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| Name = Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
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| Type = studio |
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| Artist = [[Foo Fighters]] |
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| Cover = Foos-ESPG.jpg |
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| Alt = A torpedo with its bottom half replaced by an amplifier tube. To the left is the text "Foo Fighters" and "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace". |
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| Released = September 24, 2007 |
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| Recorded = March – June 2007 at Studio 606 West in [[Northridge, Los Angeles, California]] |
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| Genre = [[Alternative rock]], [[post-grunge]],<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url=http://allmusic.com/album/one-by-one-r1188671|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine|title=Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace — Foo Fighters|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|accessdate=2012-01-24}}</ref> [[hard rock]]<ref name=popmatters>{{cite web|last=Timmermann |first=Josh |url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/foo-fighters-echoes-silence-patience-and-grace/ |title=Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace < PopMatters |publisher=[[Popmatters]]|date= |accessdate=2011-11-12}}</ref> |
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| Length = 51:12 |
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| Label = [[RCA Records|RCA]] |
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| Producer = [[Gil Norton]] |
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| Last album = ''[[In Your Honor]]''<br />(2005) |
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| This album = '''''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'''''<br />(2007) |
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| Next album = ''[[Wasting Light]]''<br />(2011) |
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| Misc = {{Singles |
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| Name = Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
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| Type = studio |
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| Single 1 = [[The Pretender (Foo Fighters song)|The Pretender]] |
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| Single 1 date = September 17, 2007 |
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| Single 2 = [[Long Road to Ruin]] |
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| Single 2 date = December 3, 2007 |
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| Single 3 = [[Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)]] |
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| Single 3 date = April 7, 2008 <small>(UK download only)</small> |
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| Single 4 = [[Let It Die (song)|Let It Die]] |
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| Single 4 date = June 24, 2008 <small>(Download only)</small> |
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'''''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace''''' is the sixth studio album by [[alternative rock]] band [[Foo Fighters]], released on September 25, 2007 by [[RCA Records]]. The album is noted for a blend of regular rock and [[acoustic rock]] tracks with shifting dynamics, which emerged from the variety of styles employed on the [[demo (music)|demos]] the band produced. It also marks the second time the band worked with producer [[Gil Norton]], whom frontman [[Dave Grohl]] brought to fully explore the potential of his compositions and have a record that sounded different from their previous work. Grohl tried to focus on songs with messages that resonated on the audience, writing reflective lyrics which drew inspiration from the birth of his daughter. |
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Critical reception to ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' was positive, with praise to the sonic variety and songwriting, though some reviewers found the record inconsistent and uninspired. The album topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Austria, and had three successful singles, "[[The Pretender (Foo Fighters song)|The Pretender]]", "[[Long Road to Ruin]]" and "[[Let It Die (song)|Let It Die]]". ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' was nominated for five [[Grammy Award]]s, winning [[Grammy Award for Best Rock Album|Best Rock Album]], and was also awarded the [[Brit Award]] of Best International Album. |
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==Background and recording== |
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As the tour for the album ''[[In Your Honor]]'' had both acoustic and electric shows, frontman [[Dave Grohl]] discussed with [[RCA Music Group]] president [[Clive Davis]] on how "it'd be so cool" if the Foo Fighters were the band that did those different shows that appealed to specific audiences "and they wouldn't necessarily have to go to both", to which Davis replied that "you can do both together". Grohl took this advice when composing his following album.<ref>{{cite video|author=[[James Moll|Moll, James]] (director)|title=[[Back and Forth (documentary)|Back and Forth]]|year=2011|medium=documentary|publisher=RCA}}</ref> Grohl added that "we didn't plan the new album to be half rock and half acoustic", picking the songs the band considered the best, with "demos which ranged from psycho fucking [[Nomeansno]] to sloppy, [[Tom Petty]] country to fucking piano-driven songs".<ref name=kerr/> |
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{{quote box|right|quote="We haven't been ready to write a record like this until now. I know that Dave wouldn't have been comfortable putting violins on a song before. But for whatever reasons, it just felt like the right time to explore those things now. [[In Your Honor|The last record]], obviously, was half heavy stuff, half acoustic songs. So it really was like two sides of the coin. It sounds obvious, but this time around we weren't afraid of incorporating everything into one song if it felt right." |
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|source= —Taylor Hawkins regarding the album's sound<ref name=rhythm>{{cite journal|journal=[[Rhythm (music magazine)|Rhythm]]|title=The Best Of Foo|date=November 2007}}</ref>| width = 27%}} |
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Since Grohl felt the songs were different from the band's previous input and "had the potential to be something great", he considered that instead of doing something like the last three albums the band had to go out of "our own comfort zone" and "needed someone to push us out of there". So Grohl decided to work again with [[Gil Norton]], who produced the band's second album ''[[The Colour and the Shape]]'', citing how Norton taught the band of the importance of pre-production and refining the composition, and claiming Norton's "unconventional" approach "seems to capture the best of this band", considering that with him "we're not going to do a straightforward [[AC/DC]] record, he's gonna make it different".<ref name=kerr>[http://www.fooarchive.com/gpb/kerrangaug07.htm "This Is Our Best Record In Years"]; ''[[Kerrang!]]'', August 2007</ref><ref name=xfm>{{cite web|url=http://www.xfm.co.uk/artists/interviews/2007/foo-fighters-on-echoes-silence-patience-grace|title=Foo Fighters On 'Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'|author=[[John Kennedy (DJ)|Kennedy, John]]|publisher=[[XFM London]]|date=26 September 2007 |accessdate=2012-04-16}}</ref> |
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Preparation was extensive: first Grohl had his usual start-off by developing demos with drummer [[Taylor Hawkins]], but for the first time Grohl tried to input vocals and lyrics in this early composition stage.<ref name=rhythm/> After rounding up composition with guitarist [[Chris Shiflett]] and bassist [[Nate Mendel]],<ref name=drum/> Grohl spent two weeks with Norton discussing "arrangements, harmony and melody" and reducing the song ideas, and then the band spent four weeks rehearsing, playing "a song a day, from noon to midnight".<ref name=bill>{{cite journal|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=5Q4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25|title=Rock Steady|journal=Billboard|date=18 August 2007|accessdate=2011-12-12|last=Cohen|first=Jonathan}}</ref> Hawkins stated that "we basically played each of these songs 100 different times, trying every little thing every different way" and that it was the first time since ''The Colour and the Shape'' "that Dave had to deal with someone in the room questioning all his ideas", given how condescending previous producer [[Nick Raskulinecz]] was.<ref name=drum>[http://www.fooarchive.com/hpb/drum07.htm Ten Years With Foo Fighters And We Still Want To Know. Who Is Taylor Hawkins?]; ''Drum!'', December 2007</ref> Grohl claimed the choices were for the "most powerful, dramatic songs",<ref name=riff>"There's A Part Of Me That Will Never Lose The Love Of Riffs"; |
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''[[Kerrang!]]'', September 2007</ref> and that there was an effort to "make everything sound as natural as possible - just like on the albums we grew up listening to", citing 1970s artists such as [[Neil Young]] and [[Wings (band)|Wings]] as a major influence. Shiflett added that for the first time he played [[lead guitar]] in some tracks while Grohl "usually works out all the bits" of composition.<ref name=total/> |
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Recording begun on March 2007 at the band's own Studio 606 in [[Northridge, California]].<ref>[http://www.therockradio.com/2007/04/foo-fighters-deep-into-recording.html "Foo Fighters deep into recording"]. TheRockRadio.com. April 27, 2007.</ref> During a ten day break in April, Grohl thought that the recorded needed another uptempo song, so he spent his time developing an unfinished song that became "[[The Pretender (Foo Fighters song)|The Pretender]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1581020/foo-fighters-pretender-behind-grammys.jhtml|title=Foo Fighters' 'Pretender' Had To Hustle To Be A Contender: Behind The Grammys|publisher=MTV|date=2008-02-08|first=James|last=Montgomery|accessdate=2012-04-19}}</ref> The sessions wrapped in mid-June.<ref>Beebe, Joe. [http://www.bbandhisfob.com/September07.htm 6/8/07 Post]. Accessed 2012-04-15.</ref> It was the first Foo Fighters album where the band did not felt the need to rerecord any songs.<ref name=kerr/> Grohl stated that while ''In Your Honor'' was a double album because he felt "schizophrenic" to alternate between loud and acoustic songs, Norton helped on creating a sequencing that lead to "an album that makes sense".<ref name=xfm/> |
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[[File:Kaki King with acoustic guitar.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kaki King]] is featured in "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners".|alt=A bespectacled woman plays a guitar.]] |
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The album features the Foo Fighters' first instrumental, "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners". It was written by Grohl after meeting with one of the miners involved in the [[Beaconsfield mine collapse]] who requested an [[iPod]] with ''In Your Honor'' in it during the incident. As Grohl was moved by this action, he decided to "write something just to dedicate to him that night because he definitely seemed like a hero", and later promised to include the instrumental on the album.<ref name=kerr/><ref name=rip>Cohen, Jonathan. [http://web.archive.org/web/20080209233739/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003608301 "Foo Fighters Let It Rip On Sixth Album"]. Billboard.com. July 6, 2007.</ref> The album version features [[Kaki King]], whom Grohl invited to record the song as she was visiting Studio 606. Grohl later said that "I showed it to her once, and she shredded 10 times better than I ever played it".<ref name=total/><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=sA8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22|title=Fourth Quarter Forecast|journal=Billboard|date=14 July 2007|accessdate=2011-12-12|last=Cohen|first=Jonathan}}</ref> |
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==Composition== |
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{{Listen|filename=ThePretender.ogg|title="The Pretender" | description=Sample of the album's lead single "[[The Pretender (Foo Fighters song)|The Pretender]]", showcasing the album's shifting dynamics with a stripped-down acoustic intro that shifts into an electric hard rock sound.<ref name=sos/>}} |
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''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' offers a mix of both electric and acoustic songs, which Grohl likened to the band growing older and "comfortable with all kinds of music" instead of just focusing on straight rock songs, saying that listening to the album he felt like "we've gotten over our insecurities, because it presents us in a way that we probably hid in the past."<ref name=total/> Grohl also stated that "the idea now is to step up and make <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[The Zombies]]'<nowiki>]</nowiki> ''[[Odessey and Oracle]]''" - <ref name=bill/> the album he claimed to have listened the most during production -<ref name=total/> and that "it has always been my dream to mix [[Steely Dan]] with Nomeansno."<ref name=rip/> Amidst the amount of heavier tracks and themes Grohl decided to include the song "[[Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)]]", described as "the most light-hearted, melodic song of all" which "seemed like a little ray of hope in the middle of all this despair."<ref name=kerr/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1565675/dave-grohl-foo-fighters-havent-gone-soft.jhtml|date=July 27, 2007|publisher=[[MTV]]|title=Dave Grohl May Be Fond Of String Quartets, But Foo Fighters Haven't Gone Soft|first=James|last=Montgomery|accessdate=2012-04-11}}</ref> Grohl added that there was a bigger focus on melodies even in heavier tracks such as "The Pretender", "[[Let It Die (song)|Let It Die]]" and "Erase/Replace",<ref name=total>{{cite journal|title=Inside The Lives Of One Of Rock's Biggest Bands|journal=[[Total Guitar]]|date=January 2008}}</ref> and that album closer "Home", a ballad featuring Grohl on the piano, was "the best song I've ever written".<ref name=spin/> |
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The songs of the album are noted for its changing dynamics - with "middle sections [that] turn into this mass orchestrated swarm and ridiculous time signatures" which include musical references to 1970s [[soft rock]] bands such as the Wings, [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]] and [[Bread (band)|Bread]] -<ref name=rip/> summed by Hawkins by saying the band "wanted to make sure that everything 'built' on this record, that each instrument started somewhere and went somewhere else in the course of a song".<ref name=rhythm/> The drummer attributed this to the acoustic tour leading the band to "shed some of the fear of incorporating mellower stuff with the heavy stuff",<ref name=drum/> and Grohl added that "we wanted the stops to be pin-drop silent before exploding. If we had a beautiful melody, we'd throw a fucking string quartet in there. So we did everything we could to really magnify all those elements and that was fun. Usually you have a few parameters you're afraid to pass but, this time, there was no fear of going too far."<ref name=riff/> Mix engineer [[Rich Costey]] added that his work |
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of "preserve what [the band] had done to a fairly large degree" with "balancing and rides to get the dynamics to happen" was difficult given the sonic variety of ''Echoes'', which went from "[the Foo Fighters'] endless walls of guitar overdubs, almost like a swarm of bees" to string quartets: "The challenge of this type of mix is to retain the power of the track, yet define a space for everything."<ref name=sos>{{cite web|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar08/articles/insidetrack_0308.htm|title=Secrets Of The Mix Engineers: Rich Costey|work=[[Sound on Sound]]|date=March 2008|author=Tingen, Paul|accessdate=2012-01-15}}</ref> |
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{{quote box|right|quote="Most people think the world begins with their birth and ends with their death, but at some point your realise there's a much larger world out there that will continue existing long after you have made your exit. So I started to take in the big picture, and these realisations had an influence on the new album. There are songs about birth, death and life because my perception of these things has changed radically." |
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|source= —Dave Grohl on the album's lyrics<ref name=total/>| width = 27%}} |
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As the acoustic tour made Grohl realize "we were making music worth listening to, rather than music made for pummelling the person next to you" he decided to give more importance to the lyrics and "have a connection with the crowd in front of us", considering that among the many compositions the band made on pre-production "the ones that stand out are the ones that say something".<ref name=change>"What We Do Isn't Changing The World!" ''Kerrang!'', September 2007</ref> So for the first time the lyrics started being written before recording begun, with Grohl stating that he "sat in the back of the studio and just wrote every day for about 14 hours a day."<ref name=hot>{{cite web|url=http://www.hotpress.com/music/interviews/Life--death-and-rock--n--Grohl/4153941.html|work=[[Hot Press]]|title=Life, death and rock 'n' Grohl|first=Peter|last=Murphy|date=10 October 2007|accessdate=2012-04-12}}</ref> Most of the lyrics of the album deal with themes of birth, death and life, which Grohl attributed to the birth of his daughter Violet, considering that having a child "changes your entire outlook on the world",<ref name=total/> and that he was suddenly more emotional - "So when you're writing music with that in mind or that in your heart, everything just blooms into this fucking incredibly colourful, colourful feeling."<ref name=kerr/> Helped by the extensive lyrical preparation,<ref name=hot/> the lyrics also tried to show more of Grohl's feelings, "those things that you've always wanted to do or always wanted to say",<ref name=clash/> with Hawkins adding that he could not listen to "Stranger Things Have Happened" as "I'm one of his best friends, and the last thing I want to do is read a love letter to his wife or whoever it is."<ref name=bill/> |
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==Packaging== |
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The cover art was made by [[Invisible Creature]], and features a combination between a [[torpedo]] and a [[Valve audio amplifier|guitar amplifier tube]] to juxtapose the weapon "with another object that traditionally wasn’t associated with war or violence". The remainder of the album sleeve has similar juxtapositions of objects "that reflected the album’s tone of life and mortality".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sleevage.com/foo-fighters-echoes-silence-patience-grace/|title=Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace|publisher=Sleevage|date=2007-10-21|accessdate=2010-05-17}}</ref> |
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The album's title comes from a lyric on the album's final song, "Home". Grohl stated that as he struggled to think of a title given the musical variety of the album, even considering the title "The One With That Song On It", he looked at the song lyrics and after reading the ones from "Home" Grohl "thought it was nice because it’s open to interpretation and it’s a beautiful title and I think the album is beautiful in its diversity and its melody and its musicality – it goes from delicate acoustic moments to the heaviest shit we’ve ever done."<ref name=hot/><ref name=clash>{{cite journal|url=http://www.fooarchive.com/features/clash07.htm|title=Let There Be Foo|journal=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]|date=September 2007}}</ref> |
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==Release and promotion== |
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The album's first single, "The Pretender", had a forty-second preview released on a cross-promotional campaign with rock radio stations in July 2007, and eventually saw its debut on August 3, 2007 at [[ESPN]]'s broadcast of the [[X Games XIII]].<ref name=bill/> It was released for [[music download]] and for radio play in August 2007, with a CD single coming out on September 17, 2007.<ref>[http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=16770 "The Pretender" release notes]. Retrieved 2007-09-13.</ref> "[[Long Road to Ruin]]" was released as the second single in December 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.co.uk/releases/635/|publisher=[[Columbia Records]] UK|title=Releases " Foo Fighters - Long Road to Ruin (physical)|accessdate=2012-04-10}}</ref> In 2008, "[[Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)]]" was issued as a download single in the UK,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.co.uk/releases/695/|publisher=[[Columbia Records]] UK|title=Releases " Foo Fighters - Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)|accessdate=2012-04-10}}</ref> with "Let It Die" being picked instead for the United States.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VxQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA62|title=Billboard Reviews: Singles|journal=Billboard|date=2008-05-24|accessdate=2011-12-12}}</ref> All three North American singles topped ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''{{'}}s [[Modern Rock Tracks]] charts, making it only the ninth album in history to spawn three number one hits on this chart,<ref>{{cite journal|url= |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=7xMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44 |
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|title=Pop/Rock Charts|work=Billboard|date=2008-08-072}}</ref> and "The Pretender" set a record by spending eighteen weeks at the summit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/charts/chart_alert/e3ib294fb0f03a3a300ef48cbbd7326cf5c|title=Josh Groban Ties Elvis Presley|work=Billboard|date=2007-12-07}}</ref> |
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''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' was released on September 24, 2007. Pre-orders through [[iTunes]] were awarded with a free download of "The Pretender", advance tickets through [[Ticketmaster]], and the bonus tracks "Seda" and "Once and For All".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1570432/foo-fighters-try-silence-william-new-releases.jhtml|date=September 25, 2007|publisher=[[MTV]]|title=Foo Fighters Try To Silence Will.I.Am, Cheetah Girls, Keyshia Cole And More, In New Releases|first=Kurt|last=Orzeck |accessdate=2012-04-11}} |
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</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/offers/foo_fighters.html|title=Get Foo Fighters' New Album and Early Access to 2008 UK Tour Tickets|publisher=[[Ticketmaster]]|accessdate=2012-04-11}}</ref> The album was also issued as a double [[Long play|vinyl record]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myplaydirect.com/foo-fighters/echoes-silence-patience-grace-vinyl/details/5782600|title=Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (Vinyl)|publisher=Official Foo Fighters Store|accessdate=2012-04-19}}</ref> |
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The promotional tour begun in September 2007, after some concerts in the United Kingdom during the summer. While the back-up band compiled for the ''In Your Honor'' tour - guitarist [[Pat Smear]], keyboardist [[Rami Jaffe]], violinist [[Jessy Greene]], and percussionist [[Drew Hester]] - remained to perform complex songs such as "Come Alive", a few tracks had more stripped-down arrangements.<ref name=bill/><ref name=spin>{{cite web|url=http://www.spin.com/articles/tao-foo|title=The Tao of Foo|date=October 22, 2007|work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|first=Steve|last=Almond|accessdate=2012-04-19}}</ref> |
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==Reception== |
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{{Album ratings |
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| rev1 = [[Allmusic]] |
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| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic"/> |
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| rev2 = ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' |
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| rev2Score = favorable<ref name=billrev>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/view/14721/Foo-Fighters-Echoes-Silence-Patience-Grace/ |title=Daily Star review}}</ref> |
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| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' |
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| rev3Score = A<ref name=ew>{{cite news|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20057889,00.html |title=Music Review - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007)|first=Tom|last=Sinclair|work=Entertainment Weekly| date=October 1, 2007|accessdate=2012-04-20}}</ref> |
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| rev4 = ''[[Pitchfork Media]]'' |
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| rev4Score = 4.2/10<ref name=pitch>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10694-echoes-silence-patience-and-grace/|title=Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace|publisher=[[Pitchfork Media]]|first=Adam|last=Moerder|date=September 26, 2007|accessdate=2012-04-20}}</ref> |
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| rev5 = [[Robert Christgau]] |
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| rev5Score = B<ref name=rc>{{cite web|url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=foo+fighters |title=Consumer Guide: Foo Fighters|author=[[Robert Christgau|Christgau, Robert]]|accessdate=2012-04-20}}</ref> |
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| rev6 = ''[[The Guardian]]'' |
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| rev6Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/sep/21/popandrock.shopping1 |work=The Times|title=Foo Fighters, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | location=London | first= Dave |last=Simpson|date=2007-09-21|accessdate=2012-04-20}}</ref> |
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| rev7 =[[PopMatters]] |
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| rev7Score = 4/10<ref name=popmatters/> |
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| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' |
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| rev8Score ={{rating|3.5|5}}<!--- don't change, this is per the archived version--><ref name=rs>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/echoes-silence-patience-grace-20071004 |title=Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace review|work=Rolling Stone|date=2007-10-04|author=[[David Fricke|Fricke, David]]|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071011015840/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/16432697/review/16521830/echoes_silence_patience__grace|archivedate=2007-10-11|deadurl=no}}</ref> |
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| rev9=''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' |
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| rev9score= 6/10<ref name=spin>{{cite web|url=http://www.spin.com/reviews/foo-fighters-echoes-silence-patience-and-grace-roswellrca |title=Foo Fighters, ‘Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace’|author=Anderson, Kyle|publisher=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=2007-09-07|accessdate=2012-04-20}}</ref> |
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|rev10=[[Sputnikmusic]] |
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|rev10score=2.5/5<ref name=sput>{{cite web|url=http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=13535 |title=Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace|author=Hanson, John|publisher=[[Sputnikmusic]]|date=2007-09-17|accessdate=2012-04-20}}</ref> |
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===Commercial performance=== |
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In the United States, ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' entered the [[Billboard 200]] album chart at number three, selling 168,000 copies in its first week,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003650421|title=Rascal Flatts Races To No. 1 In Debut-Heavy Week|last=Hasty|first=Katie|date=2007-10-03|work=Billboard|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc|accessdate=2009-02-01}}</ref> and has since been certified Gold by the [[RIAA]].<ref name=RIAA/> As of April 14, 2011, it has sold 897,000 copies in US.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/#/news/foo-fighters-flying-towards-first-no-1-album-1005133952.story|title=Foo Fighters Flying Towards First No. 1 Album|first=Keith |last=Caulfield|date=2011-04-14|work=Billboard|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc|accessdate=2012-04-02}}</ref> The album debuted at the top of the [[UK album chart]], selling 135,685 albums in its first week;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storyCode=1031684§ioncode=1|title=Foo Fighters kick Blunt off top spot|work=[[Music Week]]|date=October 1, 2007|first=Alan|last=Jones|accessdate=2012-04-03}}</ref> Australia and New Zealand, being certified platinum in its first week in both countries;<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071011084508/http://www.sonybmg.com.au/news/details.do?newsId=20030829005018 "Fooies Album Goes Platinum!!"]. Sony BMG. September 26, 2007.</ref><ref name=rianz/> and Canada,<ref name=cha/> where the album went Platinum.<ref name="CRIA"/> |
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===Critical reaction=== |
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Initial critical response to ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' was positive. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[Standard score|normalized]] rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an [[weighted mean|average]] score of 71, based on 30 reviews.<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web | url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/echoes-silence-patience-grace | title=Foo Fighters:Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007): Reviews | work=[[Metacritic]] | publisher=CNET Networks, Inc | accessdate=2009-03-24 }}</ref> |
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Writing for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', Tom Sinclair considered that while the record was not ground-breaking, "the Foos have found a way to create their own archetype, with an instinctive feel for what constitutes a killer song", and praised "how damn near flawless the tone of the whole set feels".<ref name=ew/> ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s [[David Fricke]] praised the sonic variety, described by him as "an anthology of strong new songs by a great bunch of bands, all calling themselves Foo Fighters".<ref name=rs/> Jessica Letkemann of ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' was acceptive of the "delicious sundown grooves" of the quieter piece and the |
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"the Foos' usual soft-louder-loudest 'radio friendly unit shifters'" - referencing a track of [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana's]] ''[[In Utero (album)|In Utero]]'' - while considering "Home" the only disappoint track.<ref name=billrev/> [[Robert Christgau]] rated the album a B, describing it as a "candid attempt to recapitulate Nirvana Mark II's 10-year-old triumph, ''The Colour and the Shape''".<ref name=rc/> of ''[[The Guardian]]'' called ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' the band's "most accomplished album", praising the composition and saying that "Gil Norton's stunning production can't disguise the raw humanity beneath the sheen".<ref name=guardian/> |
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A few critics considered the album not as inspired as the band's previous work. Kyle Anderson of ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' wrote that "two-thirds of these tracks sound a lot like songs Grohl has done before", considering that album's strengths came from "the handful of songs that deviate from the wallop'n'wail template".<ref name=spin/> [[Allmusic]] reviewer [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] also felt the rock songs were not as remarkable "compared to the almost effortlessly engaging melodies of the softer songs", ultimately describing ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' as "just another Foo Fighters album instead of the consolidation of strengths that it was intended to be".<ref name="allmusic"/> [[Pitchfork Media]]'s Adam Moerder considered that the album "feels like a retread" and that the band was "sounding less and less relatable", with innefective acoustic tracks and rock songs that "sound cold and detached compared to heart-wrenching Foo pop gems like '[[Big Me]]' or '[[Everlong]]'".<ref name=pitch/> While [[Sputnikmusic]] reviewer John Hanson was acceptive of the rock songs, where he felt "the boys are most comfortable", he considered that the songwrting "has just become stale" and ultimately described ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' as "extremely boring and uninspired".<ref name=sput/> [[PopMatters]]' Josh Timmermann was much critical of the overtly serious tone of the record compared to the lighthearted work the band had done before, joking that the title of "Cheer Up, Boys" "sounds like the suggestion of a concerned fan for a band he or she used to actually care about."<ref name=popmatters/> |
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===Accolades=== |
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''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' won the 2008 [[Grammy]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Rock Album|Best Rock Album]] and "The Pretender" won for [[Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance|Best Hard Rock Performance]]. The album was also nominated for [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]], while "The Pretender" was also nominated for [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Record of the Year]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Rock Song|Best Rock Song]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1581272/20080210/story.jhtml|title=Grammy 2008 Winners List|date=2008-02-10|work=[[MTV]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| last = Heisel| first = Scott| title = Skrillex, Foo Fighters, Bon Iver, Sum 41, Radiohead, Coldplay get Grammy nods| work = [[Alternative Press]]| date = November 30, 2011| url = http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/skrillex_foo_fighters_bon_iver_sum_41_radiohead_coldplay_get_grammy_nods| accessdate = December 1, 2011}}</ref> The album also won Best International Album at the 2008 [[Brit Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brits.co.uk/news/2012/foo-fighters-win-brits-2012-international-group-award|title=Foo Fighters win BRITs 2012 International Group award|date=2012-02-21|accessdate=2012-04-03|work=[[BRIT Awards]]}}</ref> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' ranked it the 12th best album of 2007,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qthemusic.com/cgi-bin/50bestalbums/track.pl?id=39|title=50 Best Albums - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace / Foo Fighters|work=Q|accessdate=2012-04-03}}</ref> while ''Rolling Stone'' put the album at the 45th spot in a similar list.<ref>{{cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |authorlink=Robert Christgau |last2=Fricke |first2=David |authorlink2=David Fricke |last3=Hoard |first3=Christian |last4=Sheffield |first4=Rob |authorlink4=Rob Sheffield |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17601851/the_top_50_albums_of_2007/23 |title=The Top 50 Albums of 2007 |work=[[Rolling Stone]] |publisher=[[Jann Wenner|Wenner Media]] |date=27 December 2007 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090415212825/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17601851/the_top_50_albums_of_2007/23 |archivedate=15 April 2009 |accessdate=20 December 2007}}</ref> |
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==Track listing== |
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{{Track listing |
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| all_writing = [[Dave Grohl]], [[Taylor Hawkins]], [[Chris Shiflett]] and [[Nate Mendel]] |
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| title1 = [[The Pretender (Foo Fighters song)|The Pretender]] |
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| length1 = 4:29 |
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| title2 = [[Let It Die (song)|Let It Die]] |
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| length2 = 4:05 |
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| title3 = Erase/Replace |
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| length3 = 4:13 |
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| title4 = [[Long Road To Ruin]] |
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| length4 = 3:44 |
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| title5 = Come Alive |
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| length5 = 5:10 |
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| title6 = Stranger Things Have Happened |
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| length6 = 5:21 |
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| title7 = [[Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)]] |
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| length7 = 3:41 |
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| title8 = Summer's End |
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| length8 = 4:37 |
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| title9 = Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners |
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| length9 = 2:32 |
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| title10 = Statues |
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| length10 = 3:47 |
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| title11 = But, Honestly |
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| length11 = 4:35 |
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| title12 = Home |
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| length12 = 4:52 |
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|total_length = 51:12 |
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}} |
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{{Track listing |
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| extra_column = Original single |
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| collapsed = yes |
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| headline = Special edition |
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| title13 = Once & For All |
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| note13 = Demo |
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| length13 = 3:47 |
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| title14 = Seda |
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| extra14 = Long Road To Ruin (CD2) |
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| length14 = 3:44 |
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}} |
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==Personnel== |
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*[[Dave Grohl]] – [[vocals]], [[rhythm guitar]], [[piano]] on "Summer's End", "Statues" and "Home" |
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*[[Taylor Hawkins]] – [[Drum kit|drums]], piano on "Summer's End", [[Backing vocalist|backing vocals]] on "Erase/Replace", "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)", "The Pretender" and "But, Honestly" |
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*[[Chris Shiflett]] – [[lead guitar]], backing vocals on "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" |
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*[[Nate Mendel]] – [[bass guitar|bass]] |
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===Additional musicians=== |
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*[[Drew Hester]] – [[Percussion instrument|percussion]] on "Come Alive", "Let it Die", "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)", "Long Road to Ruin" and "Summer's End" |
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*[[Rami Jaffee]] – [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]] on "Let it Die", "Erase/Replace", "Long Road to Ruin", "Come Alive" and "But, Honestly", [[accordion]] on "Statues" |
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*Brantley Kearns Jr. – [[fiddle]] on "Statues" |
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*[[Kaki King]] – rhythm guitar on "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners" |
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*[[Pat Smear]] – rhythm guitar on "Let it Die" |
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*[[String instrument|Strings]] by [[The Section Quartet]] ([[arrangement|arranged]] and [[conductor (music)|conducted]] by [[Audrey Riley]]) |
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===Production=== |
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* Gil Norton – producer |
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* Adrian Bushby – engineer |
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* Jake Davies - protools engineer |
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* John Lousteau – assistant engineer |
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* Rich Costey – mixer |
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* Claudius Mittendorfer – assistant mixer |
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* Brian Gardner – mastering |
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==Chart positions== |
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===Album charts=== |
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{| class="wikitable sortable" |
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! Chart (2007) |
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| [[ARIA Charts|Australian Albums Chart]]<ref>[http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1A50 Top 50 Albums Chart]</ref> |
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| align="center"| 1 |
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|- |
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| [[Ö3 Austria Top 40|Austrian Albums Chart]]<ref name=aut>[http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Foo+Fighters&titel=Echoes%2C+Silence%2C+Patience+%26+Grace&cat=a Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace - austriancharts.at]. Hung Medien. Retrieved on 2011-04-21.</ref> |
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| align="center"| 4 |
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|- |
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| [[Ultratop|Belgium Albums Chart]] (VL)<ref>{{cite web|title=ultratop.be - Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace|url=http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Foo+Fighters&titel=Echoes%2C+Silence%2C+Patience+%26+Grace&cat=a|language=Dutch|work=[[Ultratop]]|publisher=ULTRATOP & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch|accessdate=2011-04-15}}</ref> |
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| align="center"| 1 |
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|- |
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| Belgium Albums Chart (WA)<ref>{{cite web|title=ultratop.be - Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace|url=http://www.ultratop.be/fr/showitem.asp?interpret=Foo+Fighters&titel=Echoes%2C+Silence%2C+Patience+%26+Grace&cat=a|language=French|work=[[Ultratop]]|publisher=ULTRATOP & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch|accessdate=2011-04-15}}</ref> |
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| align="center"| 14 |
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|- |
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| [[Canadian Albums Chart]]<ref name=cha/> |
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| align="center"| 1 |
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|- |
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|[[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry|Czech Albums Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|title=ČNS IFPI|url= |
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http://www.ifpicr.cz/hitparada/index.php?a=titul&hitparada=14&titul=145269&sec=b12f2e0d34beae80324c53d79f6a69d7|language=Czech|work=Hitparáda - TOP50 Prodejní|publisher=[[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry|IFPI Czech Republic]]|accessdate=2011-04-20}}</ref> |
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| style="text-align:center;"|26 |
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|- |
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| [[Tracklisten|Denmark Albums Chart]]<ref name=aut/> |
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| align="center"| 11 |
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|- |
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| [[MegaCharts|Dutch Albums Chart]]<ref name=aut/> |
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| align="center"|6 |
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|- |
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| European Top Albums Chart<ref name=cha/> |
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| align="center"| 2 |
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|- |
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| [[The Official Finnish Charts|Finnish Albums Chart]]<ref name=aut/> |
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| align="center"| 7 |
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|- |
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| [[Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique|French Albums Chart]]<ref name=aut/> |
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| align="center"| 24 |
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|- |
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| [[Media Control Charts|German Albums Chart]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.charts.de/album.asp?artist=Foo+Fighters&title=Echoes%2C+Silence%2C+Patience+%26+Grace&cat=a&country=de|title=Album — Foo Fighters, ''One by One''|language=German|publisher=[[Media Control Charts]]|accessdate=17 March 2011}}</ref> |
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| align="center"| 3 |
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|- |
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| [[Mahasz|Hungarian Albums Chart]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mahasz.hu/?menu=slagerlistak&menu2=archivum|title=Hungarian Charts (searchable database)|publisher=[[Mahasz]]|language=Hungarian|accessdate=2008-06-04}}</ref> |
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| align="center"| 33 |
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|- |
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| [[Irish Albums Chart]]<ref name=irma>{{cite web|url=http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240002&arch=t&lyr=2007&year=2007&week=39|publisher=[[Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung|GFK]] Chart-Track|title=TOP 75 ARTIST ALBUM, WEEK ENDING 27 September 2007|accessdate=2011-12-12}}</ref> |
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| align="center"| 2 |
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|- |
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| [[Federation of the Italian Music Industry|Italian Albums Chart]]<ref name=aut/> |
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| align="center"| 15 |
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|- |
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| [[Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas|Mexican Albums Chart]]<ref name=aut/> |
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| align="center"| 50 |
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|- |
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| [[Recording Industry Association of New Zealand|New Zealand Albums Chart]] <ref name=rianz>{{cite web |url=http://rianz.org.nz/attachments/rianz/chart-1584-01-oct-07.pdf |title=CHART 1584 1 October 2007|publisher=RIANZ|format=PDF |accessdate=2011-05-17}}</ref> |
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| align="center"| 1 |
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|- |
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| [[Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa|Portugal Albums Chart]]<ref>{{cite web |
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| url=http://portuguesecharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Pearl+Jam&titel=Pearl+Jam&cat=a |
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| title=Pearl Jam (Album) |
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| publisher=portuguesecharts.com |
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| accessdate=2009-04-02}}</ref> |
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| align="center"| 18 |
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|- |
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| [[Productores de Música de España|Spanish Albums Chart]]<ref name=aut/> |
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| align="center"| 43 |
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|- |
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| [[Sverigetopplistan|Sweden Albums Chart]]<ref name=aut/> |
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| align="center"| 9 |
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|- |
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| [[Swiss Music Charts|Swiss Albums Chart]]<ref name=aut/> |
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| align="center"| 2 |
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|- |
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| [[UK Albums Chart]]<ref>[http://www.officialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/3/2007-10-06/ Top 40 Albums Chart - 6 October 2007], [[The Official Charts Company]]</ref> |
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| align="center"| 1 |
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|- |
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| US [[Billboard 200]]<ref name=cha/> |
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| align="center"| 3 |
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|- |
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| US [[Billboard charts|Billboard Rock Albums]]<ref name=cha>{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/#/album/foo-fighters/echoes-silence-patience-grace/1060951|title=Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |work=Billboard|accessdate=2012-04-03}}</ref> |
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| align="center"| 1 |
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|} |
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===Certifications=== |
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{| class="wikitable sortable" |
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! Country |
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! [[List of music recording certifications|Certification]] |
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|- |
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|[[Australian Recording Industry Association|Australia]] |
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|2× Platinum<ref name=ariaplat>{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupageshttpwww.aria.com.aupagesARIACharts-Accreditations-2008Albums.htm|title=ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2008 Albums |publisher=ARIA |date= |accessdate=2011-08-13}}</ref> |
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|- |
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|[[IFPI|Austria]] |
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|Gold<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifpi.at/?section=goldplatin |title=Gold & Platin |publisher=IFPI Austria|language=German |accessdate=4 September 2010}}</ref> |
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|- |
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|[[Canadian Recording Industry Association|Canada]] |
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|Platinum<ref name="CRIA"/> |
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|- |
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|[[Irish Recorded Music Association|Ireland]] |
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|Platinum<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/awards/platinum07.htm|title=Multi Platinum Accreditations |publisher=IRMA|accessdate=2011-07-27}}</ref> |
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|- |
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|[[RIANZ|New Zealand]] |
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|2× Platinum<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rianz.org.nz/attachments/rianz/chart-1617-19-may-08.pdf |title=CHART 1617 18 May 2008|publisher=RIANZ|format=PDF |accessdate=2011-05-17}}</ref> |
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|align="left"|Sweden |
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|Gold<ref name=swe>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ifpi.se/wp/wp-content/uploads/ar-20071.pdf |title=IFPI > Guld & Platina År 2007|accessdate=3 November 2008|format=PDF |publisher=International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) Svenska Gruppen |pages=5 |language=Swedish}}</ref> |
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|align="left"|[[British Phonographic Industry|UK]] |
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| style="text-align:center;"|2× Platinum<ref name=BPI>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx|title=BPI: Certified Awards Search|publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]] (BPI)|accessdate=29 August 2010}}</ref> |
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|[[RIAA|United States]] |
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|Gold<ref name="RIAA">{{cite web| url=http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=Foo%Fighters&format=ALBUM&go=Search&perPage=50 |title=RIAA Searchable database – Gold and Platinum |publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] |accessdate=2008-01-03}}</ref> |
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{{col-end}} |
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===Singles charts=== |
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{| class="wikitable" |
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!rowspan=2 |Year |
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!rowspan=2|Single |
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!colspan=13 |Peak chart positions |
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!rowspan="2"| Certifications |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[Billboard Hot 100|US]]<br /><ref name="billboard.com">{{cite web| url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100#/artist/foo-fighters/chart-history/121501?f=379&g=Singles | title=Foo Fighters Album & Song Chart History – Hot 100| publisher=''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''| accessdate=2010-10-26}}</ref> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[Billboard Hot 100 Airplay|US Air]]<br /><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/foo-fighters/chart-history/121501 |title=Foo Fighters chart history - Radio Songs |work=Billboard|accessdate=2009-03-01}}</ref> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[Alternative Songs|US<br />Alt]]<br /><ref name="http">{{cite web| url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/alternative-songs#/artist/foo-fighters/chart-history/121501?f=377&g=Singles| title=Foo Fighters Album & Song Chart History – Alternative Songs| publisher=''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''| accessdate=2010-10-26}}</ref> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks|US<br />Main]]<br /><ref name="Allmusic singles">{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=foo-fighters-p144725/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} |title=Foo Fighters - Billboard Singles |accessdate=2008-05-08 |publisher=''[[Allmusic]]'' }}</ref> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[ARIA Charts|AUS]]<br><ref name="AUS chart">{{cite web| url=http://www.australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Foo+Fighters |title=Discography Foo Fighters |publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] |accessdate=2008-02-14}}</ref><br /><ref name="ARIA Top 100 Singles">{{cite journal|date=2003-11-03|title=ARIA Top 100 Singles|publisher=ARIA|issue=715|page=2|url=http://pandora.nla.gov.au/|accessdate=2010-07-22|format=PDF}}</ref> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[Ultratop 50|BEL]]<br><ref name="BEL chart">{{cite web| url=http://www.ultratop.be/en/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Foo+Fighters |title=Discography Foo Fighters |publisher=Ultratop Belgian Charts |accessdate=2008-02-14}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ultratop.be/en/search.asp?cat=a&lang=nl&search=Foo+Fighters |title=Ultratop Belgian Charts |publisher=ultratop.be |date= |accessdate=2012-01-06}}</ref> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[Canadian Singles Chart|CAN]]<br><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web| url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/canadian-hot-100#/artist/foo-fighters/chart-history/121501?f=793&g=Singles | title=Foo Fighters Album & Song Chart History – Canadian Hot 100| publisher=''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''| accessdate=2010-07-31}}</ref><br><ref name="Canadian Top Singles positions">{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5&q1=Foo+Fighters&q2=Top+Singles&interval=20|title=Canadian Top Singles positions |publisher=''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'' |accessdate=2010-05-10 }}</ref><br> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[Irish Singles Chart|IRL]]<br><ref name="IRL chart">{{cite web| url=http://irish-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Foo+Fighters |title=Discography Foo Fighters |publisher=Irish Albums Chart |accessdate=2008-05-09}}</ref> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[MegaCharts|NLD]]<br><ref name="NLD chart">{{cite web| url=http://dutchcharts.nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Foo+Fighters|title=Discografie Foo Fighters |publisher=[[MegaCharts]] |language=Dutch |accessdate=2008-02-14}}</ref> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[Recording Industry Association of New Zealand|NZ]]<br><ref name="NZ chart">{{cite web| url=http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Foo+Fighters |title=Discography Foo Fighters |publisher=New Zealand charts online |accessdate=2008-02-14}}</ref> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[VG-lista|NOR]]<br><ref>{{cite web|author=Steffen Hung |url=http://norwegiancharts.com/search.asp?search=Foo+Fighters&cat=s |title=Norwegian charts portal |publisher=norwegiancharts.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-06}}</ref> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[Sverigetopplistan|SWE]]<br><ref name="SWE chart">{{cite web| url=http://swedishcharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Foo+Fighters |title=Discography Foo Fighters |publisher=[[Sverigetopplistan]] |language=Norwegian |accessdate=2008-02-14}}</ref> |
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!style="width:2em"|<small>[[UK Singles Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="UK charts">{{cite web| url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/foo%20fighters/| title=Foo Fighters chart history| publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]| accessdate=31 January 2012}}</ref><br><ref name="zobbel.de">[http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_F.HTM UK Chart Log 1994 - 2010]</ref> |
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|2007 |
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|"[[The Pretender (Foo Fighters song)|The Pretender]]" |
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| style="text-align:center;"|37 |
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| style="text-align:center;"|59 |
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| style="text-align:center;"|1 |
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| style="text-align:center;"|1 |
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| style="text-align:center;"|10 |
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| style="text-align:center;"|26 |
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| style="text-align:center;"|15 |
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| style="text-align:center;"|11 |
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| style="text-align:center;"|39 |
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| style="text-align:center;"|9 |
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| style="text-align:center;"|3 |
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| style="text-align:center;"|11 |
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Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the sixth studio album by alternative rock band Foo Fighters, released on September 25, 2007 by RCA Records. The album is noted for a blend of regular rock and acoustic rock tracks with shifting dynamics, which emerged from the variety of styles employed on the demos the band produced. It also marks the second time the band worked with producer Gil Norton, whom frontman Dave Grohl brought to fully explore the potential of his compositions and have a record that sounded different from their previous work. Grohl tried to focus on songs with messages that resonated on the audience, writing reflective lyrics which drew inspiration from the birth of his daughter.
Critical reception to Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was positive, with praise to the sonic variety and songwriting, though some reviewers found the record inconsistent and uninspired. The album topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Austria, and had three successful singles, "The Pretender", "Long Road to Ruin" and "Let It Die". Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was nominated for five Grammy Awards, winning Best Rock Album, and was also awarded the Brit Award of Best International Album.
Background and recording
As the tour for the album In Your Honor had both acoustic and electric shows, frontman Dave Grohl discussed with RCA Music Group president Clive Davis on how "it'd be so cool" if the Foo Fighters were the band that did those different shows that appealed to specific audiences "and they wouldn't necessarily have to go to both", to which Davis replied that "you can do both together". Grohl took this advice when composing his following album.[3] Grohl added that "we didn't plan the new album to be half rock and half acoustic", picking the songs the band considered the best, with "demos which ranged from psycho fucking Nomeansno to sloppy, Tom Petty country to fucking piano-driven songs".[4]
"We haven't been ready to write a record like this until now. I know that Dave wouldn't have been comfortable putting violins on a song before. But for whatever reasons, it just felt like the right time to explore those things now. The last record, obviously, was half heavy stuff, half acoustic songs. So it really was like two sides of the coin. It sounds obvious, but this time around we weren't afraid of incorporating everything into one song if it felt right."
—Taylor Hawkins regarding the album's sound[5]
Since Grohl felt the songs were different from the band's previous input and "had the potential to be something great", he considered that instead of doing something like the last three albums the band had to go out of "our own comfort zone" and "needed someone to push us out of there". So Grohl decided to work again with Gil Norton, who produced the band's second album The Colour and the Shape, citing how Norton taught the band of the importance of pre-production and refining the composition, and claiming Norton's "unconventional" approach "seems to capture the best of this band", considering that with him "we're not going to do a straightforward AC/DC record, he's gonna make it different".[4][6]
Preparation was extensive: first Grohl had his usual start-off by developing demos with drummer Taylor Hawkins, but for the first time Grohl tried to input vocals and lyrics in this early composition stage.[5] After rounding up composition with guitarist Chris Shiflett and bassist Nate Mendel,[7] Grohl spent two weeks with Norton discussing "arrangements, harmony and melody" and reducing the song ideas, and then the band spent four weeks rehearsing, playing "a song a day, from noon to midnight".[8] Hawkins stated that "we basically played each of these songs 100 different times, trying every little thing every different way" and that it was the first time since The Colour and the Shape "that Dave had to deal with someone in the room questioning all his ideas", given how condescending previous producer Nick Raskulinecz was.[7] Grohl claimed the choices were for the "most powerful, dramatic songs",[9] and that there was an effort to "make everything sound as natural as possible - just like on the albums we grew up listening to", citing 1970s artists such as Neil Young and Wings as a major influence. Shiflett added that for the first time he played lead guitar in some tracks while Grohl "usually works out all the bits" of composition.[10]
Recording begun on March 2007 at the band's own Studio 606 in Northridge, California.[11] During a ten day break in April, Grohl thought that the recorded needed another uptempo song, so he spent his time developing an unfinished song that became "The Pretender".[12] The sessions wrapped in mid-June.[13] It was the first Foo Fighters album where the band did not felt the need to rerecord any songs.[4] Grohl stated that while In Your Honor was a double album because he felt "schizophrenic" to alternate between loud and acoustic songs, Norton helped on creating a sequencing that lead to "an album that makes sense".[6]
The album features the Foo Fighters' first instrumental, "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners". It was written by Grohl after meeting with one of the miners involved in the Beaconsfield mine collapse who requested an iPod with In Your Honor in it during the incident. As Grohl was moved by this action, he decided to "write something just to dedicate to him that night because he definitely seemed like a hero", and later promised to include the instrumental on the album.[4][14] The album version features Kaki King, whom Grohl invited to record the song as she was visiting Studio 606. Grohl later said that "I showed it to her once, and she shredded 10 times better than I ever played it".[10][15]
Composition
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace offers a mix of both electric and acoustic songs, which Grohl likened to the band growing older and "comfortable with all kinds of music" instead of just focusing on straight rock songs, saying that listening to the album he felt like "we've gotten over our insecurities, because it presents us in a way that we probably hid in the past."[10] Grohl also stated that "the idea now is to step up and make [The Zombies'] Odessey and Oracle" - [8] the album he claimed to have listened the most during production -[10] and that "it has always been my dream to mix Steely Dan with Nomeansno."[14] Amidst the amount of heavier tracks and themes Grohl decided to include the song "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)", described as "the most light-hearted, melodic song of all" which "seemed like a little ray of hope in the middle of all this despair."[4][17] Grohl added that there was a bigger focus on melodies even in heavier tracks such as "The Pretender", "Let It Die" and "Erase/Replace",[10] and that album closer "Home", a ballad featuring Grohl on the piano, was "the best song I've ever written".[18]
The songs of the album are noted for its changing dynamics - with "middle sections [that] turn into this mass orchestrated swarm and ridiculous time signatures" which include musical references to 1970s soft rock bands such as the Wings, Eagles and Bread -[14] summed by Hawkins by saying the band "wanted to make sure that everything 'built' on this record, that each instrument started somewhere and went somewhere else in the course of a song".[5] The drummer attributed this to the acoustic tour leading the band to "shed some of the fear of incorporating mellower stuff with the heavy stuff",[7] and Grohl added that "we wanted the stops to be pin-drop silent before exploding. If we had a beautiful melody, we'd throw a fucking string quartet in there. So we did everything we could to really magnify all those elements and that was fun. Usually you have a few parameters you're afraid to pass but, this time, there was no fear of going too far."[9] Mix engineer Rich Costey added that his work of "preserve what [the band] had done to a fairly large degree" with "balancing and rides to get the dynamics to happen" was difficult given the sonic variety of Echoes, which went from "[the Foo Fighters'] endless walls of guitar overdubs, almost like a swarm of bees" to string quartets: "The challenge of this type of mix is to retain the power of the track, yet define a space for everything."[16]
"Most people think the world begins with their birth and ends with their death, but at some point your realise there's a much larger world out there that will continue existing long after you have made your exit. So I started to take in the big picture, and these realisations had an influence on the new album. There are songs about birth, death and life because my perception of these things has changed radically."
—Dave Grohl on the album's lyrics[10]
As the acoustic tour made Grohl realize "we were making music worth listening to, rather than music made for pummelling the person next to you" he decided to give more importance to the lyrics and "have a connection with the crowd in front of us", considering that among the many compositions the band made on pre-production "the ones that stand out are the ones that say something".[19] So for the first time the lyrics started being written before recording begun, with Grohl stating that he "sat in the back of the studio and just wrote every day for about 14 hours a day."[20] Most of the lyrics of the album deal with themes of birth, death and life, which Grohl attributed to the birth of his daughter Violet, considering that having a child "changes your entire outlook on the world",[10] and that he was suddenly more emotional - "So when you're writing music with that in mind or that in your heart, everything just blooms into this fucking incredibly colourful, colourful feeling."[4] Helped by the extensive lyrical preparation,[20] the lyrics also tried to show more of Grohl's feelings, "those things that you've always wanted to do or always wanted to say",[21] with Hawkins adding that he could not listen to "Stranger Things Have Happened" as "I'm one of his best friends, and the last thing I want to do is read a love letter to his wife or whoever it is."[8]
Packaging
The cover art was made by Invisible Creature, and features a combination between a torpedo and a guitar amplifier tube to juxtapose the weapon "with another object that traditionally wasn’t associated with war or violence". The remainder of the album sleeve has similar juxtapositions of objects "that reflected the album’s tone of life and mortality".[22]
The album's title comes from a lyric on the album's final song, "Home". Grohl stated that as he struggled to think of a title given the musical variety of the album, even considering the title "The One With That Song On It", he looked at the song lyrics and after reading the ones from "Home" Grohl "thought it was nice because it’s open to interpretation and it’s a beautiful title and I think the album is beautiful in its diversity and its melody and its musicality – it goes from delicate acoustic moments to the heaviest shit we’ve ever done."[20][21]
Release and promotion
The album's first single, "The Pretender", had a forty-second preview released on a cross-promotional campaign with rock radio stations in July 2007, and eventually saw its debut on August 3, 2007 at ESPN's broadcast of the X Games XIII.[8] It was released for music download and for radio play in August 2007, with a CD single coming out on September 17, 2007.[23] "Long Road to Ruin" was released as the second single in December 2007.[24] In 2008, "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" was issued as a download single in the UK,[25] with "Let It Die" being picked instead for the United States.[26] All three North American singles topped Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks charts, making it only the ninth album in history to spawn three number one hits on this chart,[27] and "The Pretender" set a record by spending eighteen weeks at the summit.[28]
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was released on September 24, 2007. Pre-orders through iTunes were awarded with a free download of "The Pretender", advance tickets through Ticketmaster, and the bonus tracks "Seda" and "Once and For All".[29][30] The album was also issued as a double vinyl record.[31]
The promotional tour begun in September 2007, after some concerts in the United Kingdom during the summer. While the back-up band compiled for the In Your Honor tour - guitarist Pat Smear, keyboardist Rami Jaffe, violinist Jessy Greene, and percussionist Drew Hester - remained to perform complex songs such as "Come Alive", a few tracks had more stripped-down arrangements.[8][18]
Reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Billboard | favorable[32] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A[33] |
| Pitchfork Media | 4.2/10[34] |
| Robert Christgau | B[35] |
| The Guardian | [36] |
| PopMatters | 4/10[2] |
| Rolling Stone |  [37] |
| Spin | 6/10[18] |
| Sputnikmusic | 2.5/5[38] |
Commercial performance
In the United States, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace entered the Billboard 200 album chart at number three, selling 168,000 copies in its first week,[39] and has since been certified Gold by the RIAA.[40] As of April 14, 2011, it has sold 897,000 copies in US.[41] The album debuted at the top of the UK album chart, selling 135,685 albums in its first week;[42] Australia and New Zealand, being certified platinum in its first week in both countries;[43][44] and Canada,[45] where the album went Platinum.[46]
Critical reaction
Initial critical response to Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 71, based on 30 reviews.[47]
Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Tom Sinclair considered that while the record was not ground-breaking, "the Foos have found a way to create their own archetype, with an instinctive feel for what constitutes a killer song", and praised "how damn near flawless the tone of the whole set feels".[33] Rolling Stone's David Fricke praised the sonic variety, described by him as "an anthology of strong new songs by a great bunch of bands, all calling themselves Foo Fighters".[37] Jessica Letkemann of Billboard was acceptive of the "delicious sundown grooves" of the quieter piece and the "the Foos' usual soft-louder-loudest 'radio friendly unit shifters'" - referencing a track of Nirvana's In Utero - while considering "Home" the only disappoint track.[32] Robert Christgau rated the album a B, describing it as a "candid attempt to recapitulate Nirvana Mark II's 10-year-old triumph, The Colour and the Shape".[35] of The Guardian called Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace the band's "most accomplished album", praising the composition and saying that "Gil Norton's stunning production can't disguise the raw humanity beneath the sheen".[36]
A few critics considered the album not as inspired as the band's previous work. Kyle Anderson of Spin wrote that "two-thirds of these tracks sound a lot like songs Grohl has done before", considering that album's strengths came from "the handful of songs that deviate from the wallop'n'wail template".[18] Allmusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine also felt the rock songs were not as remarkable "compared to the almost effortlessly engaging melodies of the softer songs", ultimately describing Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace as "just another Foo Fighters album instead of the consolidation of strengths that it was intended to be".[1] Pitchfork Media's Adam Moerder considered that the album "feels like a retread" and that the band was "sounding less and less relatable", with innefective acoustic tracks and rock songs that "sound cold and detached compared to heart-wrenching Foo pop gems like 'Big Me' or 'Everlong'".[34] While Sputnikmusic reviewer John Hanson was acceptive of the rock songs, where he felt "the boys are most comfortable", he considered that the songwrting "has just become stale" and ultimately described Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace as "extremely boring and uninspired".[38] PopMatters' Josh Timmermann was much critical of the overtly serious tone of the record compared to the lighthearted work the band had done before, joking that the title of "Cheer Up, Boys" "sounds like the suggestion of a concerned fan for a band he or she used to actually care about."[2]
Accolades
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace won the 2008 Grammy for Best Rock Album and "The Pretender" won for Best Hard Rock Performance. The album was also nominated for Album of the Year, while "The Pretender" was also nominated for Record of the Year and Best Rock Song.[48][49] The album also won Best International Album at the 2008 Brit Awards.[50] Q ranked it the 12th best album of 2007,[51] while Rolling Stone put the album at the 45th spot in a similar list.[52]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett and Nate Mendel
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "The Pretender" | 4:29 |
| 2. | "Let It Die" | 4:05 |
| 3. | "Erase/Replace" | 4:13 |
| 4. | "Long Road To Ruin" | 3:44 |
| 5. | "Come Alive" | 5:10 |
| 6. | "Stranger Things Have Happened" | 5:21 |
| 7. | "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" | 3:41 |
| 8. | "Summer's End" | 4:37 |
| 9. | "Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners" | 2:32 |
| 10. | "Statues" | 3:47 |
| 11. | "But, Honestly" | 4:35 |
| 12. | "Home" | 4:52 |
| Total length: | 51:12 | |
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| 13. | "Once & For All" (Demo) | 3:47 | |
| 14. | "Seda" | Long Road To Ruin (CD2) | 3:44 |
Personnel
- Dave Grohl – vocals, rhythm guitar, piano on "Summer's End", "Statues" and "Home"
- Taylor Hawkins – drums, piano on "Summer's End", backing vocals on "Erase/Replace", "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)", "The Pretender" and "But, Honestly"
- Chris Shiflett – lead guitar, backing vocals on "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)"
- Nate Mendel – bass
Additional musicians
- Drew Hester – percussion on "Come Alive", "Let it Die", "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)", "Long Road to Ruin" and "Summer's End"
- Rami Jaffee – keyboards on "Let it Die", "Erase/Replace", "Long Road to Ruin", "Come Alive" and "But, Honestly", accordion on "Statues"
- Brantley Kearns Jr. – fiddle on "Statues"
- Kaki King – rhythm guitar on "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners"
- Pat Smear – rhythm guitar on "Let it Die"
- Strings by The Section Quartet (arranged and conducted by Audrey Riley)
Production
- Gil Norton – producer
- Adrian Bushby – engineer
- Jake Davies - protools engineer
- John Lousteau – assistant engineer
- Rich Costey – mixer
- Claudius Mittendorfer – assistant mixer
- Brian Gardner – mastering
Chart positions
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| US [69] |
US Air [70] |
US Alt [71] |
US Main [72] |
AUS [73] [74] |
BEL [75] [76] |
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IRL [79] |
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| 2007 | "The Pretender" | 37 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 26 | 15 | 11 | 39 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 8 | US: Gold[40] AUS: Gold[86] CAN: Platinum[46] |
| "Long Road to Ruin" | 89 | 69 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 6 [C] |
42 | — | — | 21 | — | 23 | 35 | ||
| 2008 | "Let It Die"[VI] | — [I] |
— | 1 | 5 | — | — | 58 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)"[II] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 194 | ||
- I ^ "Let It Die" was released as a downloadable single only.
- II ^ "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" was released as a downloadable single in the UK only.
- C ^ Charted only on the Belgian combined sales and airplay chart (Ultratip)
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