Quinta-feira 5 Nov 2009, 11h:06

Please note straight up, if anyone reads this, it's no so much bitching about the album, as much as it is what I'd pick as my favourite/best songs.

Just read a track listing, and heard their new song, for the Foo Fighters greatest hits album. Here is a listing:

1. "All My Life"
2. "Best of You"
3. "Everlong"
4. "The Pretender"
5. "My Hero"
6. "Learn to Fly"
7. "Times Like These"
8. "Monkey Wrench"
9. "Big Me"
10. "Breakout"
11. "Long Road to Ruin"
12. "This Is a Call"
13. "Skin and Bones"
14. "Wheels"
15. "Word Forward"
16. "Everlong" (Acoustic version)

I've heard the new song Wheels, and it just doesn't grab me. It just seems like the typical "chuck on a couple of new songs so people will buy it or at least not complain about not getting anything new" that's come into vogue in the last 5? 10? years.

When the new songs are something like Real Love or Free As A Bird then yeah, it's cool, but a middling, generic new track? No thanks.

It doesn't include Stacked Actors or Generator. I can only put those down to it being Australian-only singles, and perhaps not as widely known in the Foo Fighter fandom. Stacked Actors is I think their heaviest song (at least until The Pretender came out)

They probably missed out because of the 2 new songs, and the extra version of Everlong.

It's more a "singles" collection than a real attempt to find their best, greatest songs.

Times Like These isn't a great song, and neither is All My Life. I'd probably only have one of those on a real greatest hits album, One By One was their weakest album in my opinion. I'd probably keep Times Like These because Monkey Wrench, The Pretender are better "heavy rock" than All My Life.

Skin And Bones is only really there because it's the title track off the acoustic album.

Similar with Long Road To Ruin, it's the 2nd single off ESPG but it's not an especially great song either. The Pretender I can accept, because it's one of their better hard rock songs and I believe the biggest success of the post-Nothing Left To Lose period. To pick a 2nd song from that album, I'd choose Stranger Things Have Happened.

If I had to choose 16 songs. I'd pick:

1 This Is a Call (Foo Fighters)
2 Big Me (Foo Fighters)
3 Monkey Wrench (The Colour and the Shape)
4 My Hero (The Colour and the Shape)
5 Everlong (The Colour and the Shape)
6 Walking After You (X-Files Movie Soundtrack version)
7 Baker Street (The Colour and the Shape)
8 Stacked Actors (There Is Nothing Left to Lose)
9 Breakout (There Is Nothing Left to Lose)
10 Generator (There Is Nothing Left to Lose)
11 Learn to Fly (There Is Nothing Left to Lose)
12 M.I.A. (There Is Nothing Left to Lose)
13 Times Like These (One By One)
14 The Pretender (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace)
15 Stranger Things Have Happened (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace)
16 Virginia Moon (In Your Honor)

Close, but no cigar:
I'll Stick Around
Next Year
DOA
Razor
Cold Day In The Sun
Aurora

Although the reason for some of those is basically you can't really put the entire There Is Nothing Left to Lose album onto a greatest hits cd.

I short, I think they could have got away with a double album, included their big radio hits from every album, and still snuck in all their best, lesser known tracks.