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Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace 
Studio album by Foo Fighters Released September 25, 2007 Recorded March – June 2007 at Studio 606 West in Northridge, Los Angeles, California Genre Alternative rock, post-grunge[1], hard rock[2] Length 51:03 Label RCA Producer Foo Fighters and Gil Norton Foo Fighters chronology In Your Honor
(2005)Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
(2007)Wasting Light
(2011)Singles from Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace - "The Pretender"
Released: September 17, 2007 - "Long Road to Ruin"
Released: December 3, 2007 - "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)"
Released: April 7, 2008 (UK download only) - "Let It Die"
Released: June 24, 2008 (Download only)
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the sixth studio album by the Foo Fighters, released on September 25, 2007.
Contents
Background
In an interview with XFM on April 26, 2007, front man Dave Grohl noted,
"We've been in the studio for the past month and a half, and we've got about another month to go. We've been recording with our friend Gil Norton. He worked on our second record, he's a good guy. And he makes amazing albums, so we're making a really big powerful record, which I'm very excited about... I can't wait to jump on stage and do this stuff, it's gonna be great."[3]
Kaki King makes a guest appearance on "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners". The instrumental was written by Grohl prior to a meeting with one of the miners involved in the Beaconsfield mine collapse.[4]
The album's first single, "The Pretender", was released on September 17, 2007 to CD single, however was released as music download and radio play in August 2007, preceding the album launch.[5] "Long Road to Ruin" was released as the second single in December 2007.
The album's title comes from a lyric on the album's final song, "Home". The cover art was made by Invisible Creature, and features a combination between a torpedo and a guitar amplifier tube to juxtapose the weapon "with another object that traditionally wasn’t associated with war or violence". The remainder of the album sleeve has similar juxtapositions of objects "that reflected the album’s tone of life and mortality".[6]
Reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[7]Daily Star (favorable)[8] Entertainment Weekly (A)[9] Pitchfork Media (4.2/10)[10] Robert Christgau (B+)[11] Rolling Stone [12]Spin [13]Sputnikmusic [14]The Times [15]The Tune [16]The album debuted at the top of the UK album chart, selling 135,685 albums in its first week. The album also went platinum in its first week in both Australia[17] and New Zealand. In the U.S., it entered the Billboard 200 album chart at #3, selling 168,000 copies in its first week,[18] and has since been certified gold. As of April 14, 2011, it has sold 897,000 copies in US.[19]
Initial critical response to Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 71, based on 30 reviews.[20]
In the United States, the album debuted at one position less than its predecessor In Your Honor - it debuted at the third spot of the Billboard 200, with 168,000 copies sold (while In Your Honor was second with 311,000),[21] and eventually received a RIAA Gold Certification. As of October 27, 2010 it has sold 889,000 copies.[22] In Canada the album went Platinum, in the UK the album went 2 X Platinum, and in Australia the album went triple Platinum.
The album was the band's fourth to have a song reach the top of the Modern Rock Tracks, with "The Pretender", as well as "Long Road to Ruin" and "Let It Die". With 18 weeks at the summit, "The Pretender" also set the record for longest stretch at #1 on Billboard's Alternative / Modern Rock chart.[23] With "Long Road to Ruin" (7 weeks at #1) and "Let It Die" (4 weeks at #1), the album has a total of 29 weeks atop the chart, making it the most successful album on the chart since Linkin Park's Meteora. Also with "Let It Die", it became the group's first album to spawn three Number One hits on the Modern Rock Tracks charts. It was only the ninth album in history to spawn 3 number 1 hits on this chart.
The album won the 2008 Grammy for Best Rock Album and "The Pretender" won for Best Hard Rock Performance. The album was also nominated for Album of the Year, while "The Pretender" was also nominated for Record of the Year and Best Rock Song. The album also won Best International Album at the 2008 Brit Awards.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett and Nate Mendel, except where noted.
No. Title Length 1. "The Pretender" 4:29 2. "Let It Die" 4:05 3. "Erase/Replace" 4:13 4. "Long Road to Ruin" 3:44 5. "Come Alive" 5:10 6. "Stranger Things Have Happened" (Grohl) 5:21 7. "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" 3:41 8. "Summer's End" 4:37 9. "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners" (Grohl) 2:32 10. "Statues" 3:47 11. "But, Honestly" 4:35 12. "Home" 4:52 Total length:51:03 Special edition No. Title Original single Length 13. "Once & for All" (Demo) 3:47 14. "Seda" Long Road to Ruin (CD2) 3:44 Personnel
- Dave Grohl – vocals, rhythm guitar, piano on "Summer's End", "Statues" and "Home"
- Taylor Hawkins – drums, piano on "Summer's End", backing vocals on "Erase/Replace", "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)", "The Pretender" and "But, Honestly"
- Chris Shiflett – lead guitar, backing vocals on "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)"
- Nate Mendel – bass
Additional musicians
- Drew Hester – percussion on "Come Alive", "Let it Die", "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)", "Long Road to Ruin" and "Summer's End"
- Rami Jaffee – keyboards on "Let it Die", "Erase/Replace", "Long Road to Ruin", "Come Alive" and "But, Honestly", accordion on "Statues"
- Brantley Kearns Jr. – fiddle on "Statues"
- Kaki King – guitar on "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners"
- Pat Smear – guitar on "Let it Die"
- Strings by The Section Quartet (arranged and conducted by Audrey Riley)
Production
- Gil Norton – producer
- Adrian Bushby – engineer
- Jake Davies - protools engineer
- John Lousteau – assistant engineer
- Rich Costey – mixer
- Claudius Mittendorfer – assistant mixer
- Brian Gardner – mastering
Album charts
Chart (2007) Peak
positionUK Albums Chart[24] 1 Canadian Albums Chart 1 Australian Albums Chart[25] 1 New Zealand Albums Chart 1 Billboard Hard Rock Albums Chart 1 Belgium Albums Chart (VL) 1 Switzerland Albums Chart[26] 2 Irish Albums Chart 2 European Top Albums Chart 2 U.S. Billboard 200 3 German Albums Chart 3 Austrian Albums Chart 4 Dutch Mega Album Top 100 6 Finnish Albums Chart 7 Sweden Albums Chart 9 Denmark Albums Chart 11 Belgium Albums Chart (WA) 14 Italian Albums Chart 15 Portugal Albums Chart 18 French Albums Chart 24 Hungarian Albums Chart 33 Spanish Albums Chart 43 Mexican Albums Chart 50 Awards
Grammy Awards
Year Winner Category 2008 The Pretender Best Hard Rock Performance 2008 Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Best Rock Album Year Nominated Category 2008 The Pretender Record of the Year 2008 The Pretender Best Rock Song 2008 Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Album of the Year Year Winner Category 2008 Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace International Album 2008 Foo Fighters International Band References
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- ^ Cohen, Jonathan. "Foo Fighters Let It Rip On Sixth Album". Billboard.com. July 6, 2007.
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- ^ "Entertainment Weekly review". http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20057889,00.html.
- ^ "Pitchfork Media review". http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/45760-echoes-silence-patience-and-grace.
- ^ "Robert Christgau review". http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=foo+fighters.
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- ^ "Sputnikmusic review". http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=13535.
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- ^ Josh Groban Ties Elvis Presley
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- ^ Steffen Hung. "Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace". portuguesecharts.com. http://portuguesecharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Foo+Fighters&titel=Echoes%2C+Silence%2C+Patience+%26+Grace&cat=a. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
Preceded by
All the Lost Souls by James BluntAustralian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
October 1, 2007Succeeded by
Exile on Mainstream by Matchbox TwentyUK number-one album
September 30, 2007 - October 7, 2007Succeeded by
Magic by Bruce SpringsteenFoo Fighters Studio albums Foo Fighters • The Colour and the Shape • There Is Nothing Left to Lose • One by One • In Your Honor • Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace • Wasting LightLive albums Compilations Five Songs and a Cover • Greatest Hits • Medium RareVideos Everywhere but Home • Skin and Bones • Live at Wembley Stadium • Back and ForthSingles "Exhausted" • "This Is a Call" • "I'll Stick Around" • "For All the Cows" • "Big Me" • "Alone+Easy Target" • "Monkey Wrench" • "Everlong" • "My Hero" • "Walking After You" • "Learn to Fly" • "Stacked Actors" • "Generator" • "Breakout" • "Next Year" • "The One" • "All My Life" • "Times Like These" • "Low" • "Have It All" • "Best of You" • "DOA" • "Resolve" • "No Way Back/Cold Day in the Sun" • "Miracle" • "The Pretender" • "Long Road to Ruin" • "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" • "Let It Die" • "Wheels" • "Rope" • "Walk" • "Arlandria" • "These Days"Tours There Is Nothing Left to Lose Tour • One by One Tour • In Your Honor Tour • Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Tour • Wasting Light World TourRelated ArticlesBandsCategories:- 2007 albums
- Albums produced by Gil Norton
- Foo Fighters albums
- RCA Records albums
- Albums certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America
- "The Pretender"
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