Ranking All 9 Foo Fighters Studio Albums From Worst To Best

While this album's track listing is enjoyable on the whole, the shifts can be inconsistent, and so this has sunk lower on the rankings. The highlight is unquestionably ''The Pretender', a track which has to be seriously considered among the best the Foos have written; a true testament to their wallop n' wail stylings. Dave Grohl has said that "we wanted the stops to be pin-drop silent before exploding", and 'The Pretender' is a perfect example of this.

Perhaps there were some improvements that could have been made, with the decision not to re-record any of the album, you can't help but wonder what a few weeks off and a different perspective might have improved.

Also, Grohl had started writing lyrics before the recording began, and maybe this hindered the quality to a degree, trying to fit music around words rather than the other way around.

But it is a great album, helped by the passion of Grohl's introspective lyrics, stemming from the birth of his daughter, and began a process of thinking about everything, life, death, and birth, in a different light.