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Released
  
November 3, 2009

Length
  
63:48

Artist
  
Label
  
Sony Music

Recorded
  
1994–2009

Greatest Hits(2009)
  
Release date
  
3 November 2009

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Genres
  
Alternative rock, Hard rock, Post-grunge

Producers
  
Similar
  
Foo Fighters albums, Hard rock albums

Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album released by American rock band the Foo Fighters on November 3, 2009

Contents

Release

Greatest Hits includes a selection of Foo Fighters hit singles. Two singles from their 1995 debut, Foo Fighters album ("This Is a Call" and "Big Me") are included. Three singles are included from 1997's The Colour and the Shape album ("Monkey Wrench", "Everlong" and "My Hero"). The Colour and the Shape remains the band's biggest selling album in the US. Two singles are included from 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose album ("Learn to Fly" and "Breakout") as are two singles from 2002's One by One album ("All My Life" and "Times Like These"). One single ("Best of You") is included from the band's biggest worldwide selling album In Your Honor, released in 2005. "Best of You" remains the band's highest charting hit on the U.S., UK and Australian singles charts. Two singles are included from 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace album ("The Pretender" and "Long Road to Ruin"). Greatest Hits also contains two new songs "Wheels" and "Word Forward".

"Wheels" is the first single taken from the album, which premiered on radio on September 23, 2009. The single was officially released on September 29, 2009. "Wheels" and "Word Forward", which was written for Dave Grohl's friend, Jimmy, who had recently died, were composed during the Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace tour and recorded specifically for the compilation with producer Butch Vig.

A deluxe edition of the compilation includes a book and a DVD featuring some of the band's music videos and live performances. It also includes a video for "Wheels" directed by Sam Brown, who also worked on "The Pretender".

Release controversy

Dave Grohl has stated his displeasure with the release of a greatest hits album, stating he would have preferred to wait until after the band had retired. The band's label, however, had been wanting to release a compilation album for four years, and exercised a clause in the band's contract that allowed them to do so. Grohl has also mentioned that he would have preferred a different track listing, featuring an alternate track listing. In the liner notes of the album, Grohl writes:

These 16 songs are what we're calling our "Greatest Hits." Not to be confused with "Our Best Songs" or "Our Favorite Songs," it is a collection of the songs that have defined our band's identity to most people over the years. The other 65 album tracks... well, some of those might be our greatest songs. "Aurora", "New Way Home", "MIA", "Exhausted", "A320"... depends on whom you ask. Personally, I don't think we've written our greatest songs yet. But that door is always open.

Reception

Reception was mostly positive for the compilation. Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted in his positive review that the compilation was missing some of the band's successful singles, most notably "DOA" and "I'll Stick Around". Matthew Perpetua of Pitchfork Media also noted the lack of "I'll Stick Around" on the compilation and suggested that the release would have been stronger with the inclusion of rarities and fan favorites, such as their cover of Prince's "Darling Nikki" or their popular soundtrack contribution "The One". Perpetua also writes "Like nearly all songs recorded specifically for [greatest hits compilations], 'Wheels' and 'Word Forward' are catchy but uninspired, and have no place among the heavy hitters in this collection." As of December, 2015 it has sold 1,009,000 copies in the U.S.

DVD

At the main menu, there is bullet hole that you can click, and it shows Dave Grohl performing "Home" (from the album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, 2007) on the piano.

Personnel

  • Dave Grohl – lead vocals, backing vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar on tracks 6,9,10,12, drums on tracks 3,5,8,9,12, bass guitar on tracks 9,12
  • Pat Smear – lead guitar on tracks 3,5,8,13
  • Nate Mendel – bass guitar except on tracks 9,12
  • Taylor Hawkins – drums except on tracks 3,5,8,9, backing vocals on tracks 4,11,14,15 lead vocals on "Have a Cigar"
  • Chris Shiflett – lead guitar on tracks 1,2,4,7,11,13,14,15, backing vocals on tracks 14,15
  • Songs

    1All My Life4:24
    2Best of You4:16
    3Everlong4:11

    References

    Greatest Hits (Foo Fighters album) Wikipedia


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