With 15
years, 6 platinum-plus albums and as many Grammys under their collective belt
(not to mention sold out shows at Wembley Stadium, Madison Square Garden and the
L.A. Forum), Foo Fighters will soon mark off yet another milestone in their ascension
to quintessential American rock godhood: The band will release its first ever
greatest hits compilation, the brilliantly titled 'Foo Fighters Greatest Hits',
now available through Sony Music.
As ever, core Foo Fighters Dave Grohl
(vocals/guitar), Taylor Hawkins (drums/vocals), Nate Mendel (bass) and Chris Shiflett
(guitar) were not satisfied simply to compile a mixtape of the international smashes
that have littered their mantle pieces with platinum plaques and golden statuettes
and filled arenas and stadiums the world over: 'Foo Fighters Greatest Hits' will
feature two brand new tracks "Wheels," which made its live debut at
President Obama and the USO's July 4 barbeque at the White House honoring military
heroes, and "Word Forward" both recorded especially for this collection
at the band's own fabled 606 studio complex with producer Butch Vig. The new tracks
not only hold their own and then some alongside individual Grammy winners "The
Pretender," "All My Life" and "Learn To Fly" and perennial
Foo favorites "Best Of You," "Times Like These," "My
Hero," "Everlong" and more, they both round out an overview of
Foo Fighters' illustrious output to date and hint at future peaks yet to be charted.
For
those unfamiliar with the musical genre known as rock n roll, Foo Fighters debuted
with the 1995 album of the same name. The band¹s second record, the double-platinum
'The Colour & The Shape', was originally issued in 1997 and since reissued
in a deluxe 10th anniversary edition. The third and fourth Foo Fighters albums,
'There Is Nothing Left To Lose' (1999) and 'One By One' (2002), won consecutive
Best Rock Album Grammy awards. In 2005, Foo Fighters celebrated the band¹s
10-year anniversary with the two-disc In Your Honor, which was followed by the
intimate 2006 acoustically augmented theater tour documented on the Skin + Bones
album and DVD. The most recent Foo Fighters studio album, 'Echoes, Silence, Patience
& Grace' was released in 2007, setting the iTunes UK record for first week
sales, earning the Foos their third Best Rock Album Grammy and sixth overall,
and sweeping the Brit Awards' top international categories. The tour supporting
ESP&G climaxed with the band¹s biggest ever headline engagement, a two-night
stand at London¹s Wembley Stadium attended by 165,000 fans setting the venue's
two-night attendance record and immortalized on the 18-song 'Foo Fighters: Live
At Wembley Stadium' DVD.
At the now historic Wembley shows, Grohl asked
the crowd "How did this band get so f***ing big?". 'Foo Fighters Greatest
Hits' will explain this to you.
'Foo Fighters Greatest Hits'
is available now.
