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Medium Rare (Foo Fighters album)

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Length
  
45:33

Artist
  
Foo Fighters

Label
  
Roswell Records

Medium Rare (2011)
  
Sonic Highways (2014)

Release date
  
16 April 2011

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Released
  
April 16, 2011 (2011-04-16)

Genres
  
Rock music, Alternative rock, Post-grunge, Hard rock

Similar
  
Foo Fighters albums, Alternative rock albums

Medium Rare is a covers album by Foo Fighters. The album was released on April 16, 2011 as a limited-edition vinyl for Record Store Day, an event that celebrates independent record stores. Apart from the new recordings of "Bad Reputation" and "This Will Be Our Year" and the live version of "Young Man Blues", all tracks have been previously released as B-sides or in other compilation albums.

Contents

A CD edition of the album was also given free to new subscribers of Q magazine for a limited time, with the song "Darling Nikki" omitted.

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Track listing

Note: "Darling Nikki" does not appear on the Q Magazine CD and Humo release.

  • – Although the official description says only 2 are previously unreleased, "Young Man Blues" was previously recorded but doesn't appear on any releases.

    • Personnel

    Foo Fighters
  • Dave Grohl – lead vocals, backing vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar (tracks 7-8)
  • Pat Smear – rhythm guitar (tracks 5, 7-8 & 12)
  • Nate Mendel – bass guitar
  • Taylor Hawkins – drums (except tracks 7, 9 & 12), backing vocals on tracks, lead vocals (tracks 2-3 & 10)
  • Chris Shiflett – lead guitar (except tracks 7-8 & 12), lead vocals on "Danny Says"
  • William Goldsmith - drums (tracks 7 & 12)
    • Additional personnel
  • Gregg Bissonette – drums on "Danny Says"
  • Brian May – lead guitar on "Have a Cigar"
  • Rami Jaffee - keyboards on "This Will Be Our Year"

    • Songs

    1Band On the Run5:08
    2I Feel Free2:56
    3Life of Illusion3:41

    References

    Medium Rare (Foo Fighters album) Wikipedia
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