Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience And Grace (CD 2007)

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the sixth studio album by the Foo Fighters, released on September 25, 2007. Produced by Gil Norton who worked with the group on their second album, The Colour and the Shape.

Reached number 1 on the UK album chart, selling 135,685 albums in the first week. It also achieved the number one spot on iTunes through pre-orders alone. The album went platinum in just 5 days after its release in Australia. It also went platinum in New Zealand after a week. In the U.S., it entered the Billboard 200 album chart at #3, selling 168,668 copies in it's first week and giving The Foo Fighters their third straight Top 3 studio album in their homeland.


Track listing:

"The Pretender"
"Let It Die"
"Erase/Replace"
"Long Road to Ruin"
"Come Alive"
"Stranger Things Have Happened"
"Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)"
"Summer's End"
"Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners"
"Statues"
"But, Honestly"
"Home"

Bonus tracks:

"Once & for All (demo)" (Japan, iTunes and UK bonus track)
"Seda" (iTunes pre-order and Japan bonus track)
"The Pretender" (live @ Wal-Mart Soundcheck)
"My Hero" (live @ Wal-Mart Soundcheck)

B-sides (available on "The Pretender" single):

"Bangin'"
"If Ever"
"Come Alive (demo)"

Album number 6 finds Foo Fighters in an enviable position in rock's current pantheon. Able to sell out arenas the world over and dominate the charts they also maintain a level of rock credibility that most other bands would sell their roadie's children for.

The Pretender kicks of a trio of strident stompers, leaping out of the speakers with energy and excitement to mug the listener. Let It Die follows suit with similarly explosive results. Erase/Replace is less successful, lacking a decent tune to accompany the volume. Long Road To Ruin, though not quite scaling the dizzy heights of its pop-rock forebear Times Like These, has a killer chorus and is destined to be a live favourite. Come Alive is an album highpoint, going from gentle strum to thrillingly full on rock bombast. Moody, country-esque slow builder Stranger Things Have Happened sounds like it escaped from Tom Petty's Highway Companion and with its sugary melodies and breakneck guitars Cheer Up Boys... wouldn't have sounded amiss on Earth Vs The Wildhearts. Summers End's evocative lyrics deftly recall hazy sunshine, lost youth and lazy days. Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners welds Led Zeppelin's The Battle of Evermore to Duelling Banjos to great effect while Statues is 70's pop radio in the best possible sense of the word. When the electric guitar bursts in towards the end of But, Honestly it is the single most thrilling moment in Foo Fighters entire career. Home is an unexpectedly beautiful, piano led song, extolling the virtues of hearth and, yes, home. It is the perfect album closer.

Foo Fighter continue to make albums you can immerse yourself in. Echoes.. outdoes previous efforts by simply having MORE great songs. The Colour and The Shape still stands as the high point of their career but this comes pretty damn close to topping it. Reminiscent of 70's rock titans Led Zeppelin and The Who, Echoes... once again shows why Foo Fighters are the best band in the world.

pues creo que uno buen trabajo de los foo fighters para mi uno de los mejores grupos de el mundo, ya que trabajan muy bien sus temas

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Another great album from an awesome band, the songs are the true sound of the foo fighters and are a great follow up of many other album successes

The trouble with this album is there are to many filler tracks. The first 5 tracks are decent enough, and then it really goes down hill.

my first foo's cd like the single the pretender all the songs really do get into your head & you find yourself singing different tunes from the album during the day great not one bad song buy it & enjoy

Like most Foo Fighter's albums there are some real hits here, with The Pretender being the best, but the other songs just fillers.

Brilliant album, especially The Pretender. borrowed this from a friend and liked it so much I had to buy my own copy. Can highly recommend this cd to anyone thinking of buying it

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good all round album, ,my first from the Foos, prompted by their recent hits, the album though has plenty more to offer, and even on second play , I am getting into the other tracks. And they are of varied tempo not all hard rock in your face, or really slow and fall asleepy, and good balance. Nice, cheers Foo`s

I love the foo`s and have been promising myself this album for a while and im not disappointed the foo`s at their best.

This album is a good mix of heavy & light rock with good mellow moments but then jumps into life for the hard rocker in you.

A must for any veteran foo's fan. The first 4 songs instantly captivated me. Within a couple of listens I picked out my current fav which is track 7 on the album. I think it good enough to be released as a single. This album just goes to show that even after so many previous album the foo's are still on top of their game, roll on the next one!

Dave and the boys just go from strength to strength. Another collection of fantastic tracks from start to finish. On of te best bans arround at the moment.

If you're not sure that you'll like this album, go on Youtube and look for "The Pretender". That alone convinced me that this would be one hell of an album. And it more than lived up to that. The sound is a continuation of what they started to do with In Your Honour, only the electric and accoustic stuff is all mixed in together now and sometimes occurs in the same song, even. One of the best albums I've bought in a while.

Foo Fighters are on very strong form with this album. A great mix of slow, pacey, angry, moody, and calm and peaceful as well. Great music.

Everyone loves the Foo Fighters and with good reason. The last 12 years have seen Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana hobby project become rock's most reliable source of comic rage, feelgood anthems and stadium fun; rock gods who never come close to taking themselves too seriously, too busy having a good time to bore everyone with experimentation and emotional baggage. Always ready with a knowing nod and a goofy grin, Grohl & co are now the must see band for barrelling riffs and a good time.

All of which makes sixth album, the thoughtfully titled "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace", something of a risky move. At first glance it may seem like just another Foo Fighters record. Single, "The Pretender" does what all good Foo Fighters songs should, careering from quiet to loud to vein-popping, guaranteeing to have any stadium pogoing as one. "Let It Die" and "Erase/Replace" confirm it as the trick that just keeps on giving, yet for all the familiarity, this stands as a daringly brave record.

The first clues that "Echoes…" marks a major sea change in Foo Fighter standard operating procedure comes with the realisation that the above mentioned scream-alongs aren't fun. They aren't comic. They aren't knowing. They won't come with a self-depreciating video and they don't leave you second guessing whether they mean it or not. They're raging, bitter and make no apologies for it. There's a melancholy that's as big as the guitars and just as flooring.

The second hint is in the running order. For a while now Dave Grohl, the man who lest we forget gave us the lump in the throat that is "Everlong", has suspected that he may have more to offer the world than volume and humility alone. He tried to go there with the last album, 2005's two disc opus "In Your Honor", but bottled it last minute, banishing his sensitive side to the second acoustic disc so it wouldn't get in the way of the proper Foo Fighters tracks. Here, it's front and centre, firmly holding its own.

Their shouty charge may have made the Foo Fighters a household name, but here it's the anguish and introspection of the intimate acoustic tracks which screams the loudest. The sweetly bruised "Come Alive" and pleading "Stranger Things Have Happened" are both profoundly sad. Meanwhile, closing piano lament "Home" is surely amongst the starkest tracks Dave Grohl has ever committed to tape.

Maybe being reunited with "The Colour And The Shape" producer Gil Norton has instilled the confidence needed for Grohl to fully realise his songwriting potential. Maybe it was inevitable he'd get there eventually. Either way, there's no getting away from the fact that the goofy guy who used to play drums for Nirvana just made a classic album.

well what a fab new album yet again! i dont think you can get a better album! there is not 1 song on the album that i would skip when i have the album on!


as usual the foo's always deliver a fantastic mix of songs!!!!


great great great

Outstanding cd .Starts with best track of the album and then with a powerful lyric contaent just mellows out for the rest of your listening experience.
well worth a buy.

One of the best rock albums released all year. I liked nearly every single song on there. It includes the great single "The Pretender". If you do buy this album make sure you look out for "Let it die" and "Long Road To Ruin" which really make this album great.

A must for any foo-fighters fan.

This album (the 6th from The Foos) is just amazing. It almost sounds like a greatest hits album with the previous 5 being rehearsals for this one.

There are great stomping rock tracks, classic Grohl melodies, acoustic and piano based 'ballads'. As usual the musicianship is top drawer with Dave's guitar and Taylor's drums driving each track from start to finish.

"Pretender" has got to be one of thier best tracks in my opinion and it is textbook rock - with quite interludes, loud screaming vocals and song tempo/structure that I just love.

There are other tracks on the album that are reminiscent of the early days and follow this similar loud/quiet formula that works so well for the Foos. I am not going to list them and mark each song out of ten, the whole album is great and as I titled this review, it plays like a greatest hits...

Other stand out moments for me (apart from Pretender) are Statues, But Honestly and Summer's End..

My only disappointment is that I didn't see them on tour...