| Product Summary | | Label: RCA RECORDS/SBME | | UPC: 00886971151626 | | Release Date: 9/25/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 205587424 | | Item#: M3SRGS | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 1786 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Pretender, The ~ Foo Fighters |  | | 2. Let It Die - (with Kaki King/Pat Smear) ~ Foo Fighters | | | 3. Erase/Replace - (with Rami Jaffee/Drew Hester) ~ Foo Fighters | | | 4. Long Road To Ruin - (with Rami Jaffee/Drew Hester) ~ Foo Fighters | | | 5. Come Alive - (with Rami Jaffee/Drew Hester) ~ Foo Fighters | | | 6. Stranger Things Have Happened ~ Foo Fighters | | | 7. Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) - (with Drew Hester) ~ Foo Fighters | | | 8. Summer's End - (with Drew Hester) ~ Foo Fighters | | | 9. Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners - (with Kaki King) ~ Foo Fighters | | | 10. Statues - (with Rami Jaffee/Brantley Kearns Jr.) ~ Foo Fighters | | | 11. But, Honestly - (with Rami Jaffee/Drew Hester) ~ Foo Fighters | | | 12. Home ~ Foo Fighters | |
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| | Always a rock and roll force to be reckoned with, the Foo Fighters unleash yet another milestone recording with Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace. A tour de force highlighting the strengths of a band that has sold 15 million records and inspired rabid fandom worldwide.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Foo Fighters: Dave Grohl (piano); Taylor Hawkins (background vocals); Nate Mendel. | | Additional personnel: Kaki King, Pat Smear (guitar); Brantley Kearns Jr. (fiddle); Rami Jaffee (accordion); Drew Hester (percussion); Chris Shiflett. | | ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE & GRACE, the Foo Fighters' sixth effort, upholds the band's allegiance to melody-heavy post-grunge power pop driven by roaring guitars and Dave Grohl's fine songwriting. The Foos are aided by super-producer Gil Norton this time out (Norton also helped craft the group's second, and arguably best, album, THE COLOR AND THE SHAPE). The result is a polished yet powerful outing that proves the Foos have earned their status as one of alternative rock's most reliable acts. | | But while tunes like "The Pretender" pack a hard-rock wallop, the real surprises on ECHOES are the softer songs. The breezy, folky "Summer's End," for example, is a standout, as is Grohl's solo acoustic performance on "Stranger Things Have Happened." This isn't to say the Foo Fighters have mellowed--the album contains as much amplified snarl as any of their others--but here the quieter moments rival the rockers, revealing a band whose intimate, earnest moments are as convincing as their head-banging ones. |
Producer: Gil Norton; Rich Costey (Compilation) |
Engineer: Adrian Bushby |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/25/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 8697115162 | | Label : RCA Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 51m : 7s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00886971151626 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.116)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007" -- "[T]he Foo Fighters deliver winners..."Spin (p.122)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "Grohl has been a model of steady efficiency....'Summer's End' is a breezy blast of California country rock..." Entertainment Weekly (p.104)
- "Like the greats, the Foos have found a way to create their own archetype, with an instinctive feel for what constitutes a killer song." -- Grade: A Q (p.87)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Each of these tracks makes the case for Foo Fighters' horizons successfully expanding....Similarly, there's a sophistication to the arrangements here, musical and vocal, not previously hinted at." Uncut (p.88)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he excellent 'Summer's End' is easy on the ear, easier still on the brain..." Kerrang (Magazine)
(p.46)
- "[T]he Foo Fighters have managed to recapture the magic ingredient which magical music really needs -- the art of sounding effortless." Q (Magazine)
(p.84)
- Ranked #12 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2007" -- "[A] big, brash effort that hollered all the way back to the cheap seats without sacrificing its humanity." |
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