1st Compilation Review: Foo Fighters – Greatest Hits

Info:

Year: 2009

Genre: Alternative Rock/Post-Grunge

Length: 63:48

Label: RCA

Unreleased Tracks: 3

Actual Review:

Foo Fighters, a superb band, their greatest hits, close… not quite.

Every person who likes Foo Fighters like I do will love most of the album, it’s such a trip to listen to, while remembering the past when the Foos released their first album or even at 2007 with their most recent studio album, remembering songs like: “Everlong”, “The Pretender”, “Big Me”, “I’ll Stick Around”… wait a minute! Where’s “I’ll Stick Around”? And “For All The Cows”? And “Low”? These are some of the Foos most well known tracks and they forgot to put them on their Greatest Hits compilation? What the ****? Alright those aren’t their most well known tracks EVER, but their still the favourites of a lot of fans, including me. But it’s still good choices, their just not the best ones. By the way adding the track “Skin and Bones” and an acoustic version of Everlong with out cutting off the original were… actually great ideas. I’m not giving to many extra points for having the Foos 1^st single (“This is Call”- something you should know if you were really a Foos fan), why? Because that track is an absolute must!

On to the new songs, Wheels is… annoying, repetitive, uninspired, vague, a track I want to forget and never remember again, it’s what I call the black sheep of the compilation, and of all of the Foos songs. I might be over exaggerating; I actually founded it “fun” and only started to find it annoying at the 20^th replay. Alright it’s “NOT BAD”!

But Word Forward is just plain Awesome! The song is a scream of beautiful emotions and in my opinion the “highlight of the compilation”.

Overall the Foo Fighters Greatest Hits definitely well over mediocre but not superb, good choice of song whit a few… a big few of missing tracks, but still good choices with decent and memorable new tracks.

Best New Track:

Word Forward

Everlong (Acoustic)

Worst New Track:

Wheels (not bad isn’t better than awesome)

Missing Songs:

The One

I’ll Stick Around

For All The Cows

Low

DOA

Final Ranking: 8.0/10