Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience & Grace Album Review

Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace by Foo Fighters, Album Review

I think this album is really good, if you are a foo’s fan you must have this record, if you are not a fan, you will enjoy this album too !

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the sixth studio album by the Foo Fighters, released on September 25, 2007. The album is produced by Gil Norton who previously worked with the group on their second album, The Colour and the Shape. The album achieved the number 1 position on the UK album chart, selling 135,685 albums in its first week, knocking James Blunt’s album All the Lost Souls from the number one spot. It also achieved the number one spot on iTunes through pre-orders alone. The album went platinum in just 5 days after its release in Australia. It also went platinum in New Zealand after a week. In the U.S., it entered the Billboard 200 album chart at #3, selling 168,668 copies in its first week and giving Foo Fighters their third straight Top 3 studio album in their homeland.

Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience and Grace

Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience & Grace - Track Listing

1. “The Pretender” - 4:29
2. “Let It Die” - 4:05
3. “Erase/Replace” - 4:12
4. “Long Road to Ruin” - 3:44
5. “Come Alive” - 5:10
6. “Stranger Things Have Happened” - 5:20
7. “Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)” - 3:40
8. “Summer’s End” - 4:37
9. “Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners” - 2:31
10. “Statues” - 3:47
11. “But, Honestly” - 4:35
12. “Home” - 4:52

Bonus Tracks

1. “Once & for All (demo)” - 3:48 (Japan, iTunes and UK bonus track)
2. “Seda” - 3:45 (iTunes pre-order and Japan bonus track)
3. “The Pretender” - 4:38 (live @ Wal-Mart Soundcheck)
4. “My Hero” - 4:28 (live @ Wal-Mart Soundcheck)

B-sides

The following tracks were released on The Pretender single release:

1. “Bangin’” - 3:48
2. “If Ever” - 4:13
3. “Come Alive (Demo)” - 5:31

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Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience & Grace Album Review

Editorial Reviews from amazon.com

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

Product Description

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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