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"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.
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the sixth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters, released on September 25, 2007, through Roswell and RCA Records.The album is noted for a blend of regular rock and acoustic tracks with shifting dynamics, which emerged from the variety of styles employed on the demos the band produced.
"The life of an idiot, perhaps. But certainly not a happy one," writes Carlin. [10]Ultimate Classic Rock critic Michael Gallucci rated it as Browne's 4th greatest song, calling it "a nearly six-minute breakdown of one man's occasionally harsh, and almost always dishonest, survival instincts" as "'60s idealism had finally given way to mid-'70s cynicism."
Grohl led the construction of a professional studio in Los Angeles in 2004, and the band recorded its next two studio albums there: 2005's In Your Honor, a top five hit in both the UK and Australia and origin of the band's highest-scoring single "Best of You", [4] and 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, which topped the charts in ...
The band won Song of the Year for "Something from Nothing" and Album of the Year for Sonic Highways both in 2014. The band was nominated for six Grammy Awards— Album of the Year , Best Rock Performance , Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance , Best Rock Song , Best Rock Album, and Best Long Form Music Video (for Back and Forth )—at the 54th ...
"Don't Get Me Wrong" is a song by British-American rock band the Pretenders. It was the first single released from the band's fourth studio album, Get Close (1986). It was also included on the band's compilation album, The Singles (1987). Frontwoman Chrissie Hynde said she was inspired to write the song for her friend John McEnroe. [3]
The Pretender was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1978, but did not win.. Record World said that "Browne's tender concerns are as insightfully expressed as has become the norm, Jon Landau's production adding a subtle broadening of the rock base" and said that "'The Fuse,' 'The Pretender,' 'Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate' and 'The Only Child' are particularly moving and beautifully arranged."
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.