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Roswell Records: 88697 11516-1 Original First Pressing
Format: 2X12" Gatefold Double LP 180g Audiophile Vinyl
Includes: Original Liner Notes/Photo Inner Sleeves
Cover Condition:Near Mint - Pulled from the shelf only a few times and always stored vertically in a protective poly sleeve.
Vinyl Condition: Near Mint - Only played a few times, still like new!
Release Info: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the sixth studio album by the Foo Fighters, released on September 25, 2007. The album debuted at the top of the UK album chart, selling 135,685 albums in its first week. The album also went platinum in its first week in both Australia and New Zealand. In the U.S., it entered the Billboard 200 album chart at #3, selling 168,668 copies in its first week, and has since been certified gold. As of September 4, 2008, it has sold 792,612 copies in US.
The album was the band's fourth to have a song reach the top of the Modern Rock Tracks, with "The Pretender", as well as "Long Road to Ruin" and "Let It Die". With 18 weeks at the summit, "The Pretender" also set the record for longest stretch at #1 on Billboard's Alternative / Modern Rock chart. With "Long Road to Ruin" (7 weeks at #1) and "Let It Die" (4 weeks at #1), the album has a total of 29 weeks atop the chart, making it the most successful album on the chart since Linkin Park's Meteora. Also with "Let It Die", it became the group's first album to spawn three Number One hits on the Modern Rock Tracks charts. It was only the ninth album in history to spawn 3 number 1 hits on this chart.
The album won the 2008 Grammy for Best Rock Album and "The Pretender" won for Best Hard Rock Performance. The album was also nominated for Album of the Year, while "The Pretender" was also nominated for Record of the Year and Best Rock Song. The band had previously won Best Rock Album Grammys for There Is Nothing Left to Lose and One by One. The album also won Best International Album at the 2008 Brit Awards.
In an interview with XFM on April 26, 2007, front man Dave Grohl noted, "We've been in the studio for the past month and a half, and we've got about another month to go. We've been recording with our friend Gil Norton. He worked on our second record (The Colour and the Shape), he's a good guy and he makes amazing albums. So we're making a really big powerful record, which I'm very excited about... I can't wait to jump on stage and do this stuff, it's gonna be great."
Kaki King makes a guest appearance on "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners". The instrumental was written by Grohl prior to a meeting with one of the miners involved in the Beaconsfield mine collapse.
The album's first single, "The Pretender", was released on September 17, 2007 to CD single, however was released as music download and radio play in August 2007, preceding the album launch. "Long Road to Ruin" was released as the second single in December 2007.
The album's title comes from a lyric on the album's final song, "Home". The cover art was made by Invisible Creature, and features a combination between a torpedo and a guitar amplifier tube to juxtapose the weapon "with another object that traditionally wasn’t associated with war or violence". The remainder of the album sleeve has similar juxtapositions of objects "that reflected the album’s tone of life and mortality".
Initial critical response to Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 71, based on 30 reviews.
The title of this album, Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, was also the name of a One Tree Hill episode, Season 5, episode 13, with 'Home' used in the same OTH episode. The song was also featured in Season 14, Episode 8 ("Coming Home") of ER.
Two songs from Echoes would later be on the band's Greatest Hits album, "The Pretender" and "Long Road to Ruin."
In the United States the album performed poorly compared to its predecessor In Your Honor - it debuted at the third spot of the Billboard 200, with 168,000 copies sold (while In Your Honor was second with 311,000), and eventually received a RIAA Gold Certification, being the only studio album by the band to not attain Platinum status in America. In Canada the album went Platinum, in the UK the album went 2 X Platinum, and in Australia the album went triple Platinum.
All songs written by Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett and Nate Mendel, unless otherwise indicated.
1."The Pretender" – 4:29
2."Let It Die" – 4:05
3."Erase/Replace" – 4:13
4."Long Road to Ruin" – 3:44
5."Come Alive" – 5:10
6."Stranger Things Have Happened" (Grohl) – 5:21
7."Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" – 3:41
8."Summer's End" – 4:37
9."Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners" (Grohl) – 2:32
10."Statues" – 3:47
11."But, Honestly" – 4:35
12."Home" – 4:52
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