5 . Foo Fighters - "My Hero"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWRaAF6_WY Another single from Foo Fighters' 1997 album The Colour and the Shape, "My Hero" has probably one of the most recognisable intros of any Foos song and is one of Grohl's most powerful drum performances, accurately capturing the lyrical power and message of the song itself. Grohl said in 2011's Back and Forth, the Foo Fighters documentary released in collaboration with album Wasting Light, that he had a specific drum beat in his head for the song. But the drummer at the time, William Goldsmith, couldn't get the sound he wanted. Grohl would record the part himself and it's the version that is heard on the studio release. Tensions reached boiling point and Goldsmith quit the band. Although it comes with a tumultuous history, the power and aggression of My Hero's drum part cannot be ignored. Utilising the bass and tom toms to create a pounding beat, Grohl creates a suitably grungy but, at the same time well crafted, beat that works with the distorted guitars to create a wall of sound. You can't help but think that if Grohl hadn't recorded the part himself, My Hero wouldn't be the tour de force it became.