Medium Rare (Foo Fighters album)
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Medium Rare is a covers album by Foo Fighters
. The album was released on April 16, 2011 as a limited-edition vinyl for Record Store Day
, an event that celebrates independent record stores. Apart from the new recordings of "Bad Reputation" and "This Will Be Our Year" and the live version of "Young Man Blues", all tracks have been previously released as B-sides or in other compilation albums.
A CD edition of the album was also given free to new subscribers of Q magazine
.
Note: *Although the official description says only 2 are previously unreleased, "Young Man Blues" was previously recorded but doesn't appear on any releases.
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters is an American alternative rock band originally formed in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of his previous band. The band got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War...
. The album was released on April 16, 2011 as a limited-edition vinyl for Record Store Day
Record Store Day
Record Store Day is an internationally celebrated day observed the third Saturday of April each year. Its purpose, as conceived by independent record store employee Chris Brown, is to celebrate the art of music...
, an event that celebrates independent record stores. Apart from the new recordings of "Bad Reputation" and "This Will Be Our Year" and the live version of "Young Man Blues", all tracks have been previously released as B-sides or in other compilation albums.
A CD edition of the album was also given free to new subscribers of Q magazine
Q (magazine)
Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology...
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Tracklist
Note: "Darling Nikki" does not appear on the CD release.Original appearance
- Radio 1 Established 1967Radio 1 Established 1967The compilation album Radio 1 Established 1967 is a collection of covers especially recorded for Radio 1 by a number of artists. The album celebrates the 40th anniversary of BBC Radio 1. There are 40 songs recorded by 40 different artists . Each artist was given a year, and were allowed to cover a...
- "DOA" [SingleDOA (song)-Video:The video for the single shows the band in a 360° revolving room and on a train where objects act as if the train is rotating. The band said that the video made them feel ill and they felt like wetting themselves. It was directed by Michael Palmieri....
] - Times Like These Japanese EPTimes Like These (song)"Times Like These" is the second single released from the Foo Fighters' fourth album One by One. It was released on two main discs in 2003....
- VH1 Rock Honors 2008*VH1 Rock HonorsThe VH1 Rock Honors were an annual ceremony paying homage to bands who influenced the sound of rock music. The events began in 2006, and the final event took place in 2008. The general format of each show is for modern bands to "pay tribute" to classic greats of the rock/metal world , after which...
- Not previously recorded
- "Have It All" [Single]
- Songs in the Key of X
- "My Hero" [SingleMy Hero (song)"My Hero" is the third single from the Foo Fighters' second album The Colour and the Shape. It was released as a single in 1998, though has been played live as early as 1995. According to Dave Grohl, the song is dedicated to ordinary, everyday heroes, as he himself never had musical or sports...
] - One by One (Bonus Disc/iTunes Bonus)
- Mission: Impossible II SoundtrackMission: Impossible II (soundtrack)Music from and Inspired by Mission: Impossible II is the Soundtrack for the movie Mission: Impossible II.- Track listing :# Limp Bizkit – "Take a Look Around"# Metallica – "I Disappear"# Rob Zombie – "Scum of the Earth"...
- "Low" [SingleLow (Foo Fighters song)"Low" was the third single to be released from the Foo Fighters' fourth album One by One, released in 2002. It was released on two main discs in 2003.The song was used in a TV commercial for Best Buy featuring office workers becoming rowdy....
] - "Big Me" [SingleBig Me"Big Me" is the fourth major single, released in 1996, by the Foo Fighters from their self-titled debut album Foo Fighters. Although it never charted on the Billboard Hot 100, the song became a crossover hit for the band on pop radio during the spring of 1996, when it reached #13 on the Billboard...
] & later on Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2 is the second Rock Against Bush compilation album released on the Fat Wreck Chords record label. It contains a collection of songs by various punk rock artists, some of which were previously unreleased. It also includes a bonus DVD with political facts, commentary... - Not previously recorded
Note: *Although the official description says only 2 are previously unreleased, "Young Man Blues" was previously recorded but doesn't appear on any releases.