FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
10-01-09 | 10:04 AM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
Seriously? "See You" "Doll" "Up In Arms" "Enough Space" are better or more essential tracks than "Best Of You" "DOA" "Let It Die" "Next Year" "The Pretender"? Well, I guess I'm on the outs with the majority of Foo fans there. I still think there are a few of us out there who think every single Foo album has some very worthy songs on it and that a compilation, especially for those who don't already have any Foo Fighters albums, might be a good thing.
Big picture : It's a little different now in the days of itunes and MP3, but back when I was growing up in the Seventies and Eighties, Greatest Hits were really important, since they introduced a body of work to a new generation of fans. At 12, I wouldn't go seek out Tumbleweed Connection or Desperado, but I did discover those artists in part from being familiar with their greatest hits albums. So even if it's not too useful for the uber-fan, the more casual variety might use it as an entry point into the artist's vault. Let's be honest :Color & Shape has been out for over a decade -- if anybody wanted it, they'd have bought it by now.
Big picture : It's a little different now in the days of itunes and MP3, but back when I was growing up in the Seventies and Eighties, Greatest Hits were really important, since they introduced a body of work to a new generation of fans. At 12, I wouldn't go seek out Tumbleweed Connection or Desperado, but I did discover those artists in part from being familiar with their greatest hits albums. So even if it's not too useful for the uber-fan, the more casual variety might use it as an entry point into the artist's vault. Let's be honest :Color & Shape has been out for over a decade -- if anybody wanted it, they'd have bought it by now.
In my younger days, when I listened to greatest-hits albums, I seemed to always gravitate towards a couple songs here and there, only to discover they were all originally off of the same album or two. And some more than a few kids are gonna get this best-of and in a few years realize that they should've probabaly gotten C&S instead.
10-01-09 | 11:20 AM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
I can see not liking the song, but it sounds NOTHING like Fall Out Boy... if anything, it sounds like a Tom Petty song.
10-27-09 | 07:38 PM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
So all the bonus DVD really contains is just clips from the DVDs that have already been officially released? If that's true then it's similar to what led zep did with their mothership greatest hits package... Very lame, IMO 
10-28-09 | 01:49 AM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
Foo Fighters reveal 'Greatest Hits' tracklisting
Collection also features two new songs
Foo Fighters have revealed the tracklisting for their upcoming 'Greatest Hits' album which will be released on November 2.
The collection, which is a selection of songs from the bands 14-year career, also features two new tracks 'Wheels' and 'Word Forward', Rolling Stone reports.
As well as the standard version, a deluxe edition will be released with a 28-page book of never before seen photos of the band accompanying a bonus DVD.
Included on the DVD are a collection of some of the bands music videos and live footage from their concerts at London Wembley Stadium, Hyde Park and from their Skin & Bones tour.
The tracklisting for 'Greatest Hits' is as follows:
'All My Life'
'Best Of You'
'Everlong'
'The Pretender'
'My Hero'
'Learn To Fly'
'Times Like These'
'Monkey Wrench'
'Big Me'
'Breakout'
'Long Road To Ruin'
'This is a Call'
'Skin and Bones'
'Wheels'
'Word Forward'
'Everlong' (acoustic)
edit: If Amazon is right, it's all the essential videos and well worth it, IMO
Product Description
DVD Track Listing:
1.I'll Stick Around
2.Big Me
3.Monkey Wrench
4.Everlong
5.My Hero
6.Walking After You
7.Learn To Fly
8.Next Year
9.All My Life
10.Times Like These
11.Low
12.Best Of You
13.DOA
14.Resolve
15.The Pretender
16.Long Road To Ruin
17.Wheels
18.Everlong (live from Everywhere But Home)
19.Breakout (live from Hyde Park)
20.Skin And Bones (live from Skin And Bones)
21.All My Life (live from Wembley)
Collection also features two new songs
Foo Fighters have revealed the tracklisting for their upcoming 'Greatest Hits' album which will be released on November 2.
The collection, which is a selection of songs from the bands 14-year career, also features two new tracks 'Wheels' and 'Word Forward', Rolling Stone reports.
As well as the standard version, a deluxe edition will be released with a 28-page book of never before seen photos of the band accompanying a bonus DVD.
Included on the DVD are a collection of some of the bands music videos and live footage from their concerts at London Wembley Stadium, Hyde Park and from their Skin & Bones tour.
The tracklisting for 'Greatest Hits' is as follows:
'All My Life'
'Best Of You'
'Everlong'
'The Pretender'
'My Hero'
'Learn To Fly'
'Times Like These'
'Monkey Wrench'
'Big Me'
'Breakout'
'Long Road To Ruin'
'This is a Call'
'Skin and Bones'
'Wheels'
'Word Forward'
'Everlong' (acoustic)
edit: If Amazon is right, it's all the essential videos and well worth it, IMO
Product Description
DVD Track Listing:
1.I'll Stick Around
2.Big Me
3.Monkey Wrench
4.Everlong
5.My Hero
6.Walking After You
7.Learn To Fly
8.Next Year
9.All My Life
10.Times Like These
11.Low
12.Best Of You
13.DOA
14.Resolve
15.The Pretender
16.Long Road To Ruin
17.Wheels
18.Everlong (live from Everywhere But Home)
19.Breakout (live from Hyde Park)
20.Skin And Bones (live from Skin And Bones)
21.All My Life (live from Wembley)
Last edited by Decker; 10-28-09 at 01:52 AM.
10-28-09 | 01:50 AM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
10-28-09 | 11:36 AM
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I forgot about that. I will have to check it out when I get home from work.
11-01-09 | 02:16 AM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
Amazon has added a preorder bonus now : Buy the CD/DVD or standard CD and get a free MP3 download of the exclusive Amazon track "Have A Cigar"
Here's the fine print:
Here's the fine print:
Spoiler:
11-01-09 | 08:07 AM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
Amazon exclusive? Have A Cigar has been around for YEARS... not bad if you don't already have it and are ordering from Amazon anyhow, but I wouldn't let that be a motivating factor IMO.
11-01-09 | 10:18 AM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
So is it a B-side or a studio outtake? I don't have that song and I own all the studio albums.
11-01-09 | 11:58 AM
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11-02-09 | 12:40 PM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
Also, it has Taylor on vocals, Dave on drums and Brian May on guitar.
In other words, it freakin' rocks!
In other words, it freakin' rocks!
11-02-09 | 03:37 PM
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11-02-09 | 04:01 PM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
Yeah, it's definitely a mid-temp song, but they certainly "rock it out" compared to the original version by Floyd. Mainly through some of the guitar work by Brian May. Certainly not as good as the original, but better than a simple by the numbers cover, IMHO.
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Last edited by miller_time22; 11-02-09 at 04:04 PM.
11-02-09 | 05:47 PM
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11-03-09 | 03:41 PM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
Well it should be called a "best of", not a "greatest hits". If it's "greatest hits", they should take all the songs that have already been released and charted, rank them and take the top 20 of them or so, then put them on the CD. No new songs should be on there.
A "best of" is more subjective and it would be more appropriate to put new songs on a "best of" because they can always say that those new songs are among their best. But they can't say that new songs appearing on a "greatest hits" will ever become a hit. They can't predict the future.
A "best of" is more subjective and it would be more appropriate to put new songs on a "best of" because they can always say that those new songs are among their best. But they can't say that new songs appearing on a "greatest hits" will ever become a hit. They can't predict the future.
Originally Posted by Dave Grohl
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 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.
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And BTW : I had assumed that the acoustic "Everlong" would be from Skin And Bones, but this is a previously unreleased version without a crowd sing-along, which is nice.
Last edited by Decker; 11-03-09 at 03:46 PM.
11-03-09 | 05:47 PM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
It was already released as a B-side. The radio played it incessantly when it first came out, and I couldn't stand it, as it striped away everything that's great about the Foos; their power and intensity.
11-03-09 | 11:43 PM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
In any case, it's not replacing the original Everlong, so it just provides a very different interpretation of one of their greatest songs.
11-07-09 | 10:50 PM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
CD/DVD deluxe edition $9.99
http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hits-...7655807&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hits-...7655807&sr=8-1
11-07-09 | 11:33 PM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
I was gonna pass on the set, but I got the deluxe version just for the dvd of their videos.
11-09-09 | 02:44 PM
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DVD Talk Godfather
Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
I dig Greatest Hits releases. They're great for casual fans that like the popular songs. I bought the deluxe version since I wanted the DVD, but i'm bummed out that the CD is missing stuff like the beforementioned DOA.
11-21-09 | 01:49 AM
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Re: FOO FIGHTERS: "Foo Fighters Greatest Hits" 11/3/09
My Hero: was the baby's and the dog's face edited when they showed it on mtv back in the day?
Walking After You: first time seeing this video [one of my favorite foo songs], it is
. The song sounded different than the album version, much faster tempo... ?
Times Like These: I thought they would have the original US version from the 3 versions. Surprised they went with the acoustic version.
DOA: First time seeing this video.
Resolve: First time seeing this video.
The Pretender: First time seeing this video.
Long Road To Ruin: First time seeing this.
Rashida Jones is in it!!!!
Walking After You: first time seeing this video [one of my favorite foo songs], it is
. The song sounded different than the album version, much faster tempo... ?Times Like These: I thought they would have the original US version from the 3 versions. Surprised they went with the acoustic version.
DOA: First time seeing this video.
Resolve: First time seeing this video.
The Pretender: First time seeing this video.
Long Road To Ruin: First time seeing this.
Rashida Jones is in it!!!!