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Echoes, Silence, Patience Grace |  | Artist: Foo Fighters
Label: Roswell Records/RCA/Sony BMG
Category: Music
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Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 1613
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
pDave Grohl's sixth album fronting post-grunge rockers Foo Fighters finds him softening his game somewhat, although not in the manner of 2005's IIn Your Honour/I, which countered the Foos' stadium metal moves with a second disc of acoustic songs. Rather, IEchoes, Silence, Patience and Grace/I 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 IThe Colour and the Shape/I, 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. i--Louis Pattison/i/p
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 Dave, Taylor, Nate and Chris done good this time October 17, 2007
Dafydd Jones (Aberystwyth, Ceredigion United Kingdom)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is the sixth studio album from the 'Foo Fighters'. I have followed these guys since their debut back in 1995, and they have developed their sound substantially since then.
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br /While it's probably true that their finest hour was 1997's 'The Colour And The Shape', they haven't had any album that's come close to it....until now.
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br /Working once again with Gil Norton (Who, incidentally, produced 'The Colour and the Shape'), he's brought back the things that some previous Foos records since maybe forgot- a bit of punk and all-out soulful rocking anthems.
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br /And 'Echoes, Silence, patience Grace' has all of this in bucketloads.
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br /There's variation here. It's a solid progression since their last album, 'In Your Honour'.
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br /It opens with the raucous anthem singalong, 'The Pretender'. It starts disturbingly like Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven', but it develops into anything but that. It develops into a punk verse before exploding in the chorus and maintaining that sequence throughout afterwards for four and a half minutes. 'Let It Die' is similar, in the sense that it starts acoustically, before exploding into a stadium-rock singalong. 'Erase/Replace' is different. There is no acoustic intro here at all. It simply feeds in the guitars from the beginning before bursting into punk verses and a mammoth singalong chorus nicely sandwiched in between. 'Long Road To Ruin' is more mainstream, and an obvious future release. The chorus is infectiously catchy and will be a crowd favourite at stadiums around the world, I'm certain of that.
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br /'Come Alive' is perhaps the most spectacular track on the album apart from 'The Pretender'. It's over five minutes long and it's somewhat similar to 'Let It Die'. But it's different because it builds up and up and up before exploding into a giant monster of an anthem. It takes over three minutes to build up to boiling point, but it's well worth it. Unbelievable track. Dave Grohl's screaming voice is relentless as he repeats 'Come alive!' over and over and over. Things quieten down on the slightly disappointing 'Stranger Things Have Happened'. But this song needs to be here somewhere as thirteen tracks of all-out rock would render it to be boring as a record. 'Cheer Up Boys' is classic 'Colour And The Shape' Foos, if only a little more accomplished, however the intro is typical Foos punk as is the pre-chorus. The song itself is decent enough and those of you who appreciate early (ish) Foos punk rock will appreciate this song. 'Summer's End' is a song I really like and while I didn't to begin with, I appreciate it more as time's gone by. It's typical Foo Fighters, but it has a more mature sound somehow. 'Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners' is awesome- it features Kaki King as guest guitarist here on this interesting instrumental. A clever song, and it's anything but normal Foo Fighters. Superb. 'Statues' is different again, and that's what I enjoy so much about this album overall. Grohl gets behind the piano here and sings. It's a great song, I really like this one. 'But, Honestly' is next, referring back to the early stages of the record, where things started acoustically before building up into heavier stuff later in the song. This is the same, and again we see a more aggressive Foo Fighters and very much a punk presence in the second half of the song. 'Home' is a great track. It's simply Grohl behind the piano once again. It's so simple, and so beautiful. 'Once and For All' is a bonus track, again featuring Grohl behind the piano, and it's a more collective effort from the band as it's more soulful and has more of a purpose about it.
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br /Overall then, there is very little wrong with this record by the Foo Fighters, it's a vry accmplished record here they've produced. And if number seven is an improvement on this one here, it probably will be their best yet, as this is on a similar level to 1997's 'The Colour And The Shape'- but Grohl's mature songwriting and more expansive instrumental knowledge (on piano) create further diversity, and that can't be a bad thing.
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br /Buy it if you haven't already. 9/10.
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I love the Foos But... September 29, 2007
Mark G (South England)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
...This is just brilliant!
br /I've been listening to the Foo's for years now and have attended so many of their superb live shows and I can't wait to here the tracks off this album played live!
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br /This is the most thought about and refined Foo album of the lot and it benefits from this no-end. After the Acoustic side of 'In Your Honor', the Foos are now not scared of creating ballads and acoustically themed tracks. Why they were scared of doing this before I'll never know because the ones on this album are just superb and eclipse anything off of In Your Honor.
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br /The album starts in classic Foo Style, 'The Pretender'. This is what the Foos have made a career on, producing fast paced, rock anthems that are built for playing Live. The chorus will have you singing along in seconds and it's one of the best songs the guys have ever produced.
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br /This is followed by 'Let It Die'. This starts slow and ends up as a screaming rock track. It's probably my least favourite on the album (I don't get along with Dave Screaming), but that's not to say it's a bad song at all. 'Erase/Replace' is another classic rock track from the Foos.
br /'Long road To Ruin' will definately be the next single, it's radio-friendly rock at it's best and is istantly likeable.
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br /I'm going to skips the next few tracks as they are all superb, but I'm itching to get to the last 3 songs!
br /'Statues' is the first taste we get of Piano Foos. It's a great track that will perhaps get overshadowed by the 2 that follow it.
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br /'But, Honestly' has already become one of my favourite Foo songs ever. Very similar to 'Come Alive' in it's structure, but the excellent melody and backing vocals from taylor just make it stand out so much. Starts of slow and acoustic, ends up with classic rock riffs and solos. Probably would've been my favourite track on the album is it wasn;t for what followed it...
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br /'Home' is basically Dave and a Piano. The first time I heard it I could feel the shivers down my neck for the whole song, Incredible. It's the most open and intimate Dave has been on a song and it's such a beautiful track. I really hope that they will continue to produce tracks like this as it's clearly another talent of theirs.
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br /You can tell that Dave still had reservations about ending the Album on a slow song though as it is followed by a 'Bonus track' called 'Once For All). It's a classic Foo Song but it just seems so normal when compared to what it followed.
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br /In Summary:
br /This is what the Foos can produce when they seriously think about the songs and the album in general. Also, when they are not scared to have quieter songs and acoustic songs present.
br /If this is the Future of the Foos, then there is nothing that can stop them becoming true legends of music.
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You must listen to appreciate October 3, 2007
E. Gordon (Bristol)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
On first listen to this album it sounded good though a little sketchy. When I listened the 2nd time that's when it really caught me. The album is so varied yet all the songs sound good. Dave Grohl is very versatile in that he can record acoustic as well as heavier songs and I have come to appreciate that with this album. Unlike the previous album that had a double disc format with one record just acoustic and one heavy, the Foo Fighters have condensed it onto one disc to great effect. There are aspects of the colour and the shape to it like songs that are slow and melodic as well as hard and fast.
br /I would say this is a great album in its own right and I wouldn't compare it to the Foos previous records as it's very different to anything they have done before. The trick they have pulled off is getting it to sound great. I could go on but I'll just say go and get this album whether or not you own any FF's already - it's a great album to listen to.
A solid gold, 5 star classic.... October 3, 2007
Paul Warburton (Northumberland)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Album number 6 finds Foo Fighters in an enviable position in rock's current pantheon. Able to sell out arenas the world over and dominate the charts they also maintain a level of rock credibility that most other bands would sell their roadie's children for.
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br /The Pretender kicks of a trio of strident stompers, leaping out of the speakers with energy and excitement to mug the listener. Let It Die follows suit with similarly explosive results. Erase/Replace is less successful, lacking a decent tune to accompany the volume. Long Road To Ruin, though not quite scaling the dizzy heights of its pop-rock forebear Times Like These, has a killer chorus and is destined to be a live favourite. Come Alive is an album highpoint, going from gentle strum to thrillingly full on rock bombast. Moody, country-esque slow builder Stranger Things Have Happened sounds like it escaped from Tom Petty's Highway Companion and with its sugary melodies and breakneck guitars Cheer Up Boys... wouldn't have sounded amiss on Earth Vs The Wildhearts. Summers End's evocative lyrics deftly recall hazy sunshine, lost youth and lazy days. Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners welds Led Zeppelin's The Battle of Evermore to Duelling Banjos to great effect while Statues is 70's pop radio in the best possible sense of the word. When the electric guitar bursts in towards the end of But, Honestly it is the single most thrilling moment in Foo Fighters entire career. Home is an unexpectedly beautiful, piano led song, extolling the virtues of hearth and, yes, home. It is the perfect album closer.
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br /Foo Fighter continue to make albums you can immerse yourself in. Echoes.. outdoes previous efforts by simply having MORE great songs. The Colour and The Shape still stands as the high point of their career but this comes pretty damn close to topping it. Reminiscent of 70's rock titans Led Zeppelin and The Who, Echoes... once again shows why Foo Fighters are the best band in the world.
Me likeyyyyyyyy!! November 26, 2007
DJColzz (Glasgow, Scotland)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Some damn!!! Fine songs on this album, this is definitely buying into the "sexy rock" that is breaking through from emo and grunge styles. There are definite influences which we see in a lot of modern albums on here too, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix - you can recognize all their styles here.
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br /"Come Alive" is a stunning floyd-esque song, but there are many others which will reach out and grab you. One of the albums of the moment for me, Dave Grohl has never sounded better vocally. A touching and provocative album.
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