10 Perfect Post Grunge Albums In Rock Music History
1. The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
There's no real way to recover from grunge's death knell. With Kurt Cobain no longer with us after 1994, it was a pretty safe bet that the genre that he helped bring to the masses was also going to die along with him. If there was anyone who was going to help us recover from that kind of pain though, it was going to be the guy who sat behind the kit for Cobain for all those years.
Although it would be easy just to put the Foo Fighters' debut on here, even Dave Grohl sees it more as just a demo version of the album that he wanted to make. Once he got a band behind him to make the follow up, the Colour and the Shape blew open all of the potential the band had at the beginning, taking the building blocks of what Nirvana had done and making it that much more forceful.
Since Kurt was never one to embrace the stadium sized venues that he helped to fill back in the day, this is where post grunge really started to get a lot more radio ready, like the singalong chorus of Monkey Wrench or every single minute of Everlong. From this point, the Foos would eventually grow into a much bigger rock and roll project, being the face of mainstream rock into the next decade. On this one album though, they were the lean, mean rock machine that helped bring us back from the brink.