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Statistics
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Artists:
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6,825
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Albums:
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34,380
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Lyrics:
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288,653
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Song Views:
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43,964,999
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Reviews:
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10,300
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Comments:
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155,539
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Total Users:
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20,076
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Online Users:
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153
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Usage Statistics
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Big Me
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Submitted By: Big D
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Doing backing vocals in this version of "Big Me" is violinist Petra Haden.
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Home
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Submitted By: Big D
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The album's title comes from a line in the song "Home".
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Learn To Fly
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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Jack Black and Kyle Gass from Tenacious D make an appearance in the music video playing the maintenance crew who drug the plane and are arrested at the end.
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Long Road To Ruin
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Submitted By: Big D
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The single's success was hurt in America during several occasions, when Foo Fighters only played "The Pretender" on Saturday Night Live, instead of "The Pretender" and "Long Road to Ruin." Essentially the only promotion for "Long Road to Ruin" is its heavily played video and radio-play.
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Long Road To Ruin
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Submitted By: Big D
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The music video of the song is a comedic spoof of a stereotypical 1970s-era hospital soap opera (General Hospital in particular), and is essentially a "show within a show."
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Low
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Submitted By: Big D
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The video for "Low" features actor and performer Jack Black.
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Razor
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Submitted By: Sygyzy
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Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age/Eagles of Death Metal fame helps out Dave with the guitarwork on this song.
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Stacked Actors
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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Dave Grohl on the song: "Stacked Actors' is a response to living in Hollywood for about a year and a half, and my disdain and disgust of everything plastic and phony, which is the foundation of that city. And I just hated it. I had a lot of fun, but I had a lot of fun hating it.
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The Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners
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Submitted By: Big D
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Dave Grohl composed it as a tribute to two miners from the Beaconsfield mine collapse, who asked for an iPod with Foo Fighters songs to listen to while waiting for rescue. The song was played live for the first time in October 4, 2006 at Sydney Opera House. One of the two surviving miners attended the gig and joined Grohl for a beer afterwards, as promised by Grohl himself.
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The Pretender
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Submitted By: Big D
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In a 2007 interview with XFM, frontman Dave Grohl stopped short of explaining the meaning behind "The Pretender," but alluded its roots go to current political unrest. Grohl noted,
"That's the thing with lyrics, you never want to give away specifics, because it's nice for people to have their own idea or interpretation of the song. But, you know, everyone's been fucked over before and I think a lot of people feel fucked over right now and they're not getting what they were promised, and so something to do with that."
Grohl also told XFM "The Pretender" wasn't initially planned for the album and happened really quickly.
"That song didn't happen until later on in the session. We didn't go into making the record with that song and it happened after we recorded a lot of stuff. Up until that point, I didn't know if we had a good opening song or not. So after we recorded it, I thought, 'oh this is perfect, we have the song to open the record,' and it just became everybody's favorite song. ... It's the type of song that I look forward to opening shows with and it came together really easily. We put that song together in, I don't know, a day, whereas a lot of the other songs we worked on for weeks."
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Virginia Moon
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Submitted By: Sygyzy
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The famed Norah Jones helps out Dave with the vocals and piano in this song.
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