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The Colour and the Shape

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The Colour and the Shape

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Play Doll full track 1:25 175,673
2 Play Monkey Wrench full track 3:49 310,974
3 Play Hey, Johnny Park! full track 4:07 161,890
4 Play My Poor Brain full track 3:32 152,869
5 Play Wind Up full track 2:30 150,403
6 Play Up In Arms full track 2:16 159,703
7 Play My Hero full track 4:18 380,868
9 Play Enough Space full track 2:35 158,395
10 Play February Stars full track 4:48 171,847
11 Play Everlong full track 4:09 476,947
12 Play Walking After You full track 5:03 225,211
13 Play New Way Home full track 5:38 132,523
14 Play Requiem full track 3:32 19,391
15 Play Drive Me Wild full track 3:13 20,406
17 Play Baker Street full track 5:36 40,579
18 Play Dear Lover full track 4:31 16,201
19 Play The Colour And The Shape full track 3:23 12,627
20 Play See You full track 2:26 159,589

About this album

© RCA Records Label (1997) Released: 20 May 1997 18 tracks (66:51)
The Colour and the Shape is the Foo Fighters’ second album. It was released May 20, through Roswell/Capitol Records.

The album was the debut of the Foo Fighters as a band, as frontman Dave Grohl had recorded all of the first album by himself with the exception of one guitar part by Greg Dulli. The Colour and the Shape was produced by Gil Norton, who was perhaps best known for his work with the Pixies. It was loosely conceived by Grohl as a which documented the beginning and end of a romantic relationship. Over the course of the making of the album, Grohl’s own marriage to photographer Jennifer Youngblood ultimately ended in divorce.

After six weeks of work at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, the band took two weeks off from recording. Grohl returned to Virginia and wrote several new songs, recording one of them, PlayWalking After You, by himself at WGNS Studios in Washington, DC. The band (minus drummer William Goldsmith) relocated to Grandmaster Recorders in Hollywood, California, and re-recorded most of the album with Grohl performing the drum tracks (some segments from the Bear Creek sessions with Goldsmith on drums appear on the finished album, including the entirety of PlayDoll).

The album reached number three in the UK and number ten in the United States. The Colour and the Shape is the Foo Fighters’ biggest U.S. seller, having sold over two million copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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