The Colour and the Shape by Foo Fighters

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Doll 1:24 270,089
2 Monkey Wrench 3:51 602,339
3 Hey, Johnny Park! 4:08 258,039
4 My Poor Brain 3:33 239,877
5 Wind Up 2:30 237,524
6 Up In Arms 2:15 248,486
7 My Hero 4:50 725,332
8 See You 2:26 248,191
9 Enough Space 2:36 241,931
10 February Stars 4:49 265,572
11 Everlong 4:09 906,473
12 Walking After You 5:04 353,829
13 New Way Home 5:40 204,264
14 Requiem 3:33 36,508
15 Drive Me Wild 3:14 37,806
16 Down In The Park 4:08 50,484
17 Baker Street 5:37 68,862
18 Dear Lover 4:32 28,276
19 The Colour And The Shape 3:23 22,555

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About this album

RCA Records Label 19 tracks (71:42)
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, Walking 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 Doll).

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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  • camelfilters-

    Nice album.

    16 days ago
  • undergroundsky

    Baker Street ♥

    last month
  • Anni--x3

    I love it! Hey, Johnny Park! ♥

    last month
  • EricValeev

    Monkey Wrench

    last month
  • LuisGNR

    The Colour And The Shape > All.

    February 2012
  • erick_01

    The abum of my life.

    February 2012
  • Ninja1980

    15 years later, and it still rocks.

    January 2012
  • Ninty

    If this album has filler, then there is no complete album out there.

    December 2011
  • Poisonnation

    Pretty good album but I feel some of the songs are just filler.

    November 2011
  • Miensman

    Hm, I'm not specially delighted after first listen.

    November 2011
  • TorquatoRebecca

    The Colour And The Shape > Wasting Light

    October 2011
  • sebadagostino

    It's a good album but doesn't drive me crazy. Perhaps it needs a couple of more listens.

    October 2011
  • jack325

    @JuliusNepos: nigga please

    September 2011
  • Alice_Mudgarden

    The Foo Fighters haven't had a bad album. The Colour and the Shape is just head and shoulders above pretty much every album ever created. It's absolute perfection. It's up there with the likes of "Dark Side of the Moon", "Abbey Road", and "Help!" just to name a few off the top of my head.

    August 2011
  • jasonmorrishall

    best, but not the last good one, 'One by One' is quite nice.

    August 2011
  • JuliusNepos

    The last good Foo Fighters album

    July 2011
  • PHANATICZ

    I love the 10th Anniversary edition..

    July 2011
  • alfagani

    im on your back walking after you.........

    July 2011
  • suicidepickles

    what's different in the 2007 edition?

    July 2011
  • TheLe0

    The best album of the world, i cant stop listen them, is perfect, i dont know how can be better.

    June 2011
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