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  • Audio CD (24 Sept. 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Roswell Records/RCA/Sony BMG
  • ASIN: B000UF0QG8
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (105 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 7,980 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

  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
  13. Once & For All (Demo)

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FOO FIGHTERS Echoes Silence Patience & Grace (2007 UK 13-track CD album including the single The Pretender Long Road To Ruin Let It Die and the Bonus RecordingOnce And For All [Demo] housed in the title-stickered jewel case with the picture / lyric booklet)

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Dave Grohl’s sixth album fronting post-grunge rockers Foo Fighters finds him softening his game somewhat, although not in the manner of 2005’s In Your Honour, which countered the Foos’ stadium metal moves with a second disc of acoustic songs. Rather, Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace sees Grohl taking cues from his beloved Led Zeppelin, penning a record that incorporates muscular rock shapes with piano ballads ("Statues"), picked acoustic moments ("Come Alive") and free-wheeling, classic-tinged jams like "Summer’s End"--a song about romantic dalliances in the "sweet Virginia countryside". While it’s undoubtedly a mature sort of record for the Foo Fighters, however, that’s not to say that their edge has been blunted. With the band reunited with producer Gil Norton, whose skill for quiet/loud dynamics did a lot for 1997’s The Colour and the Shape, tracks like "The Pretender" and "Erase/Replace" are muscular, dynamic rockers that balance subtle, atmospheric moments with epic bursts of rage. The track "Cheer up Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)", meanwhile, feels like a jibe at the emo hordes who’ve tried, but failed, to dislodge Grohl’s crown. It’s the sound of a band growing into middle age gracefully. --Louis Pattison

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After listening to the album four times in a row, what stands out the most is that Grohl obviously took a lot away from the acoustic tour they did in support of the second (quieter) half of `In Your Honour' (which provided the material for 2006's live album and DVD `Skin and Bones'). The new acoustic arrangements of old Foo Fighters songs must have sparked something inside Grohl's head because `Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace' is full of orchestral touches that provide a whole new dimension to his songwriting.

Of course there are the standard rock anthems (albiet with new acoustic/orchestral touches) that you expect from Foo Fighters, like first single "The Pretender", "Erase Replace", "Long Road to Ruin" (my guess for next single #1), and "Cheer Up Boys (Your Makeup's Running)" (my guess for next single #2). But what really stands out are the mellower acoustic/piano heavy tracks that make up the majority of the album.

"Let it Die" starts out as a quiet, gentle acoustic solo piece with only Grohl's vocals and an acoustic guitar. But it slowly builds, growing more and more urgent until around the two-minute mark you're hit with a few bars of loud, crunch-heavy guitar leading into a full-on rock chorus/outro. This is Dave Grohl taking Jimmy Page's concept of light and shade to the extreme.

"Come Alive" is another example of this light and shade concept, building from a mid-tempo melodic piece to balls to the wall, bombast and howling rock.

"Stranger Things Have Happened" is purely acoustic with Grohl singing over one guitar, with a second guitar joining in occassionally to add accents with some nice acoustic licks.
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This is the sixth studio album from the 'Foo Fighters'. I have followed these guys since their debut back in 1995, and they have developed their sound substantially since then.

While it's probably true that their finest hour was 1997's 'The Colour And The Shape', they haven't had any album that's come close to it....until now.

Working once again with Gil Norton (Who, incidentally, produced 'The Colour and the Shape'), he's brought back the things that some previous Foos records since maybe forgot- a bit of punk and all-out soulful rocking anthems.

And 'Echoes, Silence, patience & Grace' has all of this in bucketloads.

There's variation here. It's a solid progression since their last album, 'In Your Honour'.

It opens with the raucous anthem singalong, 'The Pretender'. It starts disturbingly like Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven', but it develops into anything but that. It develops into a punk verse before exploding in the chorus and maintaining that sequence throughout afterwards for four and a half minutes. 'Let It Die' is similar, in the sense that it starts acoustically, before exploding into a stadium-rock singalong. 'Erase/Replace' is different. There is no acoustic intro here at all. It simply feeds in the guitars from the beginning before bursting into punk verses and a mammoth singalong chorus nicely sandwiched in between. 'Long Road To Ruin' is more mainstream, and an obvious future release. The chorus is infectiously catchy and will be a crowd favourite at stadiums around the world, I'm certain of that.

'Come Alive' is perhaps the most spectacular track on the album apart from 'The Pretender'. It's over five minutes long and it's somewhat similar to 'Let It Die'.
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HAVING DIPPED MY TOE INTO THE 21ST CENTURY WITH THE SNOW PATROL,AND WISHED I HADN'T,I BOLDLY WENT FORTH LIKE THOSE WORLD WAR 2 PILOTS AND GOT ME A FOO FIGHTERS CD. WHAT A WONDER! NO MISERY, JUST COBWEB BLOWING---INTERSPERSED WITH MELODY LEFT ME FEELING I WANNA HEAR MORE! HAVING THIS MAKES ME FEEL LIKE A KID AGAIN WITHOUT THE SENTIMENTAL RETRO REWIND MANY BANDS TRY TO RECREATE,AND I KNOW I,M TALKING OUT MY BACKSIDE BUT THIS SOUNDS LIKE WE HAVE A FUTURE FOLKS.CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT FOO FIGHTER CD I SHOULD HEAR NEXT? PLEASE COMMENT.I PURCHASED ECHOES,SILENCE,PATIENCE,AND GRACE THROUGH AMAZON UK.
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3RD TIME OF BUYING THIS ALBUM IN CD FORM DUE TO FRIENDS BORROWING IT, NEVER RETURNING IT & ALSO PLAYING IT TO DEATH.
WHAT CAN I SAY OTHER THAN IT'S MY FAVOURITE BAND & HAS BEEN FOR THE LAST 21 YEARS.
THIS ALBUM HAS HIT AFTER HIT & I LOVE IT. EACH SONG MEANS SO MUCH TO ME & TRANSPORTS ME BACK TO ANOTHER TIME, PLACE & MEMORY.
REMEMBER THE STORY ABOUT THE MINERS STUCK FOR DAYS & WHEN ASKED WHT THEY WANTED ONE REQUESTED AN IPOD WITH FOO FIGHTERS ON. WELL THIS ALBUM HAS THE SONG WHICH DAVE GROHL WROTE FOR THEM TITLED " BALLAD OF THE BEACONSFIELD MINERS"
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...This is just brilliant!
I've been listening to the Foo's for years now and have attended so many of their superb live shows and I can't wait to here the tracks off this album played live!

This is the most thought about and refined Foo album of the lot and it benefits from this no-end. After the Acoustic side of 'In Your Honor', the Foos are now not scared of creating ballads and acoustically themed tracks. Why they were scared of doing this before I'll never know because the ones on this album are just superb and eclipse anything off of In Your Honor.

The album starts in classic Foo Style, 'The Pretender'. This is what the Foos have made a career on, producing fast paced, rock anthems that are built for playing Live. The chorus will have you singing along in seconds and it's one of the best songs the guys have ever produced.

This is followed by 'Let It Die'. This starts slow and ends up as a screaming rock track. It's probably my least favourite on the album (I don't get along with Dave Screaming), but that's not to say it's a bad song at all. 'Erase/Replace' is another classic rock track from the Foos.
'Long road To Ruin' will definately be the next single, it's radio-friendly rock at it's best and is istantly likeable.

I'm going to skips the next few tracks as they are all superb, but I'm itching to get to the last 3 songs!
'Statues' is the first taste we get of Piano Foos. It's a great track that will perhaps get overshadowed by the 2 that follow it.

'But, Honestly' has already become one of my favourite Foo songs ever. Very similar to 'Come Alive' in it's structure, but the excellent melody and backing vocals from taylor just make it stand out so much. Starts of slow and acoustic, ends up with classic rock riffs and solos.
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