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Foo Fighters [Original recording reissued]

Foo FightersAudio CD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (142 customer reviews)

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Product Details

  • Audio CD (December 16, 2003)
  • Original Release Date: 2000
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording reissued
  • Label: RCA
  • ASIN: B0000CAXID
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (142 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,082 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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

Editorial Reviews

CD > POPULAR MUSIC > ROCK

Customer Reviews

All I can say is that this is just a great album. anonymous  |  25 reviewers made a similar statement
It's very raw, unpolished, and sounds like...well, a demo tape. Lucien Ginsburg  |  22 reviewers made a similar statement
The Foo Fighters debut album is one of their best. Nick Mackler  |  17 reviewers made a similar statement
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62 of 67 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Foo Album! December 16, 2004
By Samhot
Format:Audio CD
The Foo Fighters have moved to bigger and better acclaim for their later albums (e.g. _The Colour & The Shape_, et al.), but to me, the albums that followed this one, their debut, while good, were not as compelling, due to the more polished sound that would creep up on those albums. The rawness of this album is what helps give it more of an intimacy, not to mention the fact that, with the exception of one song, the whole album is performed by Dave Grohl: guitars, bass, drums, and vocals -- all Dave. The intimate feel of this album (yeah, an "intimate" album that "rocks," go figure, but it works) is what makes it my absolute favorite in the Foo Fighters catalogue.

As many know, Dave was the drummer of Nirvana, and many would think that Dave trying to form his own band after the split-up of those Seattle juggernauts, would prove to be an embarrassing failure. This was *hardly* the case, as The Foo Fighters are an *excellent* band, and I *personally* don't think about Nirvana's ghost while listening to The Foo Fighers; this alone should tell you something (or at least it would tell you that I disagree with the editorial review on this page.) In other words, The Foo Fighters (to me) stand on their own, and don't remind me much of Nirvana.

Recorded in one week during October of 1994 (just months after Kurt Cobain's death, and Nirvana's demise), but released in July of 1995, this debut album is jam-packed with chewy, sweet-tasting pop confections -- of course shielded with lush, heavy guitars which produce a thick wall-of-sound -- and is hard not to fall in love with.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, classic, classic. July 28, 2005
Format:Audio CD
Dave Grohl wanted the Foo Fighters debut, which, as every punk and their grandmother can attest, was written and performed almost entirely by Grohl -- Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs contributes a guitar track to "X-Static" -- to stand on its own merits. When "Foo Fighters" first debuted, Grohl was quoted as saying, he wanted to do everything possible to distance himself from the success of his former band, to avoid the Foos being viewed as a cash cow Nirvana spin-off as so many other bands from the era were being lambasted.

He probably just didn't expect those merits to win him a Grammy or two and leave him at the virtual top of the modern rock pyramid. And honestly, listening to this record as out-of-context-ly as possible, it's difficult to imagine that the Foo Fighters' sound could mutate into the quintessential "modern rock" sound at all.

"Weenie Beenie" and "Watershed" are acidic bursts of punk charged with theatrical but, befitting the punk style, ultimately simple, guitar flourishes. It's hard to imagine anyone but the most baroquely annoying old farts claiming them to be "immature" and "for teenagers only" -- as the old saying goes, if it's too loud, then you're too old.

However, as with any Nirvana record, "Foo Fighters" possesses an ear for buttery, swirling pop rivaling the best the 1960s had to offer.

Cobain and Grohl always seemed to share a lot of the same ideas about making music. It was the little differences that set them apart.
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25 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Dave Grohl's diamond in the rough January 16, 2006
Format:Audio CD
On October 17, 1994, Dave Grohl headed to a Seattle studio with the intent of recording just another demo tape.

This was something he had been in the habit of doing for the past 4 years as a way to kill time when he was on break from his "other" band, NIRVANA. The only difference was, this time for Grohl, the break was permanent.

NIRVANA's magical reign on top of the rock and music world had abruptly ended with the death of Kurt Cobain, the band's frontman, earlier that year. For months, Grohl had been devastated, unable to bring himself to think about music again.

But now, here he was. With his old friend and long time personal producer Barrett Jones by his side, he returned to Robert Lang's Studios, where NIRVANA's final recording session had taken place that January. For the next 6 days, Grohl and Jones, with (a little) help from Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs, recorded approximately 15 songs that Grohl had been working on while he had been a member of NIRVANA. A demo tape of this work then was circulated amongst Grohl's friends and peers within the industry.

The buzz was off-the-charts.

Everyone that heard the tape begged Grohl for more, and were shocked to find out he had been doing this for years on his own. Suddenly, the guy who had been "lucky enough to not be the next drummer replaced by Kurt" had people yelling at him to start his own band.

After some time, Grohl obliged, and to appease the hype, decided that by January of 1995, he would release twelve songs off the demo tape as the self-titled release of his not-yet-existent-band, the Foo Fighters, and then rushed off to recruit bandmates before that. But that is another story. The album/demotape itself?
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Thank God for the Foo Fighters
The Foo Fighters are amazing. Thank God, if not for anything else, thank God for Dave Grohl coming out on his own to give us the Foo Fighters. Read more
Published 8 hours ago by livelovelaugh
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Foo Fighters Album
My favorite Foo Fighters album because the sound is fresh, not polished like the later albums. I truly recommend this. 5/5.
Published 1 month ago by legostud
5.0 out of 5 stars The Way Debuts Should Be
Who would have thought that the drummer for Nirvana would go on to front a rock band that would sell out two nights at Wembley Stadium and would win numerous Grammys? Read more
Published 2 months ago by Lunar Boulevard
5.0 out of 5 stars A prequel
Almost like listening to recordings of the Beatles in Hamburg: the early recordings of a band destined for greatness and the Hall of Fame. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Michael J. Fahey
5.0 out of 5 stars great
The beginnings of a great band here, a peak inside Dave's mind as he pretty much played every instrument on the album.
Published 3 months ago by We$$
4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Album
This self-titled former mix-tape is the Foo Fighter's Debut album, and a solid one at that! For Foo fans this is a necessary album. Read more
Published 5 months ago by musikfrkrviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Foo Fighters!
This is a great Foo Fighters cd. My daughter and I Love it. It has great tracks on it. I would recommend this cd to anyone who loves Foo Fighters!
Published 5 months ago by Sharon Wrenn Locklear
5.0 out of 5 stars Alright!
Perfect! Arrived in no time, in perfect conditions. It's much better to listen to this album on vynil! Yeah right!
Published 6 months ago by Leo Laps
3.0 out of 5 stars New record in perfect shape.
But not rthe best Foo recording. Quality is lacking in this recording, may watch for this specific studio, before ordering again.
Published 6 months ago by Kevin D. Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Not 180g, Not a problem
I too initially would have preferred if this was 180g, only because that usually means they take greater care with the pressing. Read more
Published 11 months ago by C. Kelley
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