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The Colour And The Shape: 10th Anniversary Edition | 
| Artist: Foo Fighters
Label: Roswell Records/RCA/Legacy
Category: Music
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1090
Format: Original Recording Remastered, Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 709183
UPC: 886970918329
EAN: 0886970918329
ASIN: B000QEIORG
Release Date: July 9, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Doll | | • | Monkey Wrench | | • | Hey Johnny Park | | • | My Poor Brain | | • | Wind Up | | • | Up In Arms | | • | My Hero | | • | See You | | • | Enough Space | | • | February Stars | | • | Everlong | | • | Walking After You | | • | New Way Home | | • | Requiem | | • | Drive Me Wild | | • | Down In The Park | | • | Baker Street | | • | Dear Lover | | • | Colour And The Shape |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
A major criticism of the Foo Fighters' self-titled debut was its supposed lack of, you know, passion among the well-crafted songs and well-crafted rock. This time out, if it's wreckage you want, it's wreckage you get. The Colour and the Shape grows deeper the more it's played, with the band's ripping power more than matched by Dave Grohl's fascinating examinations of pain and divorce. There is even a convincing long slow ballad, "November Stars", whose intensity should win over doubters. If that doesn't work, then the screaming "My Hero" will.--Rickey Wright
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 As Good As Ever November 26, 2008
The Colour And The Shape: 10th Anniversary Edition
This album never ages. It sounds as good today as it did when it was first released. My favourite Foos album. Absolutely brilliant.
 Good intro to the Foos? August 19, 2008
I bought this album as I knew bits of the Foos but hadn't really listened to them before. The music is brilliant in parts but vocals a bit too "shouty" for my taste personally.
The best Foo Fighters- now with added B sides June 13, 2008
This is my favourite Foo Fighters album, I have owned it for years and still play it regularly. If you are just getting into the Foos then I would buy this first. It sounds a lot crisper and finished then the first album and you can just let play the whole way through as it flows really well. It also has Dave Grohl drumming on nearly all of it.
Although I like some of the later Foo Fighters singles there hasn't been an album that has matched this. It has the well known classic singles such as 'Everlong' and 'Monkey Wrench' but also memorable album tracks such as 'Hey, Johnny Park!' and 'Up In Arms'.
The Colour And The Re-Shape October 16, 2007
15 out of 21 found this review helpful
Time and again I have been disappointed by Foo Fighters albums, simply because every release after 1997 has failed to live up to The Colour And The Shape. Upon the release of every new album the band proclaim it'll be better than anything they have ever done but I don't think they will ever better this album. This is when the Foos blended blistering rock with great melodies to near perfection. Let's use Monkey Wrench as an example - a finely tuned rock beast with awesome riffs and the kind of "free spirit" passion the band has struggled to maintain since. This was an exctiting and accomplished album with almost no weak links and yet I find most of Foo Fighters new stuff relatively bland these days.
So why only three stars for such a damn good album? Well the album in its original form certainly deserves the full five stars but I can't hide the disappointment in the 6 bonus tracks - they are crap! The production isn't as good as the 13 main album tracks (presumably because the bonus tracks have not been remastered) and the vocals are dull. Most are cover versions, with the exception of Dear Lover (a reasonable track I suppose - the only one!) and The Colour And The Shape (a simply dreadful mess of a track). We also have a dull version of Baker Street..... yawn. If you don't already own The Colour And The Shape then this is the version to get (for completist reasons if nothing else) yet I can't recommend the re-release to existing owners. Unfortunately I feel I've wasted money on 6 bonus tracks I will never listen to, seeing as I already had the album.
Possibly their best ever album October 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album is probably the Foo Fighter's best album, and really show cases the talent of the backing band and lyricist. The album's best tracks are "My Hero" and "Everlong", both of which are absolutely superb, and there are strong tracks like "Monkey Wrench" and "Up in Arms" to keep our blood flowing nicely. The main feature of this album is the fact so many different approaches are tried to tracks and sound, without ever losing the distinctively rocky feel to the whole album, and Grohl's lyrical flair is well exercised by the different types of track. This is strongly recommended to Foo Fighter's fans.
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