10 Albums That Fell Apart During Production

For everyone who calls Foo Fighters by the numbers, you can't say that Dave Grohl isn't afraid to try some new things. Across every Foos record, Dave always wanted to challenge himself, and Sonic Highways may have been their biggest project yet, going to different cities across the USA and making a new song in a local studio native to the town. It was going to be eclectic and it was going to be ambitious, but no matter what we got though, it was going to be an absolute mess.

Although there are only 8 tracks on this record, Sonic Highways functions much more as a collection of decent singles than a proper album, going in a million different directions and never fully settling into a groove. As you go through the entire project, there's not much connective tissue between any of these songs, from Congregation sounding closer to a country song because of the band's time in Nashville to the more muted sounds of Subterranean from the band's experience in Seattle.

It would have been fine to throw this together as a decent compilation, but the appeal of Sonic Highways almost feels worse once they released the Saint Cecilia EP, having a much more coherent feel to it and blending a lot better than the proper album they released just a few months before. The concept may have been interesting at the time, but if you mixed both the EP and the proper album together and cherry picked the best songs, we would be in for one of the more unique records in the Foo Fighters' discography.