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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Rca
Salesrank: 4127
Released: September 25, 2007 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Track Listing:
1. The Pretender
2. Let It Die
3. Erase/Replace
4. Long Road To Ruin
5. Come Alive
6. Stranger Things Have Happened
7. Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)
8. Summer s End
9. Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners
10. Statues
11. But, Honestly
12. Home
Editorial Review:
Having commemorated their tenth anniversary with a year-plus run commencing with In Your Honor (a double album the New York Times called an "unexpected magnum opus"), sold out rock arena shows and a toned down intimate theater trek, and a headlining gig at London's Hyde Park for a crowd of 85,000, the question looms larger than any in the Foo Fighters' career to date: What do they do for an encore?!? The answer comes in the form of "The Pretender," the first single from the band's sixth studio album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, out on Roswell/RCA. Produced by Gil Norton, who last worked with the band on 1997's double-platinum The Colour and The Shape (recently reissued in deluxe 10th anniversary form), Dave Grohl, bassist Nate Mendel, drummer Taylor Hawkins and guitarist Chris Shiflett have crafted a 12-track milestone that showcases and reconciles the band's every strength and sensibility in the most complex and confident Foo Fighters album to date.
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Description of Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace:
In 1997, Foo Fighters teamed with alt-rock production cornerstone Gil Norton to make their best album, The Colour and the Shape. Ten years later, they've regrouped with Norton for a disc that's more sophisticated and diverse, if a tad less rockin'. The curveballs include "Stranger Things Have Happened," a solo soul-searcher where leader Dave Grohl's accompanied by just his acoustic guitar and a ticking metronome, and "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners," an acoustic guitar duet for Grohl and guest virtuoso Kaki King. Plus "Summers End" tickles the Foos' classic-rock fetish with a dead-on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young arrangement. There's still enough of the intense, snarling power-pop that's Foo Fighters' longtime forte. "The Pretender," "Erase/Replace," and "Long Road to Ruin" combine sheer thrust, zeal, and melody like no other group currently on the charts. Yet the finale, "Home," makes its clear that this is a changed band--or, at least, that Grohl's a changed man. With only his piano for company, Grohl's pleading voice reveals fragile layers of insecurity and loneliness as he sings "all I want is to be home." Seems this rock & roll road warrior's mellowed some, albeit without compromising Foo Fighters' vitality. --Ted Drozdowski
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Reviews:
Great from start to finish 
2009-07-09 - This is the kind of album you listen to all the way through, then do it over again. Each time I hear this CD, I discover some new nuance in the songs.
Some reviewers say that this is a great album, but not their best work. I disagree. This album shows their maturity as artists and a strong commitment to quality.
An Absolute Must Buy!!!!
2009-04-10 - This is a brilliant CD. Don't pass it up. Three songs stand out. "The Pretender"-hard, fast and absolutely fantastic. "Let It Die" which is clearly addressed to Kurt Cobain. And "Home", a song which reached in and grabbed me.
The Foo Fighters have always had stuff I liked, but this CD has sold me on them for good. Absolutely amazing.
Echoes Silence Patience and Grace
2009-04-06 - This was a really great CD in excellent condition. I would definitely buy here again in the future!
Great Foo Fighers album!
2009-02-05 - I've been a long-time fan of the Foo Fighters and this album didn't disappoint. It's modern, but it certainly maintains the Foo's signature sound. I caught them in concert this past summer, playing many of the songs from this album, and they were amazing. They played for over three hours and they sounded just like they do on the radio. If you're a Foo Fighters fan, this album is a must.
'Foo'king fantastic, no 'Foo'ling
2009-01-27 - I admit it, at one time I was one who thought of Dave Grohl as someone who rocked hard, too, hard for me personally.
Until I gave this album a chance.
Nice, real nice. Less of a head banger than what I had heard in prior years. I like the mellower side of Dave.
I think having a family and kids has sweetened him up a tad bit and I'm digging the change.
This CD will give you a nice combo of softer tunes mixed with a few more serious rockin songs reminiscent of past material one might expect from the Foo's..
Favorite Tracks: Home, Come Alive, Stranger Things have Happened, But, Honestly & Ballad of Beaconsfield a gorgeous song.
