Greatest Hits

Description

The track listing and contents of Foo Fighters Greatest Hits have been confirmed, for both a 16-track standard edition as well as a deluxe version featuring a DVD encompassing a select videography of the bands classic clips as well as live performances captured at Wembley Stadium, Hyde Park, the intimate Skin + Bones theater tour and morenot to mention a few possible treats for Easter egg hunters. The deluxe edition will also include a 28-page bound book featuring numerous never before seen photos chronicling the bands 15-year history. Both the standard and deluxe configurations, as well as a collectors 180 gram vinyl edition, will be released November 3 on Roswell/RCA.

In addition to the dozen-plus anthems that have charted the bands rise to Grammy winning, multi-platinum, arena and stadium headlining status the world over, Foo Fighters Greatest Hits features two newly recorded songs available only on this compilation: The new single Wheels and Word Forwardboth recorded especially for this collection at the bands own fabled 606 studio complex with producer Butch Vig.

Greatest Hits covers every phase of the 15-year-and-counting run that began with 1995s Foo Fighters, with its classic singles This Is A Call and Big Me, and has since yielded six platinum-plus records and as many Grammys . The double-platinum The Colour & The Shape, originally issued in 1997 and since reissued in a deluxe 10th anniversary edition is recalled here not only by Monkeywrench, Everlong and My Hero, but by the first ever studio recording of Everlong (acoustic). Consecutive Best Rock Album Grammy winners There Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999) and One By One (2002) are represented by two pairs of classics respectively: Learn To Fly and Breakout, and All My Life and Times Like These, while 2005s two- disc electric/acoustic 10th anniversary opus In Your Honor yields the perennial FF final encore Best Of You. The intimate 2006 acoustically augmented theater tour documented on the Skin + Bones album and DVD is commemorated here by that collections title track.

Greatest Hits is completed by The Pretender and Long Road To Ruin,a double shot from 2007s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, which earned the Foos their third Best Rock Album Grammy and set off the bands biggest ever headlining tour, which peaked with a two-night stand at Londons Wembley Stadium attended by 165,000 fans-setting the venues two-night attendance record-and immortalized on the 18-song Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley Stadium DVD.