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More Foo Fighters DLC

Filed under: DLC News / Tags: foo-fighters, artist-pack, alternative, 1990s, 2000s / 9 comments

Even though the Foo Fighters are currently on semi-hiatus, the world can't get enough of Dave Grohl, who keeps turning up in high-profile situations (like his just-launched supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, and a one-off show with the Foos at a little venue called the White House on July 4). Because we can't get enough him either, we're adding a trio of Foo Fighters tracks for you diehards who've mastered every song on The Colour & The Shape and are waiting for the next challenge.

If you want to be like Grohl, try playing "I'll Stick Around" on every instrument, because that's what he did. The Foo Fighters were originally a solo project disguised as a band, with Grohl playing guitar, bass, drums and whatever else was around. That lasted for their first album, which came out in 1995 and proved that Grohl - and for that matter, the rest of alternative rock - still had interesting places to go after Nirvana. Between the recording and release of that album, Grohl formed the real-life Foo Fighters, who made their New York debut on April 28, 1995. They were the opening band, longtime alt-rock figure Mike Watt was the headliner.

From summer of 2002, "All My Life" introduced a tougher, darker Foo Fighters. At the time they were getting known for writing nice pop songs, so Grohl - who'd just spent a summer playing drums with Queens of the Stone Age - wanted to show that they could also rock at full throttle. As he told MTV at the time, "This doesn't sound like it's going to sell any records. But man, I dig it, so we're good to go." He was wrong, however: Thanks to killer tracks like "All My Life" and "Lonely As You," the One By One album did indeed sell a boatload of records, and even won a Grammy for Best Rock Album in 2003, the second Foo Fighters album to do so. Grohl would later claim that One By One wasn't one of his favorite albums, but we don't know of any Foo Fighters fans who'd want to be without it.

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verbistje...

gun: *pang*
heart: *dies*

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Witticus...

I wonder if Foo Fighter's will pull a Pearl jam and release their next album (whenever that happens) on Rock Band?

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Ferocious Q...

Alone + Easy Target, The Pretender, Let It Die, Stacked Actors, Best Of You, and No Way Back. There's two more packs there :).

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Alonzo1948...

Now, get me a six pack/ 2 more 3 packs and Ill be good..... What am I saying, I can never have too many Foo Fighters songs!!

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Dangimarocker...

Cool, now just some AFI DLC

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

beefigursk...

Thank you for the extra scoop of Foo on top of the Foo fillet!! and on a side note I really really hope you guys get Them Crooked Vultures on the game!!! Because I know they are going to kick some definitive a's

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

CatchShiro...

This Pack is just too awesome! Keep 'em comin'! Now once I DL these, I'll patiently be waiting for "The Pretenders" to hit DLC by itself or in "FOO FIGHTERS PACK 03"

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Pankrazzo...

All hail mighty Dave Grohl, may he praise us with more Foo Fighters, QotSA & Nirvana DLC :)

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Iprogg...

Dave Grohl is the man, already his been in like about 4 bands or maybe three, but that guy is on fire, I think the band that suits Dave Grohl most i the Foo Fighters, If you think of it, it makes sense that Foo Fighters is probably is main band, To me that is.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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