You can always count on the Foo Fighters to deliver good music everytime an album comes around, and this, their ambitious two-disc set, is no exception. While it may not be the definitive Foo's release, "In Your Honor" shows that the band is aging beautifully. Entering their second decade together as an act, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and Chris Shiflett, are showing no signs of slowing down. "In Your Honor" is the band continuing their legacy as possibly the best pop-rock act still standing on Earth.

As we all know, disc one is the rock side, while disc two is the softer, acoustic side. Opening tremendously with the instant hits "In Your Honor" "No Way Back" "The Best Of You" and "D.O.A." the first disc starts on the right foot, in a big way. Unfortunately, I have to admit that the rest of this disc sort of peters off rather quickly. Songs like "The Last Song" and "End Over End" fail to induce the same excited feelings the first half of the disc did. However, I have to say, on the second disc, there are no disappointments. While I had been hooked on what the first disc had to offer, I completely forgot about the second part, which offers up quite a few classics itself. The opening track, "Still," a somber, slow moving number, sounds like something Nine Inch Nails would do if Trent picked up an acoustic guitar and lightened up a bit. Songs like "Another Round" and "Cold Day In the Sun" (which places drummer Taylor Hawkins on vocals) definitely have their place amongst the best in the Foo Fighters catalogue, and are just as strong as any song they have done, plugged in or not. The closing track, "Razor," which features Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme on guitar, is the perfect way to round out the set, as it combines the traditional Foo's formula with a few curveballs.

"In Your Honor" may not be the "Best Of Foo" but it certainly is another excellent entry from the band. And since you're getting two discs full of material here -- 20 songs, 10 on each disc -- it's definitely a worthy effort. Here's hoping that the experimentation done here serves them well in the future and helps the Foo Fighters break down some walls into new territory.

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As with other double albums like "The White Album" or Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk," "In Your Honor" takes a few listens to really get into it. The idea of splitting the songs into electric and acoustic is intriguing at first, but it does makes monotony a problem when it wouldn't otherwise. The great thing about "The Colour and the Shape" was the contrast of softer songs when sandwiched between the heavy songs, and vice versa. Now imagine bunching those songs into distinct halves, and it would suffer greatly.

That's the problem with "In Your Honor," but a simple solution would change a lot of initial opinions about the album: Give it a few more listens, decide what the fat is and trim it, then combine and mix up the two discs a bit. Then make a loaner copy... and make sure everyone you know listens to it.

The weaker stuff for me was the title track (the false ending isn't enough to save it), "Free Me" (a screamer song that just strains), "Hell," "Deepest Blues," and "Over and Out." "Friend of a Friend," an old Grohl song that is no doubt personal, just isn't interesting enough musically to warrant repeated listens.

Now onto the good stuff (in my preferred order):

"No Way Back" is a solid up-tempo song; a better intro for the album.

"Still" is a sweet-but-haunting adolescent suicide pact (with a "Mr. Kite"-ish outro).

"Best of You" sounds a little like "Times Lke These" in spots, but ultimately it's one of their best ever mid-tempo rockers.

"What If I Do" is a gentle, lazy-afternoon ditty; the "Ain't It the Life" sort of number we missed on "One by One."

"Miracle" is sheer beauty, the "Aurora" of the bunch. By the time those violins break in, you'll either have a lump in your throat or a moist eye. Maybe one of the band's all-time top five.

"DOA" is a fun, rambunctious rocker with a pseudo-tribal drumbeat. Chorus sounds a bit like a faster "Live-In Skin."

"Another Round" has a waltzy beat and a swell harmonica solo.

"The Last Song" is one of the most infectious breakup songs ever made; a simple, peppy pop-rock gem in the mold of the b-side "Fraternity."

"On the Mend" is a dreamy, ethereal acoustic number.

"Resolve" is a little long and the chorus gets a bit repetitive (problems that aren't as bad on "IYH" as they were on "One by One"). But those harmony vocals are a saving grace. Sounds a bit like a slower "Overdrive."

"Virginia Moon" is the kind of song a few macho hard-rock-types would probably love to make if they could get away with it. It took serious guts for Dave Grohl of "All My Life" fame to create a tongue-in-cheek Bacharach-type duet with Norah Jones (thank God he didn't ask Vanessa Carlton instead!). Some back-and-forth vocals in between the harmonic stuff would've made this perfect.

"Cold Day in the Sun" is something you wished Disc 2 had a lot more of by the time you get around to it. A fun, easy-going, summer song.

"End Over End" is a catchy closer, better served by following it up with the gentle "Razor," an absolutely melancholic song with a lullaby feel (appropriately enough, given Josh Homme's presence).

So, a few inevitable weak spots aside, this is easily the best album since TCATS... and a breath of fresh air amidst all of today's blustery joyless alt-rock, and bland insipid AC-pop. Give this a second chance, and you'll thank the stars these guys are still out there fightin' Foo in your honor.

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Moder rock bands have to do this more and more. 5.1 or 5.0 or 4.0 is what they need to do! Live is not in stereo, why should music.

I like Foo Fighters a lot and this recording is great, specially disc 2 which is in glorious DVD-Audio. I still cant understand why they didnt do both discs in multichannel, but at least its a step forward for the industry and the bands.

I hope this goeas on and one and more bands release the albums in multichannel. There are some great songs (like La dy Gaga, Seal, and others) mixed, so Im sure the mixes are there and the record comapnies only have to give them a go, and, of course, people have to buy these so the make more and more.

An excellent view of Foo Fighters at an early stage. This is the first album by the group as a whole. The beautiful "Miracle" is on this album, as well as a few other classic FF songs. It is somehow hard to find, but Amazon came through as usual with new and used copies. This order completed my FF collection and it is an important and satisfying album!