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Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0886971151626
Label: Rca
Manufacturer: Rca
MPN: 711516
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rca
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Studio: Rca
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Editorial Review:
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
Having 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.
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Japanese pressing of the 2007 album from Dave Grohl and his Foo mates features two bonus tracks: 'Once & For All' (Demo) and 'Seda'. .Having commemorated their tenth anniversary with a year-plus run commencing with In Your Honor, 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 band's sixth studio album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Best rock band of the past decade strikes again!
It amazes me how many people think that this band has had weak offerings in recent years. The Foo Fighters' previous offerings in the 2000's--2002's "One By One" and 2005's "In Your Honor" to me just further strengthened this band's amazing discography. Well, for certain, this 2007 offering continues to add to the Foo legacy, cementing this band's place as the most consistent mainstream rock band of the "post-grunge" era.
How catchy is the lead track "The Pretender"? At least one ... Read More
Rating: - What if I say you're not like the others?
Having weathered almost 15 years of being his own band, Dave Grohl probably has fans that don't know he was in a little band called Nirvana before the Foo Fighters were starting. Yet here he is, and the Foos have gradually become one of the best meat and potatoes rock bands in the USA. Their follow-up to the magnum opus In Your Honor finds them in superb form, incorporating the mix of elements from that album with the hard melodic chops from the classic The Colour and the Shape.
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Rating: - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
I don't know how it could be any better - Love it from start to finish, can't stop listening to it.
Rating: - Get you Headwires on, these guys ROCK
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, ... Read More
Rating:  - A CD of 2 sides
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.
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