10 Most Underrated Foo Fighters Songs

10. X-Static - Foo Fighters

It's impossible to look at a band like the Foo Fighters and not talk about the big grunge elephant in the room that came before it. Though Dave Grohl has been able to distance himself from the Nirvana machine, even he says that he wouldn't be the musician he is today without the help of Kurt Cobain. And when he decided to strike out on his own for the first time, you can see some of that grungey flair still hanging on.

While you would never see Nirvana covering something like Big Me off of the first Foos record, X-Static feels like Dave trying to create his own Nirvana track from the ground up. Compared to the rest of the songs on the record, there's a certain hazy feeling that comes from this track, along with a few guitar noodlings from Afghan Wigs guitarist Greg Dulli, which adds some nice texture to the whole thing.

As far as the first wave of post grunge is concerned, this is the first song that sounded like it could have been a Nirvana original, especially when paired with the melancholy sounds of the album In Utero. Up until the last days of Kurt's life, he had talked about the other band members taking the reins, so this might be a look at what a Dave focused Nirvana track would have ended up as.