Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007)

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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

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (1997)

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Roswell Records: 55832-1 Original First Pressing

Format: 2X12" Double LP

Includes: Original poly 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: The Colour And The Shape is the Foo Fighters' second album. It was released on May 20, 1997, through Roswell/Capitol Records. The album reached number three in the UK and number ten in the United States. The Colour and the Shape is the Foo Fighters' biggest U.S. seller, having sold over two million copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The album was nominated for 5 VMAs in 1997 and 1998, for the videos "Monkey Wrench" and "Everlong". It was also a Grammy nominee for Best Rock Album in 1998.

The album was the debut of the Foo Fighters as a band, as frontman Dave Grohl had recorded all of the first album by himself with the exception of one guitar part by Greg Dulli. The Colour and the Shape was produced by Gil Norton, who was perhaps best known for his work with the Pixies. It was loosely conceived by Grohl as a concept album which documented the beginning and end of a romantic relationship. Over the course of the making of the album, Grohl's own marriage to photographer Jennifer Youngblood ultimately ended in divorce.

After six weeks of work at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, the band took two weeks off from recording. Grohl returned to Virginia and wrote several new songs, recording one of them, "Walking After You", by himself at WGNS Studios in Washington, DC. The band (minus drummer William Goldsmith) relocated to Grandmaster Recorders in Hollywood, California, and re-recorded most of the album with Grohl performing the drum tracks.

Even though the Foo Fighters are an American band, the word 'Colour' in the album title is always spelled with the British spelling. This was a nod to producer Norton, who is British. 

All songs written and composed by Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, and Pat Smear except where noted.

1. "Doll" 1:23

2. "Monkey Wrench" 3:51

3. "Hey, Johnny Park!" 4:08

4. "My Poor Brain" 3:33

5. "Wind Up" 2:32

6. "Up in Arms" 2:15

7. "My Hero" 4:20

8. "See You" 2:26

9. "Enough Space" (Grohl) 2:37

10. "February Stars" 4:49

11. "Everlong" (Grohl) 4:10

12. "Walking After You" (Grohl) 5:03

13. "New Way Home" 5:40

Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters (1995)

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Roswell Records: 34027-1 Original First Pressing

Format: 12" LP

Includes: Original Liner Notes/Photo Insert

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: Foo Fighters is the debut album by Foo Fighters, at the time of conception, a pseudonym for Dave Grohl who wrote and recorded the entire album himself at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle, Washington, prior to organizing a band. It was released July 4, 1995 on Capitol Records through Grohl's imprint label, Roswell Records.

Following the organization of a band, the album was promoted through constant touring throughout 1995 and much of 1996. Foo Fighters would go on to spawn six singles in all, the most to be released from any Foo Fighters album, until 2005's In Your Honor, which also issued six.


Following the demise of Nirvana, and after a brief stint with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, musician Dave Grohl entered Robert Lang Studios with producer Barrett Jones in October 1994 to record some songs he had written. Grohl had been recording his own music for years prior, releasing the album Pocketwatch in 1992, under the name Late!. Like Pocketwatch, Grohl would record all vocal, guitar, bass and drum tracks himself, with the exception of a guitar part on "X-Static" provided by Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs. Grohl had previously worked with Jones, who helped produce Pocketwatch, and the studio setting of Robert Lang was familiar, due to Nirvana having recorded what would be their final session there, just nine months earlier.

Grohl completed an album's worth of material in about a week, and soon after was handing out cassette copies of the session to friends for feedback. Eddie Vedder premiered two songs from the recording on January 8, 1995 during his Self-Pollution radio broadcast. The recordings quickly circulated amongst the music industry, which in turn created record label interest. In an attempt to keep his anonymity, Grohl planned to release the songs under the name Foo Fighters, and soon recruited former Sunny Day Real Estate members; bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith, as well as Nirvana touring guitarist, and former Germs member, Pat Smear, to create a band that could perform the songs live.

That spring, Foo Fighters embarked on their first ever US tour with Hovercraft, supporting Mike Watt, who had just released his debut solo album that featured appearances by both Grohl and Smear. The tour would also be the first for Hovercraft, whose line-up included Vedder at the time. As well as performing with their own bands, Grohl and Vedder each picked up a role as a member of Watt's backing band throughout the tour, supplying drums and guitar respectively. Foo Fighters released "Exhausted" as their first single, issued on promotional 12" vinyl, followed shortly after by the bands first commercial single, "This Is a Call", released on June 19, 1995, prior to the albums' release.

Foo Fighters was released July 4, 1995 on Roswell Records, distributed by Capitol Records. To further establish the fact that Foo Fighters were now a full fledged band, photos of the entire lineup appeared in the liner notes, despite Grohl being the album's only contributer.

In all, half of the songs from Foo Fighters would be released as singles, including four commercial and two promotional releases. The album peaked at #3 in the UK and #23 in the US on the Billboard 200, being certified Platinum on January 26, 1996. It was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 1996 Grammy Awards ceremony, but lost to MTV Unplugged in New York, an album by Grohl's former band Nirvana. Foo Fighters also won the band their first and only Video Music Award for "Big Me" at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards.

 The name "Foo Fighters" was taken from the description World War II aircraft pilots would use to describe various UFOs. This theme is further continued with the album, released on Grohl's Capitol Records imprint, Roswell Records, a reference to Roswell, New Mexico known for the Roswell UFO incident of 1947. The gun featured on the album cover is the XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol, which was originally released in 1935 as a tie-in toy for the Buck Rogers comic strip and radio show. The cover was shot by Grohl's then-wife, photographer Jennifer Youngblood. The album does not include lyrics to the songs in the booklet.


All songs written and composed by Dave Grohl except where noted.

1. "This Is a Call" 3:53
2. "I'll Stick Around" 3:52
3. "Big Me" 2:12
4. "Alone+Easy Target" 4:05
5. "Good Grief" 4:01
6. "Floaty" 4:30
7. "Weenie Beenie" 2:45
8. "Oh, George" 3:00
9. "For All the Cows" 3:30
10. "X-Static" 4:13
11. "Wattershed" 2:15
12. "Exhausted" 5:45

Batter Up! Foo Fighters at the Plate!

OK, so I'm throwing out the whole idea of listing in alphabetical order. I've realized it doesn't make sense to do it that way - I'm thinking now that I'll list common genres/styles and similar artists and I'm going to start with 90's alternative rock. First band to be listed in this vein will be the Foo Fighters. I've already made a couple of deals for some of my Foo items so I'm letting go of what I have left. All of these releases are original first pressings, some extremely rare. All are in near mint condition and include any extras they were packaged with.

Foo Fighters is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1995. Drummer Dave Grohl formed the group as a one-man project after the dissolution of his previous band, Nirvana, in 1994. Prior to the release of the band's eponymous debut album in 1995, Grohl drafted Nate Mendel as bassist, William Goldsmith as drummer, and Pat Smear as guitarist to complete the group. The band was small, young, and began with performances in Portland, Oregon before gaining popularity. Goldsmith left during the recording of the group's second album, The Colour and the Shape (1997), and Smear's departure followed soon afterward. They were replaced by Taylor Hawkins and Franz Stahl, respectively, although Stahl left prior to the recording of the group's third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999).

Chris Shiflett joined as the band's third guitarist after the completion of There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The band released its fourth album, One by One, in 2002. The group followed that release with the two-disc In Your Honor (2005), which was split between acoustic songs and harder-rocking material. Foo Fighters released its sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, in 2007. Over the course of the band's existence, three of its albums have won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album, and all six have been nominated for Grammys.