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Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 
| Artist: Foo Fighters
Label: Roswell Records/RCA/Sony BMG
Category: Music
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Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 403
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 886971550023
EAN: 5050053444400
ASIN: B000UF0QG8
Release Date: September 24, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Pretender | | • | Let It Die | | • | Erase/Replace | | • | Long Road To Ruin | | • | Come Alive | | • | Stranger Things Have Happened | | • | Cheer Up Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) | | • | Summer's End | | • | Ballad Of Beaconsfield Miners | | • | Statues | | • | But Honestly | | • | Home | | • | Once And For All |
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Amazon.co.uk Reviews
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, Patienceand 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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 Fantastic November 27, 2008
This is a brilliant album, perhaps even the Foo Fighters most complete album so far. I own every Foos album and although I love them all, I feel that there are generally a few filler songs on each album among the gems. However I find it difficult to pick faults in this album. As soon as 'The Pretender' bursts into life you are carried on a monumental journey of rock brilliance. The album flows so beautifully throughout with that raucous opening continued through to the middle of the album when a change of tone occurs and the lighter yet fantastically well thought out anthems of 'home', 'statues' and 'but honestly' give a nice sort of contemplation time at the end of the album after a good 7 or 8 songs of jumpy rock. It is difficult to pick favourite songs on this album but I think 'The Pretender' and 'Home' sum the album up.
Echoes, Silence, Patience, Grace....and Absolute Perfection ! October 19, 2008
I've never given the Foo Fighters the time or day, just never really got into them post Nirvana. Bought this album upon recommendation by a Foo fan. Upon first listen (whilst clearing out the garage) I knew there was something very important happening to me. Quite simply at that moment I became an instant Grohl/Foo fan. Having now backtracked on most of the Foo's catalogue from my own perspective, this is not only my favourite of theirs but quite possibly the most important 'rock' album in my CD collection and remains a permanent fixture in the car ! Love it Love it Love it. It's so good, I find it difficult to believe these aren't reworkings of old classics, but of course respect Dave Grohl's song writing abilities as well as his virtuoso performance abilities.
their best yet April 4, 2008
a perfect mix of rock and acoustic, which is what they do best. yes, even better than colour and the shape in my opinion
 Foo Fighters by numbers February 29, 2008
Fair play, rock bands like the Foo Fighters do attract loyalty. I had a feeling that this one would maybe disappoint me-- a few months later, many listens later, I'm afraid I was right. Why was I so sure? I guess it was borne out of "In Your Honour", where whereas the acoustic set was genuinely outstanding, the regular CD was quite dull, only "No Way Back" and "DOA" really standing out. I wondered whether the regular Foo Fighters sound had run out of steam, and that they needed to split up - highly unlikely now that they are a MASSIVE commercial draw - or at least look in different directions - highly unlikely now that they are a MASSIVE commercial draw. Unfortunately, the Foo Fighters are suffering from "Chili-Peppers-mainstream-dullness" syndrome.
I think what has irritated me most is that so many of these songs appear to have been knocked off formulaically. Track one, "The Pretender" - video very similar to "All My Life"...let's have a listen...yes, quite a similar pattern...my God, there's even a section three quarters through where I feel like shouting "Done, done, on to the next one"! It doesn't really improve from there. Some are perfectly listenable, and would stan out maybe on mainstream radio - Long Road to Ruin, Cheer Up Boys, Summer's End, Stranger Things Have Happened - but none of these are exciting in the same way that most of the songs on "One By One" were for example. Where they have veered off the beaten track - "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Minors" for example it seems strangely out of place on this album.
I don't know, it's not that the album's BAD, it's just that I've heard it before. So into the collection it goes until The Foos knock off another one the same in two or three years...it's a great shame, because I'm sure that as individuals they still have a lot to offer.
One of the top bands around February 23, 2008
Every now and again an album comes out that no matter what your taste in music, you can admire the quality. I'm not a big Foo Fighters fan. I like rock amongst other stuff but this group have to at the top of the tree at the moment. I can't thing of a bad track. Its not all thrashing guitars (although when there is its good). Some gentler tracks that you don't normally associate with Foo Fighters are really good. If you have never bought an album by this band, this is probably a good one to buy.
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