a dramatic and underappreciated song. The sound of the metronome being wound and the subsequent ticking gets your attention, then comes the clean, deep acoustic guitar, carrying the simple rhythm into the lyrics. "I'm breathing in this silence like never before." We are lead into a likely wasted realationship with a disappointing outcome. "I can change, I can change, I can change, but who do u want me to be?" is the strongest line in the song, and is so symbolic of a guy trying to adapt to his mate's desires, but falling short. "I'm the same, I'm the same, I'm the same, what do you want me to be?" This solidifies the frustration felt by Dave, or the main character in this song, who has done nothing different, but apparently underperformed by the will of his suitor. That's my take on it. "Long Road to Ruin" is my Ringtone, and I am probably responsible for selling at least 20 albums by this alone. It's most easily described as a CSNY song, but it's full of Genesis and other prog rock changes. Very refreshing and upbeat. I will end now, as I am sure that there will be others to come. I heard an interview with Dave when he said that he wanted to get out when he turned 30. I'm glad he has changed his mind. I actually like these guys better than Nirvana. Please don't kill me for that statement, I am just a bit overwhelmed with grunge and all of it's countless sound-alikes. Yes, Nirvana was a wonderful band and I was there for the whole 80's hair-band to grunge musical transformation, but this is the MOST serendipitous thing that has occurred in modern rock. Cobain's passing (Listen to "Too Cool Queenie by STP for their take on this), resulted in the formation of this amazing band. They are ever-changing, and are currently defining what AMERICAN ROCK IS in this new millenium. Tell me otherwise. Customer Rating: Summary: A CD of 2 sides Comment: Remember vinyl ? When we had a "Side 1" and a "Side 2" ? Well, Side 1 is great, 4 stars, by the time side 2 comes along it gets a little tired, mediocre and ideas are thin on the ground. 2 Stars for side 2. Customer Rating: Summary: Perfect Comment: It's flawless. It's the Foo Fighters. It's Dave. You know Dave is also a huge metal fan, so you want to check out the new Skinlab Skinned Alive CD for a great example of a perfect LIVE cd in the metal genre. It's incredibly heavy, must have used some type of new recording technique, as you actually 'feel' the riffs while you hear them. Skinned AliveIncredible Customer Rating: Summary: Simply Wonderful Comment: The Foo Fighters I predict will never issue a bad CD....the consistancy over the last 10+ years is beyond belief. Highly recomended for fans of all types of music. Similar to the new Fozzy All That Remains Reloaded on a song quality scale from start to finish. You must own these cd's Customer Rating: Summary: So good, so much talent....the Phil Collins of the GenX generation Comment: Dave is the an amazing musician on so many levels. The band itself is incredible, but you really have to pay attention to the dynamics that are ever changing in each Foo CD to truly grasp what a genious he really is. Dave even branched out with the Probot metal CD that was very cool, kinda sounded like Skinlab. Speaking of Skinlab, their new SkinnedAlive CD is incredible as well........and they also grasp the role of dynamics in a song. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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