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Foo Fighters – Learn to Fly (3:55)

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“Learn to Fly” is the first single from the Foo Fighters’ third album There Is Nothing Left to Lose. It was released on two different singles in the UK in 1999. “Learn to Fly” is one of the band’s most successful singles, including a #19 peak on the Billboard Hot 100 and a #1 peak on Modern Rock Tracks.

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The music video for the song takes place on an airplane, parodying the movie Airplane!. Two airline mechanics (played by Tenacious D) hide what appears to be drugs in the coffee-maker (it is revealed in the band’s official website that the package is actually labelled “World Domination brand ‘Erotic’ Sleeping Powder”), which ends up incapacitating everyone who drinks the coffee. The band, having avoided the coffee, finds themselves forced to land the plane. For the video, each band member (Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel and Taylor Hawkins) portrays himself as well as several other roles.

Accompanying the opening and closing scenes of the film clip is a muzak version of “Everlong”. The video was filmed in London, England in a cabin crew training airplane. The video won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.

Characters Dave Grohl portrays
* Himself
* The Pilot
* A flamboyant flight attendant
* A teenage girl who is a big fan of the band
* One of the overweight ladies
* An FBI agent

Characters Nate Mendel portrays
* Himself
* One of the co-pilots of the plane
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Albums featuring this track

  • There Is Nothing Left to Lose
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  • Greatest Hits
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  • Acoustic
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  • Brain Damage
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  • bannerboi

    A Favorite song from my childhood!

    yesterday evening

  • EricValeev

    so good ♥

    16 days ago

  • marsfreak_

    Never gets old.

    17 days ago

  • Marjo47

    spread your wings... love this song Hannes thanks

    last month

  • loneDillo

    got an answer?

    last month

  • DCeclectic

    Pop- it is not. Nor is it soft rock.

    last month

  • diego_gremista

    eu queria estar no loola palooza curtindo o foo fighters!

    last month

  • BabyMillie

    I love this song and the video to it!

    last month

  • CosmiC-KastAway

    reminds me a little of the ending theme from Hellsing

    March 2012

  • ArcadeFirez

    Awesome

    March 2012

  • Michelingo1

    super!!!

    March 2012

  • lzcool

    Uma das favoritas.Rock in Rio 2001.

    March 2012

  • noiresque

    I'm looking for David Grohl :)) [2]

    March 2012

  • m4xy

    One of most important albums in my life.

    March 2012

  • Z05O

    This track is great! I love it. :)

    March 2012

  • tad72

    excellent track and not pop.

    February 2012

  • heatherweiwes

    This song reminds me the 90's so fucking much.

    February 2012

  • Youngb1ood81

    Come on people, do we really need to classify EVERYTHING?!?!?!? This is soft rock, if anything, but it is not pop. Grohl doesn't do pop! Grohl is a musical GENIUS taught by the BEST (and by that I mean Cobain).

    February 2012

  • KilonLobo

    I think foo fighters is pop rock, is not like the other bands of rock, its more pop, but its so good like the others bands.

    February 2012

  • W0lfSh0t

    Good grief.. Foo Fighters is not Pop! They are Soft Rock!! Pop does not use guitars, drums, basses or anything like that for the most part. Foo Fighters are Soft Rock!

    February 2012
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