10 Most Underrated Rock Music Albums Of The 2000s

As the '00s wore on, it became clear that Dave Grohl didn't really know what the Foo Fighters should be anymore. After taking a break and becoming the drummer for Queens of the Stone Age, the next album In Your Honor had two distinctly different sides to it, being one half stadium rock and one half acoustic folk rock. Even though that should scream identity crisis, Echoes Silence Patience Grace answered one question: why not just do both of them together?

Instead of just separating them to two discs, this is the happy medium between the mellow and harsh sides of the Foos. In the years since the last record, Grohl has really come into his own as a ballad writer, with songs like Stranger Things Have Happened having a lot more technical sides to it as well as the instrumental Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners.

This is still a Foo Fighters album though, and the emphasis is still on the rock side. Along with the colossal anthem the Pretender, songs like Long Road to Ruin are the soundtrack to driving through the countryside with the windows down. The best parts of this record is how Dave is able to combine the two styles, like But Honestly, where it opens with acoustics and leads to one of the most cathartic musical passages in their career. While the headbanging riffs might not have changed, this is what it sounds like when rock and rollers start to grow up.