Foo Fighters Medium Rare covers LP RSD EXCLUSVE NIRVANA

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Foo Fighters - Medium Rare LP (RCA 88697 53472-1) Record Store Day Exclusive

A previously unreleased collection of 12 cover songs performed by Foo Fighters on 120 gram 12” vinyl. Very limited and it was available for one day only (Record Store Day 2011).

Tracks are:
1. Band on the Run (Paul McCartney & Wings cover) 5:08 2. I Feel Free (Cream cover) 2:56 3. Life of Illusion (Joe Walsh cover) 3:40 4. Young Man Blues (Mose Allison cover) (Live at Austin City Limits) 5:28 5. Bad Reputation (Thin Lizzy cover) 2:33 6. Darling Nikki (Prince and The Revolution cover) 3:24 7. Down in the Park (Gary Numan and Tubeway Army cover) 4:07 8. Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty cover Live at BBC Radio 1 Evening Session April 30, 1997) 5:39 9. Danny Says (Ramones cover Featuring Greg Bissonette on Drums) 2:59 10. Have a Cigar (Pink Floyd cover with Queen guitarist Brian May) 4:15 11. Never Talking to You Again (Hüsker Dü cover Live, Hamburg, Germany, 1st December 2002) 1:45 12. Gas Chamber (Angry Samoans cover Live @ BBC Radio 1 Evening Session April 30, 1997) 0:57 13. This Will Be Our Year (The Zombies cover) 2:44

Spinnerdotc om says of Medium Rare:
The Foo Fighters intended to go big in 2011 and, so far, they've delivered -- at least, in terms of big anticipation, with one big announcement after another. The latest? The Foo Fighters will join the parade of bands rolling out special limited-edition vinyl for Record Store Day on April 16.

NME reports that the Foo Fighters' Record Store Day offering will be a new full-length album, entitled 'Medium Rare,' which will consist entirely of covers. Among the selections are such unexpected left-fielders as the Zombies' 'This Will Be Our Year' and Cream's 'I Feel Free.' Also included are a surprising bunch of covers that the Fighters have been known to perform live before -- 'Band on the Run' (Paul McCartney & Wings), 'Darling Nikki' (Prince), 'Have a Cigar' (Pink Floyd).

Rounding out the unexpected treat of an album are selections from Joe Walsh ('Life of Illusion'), Thin Lizzy ('Bad Reputation'), Gary Numan ('Down in the Park'), the Ramones ('Danny Says'), Husker Du ('Never Talking to You Again'), and Angry Samoans ('Gas Chamber'). Finally, the album also includes a cover of Mose Allison's 'Young Man Blues' -- a tune that was first made famous by the Who and which the Foo Fighters performed onstage in February, with Who frontman Roger Daltrey, at the Shockwave NME Awards. That about covers it -- check out Record Store Day website to find a participating record store near you. - Paul Morigi, WireImage

A M G says of Foo Fighters:
During the last dark days of Nirvana in 1994, tapes of Dave Grohl's solo demos circulated among alt-rock royalty. Greg Dulli commented positively about them in more than one place, but few suspected that these homemade tapes would launch one of the biggest modern rock bands of the post-grunge era. As it turns out, that’s exactly what Grohl’s Foo Fighters became, perhaps the one band of the alt-rock revolution to enjoy continual success on the charts and on the road without a dip in popularity. It was this consistency that distinguished the Foos; other bands burned brighter or had bigger hits, but Grohl's band -- which coalesced into a permanent lineup around the group’s third album -- always climbed into the upper reaches of the charts, churning out singles like “Everlong,” “Learn to Fly,” and “My Hero” that built upon the heavy, melodic, loud-quiet-loud template of the Pixies and Nirvana, pushing it ever so slightly toward the realm of classic guitar rock.

Dave Grohl began playing guitar and writing songs in his early teens, as well as performing with a variety of hardcore punk bands. In the late '80s, when he was still in his teens, he joined the Washington, D.C.-area hardcore band Scream as their drummer. During Scream's final days, Grohl began recording his own material in the basement studio of his friend Barrett Jones. Some of Grohl's songs appeared on Scream's final album, Fumble. Following the band's 1990 summer tour, Grohl joined Nirvana and moved cross-country to Seattle.

After Nirvana recorded Nevermind, Grohl went back to the D.C. area and recorded a handful of tracks that would appear on Pocketwatch, a cassette released by Simple Machines. For most of 1992, he was busy with Nirvana, but when the band was off the road, he recorded solo material with Jones, who had also moved to Seattle. The pair kept recording throughout early 1993, when Grohl returned to Nirvana to record In Utero. Grohl had toyed with the idea of releasing another independent cassette in the summer of 1993, but the plans never reached fruition. Following Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994, the drummer kept quiet for several months. In the fall of 1994, Grohl and Jones decamped to a professional studio and recorded the songs that comprised Foo Fighters' debut album in a week. Boiling down his backlog of songs to about 15 tracks, Grohl played all of the instruments on the album. He made 100 copies of the tape, passing it out to friends and associates. In no time, Grohl's solo project became the object of a fierce record company bidding war.

Instead of embarking on a full-fledged solo career, Grohl decided to form a band. Through his wife he met Nate Mendel, the bassist for Sunny Day Real Estate. Shortly before the pair met, Jeremy Enigk, the leader of Sunny Day Real Estate, had converted to Christianity and quit the band, effectively ending the group's career. Not only did Mendel join Grohl's band, but so did Sunny Day's drummer, William Goldsmith. Former Germs and Nirvana guitarist Pat Smear rounded out the lineup. The band, named Foo Fighters after a World War II secret force that allegedly researched UFOs, signed a contract with Capitol Records. The band's self-titled debut, consisting solely of Dave Grohl's solo recordings, was released on July 4, 1995. It became an instant success in America, as "This Is a Call" garnered heavy alternative and album rock airplay. By early 1996, the album was certified platinum in the U.S.

Throughout 1996, Foo Fighters supported the album with an extensive tour, enjoying a crossover hit with "Big Me" that spring. Late in the year, the group began recording its second album with producer Gil Norton. During the sessions, William Goldsmith left the band due to creative tensions, leaving Grohl to drum on the majority of the album. Before the record's release, Goldsmith was replaced by Taylor Hawkins, who had previously drummed with Alanis Morissette. The Colour and the Shape, Foo Fighters' second album and the first they recorded as a band, was issued in May of 1997. Smear left the group in the wake of the album's completion and was replaced by guitarist Franz Stahl, whose stay proved short-lived; 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose was recorded as a three-piece, with ex-No Use for a Name guitarist Chris Shiflett signing on soon after.

One by One, the group's most polished production, appeared in late 2002, followed by 2005's In Your Honor, which narrowly missed the top of Billboard's album chart. After releasing a live album titled Skin and Bones in 2006, the band returned to Norton's studio and started constructing a dozen fractured, eclectic rock songs to be released in 2007 under the name Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace. Two years later, the group released its first compilation, Greatest Hits, as Grohl launched his new supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, which also featured Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. Foo Fighters reconvened for 2011's Wasting Light, a Butch Vig production that doubled as the official return of Pat Smear, who hadn't played on any of the band's albums since 1997.

12" LP is NEW AND FACTORY SEALED.

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