The Colour and the Shape

Label
RCA/Legacy
Running length
19 tracks
Running time
75:23

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Doll 1:24 292,367
2 Monkey Wrench 3:51 676,216
3 Hey, Johnny Park! 4:08 282,449
4 My Poor Brain 3:33 260,645
5 Wind Up 2:30 258,151
6 Up In Arms 2:15 269,712
7 My Hero 4:53 816,590
8 See You 2:26 269,217
9 Enough Space 2:36 261,636
10 February Stars 5:50 288,578
11 Everlong 6:33 1,026,076
12 Walking After You 5:17 384,563
13 New Way Home 5:40 221,527
14 Requiem 3:33 41,585
15 Drive Me Wild 3:14 41,252
16 Down in the Park 4:08 57,183
17 Baker Street 5:37 76,818
18 Dear Lover 4:32 31,524
19 The Colour and the Shape 3:23 25,965

About this album

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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