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"Learn to Fly" is a song by American rock band Foo Fighters, released by Roswell and RCA Records in October 1999 as the lead single from their third studio album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999). It was the band's first entry—at number 19—on the Billboard Hot 100, remains their second-highest-charting song on the chart. Outside of the ...
Foo Fighters first received a Grammy Award for their music video for "Learn to Fly" in 2000, and they have won ten others. These include four Grammys in the Best Rock Album category for: There Is Nothing Left to Lose ; One by One ; Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace ; and Wasting Light ; and three awards for Best Hard Rock Performance for the ...
The video for this song was the first Foo Fighters music video and was directed by Jerry Casale, who was a member of and directed videos for Devo.Casale said he was chosen due to Devo's well-known surreal music videos, which would fit Grohl's request for a "non-video video", produced with a budget of just $60,000.
The music video of the song, directed by Jesse Peretz (who also has directed previous Foo Fighters videos "Big Me" and "Learn To Fly"), is a comedic spoof of a stereotypical 1970s-era hospital soap opera (General Hospital in particular), and is essentially a "show within a show". As seen in the opening credit sequence, the Foo Fighters portray ...
"Under You" has been described as melodic punk, [1] and power pop by critics. [2]According to Rolling Stone, "Under You" was recorded in the wake of Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins' death and although it has the "sunny power-pop adjacent feel" of earlier Foo Fighters tracks like "Learn to Fly", the lyrics depict Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl being nearly suffocated by the pain of ...
Foo Fighters Songs in the Key of X: Two versions were recorded on the Foo Fighters and Songs in the Key of X sessions, but neither were released [1] "Comfortable" Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, and William Goldsmith: Barrett Jones Foo Fighters Songs in the Key of X: Known to be similar to the b side "If Ever" "Dark + Lovely"
An acoustic version of the song, performed at the Toshiba-EMI 3rd Studio (April 2, 1997) appears on the Australian and Japanese versions of the My Hero single. A live version of the song, performed at the Melkweg in Amsterdam (February 29, 2000) appears on the Dutch edition (Live in Holland Disc 2) of the Next Year single and the One by One ...
"The Pretender" is a song by American rock band Foo Fighters. It was the first single from the group's 2007 album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.It is one of Foo Fighters' most successful songs; peaking at number 37 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (making it their third top-40 single), only "Learn to Fly" and "Best of You" beat its position on the Billboard Hot 100.