History Music / FooFightersAlbum

* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Or maybe just about anything Dave Grohl saw he made sure to include in the lyrics.
--> "Have you ever seen the lyrics to the first record? They're so dumb. They're so bad. For the most part if was nonsense. 'This Is A Call'? 'Fingernails and Minicine'? Minicine is a fucking acne medicine!"

--> '''Grohl''': "I've denied it for fifteen years, but I'm finally coming out and saying it. Read the [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] words!

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Floaty" and "Big Me".

* TheNotRemix: "Winnebago" originally appeared on a cassette tape Grohl recorded as a one-time deal in 1992. He re-recorded the song for the ''Foo Fighters'' album, and it appeared as a BSide.

* MoodWhiplash: The album's entire tracklist can be seen as this, since it was constructed without a specific trajectory in mind.

* MoodWhiplash: The first three songs are often cited as this, from the moderate "This Is a Call", the intense "I'll Stick Around", to the SurprisinglyGentleSong "Big Me" (which is followed by another intense\angry song). The entire album can be seen as this since it was constructed without a specific trajectory in mind.
** "Floaty," the softest song on the album besides "Big Me," is followed by "Weenie Beenie," the heaviest song on the album.

* LongestSongGoesLast: The main album ends with "Exhausted", the only song that [[EpicRocking breaks 5 minutes]].

* LongestSongGoesLast: "Exhausted", the only song that [[EpicRocking breaks 5 minutes]].

* EpicRocking: "Exhausted", the only song that breaks 5 minutes.

* OneWordTitle: "Wattershed", "Exhausted", "Floaty".

* LeadDrummer: This album took many people by surprise since no one expected Grohl to have songwriting chops to rival that of Kurt Cobain. Music/TomPetty even invited Grohl to drum for The Heartbreakers full time after a concert with him, though he decided to instead endorse the Foo Fighters after Grohl told about it.

* InTheStyleOf: "Wattershed" is an homage to Mike Watt of Music/{{Minutemen}}, and is even done in a PunkRock style.
** A lot of the songs are even done in the style of {{Grunge}}, reminiscent of Cobain's characteristic, minimal, unpolished style. This caused some critics to assert that Grohl was band-wagoning off of his former band's fame, despite the fact that this wasn't the case at all.

* ShoutOut: "Wattershed" is spelled this way as an homage to Mike Watt, who invited Dave to play in one of his albums and was even the opening act of the Foo Fighters' first tour.

* SpecialGuest: The aforementioned solo on "X-Static" was done by Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs, a friend of Grohl's who was visiting the studio.

* TitleDrop: Most tracks, even if "Alone + Easy Target" is "I'm ''alone and I'm an easy target''", "Floaty" doesn't use the exact word (only "floats" and "float"), and "X-Static" is "All the ''static''".

* {{Grunge}} - This has a lot more grunge than their subsequent albums. Songs like "I'll Stick Around," "Weenie Beenie," "Wattershed," and "Exhausted" are prime examples, and wouldn't sound out of place on a Nirvana album, minus Dave's vocals.

Music/DaveGrohl, [[IAmTheBand the band's sole member]] at the time, recorded every song on the recording by himself, except for the guitar solo on the song "X-Static," which was done by Greg Dulli of Music/TheAfghanWhigs.

A lot of the songs feature [[WordSaladLyrics nonsensical lyrics]], disparate [[SongStyleShift song style shifts]], and [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth even minimalist 8-track recording]]. Grohl has stated that this was intentional, since he mostly recorded these songs to help himself get through the depression he felt after Music/KurtCobain's suicide. While the songs do resemble Music/{{Nirvana}}'s style, Grohl did things that set himself apart from Cobain's songwriting such as double- or quadruple-tracking his vocals, adding happier tunes such as "Big Me" or "Floaty", and introducing PunkRock influences, as heard in the songs "X-Static" and "Wattershed".

-->'''"I'll Stick Around"'''

Music/DaveGrohl, [[IAmTheBand the band's sole member]] at the time, recorded every song on the recording by himself, except for the guitar solo on the song "X-Static," which was done by Greg Dulli of Music/TheAfghanWhigs and Krist Novoselic playing bass on "Big Me".

** Krist Novoselic plays bass on "Big Me", as mentioned before.

%%* WanderlustSong: "Oh, George" seems to be about wanting to escape those who
%%Those who...?

* RefrainFromAssuming: Thanks to the previously-mentioned indecipherable lyrics, "Good Grief" had many listeners assuming that the song was called "Hey There" or "Hate It", or whatever audiences interpreted the pre-choruses to be.
** Also "I'll Stick Around", which features the pre-chorus/hook "''I don't owe you anything''".

Music/DaveGrohl, [[IAmTheBand the band's sole member]] at the time, recorded every song on the recording by himself, except for the guitar solo on the song "X-Static," which was done by Greg Dulli of Music/TheAfghanWhigs. (Also, Krist Novoselic played bass on "Big Me", as confirmed by Grohl himself before a sit-in with Novoselic at a Foo Fighters concert.)

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: "For All the Cows", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously]].

!!''Well I troped about it, let it out, never was it true''

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[JustForFun/{{Hello}} This is a call to all my past resignations...]]\\
It's been too long'']]

Music/DaveGrohl, [[IAmTheBand the band's sole member]] at the time, recorded every song on the recording by himself, except for the guitar solo on the song "X-Static," which was done by Greg Dulli of Music/TheAfghanWhigs. (Also, Krist Novoselic played bass on "Big Me", as confirmed by Grohl himself before a sit-in with Novoselic at a Foo Fighters concert.) Originally intended as a one-off side project, the album garnered a ton of support from popular artists such as Music/TomPetty and [[Music/PearlJam Eddie Vedder]], leading Grohl to hire a full band out of former Music/{{Nirvana}} tour guitarist Pat Smear and the bassist and drummer from the recently disbanded Music/SunnyDayRealEstate. The album had three successful singles, "Big Me", "This Is A Call", and "I'll Stick Around", along with "For All the Cows" in Europe, and the radio-only "Alone + Easy Target".

A lot of the songs feature [[WordSaladLyrics nonsensical lyrics]], disparate [[SongStyleShift song style shifts]], or [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth even minimalist 8-track recording]]. Grohl has stated that this was intentional, since he mostly recorded these songs to help himself get through the depression he felt after Music/KurtCobain's suicide. While the songs do resemble Music/{{Nirvana}}'s style, Grohl did things that set himself apart from Cobain's songwriting such as double- or quadruple-tracking his vocals, adding happier tunes such as "Big Me" or "Floaty", or introducing PunkRock influences such as in the songs "X-Static" and "Wattershed".

* LameBrandProduct: "Footos: the Fresh Fighter", the satire of Mentos in the music video for "Big Me", is one of the most memorable ad parodies of TheNineties.

[[caption-width-right:350:"''[[JustForFun/{{Hello}} This is a call to all my past resignations...]]''"]]

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: The album averages out at a 5, but to be more specific:
** 2: "Big Me"
** 4: "Floaty," "For All the Cows"
** 5: "This Is A Call," "Alone + Easy Target," "Good Grief, "Oh, George," "X-Static," "Exhausted" (the noisy production of the latter two songs pushes them from a 4 to a 5)
** 6: "I'll Stick Around"
** 7: "Weenie Beenie," "Wattershed"