10 Greatest Comeback Albums In Rock Music History

10. Wasting Light - Foo Fighters

Not every comeback album has to necessarily be coming off of an atrocious album. After going down the road of stadium rock for a while though, Echoes Silence Patience Grace saw Foo Fighters at a turning point, selling out arenas around the world and hitting the ceiling in terms of the greatest gigs you can possibly play. Where else where they supposed to go except just shacking up in Dave's garage?

Looking for a more retro sound for Wasting Light, most of the record was recorded on analog tape with Butch Vig at the helm, and it yielded some of the freshest sounding music of the Foos' career. We haven't seen songs this balls to the wall since The Colour and the Shape, especially the punk thrashing behind a song like White Limo or kicking down the door right out of the gate with Bridge Burning.

This is still a Foo Fighters album though, and the more radio friendly tracks are still here in the form of Walk and These Days. There are even some moments where Dave tries to bring the grandiose elements of their sound back down to earth, making a prominent use of strings on the track I Should Have Known. After years of being at the top of the world, Wasting Light was enough to tell us that Foo Fighters still had the bare essentials of a raw rock and roll band.