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[ Roswell / RCA Records / CD ]
Release Date: Monday, 2 November, 2009
In addition to the dozen-plus anthems that have charted the band's rise to Grammy winning, multi-platinum, arena and stadium headlining status the world over, Foo Fighters' 'Greatest Hits' features two newly recorded songs available only on this compilation: The new single "Wheels" and "Word Forward" -- both recorded especially for this collection at the band's own fabled 606 studio complex with producer Butch Vig.
'Greatest Hits' covers every phase of the 15-year-and-counting run that began with 1995's Foo Fighters, with its classic singles "This Is A Call" and "Big Me," and has since yielded six platinum-plus records and as many Grammys . The double-platinum 'The Colour & The Shape', originally issued in 1997 and since reissued in a deluxe 10th anniversary edition is recalled here not only by "Monkeywrench," "Everlong" and "My Hero," but by the first ever studio recording of "Everlong (acoustic)." Consecutive Best Rock Album Grammy winners 'There is Nothing Left to Lose' (1999) and 'One By One' (2002) are represented by two pairs of classics respectively: ""Learn To Fly" and "Breakout," and "All My Life" and "Times Like These," while 2005's two-disc electric/acoustic 10th anniversary opus 'In Your Honor' yields the perennial FF final encore "Best Of You." The intimate 2006 acoustically augmented theater tour documented on the 'Skin + Bones' album and DVD is commemorated here by that collection's title track.
'Greatest Hits' is completed by "The Pretender" and "Long Road To Ruin," a double shot from 2007's 'Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace', which earned the Foos their third Best Rock Album Grammy and set off the band's biggest ever headlining tour, which peaked with a two-night stand at London's Wembley Stadium attended by 165,000 fans -- setting the venue's two-night attendance record.
Tracks:
1. All My Life
2. Best Of You
3. Everlong
4. The Pretender
5. My Hero
6. Learn To Fly
7. Times Like These
8. Monkeywrench
9. 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)
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