I think it would. The damn thing is so catchy you may not want to listen to it: You’ll never get it out of your head. It’s got a little 70s funk to it, too, and I think that helps put some space between it and everything else on the album. / I still remember every single word you said / And all the shit that somehow came along with it! Reportedly penned while Dave was still playing drums for Nirvana, Kurt Cobain’s influence is clear on one of the frontman’s most ingeniously easy melodies and repetitively abstract (largely nonsensical) lyrics that somehow only reinforce the pop-rock brilliance. It builds and it builds and it builds, and while it calms down for a little bit here and there, it never once loses any kind of forward momentum. We reached that point with these rankings a few entries ago, which is how a classic like “Learn to Fly” finds itself at 15. Ugh. Looking back, it feels bewildering that the lead single from The Colour And The Shape could’ve been anything other than the epic, definitive Everlong. As Foo Fighters have evolved, they’ve become less of a hard rock unit. If you want to question the legacy of the Foo Fighters, then you have to do so while ignoring this song and I just don’t think you can—and you definitely can’t when it comes to the song we all knew was going to take the top slot. Interestingly, like Everlong, Dave told Mojo that the song was inspired by his failing marriage at the time. Miley Cyrus’ stunning cover Just Breathe has Pearl Jam’s seal of approval.

Echoing his inspired 2004 Probot collaboration with Dave, the appearance of inimitable Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister as the driver of the eponymous White Limo in the VHS-filtered music video lent the track a sense of unimpeachable cool before it had even truly hit pace. Perhaps best remembered for the twistedly inspired music-video collaboration with Jack Black (acting opposite Dave as caricature rednecks entering a darkened motel room, modelling on a variety of fetching wigs and lingerie, and proceeding to trash the place), Low also happens to be the band’s heaviest sounding song. It’s a beautiful song, though, and while it might not be one that is immediately thought of when one thinks of the Foo Fighters, it probably should be—especially when thinking of them as a great American rock band because this is a great American rock ballad. Actually, I think all the Avengers would get down with it. Shit man, it’s on already being played on classic rock radio stations right now! “No Way Back” is also a great bridge track between decades for the band.
But there wasn’t anything sappy or forced about this gentle love song. Or maybe it was? But yet Foo Fighters have been a dynamo, churning out a slew of hit singles. And Grohl proved true to his word: He has indeed stuck around, enjoying a very fruitful career in the process. Support Music VF: Share | our sites. I also want to drink so many beers with friends while listening to this song but I’m also totally okay with blasting this while mowing the lawn. Just some guys being super chill.”. A quarter-century on, it remains a potent call to arms for the Foos’ ever-enduring fanbase. Dealing in the universal longing for home and featuring a drum fill that might’ve been nicked straight from Oasis’ Wonderwall, this is Foo Fighters at their most effectively populist: best enjoyed with lager in hand and arms around your best mates’ shoulders. Quiz: How well do you know Foo Fighters’ lyrics? Again, I don’t understand why Sonic Highways wasn’t better received. We all sometimes go left when we should go right. It just feels like, well, the Foo Fighters. It might be a predictable choice, but with Foo Fighters there really can only be one number one.

Hey Foo Fighters: how about when all this madness is over and you start playing shows again, you play “All My Life” and then “Breakout” right after? This website requires Javascript to be enabled, From 1995’s self-titled debut to Concrete And Gold, we rank Foo Fighters best songs in order of greatness…. Yup, and it’s not the only one. The historians will note that “I’ll Stick Around” is about Grohl’s contentious business relationship with Cobain’s wife Courtney Love after his death. Praise doesn’t come much higher than that. It’s from the band’s 2017 album Concrete And Gold—which had two solid singles in “Sky Is A Neighborhood” and “Run”—but neither of those can hold a candle to the 1970s rock radio magic that is “Make It Right.”. Pro tip: it’s a great song to listen to while driving. The lyrics about Ritalin, balloons, pretty fingernails and bartering cysts and mollusks are full of much of the same subverted childish wonder as Nirvana classics like Polly, but when Dave declares ‘This is a call to all my past resignations’, it lands with more propulsive hope than pained introversion. Inspired by time on the campaign trail with 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (who ultimately lost out to George W. Bush’s second term), 2005’s double-album In Your Honour still found the band overflowing with belief. Stay young, my friends. If not, we’re in for one hell of a treat at some point in the future. This was a call to what the future would hold. It’s not a good look. The Foo Fighters have so many really, really good songs that open with nothing but Dave Grohl’s voice and some guitar. “Wheels” is where it is because despite it being a great rock song, the Foo Fighters somehow have six that are better—starting with “This Is a Call.”. LiveAbout uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. This is an anthem that the Foo Fighters will be remembered for long after they’re gone, but that’s not enough to earn it a higher spot on the list. And while the cracking, Falling Down-inspired music video might feel like an incongruous fit for the song, it remains a hoot regardless. It’s pretty wild that Dave Grohl—a guy brought in to play drums for Nirvana right before they recorded Nevermind and who was subsequently primarily known for his head-banging and cymbal-slamming abilities—would not only go on to front his own band after Cobain passed away but that the band would still be going 25 years later. It just makes you feel alive.

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Foo Fighters Songs in the Key of X: Two versions were recorded on the Foo Fighters and Songs in the Key of X sessions, but neither were released. But if you can go back to the first time you heard this towering rocker, remember how it just grabbed you by the throat. Where Kurt’s lyrics were so often spiked with venom, though, Dave was really striking out on his own here with a sense of feel-good whimsy capable of winning over even the least hardened ears. Marrying power pop melody to a barroom beat and some downright grungy six-strings, This Is A Call set the template for virtually everything that would follow. Purposefully placed as the final track on Wasting Light, Walk was a song Dave had been sitting on for a few years previously before realising that it fit perfectly with the seventh album’s themes of time, nostalgia, and second chances.