Album: Greatest Hits by Foo Fighters (2009)
Genre: Alternative Rock | Style: Rock/Pop | Mood: Energetic
Record Label: RCA
Format: Compilation

Description: Greatest Hits is a compilation album released by American rock band the Foo Fighters on November 3, 2009.

Greatest Hits includes a selection of Foo Fighters hit singles. Two singles from their 1995 debut, Foo Fighters album ("This Is a Call" and "Big Me") are included. Three singles are included from 1997's The Colour and the Shape album ("Monkey Wrench", "Everlong" and "My Hero"). The Colour and the Shape remains the band's biggest selling album in the US. Two singles are included from 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose album ("Learn to Fly" and "Breakout") as are two singles from 2002's One by One album ("All My Life" and "Times Like These"). Surprisingly only one single ("Best of You") is included from the band's biggest world wide selling album In Your Honor, released in 2005. "Best of You" remains the band's highest charting hit on the US, UK and Australian singles charts. Two singles are included from 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace album ("The Pretender" and "Long Road to Ruin"). Greatest Hits also contains two new songs "Wheels" and "Word Forward".

"Wheels" is the first single taken from the album, which premiered on radio on September 23, 2009. The single was officially released on September 29, 2009. "Wheels" and "Word Forward", which was written for Dave Grohl's friend, Jimmy, who had recently died, were composed during the Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace tour and recorded specifically for the compilation with producer Butch Vig.

A deluxe edition of the compilation includes a book and a DVD featuring some of the band's music videos and live performances. It also includes a video for "Wheels" directed by Sam Brown, who also worked on "The Pretender".

Artist Background: Dream Widow is the fictional band who loom over Studio 666, the horror comedy starring Foo Fighters. In the film, Dream Widow is a death metal band who all died in an Encino mansion after one of its members became possessed by the devil back in 1993. Foo Fighters move into that very mansion in order to write a new album and history repeats itself, with Dave Grohl becoming possessed by the ghost of the murdering Dream Widow musician. Grohl wrote and recorded an entire EP of Dream Widow music f... Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Death Metal movement.

Related Artists: Pearl Jam, Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders, Them Crooked Vultures, Nirvana

Music Scene: Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Death Metal movement.

Tags: Alternative Rock, Rock/Pop, Energetic, 2000s, Compilation, RCA

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Greatest Hits is a compilation album released by American rock band the Foo Fighters on November 3, 2009.

Greatest Hits includes a selection of Foo Fighters hit singles. Two singles from their 1995 debut, Foo Fighters album ("This Is a Call" and "Big Me") are included. Three singles are included from 1997's The Colour and the Shape album ("Monkey Wrench", "Everlong" and "My Hero"). The Colour and the Shape remains the band's biggest selling album in the US. Two singles are included from 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose album ("Learn to Fly" and "Breakout") as are two singles from 2002's One by One album ("All My Life" and "Times Like These"). Surprisingly only one single ("Best of You") is included from the band's biggest world wide selling album In Your Honor, released in 2005. "Best of You" remains the band's highest charting hit on the US, UK and Australian singles charts. Two singles are included from 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace album ("The Pretender" and "Long Road to Ruin"). Greatest Hits also contains two new songs "Wheels" and "Word Forward".

"Wheels" is the first single taken from the album, which premiered on radio on September 23, 2009. The single was officially released on September 29, 2009. "Wheels" and "Word Forward", which was written for Dave Grohl's friend, Jimmy, who had recently died, were composed during the Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace tour and recorded specifically for the compilation with producer Butch Vig.

A deluxe edition of the compilation includes a book and a DVD featuring some of the band's music videos and live performances. It also includes a video for "Wheels" directed by Sam Brown, who also worked on "The Pretender".

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