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| Length = 51:12 | Label = | Producer = Gil Norton | Last album = ''Skin and Bones'' (2006) | This album = ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' (2007) | Next album = ''Greatest Hits'' (2009) | Misc = }} ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' is the sixth studio album by rock band Foo Fighters, released on September 25, 2007 by RCA Records. The album is noted for a blend of regular rock and acoustic rock tracks with shifting dynamics, which emerged from the variety of styles employed on the demos the band produced. It also marks the second time the band worked with producer Gil Norton, whom frontman Dave Grohl brought to fully explore the potential of his compositions and have a record that sounded different from their previous work. Grohl tried to focus on songs with messages that resonated on the audience, writing reflective lyrics which drew inspiration from the birth of his daughter. Critical reception to ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' was mostly positive, with praise to the sonic variety and songwriting, though some reviewers found the record inconsistent and uninspired. The album topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Austria, and had three successful singles, "The Pretender", "Long Road to Ruin" and "Let It Die". ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' was nominated for five Grammy Awards, winning Best Rock Album, and was also awarded the Brit Award of Best International Album. ==Background and recording== The tour for the Foo Fighters' fifth album, ''In Your Honor'', had both acoustic and electric shows to fit the song variety in that record. Frontman Dave Grohl discussed this with RCA Music Group president Clive Davis, on how "it'd be so cool" if the Foo Fighters were the band that did those different shows that appealed to specific audiences "and they wouldn't necessarily have to go to both", to which Davis replied that "you can do both together". Grohl took this advice when composing his following album. Grohl added that "we didn't plan the new album to be half rock and half acoustic", picking the songs the band considered the best, with "demos which ranged from psycho fucking Nomeansno to sloppy, Tom Petty country to fucking piano-driven songs".〔 Since Grohl felt the songs were different from the band's previous input and "had the potential to be something great", he considered that instead of doing something like the last three albums, the band had to go out of "our own comfort zone" and "needed someone to push us out of there". So Grohl decided to work again with Gil Norton, who produced the band's second album ''The Colour and the Shape'', citing how Norton taught the band of the importance of pre-production and refining the composition, and claiming Norton's "unconventional" approach "seems to capture the best of this band", considering that with him "we're not going to do a straightforward AC/DC record, he's gonna make it different".〔("This Is Our Best Record In Years" ); ''Kerrang!'', August 2007〕 Preparation was extensive: first Grohl had his usual start-off by developing demos with drummer Taylor Hawkins, but for the first time Grohl tried to input vocals and lyrics in this early composition stage.〔 After rounding up composition with guitarist Chris Shiflett and bassist Nate Mendel,〔 Grohl spent two weeks with Norton discussing "arrangements, harmony and melody" and reducing the song ideas, and then the band spent four weeks rehearsing, playing "a song a day, from noon to midnight". Hawkins stated that "we basically played each of these songs 100 different times, trying every little thing every different way" and that it was the first time since ''The Colour and the Shape'' "that Dave had to deal with someone in the room questioning all his ideas", given how condescending previous producer Nick Raskulinecz was.〔(Ten Years With Foo Fighters And We Still Want To Know. Who Is Taylor Hawkins? ); ''Drum!'', December 2007〕 Grohl claimed the choices were for the "most powerful, dramatic songs",〔"There's A Part Of Me That Will Never Lose The Love Of Riffs"; ''Kerrang!'', September 2007〕 and that there was an effort to "make everything sound as natural as possible - just like on the albums we grew up listening to", citing 1970s artists such as Neil Young and Wings as a major influence. Shiflett added that for the first time he played lead guitar in some tracks while Grohl "usually works out all the bits" of composition.〔 Recording began on March 2007 at Studio 606 in Dave Grohl's Virginia home's basement(the studio has since been moved to Northridge, California).〔("Foo Fighters deep into recording" ). TheRockRadio.com. April 27, 2007.〕 As the band took a ten-day break in April, Grohl thought that the record needed another uptempo song, so he spent his time developing an unfinished song that became "The Pretender". The sessions wrapped in mid-June,〔Beebe, Joe. (6/8/07 Post ). Accessed 2012-04-15.〕 and for the first time the band did not feel the need to rerecord any song.〔 Grohl stated that while ''In Your Honor'' was a double album because he felt "schizophrenic" to alternate between loud and acoustic songs, Norton helped on sequencing the tracks into "an album that makes sense".〔 The album features the Foo Fighters' first instrumental, "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners". It was written by Grohl after meeting with one of the miners involved in the Beaconsfield mine collapse who requested an iPod with ''In Your Honor'' in it during the incident. As Grohl was moved by this action, he decided to "write something just to dedicate to him that night because he definitely seemed like a hero", and later promised to include the instrumental on the album.〔〔Cohen, Jonathan. . Billboard.com. July 6, 2007.〕 The album version features Kaki King, whom Grohl invited to record the song as she was visiting Studio 606. Grohl later said that "I showed it to her once, and she shredded 10 times better than I ever played it".〔 Another guest was guitarist Pat Smear, who had been a bandmember from 1995 to 1998, and a guest musician on the tour for ''In Your Honor''. Smear, who has since been reinstated as a full-on member, described his participation as "the oddest recording experience I had with Foo Fighters" given he had no input in composition and was "going in and playing on a song that was already written". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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