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| Single by Foo Fighters | ||||
| from the album One by One | ||||
| Released | October 7, 2002 | |||
| Format | CD | |||
| Recorded | May 2002 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, post-grunge | |||
| Length | 4:24 | |||
| Label | Roswell, RCA | |||
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"All My Life" is a song by the American hard rock band Foo Fighters, released as the first single from their fourth album, One by One. The song won a Grammy Award for best hard rock performance, and spent ten straight weeks at #1 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, coincidentally succeeding Nirvana and their unreleased final recording, "You Know You're Right". Dave Grohl notes that the band had wanted a heavier sounding song to appear as a single, stating that the band were "coming out with "Learn to Fly" and "Next Year" and other songs that had middle-of-the-road melodies."[1]
In March 2005, Q magazine placed "All My Life" at number 94 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. British rock band Feeder, use the opening lines from this song as an interlude during live performances of "Lost and Found".
The song was released, along with "I'll Stick Around" from the band's debut self-titled album and "Lonely as You", also from One by One, as downloadable content for the Rock Band video games on August 18, 2009. This song is also playable on Rock Revolution.
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Background
According to Dave Grohl, the song "was originally an instrumental and it went through a few different versions. At first it was really dissonant and noisy. The middle section sounded like "Wipe Out" [by The Surfaris]. It was just nuts! We recorded the instrumental and I had no idea how I was gonna sing it. Again, that was another one that our manager said, "That's the song!" And we said, "Really? You think that's the one people will like?"[1]
Track listing
CD1:
- "All My Life"
- "Sister Europe" (Psychedelic Furs cover)
- "Win or Lose"
- "All My Life" (Director's Cut)
- "Win or Lose" is a reworked version of an older song, "Make a Bet".
CD2:
- "All My Life"
- "Danny Says" (Ramones cover)
- "The One"
7" Vinyl:
- "All My Life"
- "Sister Europe" (Psychedelic Furs cover)
Music video
The video, directed by Grohl, consists of the band performing the song on stage in front of a video screen at The Forum in Inglewood, California, near Los Angeles (The video was actually shot inside Bakersfield's Rabobank Arena, which was called Centennial Garden at the time)[2]. At the conclusion, it is revealed that they had been performing in an empty arena. The video was included on a DVD extra that was packaged with the CD version of the album.
Chart positions
| Chart (2002) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart | 20 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 95 |
| Eurochart Hot 100 Singles | 15 |
| German Singles Chart | 93 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 14 |
| Italian Singles Chart | 30 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 46 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart | 13 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 37 |
| UK Singles Chart | 5 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 43 |
| U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks | 3 |
References
- ^ a b Kerrang! Legends: Foo Fighters pg.114
- ^ "Foo Fighters Out To Show They Can 'Really Do It Up'" MTV News
External links
- Video at YouTube (requires Adobe Flash)
| Preceded by "You Know You're Right" by Nirvana |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single November 23, 2002 |
Succeeded by "Always" by Saliva |
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